FMW Women's Championship
| FMW Women's Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling[1] | ||||||||||
| Date established | November 5, 1990[1] | ||||||||||
| Date retired | September 28, 1997 | ||||||||||
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The FMW Women's Championship consisted of two Japanese women's professional wrestling championships, the FMW Independent Women's Championship and the WWA World Women's Championship. The championships were contested in the promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). During the heyday of FMW, the female wrestlers wrestled in the same types of bloody death matches as the FMW men, and were feared by other Japanese female wrestlers for their toughness and intensity.
Title history
[edit]Names
[edit]| Name | Years |
|---|---|
| WWA World Women's Championship | November 5, 1990 – February 25, 1994 |
| FMW Independent Women's Championship | February 25, 1994 – September 28, 1997 |
| FMW Independent / WWA World Women's Championship | February 25, 1994 – September 28, 1997 |
Reigns
[edit]| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | Combat Toyoda | November 5, 1990 | 1st Anniversary Show | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 143 | Defeated Beastie the Road Warrior to become the first WWA World Women's Champion | [1][2][3][4] |
| 2 | Megumi Kudo | March 28, 1991 | FMW | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 142 | [1] | |
| 3 | Combat Toyoda | August 17, 1991 | FMW | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 58 | [1] | |
| 4 | Miwa Sato | October 14, 1991 | FMW | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 163 | [1] | |
| 5 | Shark Tsuchiya | March 25, 1992 | FMW | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 60 | [1] | |
| 6 | Megumi Kudo | May 24, 1992 | FMW | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 426 | [1] | |
| 7 | Combat Toyoda | July 24, 1993 | FMW | Kitakyushu, Japan | 3 | 99 | [1] | |
| 8 | Crusher Maedomari | October 31, 1993 | FMW | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 103 | [1] | |
| — | Vacated | February 11, 1994 | FMW | Fukaya, Japan | — | — | Crusher Maedomari vacated the title due to the creation of a new FMW Independent World Women's Championship and the vacant WWA World Women's Championship would also be decided in the tournament. | [1] |
| 9 | Megumi Kudo | February 25, 1994 | FMW | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 128 | Defeated Leilani Kai to become the first FMW Independent World Women's Champion and win the vacant WWA World Women's Championship. Both titles were unified and defend it as one and the same lineage continued. | [1] |
| 10 | Combat Toyoda | June 19, 1994 | FMW | Tokyo, Japan | 4 | 70 | [1] | |
| 11 | Yukie Nabeno | August 28, 1994 | Summer Spectacular | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 106 | [1][5][6] | |
| — | Vacated | December 12, 1994 | — | — | — | — | [1] | |
| 12 | Bad Nurse Nakamura | March 30, 1995 | FMW | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 36 | Defeated Megumi Kudo for the vacant titles. | [1] |
| 13 | Megumi Kudo | May 5, 1995 | 6th Anniversary Show | Kawasaki, Japan | 4 | 199 | [1][7][8][9] | |
| 14 | Shark Tsuchiya | November 20, 1995 | FMW | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 20 | [1] | |
| 15 | Combat Toyoda | December 10, 1995 | FMW | Tokyo, Japan | 5 | 147 | [1] | |
| 16 | Megumi Kudo | May 5, 1996 | 7th Anniversary Show | Kawasaki, Japan | 5 | 320 | This was a no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch and Combat Toyoda's retirement match. | [1][10][11][12] |
| 17 | Shark Tsuchiya | March 21, 1997 | Winning Road tour | Sendai, Miyagi | 3 | 39 | [1] | |
| 18 | Megumi Kudo | April 29, 1997 | 8th Anniversary Show | Yokohama, Japan | 6 | 45 | This was a no rope 200 volt double hell double barbed wire barricade double landmine crushed glass electrical barbed wire deathmatch and Megumi Kudo's retirement match. | [1][13][14][15][16] |
| — | Vacated | June 13, 1997 | King of Fight tour | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | Megumi Kudo vacated the titles at her retirement ceremony due to retirement. | [1] |
| 19 | Shark Tsuchiya | September 28, 1997 | Fall Spectacular | Kawasaki, Japan | 4 | <1 | Defeated Aja Kong for vacant titles. This was the final match of the Women's Championship titles and the titles were retired after the match. | [1][17][18][19] |
| — | Deactivated | September 28, 1997 | Fall Spectacular | Kawasaki, Japan | — | — | The titles were retired after the match. | [1] |
Combined reigns
[edit]| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Megumi Kudo | 6 | 1,246 |
| 2 | Combat Toyoda | 5 | 517 |
| 3 | Miwa Sato | 1 | 163 |
| 4 | Shark Tsuchiya | 4 | 119 |
| 5 | Yukie Nabeno | 1 | 106 |
| 6 | Crusher Maedomari | 1 | 103 |
| 7 | Bad Nurse Nakamura | 1 | 36 |
See also
[edit]- IWGP Women's Championship, a women's championship in a male-majority promotion (New Japan Pro Wrestling)
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