AJW Junior Championship

The AJW Junior Championship was a tertiary singles title in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. The title started in 1980 and was retired in April 2005 when the promotion closed.

AJW Junior Championship
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Promotion	All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling

The prize was contested among wrestlers with less than two years of experience in professional wrestling. The first belt design was a brown belt that also represented the AJW Championship. Later, the Junior Championship became a golden belt with a turquose strap.

Title history

Wrestlers:	Times:	Date:	Place:	Notes:
Rimi Yokota	1	January 4, 1980	Tokyo	Defeated Chino Sato to become the first champion.[1]
Title vacated in August 1980.[1]
Tomoko Kitamura	1	January 4, 1981	Tokyo	Defeated Noriko Kawakami.[1]
Title vacated in January 1982.[1]
Chigusa Nagayo	1	May 15, 1982	Ōmiya, Saitama	Defeated Itsuki Yamazaki.[1]
Noriyo Tateno	1	August 10, 1982	Fukushima, Fukushima	[1]
Chigusa Nagayo	2	January 8, 1984	Tokyo	[1]
Title vacated on January 8, 1984.[1]
Yumi Ogura	1	March 17, 1984	Kiryū, Gunma	Defeated Keiko Nakano.[1]
Keiko Nakano	1	September 13, 1984	Toda, Saitama	[1]
Title vacated in 1985.[1]
Yumi Ogura	2	April 7, 1985	Tokyo	Defeated Mika Komatsu in a tournament final.[1]
Ogura vacated the title on December 12, 1985, in order to challenge for the AJW Championship.[1]
Condor Saito	1	January 4, 1986	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Kazue Nagahori.[1]
Hisako Uno	1	March 20, 1986	Osaka	[1]
Yasuko Ishiguro	1	May 29, 1986	Ōmiya, Saitama	[1]
Title vacated on January 4, 1987.[1]
Kyoko Asoh	1	February 26, 1987	Kawasaki, Kanagawa	Defeated Megumi Kudo.[1]
Title vacated on October 11, 1987, when Asoh retired.[1]
Mika Suzuki	1	December 26, 1987	Tokyo	Defeated Kaoru Maeda in a tournament final.[1]
Title vacated in 1988.[1]
Toshiyo Yamada	1	July 19, 1988	Tokyo	Defeated Miori Kamiya in a tournament final.[1]
Title vacated in 1988 due to injury.[1]
Reibun Amada	1	December 11, 1988	Tokyo	Defeated Manami Toyota.[1]
Title vacated in 1989.[1]
Mima Shimoda	1	October 8, 1989	Tokyo	Defeated Asayo Obata.[1]
Title later vacated.[1]
Yuki Lee	1	March 20, 1992	Tokyo	Defeated Akemi Torisu in a tournament final.[1][1]
Title vacated on March 22, 1992, due to injury.
Akemi Torisu	1	April 29, 1992	Toda, Saitama	Won a tournament.[1]
Rie Tamada	1	August 10, 1992	Okazaki, Aichi	[1]
Kumiko Maekawa	1	September 15, 1992		[1]
Saemi Numata	1	June 11, 1993		[1]
Mizuki Endo	1	September 29, 1993	Nagoya, Aichi	[1]
Chaparita Asari	1	November 28, 1993	Osaka	[1]
Candy Okutsu	1	December 6, 1993	Tokyo	[1]
Chaparita Asari	2	March 26, 1995	Yokohama, Kanagawa	[1]
Title vacated in May 1995.[1]
Yoshiko Tamura	1	June 27, 1995	Sapporo, Hokkaidō	Defeated Misae Watanabe.[1]
Tomoko Miyaguchi	1	September 1, 1996	Tokyo	[1]
Title vacated in February 1997 due to injury.[1]
Momoe Nakanishi	1	March 23, 1997	Sendai, Miyagi	Defeated Nanae Takahashi.[1]
Title vacated in December 1997.[1]
Mika Nishio	1	September 15, 2002	Tokyo	Defeated Kaori Yoneyama and Rena Takase in a three-way round-robin tournament final.[1]
Rena Takase	1	December 22, 2002	Kawasaki, Kanagawa	[1]
Title retired in April 2005 when AJW closed.[1]

See also

• List of professional wrestling promotions in Japan
• List of women's wrestling promotions
• Professional wrestling in Japan

References

1. "All Japan Junior Title". wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved June 8, 2019.