Big Japan Pro Wrestling has held a variety of different professional wrestling tournaments, mainly in deathmatch format, competed for by sports entertainers that are a part of their roster.
The BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship Tournament was an eight-man single-elimination tournament conducted on March 2, 1998, to crown the inaugural BJW Junior Heavyweight Champion. [1]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Yoshihiro Tajiri | Pin | |||||||||||||
Gran Naniwa | ||||||||||||||
Yoshihiro Tajiri | Pin | |||||||||||||
Minoru Tanaka | ||||||||||||||
Minoru Tanaka | Pin | |||||||||||||
Minoru Fujita | ||||||||||||||
Yoshihiro Tajiri | Pin | |||||||||||||
Gedo | ||||||||||||||
Ryuji Yamakawa | Pin | |||||||||||||
Masayoshi Motegi | ||||||||||||||
Ryuji Yamakawa | Pin | |||||||||||||
Gedo | ||||||||||||||
Gedo | Pin | |||||||||||||
Tomoaki Honma |
The BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship Tournament was held to crown the inaugural BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Champion from June 8 to August 9, 1998. [2]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Mitsuhiro Matsunaga | Pin | |||||||||||||
Jason the Terrible | 14:29 | |||||||||||||
Mitsuhiro Matsunaga | Pin | |||||||||||||
Shadow Winger | 10:21 | |||||||||||||
Shadow Winger | Pin | |||||||||||||
Shoji Nakamaki | 7:29 | |||||||||||||
Mitsuhiro Matsunaga | Pin | |||||||||||||
The Great Pogo | 8:36 | |||||||||||||
The Great Pogo | Pin | |||||||||||||
Kung Fu Lee | 9:23 | |||||||||||||
The Great Pogo | Pin | |||||||||||||
Shadow WX | 15:02 | |||||||||||||
Shadow WX | Pin | |||||||||||||
Tomoaki Honma | 16:22 |
The BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship Tournament was a round-robin tournament for the vacant BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship held between June 14 and June 30, 1999. [3]
Masayoshi Motegi | 9 |
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Abdullah Junior Kobayashi | 8 |
Men's Teioh | 7 |
The Winger | 7 |
Fantastik | 7 |
Super Perro | 4 |
Jun Kasai | 0 |
Final | ||||
Masayoshi Motegi | Pin | |||
Abdullah Junior Kobayashi | 13:19 |
The Grand Prix Tournament was a single elimination tournament which took place between January 2, 2000, and February 22, 2000. [4]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Mike Samples | Pin | |||||||||||||
Daikokubo Benkei | 10:12 | |||||||||||||
Mike Samples | Pin | |||||||||||||
Tomoaki Honma | 16:35 | |||||||||||||
Ryuji Yamakawa | Pin | |||||||||||||
Tomoaki Honma* | 23:45 | |||||||||||||
Mike Samples | Pin | |||||||||||||
Shadow WX | 10:36 | |||||||||||||
Crazy Sheik | Pin | |||||||||||||
Jun Kasai | 7:53 | |||||||||||||
Crazy Sheik | Pin | |||||||||||||
Shadow WX | 10:18 | |||||||||||||
Shadow WX | Pin | |||||||||||||
The Winger | 12:28 |
The Super J-Cup Qualifying Tournament was a tournament for junior heavyweight wrestlers with the winner qualifying for the 2000 Super J-Cup, representing BJW in the tournament. The tournament was held between February 23 and March 3, 2000. [5]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||
Guerrero del Futuro | Pin | ||||||||||
Men's Teioh | 13:02 | ||||||||||
Ryuji Ito | Pin | ||||||||||
Men's Teioh | 11:00 | ||||||||||
Men's Teioh | Pin | ||||||||||
Masayoshi Motegi | 8:50 | ||||||||||
Masayoshi Motegi | Pin | ||||||||||
The Winger | 15:22 | ||||||||||
Masayoshi Motegi | Pin | ||||||||||
Fantastik | 9:55 |
The 2000 World Extreme Cup was a round-robin tournament contested under deathmatch variations. The tournament consisted of three blocks with each block consisting of four wrestlers and a total of twelve participants in the tournament. The top three scorers of each block qualified for the knockout stage of the tournament. [6]
Block A | Block B | Block C | |||
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Tower of Doom | 6 | John Zandig | 6 | Mike Samples | 6 |
Ryuji Yamakawa | 4 | Crazy Sheik | 4 | Shadow WX | 4 |
Mustafa Saed | 2 | Winger | 2 | Tomoaki Honma | 2 |
Harley Lewis | 0 | Terry Bull | 0 | Wifebeater | 0 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Shadow WX | ||||||||||||||
Tower of Doom | ||||||||||||||
