BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion
| BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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Yuji Okabayashi with BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship belt in August 2015
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| Promotion | Big Japan Pro Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | April 14, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Hideki Suzuki | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | March 30, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| First champion(s) | Yoshihito Sasaki |
| Most reigns | Daisuke Sekimoto (3 reigns) |
| Longest reign | Yuji Okabayashi (370 days) |
| Shortest reign | Manabu Soya (58 days) |
| Oldest winner | Shuji Ishikawa (39 years, 87 days) |
| Youngest winner | Hideyoshi Kamitani (24 years, 178 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Shuji Ishikawa (130 kg (290 lb)) |
| Lightest champion | Shinya Ishikawa (94 kg (207 lb)) |
The BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship 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 Championship. The two titles symbolize the two sides of BJW; the Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship the hardcore wrestling side and the World Strong Heavyweight Championship the strong style side. The title has a lower weight limit of 96 kg (212 lb).
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been ten reigns shared among eight wrestlers. Hideki Suzuki is the current champion in his first reign.
On March 26, 2012, Yoshihito Sasaki defeated Daisuke Sekimoto in the finals to win the 2012 Ikkitosen Strong Climb tournament. Following his win, Sasaki requested that BJW establish a new championship that would symbolize the "strong" side of the promotion. BJW already had one heavyweight championship, the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship, but it was contested exclusively in deathmatches. This led to BJW announcing the creation of the BJW World Strong Heavyweight Championship on April 14, 2012. On May 5, Yoshihito Sasaki defeated Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) representative and the reigning wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion Big van Walter in a decision match to become the inaugural champion. Sasaki held the title for the rest of the year, successfully defending it four times. On January 2, 2013, All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJW) representative Manabu Soya defeated Sasaki in his fifth title defense to become the second BJW World Strong Heavyweight Champion. Soya's reign lasted only two months, before he lost the title to Daisuke Sekimoto on March 1, 2013. Sekimoto held the title for the rest of the year, breaking Sasaki's records for the longest reign and most successful title defenses, with ten.
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