Heart of Shimmer Championship

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Heart of Shimmer Championship
Dust Heart of Shimmer Champion (cropped).jpg
Dust with the Heart of SHIMMER championship around her waist in 2019.
Details
Promotion Shimmer Women Athletes
Date establishedApril 2, 2016
Date retiredNovember 1, 2021
Statistics
First champion(s) Nicole Savoy
Final champion(s) Nevaeh
Most reignsAll titleholders
(1 reign)
Longest reignSamantha Heights
(555 days)
Shortest reign Nevaeh
(1 day)

The Heart of Shimmer Championship (stylized as Heart of SHIMMER Championship) is a women's professional wrestling championship in Shimmer Women Athletes. Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries. These narratives create feuds between the various competitors, which cast them as villains and heroines.

Contents

History

The Heart of Shimmer Championship is a secondary women's professional wrestling championship that is used in Shimmer Women Athletes for shimmer women's athletes and talent. The inaugural championship tournament and the inaugural championship match for the title took place at the Shimmer Volume 80 event in Dallas, Texas on April 2, 2016 on the same night where Nicole Savoy won to become the Inaugural championship holder of the title.

Inaugural Heart of Shimmer champion Nicole Savoy with the Shimmer Championship around her waist. Nicole Savoy Shimmer Champion.jpg
Inaugural Heart of Shimmer champion Nicole Savoy with the Shimmer Championship around her waist.

Inaugural championship tournament (2016)

First round tournament matches

Semi-final tournament matches

Tournament final three-way elimination match

Reigns

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
DefensesNumber of successful defenses
+Current reign is changing daily
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDaysDefenses
1 Nicole Savoy April 2, 2016 Volume 80 Dallas, TX 14625 [1] Savoy defeated Candice LeRae and Heidi Lovelace in a three-way elimination match in the finals of a twelve-woman tournament to become the inaugural champion. [2]
2 Shazza McKenzie July 8, 2017 Volume 93 Berwyn, IL 128110 [1] [3]
3 Dust April 15, 2018 Volume 104 Berwyn, IL 13557 [1] [4]
4Samantha HeightsApril 5, 2019 Volume 113 Woodside, Queens, NY 15551 [1] [5]
Hyan November 3, 2019 Volume 116 Berwyn, IL 13432 [1] With Samantha Heights being injured, Shimmer hosted a tournament to crown an interim champion. Hyan won the tournament finals in a three-way elimination match, which also involved Kris Statlander and Rhia O'Reilly, to become the interim champion. [6]
5 Hyan October 11, 2020 The Collective Indianapolis, IN 13851 [1] Defeated Thunderkitty to become lineal champion. [7]
6 Nevaeh October 31, 2021 Volume 119 Berwyn, IL 111 [1] [8]
DeactivatedNovember 1, 2021On November 1, 2021 this title became deactivated.

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