Shadow WX | ||||||||||||||
Crazy Sheik | ||||||||||||||
Crazy Sheik | ||||||||||||||
Mustafa Saed | ||||||||||||||
Shadow WX | ||||||||||||||
John Zandig | ||||||||||||||
Tomoaki Honma | ||||||||||||||
Mike Samples | ||||||||||||||
Tomoaki Honma | ||||||||||||||
John Zandig | ||||||||||||||
Ryuji Yamakawa | ||||||||||||||
John Zandig |
The BJW Heavyweight Championship Tournament was held between March 18 and March 20, 2001, to determine the inaugural BJW Heavyweight Champion. [7]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Wifebeater | Referee stoppage | |||||||||||||
Ryuji Yamakawa | 8:33 | |||||||||||||
Wifebeater | Pin | |||||||||||||
KAMIKAZE | 5:50 | |||||||||||||
KAMIKAZE | Pin | |||||||||||||
Mad Man Pondo | 6:33 | |||||||||||||
KAMIKAZE | Pin | |||||||||||||
John Zandig | 5:38 | |||||||||||||
Shadow WX | Pin | |||||||||||||
Daikokubo Benkei | 8:48 | |||||||||||||
Daikokubo Benkei | Pin | |||||||||||||
John Zandig | 4:09 | |||||||||||||
John Zandig | Pin | |||||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto | 7:12 |
A tournament was held to crown a new BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Champion after previous champion Tomoaki Honma left the company in March 2001, thus vacating the title. The tournament was held between April 28 and May 4, 2001. [8]
First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||||||
Justice Pain | |||||||||||||||||||
KAMIKAZE | |||||||||||||||||||
KAMIKAZE | |||||||||||||||||||
Jun Kasai | |||||||||||||||||||
Justice Pain | |||||||||||||||||||
John Zandig | |||||||||||||||||||
John Zandig | |||||||||||||||||||
Mad Man Pondo | |||||||||||||||||||
John Zandig | |||||||||||||||||||
BYE | |||||||||||||||||||
John Zandig | |||||||||||||||||||
Kintaro Kanemura | |||||||||||||||||||
Abdullah Kobayashi | |||||||||||||||||||
Kintaro Kanemura | |||||||||||||||||||
Kintaro Kanemura | |||||||||||||||||||
BYE | |||||||||||||||||||
Kintaro Kanemura | |||||||||||||||||||
Winger | |||||||||||||||||||
Winger | |||||||||||||||||||
Shadow WX | |||||||||||||||||||
Winger | |||||||||||||||||||
Wifebeater |
The Six-Man Tag Team League was a round-robin tournament featuring four trios with each trio consisting of three wrestlers and the tournament featured six-man tag team matches. The tournament was held between October 15 and October 25, 2001. The tournament was won by the trio of KAMIKAZE, Hideki Hosaka and Shunme Matsuzaki. [9]
KAMIKAZE, Hideki Hosaka and Shunme Matsuzaki | 5 |
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Men's Teioh, Daisuke Sekimoto and Ryuji Ito (Men's Club) | 4 |
Jun Kasai, Mad Man Pondo and Ruckus | 2 |
Daikokubo Benkei, Abdullah Kobayashi and Naoki Numazawa (Skinheads) | 0 |
The 2002 World Extreme Cup was the second version of the World Extreme Cup tournament consisting of four blocks and four wrestlers in each block, a total of sixteen participants in the tournament. The top two wrestlers from each block qualified for the knockout stage of the tournament. [10]
Block A | Block B | Block C | Block D | ||||
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Tower of Doom | 4 | Homicide | 4 | Mamushi | 6 | Abdullah Kobayashi | 6 |
Seiji Yamakawa | 4 | Bad Boy Hido | 4 | Kintaro Kanemura | 4 | Mad Man Pondo | 4 |
Winger | 4 | 2 Tuff Tony | 2 | O.D.D. | 2 | Biomonster DNA | 2 |
Mike Samples | 0 | Shadow WX | 2 | Mark Manson | 0 | Axl Rotten | 0 |
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Winger | ||||||||||||||
Homicide | ||||||||||||||
Winger | ||||||||||||||
Seiji Yamakawa | ||||||||||||||
Seiji Yamakawa | ||||||||||||||
Bad Boy Hido | ||||||||||||||
Seiji Yamakawa | ||||||||||||||
Kintaro Kanemura | ||||||||||||||
Shadow WX | ||||||||||||||
Mad Man Pondo | ||||||||||||||
Shadow WX | ||||||||||||||
Kintaro Kanemura | ||||||||||||||
Abdullah Kobayashi | ||||||||||||||
Kintaro Kanemura |
The Hayabusa Cup was a round-robin tournament which took place between April 14 and May 6, 2002. [11] The tournament was held as a homage to Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling superstar Hayabusa, who had recently retired from wrestling due to a severe injury which left him paralysed for the rest of his life.
