IWRG Intercontinental Women's Championship

IWRG Intercontinental Women's Championship
Ayako Hamada, first ever champion
Details
PromotionInternational Wrestling Revolution Group
Date establishedSeptember 11, 2003[1]
Statistics
First champion(s)Ayako Hamada[1]
Final champion(s)La Amapola[2]
Longest reignLa Amapola
Shortest reignAyako Hamada

The IWRG Intercontinental Women's Championship (Campeonato Intercontinental Feminil IWRG in Spanish) is an inactive women's professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[a] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[b] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[c] or leaving the company.[d]

The first champion was Ayako Hamada who won it on September 11, 2003 in an elimination match against Flor Metalica, La Amapola, Lady Metal, Joseline, Marcela, Migala and La Diabólica. After the win Hamada began working in Japan more and more, thus never defending the title in Mexico. In 2005 La Amapola showed up at a wrestling event wearing the Women's title, claiming to have won it in Japan, without any sources to support the claim. The title has not been defended or promoted since 2007 where when IWRG stopped working with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), La Amapola's employee. Amapola has not officially been stripped of the title; it is inactive as the IWRG does not promote it or refer to it any more.

Title history

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
N/A Unknown information
(NLT) Championship change took place "no later than" the date listed
† Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
 1  Ayako Hamada  September 11, 2003  IWRG show Naucalpan, State of Mexico  1  478 Defeated Flor Metalica, La Amapola, Lady Metal, Joseline, Marcela, Migala and La Diabólica in an elimination match to become first champion. [1]
 2  La Amapola  2005  IWRG show Unknown  1  [e] Record unclear on how La Amapola won the championship. [7]
— Deactivated  2007 — — — — IWRG and CMLL stopped working together, IWRG did not regularly promote women's matches after this point in time. Never officially announced as abandoned, just not mentioned. [2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[3]
  2. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[4]
  3. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[5]
  4. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[6]
  5. ^ It is unclear when Amapola won the championship and when exactly IWRG and CMLL stopped working together making the reign length impossible to calculate.

References

  • Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.
  • Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  1. ^ a b c "Número Especial - Lo mejor de la lucha libre mexicana durante el 2003". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 5, 2003. issue 40.
  2. ^ a b c "2007 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). December 26, 2007. issue 244. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  3. ^ Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
  4. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
  5. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
  6. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
  7. ^ "2005 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 3, 2006. issue 140.