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Promotion | Ring of Honor (ROH) All Elite Wrestling (AEW) | ||||||||||||||||
Date established | January 1, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Athena | ||||||||||||||||
Date won | December 10, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||
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The ROH Women's World Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). The current champion is Athena, who is in her first reign, which is the longest reign in the title's history.
On January 1, 2020, the ROH Women of Honor World Championship was deactivated when the last champion Kelly Klein was stripped of the championship after ROH didn't renew her contract. [3] A new tournament to crown the inaugural ROH Women's World Champion was set to start on April 24 of that year at Quest for Gold, [4] however, ROH postponed all future events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] [4] (The title replaced the ROH Women of Honor World Title in the ROH Women of Honor division.)
On March 26, 2021, at ROH 19th Anniversary Show, ROH Board of Directors member Maria Kanellis-Bennett announced a tournament to crown a new ROH Women's World Champion. [6] On July 11, at Best in the World, the tournament bracket and the championship itself were revealed. [7]
On September 12, 2021 Rok-C defeated Miranda Alize via pinfall at the ROH pay-per-view Death Before Dishonor XVIII, the culmination of a 15-woman singles elimination tournament to become the inaugural ROH Women's World Championship holder. [8]
On October 27, 2021, Ring of Honor announced that it would go on a hiatus after Final Battle in December, with a return tentatively scheduled for April 2022. All personnel would also be released from their contracts as part of plans to "reimagine" the company as a "fan-focused product". [9] [10] [11] [12] After Final Battle, several ROH wrestlers began to appear on other promotions and defended the titles. Rok-C defended the title against Impact Wrestling's Deonna Purrazzo during a television taping. However, Rok-C was defeated and lost the title to Purrazzo. [13]
In early 2022, during the hiatus, then-ROH Women's World Champion Purrazzo was booked for the Multiverse of Matches at WrestleCon, which happened to be when the Supercard of Honor XV event was later scheduled for April 1, 2022. Purrazzo was unable to attend the latter event. [14] At Supercard of Honor XV, Mercedes Martinez defeated Willow Nightingale to become the Interim ROH Women's World Champion and earned the opportunity to face lineal champion Purrazzo in a unification match at a later date. [15] [16] On the May 4, 2022 episode of Dynamite , Martinez defeated Purrazzo to become the undisputed ROH Women's World Champion. [1]
First Round 1 2 ROH Wrestling July 30 August 7 and 14 ROH Women's Division Wednesday August 4 | Quarterfinals ROH Wrestling August 21 and 28 | Semifinals ROH Wrestling September 4 | Final Death Before Dishonor XVIII September 12 | ||||||||||||
Rok-C | Pin [17] | ||||||||||||||
Sumie Sakai | 9:36 | ||||||||||||||
Rok-C | Pin [18] | ||||||||||||||
Quinn McKay | 10:14 | ||||||||||||||
Mandy Leon | 7:12 | ||||||||||||||
Quinn McKay 3 4 5 | Pin [19] | ||||||||||||||
Rok-C | Sub [20] | ||||||||||||||
Angelina Love | 6:44 | ||||||||||||||
Holidead | 9:18 | ||||||||||||||
Max the Impaler | Pin [21] | ||||||||||||||
Max the Impaler | 5:53 | ||||||||||||||
Angelina Love | DQ [22] | ||||||||||||||
Angelina Love | Bye [23] | ||||||||||||||
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Rok-C | Pin [2] | ||||||||||||||
Miranda Alize | 18:13 | ||||||||||||||
Alex Gracia | 8:43 | ||||||||||||||
Miranda Alize | Pin [17] | ||||||||||||||
Miranda Alize | Pin [18] | ||||||||||||||
Nicole Savoy | 13:04 | ||||||||||||||
Mazzerati | 8:45 | ||||||||||||||
Nicole Savoy | Pin [17] | ||||||||||||||
Miranda Alize | Sub [20] | ||||||||||||||
Trish Adora | 12:16 | ||||||||||||||
Willow Nightingale | 11:30 | ||||||||||||||
Allysin Kay | Sub [24] | ||||||||||||||
Allysin Kay | 13:30 | ||||||||||||||
Trish Adora | Pin [22] | ||||||||||||||
Marti Belle | 7:13 | ||||||||||||||
Trish Adora | Sub [19] |
1 ^ Participants in the original tournament included: Ashley Vox, Gia Scott, Heather Monroe, Jenny Rose, Katarina, Kellyanne, Lindsay Snow, Maria Manic, Session Moth Martina, and Tasha Steelz.
2 ^ Brandi Lauren and Laynie Luck were named as alternates.
3 ^ Spot was originally meant for Vita VonStarr, but her interference in matches involving The Righteous got her removed.
4 ^ Allie Recks was slated to take VonStarr's place in the tournament, but a knee injury kept her from competing.
5 ^ Chelsea Green was slated to take VonStarr's place in the tournament, but a broken wrist kept her from competing.
6 ^ Love defeated Quinn McKay on the May 8 ROH Wrestling episode to earn a bye.
The first ROH Women's World title design (2020–2023) is similar to the 2017 to 2022 design of the ROH World Championship separating itself from the men's version of the design with the word women's above in the middle center plate and also with the title being smaller than the 2017 to 2022 design of the ROH World Championship belt design due to it being a women's title (The original design of the ROH Women's World title is gold with silver ROH Logos indented in the center and indented on side plates). [25]
On March 31, 2023, a new design of the belt was revealed at Supercard of Honor, thus making it the second design of the championship belt. [26] The design of the belt kept the original design of the previous design but now featuring silver plates and the updated Ring of Honor logo on the main plate and side plates. [27]
As of August15, 2024, there have been four reigns between four champions. Rok-C was the inaugural champion. Athena's reign is the longest at 614+ days, while Deonna Purrazzo has the shortest reign at 115 days. Martinez is the oldest champion at 41 years old, while Rok-C is the youngest champion at 19 years old.
Athena is the current champion in her first reign. She won the title by defeating Martinez at Final Battle on December 10, 2022, in Arlington, Texas.
Name | Years |
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ROH Women's World Championship | January 1, 2020 – May 4, 2022 [1] May 4, 2022 – present |
Undisputed ROH Women's World Championship | May 4, 2022 |
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
1 | Rok-C | September 12, 2021 | Death Before Dishonor XVIII | Philadelphia, PA | 1 | 119 | Defeated Miranda Alize in the finals of a 15-woman single-elimination tournament to become the inaugural champion. | [28] |
2 | Deonna Purrazzo | January 9, 2022 | Impact! | Dallas, TX | 1 | 115 | This was a Winner Takes All match, also for Purrazzo's AAA Reina de Reinas Championship. This was an Impact Wrestling event that aired on tape delay on January 13, 2022. During this reign, Tony Khan purchased Ring of Honor. | [13] [29] |
— | Mercedes Martinez | April 1, 2022 | Supercard of Honor XV | Garland, TX | — | 33 | Deonna Purrazzo was unable to defend the title at Supercard of Honor. Martinez defeated Willow Nightingale to determine an interim champion. | [30] [31] |
3 | Mercedes Martinez | May 4, 2022 | Dynamite | Baltimore, MD | 1 | 220 | Defeated Deonna Purrazzo to become Undisputed ROH Women's World Champion. This was an All Elite Wrestling event. | [1] |
4 | Athena | December 10, 2022 | Final Battle | Arlington, TX | 1 | 614+ | [32] |
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