| BJW Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||||
| Promotion | Big Japan Pro Wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Date established | March 20, 2001 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | 2004 | ||||||||||||
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The BJW Heavyweight Championship was a title defended in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Big Japan Pro Wrestling. It lasted from 2001 through 2004. [1] [2]
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| (NLT) | Championship change took place "no later than" the date listed |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | Kamikaze | March 20, 2001 | Excite 2001 | Hakata, Japan | 1 | 292 | Defeated Zandig in a tournament final to become the inaugural champion. | [3] |
| 2 | Daikokubo Benkei | January 6, 2002 | New Year Great Series 2002 | Kawasaki, Japan | 1 | 224 | [4] | |
| 3 | Daisuke Sekimoto | August 18, 2002 | Harder Than Hardcore II | Yokohama, Japan | 1 | 36 | [5] | |
| 4 | Men's Teioh | September 23, 2002 | BJ Monster 2002 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 48 | [6] | |
| — | Vacated | November 10, 2002 | — | — | — | — | Vacated due to unknown circumstances. | |
| 5 | Men's Teioh | March 30, 2003 | Harder Than Hardcore IV | Yokohama, Japan | 2 | 506 | Defeated Daisuke Sekimoto to win the vacant title. | [7] |
| 6 | Gran Hamada | August 17, 2004 | Summer Night BJ Osaka Live | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 19 | [8] | |
| 7 | Men's Teioh | September 5, 2004 | Men's World III: King Kong | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | [lower-alpha 1] | [8] | |
| — | Deactivated | 2004(NLT) | — | — | — | — | ||
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
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| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Men's Teioh | 3 | 555¤ |
| 2 | Kamikaze | 1 | 292 |
| 3 | Daikokubo Benkei | 224 | |
| 4 | Daisuke Sekimoto | 36 | |
| 5 | Gran Hamada | 19 |
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