Big Japan Pro Wrestling has held a variety of different professional wrestling tournaments, mainly in deathmatch format, competed for by sports entertainers that are a part of their roster.
The BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship Tournament was an eight-man single-elimination tournament conducted on March 2, 1998, to crown the inaugural BJW Junior Heavyweight Champion.[1]
The BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship Tournament was held to crown the inaugural BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Champion from June 8 to August 9, 1998.[2]
The BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship Tournament was a round-robin tournament for the vacant BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship held between June 14 and June 30, 1999.[3]
| Masayoshi Motegi | 9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Abdullah Junior Kobayashi | 8 | |
| Men's Teioh | 7 | |
| The Winger | 7 | |
| Fantastik | 7 | |
| Super Perro | 4 | |
| Jun Kasai | 0 |
The Grand Prix Tournament was a single elimination tournament which took place between January 2, 2000, and February 22, 2000.[4]
The Super J-Cup Qualifying Tournament was a tournament for junior heavyweight wrestlers with the winner qualifying for the 2000 Super J-Cup, representing BJW in the tournament. The tournament was held between February 23 and March 3, 2000.[5]
The 2000 World Extreme Cup was a round-robin tournament contested under deathmatch variations. The tournament consisted of three blocks with each block consisting of four wrestlers and a total of twelve participants in the tournament. The top three scorers of each block qualified for the knockout stage of the tournament.[6]
| Block A | Block B | Block C | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tower of Doom | 6! | John Zandig | 6! | Mike Samples | 6 | |
| Ryuji Yamakawa | 4! | Crazy Sheik | 4! | Shadow WX | 4 | |
| Mustafa Saed | 2! | Winger | 2! | Tomoaki Honma | 2 | |
| Harley Lewis | 0! | Terry Bull | 0! | Wifebeater | 0 | |
The BJW Heavyweight Championship Tournament was held between March 18 and March 20, 2001, to determine the inaugural BJW Heavyweight Champion.[7]
A tournament was held to crown a new BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Champion after previous champion Tomoaki Honma left the company in March 2001, thus vacating the title. The tournament was held between April 28 and May 4, 2001.[8]
The Six-Man Tag Team League was a round-robin tournament featuring four trios with each trio consisting of three wrestlers and the tournament featured six-man tag team matches. The tournament was held between October 15 and October 25, 2001. The tournament was won by the trio of KAMIKAZE, Hideki Hosaka and Shunme Matsuzaki.[9]
| KAMIKAZE, Hideki Hosaka and Shunme Matsuzaki | 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Men's Teioh, Daisuke Sekimoto and Ryuji Ito | 4 | |
| Jun Kasai, Mad Man Pondo and Ruckus | 2 | |
| Daikokubo Benkei, Abdullah Kobayashi and Naoki Numazawa | 0 |
The 2002 World Extreme Cup was the second version of the World Extreme Cup tournament consisting of four blocks and four wrestlers in each block, a total of sixteen participants in the tournament. The top two wrestlers from each block qualified for the knockout stage of the tournament.[10]
| Block A | Block B | Block C | Block D | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tower of Doom | 4! | Homicide | 4! | Mamushi | 6! | Abdullah Kobayashi | 6 | |
| Seiji Yamakawa | 4! | Bad Boy Hido | 4! | Kintaro Kanemura | 4! | Mad Man Pondo | 4 | |
| Winger | 4! | 2 Tuff Tony | 2! | O.D.D. | 2! | Biomonster DNA | 2 | |
| Mike Samples | 0! | Shadow WX | 2! | Mark Manson | 0! | Axl Rotten | 0 | |
The Hayabusa Cup was a round-robin tournament which took place between April 14 and May 6, 2002.[11] The tournament was held as a homage to Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling superstar Hayabusa, who had recently retired from wrestling due to a severe injury which left him paralysed for the rest of his life.
| Ryuji Ito | 8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Satoru Makita | 8 | |
| Daisaku Shimoda | 7 | |
| Katsumasa Inoue | 2 | |
| Naoki Numazawa | 2 | |
| Yuji Kamijo | 1 |
A knockout tournament was held on June 13, 2004, featuring six-man tag team matches.[12]
The Number 1 of Japan Tournament was held on September 5, 2004.[13]
The New Generation Battle Tournament was a tournament held on January 9, 2005.[14]
The Dainichi Dash was a tournament held on July 1, 2009.[15]
The 1 Day Tag Team Tournament was a three-team tournament held on August 5, 2013.
The 8-Man Tag Team Tournament was a deathmatch tournament featuring eight-man tag team matches on August 19, 2009.
The D-Dash Tag Team Tournament was a tag team tournament held between November 3 and December 23, 2009.
A tournament was set up for the vacant BJW Tag Team Championship after previous champions Shinya Ishikawa and Yoshihito Sasaki vacated the titles due to Ishikawa suffering a leg injury. The tournament was held between March 19 and April 28, 2010.
