International Junior Heavyweight Championship (Zero1)
| International Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | New Wrestling Alliance Pro Wrestling Zero1 | ||||||||||
| Date established | June 29, 2002 | ||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Fuminori Abe | ||||||||||
| Date won | September 9, 2021 | ||||||||||
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The International Junior Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Zero1 (formerly Pro Wrestling Zero-One and Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max) and formerly sanctioned by the Wrestling Superstars Live promotion, contested exclusively among junior heavyweight (<100 kg (220 lb)) wrestlers. It was originally created on June 29, 2002 as the NWA/UPW/Zero-One International Junior Heavyweight Championship, symbolizing Zero-One's relationship with the NWA and UPW; Leonardo Spanky defeated to become the first champion.[1] When Zero-One left the NWA on October 31, 2004, the title was renamed to incorporate Steve Corino's Pro Wrestling World-1; the name was further added to when the newly renamed Zero1-Max joined the AWA on February 28, 2005. On August 26, 2006, when Minoru Fujita won the annual Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament, it was again renamed the AWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. When Zero1-Max left the AWA on December 15, 2007, it was renamed again to the Zero1-Max International Junior Heavyweight Championship. Finally, when the company changed its name to Pro Wrestling Zero1 in 2008, the championship followed.
There have been a total of 24 recognized champions, who have had a combined 33 official reigns. The current champion is Fuminori Abe who is in his first reign.
The championship has been known as:[1][2]
- NWA/UPW/Zero-One International Junior Heavyweight Championship
(June 29, 2002 – October 31, 2004) - Zero-One/UPW/World-1 International Junior Heavyweight Championship
(October 31, 2004 – February 28, 2005) - AWA/Zero1-Max/UPW/World-1 International Junior Heavyweight Championship
(February 28, 2005 – August 26, 2006) - AWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship
(August 26, 2006 – December 15, 2007) - Zero1-Max International Junior Heavyweight Championship
(December 15, 2007 – 2008) - NWA International Heavyweight Championship (Zero1)
(2011-2012) - Zero1 International Junior Heavyweight Championship (Present)
Title history[]
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | |||||
| (NWA) National Wrestling Alliance / (UPW) Ultimate Pro Wrestling / Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) | ||||||||||
| 1 | Leonardo Spanky | June 29, 2002 | Creation Tour | Sapporo, Japan | 1 | 79 | 3 | Defeated Smelly. | ||
| 2 | Low Ki | September 16, 2002 | Genesis II | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 349 | 8 | |||
| 3 | Wataru Sakata | August 31, 2003 | Summer Festival Tour | Gifu, Japan | 1 | 225 | 1 | This was also for Sakata's World1 Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| — | Vacated | April 12, 2004 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated so that Sakata could focus on the World1 title. | ||
| 4 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | May 16, 2004 | Cashonor | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 216 | 5 | Defeated Tony Stradlin. | ||
| (AWA) AWA Superstars of Wrestling / Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) / (UPW) Ultimate Pro Wrestling / Pro Wrestling World-1 (World-1) | ||||||||||
| 5 | Super Crazy | December 18, 2004 | AWA Heavyweight Title Contender Tournament Tour | Chiba, Japan | 1 | 117 | 0 | |||
| 6 | Ikuto Hidaka | April 14, 2005 | Outburst Revolution Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 318 | 4 | |||
| 7 | Takuya Sugawara | February 26, 2006 | Happening Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 151 | 1 | |||
| 8 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | July 27, 2006 | Fire Festival Tour | Osaka, Japan | 2 | <1 | 0 | This match was also for Takaiwa's WWA World Welterweight Championship. | ||
| — | Vacated | July 27, 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated so that the title could be decided in the tournament. | ||
| (AWA) AWA Superstars of Wrestling / Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) | ||||||||||
| 9 | Minoru Fujita | August 26, 2006 | Tour | Kyoto, Japan | 1 | 146 | 2 | Defeated Takuya Sugawara in the final of the tournament. | ||
| 10 | Ikuto Hidaka | January 19, 2007 | Over the Max Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 30 | 0 | |||
| 11 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | February 18, 2007 | Make the Emotion Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 77 | 0 | |||
| — | Vacated | May 6, 2007 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to Takaiwa suffering a knee injury. | ||
| 12 | Dick Togo | June 20, 2007 | Dynamo Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 128 | 1 | Won a 9-man battle royal. | ||
| 13 | Ikuto Hidaka | October 26, 2007 | Innovation Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 89 | 1 | |||
| Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) | ||||||||||
| 14 | Masaaki Mochizuki | January 23, 2008 | Zero1-Max 3rd Anniversary | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 155 | 3 | |||
| 15 | Ikuto Hidaka | June 26, 2008 | Dauntless Tour | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 262 | 5 | |||
| 16 | Sonjay Dutt | March 15, 2009 | Wrestler's 1 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 259 | 0 | |||
| — | Vacated | November 29, 2009 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated so that the title could be decided in the tournament. | ||
| 17 | Ikuto Hidaka | November 29, 2009 | Wrestler's 7 ~ Grant Me My Wish! | Tokyo, Japan | 5 | 540 | 6 | Defeated Prince Devitt in the final of the tournament. | ||
| (NWA) National Wrestling Alliance / Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) | ||||||||||
| 18 | Takuya Sugawara | May 23, 2011 | N/A | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 712 | 10 | |||
| Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1) | ||||||||||
| 19 | Jonathan Gresham | May 4, 2013 | Big Bang | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 135 | 1 | |||