Ryuji Ito | 8 |
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Satoru Makita | 8 |
Daisaku Shimoda | 7 |
Katsumasa Inoue | 2 |
Naoki Numazawa | 2 |
Yuji Kamijo | 1 |
Final | ||||
Ryuji Ito | Pin | |||
Satoru Makita | 10:39 |
A knockout tournament was held on June 13, 2004, featuring six-man tag team matches. [12]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||
Kengo Mashimo, Manabu Hara and Shiori Asahi | |||||||||||
Kudo, Daichi Kakimoto and TA*KU | |||||||||||
Kengo Mashimo, Manabu Hara and Shiori Asahi | |||||||||||
Hero!, Jaki Numazawa and Super-X | |||||||||||
Hero!, Jaki Numazawa and Super-X | |||||||||||
Kunio Toshima, Katsumasa Inoue and Mineo Fujita | |||||||||||
Hero!, Jaki Numazawa and Super-X | |||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto, Futoshi Miwa and Kyosuke Sasaki | |||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto, Futoshi Miwa and Kyosuke Sasaki | |||||||||||
Shuji Ishikawa, Hajime Moriyama and Kent | |||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto, Futoshi Miwa and Kyosuke Sasaki | |||||||||||
Kazuhiro Tamura, Masanori Ishikura and Yuji Hino |
The Number 1 of Japan Tournament was held on September 5, 2004. [13]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||
Ryuji Yamakawa | Pin | ||||||||||
Jaki Numazawa | 7:47 | ||||||||||
Abdullah Kobayashi | Pin | ||||||||||
Jaki Numazawa | 11:05 | ||||||||||
Jaki Numazawa | Pin | ||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto | 7:13 | ||||||||||
Katsumasa Inoue | DQ | ||||||||||
Shadow WX | 9:08 | ||||||||||
Katsumasa Inoue | Pin | ||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto | 8:24 |
The New Generation Battle Tournament was a tournament held on January 9, 2005. [14]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
Kunio Toshima | 10:02 | |||||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
Mineo Fujita | 6:12 | |||||||||||||
Masanori Ishikura | Pin | |||||||||||||
Mineo Fujita | 6:12 | |||||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
Hero! | 12:32 | |||||||||||||
Kyosuke Sasaki | Pin | |||||||||||||
Jaki Numazawa | 4:37 | |||||||||||||
Kyosuke Sasaki | Pin | |||||||||||||
Hero! | 12:01 | |||||||||||||
Manabu Hara | Pin | |||||||||||||
Hero! | 5:32 |
The Dainichi Dash was a tournament held on July 1, 2009. [15]
First round | Second round | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||||||
Takuma Obe | |||||||||||||||||||
Ryuichi Kawakami | |||||||||||||||||||
Takuma Obe | |||||||||||||||||||
Masashi Takeda | |||||||||||||||||||
Daisuke Sasaki | |||||||||||||||||||
Masashi Takeda | |||||||||||||||||||
Daisuke Sasaki | |||||||||||||||||||
Atsushi Ohashi | |||||||||||||||||||
Daisuke Sasaki | |||||||||||||||||||
BYE | |||||||||||||||||||
Masashi Takeda | |||||||||||||||||||
Shinya Ishikawa | |||||||||||||||||||
Shigehiro Irie | |||||||||||||||||||
Satoshi Kajiwara | |||||||||||||||||||
Shigehiro Irie | |||||||||||||||||||
Yuji Okabayashi | |||||||||||||||||||
Yuji Okabayashi | |||||||||||||||||||
Shinya Ishikawa | |||||||||||||||||||
Shinya Ishikawa | |||||||||||||||||||
Daisuke Masaoka | |||||||||||||||||||
Shinya Ishikawa | |||||||||||||||||||
BYE |
The 1 Day Tag Team Tournament was a three-team tournament held on August 5, 2013.
Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
Jaki Numazawa and Yoshihito Sasaki | |||||||||
No. 8 Right Takeda and Hoshino Japan | |||||||||
Jaki Numazawa and Yoshihito Sasaki | |||||||||
The Brahman Brothers | |||||||||
The Brahman Brothers (Shu and Kei) | |||||||||
The W*inger and La*Panda |
The 8-Man Tag Team Tournament was a deathmatch tournament featuring eight-man tag team matches on August 19, 2009.
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||
Team 666 (Yuko Miyamoto, Onryo, Shinobu and Dynasty) | |||||||||||
Young Chango Bloods (Chango, Yuki Sato, Atsushi Ohashi and Ryuichi Kawakami) | |||||||||||
Team 666 (Yuko Miyamoto, Onryo, Shinobu and Dynasty) | |||||||||||
Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto, Yoshihito Sasaki, Shinya Ishikawa and Yuji Okabayashi) | |||||||||||
Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto, Yoshihito Sasaki, Shinya Ishikawa and Yuji Okabayashi) | |||||||||||
Death Match Champions (Shadow WX, Jaki Numazawa, Abdullah Kobayashi and Ryuji Yamakawa) | |||||||||||
Death Match Champions (Shadow WX, Jaki Numazawa, Abdullah Kobayashi and Ryuji Yamakawa) | |||||||||||
Death Match Young Bloods (Masashi Takeda, Isami Kodaka, Kankuro Hoshino and Mototsugu Shimizu) | |||||||||||
Death Match Champions (Shadow WX, Jaki Numazawa, Abdullah Kobayashi and Ryuji Yamakawa) | |||||||||||
Team FREEDOMS (Jun Kasai, Takashi Sasaki, The Winger and Kamui) |
The D-Dash Tag Team Tournament was a tag team tournament held between November 3 and December 23, 2009.
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Daisuke Sasaki and Yuki Sato | ||||||||||||||
Satoshi Kajiwara and Amigo Suzuki | ||||||||||||||
Daisuke Sasaki and Yuki Sato | ||||||||||||||
Yuji Okabayashi and Atsushi Ohashi | ||||||||||||||
Yuji Okabayashi and Atsushi Ohashi | ||||||||||||||
Ryuichi Sekine and Kim Nam Seok | ||||||||||||||
Yuji Okabayashi and Atsushi Ohashi | ||||||||||||||
Shinya Ishikawa and Ryuichi Kawakami | ||||||||||||||
Masashi Takeda and Takuma Obe | ||||||||||||||
Shinobu and Taro Yamada | ||||||||||||||
Masashi Takeda and Takuma Obe | ||||||||||||||
Shinya Ishikawa and Ryuichi Kawakami | ||||||||||||||
Shigehiro Irie and Shun Kasagi | ||||||||||||||
Shinya Ishikawa and Ryuichi Kawakami |
A tournament was set up for the vacant BJW Tag Team Championship after previous champions Shinya Ishikawa and Yoshihito Sasaki vacated the titles due to Ishikawa suffering a leg injury. The tournament was held between March 19 and April 28, 2010.
