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Promotion | Shimmer Women Athletes | ||||||||||||
Date established | April 2, 2016 | ||||||||||||
Date retired | November 1, 2021 | ||||||||||||
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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.
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.
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
1 | Nicole Savoy | April 2, 2016 | Volume 80 | Dallas, TX | 1 | 462 | 5 [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 | 1 | 281 | 10 [1] | [3] | |
3 | Dust | April 15, 2018 | Volume 104 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 355 | 7 [1] | [4] | |
4 | Samantha Heights | April 5, 2019 | Volume 113 | Woodside, Queens, NY | 1 | 555 | 1 [1] | [5] | |
— | Hyan | November 3, 2019 | Volume 116 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 343 | 2 [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 | 1 | 385 | 1 [1] | Defeated Thunderkitty to become lineal champion. | [7] |
6 | Nevaeh | October 31, 2021 | Volume 119 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 1 | 1 [1] | [8] | |
— | Deactivated | November 1, 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | On November 1, 2021 this title became deactivated. |
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