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established on August 11, 2017, by

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History

With the closure of

JWP Joshi Puroresu , also known as or simply JWP, was a Japanese ''joshi puroresu'' (women's professional wrestling) professional wrestling promotion, promotion, founded in 1992 as a splinter promotion of Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. Celebrating its 25th anniversa ...

on April 2, 2017, it was announced that

will be in charge of a new promotion Pure-J. It was also confirmed that Pure-J would retain control of the Daily Sports Women's Tag Team and

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s. Pure-J held it first event on August 11, 2017. On October 9, 2017, Pure-J crowned their first Openweight Champion, Hanako Nakamori, where Nakamori defeated

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in the finals of a 12-woman tournament to become the inaugural champion. Since then, there have been 7 reigns, with

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being the current champion in her second reign. On April 21, 2019, Bolshoi held her retirement show from professional wrestling, where she participated in a

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that ended in time limit draw. On May 27, 2020, it was announced that Pure-J joined to Independent Wrestling TV (IWTV), a streaming company which airs independent promotions shows.

Roster

Wrestlers

Referees

Notable alumni

* Akino * Alex Lee *

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Aoi Kizuki is a Japanese retired professional wrestler best known for her tenure with various Japanese promotions such as Ice Ribbon, JWP Joshi Puroresu and Oz Academy. Appointed by Emi Sakura in May 2025, she is the current on-screen general manager of Ch ...

Ayako Hamada is a Japanese Mexican professional wrestler. During her 20-year career, Hamada wrestled for various promotions, including All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, Gaea Japan and Pro Wrestling Wave in Japan, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and L ...

Ayako Sato (born January 4, 1986) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana, where she is a member of the CRYSIS stable. She is also known for her time in the Japanese promotions JWP Joshi Puroresu and Pure-J ...

* Azumi Hyuga *

Chikayo Nagashima is a Japanese people, Japanese Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. She started her career in 1995, working for the Gaea Japan promotion, where she became a one-time AAAW Single Championship, AAAW Single Champion and a record five-time ...

* Emi Sakura * Giulia *

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Hiroyo Matsumoto is a Japanese Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, currently working as a freelancer. Emi Sakura gave her the nickname of because Matsumoto broke a wall in the Ichigaya arena during her Ice Ribbon debut. She is best known with other ...

Kagetsu (born on June 24, 1992), better known by his ring name , is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in Stardom, JWP, Sendai Girls and various independent promotions. Professional wrestling career Independe ...

* Kakeru Sekiguchi *

Kyoko Inoue is a Japanese female professional wrestler currently signed to World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana. She has held the WWWA World Single Championship three times, and is the first woman to win a men's title in Japan. Inoue is the founder of NEO J ...

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* Mari Apache * Mari Manji * Mariko Yoshida *

Mayumi Ozaki (born October 28, 1968) is a Japanese professional wrestler. She is currently working for Oz Academy. Professional wrestling career Ozaki debuted in a tag team match in August, 1986. In her career, she held the WWWA tag titles with Dynamite ...

* Mika Iwata * Mio Momono * Miyuki Takase * Mikami *

Megumi Yabushita is a retired Japanese female mixed martial artist, kickboxer, professional wrestler and judoka. She has participated in several Japanese professional wrestling and mixed martial arts promotions. She is a Japanese national judo champion and a form ...

Meiko Satomura is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. She is known for her time in American promotion WWE and in Japanese promotion Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling. She is the former two-time Sendai Girls World Champion and a former one-time NXT UK Wom ...

* Nagisa Nozaki *

Ricky Fuji (born September 27, 1965) better known under his ring name is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to Action Advance Pro Wrestling, where he also runs the day-to-day operations. He is perhaps best known for his time with Frontier M ...

* Riko Kaiju *

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* Rina Shingaki * Rin Kadokura * Sachie Abe *

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Sawako Shimono is a Japanese retired professional wrestler best known for her tenure with various Japanese promotions, such as Pro Wrestling Wave, JWP Joshi Puroresu and Osaka Women's Pro Wrestling. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2004–20 ...

* Suzu Suzuki *

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. She was well known as one-half of the tag team Double Inoue, whic ...

Tam Nakano , better known by her ring name is a Japanese singer, former idol, dancer, and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she was the leader of the Cosmic Angels stable. Nakano began her ca ...

Tae Honma is a Japanese Professional wrestling, professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer and is best known for her tenure with the Japanese professional wrestling promotion, promotions Ice Ribbon and Actwres girl'Z. Professional wrestling c ...

* Totoro Satsuki *

Tsubasa Kuragaki is a Japanese people, Japanese Professional wrestling, professional wrestler better known by the ring name . For most of her career, Kuragaki has worked for JWP Joshi Puroresu, becoming a one-time JWP Junior Championship, JWP Junior and two-time ...

Waka Tsukiyama is an American-born Japanese professional wrestler. She works for World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is a member of Empress Nexus Venus. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2020–2021) Tsukiyama competed in the 2021 edition o ...

* Yako Fujigasaki * Yuu *

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Backstage personnel

Championships

As of , .

KSR championship

The KSR Championship (abbreviated from "Kansai Survival Revolution") is a singles

championship In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion. Championship systems Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship. Title match system In this sys ...

promoted by Pure-J. The current and inaugural champion is Momo Tani.

References

External links

Pure-J official site
in Japanese {{Professional wrestling in Japan Japanese women's professional wrestling promotions 2017 establishments in Japan Entertainment companies established in 2017