International Junior Heavyweight Championship (Zero1)


The International Junior Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title in Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Zero1 and formerly sanctioned by the Wrestling Superstars Live promotion, contested exclusively among junior heavyweight wrestlers. It was originally created on June 29, 2002 as the NWA/UPW/Zero-One International Junior Heavyweight Championship, symbolizing Zero-One's relationship with the NWA and UPW; Leonardo Spanky defeated Smelly to become the first champion. When Zero-One left the NWA on October 31, 2004, the title was renamed to incorporate Steve Corino's Pro Wrestling World-1; the name was further added to when the newly renamed Zero1-Max joined the AWA on February 28, 2005. On August 26, 2006, when Minoru Fujita won the annual Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament, it was again renamed the AWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. When Zero1-Max left the AWA on December 15, 2007, it was renamed again to the Zero1-Max International Junior Heavyweight Championship. Finally, when the company changed its name to Pro Wrestling Zero1 in 2008, the championship followed. There have been a total of 21 recognized champions, who have had a combined 30 official reigns.
The championship has been known as:

Combined reigns

As of ,.
RankWrestlerNo. of
reigns		Combined days
1Ikuto Hidaka51,239
2Takuya Sugawara3918
3Shinjiro Otani1481
4Sugi1403
5Low Ki1349
6Hub †2+
7Tatsuhito Takaiwa3293
8Sonjay Dutt1259
9Jason Lee2257
10Kotaro Suzuki1265
11Isami Kodaka1242
12Wataru Sakata2225
13Minoru Tanaka1224
14Masaaki Mochizuki1155
15Minoru Fujita1146
16Jonathan Gresham1135
17Sean Guinness1129
18Dick Togo1127
19Super Crazy1117
20Leonardo Spanky179
21Minoru Fujita145

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