The WWE Cruiserweight Championship has also changed hands here once, along with the World Tag Team Championship, before it was unified with the WWE Tag Team Championship and has held WWE Friday Night SmackDown/ECW on Syfy once.
Then, on March 20, 1996, Shinjiro Otani defeated The Pegasus Kid (Chris Benoit) in a decision match to win what then became known as the WCW Cruiserweight Championship.
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Noble won the Cruiserweight Championship shortly after his WWE debut and Akio found partial success as an ally of Tajiri before both were released in 2004 and 2005, respectively.