FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship
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The FMW World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship was a premiere championship in the wrestling promotion
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
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Professional wrestling promotion
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Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded on July 28, 1989 by Atsushi Onita that specialized in hardcore wrestling involving weapons such as barbed wire and fire. They held their first show on October 6, 1989...
, or FMW.
WWA Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship (1990-1991)
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date: | Location: | Notes: |
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| Beast the Barbarian | 1 | January 7, 1990 | Recognized as first champion. | |
| Atsushi Onita Atsushi Onita Atsushi Onita is a Japanese former politician and active professional wrestler best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling... |
1 | January 17, 1990 | Tokyo Tokyo , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family... |
Title replaced by the WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship. |
WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship (1991-1993)
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date: | Location: | Notes: |
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| Grigory Verichev Grigory Verichev Grigory Vladimirovich Verichev was a Russian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics.In 1988 he won the bronze medal in the heavyweight class.-External links:*... |
1 | February 27, 1991 | Tokyo | Defeated Atsushi Onita to become the first WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Champion. |
| Atsushi Onita | 2 | May 29, 1991 | Tokyo | |
| Big Titan | 1 | January 15, 1992 | Kobe, Hyogo | |
| Tarzan Goto Tarzan Goto , better known by his ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler who has wrestled on the independent circuit most of his career. He is best known for his exploding steel cage matches againest Atsushi Onita and Pat Tanaka in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling .... |
1 | January 30, 1992 | Osaka Osaka is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe... |
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| Leon Spinks Leon Spinks Leon Spinks is a former American boxer. He had an overall record of 26 wins, 17 losses and 3 draws as a professional, with 14 knockout wins, and was the former World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association heavyweight champion of the world... |
1 | March 25, 1992 | Tokyo | |
| Atsushi Onita | 3 | May 24, 1992 | Tokyo | |
| The Sheik | 1 | June 25, 1992 | Sapporo, Hokkaido Sapporo, Hokkaido is the fourth-largest city in Japan by population, and the largest city on the island of Hokkaido. It is the capital of Hokkaidō Prefecture, located in Ishikari Subprefecture, and an ordinance-designated city of Japan.... |
Vacated due to injury |
| Tiger Jeet Singh Tiger Jeet Singh Jagjit Singh Hans is a semi-retired professional wrestler, known better by his ring name Tiger Jeet Singh. He wrestled as a crazed heel, coming to the ring with a sword in his mouth . Singh wrestled in Japan for 22 years... |
1 | August 1992 | Sapporo, Hokkaido Sapporo, Hokkaido is the fourth-largest city in Japan by population, and the largest city on the island of Hokkaido. It is the capital of Hokkaidō Prefecture, located in Ishikari Subprefecture, and an ordinance-designated city of Japan.... |
Rewarded by The Sheik |
| Atsushi Onita | 4 | September 19, 1992 | Yokohama, Kanagawa | Title replaced by the FMW World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. |
FMW World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship (1993-1999)
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date: | Location: | Notes: |
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| Atsushi Onita | 5 | August 22, 1993 | Osaka | Defeated Mr. Pogo to become the first FMW World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion |
| Mr. Pogo | 1 | January 6, 1994 | Tokyo | |
| Atsushi Onita | 6 | September 7, 1994 | Sapporo, Hokkaido | |
| Mr. Pogo | 2 | January 21, 1995 | Sendai, Miyagi Sendai, Miyagi is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and the largest city in the Tōhoku Region. In 2005, the city had a population of one million, and was one of Japan's 19 designated cities... |
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| Atsushi Onita | 7 | May 4, 1995 | Nagoya, Aichi Nagoya, Aichi is the third-largest incorporated city and the fourth most populous urban area in Japan.Located on the Pacific coast in the Chūbu region on central Honshu, it is the capital of Aichi Prefecture and is one of Japan's major ports along with those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Chiba, and Moji... |
Vacated title on May 5, 1995 due to retirement. |
| Hayabusa Eiji Ezaki is a former Japanese professional wrestler better known as the masked Hayabusa , who worked primarily for Atsushi Onita's Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling promotion.-Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling :... |
1 | June 27, 1995 | Tokyo | Defeated Hisakatsu Oya Hisakatsu Oya Kenichi Oya is a semi-retired Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Hisakatsu Oya. Although he started out for New Japan Pro Wrestling, he is well-known for his stint in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling.... , and then vacated immediately due to injury. |
| The Gladiator | 1 | September 26, 1995 | Tokyo | Defeated Hayabusa in the finals of a 8 Man Round Robin Tournament and later vacated due to injury. |
| Super Leather | 1 | February 23, 1996 | Tokyo | Defeated Hisakatsu Oya |
| The Gladiator | 2 | May 27, 1996 | Fukuoka, Fukuoka Fukuoka, Fukuoka is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture and is situated on the northern shore of the island of Kyushu in Japan.Voted number 14 in a 2010 poll of the World's Most Livable Cities, Fukuoka is praised for its green spaces in a metropolitan setting. It is the most populous city in Kyushu, followed by... |
Title is unified with FMW Independent World Heavyweight Title after defeating W*ING Kanemura on December 11, 1996. |
| Masato Tanaka Masato Tanaka Masato Tanaka is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling in Japan and in Extreme Championship Wrestling in the United States where he was a one-time world champion, having won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once... |
1 | September 28, 1997 | Kawasaki, Kanagawa Kawasaki, Kanagawa is a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, between Tokyo and Yokohama. It is the 9th most populated city in Japan and one of the main cities forming the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area.... |
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| Mr. Gannosuke Mr. Gannosuke is a Japanese professional wrestler better known as Mr. Gannosuke, who competed primarily for Atsushi Onita's Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling promotion. He also held the NWA World Tag Team Championship.-Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling :... |
1 | January 6, 1998 | Tokyo | |
| Hayabusa | 2 | April 30, 1998 | Yokohama, Kanagawa | |
| Kodo Fuyuki | 1 | November 20, 1998 | Yokohama, Kanagawa | Vacated on May 18, 1999 due to injury |
| Yukihiro Kanemura | 1 | May 18, 1999 | Tokyo | Rewarded by FMW Commissioner Kodo Fuyuki |
| Hayabusa | 3 | August 23, 1999 | Tokyo | FMW World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship is retired on August 25, 1999. |