IW19 Championship

The Internet Wrestling 19 (IW19) Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the Ice Ribbon promotion. The championship was introduced on the March 22, 2011, episode of Ice Ribbon's 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling (19時女子プロレス, Jūkyū-ji Joshi Puroresu) Ustream program, where Tsukushi defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto in the finals of a tournament to become the inaugural champion. Championship matches had a 19-minute time limit, and, unlike with all other Ice Ribbon championships, in the event of a time limit draw, the champion retained the title.[7] The title was originally defended exclusively on the 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling program.[8]

IW19 Championship
Tsukushi, the inaugural, current and record three-time IW19 Champion, with the title belt in January 2012
Details
PromotionIce Ribbon
Date establishedFebruary 16, 2011[1]
Current champion(s)Tsukushi
Date wonJanuary 9, 2021[2]
Other name(s)
Internet Single Championship[3]

Originally, 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling was kept separate from Ice Ribbon, but on August 26, 2011, the program was brought under the Ice Ribbon banner and the IW19 Championship recognized as an Ice Ribbon championship.[8] With the move, the title underwent some changes, including an addition of a nineteen-year age limit and a three-year experience limit and the abolishment of a rule, where a champion must defend the title at least once every four weeks.[8] However, in January 2012, the age and experience limits were seemingly abandoned, when Hamuko Hoshi, 29 years old, Lady Afrodita, 21 years old, Maki Narumiya, 25 years old, Sayaka Obihiro, 25 years old, Tomoki Yagami, 29 years old, and Tsukasa Fujimoto, 28 years old, all entered a number one contender's tournament.[9][10][11][12] During the next ten months, the IW19 Championship was defended once every ten weeks against the winner of an eight-woman single-elimination tournament.[13][14][15][16] On January 7, 2013, Ice Ribbon officially put 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling on hiatus as it considered the future of the program, following the departure of its original operator, Sayaka Obihiro.[17] On May 18, Ice Ribbon announced a 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling event for June 22, which would see the first defense of the IW19 Championship in six months.[18] This episode would air through Niconico as opposed to Ustream.[19] At the end of the June 22 broadcast, Ice Ribbon officially announced the ending of the 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling program, although the promotion looked to hold future events on Niconico.[20] As a result, the IW19 Championship was retired on July 14, 2013, when IW19 Champion Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated ICE×60 Champion Tsukushi in a championship unification match.[21][22]

The title was reactivated with a tournament, held throughout May 2020, won by Hamuko Hoshi.[23]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match.

History

Tsukushi was the first champion in the title's history.[4] Tsukasa Fujimoto, Kurumi and Hamuko Hoshi have had the most reigns as champion, all with two.[4][13][24][25][26][27] Hoshi has also had the longest reign in the title's history at 246 days, while Hikari Minami's reign of five days was the shortest in the title's history. Overall, there have been 11 reigns shared among seven different wrestlers.

Tsukushi is the current champion, having defeated Hamuko Hoshi on January 9, 2021.[2]

Reigns
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 DaysDefenses
 1   Tsukushi  March 22, 2011  19 O'Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 66 Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan  1  663[28] Tsukushi defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto in the finals of a four-woman tournament to become the inaugural champion. [4]
 2  Hikari Minami  May 27, 2011  19 O'Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 73 Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan  1  50[29] [28]
 3  Chii Tomiya  June 1, 2011  Ice Ribbon 272: 19 O'Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 1st Anniversary Show Tokyo, Japan  1  512[30] [29]
— Vacated July 22, 2011 19 O'Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 80 Tokyo, Japan — —— Chii Tomiya voluntarily vacated the title, after wrestling Makoto to a time limit draw in a title defense. [30]
 4  Kurumi  September 16, 2011  19 O'Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 87 Tokyo, Japan  1  771[25] Kurumi defeated Tsukushi in the finals of a four-woman tournament to win the vacant championship. [26]
 5   Tsukushi  December 2, 2011  19 O'Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 96 Saitama, Japan  2  1120[13] [25]
 6  Kurumi  March 23, 2012  19 O'Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 109 Saitama, Japan  2  700[27] [13]
 7  Tsukasa Fujimoto  June 1, 2012  19 O'Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 118: 2nd Anniversary Show Saitama, Japan  1  700[31] [27]
 8  Aki Shizuku  August 10, 2012  19 O'Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 127 Saitama, Japan  1  700[32] [31]
 9  Hamuko Hoshi  October 19, 2012  19 O'Clock Girls Pro Wrestling 136 Saitama, Japan  1  2461[24] [32]
 10  Tsukasa Fujimoto  June 22, 2013  Ice Ribbon Nagoya Event Nagoya, Aichi, Japan  2  221[21] [24]
— Unified July 14, 2013 Ice Ribbon Shinjuku Tournament Tokyo, Japan — —— Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Tsukushi in a championship unification match to unify the title with the ICE×60 Championship. [21]
11 Hamuko Hoshi May 31, 2020 Ice Ribbon 1044 Saitama, Japan 2 2234[33] After the title was reactivated, a tournament was held throughout May 2020 to determine a new champion. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Maya Yukihi in the tournament's final. [34]
12 Tsukushi January 9, 2021 Yokohama Ribbon 2021 Yokohama, Japan 3 200 [2]

Combined reigns
Record three-time and current champion Tsukushi
Two-time and longest combined reigning champion Hamuko Hoshi

As of January 29, 2021.

† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined
defenses		 Combined
days
1 Hamuko Hoshi25469
2 Tsukushi †33198+
3 Kurumi21147
4 Tsukasa Fujimoto2192
5 Aki Shizuku1070
6 Chii Tomiya1247
7 Hikari Minami105

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