| Women of Honor World Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 The Women of Honor World Championship belt | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Ring of Honor (ROH) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | December 15, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | January 1, 2020 (replaced with the ROH Women's World Championship) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The Women of Honor World Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor (ROH).
At Final Battle, December 15, 2017, it was announced that a tournament to crown the first Women of Honor Championship holder would start on January 20, 2018. [1] [2] The tournament featured female ROH regulars, called the ROH Women of Honor and female wrestlers from then ROH partnered all Japanese female wrestling promotion from Japan World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom) as well. [3]
On April 7, 2018, Sumie Sakai became the inaugural champion by defeating Kelly Klein in the 16-women tournament finals at Supercard of Honor XII in New Orleans, LA. [4] During her reign, the title was renamed to Women of Honor World Championship at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings on August 25, 2018. [5]
Also during year 2019 of this title's existence, the Women of Honor World Championship was defended in Japan at a Stardom event by Mayu Iwatani after she defeated Kelly Klein for the title at ROH pay-per-view Bound By Honor [6] [7] (during Klein's first reign and became champion for the first time in her career) in addition to ROH shows, pay-per-views, and events. On February 24, 2019 the Japanese stardom pay-per-view event took place and Mayu Iwatani was successful at retaining the title in her first title defense. Also on that night the match was the main event. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Kelly Klein became the first and only 2 & 3-time ROH Women of Honor Champion. [12] [13] During Kelly Klein's third reign, ROH producer Joey Mercury left the promotion. In a series of tweets, Mercury said ROH doesn't have a concussion protocol and Klein had to wrestle while injured. Klein agreed with Mercury and ROH let her go after her contract expired on December 31, 2019. Two months later, the creation of a new title was announced, the ROH Women's World Championship after the ROH Women of Honor World title was deactivated on January 1, 2020. [14]
| No. | Results | Stipulations |
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| 1 | Jessie Brooks defeated Gabby Ortiz | Women of Honor Championship Qualifying Match |
| 2 | Brandi Rhodes defeated Stella Grey | Women of Honor Championship Qualifying Match |
| First Round ROH Wrestling / Women of Honor tapings | Quarterfinals ROH Wrestling / Women of Honor tapings | Semifinals ROH Wrestling / Women of Honor tapings | Final Supercard of Honor XII April 7, 2018 | ||||||||||||
| Mandy Leon | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Madison Rayne | |||||||||||||||
| Mandy Leon | |||||||||||||||
| Kelly Klein | KO | ||||||||||||||
| Jessie Brooks | |||||||||||||||
| Kelly Klein | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Kelly Klein | Sub | ||||||||||||||
| Mayu Iwatani | |||||||||||||||
| HZK | |||||||||||||||
| Mayu Iwatani | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Mayu Iwatani | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Deonna Purrazzo | |||||||||||||||
| Deonna Purrazzo | Sub | ||||||||||||||
| Holidead | |||||||||||||||
| Kelly Klein | |||||||||||||||
| Sumie Sakai | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Jenny Rose | |||||||||||||||
| Kagetsu | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Kagetsu | |||||||||||||||
| Sumie Sakai | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Hana Kimura | |||||||||||||||
| Sumie Sakai | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Sumie Sakai | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Tenille Dashwood | |||||||||||||||
| Stacy Shadows | |||||||||||||||
| Tenille Dashwood | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Tenille Dashwood | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Brandi Rhodes | |||||||||||||||
| Karen Q | |||||||||||||||
| Brandi Rhodes | Pin | ||||||||||||||
The belt design has black leather with a pink & purple back design of the leather. It has a pink & purple outlined crown at the top of the center plate with the logo WOH in the middle of the center plate. Also under the WOH sign of the original design of the title it has the word Women of Honor and under that it has the word champion both with pink & purple squared backgrounds behind the gold wordings closing the wordings in short squares also with gold center & side plates with pink & purple outlined roses & flowers indented in the title for a very feminine approach, with two sections of the world on its side plates (2-side plates, 1-center plate). [15] [1]
Over the championship's one-year history, there have been six reign between four champions. Sumie Sakai was the inaugural champion, while Kelly Klein was the last. Klein held the record for most reigns at three. Sakai's reign is the longest at 251 days, while Angelina Love's reign is the shortest at 15 days. Sakai is the oldest champion at 46 years old, while Mayu Iwatani is the youngest at 25 years old.
| Name | Years |
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| Women of Honor Championship | December 15, 2017 – August 25, 2018 |
| Women of Honor World Championship | August 25, 2018 – January 1, 2020 |
| No. | Overall reign number |
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| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | Sumie Sakai | April 7, 2018 | Supercard of Honor XII | New Orleans, LA | 1 | 251 | Defeated Kelly Klein in the finals of an 16-woman single-elimination tournament become the inaugural champion. During her reign, the title was also renamed to the Women of Honor World Championship. | [16] [17] |
| 2 | Kelly Klein | December 14, 2018 | Final Battle | New York City, NY | 1 | 58 | This was a Four Corner Survival match, also involving Madison Rayne and Karen Q. | [18] |
| 3 | Mayu Iwatani | February 10, 2019 | Bound By Honor | Miami, FL | 1 | 55 | [19] | |
| 4 | Kelly Klein | April 6, 2019 | G1 Supercard | New York City, NY | 2 | 174 | [20] | |
| 5 | Angelina Love | September 27, 2019 | Death Before Dishonor XVII | Sunrise, NV | 1 | 15 | [21] | |
| 6 | Kelly Klein | October 12, 2019 | Glory By Honor XVII | New Orleans, LA | 3 | 81 | [22] | |
| — | Deactivated | January 1, 2020 | — | — | — | — | Kelly Klein was stripped of the championship after ROH did not renew her contract. The title was replaced with the ROH Women's World Championship. | [23] |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
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| 1 | Kelly Klein | 3 | 313 |
| 2 | Sumie Sakai | 1 | 251 |
| 3 | Mayu Iwatani | 1 | 55 |
| 4 | Angelina Love | 1 | 15 |
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