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The JWP Junior Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the JWP Joshi Puroresu promotion. It was introduced on June 16, 1995, when Candy Okutsu defeated Hiromi Sugou and Hiromi Yagi in a three-way match to become the inaugural champion.[1]

JWP Junior Championship

Yako Fujigasaki, the final JWP Junior Champion

Details
PromotionJWP Joshi Puroresu
Date establishedJune 16, 1995[1]
Date retiredApril 2, 2017[2]
Statistics
First champion(s)Candy Okutsu[1]
Most reignsArisa Nakajima, Candy Okutsu, Hiromi Yagi, Rabbit Miu and Rydeen Hagane (2 reigns)[1]
Longest reignKaori Yoneyama (771 days)
Shortest reignCandy Okutsu (<1 day)
Oldest championRina Yamashita (26 years, 45 days)
Youngest championRabbit Miu (16 years, 60 days)

On June 17, 2007, the reigning JWP Junior Champion Arisa Nakajima won the Princess of Pro-Wrestling (POP) Championship on the JDStar promotion'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. It is currently unknown whether the JWP producers plan to stay in the professional wrestling business.[5][6]

The JWP Junior Championship was originally meant for wrestlers with less than four years of experience in professional wrestling, but in June 2010, the limit was raised to five years.[7] In May 2012, the experience limit was lowered back down to four years.[8] The title was vacated eight times; five times due to the reigning champion surpassing the experience limit.[1]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title was won as a result of a scripted match. There were thirty-one reigns shared among twenty-six different wrestlers. The title was retired on April 2, 2017, when JWP Joshi Puroresu went out of business. That same day, Yako Fujigasaki won the final match contested for the JWP Junior Championship by making her second successful defense against Saori Anou.[2][9]

Candy Okutsu was the first champion in the title's history and Yako Fujigasaki the final.[1][2] She also shares the record for most reigns with Arisa Nakajima, Hiromi Yagi, Rabbit Miu and Rydeen Hagane, with two.[1] Kaori Yoneyama only reign holds the record for the longest reign, at 771 days,[1] while Okutsu's second reign holds the record for the shortest reign at less than one day.[1] Overall, there were thirty-one reigns shared among twenty-six different wrestlers.

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
 
One-time and longest reigning JWP Junior Champion Kaori Yoneyama
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined
days
1 Kaori Yoneyama 1 4 771
2 Arisa Nakajima 2 7 525
3 Manami Katsu 1 4 482
4 Kayoko Haruyama 1 3 480
5 Rabbit Miu 2 8 477
6 Tsubasa Kuragaki 1 2 419
7 Tomoko Kuzumi 1 10 372
8 Rydeen Hagane 2 4 352
9 Sawako Shimono 1 5 280
10 Ryo Mizunami 1 2 257
11 Misaki Ohata 1 2 203
Tyrannosaurus Okuda 1 3 203
13 Erika Watanabe 1 0 202
14 Tomoko Miyaguchi 1 5 200
15 Hiromi Yagi 2 4 199
16 Kobina Ichikawa 1 0 189
17 Hiren 1 1 184
18 Candy Okutsu 2 3 181
19 Hiroyo Matsumoto 1 2 161
20 Kagetsu 1 4 133
21 Sareee 1 1 119
22 Rina Yamashita 1 0 105
23 Hana Kimura 1 3 101
24 Yako Fujigasaki 1 2 95
25 Haruka Matsuo 1 0 84
26 Kaho Kobayashi 1 2 45
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