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The JWP Openweight Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the JWP Joshi Puroresu promotion. The championship, which was situated at the top of JWP's championship hierarchy, was introduced on December 2, 1992, when Dynamite Kansai defeated Cutie Suzuki 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 joshi puroresu.[1][4]

JWP Openweight Championship

KANA as the JWP Openweight Champion in 2013

Details
PromotionJWP Joshi Puroresu
Date establishedDecember 2, 1992[1]
Date retiredApril 2, 2017[2][3]
Statistics
First champion(s)Dynamite Kansai[1]
Most reignsArisa Nakajima and Azumi Hyuga
(4 reigns)
Longest reignKayoko Haruyama
(1st reign, 719 days)
Shortest reignKyoko Kimura
(25 days)
Oldest championMayumi Ozaki
(46 years, 292 days)[a]
Youngest championDynamite Kansai
(22 years, 363 days)[a]

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 Tsubasa Kuragaki.[2][3]

On December 2, 1992, Dynamite Kansai became the inaugural JWP Openweight Champion by defeating Cutie Suzuki.[1] On October 15, 1995, Kansai would defeated Suzuki once again to win the title, which was previously vacated.[5] On November 28, 2004, after the championship was vacated once again, Azumi Hyuga won it by defeating Kayoko Haruyama in a tournament final.[5] On September 19, 2010, at JWP Revolution, the 15th champion Kaori Yoneyama successfully defended her title against Emi Sakura in a Hair vs. Hair match, forcing Sakura being shaved bald.[6] Sakura would later win the championship on October 28, 2012, after defeating Kayoko Haruyama.[7]

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 being the last champion, with a final successful title defense against Tsubasa Kuragaki.[8][2][3]

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. Arisa Nakajima 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's reign is the shortest at 25 days. Mayumi Ozaki is the oldest champion at 46 years old, while Kansai is the youngest at 22 years old.[a]

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
 
Two-time and inaugural champion Dynamite Kansai
 
Arisa Nakajima has held the title a record-equalling four times.
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns 		Combined
defenses 		Combined
days
1 Azumi Hyuga 4 14 1,797
2 Dynamite Kansai 2 5 1,197
3 Kayoko Haruyama 3 12 1,005
4 Arisa Nakajima 4 11 957
5 Hikari Fukuoka 1 6 691
6 Ran Yu-Yu 1 1 525
7 Tsubasa Kuragaki 2 1 373
8 Kaori Yoneyama 1 10 259
9 Command Bolshoi 2 0 232
10 Mayumi Ozaki 1 2 231
11 Hailey Hatred 1 3 180
12 Kana 1 2 119
13 Manami Toyota 1 3 113
14 Hanako Nakamori 1 3 95
15 Nanae Takahashi 1 2 91
16 Leon 1 1 84
17 Emi Sakura 1 1 57
18 Devil Masami 1 1 32
19 Kyoko Kimura 1 2 25
  1. ^ a b c The date of birth of Command Bolshoi is unknown, therefore, this stat might be inaccurate.
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