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki | Pin | ||||||||||
Abdullah Kobayashi and Takashi Sasaki | 19:11 | ||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki | Pin | ||||||||||
Shuji Ishikawa and Yuji Okabayashi | 17:56 | ||||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto and Yoshihito Sasaki | Pin | ||||||||||
045 Junkies | 21:11 | ||||||||||
045 Junkies (Jun Kasai and Jaki Numazawa) | Pin | ||||||||||
Isami Kodaka and Masashi Takeda | 19:46 | ||||||||||
045 Junkies | Pin | ||||||||||
Ryuji Ito and Shadow WX | 16:11 |
The 2011 Dainichi-X was a round-robin tag team tournament which took place between February 2 and October 26, 2011. [16]
Abdullah Kobayashi and Yuji Okabayashi | 13 |
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Yoshihito Sasaki and Ryuichi Kawakami | 13 |
Jaki Numazawa and Shinya Ishikawa | 13 |
Kankuro Hoshino and Takumi Tsukamoto | 13 |
Daisuke Sekimoto and Kazuki Hashimoto | 13 |
Yuichi Taniguchi and Masked Genbei | 6 |
Shadow WX and Atsushi Ohashi | 6 |
Ryuji Ito and Masashi Otani | 4 |
Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
Yoshihito Sasaki and Ryuichi Kawakami | Pin | ||||||||
Kankuro Hoshino and Takumi Tsukamoto | 12:44 | ||||||||
Yoshihito Sasaki and Ryuichi Kawakami | Pin | ||||||||
Abdullah Kobayashi and Yuji Okabayashi | 11:50 | ||||||||
Abdullah Kobayashi and Yuji Okabayashi | Pin | ||||||||
Jaki Numazawa and Shinya Ishikawa | 15:13 |
The 2012 Dainichi-X was a round-robin tournament with the top two teams advancing to the final round. [17]
Jaki Numazawa and Kazuki Hashimoto | 10 |
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Shinya Ishikawa and Jun Ogawauchi* | 10 |
Ryuji Ito and Takumi Tsukamoto | 9 |
Yoshihito Sasaki and Kankuro Hoshino | 7 |
Shadow WX and Amigo Suzuki | 6 |
Abdullah Kobayashi and Yuichi Taniguchi | 5 |
Daisuke Sekimoto and Masashi Otani | 2 |
Yuji Okabayashi and Hideyoshi Kamitani | 2 |
Final | ||||
Jaki Numazawa and Kazuki Hashimoto | Pin | |||
Ryuji Ito and Takumi Tsukamoto | 13:18 |
The Strong Style Rising Tournament was a tournament held between May 24 and June 5, 2013. [18]
First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Yuji Okabayashi | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Madoka | 9:52 | ||||||||||||||
Yuji Okabayashi | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Jake Crist | 10:32 | ||||||||||||||
Jun Ogawauchi | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Jake Crist | 7:06 | ||||||||||||||
Yuji Okabayashi | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Yoshihito Sasaki | 12:59 | ||||||||||||||
Kazuki Hashimoto | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Shinobu | 11:38 | ||||||||||||||
Kazuki Hashimoto | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Yoshihito Sasaki | 9:04 | ||||||||||||||
Abdullah Kobayashi | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Yoshihito Sasaki | 10:01 | ||||||||||||||
Yuji Okabayashi | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Ryuichi Kawakami | 17:55 | ||||||||||||||
Shinya Ishikawa | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Yuichi Taniguchi | 9:18 | ||||||||||||||
Shinya Ishikawa | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Jack Anthony | 10:28 | ||||||||||||||
Atsushi Ohashi | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Jack Anthony | 6:32 | ||||||||||||||
Shinya Ishikawa | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Ryuichi Kawakami | 12:31 | ||||||||||||||
Masato Inaba | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Amigo Suzuki | 7:43 | ||||||||||||||
Masato Inaba | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Ryuichi Kawakami | 9:05 | ||||||||||||||
D. J. Hyde | Pin | ||||||||||||||
Ryuichi Kawakami | 8:16 |
A round robin tournament was held for the newly created BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship, distinct from the previous version. [19]
Kazuki Hashimoto | 8 |
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Shinobu | 6 |
Tatsuhiko Yoshino | 6 |
Toshiyuki Sakuda | 4 |
Takuya Nomura | 4 |
Yuya Aoki | 2 |
Results | Kazuki Hashimoto | Shinobu | Takuya Nomura | Tatsuhiko Yoshino | Toshiyuki Sakuda | Yuya Aoki |
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Kazuki Hashimoto | X | Kazuki (12:56) | Kazuki (12:35) | Yoshino (11:57) | Kazuki (11:24) | Kazuki (8:09) |
Shinobu | Kazuki (12:56) | X | Shinobu (9:38) | Shinobu (11:55) | Shinobu (9:28) | Aoki (7:11) |
Takuya Nomura | Kazuki (12:35) | Shinobu (9:38) | X | Takuya (12:50) | Sakuda (10:38) | Nomura (7:13) |
