WNC Women's Championship

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WNC Women's Championship
WNC Women's Championship.jpg
The WNC Women's Championship belt
(October 2012 — Present)
Details
Promotion Wrestling New Classic
Reina Joshi Puroresu
Date establishedOctober 12, 2012 [1]
Date retiredSeptember 30, 2014 [2] [3]

The WNC Women's Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the Wrestling New Classic (WNC) promotion. The title was a spiritual successor to the Smash Diva Championship, the women's title of WNC's predecessor, Smash. The championship was first announced at a press conference on October 12, 2012, when it was announced that a single-elimination tournament to determine the inaugural champion would take place from October 26 to December 27. [1] In storyline, the championship belt was donated to WNC by the final Smash Champion and WWE road agent Dave Finlay, who was also named the head of the WNC Championship Committee, which decides matches for the title. [7] [8]

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Like most professional wrestling championships, the title was won as a result of a scripted match. There were five reigns shared among four wrestlers.

History

Championship tournament

Syuri, the inaugural WNC Women's Champion Shuri.JPG
Syuri, the inaugural WNC Women's Champion

On October 12, 2012, Tajiri, the founder of Wrestling New Classic (WNC), announced the creation of the WNC Women's Championship, with a six-woman single-elimination tournament starting on October 26 in Korakuen Hall. [1] The six participants were announced as Kana, Syuri, Lin Byron, Makoto, Nagisa Nozaki and Jessica Love, a Finnish wrestler, who was born male, but underwent a sex reassignment surgery in 2011 to legally become female. [1] The first round of the tournament was decided that same day by a random draw, conducted by Tajiri and WNC president Tsutomu Takashima, which resulted in Love and Nozaki getting byes directly to the semifinals. [1] [9] The first first round match took place on October 26 and saw Syuri defeat Lin Byron to advance to the semifinals against Jessica Love. [10] The second first round match took place on November 26 and saw Kana defeat Makoto to advance to the semifinals against Nagisa Nozaki. [11] In the semifinals two days later, Syuri defeated Jessica Love, while Nagisa Nozaki eliminated the inaugural Smash Diva Champion, Kana, setting up a final match between the two. [12] On December 27, Syuri, the final Smash Diva Champion, defeated Nagisa Nozaki to become the inaugural WNC Women's Champion. [4] [13] [14] [15]

First round
(October 26
November 26) 		Semifinals
(November 28) 		Finals
(December 27)
      
Jessica Love Pin
Syuri5:50 [12]
Syuri Pin
Lin Byron 8:12 [10]
SyuriPin
Nagisa Nozaki 5:45 [4]
Kana Sub
Makoto N/A [11]
Kana Pin
Nagisa Nozaki 6:03 [12]

Retiring

On June 18, 2014, WNC announced that the promotion would be shutting down following June 26. Afterwards, six of the promotion's male wrestlers transferred over to Wrestle-1, while its female wrestlers remained affiliated with the Reina Joshi Puroresu promotion, [16] [17] with which WNC had had a working agreement since January 2014. [18] Following WNC shutting down, the WNC Women's Championship went inactive, before being brought up at a Reina event on August 30. On September 3, it was announced that Syuri, the reigning WNC Women's Champion, would face another WNC original and former WNC Women's Champion Makoto on September 30 in a match, which will mark the end of the title. [19] On September 30, Syuri successfully defended the title against Makoto, after which it was retired. [2] [3]

Title history

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
DefensesNumber of successful defenses
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDaysDefenses
1 Syuri December 27, 2012Tokyo Korakuen Hall Tournament Tokyo, Japan 1940 [20] Syuri defeated Nagisa Nozaki in the finals of a six-woman tournament to become the inaugural champion. [4]
2 Makoto March 31, 2013Shinjuku Face Tournament Evening Section Tokyo, Japan 1250 [21] [20]
3 Lin Byron April 25, 2013Korakuen Hall Dai Kessen Tokyo, Japan 1931 [22] This was a seven-way match, also involving Arisa Nakajima, Command Bolshoi, Kayoko Haruyama, Nikki Storm and Syuri. [21]
— Vacated  August 11, 2012— Tokyo, Japan ———The championship was vacated after Lin Byron fractured her left ankle. [23]
4 Serena August 10, 2013Kagoshima Tournament Kagoshima, Japan 1390Serena defeated Syuri in the finals of a three-woman round-robin tournament to win the vacant championship. [24]
5 Syuri September 18, 2013Shinjuku Face Tournament Tokyo, Japan 23775 [3] [25]
—Deactivated September 30, 2014Shin-Kiba 1st Ring Tournament Tokyo, Japan ———The championship retired due to WNC having shut down on June 26, 2014. [2] [3]

Combined reigns

RankWrestlerNo. of
reigns		Combined
defenses		Combined
days
1 Syuri 25471
2 Lin Byron 1193
3 Serena 1039
4 Makoto 1025

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