FMW Women's Championship
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The FMW Women's Championship was two Japanese
Japan
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 professional wrestling
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Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

 championships (WWA World Women's Championship and FMW Independent World Women's Championship) contested in the promotion
Professional wrestling promotion
A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling. Promotion also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event...

 Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded on July 28, 1989 by Atsushi Onita that specialized in hardcore wrestling involving weapons such as barbed wire and fire. They held their first show on October 6, 1989...

 (FMW). During the heyday of FMW, the female wrestlers wrestled in the same types of bloody death matches as the FMW men, and were feared by other Japanese female wrestlers for their toughness and intensity.

History

Wrestler: Times: Date: Location: Notes:
Combat Toyoda
Combat Toyoda
, better known by her ring name , is a retired Japanese professional wrestler who wrestled in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling most of her career.-All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling :...

1 November 5, 1990 Tokyo
Tokyo
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Defeated Beastie the Road Warrior to become the first WWA World Women's Champion.
Megumi Kudo
Megumi Kudo
Megumi Takayama, better known under her stage and maiden name , and by her nickname Kudome, is a Japanese entertainment personality, and was a professional wrestler who worked most of her career for Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling....

1 March 28, 1991 Tokyo
Combat Toyoda 2 August 17, 1991 Tokyo
Miwa Sato 1 October 14, 1991 Tokyo
Shark Tsuchiya 1 March 25, 1992 Tokyo
Megumi Kudo 2 May 24, 1992 Tokyo
Combat Toyoda 3 July 24, 1993 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka
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Crusher Maedomari 1 October 31, 1993 Tokyo Vacated title in February, 1994
Megumi Kudo 3 February 25, 1994 Tokyo Defeated Leilani Kai
Leilani Kai
Patricia Schroeder , better known by her stage name Leilani Kai, is a semi-retired professional wrestler. She began training with The Fabulous Moolah right after finishing high school...

 to become first FMW Independent World Women's Champion and win vacant WWA Women's Title.
Combat Toyoda 4 June 19, 1994 Tokyo
Yukie Nabeno 1 August 28, 1994 Vacated on December 12, 1994 due to injury
Bad Nurse Nakamura 1 March 30, 1995 Yokohama, Kanagawa Defeated Megumi Kudo for vacant titles.
Megumi Kudo 4 May 5, 1995 Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Kawasaki, Kanagawa
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Shark Tsuchiya 2 November 20, 1995 Fukuoka, Fukuoka
Fukuoka, Fukuoka
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Combat Toyoda 5 December 10, 1995 Tokyo
Megumi Kudo 5 May 5, 1996 Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Shark Tsuchiya 3 March 21, 1997 Sendai, Miyagi
Sendai, Miyagi
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Megumi Kudo 6 April 29, 1997 Yokohama, Kanagawa Vacated on June 13, 1997 due to retirement
Shark Tsuchiya 4 September 28, 1997 Kawasaki, Kanagawa Defeated Aja Kong for vacant titles. Both titles were retired shortly after.
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