BJPW Death Match Heavyweight Title History

1. (08/09/1998 Shin-Kawasaki) Great Pogo (1) beat Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (8:36) by Cremation KO (Glass & Fire Coffin Cremation Death Match / Tournament Final).

2. (08/23/1998 Hironori Park Open Space) Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (1) beat Mr. Pogo (9:06) with a W*ING-Style Sleeper Hold (Glass & Fire Coffin Cremation Death Match).

3. (09/23/1998 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Shadow WX (1) beat Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (13:18) with a Pinfall (3 Way Board Alligator Death Match).

- (10/31/1998 Sapporo Teisen Hall) Shadow WX beat Tomoaki Honma (20:47) with a WX Lock (Dangerous Special Barbed Wire Board Death Match / 1st defense).

4. (01/10/1999 ACROS Fukuoka) Abdullah The Butcher (1) beat Shadow WX (12:04) with a Pinfall (Lumberjack Death Match).

5. (02/28/1999 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Shadow WX (2) beat Abdullah The Butcher (14:26) with a Pinfall (Barbed Wire Board Death Match).

- (04/07/1999 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Shadow WX beat Abdullah The Butcher (12:49) by Doctor Stop (Hell Prison Cable Chain Handcuffs Death Match / 1st defense).

6. (05/30/1999 Shin-Kawasaki) Ryuji Yamakawa (1) beat Shadow WX (22:29) with a Reverse Tiger Driver (No Ropes Barbed Wire Death Pallet Coffin & Fire Death Match).

- (06/20/1999 Sapporo Teisen Hall) Ryuji Yamakawa beat Tomoaki Honma (19:35) with a Reverse Tiger Driver (Anywhere 3 Way Board Death Match / 1st defense).

7. (08/10/1999 Hironori Park Open Space) Shadow WX (3) beat Ryuji Yamakawa (11:54) with a Liger Bomb (No Ropes Barbed Wire Fire Death Match).

8. (12/04/1999 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Ryuji Yamakawa (2) beat Shadow WX (18:11) with a Reverse Tiger Driver (4 Corner Lighttubes Board Death Match).

9. (01/02/2000 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Tomoaki Honma (1) beat Ryuji Yamakawa (23:45) with a Elbow Smash (Spike Nail & Barbed Wire Double Board Death Match).

- (02/22/2000 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Tomoaki Honma beat Abdullah Jr. Kobayashi (20:43) with a Wakigatame (Barbed Wire Board & Ladder Death Match / 1st defense).

10. (07/02/2000 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Zandig (1) beat Tomoaki Honma (19:04) with a Spiral Bomb (Lemon, Salt & Mustard Death Match).

- (08/29/2000 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Zandig beat Ryuji Yamakawa (26:18) with a Power Riser (Free Weapon Anywhere Fall Death Match / 1st defense).

- (09/15/2000 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Zandig beat Tomoaki Honma (17:09) with a Cactus Hold (Barbed Wire Board & Cactus Death Match / 2nd defense).

11. (11/23/2000 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Tomoaki Honma (2) beat Zandig (15:16) with a Pinfall (Glass & Barbed Wire Board Death Match).

!- Title was vacated in March 2001 due to Honma leaving BJPW

12. (05/04/2001 Sapporo Teisen Hall) Zandig (2) beat Kintaro Kanemura (15:54) with a Lighttubes Board Press (CZW-style Caribbean Barbed Wire, Lighttubes, Lighttubes Board & Barbed Wire Chess Board Death Match / tournament final).

- (06/25/2001 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Zandig beat Jun Kasai (15:17) (Glass & Barbed Wire Board CZW-style King & Banana Death Match /1st defense).

13. (08/19/2001 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (2) beat Zandig (17:34) with a Flame Attack (200 Lighttubes & Thumbtack & Glass Board Death Match).

14. (12/02/2001 Yokohama Arena) Zandig (3) beat Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (10:38) with a Lighttube-assisted Camel Clutch (Exploding Glass Death Match).

!- Zandig left BJPW in 2002 and took the Title with him.

