Queen of Arsion Championship
The Queen of Arsion Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the Hyper Visual Fighting Arsion promotion. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title was won as a result of a scripted match. The championship, which was situated at the top of Arsion's championship hierarchy, was introduced on December 18, 1998, when Mariko Yoshida defeated Candy Okutsu to become the inaugural champion.[1][2] The two contestants had earlier in the year won separate tournaments to qualify for the match.[5][6] During the next four and a half years, there were eight reigns shared among six different wrestlers. The title was retired on August 24, 2003, two months after the folding of Arsion, when Yoshida defeated Mima Shimoda to become the final champion.[1][2]
Queen of Arsion Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Mariko Yoshida, who held the Queen of Arsion Championship three times | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Promotion | Hyper Visual Fighting Arsion | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date established | December 18, 1998[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date retired | August 24, 2003[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Reigns
Mariko Yoshida was the first champion in the title's history.[1][2] She also holds the records for most reigns, with three,[1][2] and for the shortest reign in the title's history at less than one day. Aja Kong holds the record for the longest reign in the title's history at 485 days. Overall, there were eight reigns shared among six different wrestlers.[1][2]
Title history
# | Order in reign history |
Reign | The reign number for the specific wrestler listed |
Successful defenses | The number of successful defenses the champion had during her reign |
— | Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign |
+ | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |
# | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Successful defenses |
Notes | Ref(s) |
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1 | Mariko Yoshida | 1 | December 18, 1998 | 231 | Tokyo | 4[7] | Yoshida, winner of the Zion '98 tournament, defeated Candy Okutsu, winner of the Ars '98 tournament, in a decision match to become the inaugural champion. | [1][2][8] |
2 | Aja Kong | 1 | August 6, 1999 | 485 | Tokyo | 7[7] | [1][2] | |
3 | Ayako Hamada | 1 | December 3, 2000 | 357 | Tokyo | 5[7] | [1][2] [9][10] | |
4 | Lioness Asuka | 1 | November 25, 2001 | 167 | Chiba | 5[7] | [1][2] [11] | |
5 | Michiko Omukai | 1 | May 11, 2002 | 276 | Tokyo | 2[12] | [1][2] [13][14] | |
— | Vacated | — | February 11, 2003 | — | — | — | Title vacated, when Ohmukai left Hyper Visual Fighting Arsion. | [1][2] |
6 | Mariko Yoshida | 2 | April 29, 2003 | 54 | Tokyo | 0[12] | Yoshida defeated Rie Tamada to win a seven-way elimination match for the vacant title. | [1][2] |
7 | Mima Shimoda | 1 | June 22, 2003 | 63 | Tokyo | 0[12] | Shimoda defeated Yoshida at Hyper Visual Fighting Arsion's last ever event to win the title. | [1][2][15] |
8 | Mariko Yoshida | 3 | August 24, 2003 | 0 | Tokyo | 0[12] | This was an eight-woman elimination tag team match, where Yoshida, Ai Fujita, Akino and Rie Tamada faced Shimoda, Mirai, Sachie Abe and Yumiko Hotta. | [1][2] |
— | Retired | — | August 24, 2003 | — | — | — | Yoshida retired the title immediately after winning it. | [1] |
Combined reigns
Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
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1 | Aja Kong | 1 | 7 | 485 |
2 | Ayako Hamada | 1 | 5 | 357 |
3 | Mariko Yoshida | 3 | 4 | 285 |
4 | Michiko Ohmukai | 1 | 2 | 276 |
5 | Lioness Asuka | 1 | 5 | 167 |
6 | Mima Shimoda | 1 | 0 | 63 |
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