FMW Women's Championship

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.

FMW Women's Championship
Details
PromotionFrontier 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 reignsMegumi Kudo (6 reigns)[1]
Longest reignMegumi Kudo (426 days)[1]
Shortest reignShark Tsuchiya (<1 day)[1]

Title history

Names
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
Key
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
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined days
1 Megumi Kudo61,246
2 Combat Toyoda5517
3 Miwa Sato1163
4 Shark Tsuchiya4119
5 Yukie Nabeno1106
6 Crusher Maedomari1103
7 Bad Nurse Nakamura136

See also

References
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