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JWP Joshi Puroresu was founded in early 1992, when Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP), ravaged by internal politics, split up into two camps, dubbed the "shooters" and the "entertainers", [6] and eventually folded on January 18.
In 2018, the January Royal Rumble pay-per-view would feature the first-ever women's Royal Rumble match in the main event, which would be the longest women's match in WWE history at the time. The following month, at the 2018 Elimination Chamber pay-per-view , the first-ever women's Elimination Chamber match took place.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling. IWGP Women's Championship (1 time, current) [106] Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Ranked No. 9 of the top 50 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2018 [110] Ranked No. 10 of the top 100 female wrestlers in the PWI Women's 100 in 2020 [111] Ranked No. 27 of the top 150 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Women's ...
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 most notable annual events in AJW were the Japan Grand Prix and Tag League the Best.The Japan Grand Prix was held each summer, from 1985 to 2004, and was a tournament to determine the number one contender for the WWWA World Single Championship, similar to the G1 Climax or Champion Carnival seen in the men's promotions New Japan Pro-Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling, respectively.
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref. Date Event Location Reign Days 1 Mildred Burke: January 1937: Live Event: N/A 1 Burke recognized herself as the first and still-undefeated World Women's Champion, even after the National Wrestling Alliance had ceased to recognize her as champion after officials called her two out of three falls encounter with June Byers on August 20 ...
The championship was first introduced in 1999 as the CMLL Japan Women's Championship, when CMLL was touring Japan in hopes of expanding into the Japanese market. By 2000 CMLL ceased promoting shows regularly in Japan, loaning the CMLL Japan Women's Championship to Osaka Pro Wrestling, who kept promoting the championship until June 2001 ...
Kaoru Matsumoto (松本 香, Matsumoto Kaoru), better known by her ring name Dump Matsumoto (ダンプ松本, Danpu Matsumoto, born November 11, 1960), is a Japanese professional wrestler. She came to prominence as one of the leading female wrestlers in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) during the 1980s.