IWA World Women's Championship
Encyclopedia
The IWA World Women's Championship was a major title in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
. It had its origins with Stampede Wrestling
in Calgary, Alberta in 1987.
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
, nicknamed Zenjo was a joshi puroresu promotion established in 1968 by Takashi Matsunaga and his brothers. The group held their first card on June 4 of that year...
. It had its origins with Stampede Wrestling
Stampede Wrestling
Stampede Wrestling is a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary, Alberta and was for nearly 50 years one of the main promotions in western Canada and the Canadian Prairies...
in Calgary, Alberta in 1987.
History
| Wrestler | Times | Date | Location | Notes |
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| Monster Ripper | 1 | December 1987 | Recognized as champion in Stampede Wrestling; announced as having defeated Wendi Richter Wendi Richter Wendi Richter is a retired American professional wrestler. She began her professional wrestling career in companies such as the National Wrestling Alliance, where she teamed with Joyce Grable, with whom she held the NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship twice. In the 1980s, she joined the World... before coming to Calgary |
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| Chigusa Nagayo Chigusa Nagayo is a retired Japanese female professional wrestler best known for her mainstream popularity in the 1980s as a member of the tag team The Crush Gals with long-time partner Lioness Asuka. She was the founder of the GAEA Women's Professional Wrestling organization . She briefly competed as alter-ego... |
1 | September 22, 1988 | Calgary, Alberta | Defeats Monster Ripper in tournament final to become first champion |
| Madusa Miceli | 1 | January 4, 1989 | Tokyo Tokyo , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family... |
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| Chigusa Nagayo | 2 | January 5, 1989 | Tokyo | |
| Vacant | May 6, 1989 | Nagayo retires | ||
| Madusa Miceli | 2 | September 14, 1989 | Kumamoto, Kumamoto Kumamoto, Kumamoto is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. Greater Kumamoto has a population of 1,460,000, as of the 2000 census... |
Defeats Beastie |
| Vacant | 1991 | Title vacant | ||
| Kyoko Inoue Kyoko Inoue is a Japanese female professional wrestler. She has held the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship three times, and is the first woman to win a men's title in Japan. She is also the founder of the joshi promotion NEO Japan... |
1 | August 31, 1991 | Mita, Tokyo Tokyo , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family... |
Defeats Debbie Malenko |
| Manami Toyota Manami Toyota is a professional wrestler best known for her work with the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling wrestling promotion. Following AJW's closure she has continued to work in other joshi promotions such as GAEA and NEO... |
1 | April 25, 1992 | Yokohama, Kanagawa Yokohama is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu... |
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| Reggie Bennett Reggie Bennett Reggie Bennett is an American former professional wrestler. She is best known for her work in joshi puroresu organizations such as All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling.-Professional wrestling career:... |
1 | May 15, 1995 | Niigata, Niigata Niigata, Niigata is the capital and the most populous city of Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It lies on the northwest coast of Honshu, the largest island of Japan, and faces the Sea of Japan and Sado Island.... |
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| Takako Inoue Takako Inoue is a Japanese professional wrestler. She wrestled primarily for the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling promotion, and held several championships, primarily in tag team wrestling... |
1 | December 4, 1995 | Tokyo | Unifies with All Pacific Championship All Pacific Championship The All Pacific Women's Championship was the secondary singles title in the wrestling promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, or AJW. The belt was started as the Hawaiian Pacific Championship in 1977, and was renamed the All Pacific Championship in 1978.-History:... , defeating Reggie Bennett on November 21, 1996 in Kobe |
| Kyoko Inoue | 2 | January 20, 1997 | Tokyo | |
| Vacant | May 11, 1997 | Inoue is unsatisfied after a match against Kaoru Ito ends in a 60-minute time limit draw; title abandoned. |