Princess of Pro-Wrestling Championship

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 technically not 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 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,[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]

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

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been twenty-three reigns shared among twenty different wrestlers. The championship is currently vacated, as the last champion Suzu Suzuki decided to returnt he title to the company.[10]

Reigns

Fuka was the first champion in the title's history.[4] Arisa Nakajima, Rabbit Miu and Rydeen Hagane share the record for most reigns as champion with two.[2] Manami Katsu's only reign holds the record for the longest reign, at 482 days,[2] while Rydeen Hagane's first reign holds the record for the shortest reign at 21 days.[2] Overall, there have been twenty-three reigns shared among twenty different wrestlers. The championship is currently vacated, as the last champion Suzu Suzuki decided to returnt he title to the company.[10]

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 DaysDefenses
JDStar
1 Fuka June 24, 2006 Future Tokyo, Japan 1 1904[11] Fuka defeated Natsuki☆Head in the finals of a tournament to become the inaugural champion. [1]
2 Natsuki☆Taiyo Natsuki December 31, 2006 4th Junior All-Star Game Tokyo, Japan 1 900 [11]
— Vacated March 31, 2007 — — — —— The Championship was vacated when Natsuki☆Taiyo fails to defend it for three months. [4]
3 Arisa Nakajima June 17, 2007 Future Tokyo, Japan 1 1542[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. [3]
JWP Joshi Puroresu
4 Tyrannosaurus Okuda November 18, 2007 Sendai Girls Live Vol. 14: Hardship Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 1 2033[13] [14]
5 Arisa Nakajima June 8, 2008 Osaka Pure Fire!! Osaka, Japan 2 1961[15] [13]
6 Hiroyo Matsumoto December 21, 2008 IBUKI #26 Tokyo, Japan 1 1612[15] [2][4]
7 Misaki Ohata May 31, 2009 IBUKI #29: 4th Anniversary Tokyo, Japan 1 2032[15] [2][4]
8 Ryo Mizunami December 20, 2009 Sendai Girls Live Vol. 40 Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 1 2572[16] [17]
9 Hiren September 3, 2010 Sendai Girls Live Vol. 46 Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 1 1841[18] [19]
10 Kagetsu March 6, 2011 JWP Tag League the Best - Night 4 Tokyo, Japan 1 1234[19] [18]
11 Sawako Shimono July 7, 2011 Sendai Girls Return Home Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 1 2905[20] [21]
12 Rabbit Miu April 22, 2012 JWP 20th Anniversary: Mania X Tokyo, Japan 1 2463[22] [20]
13 Manami Katsu December 24, 2012 Climax Tokyo, Japan 1 4824[23] [22]
14 Sareee April 20, 2014 Mania-X Tokyo, Japan 1 1191[24] [23]
15 Rabbit Miu August 17, 2014 Pure Plum Tokyo, Japan 2 2315[25] [24]
16 Rydeen Hagane April 5, 2015 Mania-X Tokyo, Japan 1 210[26] [25]
17 Rina Yamashita April 26, 2015 Spring Hurricane in Osaka Osaka, Japan 1 1050[27] [26]
18 Kaho Kobayashi August 9, 2015 Happy Anniversary WAVE .8: East Tokyo, Japan 1 452[28] [27]
19 Rydeen Hagane September 23, 2015 Hakata Wave: bari-chiro 3 Fukuoka, Japan 2 3314[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 1013[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 2143[9] 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 7663 [9]
23 Suzu Suzuki September 4, 2019 Pure Princess 2 Tokyo, Japan 1 4660 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. [10]

Combined reigns

As of February 4, 2021

† Indicates the current champions
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined
defenses		 Combined
days
1 Saori Anou13766
2 Suzu Suzuki10466
3 Manami Katsu14482
4 Rabbit Miu28477
5 Rydeen Hagane24352
6 Arisa Nakajima23350
7 Sawako Shimono15280
8 Ryo Mizunami12257
9 Yako Fujigasaki13214
10 Misaki Ohata12203
Tyrannosaurus Okuda13203
12 Fuka14190
13 Hiren11184
14 Hiroyo Matsumoto12161
15 Kagetsu14133
16 Sareee11119
17 Rina Yamashita10105
18 Hana Kimura13101
19 Natsuki☆Taiyo Natsuki1090
20 Kaho Kobayashi1245

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