The BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship is a

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defended in the

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Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1995. It is most famous for its deathmatch style contests. History Big Japan Pro Wrestling was founded in March 1995 by former AJPW wrestlers Shinya Kojika and Kendo Nagasaki, ...

(BJW). On May 7, 2017, BJW announced that it was bringing back the BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship with a

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set to take place between May 25 and July 17. The title is distinct from the previous BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship that was established in 1998 and was retired in 2002. The title has a weight limit of . Wrestlers over the weight limit will be eligible to challenge for the

BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship The is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the Japanese Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) promotion. It is one of two heavyweight championships promoted by BJW, the other being the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championshi ...

. There have been a total of seven reigns shared between seven different champions. The current champion is Kota Sekifuda who is in his first reign.

Inaugural tournament

The round-robin league began on May 25, 2017, and ran all the way through to the decision match, between the top two, on the July 17 show at Ryōgoku Kokugikan.

Title history

As of , .

Combined reigns

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Kazuki Hashimoto is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), competing in the Strong J division, where he is a former BJW Junior Heavyweight Champion. Professional wrestling career Hashimoto enrolled in Animal Ham ...

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Isami Kodaka is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to Pro-Wrestling Basara (Basara). He originally started his career in the Kaientai Dojo (K-Dojo) promotion in July 2002, but later left the promotion to become a freelancer, before signing wi ...

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Tatsuhiko Yoshino is a Japanese professional wrestler better known by the ring name , currently signed to Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in the Strong J division, where he is a former BJW Junior Heavyweight Champion. He was trained by Guts Ishijima and debuted f ...

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References

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Inaugural tournament

Title history

Combined reigns

See also

References