Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Champion
| Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Championship | |||||||||||||||||
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The Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Championship belt
(March 2015 — Present) |
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| Promotion | Wrestle-1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Date established | February 25, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Seiki Yoshioka | ||||||||||||||||
| Date won | September 2, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||
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Wrestle-1 Cruiserweight Championship
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| Most reigns | Andy Wu (3 reigns) |
| Longest reign | Kotaro Suzuki (151 days) |
| Shortest reign | Seiki Yoshioka (30 days) |
| Oldest winner | Minoru Tanaka (42 years, 157 days) |
| Youngest winner | Andy Wu (23–24 years) |
| Heaviest champion | Mazada (87 kg (192 lb)) |
| Lightest champion | Andy Wu and Yusuke Kodama (80 kg (180 lb)) |
The Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Championship (WRESTLE-1クルーザーディビジョン王座 Wrestle-1 Kurūzā Dibijon Ōza) is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Wrestle-1 (W-1) promotion. The title is meant for cruiserweight wrestlers and holds a weight limit of 200 lb (91 kg).
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been eleven reigns shared among seven wrestlers. Seiki Yoshioka is the current Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Champion in his second reign.
When Wrestle-1 was founded in 2013, one of its main focuses was to build an openweight division, where its wrestlers would not be typecast as heavyweights or junior heavyweights, like in most Japanese promotions, but would be able to interact with each other across weight limits. However, on February 13, 2015, after Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo had successfully defended the Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship against Minoru Tanaka and Seiki Yoshioka, Hayashi announced he was interested in building a division for Wrestle-1's lighter wrestlers, electing to call the proposed division a "cruiserweight" division instead of the "junior heavyweight" division, which is more common in Japanese puroresu. This led to a match on February 22, billed as an "assessment match" to a possible cruiserweight division, where Tanaka defeated Hayashi. Following the match, Tanaka, Andy Wu, El Hijo del Pantera, Hiroshi Yamato, Rionne Fujiwara, Seiki Yoshioka and Yusuke Kodama voiced their support for a cruiserweight division in Wrestle-1. On February 25, Wrestle-1 officially announced the creation of a cruiserweight division and the promotion's third title, a cruiserweight championship.
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