The 2011 Dainichi-X was a round-robin tag team tournament which took place between February 2 and October 26, 2011.[16]
| Abdullah Kobayashi and Yuji Okabayashi | 13 | |
|---|---|---|
| Yoshihito Sasaki and Ryuichi Kawakami | 13 | |
| Jaki Numazawa and Shinya Ishikawa | 13 | |
| Kankuro Hoshino and Takumi Tsukamoto | 13 | |
| Daisuke Sekimoto and Kazuki Hashimoto | 13 | |
| Yuichi Taniguchi and Masked Genbei | 6 | |
| Shadow WX and Atsushi Ohashi | 6 | |
| Ryuji Ito and Masashi Otani | 4 |
The 2012 Dainichi-X was a round-robin tournament with the top two teams advancing to the final round.[17]
| Jaki Numazawa and Kazuki Hashimoto | 10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Shinya Ishikawa and Jun Ogawauchi* | 10 | |
| Ryuji Ito and Takumi Tsukamoto | 9 | |
| Yoshihito Sasaki and Kankuro Hoshino | 7 | |
| Shadow WX and Amigo Suzuki | 6 | |
| Abdullah Kobayashi and Yuichi Taniguchi | 5 | |
| Daisuke Sekimoto and Masashi Otani | 2 | |
| Yuji Okabayashi and Hideyoshi Kamitani | 2 |
The Strong Style Rising Tournament was a tournament held between May 24 and June 5, 2013.[18]
A round robin tournament was held for the newly created BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship, distinct from the previous version.[19]
| Kazuki Hashimoto | 8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Shinobu | 6 | |
| Tatsuhiko Yoshino | 6 | |
| Toshiyuki Sakuda | 4 | |
| Takuya Nomura | 4 | |
| Yuya Aoki | 2 |
| Results | Yuya Aoki | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kazuki Hashimoto | bgcolor=grey | X | Kazuki (12:56) | Kazuki (12:35) | Yoshino (11:57) | Kazuki (11:24) | Kazuki (8:09) | |
| Shinobu | Kazuki (12:56) | bgcolor=grey | X | Shinobu (9:38) | Shinobu (11:55) | Shinobu (9:28) | Aoki (7:11) | |
| Takuya Nomura | Kazuki (12:35) | Shinobu (9:38) | bgcolor=grey | X | Takuya (12:50) | Sakuda (10:38) | Nomura (7:13) | |
| Tatsuhiko Yoshino | Yoshino (11:57) | Shinobu (11:55) | Takuya (12:50) | bgcolor=grey | X | Yoshino (9:26) | Yoshino (8:02) | |
| Toshiyuki Sakuda | Kazuki (11:24) | Shinobu (9:28) | Sakuda (10:38) | Yoshino (9:26) | bgcolor=grey | X | Sakuda (9:22) | |
| Yuya Aoki | Kazuki (8:09) | Aoki (7:11) | Nomura (7:13) | Yoshino (8:02) | Sakuda (9:22) | bgcolor=grey | X |
A tournament was set up to determine the #1 contender for Shinobu's BJW Junior Heavyweight Championship, taking place between June 13 and July 17, 2018.[20]
The 6-Man Sacred Ground City of Forest Sendai Tournament was a six-man tag team tournament, in which the Yokohama Shopping Street 6-Man Tag Team Championship was defended. The tournament was held on August 5, 2018. The defending champions Abdullah Kobayashi, Ryuji Ito and Jaki Numazawa lost the titles to Masaya Takahashi, Takayuki Ueki and Toshiyuki Sakuda, who would successfully defend the titles in the final round to win the tournament.
See main article: Saikyo Tag League. Saikyo Tag League is a professional wrestling round-robin hardcore tag team tournament annually held since 1999.
| Event | Date | City | Venue | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | November 8, 1999 | Sapporo, Hokkaido | Teisen Hall | Tomoaki Honma and Ryuji Yamakawa |
| 2000 | October 30, 2000 | Tokyo | Korakuen Hall | |
| 2001 | September 23, 2001 | Men's Teioh and Daisuke Sekimoto | ||
| 2002 | October 31, 2002 | Yokohama, Kanagawa | Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse | |
| 2003 | November 8, 2003 | Tokyo | Korakuen Hall | DaikokubÅ Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi |
| 2009 | May 28, 2009 | Masashi Takeda and Isami Kodaka | ||
| 2011 | November 22, 2011 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi | ||
| 2012 | November 24, 2012 | Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto | ||
| 2013 | November 22, 2013 | |||
| 2014 | November 21, 2014 | |||
| 2015 | October 29, 2015 | Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi | ||
| 2016 | October 31, 2016 | |||
| 2017 | October 15, 2017 | Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani |
See main article: Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor. Ikkitousen Deathmatch Survivor is an annual professional wrestling round-robin hardcore tournament to determine the best wrestler of BJW's deathmatch division.
| Event | Date | City | Venue | Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | April 18, 2011 | Tokyo | Korakuen Hall | Takashi Sasaki | |
| 2013 | April 10, 2013 | Shin-Kiba 1st Ring | Ryuji Ito | ||
| 2015 | April 19, 2015 | Sapporo, Hokkaido | Teisen Hall | Abdullah Kobayashi | |
| 2017 | April 8, 2017 | Susukino Mars Gymnasium | Masaya Takahashi | ||
| 2019 | April 14, 2019 | Sapporo, Hokkaido | Susukino Mars Gymnasium | Isami Kodaka |
See main article: Ikkitousen Strong Climb. Ikkitousen Strong Climb is an annual professional wrestling round-robin hardcore tournament to determine the best wrestler of BJW's Strong BJ division.
| Event | Date | City | Venue | Winner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | March 26, 2012 | Tokyo | Korakuen Hall | Yoshihito Sasaki | |
| 2014 | July 26, 2014 | Shuji Ishikawa | |||
| 2016 | April 10, 2016 | Sapporo, Hokkaido | Susukino Mars Gymnasium | ||
| 2018 | April 15, 2018 | Hideki Suzuki | |||
| 2020 | April 26, 2020 | Chiba, Tokyo | 2AW Square | Daichi Hashimoto |