JWP Junior Championship | |||||||||||||||
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Promotion | JWP Joshi Puroresu | ||||||||||||||
Date established | June 16, 1995 [1] | ||||||||||||||
Date retired | April 2, 2017 [2] | ||||||||||||||
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The JWP Junior Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the JWP Joshi Puroresu promotion. It was introduced on June 16, 1995, when Candy Okutsu defeated Hiromi Sugou and Hiromi Yagi in a three-way match to become the inaugural champion. [1]
On June 17, 2007, the reigning JWP Junior Champion Arisa Nakajima won the Princess of Pro-Wrestling (POP) Championship on the JDStar promotion's second to last event. [3] Though the two titles were technically not unified, they were defended together from this point onward. [4] The titles remained together in JWP for nearly a decade before it was announced on February 8, 2017, that the promotion was shutting down. As a result, the two titles would once again be separated with the JWP title remaining with the promotion's production company, while the POP title moved on to Command Bolshoi's follow-up promotion to JWP. It is currently unknown whether the JWP producers plan to stay in the professional wrestling business. [5] [6]
The JWP Junior Championship was originally meant for wrestlers with less than four years of experience in professional wrestling, but in June 2010, the limit was raised to five years. [7] In May 2012, the experience limit was lowered back down to four years. [8] The title was vacated eight times; five times due to the reigning champion surpassing the experience limit. [1]
Like most professional wrestling championships, the title was won as a result of a scripted match. There were thirty-one reigns shared among twenty-six different wrestlers. The title was retired on April 2, 2017, when JWP Joshi Puroresu went out of business. That same day, Yako Fujigasaki won the final match contested for the JWP Junior Championship by making her second successful defense against Saori Anou. [2] [9]
Candy Okutsu was the first champion in the title's history and Yako Fujigasaki the final. [1] [2] She also shares the record for most reigns with Arisa Nakajima, Hiromi Yagi, Rabbit Miu and Rydeen Hagane, with two. [1] Kaori Yoneyama only reign holds the record for the longest reign, at 771 days, [1] while Okutsu's second reign holds the record for the shortest reign at less than one day. [1] Overall, there were thirty-one reigns shared among twenty-six different wrestlers.
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 |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
1 | Candy Okutsu | June 16, 1995 | House show | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 173 | 3 [10] | Okutsu defeated Hiromi Sugou and Hiromi Yagi in a three-way match to become the inaugural champion. | [1] [11] |
2 | Hiromi Yagi | December 6, 1995 | House show | Nagoya, Japan | 1 | 1 | 0 [10] | [1] | |
— | Vacated | December 7, 1995 | — | — | — | — | — | Hiromi Yagi vacated the title due to Candy Okutsu breaking a bone during their title match the previous day. | [1] |
3 | Hiromi Yagi | January 11, 1996 | House show | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 198 | 4 [10] | Yagi defeated Candy Okutsu to win the vacant title. | [1] |
4 | Candy Okutsu | July 27, 1996 | House show | Nagoya, Japan | 2 | 8 | 0 [10] | [1] | |
— | Vacated | August 4, 1996 | — | — | — | — | — | Candy Okutsu immediately vacated the title due to surpassing its experience limit nine days later. | [1] |
5 | Tomoko Kuzumi | August 10, 1996 | House show | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 372 | 10 [10] | Kuzumi defeated Rieko Amano in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. | [12] |
6 | Tomoko Miyaguchi | August 17, 1997 | House show | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 200 | 5 [10] | [13] | |
— | Vacated | March 5, 1998 | — | — | — | — | — | The championship was vacated due to Tomoko Miyaguchi surpassing the experience limit for the junior division. | [1] |
7 | Kayoko Haruyama | May 12, 1999 | House show | Kobe, Japan | 1 | 480 | 2 [14] | Haruyama defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. | [15] |
8 | Tsubasa Kuragaki | September 3, 2000 | House show | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 419 | 2 [16] | [17] | |
— | Vacated | October 27, 2001 | — | — | — | — | — | The championship was vacated due to Tsubasa Kuragaki surpassing the experience limit for the junior division. | [1] |
9 | Kobina Ichikawa | December 9, 2001 | House show | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 189 | 0 [10] | Ichikawa won a round-robin tournament, which also involved Kaori Yoneyama and Yuka Nakamura, to win the vacant championship. | [1] |
— | Vacated | June 16, 2002 | — | — | — | — | — | Kobina Ichikawa vacated the title due to retiring from professional wrestling. | [1] |
