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New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) is a professional wrestling promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo. Title reigns are either determined by professional wrestling matches or are awarded to a wrestler, as a result of the culmination of various scripted storylines. There are 11 total active championships promoted by NJPW - featuring six singles ...
The inaugural Strong Women's Champion, Willow Nightingale In 2022, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) established a women's division. On July 29 of that year, the promotion created the IWGP Women's Championship, the first women's title in the company's history, [2] [3] which was first held by Kairi. [4]
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 ...
On April 8, 2011, NJPW announced the participants in the tournament to crown the first IWGP Intercontinental Champion. The list of participants included former World Wrestling Entertainment performer MVP, who had signed a contract with NJPW in January 2011, Kazuchika Okada, who had been on a learning excursion to American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) since February 2010 ...
Co-produced with World Championship Wrestling: May 3 Wrestling Dontaku: Fukuoka Dome: Fukuoka, Japan: Shinya Hashimoto (c) vs. Keiji Muto for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship: October 9 New Japan Pro Wrestling Vs. UWF International Tokyo Dome: Tokyo, Japan: Keiji Muto (c) vs. Nobuhiko Takada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Co-produced ...
NJPW also has and has had agreements with various MMA and professional wrestling promotions around the world; including WWE, World Championship Wrestling, American Wrestling Association, World Class Championship Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, WAR, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, UWFi, Ring of Honor, Pride Fighting Championships, and All ...
This is a List of New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America events, detailing all notable professional wrestling cards promoted on pay-per-view (PPV), & NJPW World by New Japan Pro-Wrestling's (NJPW) United States-based subsidiary, "New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America" (NJoA), and its NJPW Strong brand; as well as other events promoted by NJPW in North America since 2019.
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 ...