FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship

The FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship was a tag team hardcore wrestling championship contested in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling.

FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship
Details
Promotion	Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
Date established	December 9, 1991
Date retired	June 16, 1999
Other name(s)
WWA World Martial Arts Tag Team Championship
Statistics First champion(s) Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto Most reigns W*ING Kanemura/Yukihiro Kanemura (5 reigns) Longest reign The Headhunters (Headhunter A and Headhunter B) (391 days) Shortest reign Koji Nakagawa and Gedo (3 days)

Title history

Names

Name	Years
WWA World Martial Arts Tag Team Championship	December 9, 1991–September 19, 1992
FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship	January 18, 1994–June 13, 1999

Reigns

No:	Wrestlers:	Reigns:	Date:	Days held:	Location:	Event:	Notes:
1	Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto	1	December 9, 1991	150	Tokyo, Japan	FMW	Onita and Goto defeated Grigory Verichev and Koba Krutanize in the finals of a World's Strongest Tag Team Tournament to become the first WWA World Martial Arts Tag Team Champions.^[1]
2	Sabu and Horace Boulder	1	May 7, 1992	17	Tokyo, Japan	FMW	^[1]
3	Tarzan Goto (2) and Grigory Verichev	1	May 25, 1992	117	Tokyo, Japan	FMW	^[1]
—	Abandoned	—	September 19, 1992	—	Yokohama, Kanagawa	3rd Anniversary Show	The title was abandoned after the 3rd Anniversary Show.
4	Big Titan and The Gladiator	1	January 18, 1994	93	Saitama, Japan	FMW	The title was re-installed as FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. Titan and Gladiator defeated Atsushi Onita and Katsutoshi Niiyama in a tournament final to win the vacant title.^[2]^[3]
5	Mr. Pogo and Hisakatsu Oya	1	April 21, 1994	101	Aomori, Japan	FMW	^[2]
6	Atsushi Onita (2) and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga	1	July 31, 1994	^[Note 1]	Yokohama, Japan	FMW	^[2]
—	Vacated	—	October 1994	—	—	FMW	The title was vacated when Onita and Matsunaga split up.^[2]
7	W*ING Alliance (Mr. Pogo (2) and The Gladiator (2))	1	October 28, 1994	119	Tokyo, Japan	FMW	Pogo and Gladiator defeated Atsushi Onita and Mr. Gannosuke for vacant title.^[2]
8	Atsushi Onita (3) and Mr. Gannosuke	1	February 24, 1995	11	Tokyo, Japan	FMW	^[2]
9	W*ING Alliance (Mr. Pogo (3) and Yukihiro Kanemura)	1	March 7, 1995	59	Iwate, Japan	FMW	^[2]
10	Lethal Weapon (Ricky Fuji and Hisakatsu Oya (2))	1	May 5, 1995	123	Kawasaki, Japan	6th Anniversary Show	^[2]
11	Daisuke Ikeda and Yoshiaki Fujiwara	1	September 5, 1995	107	Sapporo, Japan	Grand Slam Tour	^[2]
12	Lethal Weapon (Hisakatsu Oya (3) and Horace Boulder)	1	December 21, 1995	15	Yokohama, Japan	Year End Spectacular	^[2]
13	The Faces of Dead (Super Leather and Jason the Terrible)	1	January 5, 1996	85	Tokyo, Japan	FMW	^[2]
14	The Headhunters (A and B)	1	March 30, 1996	391	Tokyo, Japan	FMW	^[2]
15	W*ING Alliance (W*ING Kanemura (2) and Hido)	1	April 25, 1997	118	Osaka, Japan	Fighting Creation Tour	^[2]
16	Funk Masters of Wrestling (Mr. Gannosuke (2) and Hisakatsu Oya (4))	1	August 21, 1997	59	Yokosuka, Japan	Super Dynamism Tour	^[2]
17	ZEN (Atsushi Onita (3) and Yukihiro Kanemura (3))	1	October 19, 1997	^[Note 2]	Sendai, Japan	Power Splash Tour	^[2]
—	Vacated	—	November 1997	—	—	—	Onita and Kanemura were stripped of the title due to Onita's inactivity.^[2]
18	ZEN/Team No Respect (Mr. Gannosuke (3) and Yukihiro Kanemura (4))	1	November 28, 1997	121	Tokyo, Japan	Scramble Survivor Tour	Defeated Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka for the vacant title.^[2]
19	Team No Respect (Kodo Fuyuki and Hido (2))	1	March 29, 1998	19	Niigata, Japan	Winning Road Tour	^[2]
20	Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka	1	April 17, 1998	40	Sapporo, Japan	Fuyuki Army	^[2]
21	Team No Respect (Kodo Fuyuki (2) and Yukihiro Kanemura (5))	1	May 27, 1998	152	Fukuoka, Japan	Neo FMW	^[2]
21	Hayabusa (2) and Daisuke Ikeda (2)	1	October 26, 1998	^[Note 3]	Chiba, Japan	Fuyuki Army	^[2]
—	Vacated	—	January 1999	—	—	—	Title vacated due to Ikeda's health problems.^[2]
22	Masato Tanaka (2) and Tetsuhiro Kuroda	1	May 3, 1999	41	Nagoya, Japan	Strongest Tag League Tour	Defeated Hayabusa and Kodo Fuyuki in an eight-team round-robin tournament final for vacant title.^[2]
23	Team No Respect (Koji Nakagawa and Gedo)	1	June 13, 1999	3	Okayama, Japan	Making of a New Legend Tour	^[2]
—	Retired	—	June 16, 1999	—	Chiba, Japan	Making of a New Legend Tour	The title was replaced with the WEW World Tag Team Championship.^[2]

1. The exact date when Atsushi Onita and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga vacated the title is uncertain, which means that their reign lasted between 62 and 89 days.
2. The exact date when Atsushi Onita and Yukihiro Kanemura vacated the title is uncertain, which means that their reign lasted between 13 and 40 days.
3. The exact date when Hayabusa and Daisuke Ikeda vacated the title is uncertain, which means that their reign lasted between 67 and 97 days.

References

1. Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). "Japan: WWA Martial Arts Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
2. Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). "Japan: FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
3. Hoops, Brian (January 18, 2019). "Pro wrestling history (01/18): Ivan Koloff defeats Bruno Sammartino for WWWF title". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved January 18, 2019.