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Statistics
First champion(s)	Willow Nightingale
Most reigns	All titleholders; (1 time)
Longest reign	Giulia; (249 days)
Shortest reign	Willow Nightingale; (45 days)
Oldest champion	Mercedes Moné; (32 years, 5 months and 4 days)
Youngest champion	Willow Nightingale; (29 years, 3 months and 26 days)
Heaviest champion	Willow Nightingale; (183 lb (83 kg))
Lightest champion	Mercedes Moné; (115 lb (52 kg))

Strong Women's Championship
Strong Women's Championship
	The Strong Women's Championship belt
Details
Promotion	New Japan Pro-Wrestling; World Wonder Ring Stardom
Date established	April 27, 2023
Current champion(s)	Mercedes Moné
Date won	June 30, 2024
Other name(s)
	Strong Women's Championship; (2023-present); NJPW Strong Women's Championship;
First champion(s)
Statistics
First champion(s)	Willow Nightingale
Most reigns	All titleholders; (1 time)
Longest reign	Giulia; (249 days)
Shortest reign	Willow Nightingale; (45 days)
Oldest champion	Mercedes Moné; (32 years, 5 months and 4 days)
Youngest champion	Willow Nightingale; (29 years, 3 months and 26 days)
Heaviest champion	Willow Nightingale; (183 lb (83 kg))
Lightest champion	Mercedes Moné; (115 lb (52 kg))

The Strong Women's Championship (Japanese: STRONG女子王座, Hepburn: STRONG Joshi Ōza) is a women's professional wrestling world championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. The creation of the championship was announced by NJPW on April 27, 2023.^[1] The title is exclusively featured on NJPW's American internet television program NJPW Strong Live, which features a distinct roster of American and other foreign wrestlers. The inaugural champion was Willow Nightingale, who defeated Mercedes Moné in a tournament final at Resurgence to win the championship. The current champion is Moné, who defeated Stephanie Vaquer in a Winner Takes All match in which Moné's AEW TBS Championship was also on the line at Forbidden Door.

History

In 2022, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) established a women's division. On July 29 of that year, the promotion created the IWGP Women's Championship, the first women's title in the company's history,^[2]^[3] which was first held by Kairi.^[4] The championship was created to be the top title of NJPW's women's division and was intended to be defended on NJPW events in Japan and on events promoted by NJPW's Japanese sister company World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom), a joshi puroresu promotion.

On April 27, 2023, NJPW announced the creation of the Strong Women's Championship, the top women's championship of the promotion's American subsidiary Strong Live. The promotion additionally announced a four-woman single-elimination tournament to determine the inaugural champion to be held at Resurgence on May 21, in Long Beach, California.^[1] The tournament will feature representatives from NJPW's partners All Elite Wrestling (AEW), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), and Stardom.^[1] The tournament participants are the former IWGP Women's Champion Mercedes Moné (NJPW), Momo Kohgo (Stardom), Stephanie Vaquer (CMLL), and Willow Nightingale (AEW).^[1] At Resurgence, Nightingale became the inaugural champion by defeating Moné in the finals.^[5]

Inaugural championship tournament (2023)

Semi-finals Resurgence (May 21)		Finals Resurgence (May 21)

Mercedes Moné	Pin

Stephanie Vaquer	11:55
		Mercedes Moné	13:34

		Willow Nightingale	Pin
Momo Kohgo	9:37

Willow Nightingale	Pin

The first defense of the title was Nightingale's successful defence against Emi Sakura on the 2nd June 2023 edition of AEW Rampage (taped on the May 31, 2023).^[6]

Reigns

As of January 2, 2025, there have been four reigns between four champions. Willow Nightingale was the inaugural champion. Mercedes Moné is the oldest champion at 32 years old, while Nightingale is the youngest at 29 years old. Giulia's reign is the longest at 249 days, while Nightingale's reign is the shortest at 45 days.

Moné is the current champion in her first reign. She won the title by defeating Stephanie Vaquer in a Winner Takes All match also for Moné's AEW TBS Championship at Forbidden Door on June 30, 2024, in Elmont, New York.

Key
No.	Overall reign number
Reign	Reign number for the specific champion
Days	Number of days held
Defenses	Number of successful defenses
+	Current reign is changing daily

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics			Notes	Ref.
No.	Champion	Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days	Defenses	Notes	Ref.
1	Willow Nightingale	May 21, 2023	Resurgence	Long Beach, CA	1	45	2	Defeated Mercedes Moné in the finals of a four-woman single-elimination tournament to become the inaugural champion.	^[5]
2	Giulia	July 5, 2023	Independence Day Night 2	Tokyo, Japan	1	249	9		^[7]
3	Stephanie Vaquer	March 10, 2024	Cinderella Tournament Night 2	Tokyo, Japan	1	112	4		^[8]
4	Mercedes Moné	June 30, 2024	Forbidden Door	Elmont, NY	1	186+	3	This was a Winner Takes All match also for Moné's AEW TBS Championship.	^[9]