10 | Kaori Yoneyama | July 6, 2002 | House show | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 771 | 4 [10] | Yoneyama defeated Erika Watanabe to win the vacant championship. | [1] |
— | Vacated | August 15, 2004 | — | — | — | — | — | The championship was vacated due to Kaori Yoneyama surpassing the experience limit for the junior division. | [1] |
11 | Haruka Matsuo | February 20, 2005 | House show | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 84 | 0 [10] | Matsuo defeated Erika Watanabe in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. | [1] |
12 | Erika Watanabe | May 15, 2005 | Mania-X | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 202 | 0 [10] | [1] | |
— | Vacated | December 3, 2005 | — | — | — | — | — | Erika Watanabe vacated the championship due to a heart problem. | [1] |
13 | Arisa Nakajima | December 24, 2006 | Climax | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 329 | 4 [18] | Nakajima defeated Aoi Kizuki in a tournament final to win the vacant championship. From June 17, 2007, onward, the title is defended alongside the Princess of Pro-Wrestling Championship. | [19] [3] |
14 | Tyrannosaurus Okuda | November 18, 2007 | Sendai Girls Live Vol. 14 ~ Hardship | Sendai, Japan | 1 | 203 | 3 [20] | [21] | |
15 | Arisa Nakajima | June 8, 2008 | Osaka Pure Fire!! | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 196 | 1 [10] | [20] | |
16 | Hiroyo Matsumoto | December 21, 2008 | Ibuki #26 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 161 | 2 [10] | [1] | |
17 | Misaki Ohata | May 31, 2009 | Ibuki #29: 4th Anniversary Show | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 203 | 2 [10] | [1] | |
18 | Ryo Mizunami | December 20, 2009 | Sendai Girls Live Vol. 40 | Sendai, Japan | 1 | 257 | 2 [22] | [23] | |
19 | Hiren | September 3, 2010 | Sendai Girls Live Vol. 46: Zepp Sendai Tournament | Sendai, Japan | 1 | 184 | 1 [24] | [25] | |
20 | Kagetsu | March 6, 2011 | Tag League the Best – Day 5 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 133 | 4 [25] | [24] | |
21 | Sawako Shimono | July 17, 2011 | Osaka Joshi Pro 7th Run | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 280 | 5 [26] | [27] | |
22 | Rabbit Miu | April 22, 2012 | JWP 20th Anniversary: Mania-X | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 246 | 3 [28] | [26] | |
23 | Manami Katsu | December 24, 2012 | Climax - JWP 20th | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 482 | 4 [29] | [28] | |
24 | Sareee | April 20, 2014 | Mania-X | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 119 | 1 [30] | [29] | |
25 | Rabbit Miu | August 17, 2014 | Pure Plum | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 231 | 5 [31] | [30] | |
26 | Rydeen Hagane | April 5, 2015 | Mania-X | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 21 | 0 [32] | [31] | |
27 | Rina Yamashita | April 26, 2015 | Spring☆Hurricane in Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 105 | 0 [33] | [32] | |
28 | Kaho Kobayashi | August 9, 2015 | Happy Anniversary Wave・8~East~ | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 45 | 2 [34] | [33] | |
29 | Rydeen Hagane | September 23, 2015 | Hakata Wave: Bari-chiro 3 | Fukuoka, Japan | 2 | 331 | 4 [35] | [34] | |
— | Vacated | August 19, 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | The championship was vacated due to Rydeen Hagane surpassing the experience limit for the junior division. | [1] |
30 | Hana Kimura | September 18, 2016 | Fly High in the 25th Anniversary - Day 7 (Evening Show) | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 101 | 3 [36] | Kimura defeated Yako Fujigasaki in the finals of a four-woman tournament to win the vacant championship. | [37] |
31 | Yako Fujigasaki | December 28, 2016 | Climax | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 95 | 2 [9] | [36] | |
— | Deactivated | April 2, 2017 | JWP Fly High in the 25th Anniversary Party ~ The Thanksgiving | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | The championship retired when JWP Joshi Puroresu goes out of business. | [2] [9] |
Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
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1 | Kaori Yoneyama | 1 | 4 | 771 |
2 | Arisa Nakajima | 2 | 7 | 525 |
3 | Manami Katsu | 1 | 4 | 482 |
4 | Kayoko Haruyama | 1 | 3 | 480 |
5 | Rabbit Miu | 2 | 8 | 477 |
6 | Tsubasa Kuragaki | 1 | 2 | 419 |
7 | Tomoko Kuzumi | 1 | 10 | 372 |
8 | Rydeen Hagane | 2 | 4 | 352 |
9 | Sawako Shimono | 1 | 5 | 280 |
10 | Ryo Mizunami | 1 | 2 | 257 |
11 | Misaki Ohata | 1 | 2 | 203 |
Tyrannosaurus Okuda | 1 | 3 | 203 | |
13 | Erika Watanabe | 1 | 0 | 202 |
14 | Tomoko Miyaguchi | 1 | 5 | 200 |
15 | Hiromi Yagi | 2 | 4 | 199 |
16 | Kobina Ichikawa | 1 | 0 | 189 |
17 | Hiren | 1 | 1 | 184 |
18 | Candy Okutsu | 2 | 3 | 181 |
19 | Hiroyo Matsumoto | 1 | 2 | 161 |
20 | Kagetsu | 1 | 4 | 133 |
21 | Sareee | 1 | 1 | 119 |
22 | Rina Yamashita | 1 | 0 | 105 |
23 | Hana Kimura | 1 | 3 | 101 |
24 | Yako Fujigasaki | 1 | 2 | 95 |
25 | Haruka Matsuo | 1 | 0 | 84 |
26 | Kaho Kobayashi | 1 | 2 | 45 |
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