| — | Vacated | September 16, 2013 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated so that the title could be decided in the tournament. | ||
| 20 | HUB | September 16, 2013 | 11th Tenkaichi Jr.: Finals | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 174 | 3 | Defeated Mineo Fujita in the final of the tournament. Also won the vacant NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 21 | Jason Lee | March 9, 2014 | Zero1_Thirteen | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 194 | 3 | This match was also for Hub's NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 22 | Mineo Fujita | September 19, 2014 | Special | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 45 | 1 | This match was also for Lee's NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 23 | Takuya Sugawara | November 3, 2014 | Hi no Kokudai Hanabi | Kumamoto, Japan | 3 | 55 | 1 | This match was also for Fujita's NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 24 | Jason Lee | December 28, 2014 | Winter Fever 4 | Hong Kong | 2 | 63 | 1 | This match was also for Sugawara's NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 25 | Minoru Tanaka | March 1, 2015 | Zero1_Fourteen | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 222 | 3 | This match was also for Lee's NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 26 | Shinjiro Otani | October 11, 2015 | Change the World | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 481 | 2 | This match was also for Tanaka's NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 27 | Kotaro Suzuki | February 3, 2017 | Shinsei Zero1 Dream Series: Hakai no Jin | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 265 | 3 | This match was also for Otani's NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 27 | Sean Guinness | October 26, 2017 | Dream Series Aki no Jin Korakuen Taikai | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 129 | 1 | This match was also for Suzuki's NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 28 | Isami Kodaka | March 4, 2018 | Dream Series Sozo no Jin | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | [Note 1] | 2 | This match was also for Guinness' NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| — | Vacated | November 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to injury. | ||
| 29 | Sugi | November 24, 2018 | Dream Series ~ Nenotsuki No Jin ~ Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament 2018 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 403 | 2 | Sugi defeated Hayata in the finals of the tournament for the vacant championship This match was also for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 30 | HUB | January 1, 2020 | Happy New Year | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 247 | 1 | This match was also for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 31 | Shoki Kitamura | September 4, 2020 | Youth Playback! It All Started Here! Shinjiro Otani To Asakura! | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 58 | 0 | This match was also for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 32 | El Lindaman | November 1, 2020 | 2020 Fire Festival | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 310 | 1 | This match was also for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| — | Vacated | September 7, 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | El Lindaman was stripped of both International and World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | ||
| 33 | Fuminori Abe | September 9, 2021 | ZERO1 20th Anniversary Year - 18th Tenkaichi Junior Tournament 2021 Final | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 111+ | 4 | Defeated Shoki Kitamura in the final of the 2021 Tenkaichi Junior Tournament. The match was also for the World Junior Heavyweight Championship. | [3] | |
Combined reigns[]
As of December 29, 2021.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|---|
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest length is considered. |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ikuto Hidaka | 5 | 16 | 1,239 |
| 2 | Takuya Sugawara | 3 | 12 | 918 |
| 3 | Shinjiro Otani | 1 | 2 | 481 |
| 4 | HUB | 2 | 4 | 421 |
| 5 | Sugi | 1 | 2 | 403 |
| 6 | Low Ki | 1 | 8 | 349 |
| 7 | El Lindaman | 1 | 1 | 310 |
| 8 | Tatsuhito Takaiwa | 3 | 5 | 293 |
| 9 | Jason Lee | 2 | 4 | 267 |
| 10 | Kotaro Suzuki | 1 | 3 | 265 |
| 11 | Sonjay Dutt | 1 | 0 | 259 |
| 12 | Isami Kodaka | 1 | 2 | ¤242 |
| 13 | Wataru Sakata | 1 | 1 | 225 |
| 14 | Minoru Tanaka | 1 | 3 | 222 |
| 15 | Masaaki Mochizuki | 1 | 3 | 155 |
| 16 | Jonathan Gresham | 1 | 1 | 135 |
| 18 | Sean Guinness | 1 | 1 | 129 |
| 19 | Dick Togo | 1 | 1 | 128 |
| 20 | Super Crazy | 1 | 0 | 117 |
| 21 | Leonardo Spanky | 1 | 3 | 79 |
| 22 | Fuminori Abe † | 1 | 4 | 111+ |
| 23 | Shoki Kitamura | 1 | 0 | 58 |
| 24 | Minoru Fujita | 1 | 1 | 45 |
See also[]
- List of National Wrestling Alliance championships
- World Junior Heavyweight Championship (Zero1)
- NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship
- NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship
Footnotes[]
- ^ The exact date on which Kodaka were stripped of the championship is not known, which means that his reign lasted between 242 and 265 days.
References[]
- ^ a b "AWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship official title history". ZEROONEUSA.com. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2007-07-20.
- ^ "ZERO1-MAX International Junior Heavyweight Championship title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2007-07-20.
- ^ Pro Wrestling Zero1 (September 9, 2021). ZERO1・20周年記念イヤー 新木場大会～第18回 天下一ジュニアトーナメント2021 決勝戦～. z-1.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved September 13, 2021.
External links[]
- ZEROONEUSA title history
- Wrestling-Titles.com title history (International Junior Heavyweight Championship)
- Wrestling-Titles.com title history (AWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship)
- TitleHistories.com title history (International Junior Heavyweight Championship)
- TitleHistories.com title history (AWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship)
Categories:
- Pro Wrestling Zero1 championships
- Junior heavyweight wrestling championships
- International professional wrestling championships