| Johnny Defazzio |
67< |
| Jackie Nicholas |
| Johnny Defazzio [2] |
| Jackie Nicholas [2] |
| Johnny Defazzio [3] |
| Jackie Nicholas [3] |
- All of Nicholas' title wins take place somewhere in New
England.
|
| Johnny Defazzio [4] |
72< |
- Vacates in 72 upon retirement.
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| Carlos Jose Estrada |
78/01/20 |
Uniondale, NY |
- Defeats Tony Garea.
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| Tatsumi Fujinami |
78/01/23 |
New York, NY |
| Ryuma Go |
79/10/02 |
Osaka, JAPAN |
| Tatsumi Fujinami [2] |
79/10/04 |
Tokyo, JAPAN |
- Defeats NWA World champion Les Thornton on 81/07/31 in Osaka (NWA
title not on line); vacates when Fujinami moves to heavyweight division
in 81/12.
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| Tiger Mask
(the original, Satoru Sayama) |
82/01/01 |
Tokyo, JAPAN |
- Defeats Dynamite Kid; vacant in 82/04 due to injury.
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| Black Tiger (original = Mark Rocco) |
82/05/06 |
Fukuoka, JAPAN |
- Defeats Gran Hamada.
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| Tiger Mask
[2] |
82/05/26 |
Osaka, JAPAN |
- Vacant on 83/04/03 after Tiger Mask is injured by Dynamite Kid in a
tag match in 83/04/01; Dynamite Kid and Kuniaki Kobayashi meet for the
vacant title on 83/04/03 but had no winner decided.
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| Tiger Mask
[3] |
83/06/13 |
Mexico City, MEXICO |
- Defeats Fishman; vacant on 83/08/12 when Tiger Mask
retires.
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| Dynamite Kid (Tom Billington) |
84/02/07 |
Tokyo, JAPAN |
- Wins a triangular match defeating Davey Boy Smith on 84/02/03 in
Sappporo and The Cobra on 84/02/07; vacates in 84/11 when the British
Bulldogs(Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith) jump to All Japan; WWF
takes over Georgia Championship Wrestling in 84/07, and Les Thornton,
who has been then billed as NWA World Junior heavyweight champion in
Georgia, wrestles as WWF champion in some WWF shows before title is
forgotten.
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| The Cobra |
84/12/28 |
New York, NY |
- Defeats Black Tiger.
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| Hiro Saito |
85/05/20 |
Hiroshima, JAPAN |
| The Cobra [2] |
85/07/28 |
Osaka, JAPAN |
- Vacates on 85/10/31 when New Japan and WWF split; Shiro Koshinaka
defeats The Cobra on 86/02/06 in Tokyo to be the first IWGP Junior
Heavyweight champion.
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