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Strong Women's Championship
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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. The current champion is AZM, who is in her first reign.
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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 featured representatives from NJPW's partners All Elite Wrestling (AEW), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), and Stardom.[1] The tournament participants were 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 defense against Emi Sakura on the June 2, 2023 episode of AEW Rampage (taped on May 31, 2023).[6]
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As of May 15, 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 AZM the youngest at 22 years old. Mercedes Moné's reign is the longest at 313 days, while Nightingale's reign is the shortest at 45 days.
AZM is the reigning champion in her first reign. She won the title by defeating previous champion Mercedes Moné and Mina Shirakawa in a three-way match at Resurgence on May 9, 2025, in Ontario, California.
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