The NWL Ladies Championship is the top women's professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

 title

Championship (professional wrestling)

A Championship or "title" in professional wrestling is a recognition promoted by professional wrestling organizations.Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries...

 in the National Wrestling League

National Wrestling League

The National Wrestling League, headquartered out of Hagerstown, Maryland, was founded by Dick Caricofe in 1988, and has held professional wrestling events throughout the US and overseas in Guam, Saipan, Pohnpei, Hawaiian Islands, Palau, and the Marshall Islands...

 promotion

Professional wrestling promotion

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. It was created when Bambi

Selina Majors

Selina Majors , better known by her stage name Bambi, is an American professional wrestler.-Early career:Majors debuted as a professional wrestler in 1986 working for David McLane. She competed in his nationally televised professional women's wrestling league, Powerful Women of Wrestling as Bambi...

 defeated Heidi Lee Morgan

Heidi Lee Morgan

Heidi Lee Morgan the daughter of Lester Morgan, is a retired American professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation, International World Class Championship Wrestling, Ladies Pro Wrestling Association, and National Wrestling Federation...

 to become first champion in 1990. The title was defended primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and East Coast

East Coast of the United States

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, most often in Hagerstown, Maryland

Hagerstown, Maryland

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, but also in Pennsylvania

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 and West Virginia

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. It was originally retired in 2003, reinstated as the NWL/HoPWF Ladies Championship in 2005 and the NWL Ladies Championship in 2007. There were 12 recognized known champions with a total of 21 title reigns.

Title history

Wrestler:	Times:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
NWL Women's Championship
Bambi Selina Majors Selina Majors , better known by her stage name Bambi, is an American professional wrestler.-Early career:Majors debuted as a professional wrestler in 1986 working for David McLane. She competed in his nationally televised professional women's wrestling league, Powerful Women of Wrestling as Bambi...	1	1990
Rusty Foxx	1	1991
Bambi	2	1991
Peggy Lee Leather Peggy Lee Leather Peggy Lee , also known by her stage names Peggy Lee Leather, Lady X, and Thug, is an American professional wrestler.-World Wrestling Federation:Peggy Lee competed in the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-1980s...	1	1991
Rusty Foxx	2	1992
Peggy Lee Leather	2	1992
Bambi	3	August 2, 1992	Hagerstown, Maryland Hagerstown, Maryland Hagerstown is a city in northwestern Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Washington County, and, by many definitions, the largest city in a region known as Western Maryland. The population of Hagerstown city proper at the 2010 census was 39,662, and the population of the...
Peggy Lee Leather	1	April 1993	Keyser, West Virginia Keyser, West Virginia Keyser is a city in and the county seat of Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,303 at the 2000 census.- History :...
Bambi	4	February 25, 1995	Onley, Virginia Onley, Virginia Onley is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. The population was 496 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Onley is located at ....
The title is vacated.
Rusty Foxx	2	December 12, 1997	Boonsboro, Maryland Boonsboro, Maryland Boonsboro is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States, located at the foot of South Mountain. It nearly borders Frederick County and is proximate to the Antietam National Battlefield...
Fantasia Fantasia (wrestler) Karen Simpson , better known by her ring name Fantasia, is an American professional wrestler, trainer, promoter, and manager competing throughout North America in independent promotions, custom DVD companies, and the UK....	1	December 5, 1998	Berryville, West Virginia Berryville, West Virginia Berryville is a former independent community in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Located south of downtown Berkeley Springs, Berryville sprouted up along U.S. Route 522 at the beginning of the 20th century; first as a farming community and then as a residential extension of a...
Kurt Keizer	1	April 8, 1999	Waynesboro, Pennsylvania Waynesboro, Pennsylvania Waynesboro is a borough in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, located northwest of Baltimore, Maryland, 67 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and north of the Mason-Dixon Line. The population within the borough limits was 9,614 at the 2000 census. When combined with the surrounding...
The title is vacated by Kurt Keizer following a loss to loss to Gillberg on May 13, 1999.
Fantasia	2	May 29, 1999	Hagerstown, Maryland
The title is vacated on April 19, 2001.
AmyLee	1	April 23, 2001	Hagerstown, Maryland
Molly McShane	1	May 18, 2001	Frederick, Maryland Frederick, Maryland Frederick is a city in north-central Maryland. It is the county seat of Frederick County, the largest county by area in the state of Maryland. Frederick is an outlying community of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of a greater...
Madison	1	August 4, 2001	Cumberland, Maryland Cumberland, Maryland Cumberland is a city in the far western, Appalachian portion of Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Allegany County, and the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 20,859, and the metropolitan area had a...
Fantasia	3	March 10, 2002	Brunswick, Maryland Brunswick, Maryland Brunswick is a city in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 5,870 at the 2010 census.- History :The area now known as Brunswick was originally home to the Susquehanna Indians. In 1728 the first settlement was built, and the region became known as Eel Town, because the...
The title is abandoned on July 11, 2003.
NWL/HoPWF Ladies Championship
AmyLee	1	August 13, 2005	Newville, Pennsylvania
Kacee Carlisle	1	November 19, 2005	Newville, Pennsylvania
AmyLee	2	August 12, 2006	Martinsburg, West Virginia
The title is retired on March 1, 2007.
NWL Ladies Championship
AmyLee	1	May 18, 2008	Bridgewater, Pennsylvania

HoPWF Women's Championship

Wrestler:	Times:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
Fantasia	1	June 29, 2002	Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania
The title is retired on July 11, 2003.