Princess of Pro-Wrestling Championship

Princess of Pro-Wrestling Championship
Current design of the title
Details
PromotionJDStar
JWP Joshi Puroresu
Dream Joshi Puroresu
Pure-J (current)
JTO
Date establishedJune 24, 2006[1]
Current champion(s)Honoka
Date wonJuly 21, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s)Fuka[1]
Most reignsChie Ozora
(3 reigns)[2]
Longest reignSaori Anou
(766 days)
Shortest reignRydeen Hagane
(1st reign, 21 days)
Oldest championChie Ozora
(30 years, 169 days)
Youngest championRabbit Miu
(16 years, 60 days)

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.[1] On June 17, 2007, JWP Joshi Puroresu's reigning JWP Junior Champion Arisa Nakajima won the title on JDStar's second to last event.[3] Though the two titles were not formally unified, they were defended together from this point onward.[4] 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 were 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,[5][6] later named Pure-J.[7][8] 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.[9]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been a total of thirty-one reigns shared among twenty-six different wrestlers. Chie Ozora is the current champion in her third reign.

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Fuka1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "JWP Junior Title". Puroresu Dojo. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference NakajimaPOP1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference POPHistory was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ 日本最古の女子プロ団体ＪＷＰの全選手が独立、新団体旗揚げへ. Daily Sports Online (in Japanese). Kobe Shimbun. February 8, 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  6. ^ JWPから全選手が独立し新団体を8月に旗揚げ！JWPが今後開催されるかは未定. Battle News (in Japanese). February 8, 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  7. ^ JWPから「Pure-J」へ 8・11後楽園大会で旗揚げ. Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). March 28, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
  8. ^ 女子プロレス「JWP」、新団体名「Pure-J」を発表. Daily Sports Online (in Japanese). Kobe Shimbun. March 28, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Anou1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).