Oz Academy Openweight Championship
The Oz Academy Openweight Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the Oz Academy promotion. The reigning champion is referred to as the "Wizard of Oz".[1] The championship, which is situated at the top of Oz Academy's championship hierarchy, was introduced on March 10, 2007, when Aja Kong defeated Chikayo Nagashima in the finals of a tournament to become the inaugural champion.[2]
Oz Academy Openweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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Akino, two-time and record longest-reigning Oz Academy Openweight Champion | |||||||||||||||||||
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Promotion | Oz Academy | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | October 23, 2006[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Mayumi Ozaki | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | April 14, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been twenty-two reigns shared among fifteen different wrestlers. Hikaru Shida is the current champion in her first reign.
Reigns
Aja Kong was the first champion in the title's history.[2] She also holds the records for most reigns, with three.[2][3][4] Akino holds the record for the longest reign, at 537 days, achieved on her first reign. Mio Shirai's only reign of four hours and two minutes[7] is the shortest in the title's history. Overall, there have been twenty-three reigns shared among fifteen different wrestlers. Mayumi Ozaki is the current champion in her third reign.
Reigns
No. | Overall reign number |
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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. | ||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
1 | Aja Kong | March 10, 2007 | Queen Rebirth | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 309 | 1[8] | Kong defeated Chikayo Nagashima in the finals of a five-woman tournament to become the inaugural champion. | [2] |
2 | Carlos Amano | January 13, 2008 | The Wizard of OZ 2008 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 364 | 2[9] | [8] | |
3 | Mayumi Ozaki | January 11, 2009 | The Wizard of OZ 2009 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 42 | 2[10] | [9] | |
4 | Dynamite Kansai | February 22, 2009 | The Country of OZ 2009 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 175 | 0[3] | [11] | |
5 | Aja Kong | August 16, 2009 | Plum Hanasaku ~ Country of OZ 2009 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 36 | 0[12] | [3] | |
6 | Manami Toyota | September 21, 2009 | OZ-Power is Everything - night 1 | Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan | 1 | 93 | 0[13] | [12] | |
7 | Carlos Amano | December 23, 2009 | here is No Christmas in the Country of OZ! | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 200 | 1[14] | [13] | |
8 | Kaoru | July 11, 2010 | Summer Factor | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 273 | 4[4] | [14] | |
— | Vacated | April 10, 2011 | — | — | — | — | — | The championship was vacated, when Kaoru suffered an injury and was unable to continue a three-way street fight against Aja Kong and Mayumi Ozaki, forcing the match to be ended in a no contest. | [4] |
9 | Aja Kong | April 10, 2011 | One Night in Heaven | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 19 | 0[15] | Kong defeated Mayumi Ozaki to win the vacant championship. | [4] |
10 | Ran YuYu | April 29, 2011 | Heavenly Days in Osaka | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 86 | 0[16] | [15] | |
11 | Dynamite Kansai | July 24, 2011 | Gravity | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 28 | 0[17] | [16] | |
12 | Mayumi Ozaki | August 21, 2011 | Plum Hanasaku ~ Country of OZ 2011 - night 2: 15th Anniversary ~ Yokohama Dreams Park | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | 2 | 217 | 0[18] | This was an Four-way elimination match, also involving Aja Kong and Shinobu Kandori. | [17] |
13 | Chikayo Nagashima | March 25, 2012 | A Kingdom of the Chaos | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 395 | 2[19] | This was a Dress Up Wild Fight 30-minute Time of the Trial match. | [18] |
14 | Akino | April 24, 2013 | Wednesdays Showdown | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 537 | 7[20] | [19] | |
15 | Tsubasa Kuragaki | October 13, 2014 | No Answer | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 216 | 2[21] | [22] | |
16 | Akino | May 17, 2015 | Reincarnation - night 2 | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 21 | 0[23] | [21] | |
17 | Mio Shirai | June 7, 2015 | Focus - night 1 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | <1 | 0 | [23] | |
— | Vacated | June 7, 2015 | Ozabun Spin-off | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Mio Shirai vacated the championship due to losing to Kaho Kobayashi in a non-title match. | [7][24] |
18 | Sonoko Kato | August 23, 2015 | Plum Hanasaku ~ Country Of OZ 2015: Yokohama Dreams Park #3 | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | 1 | 245 | 5[25] | Kato defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto in a Last Woman Standing match to win the vacant championship. The match started off as a six-woman elimination tag team match, where Kato, Akino and Tsubasa Kuragaki faced Matsumoto, Arisa Nakajima and Hikaru Shida. | [23] |
— | Vacated | April 24, 2016 | The Artist | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Kato was stripped of the championship after her title defense against Hiroyo Matsumoto ended in a no contest. | [25] |
19 | Sonoko Kato | July 18, 2016 | Aja Kong 30th Anniversary ~ Summer Jumbo Kotobuki | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 118 | 1[26] | Kato defeated Mayumi Ozaki in a No Holds Barred Hardcore match to win the vacant championship. | [27] |
20 | Hiroyo Matsumoto | November 13, 2016 | OZ Academy 20th Anniversary ~ Yokohama Dreams Park DK | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | 1 | 350 | 3[28] | [26] | |
21 | Yoshiko | October 29, 2017 | Yokohama Undersea Unexplored Expedition | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | 1 | 217 | 4 | [28] | |
22 | Hikaru Shida | June 3, 2018 | Rude in June | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 315 | 2 | [29] | |
23 | Mayumi Ozaki | April 14, 2019 | It is the Dawn of the Era | Tokyo, Japan | 3 | 488+ | 2 | [30] |
Combined reigns
As of August 14, 2020.
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
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1 | Mayumi Ozaki † | 3 | 4 | 747+ |
2 | Carlos Amano | 2 | 3 | 564 |
3 | Akino | 2 | 7 | 558 |
4 | Chikayo Nagashima | 1 | 2 | 395 |
5 | Aja Kong | 3 | 1 | 364 |
6 | Sonoko Kato | 2 | 6 | 363 |
7 | Hiroyo Matsumoto | 1 | 3 | 350 |
8 | Hikaru Shida | 1 | 2 | 315 |
9 | Kaoru | 1 | 4 | 273 |
10 | Yoshiko | 1 | 4 | 217 |
11 | Tsubasa Kuragaki | 1 | 2 | 216 |
12 | Dynamite Kansai | 2 | 0 | 203 |
13 | Manami Toyota | 1 | 0 | 93 |
14 | Ran YuYu | 1 | 0 | 86 |
15 | Mio Shirai | 1 | 0 | <1 |
See also
References
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- Ozabun Spin-off~中川ともか、最後の1カウントを打ちに来たよ~. Pro Wrestling Wave (in Japanese). Retrieved June 8, 2015.
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