| FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Date established | May 27, 1996 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | August 25, 1999 | ||||||||||||
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FMW Double Championship (1996–1999) | |||||||||||||
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The FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship contested in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). It was one of the top two titles in the company, along with the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. The title belt was created for Atsushi Onita to use in his retirement match at 6th Anniversary Show in 1995 but could not be shipped to FMW at that time and the title was finally shipped to FMW in 1996 and FMW used it as the alternative top title to the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. Both titles were unified later that year and were collectively referred to as "FMW Double Championship".[1] The titles were separated in 1999 and deactivated later that year in favor of the new WEW Single Championship.[2]