The Pacific Wrestling Federation (PWF) is a professional wrestling world title in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling, contested exclusively among junior heavyweight (<) wrestlers. It was created on July 31, 1986, when Hiro Saito defeated Brad Armstrong in a tournament final.
Title history The original World Junior Heavyweight Championship belt had a similar design to the title it replaced, the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship, which had been around since 1982 and only replacing the word "International" with "World". This belt was replaced with a new belt on August 27, 2017. On June 3, 2019, then-champion Atsushi Aoki died in a motorcycle accident and the belt was retired and given to Aoki's family. A new belt with a new design debuted on January 3, 2020.
There have been a total of 47 recognized champions who have had a combined 74 official reigns and six vacancies. The title is currently held by Dan Tamura who is in his second reign.
Combined reigns
As of , .
†Indicates the current champion RankWrestlerNo. ofreignsCombineddefensesCombined days1 Masanobu Fuchi 5 24 2,4432 Yoshinari Ogawa 3 10 1,2113 Kaz Hayashi 2 23 1,0184 Atsushi Aoki 4 12 8105 Kendo Kashin 1 8 6706 Shuji Kondo 3 6 6037 Dan Kroffat 2 6 5198 Koji Iwamoto 4 6 4269 Katsuhiko Nakajima 1 3 37810 Atsuki Aoyagi 3 10 35511 Naruki Doi 2 7 29612 Yoshinobu Kanemaru 1 7 29513 Maunakea Mossman 1 3 29414 Taka Michinoku 1 12 28515 Hikaru Sato 3 8 27916 Kotaro Suzuki 1 6 23417 Último Dragón 2 3 22018 Kenny Omega 1 5 21719 Susumu Yokosuka 1 5 20420 Kai 2 2 20321 El Lindaman 1 4 18222 Dan Tamura † 2 5 +23 Tsuyoshi Kikuchi 1 2 17524 Keisuke Ishii 1 3 152 Ryuji Hijikata 1 3 152 Minoru 1 1 15227 Seigo Tachibana 1 0 14428 Hiroshi Yamato 1 5 14329 Sugi 2 4 13730 Tajiri 2 3 13331 Naomichi Marufuji 1 4 13132 Rising Hayato 1 3 12633 Joe Malenko 2 2 11634 Hiro Saito 1 3 11535 Musashi 1 2 11236 Cima 1 2 10937 Tiger Mask 1 3 91 Soma Takao 1 1 9139 Seiki Yoshioka 1 2 8440 Mitsuo Momota 1 2 7241 Izanagi 1 0 6142 Silver King 1 0 5943 Mighty Inoue 1 2 4244 Kuniaki Kobayashi 1 1 4145 Akira Francesco 1 0 2646 Super Crazy 1 0 1847 Shinichi Nakano 1 0 4
Belt design The standard Championship belt has five plates on a black leather strap.
See also NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship (predecessor) AJPW Junior League
References
External links All-Japan.co.jp title history Wrestling-Titles.com: World Junior Heavyweight Title