# FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship

The FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship was world heavyweight championship in the wrestling promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). It was one of the two premier championships in FMW, alongside the FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship.

## Title history
### Names

| Name | Years |
| WWA Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship | January 7, 1990–February 27, 1991 |
| WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship | February 27, 1991–August 28, 1993 |
| FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship | August 28, 1993–December 12, 1996 |
| FMW Double Championship | December 12, 1996–May 18, 1999 |
| FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship | May 18, 1999–August 25, 1999 |

### Reigns

Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
| 1 | Beast the Barbarian | January 7, 1990 | Battle Resistance - 1st Open Tournament | Tokyo | 1 | 10 | Recognized as first champion. | |
| 2 | Atsushi Onita | January 17, 1990 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 406 | The title was renamed WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship on February 27, 1991. | |
| 3 | Grigory Verichev | February 27, 1991 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 91 | | |
| 4 | Atsushi Onita | May 29, 1991 | House show | Tokyo | 2 | 231 | | |
| 5 | Big Titan | January 15, 1992 | House show | Kobe, Hyogo | 1 | 15 | | |
| 6 | Tarzan Goto | January 30, 1992 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 55 | | |
| 7 | Leon Spinks | March 25, 1992 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 60 | | |
| 8 | Atsushi Onita | May 24, 1992 | House show | Tokyo | 3 | 32 | | |
| 9 | The Sheik | June 25, 1992 | House show | Sapporo, Hokkaido | 1 | | | |
| 10 | Tiger Jeet Singh | August 1992 | House show | Sapporo, Hokkaido | 1 | | The Sheik rewarded the title to Tiger Jeet Singh for helping him in beating Atsushi Onita for the title. | |
| 11 | Atsushi Onita | September 19, 1992 | 3rd Anniversary Show | Yokohama, Kanagawa | 4 | 337 | Title replaced by the FMW World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. | |
| 12 | Atsushi Onita | August 22, 1993 | Summer Spectacular | Osaka | 5 | 137 | Onita defeated Mr. Pogo to become the first FMW World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion. | |
| 13 | Mr. Pogo | January 6, 1994 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 244 | | |
| 14 | Atsushi Onita | September 7, 1994 | House show | Sapporo, Hokkaido | 6 | 136 | | |
| 15 | Mr. Pogo | January 21, 1995 | House show | Sendai, Miyagi | 2 | 103 | | |
| 16 | Atsushi Onita | May 4, 1995 | House show | Sendai, Miyagi | 7 | 1 | | |
| — | Vacated | May 5, 1995 | 6th Anniversary Show | Kawasaki, Kanagawa | — | — | Atsushi Onita vacated the title due to his retirement. | |
| 17 | Hayabusa | June 27, 1995 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | <1 | Hayabusa defeated Hisakatsu Oya for the vacant title. | |
| — | Vacated | June 27, 1995 | House show | Tokyo | — | — | Hayabusa vacated the title due to injury. | |
| 18 | The Gladiator | September 26, 1995 | Grand Slam tour | Tokyo | 1 | 101 | Gladiator defeated Hayabusa in the finals of a Grand Slam Tournament. | |
| — | Vacated | January 5, 1996 | House show | Tokyo | — | — | The Gladiator vacated the title due to injury. | |
| 19 | Super Leather | February 23, 1996 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 94 | Leather defeated Hisakatsu Oya for the vacant title. | |
| 20 | The Gladiator | May 27, 1996 | House show | Fukuoka, Fukuoka | 2 | 489 | Gladiator unified the title with the FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship by defeating W*ING Kanemura on December 11, 1996 and the title was renamed to Double Championship. This was the longest reign of the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. | |
| 21 | Masato Tanaka | September 28, 1997 | Fall Spectacular | Kawasaki, Kanagawa | 1 | 100 | | |
| 22 | Mr. Gannosuke | January 6, 1998 | New Year Generation tour | Tokyo | 1 | 114 | | |
| 23 | Hayabusa | April 30, 1998 | 9th Anniversary Show | Yokohama, Kanagawa | 2 | 204 | | |
| 24 | Kodo Fuyuki | November 20, 1998 | Scramble Survivor tour | Yokohama, Kanagawa | 1 | 179 | | |
| 25 | Yukihiro Kanemura | May 18, 1999 | House show | Tokyo | 1 | 97 | Kodo Fuyuki relinquished the title due to injury and awarded it to Kanemura. As a result, the title was split from the Independent Heavyweight Championship, reverted to being Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. | |
| 26 | Hayabusa | August 23, 1999 | Goodbye Hayabusa II: Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony | Tokyo | 3 | 2 | | |
| — | Deactivated | August 25, 1999 | Goodbye Hayabusa II: Last Match | Sapporo, Hokkaido | — | — | The title was retired and replaced with WEW Heavyweight Championship. | |

## Combined reigns

| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
| 1 | Atsushi Onita | 7 | 1,280 |
| 2 | The Gladiator | 2 | 590 |
| 3 | Mr. Pogo | 2 | 347 |
| 4 | Hayabusa | 3 | 206 |
| 5 | Kodo Fuyuki | 1 | 179 |
| 6 | Mr. Gannosuke | 1 | 114 |
| 7 | Masato Tanaka | 1 | 100 |
| 8 | Yukihiro Kanemura | 1 | 97 |
| 9 | Super Leather | 1 | 94 |
| 10 | Grigory Verichev | 1 | 90 |
| 11 | Leon Spinks | 1 | 60 |
| 12 | Tarzan Goto | 1 | 55 |
| 13 | Tiger Jeet Singh | 1 | 49 |
| 14 | The Sheik | 1 | 37 |
| 15 | Big Titan | 1 | 15 |
| 16 | Beast the Barbarian | 1 | 10 |

## Footnotes

* ↑ The exact date when The Sheik rewarded the title to Tiger Jeet Singh is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 37 and 67 days.
* ↑ The exact date when The Sheik rewarded the title to Tiger Jeet Singh is uncertain, which means that Singh's championship reign lasted between 19 and 49 days.