WAR International Junior Heavyweight Championship

The WAR International Junior Heavyweight Championship was a title contested for in the Japanese professional wrestling

Professional wrestling in Japan

Puroresu is the popular term for the predominant style or genre of professional wrestling that has developed in Japan. The term comes from the Japanese pronunciation of "professional wrestling" , which is shortened to puroresu . The term became popular among English-speaking fans due to Hisaharu...

promotion

Professional wrestling promotion

A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling. Promotion also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event...

Wrestle Association R (WAR)

WAR (wrestling promotion)

Wrestle and Romance, and later Wrestle Association R, was a professional wrestling promotion founded and run by Genichiro Tenryu as the successor to Super World of Sports, and which lasted from 1992 to 2000. The promotion had very few regular contracted workers, instead most of the workers were...

, which closed in 2000. It was part of New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling

is a major professional wrestling promotion in Japan, founded by Antonio Inoki in June 1972 and owned by Yuke's since 2005, when Inoki sold the promotion. Naoki Sugabayashi is the current President of the promotion and has held that position from 2007. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, it...

's short-lived J-Crown Championship

J-Crown

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in 1996 and 1997. The title was revived in April 2010, for Genichiro Tenryu

Genichiro Tenryu

Genichiro Tenryu , real name Genichiro Shimada , is a Japanese professional wrestler. At age 13, he entered sumo wrestling and stayed there for 13 years, after which he turned to Western-style professional wrestling...

's Tenryu Project promotion.

Title history

Wrestler:	Times:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
Gedo Keiji Takayama Keiji Takayama better known as Gedo , is a long time professional wrestler. He formed a long-lasting tag team with Jado...	1	March 26, 1995	Tokyo Tokyo , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family... , Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	Defeated Lionheart in a tournament final to become the first champion.
Lionheart Chris Jericho Christopher Keith Irvine , better known by his ring name Chris Jericho, is an inactive Canadian-American professional wrestler, musician, songwriter, radio personality, television host, actor, author, and dancer...	1	June 4, 1995	Tokyo, Japan
Último Dragón	1	July 28, 1995	Tokyo, Japan
Gedo	2	August 29, 1995	Shizuoka Shizuoka, Shizuoka is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in terms of both population and area. It became one of Japan's 19 "designated cities" in 2005.-Geography:... , Japan
Último Dragón	2	October 5, 1995	Oomiya, Japan
The Great Sasuke Masanori Murakawa , , is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known by his stage name The Great Sasuke, as well as a former Iwate Prefectural Assembly legislator. He has wrestled in Japan and in the United States in various wrestling promotions...	1	August 5, 1996	Tokyo, Japan	The championship becomes one of eight championships comprising New Japan Pro Wrestling's J-Crown Championship J-Crown -Title history:-External links:*... .
Último Dragón	3	October 11, 1996	Osaka Osaka is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe... , Japan
Jushin Liger Jushin Liger , better known as and later, is a Japanese professional wrestler who primarily works for New Japan Pro Wrestling.He has wrestled and beaten many of the top smaller wrestlers in both Japan and the United States, and is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most revolutionary junior...	1	January 4, 1997	Tokyo, Japan	Won the title at Wrestling World 1997.
Yuji Yasuraoka	1	June 6, 1997	Tokyo, Japan	Wins only the WAR championship; Liger retains the other seven titles.
Masao Orihara	1	January 15, 1999	Tokyo, Japan
Masaaki Mochizuki Masaaki Mochizuki is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently performing for Dragon Gate, where he is the current Open the Dream Gate Champion in his second reign and the leader of the Junction Three stable...	1	March 1, 1999	Tokyo, Japan
Title abandoned		2000		Title was abandoned when WAR closed.
Pentagon Black	1	July 27, 2006	Tokyo, Japan	Wins the title from Mochizuki.
Masaaki Mochizuki	2	November 23, 2006	Osaka, Japan
Title abandoned		January 26, 2007	Tokyo, Japan
Title revived		April 19, 2010	Tokyo, Japan	Mochizuki defends the belt against Susumu Yokosuka and Naoki Tanisaki on the first Tenryu Project show.
Tiger Shark	1	June 9, 2010	Tokyo, Japan
HIROKI	1	September 29, 2010	Tokyo, Japan
Ryuji Hijikata Ryuji Hijikata is a Japanese professional wrestler. Born May 17, 1978. Started wrestling in 1998 for Yuki Isikawa's BattlARTS promotion and All Japan Pro Wrestling since 2002 where he was a former AJPW World Jr...	1	December 14, 2010	Tokyo, Japan

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