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On April 27, 2023, NJPW announced the creation of the Strong Women's Championship, the top women's championship of the promotion's American subsidiary Strong Live. The promotion additionally announced a four-woman single-elimination tournament to determine the inaugural champion to be held at Resurgence on May 21, in Long Beach, California. [1]
IWGP Women's Championship: Mayu Iwatani: 1: April 23, 2023: 684 9 Yokohama, Japan: Defeated Mercedes Moné at All Star Grand Queendom. [6] Strong Women's Championship: Mercedes Moné: 1 June 30, 2024: 250 4 Elmont, New York: Defeated Stephanie Vaquer in a Winner Takes All match also for Moné's AEW TBS Championship at Forbidden Door. [7]
NJPW Strong is a brand name utilized by Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and its New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America (NJoA) subsidiary. [ 3 ] In its original incarnation, NJPW Strong was the name of a weekly professional wrestling streaming television show produced by NJoA.
On April 27, NJPW announced the creation of the Strong Women's Championship, the inaugural champion of which was crowned at the end of four-woman single-elimination tournament at Resurgence. [11] The tournament will feature representatives from NJPW partner companies All Elite Wrestling (AEW), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), and Stardom ...
IWGP Women's Championship: Mayu Iwatani: 1: April 23, 2023: 683 9 Yokohama, Japan: Defeated Mercedes Moné at All Star Grand Queendom. [111] Strong Women's Championship: Mercedes Moné: 1 June 30, 2024: 249 4 Elmont, New York: Defeated Stephanie Vaquer in a Winner Takes All match also for Moné's AEW TBS Championship at Forbidden Door. [112]
The inaugural IWGP Women's Champion Kairi. Ever since New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) was founded in 1972, the company had never had a women's championship. On July 29, 2022, it was announced by Takaaki Kidani, owner of World Wonder Ring Stardom and former chairman of NJPW through parent company Bushiroad, that Stardom's roster would compete for NJPW's first-ever women's championship, the IWGP ...
The Strong Openweight Championship (STRONG無差別級王座, STRONG musabetsu-kyū ōza) is a professional wrestling world championship owned and promoted by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. The title was officially announced on April 2, 2021, and the inaugural champion was Tom Lawlor.
On March 10, 2024, Vaquer wrestled on night 2 of the 2024 Cinderella Tournament hosted by NJPW's sister promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom, defeating Giulia to capture the Strong Women's Championship thus becoming a triple champion between CMLL and NJPW. [19]