Princess of Pro-Wrestling Championship

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Princess of Pro-Wrestling Championship
Saori Anou.jpg
Saori Anou, the former POP Champion
Details
PromotionJDStar
JWP Joshi Puroresu
Dream Joshi Puroresu
Pure-J
Date establishedJune 24, 2006[2]
Current champion(s)Akari
Date wonFebruary 7, 2021[1]

The Princess of Pro-Wrestling (POP) Championship is a Japanese women's professional wrestling championship owned by the Pure-J promotion. The title was created in the JDStar promotion on June 24, 2006, when Fuka defeated Natsuki☆Head in the finals of a tournament to become the inaugural champion.[2] On June 17, 2007, JWP Joshi Puroresu's reigning JWP Junior Champion Arisa Nakajima won the title on JDStar's second to last event.[4] Though the two titles were technically not unified, they were defended together from this point onward.[5] The titles remained together in JWP for nearly a decade before it was announced on February 8, 2017, that the promotion was shutting down. As a result, the two titles would once again be separated with the JWP title remaining with the promotion's production company, while the POP title moved on to Command Bolshoi's follow-up promotion to JWP,[6][7] later named Pure-J.[8][9] Between the transition from JWP to Pure-J, the former JWP roster held events under the name Dream Joshi Puroresu, where the POP title was also defended.[10]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been twenty-four reigns shared among twenty-one different wrestlers. Akari is the current champion in her first reign.[1]

Reigns[]

Fuka was the first champion in the title's history.[5] Arisa Nakajima, Rabbit Miu and Rydeen Hagane share the record for most reigns as champion with two.[3] Manami Katsu's only reign holds the record for the longest reign, at 482 days,[3] while Rydeen Hagane's first reign holds the record for the shortest reign at 21 days.[3] Overall, there have been twenty-four reigns shared among twenty-one different wrestlers. Akari is the current champion in her first reign.[1]

Title history[]

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days Defenses
JDStar
1 Fuka June 24, 2006 Future Tokyo, Japan 1 190 4[11] Fuka defeated Natsuki☆Head in the finals of a tournament to become the inaugural champion. [2]
2 Natsuki☆Taiyo Natsuki December 31, 2006 4th Junior All-Star Game Tokyo, Japan 1 90 0 [11]
— Vacated March 31, 2007 — — — — — The Championship was vacated when Natsuki☆Taiyo fails to defend it for three months. [5]
3 Arisa Nakajima June 17, 2007 Future Tokyo, Japan 1 154 2[12] Nakajima defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto and Yuri Urai in a three-way Dogfight tournament final to win the vacant championship. From this point onward, the title is defended alongside the JWP Junior Championship. [4]
JWP Joshi Puroresu
4 Tyrannosaurus Okuda November 18, 2007 Sendai Girls Live Vol. 14: Hardship Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 1 203 3[13] [14]
5 Arisa Nakajima June 8, 2008 Osaka Pure Fire!! Osaka, Japan 2 196 1[15] [13]
6 Hiroyo Matsumoto December 21, 2008 IBUKI #26 Tokyo, Japan 1 161 2[15] [3][5]
7 Misaki Ohata May 31, 2009 IBUKI #29: 4th Anniversary Tokyo, Japan 1 203 2[15] [3][5]
8 Ryo Mizunami December 20, 2009 Sendai Girls Live Vol. 40 Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 1 257 2[16] [17]
9 Hiren September 3, 2010 Sendai Girls Live Vol. 46 Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 1 184 1[18] [19]
10 Kagetsu March 6, 2011 JWP Tag League the Best - Night 4 Tokyo, Japan 1 123 4[19] [18]
11 Sawako Shimono July 7, 2011 Sendai Girls Return Home Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 1 290 5[20] [21]
12 Rabbit Miu April 22, 2012 JWP 20th Anniversary: Mania X Tokyo, Japan 1 246 3[22] [20]
13 Manami Katsu December 24, 2012 Climax Tokyo, Japan 1 482 4[23] [22]
14 Sareee April 20, 2014 Mania-X Tokyo, Japan 1 119 1[24] [23]
15 Rabbit Miu August 17, 2014 Pure Plum Tokyo, Japan 2 231 5[25] [24]
16 Rydeen Hagane April 5, 2015 Mania-X Tokyo, Japan 1 21 0[26] [25]
17 Rina Yamashita April 26, 2015 Spring Hurricane in Osaka Osaka, Japan 1 105 0[27] [26]
18 Kaho Kobayashi August 9, 2015 Happy Anniversary WAVE .8: East Tokyo, Japan 1 45 2[28] [27]
19 Rydeen Hagane September 23, 2015 Hakata Wave: bari-chiro 3 Fukuoka, Japan 2 331 4[29] [28]
— Vacated August 19, 2016 — — — — — The championship was vacated due to Rydeen Hagane surpassing the experience limit for the junior division. [30]
20 Hana Kimura September 18, 2016 Fly High in the 25th Anniversary - Night 7 Tokyo, Japan 1 101 3[31] Kimura defeated Yako Fujigasaki in the finals of a four-woman tournament to win the vacant championship. [32]
21 Yako Fujigasaki December 28, 2016 Climax Tokyo, Japan 1 214 3[10] Title separated from the JWP Junior Championship on April 2, 2017. [31][33]
Pure-J
22 Saori Anou July 30, 2017 Pure-Dream Nagoya, Aichi, Japan 1 766 3 [10]
23 Suzu Suzuki September 4, 2019 Pure Princess 2 Tokyo, Japan 1 466 0 Suzuki was voted by the audience as MVP of the card and was awarded the championship. [34]
— Vacated December 13, 2020 Climax Tokyo, Japan — — — Suzu Suzuki vacated the championship. [35]
24 Akari February 7, 2021 Fight Together' Tokyo, Japan 1 353+ 5 Akari defeated Momo Tani in the tournament finals to win the vacant championship. [1]

Combined reigns[]

As of January 26, 2022

† Indicates the current champions
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined
days
1 Saori Anou 1 3 766
2 Suzu Suzuki 1 0 466
3 Manami Katsu 1 4 482
4 Rabbit Miu 2 8 477
5 Rydeen Hagane 2 4 352
6 Arisa Nakajima 2 3 350
7 Akari † 1 5 353+
8 Sawako Shimono 1 5 280
9 Ryo Mizunami 1 2 257
10 Yako Fujigasaki 1 3 214
11 Misaki Ohata 1 2 203
Tyrannosaurus Okuda 1 3 203
13 Fuka 1 4 190
14 Hiren 1 1 184
15 Hiroyo Matsumoto 1 2 161
16 Kagetsu 1 4 133
17 Sareee 1 1 119
18 Rina Yamashita 1 0 105
19 Hana Kimura 1 3 101
20 Natsuki☆Taiyo Natsuki 1 0 90
21 Kaho Kobayashi 1 2 45

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