Progress World Women's Championship [1] | |||||||||||||||||||
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Promotion | Progress Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | 28 May 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Rhio | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | 22 October 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Progress World Women's Championship is a women's world professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the British professional wrestling promotion Progress Wrestling. It was announced on 24 April 2016, that Natural Progression Series IV would crown the first Progress Worlds Women's Champion. The tournament got underway in October 2016, with the champion to be crowned during the Super Strong Style 16 Tournament Edition 2017 weekend from 27 May 2017 to 29 May 2017. At the conclusion of the tournament at day two of the Super Strong Style 16 Tournament Edition 2016 weekend, Toni Storm was crowned the first Progress Women's Champion. As of December20, 2024, there have been a total of nine reigns shared between seven different champions. The current title holder is Rhio who is in her first reign. [2]
Semi Final Chapter 45: Galvanize (19 March) [3] Chapter 46: I Like To Chill Out Here And Shoot Some Dinosaurs (26 March) [4] Chapter 47: Complicated Simplicity (24 April) [5] | Final Chapter 49: Super Strong Style 16 Tournament - Night 2 (28 May) [6] | |||||||
Nixon Newell | 7:39 | |||||||
Jinny | Pin | |||||||
Jinny | ||||||||
Toni Storm | Pin | |||||||
Toni Storm | Pin | |||||||
Dahlia Black | 6:52 | |||||||
Laura Di Matteo | ||||||||
Alex Windsor | ||||||||
Laura Di Matteo | Pin | |||||||
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 | Toni Storm | 28 May 2017 | Chapter 49: Super Strong Style 16 | Camden Town, London | 1 | 357 | 14 | Defeated Jinny and Laura Di Matteo in three-way match in tournament final to become the inaugural champion. | [7] [8] |
2 | Jinny | 20 May 2018 | Chapter 69: Be Here Now | Manchester, England | 1 | 224 | 6 | [9] | |
3 | Jordynne Grace | 30 December 2018 | Chapter 82: Unboxing Live, A Dukla Prague Away Kit | Camden Town, London, England | 1 | 259 | 9 | [10] | |
4 | Meiko Satomura | 15 September 2019 | Chapter 95: Still Chasing | Haringey, London, England | 1 | 91 | 1 | [11] | |
5 | Jinny | 15 December 2019 | Chapter 99: With a Flake, Please | Sheffield, England | 2 | 482 | 2 | [12] | |
— | Vacated | 10 April 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated after Jinny was unable to commit to future dates, due to COVID-19 restrictions. | |
6 | Kanji | 8 May 2021 | Chapter 111: One Leg in the Air | Sheffield, England | 1 | 84 | 3 | Defeated Gisele Shaw in a Two out of Three falls match series of matches with 2-1 in total. | [13] |
— | Vacated | 14 August 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated after Kanji sustained an arm injury that would require surgery. | |
7 | Gisele Shaw | 14 August 2021 | Chapter 117: Making Diamonds | Sheffield, England | 1 | 295 | 7 | Defeated Alexxis Falcon and Mercedez Blaze in a three-way elimination match to win the vacant title. | [14] |
8 | Kanji | 5 June 2022 | Chapter 135: Super Strong Style 16 Tournament Edition 2022 | London, England | 2 | 175 | 7 | This was a best two-out-of-three falls match. | [15] |
9 | Lana Austin | 27 November 2022 | Chapter 146: They Think It's All Over... | London, England | 1 | 329 | 7 | [16] | |
10 | Rhio | 22 October 2023 | Chapter 158: The Long Halloween | London, England | 1 | 425+ | 20 | [17] |
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
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1 | Jinny | 2 | 8 | 706 |
2 | Rhio † | 1 | 20 | 425+ |
3 | Toni Storm | 1 | 14 | 357 |
4 | Lana Austin | 1 | 7 | 329 |
5 | Gisele Shaw | 1 | 7 | 295 |
6 | Kanji | 2 | 10 | 259 |
Jordynne Grace | 1 | 9 | 259 | |
8 | Meiko Satomura | 1 | 1 | 91 |
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