15. (03/30/2003 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Kintaro Kanemura (1) beat Shadow WX (12:40) with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb (Light Bulb & Glass Death Match / Decision Match).

- (06/01/2003 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Kintaro Kanemura beat Abdullah Kobayashi (14:18) with a Barbed Wire Bat Shot (No Ropes Barbed Wire Death Match / 1st defense).

16. (08/24/2003 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Ryuji Ito (1) beat Kintaro Kanemura (14:55) with a Ryuji Kick (Cage Death Match).

- (12/24/2003 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Ryuji Ito beat Abdullah Kobayashi (16:13) with a Ring of Death-Style Dragon Splash (Ring of Death Fluorescent Lighttubes, Barbed Wire Board & Glass Board Death Match / 1st defense).

- (04/29/2004 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Ryuji Ito beat BADBOY Hido (16:17) with a Firebird Splash (Glass Board Plus Alpha Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match / 2nd defense).

- (05/13/2004 Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse) Ryuji Ito beat Madman Pondo (14:39) with a Lighttube-assisted Skeg Drop (Fans Bring The Weapons Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match / 3rd defense).

- (07/18/2004 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Ryuji Ito beat Gosaku (21:01) with a Lighttube-assisted Dragon Splash (300 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match / 4th defense).

- (12/18/2004 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Ryuji Ito beat BADBOY Hido (18:56) with a Dragon Slash (10 Items Death Match / 5th defense).

- (06/08/2005 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Ryuji Ito beat Takashi Sasaki (23:52) with a Lighttube-assisted Dragon Splash (300 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match / 6th defense).

17. (12/21/2005 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Abdullah Kobayashi (1) beat Ryuji Ito (18:23) with a Scaffold Diving Bakachinga Elbow (200 Fluorescent Lighttubes & Scaffold Death Match).

18. (03/31/2006 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Takashi Sasaki (1) beat Abdullah Kobayashi (21:34) with a Lighttube-assisted Right Trail (200 Fluorescent Lighttubes & Kenzan Death Match).

- (06/26/2006 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Takashi Sasaki beat "Black Angel" Jaki Numazawa (16:42) with a Lighttube-assisted Right Trail (200 Fluorescent Lighttubes & Cage Plus Alpha Death Match / 1st defense).

19. (09/10/2006 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Ryuji Ito (2) beat Takashi Sasaki (22:27) with a Half Nelson Suplex Hold (Super High Ladder, Fluorescent Lighttubes & Barbed Wire Hell Death Match).

!- Title was vacated on 09/13/2006 because Ito broke his arms in the title match.

20. (12/03/2006 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Takashi Sasaki (2) beat "Black Angel" Jaki Numazawa (23:06) with a Lighttube-assisted Right Trail (Fluorescent Lighttubes Shrine Death Match / Decision Match).

- (03/14/2007 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) Takashi Sasaki (c) beat Yuko Miyamoto (24:07) with a Lighttube-assisted modified D-Geist (Fluorescent Lighttubes Construction Site Scaffold Death Match ~ One Night Carnival / 1st defense).

- (07/08/2007 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Takashi Sasaki (c) beat Ryuji Ito (22:24) with a Lighttubes-assisted Modified D-Geist (300 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match / 2nd defense).

21. (08/26/2007 Tokyo Differ Ariake) "Kokutenshi" Jaki Numazawa (1) beat Takashi Sasaki (c) (19:50) with the Mania God Taihei (100 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match).

- (10/14/2007 Tokyo Korakuen Hall) "Kokutenshi" Jaki Numazawa (c) beat Abdullah Kobayashi (15:57) with the Shineway (444 Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match / 1st defense).

22. (12/14/2007 Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium) Ryuji Ito (3) beat "Kokutenshi" Jaki Numazawa (17:44) with a Barbed Wire & Lighttubes-assisted Dragon Splash (Four Corners Cross of 'D' Death Match ~ Die Damage Danger Death).

- (01/06/2007 Katsura Studio) Ryuji Ito (c) beat MASADA (27:59) with a Barbed Wire-assisted Dragon Splash off a Scaffold (No Rope Barbed Wire Fire Board & Barbed Wire Board Concrete Block Death Match / 1st defense).