King of Freedom World Junior Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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Promotion | Pro Wrestling Freedoms | ||||||||||||
Date established | September 18, 2022 | ||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Takahiro Katori | ||||||||||||
Date won | March 22, 2024 | ||||||||||||
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The King of Freedom World Junior Heavyweight Championship, also referred to as the KFC Junior Championship (Japanese: KFCジュニア王座, Hepburn: KFC Junia Ōza), is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by Pro Wrestling Freedoms. Only wrestlers under the junior heavyweight weight-limit may hold the championship.
The current champion is Takahiro Katori.
On September 18, 2022, Pro Wrestling Freedoms announced an eight-man tournament that would crown the first King of Freedom World Junior Heavyweight Champion.[1] On October 28, Freedoms announced the participants would be Kamui , Dragon Libre , Jun Masaoka , Leo Isaka, Yusaku Ito, Mataro Aoki, Brahman Kei and Rekka .[2] At the "Go for it Freedoms! 2022" event, Kamui defeated Masaoka in the final to become the inaugural champion.[3]
First round November 9[4] | Semifinals November 9[4] | Final November 16 | ||||||||||||
Rekka | 6:10[5] | |||||||||||||
Mataro Aoki | Pin | |||||||||||||
Mataro Aoki | 12:59[5] | |||||||||||||
Kamui | Pin | |||||||||||||
Kamui | Pin | |||||||||||||
Yusaku Ito | 6:46[5] | |||||||||||||
Kamui | Pin | |||||||||||||
Jun Masaoka | 16:26[3] | |||||||||||||
Jun Masaoka | Pin | |||||||||||||
Brahman Kei | 7:48[5] | |||||||||||||
Jun Masaoka | Pin | |||||||||||||
Dragon Libre | 17:06[5] | |||||||||||||
Leo Isaka | 8:48[5] | |||||||||||||
Dragon Libre | Pin |
As of August 10, 2024.
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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1 | Kamui | November 16, 2022 | Go for it Freedoms! 2022 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 168 | 2 | Defeated Jun Masaoka in the finals of a tournament to become the inaugural champion. | [3][6] |
2 | Jun Masaoka | May 3, 2023 | We Love Freedoms! We Are Freedoms! 2023 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 324 | 3 | [7][8] | |
3 | Takahiro Katori | March 22, 2024 | The Gekokujō 2024 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 141+ | 3 | [9][10] |
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