Tatsuhiko Yoshino | Yoshino (11:57) | Shinobu (11:55) | Takuya (12:50) | X | Yoshino (9:26) | Yoshino (8:02) |
Toshiyuki Sakuda | Kazuki (11:24) | Shinobu (9:28) | Sakuda (10:38) | Yoshino (9:26) | X | Sakuda (9:22) |
Yuya Aoki | Kazuki (8:09) | Aoki (7:11) | Nomura (7:13) | Yoshino (8:02) | Sakuda (9:22) | X |
Final | ||||
Kazuki Hashimoto | Pin | |||
Shinobu | 13:18 |
A tournament was set up to determine the #1 contender for Shinobu's BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship, taking place between June 13 and July 17, 2018. [20]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
Kota Sekifuda | Pin | |||||||||||||
Tsutomu Oosugi | 9:35 | |||||||||||||
Kota Sekifuda | Pin | |||||||||||||
Kazuki Hashimoto | 6:57 | |||||||||||||
Kazuki Hashimoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
Fuminori Abe | 8:48 | |||||||||||||
Kazuki Hashimoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
Banana Senga | 11:57 | |||||||||||||
Yuya Aoki | Pin | |||||||||||||
Kankuro Hoshino | 9:04 | |||||||||||||
Yuya Aoki | Pin | |||||||||||||
Banana Senga | 5:49 | |||||||||||||
Hercules Senga* | Pin | |||||||||||||
Tatsuhiko Yoshino | 2:17 |
The 6-Man Sacred Ground City of Forest Sendai Tournament was a six-man tag team tournament, in which the Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championship was defended. The tournament was held on August 5, 2018. The defending champions Abdullah Kobayashi, Ryuji Ito and Jaki Numazawa lost the titles to Masaya Takahashi, Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda, who would successfully defend the titles in the final round to win the tournament.
Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||
Ryota Hama, Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yoshihisa Uto | |||||||||
Daisuke Sekimoto, Hideyoshi Kamitani and Daichi Hashimoto | |||||||||
Ryota Hama, Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yoshihisa Uto | |||||||||
Masaya Takahashi, Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda (c) | |||||||||
Abdullah Kobayashi, Ryuji Ito and Jaki Numazawa (c) | |||||||||
Masaya Takahashi, Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda |
Saikyo Tag League is a professional wrestling round-robin hardcore tag team tournament annually held since 1999.
Event | Date | City | Venue | Winner |
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1999 | November 8, 1999 | Sapporo, Hokkaido | Teisen Hall | Tomoaki Honma and Ryuji Yamakawa |
2000 | October 30, 2000 | Tokyo | Korakuen Hall | |
2001 | September 23, 2001 | Men's Teioh and Daisuke Sekimoto | ||
2002 | October 31, 2002 | Yokohama, Kanagawa | Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse | |
2003 | November 8, 2003 | Tokyo | Korakuen Hall | Daikokubō Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi |
2009 | May 28, 2009 | Masashi Takeda and Isami Kodaka | ||
2011 | November 22, 2011 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi | ||
2012 | November 24, 2012 | Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto | ||
2013 | November 22, 2013 | |||
2014 | November 21, 2014 | |||
2015 | October 29, 2015 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi | ||
2016 | October 31, 2016 | |||
2017 | October 15, 2017 | Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani |
Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor is an annual professional wrestling round-robin hardcore tournament to determine the best wrestler of BJW's deathmatch division.
Event | Date | City | Venue | Winner |
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2011 | April 18, 2011 | Tokyo | Korakuen Hall | Takashi Sasaki |
2013 | April 10, 2013 | Shin-Kiba 1st Ring | Ryuji Ito | |
2015 | April 19, 2015 | Sapporo, Hokkaido | Teisen Hall | Abdullah Kobayashi |
2017 | April 8, 2017 | Susukino Mars Gymnasium | Masaya Takahashi | |
2019 | April 14, 2019 | Sapporo, Hokkaido | Susukino Mars Gymnasium | Isami Kodaka |
Ikkitousen Strong Climb is an annual professional wrestling round-robin hardcore tournament to determine the best wrestler of BJW's Strong BJ division.
Event | Date | City | Venue | Winner |
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2012 | March 26, 2012 | Tokyo | Korakuen Hall | Yoshihito Sasaki |
2014 | July 26, 2014 | Shuji Ishikawa | ||
2016 | April 10, 2016 | Sapporo, Hokkaido | Susukino Mars Gymnasium | |
2018 | April 15, 2018 | Hideki Suzuki | ||
2020 | April 26, 2020 | Chiba, Tokyo | 2AW Square | Daichi Hashimoto |
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