FMW Women's Championship

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FMW Women's Championship
Details
Promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling [1]
Date establishedNovember 5, 1990 [1]
Date retiredSeptember 28, 1997
Other name(s)
  • WWA World Women's Championship
  • FMW Independent Women's Championship
Statistics
First champion(s) Combat Toyoda [1]
Most reigns Megumi Kudo (6 reigns) [1]
Longest reignMegumi Kudo (426 days) [1]
Shortest reign Shark Tsuchiya (<1 day) [1]

The FMW Women's Championship (or the FMW Independent Women's & WWA Women's Championship) was two Japanese women's professional wrestling championships (WWA World Women's Championship and FMW Independent World Women's Championship) 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.

Contents

Title history

Names

NameYears
WWA World Women's ChampionshipNovember 5, 1990 – February 25, 1994
FMW Independent Women's ChampionshipFebruary 25, 1994 – September 28, 1997
FMW Independent / WWA World Women's ChampionshipFebruary 25, 1994 – September 28, 1997

Reigns

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
<1Reign lasted less than a day
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDays
1 Combat Toyoda November 5, 1990 1st Anniversary Show Tokyo, Japan 1143Defeated Beastie the Road Warrior to become the first WWA World Women's Champion [1] [2] [3] [4]
2 Megumi Kudo March 28, 1991FMW Tokyo, Japan 1142 [1]
3 Combat Toyoda August 17, 1991FMW Tokyo, Japan 258 [1]
4 Miwa Sato October 14, 1991FMW Tokyo, Japan 1163 [1]
5 Shark Tsuchiya March 25, 1992FMW Tokyo, Japan 160 [1]
6 Megumi Kudo May 24, 1992FMW Tokyo, Japan 2426 [1]
7 Combat Toyoda July 24, 1993FMW Kitakyushu, Japan 399 [1]
8Crusher MaedomariOctober 31, 1993FMW Tokyo, Japan 1103 [1]
— Vacated February 11, 1994FMW 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, 1994FMW Tokyo, Japan 3128Defeated 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, 1994FMW Tokyo, Japan 470 [1]
11Yukie NabenoAugust 28, 1994 Summer Spectacular Osaka, Japan 1106 [1] [5] [6]
— Vacated December 12, 1994———— [1]
12 Bad Nurse Nakamura March 30, 1995FMW Yokohama, Japan 136Defeated Megumi Kudo for the vacant titles. [1]
13 Megumi Kudo May 5, 1995 6th Anniversary Show Kawasaki, Japan 4199 [1] [7] [8] [9]
14 Shark Tsuchiya November 20, 1995FMW Fukuoka, Japan 220 [1]
15 Combat Toyoda December 10, 1995FMW Tokyo, Japan 5147 [1]
16 Megumi Kudo May 5, 1996 7th Anniversary Show Kawasaki, Japan 5320This was a no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch and Combat Toyoda's retirement match. [1] [10] [11] [12]
17 Shark Tsuchiya March 21, 1997Winning Road tour Sendai, Miyagi 339 [1]
18 Megumi Kudo April 29, 1997 8th Anniversary Show Yokohama, Japan 645This 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, 1997King 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<1Defeated 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]
—DeactivatedSeptember 28, 1997 Fall Spectacular Kawasaki, Japan ——The titles were retired after the match. [1]

Combined reigns

RankWrestlerNo. of
reigns		Combined days
1 Megumi Kudo 61,246
2 Combat Toyoda 5517
3 Miwa Sato 1163
4 Shark Tsuchiya 4119
5Yukie Nabeno1106
6Crusher Maedomari1103
7 Bad Nurse Nakamura 136

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