NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (Zero1)

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NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship
File:Takuya Sugawara.JPG
Takuya Sugawara, longest reigning and two-time holder of the title
Details
Current champion(s) Shinjiro Otani
Date won October 11, 2015[1]
Date established September 20, 2011[2]
Promotion Pro Wrestling Zero1
Other name(s)
NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship[3]

The New Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Junior Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Japanese Pro Wrestling Zero1 promotion. The title is meant for wrestlers under the weight limit of 100 kg (220 lb), referred to as "junior heavyweights" in Japan.[5]

On July 11, 2011, then-NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Craig Classic announced that he was relinquishing his title in protest over the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) stripping The Sheik of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.[6] However, on September 20, NWA affiliate Pro Wrestling Zero1 announced that they still recognized Classic as the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion.[2] When Classic returned to the promotion on October 2, he was still in possession of the NWA title belt (which used the belt worn by the original Tiger Mask, Satoru Sayama, in the 1980s), which he went on to successfully defend against Munenori Sawa.[7][8] Despite this being the first appearance of the new version of the title, Zero1 went as far as adopting the original title's history, referring to Classic as the 108th champion and his defense against Sawa as his 22nd successful defense.[2][9] Meanwhile, NWA crowned their own NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, Kevin Douglas, on October 7, meaning that there now were two champions supposedly holding the same title.[10] That same month, Zero1 quit the NWA and renamed all of their National Wrestling Alliance championships "New Wrestling Alliance" championships.[11]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been eleven reigns shared among nine wrestlers. Shinjiro Otani is the current champion in his first reign.[1]

Title history

# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific wrestler listed
Event The event in which the title was won
Successful defenses The number of successful defenses the champion had during his reign
— Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/A The information is not available or is unknown
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
# Wrestler Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Successful defenses Notes Ref(s)
1 Craig Classic 1 September 20, 2011 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. N/A N/A 3[9] Zero1 recognized Classic as the reigning "NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion", despite him having vacated the title two months earlier. [2]
2 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 1 January 1, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Puroresu Nippon 0[12] [9]
3 Takuya Sugawara 1 March 2, 2012 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Zero1 Eleven 5 This match was also contested for Sugawara's International Junior Heavyweight Championship. [12]
4 Jonathan Gresham 1 May 4, 2013 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Big Bang 1[13] This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. [14]
— Vacated — September 13, 2013 — Tokyo — — Gresham voluntarily vacated the title ahead of the 2013 Tenkaichi Jr. finals. [15]
5 Hub 1 September 16, 2013 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo 11th Tenkaichi Jr.: Finals 3[16] Hub defeated Mineo Fujita in the finals of the 2013 Tenkaichi Jr., which was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. [17]
6 Jason Lee 1 March 9, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Zero1 Thirteen 2 This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. [18]
7 Mineo Fujita 1 September 19, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Tenkaichi Special 1 This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. [19]
8 Takuya Sugawara 2 November 3, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Kumamoto Hi no Kokudai Hanabi 1 This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. [20]
9 Jason Lee 2 December 28, 2014 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Hong Kong Winter Fever 4 1[21] This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. [22]
10 Minoru Tanaka 1 March 1, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Tokyo Zero1_Fourteen 3 This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. [21]
11 Shinjiro Otani 1 October 11, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.+ Tokyo Change the World 1[23] This match was also contested for the International Junior Heavyweight Championship. [1]

List of combined reigns

As of June 14, 2024

† Indicates the current champion
<1 Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day
Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined
defenses		 Combined
days
1 Takuya Sugawara 2 6 483
2 Jason Lee 2 3 257
3 Shinjiro Otani† 1 1 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.+
4 Minoru Tanaka 1 3 224
5 Hub 1 3 174
6 Jonathan Gresham 1 1 132
7 Craig Classic 1 3 103
8 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 1 0 61
9 Mineo Fujita 1 1 45

See also

References

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External links

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