FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship

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FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship
Details
Promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
Date establishedDecember 9, 1991
Date retiredJune 16, 1999
Other name(s)
WWA World Martial Arts Tag Team Championship
Statistics
First champion(s) Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto
Most reigns W*ING Kanemura/Yukihiro Kanemura (5 reigns)
Longest reign The Headhunters (Headhunter A and Headhunter B)
(391 days)
Shortest reign Koji Nakagawa and Gedo
(3 days)

The FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship was a tag team hardcore wrestling championship contested in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling.

Contents

Title history

Names

NameYears
WWA World Martial Arts Tag Team ChampionshipDecember 9, 1991September 19, 1992
FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team ChampionshipJanuary 18, 1994June 13, 1999

Reigns

No:Wrestlers:Reigns:Date:Days held:Location:Event:Notes:
1 Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto 1December 9, 1991150 Tokyo, Japan FMWOnita and Goto defeated Grigory Verichev and Koba Kurtanidze in the finals of a World's Strongest Tag Team Tournament to become the first WWA World Martial Arts Tag Team Champions. [1]
2 Sabu and Horace Boulder 1May 7, 199217 Tokyo, Japan FMW [1]
3 Tarzan Goto
(2) and Grigory Verichev
1May 25, 1992117 Tokyo, Japan FMW [1]
AbandonedSeptember 19, 1992 Yokohama, Kanagawa 3rd Anniversary Show The title was abandoned after the 3rd Anniversary Show.
4 Big Titan and The Gladiator 1January 18, 199493 Saitama, Japan FMWThe title was re-installed as FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. Titan and Gladiator defeated Atsushi Onita and Katsutoshi Niiyama in a tournament final to win the vacant title. [2] [3]
5 Mr. Pogo and Hisakatsu Oya 1April 21, 1994101 Aomori, Japan FMW [2]
6 Atsushi Onita (2) and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga 1July 31, 1994 [Note 1] Yokohama, Japan FMW [2]
VacatedOctober 1994FMWThe title was vacated when Onita and Matsunaga split up. [2]
7 W*ING Alliance
(Mr. Pogo (2) and The Gladiator (2))
1October 28, 1994119 Tokyo, Japan FMWPogo and Gladiator defeated Atsushi Onita and Mr. Gannosuke for vacant title. [2]
8 Atsushi Onita (3) and Mr. Gannosuke 1February 24, 199511 Tokyo, Japan FMW [2]
9 W*ING Alliance
(Mr. Pogo (3) and Yukihiro Kanemura)
1March 7, 199559 Iwate, Japan FMW [2]
10Lethal Weapon
(Ricky Fuji and Hisakatsu Oya (2))
1May 5, 1995123 Kawasaki, Japan 6th Anniversary Show [2]
11 Daisuke Ikeda and Yoshiaki Fujiwara 1September 5, 1995107 Sapporo, Japan Grand Slam Tour [2]
12Lethal Weapon
(Hisakatsu Oya (3) and Horace Boulder)
1December 21, 199515 Yokohama, Japan Year End Spectacular [2]
13 The Faces of Dead
(Super Leather and Jason the Terrible)
1January 5, 199685 Tokyo, Japan FMW [2]
14 The Headhunters
(A and B)
1March 30, 1996391 Tokyo, Japan FMW [2]
15 W*ING Alliance
(W*ING Kanemura (2) and Hido)
1April 25, 1997118 Osaka, Japan Fighting Creation Tour [2]
16Funk Masters of Wrestling
(Mr. Gannosuke (2) and Hisakatsu Oya (4))
1August 21, 199759 Yokosuka, Japan Super Dynamism Tour [2]
17 ZEN
(Atsushi Onita (3) and Yukihiro Kanemura (3))
1October 19, 1997 [Note 2] Sendai, Japan Power Splash Tour [2]
VacatedNovember 1997Onita and Kanemura were stripped of the title due to Onita's inactivity. [2]
18 ZEN/Team No Respect
(Mr. Gannosuke (3) and Yukihiro Kanemura (4))
1November 28, 1997121 Tokyo, Japan Scramble Survivor TourDefeated Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka for the vacant title. [2]
19 Team No Respect
(Kodo Fuyuki and Hido (2))
1March 29, 199819 Niigata, Japan Winning Road Tour [2]
20 Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka 1April 17, 199840 Sapporo, Japan Fuyuki Army [2]
21 Team No Respect
(Kodo Fuyuki (2) and Yukihiro Kanemura (5))
1May 27, 1998152 Fukuoka, Japan Neo FMW [2]
21 Hayabusa (2) and Daisuke Ikeda (2)1October 26, 1998 [Note 3] Chiba, Japan Fuyuki Army [2]
VacatedJanuary 1999Title vacated due to Ikeda's health problems. [2]
22 Masato Tanaka (2) and Tetsuhiro Kuroda 1May 3, 199941 Nagoya, Japan Strongest Tag League TourDefeated Hayabusa and Kodo Fuyuki in an eight-team round-robin tournament final for vacant title. [2]
23 Team No Respect
(Koji Nakagawa and Gedo)
1June 13, 19993 Okayama, Japan Making of a New Legend Tour [2]
RetiredJune 16, 1999 Chiba, Japan Making of a New Legend TourThe title was replaced with the WEW World Tag Team Championship. [2]
  1. The exact date when Atsushi Onita and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vacated the title is uncertain, which means that their reign lasted between 62 and 89 days.
  2. The exact date when Atsushi Onita and Yukihiro Kanemura vacated the title is uncertain, which means that their reign lasted between 13 and 40 days.
  3. The exact date when Hayabusa and Daisuke Ikeda vacated the title is uncertain, which means that their reign lasted between 67 and 97 days.

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