The JWP Openweight Championship was a

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owned by the

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. The championship, which was situated at the top of JWP's championship hierarchy, was introduced on December 2, 1992, when

Dynamite Kansai is a retired Japanese female professional wrestler, better known by the ring name . Career Chieko Suzuki was born on December 4, 1969, and was raised in Kyoto, Japan. In 1986 she auditioned for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), but was ...

defeated

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in a tournament final to become the inaugural champion. At the time of JWP Joshi Puroresu's folding in April 2017, the JWP Openweight Championship was the oldest active title in all of ''

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''. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title was won as a result of a scripted match. There were thirty reigns shared among nineteen different wrestlers. The title was retired on April 2, 2017, when JWP Joshi Puroresu went out of business. That same day, Hanako Nakamori won the final match contested for the title, making her third successful defense against

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Title history

On December 2, 1992,

became the inaugural JWP Openweight Champion by defeating

. On October 15, 1995, Kansai would defeated Suzuki once again to win the title, which was previously

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. On November 28, 2004, after the championship was vacated once again,

Azumi Hyuga better known by her ring name Azumi Hyuga is a Japanese retired professional wrestler best known for her tenure with various Japanese promotions such as All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, JWP Joshi Puroresu and NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling. Pro ...

won it by defeating

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in a tournament final. On September 19, 2010, at ''JWP Revolution'', the 15th champion

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successfully defended her title against

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in a

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, forcing Sakura being shaved bald. Sakura would later win the championship on October 28, 2012, after defeating Kayoko Haruyama. On April 2, 2017, at JWP's 25th Anniversary show, which was JWP's last show as JWP closed doors, the championship was deactivated with

Hanako Nakamori , better known by her ring name Hanako Nakamori, is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer and is best known for her time in the Japanese promotions JWP Joshi Puroresu and Pure-J. Professional wrestling career Indepe ...

being the last champion, with a final successful title defense against

Reigns

Over the championship's 24-year history, there have been 30 reigns between 19 champions and two vacancies. Dynamite Kansai was the inaugural champion, while Hanako Nakamori being the last.

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and Azumi Hyuga share the record for most reigns at four. Kayoko Haruyama's first reign is the longest at 719 days, while

Kyoko Kimura is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Throughout her 14-year career, she competed in Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Ibuki, Ice Ribbon, JWP Joshi Puroresu, NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling and World Wonder Ring Stardom, a ...

's reign is the shortest at 25 days.

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is the oldest champion at 46 years old, while Kansai is the youngest at 22 years old.

Combined reigns

Notes

References

External links

JWP's official website

{{JWP Openweight Championship JWP Joshi Puroresu championships Openweight wrestling championships Women's professional wrestling championships