IW19 Championship

IW19 Championship
File:Tsukushi IW19 Champion.jpg Tsukushi, the inaugural and record two-time IW19 Champion, with the title belt in January 2012
Details
Date established	February 16, 2011
Date retired	July 14, 2013
Promotion	Ice Ribbon
Other name(s)
Internet Single Championship
Statistics First champion(s) Tsukushi Final champion(s) Tsukasa Fujimoto Most reigns Kurumi, Tsukasa Fujimoto and Tsukushi (2 reigns) Longest reign Hamuko Hoshi (246 days) Shortest reign Hikari Minami (5 days) Oldest winner Hamuko Hoshi (30 years, 0 days) Youngest winner Kurumi (11 years, 168 days) Heaviest champion Hamuko Hoshi (68 kg (150 lb)) Lightest champion Tsukushi (40 kg (88 lb))

The Internet Wrestling 19 (IW19) Championship was a professional wrestling championship owned by the Ice Ribbon promotion. The championship was introduced on the March 22, 2011, episode of Ice Ribbon's 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling (19時女子プロレス, Jūkyū-ji Joshi Puroresu) Ustream program, where Tsukushi defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto in the finals of a tournament to become the inaugural champion. Championship matches had a 19-minute time limit, and, unlike with all other Ice Ribbon championships, in the event of a time limit draw, the champion retained the title. The title was originally defended exclusively on the 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling program.

Originally, 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling was kept separate from Ice Ribbon, but on August 26, 2011, the program was brought under the Ice Ribbon banner and the IW19 Championship recognized as an Ice Ribbon championship. With the move, the title underwent some changes, including an addition of a nineteen-year age limit and a three-year experience limit and the abolishment of a rule, where a champion must defend the title at least once every four weeks. However, in January 2012, the age and experience limits were seemingly abandoned, when Hamuko Hoshi, 29 years old, Lady Afrodita, 21 years old, Maki Narumiya, 25 years old, Sayaka Obihiro, 25 years old, Tomoki Yagami, 29 years old, and Tsukasa Fujimoto, 28 years old, all entered a number one contender's tournament. During the next ten months, the IW19 Championship was defended once every ten weeks against the winner of an eight woman single-elimination tournament. On January 7, 2013, Ice Ribbon officially put 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling on hiatus as it considered the future of the program, following the departure of its original operator, Sayaka Obihiro. On May 18, Ice Ribbon announced a 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling event for June 22, which would see the first defense of the IW19 Championship in six months. This episode would air through Niconico as opposed to Ustream. At the end of the June 22 broadcast, Ice Ribbon officially announced the ending of the 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling program, although the promotion looked to hold future events on Niconico. As a result, the IW19 Championship was retired on July 14, 2013, when IW19 Champion Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated ICE×60 Champion Tsukushi in a championship unification match.

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There were ten reigns shared among seven different wrestlers. Tsukasa Fujimoto was the final champion in the title's history.

Reigns

Tsukushi was the first champion in the title's history. Tsukasa Fujimoto was the final champion in the title's history. The two and Kurumi had the most reigns as champion, with two each. Hamuko Hoshi had the longest reign in the title's history at 246 days, while Hikari Minami's reign of five days was the shortest in the title's history. Overall, there were ten reigns shared among seven different wrestlers.

Title history

#	Order in reign history
Reign	The reign number for the specific wrestler listed
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title was won
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	Event	Successful defenses	Notes	Ref(s)
1	Tsukushi	1	March 22, 2011		Warabi	19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling 66	3	Tsukushi defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto in the finals of a four woman tournament to become the inaugural champion.
2	Hikari Minami	1	May 27, 2011		Warabi	19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling 73	0
3	Chii Tomiya	1	June 1, 2011		Warabi	Ice Ribbon 272: 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling 1st Anniversary Show	2
—	Vacated	—	July 22, 2011	—	Warabi	19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling 80	—	Tomiya voluntarily vacated the title, after wrestling Makoto to a time limit draw in a title defense.
4	Kurumi	1	September 16, 2011		Warabi	19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling 87	1	Kurumi defeated Tsukushi in the finals of a four woman tournament to win the vacant title.
5	Tsukushi	2	December 2, 2011		Warabi	19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling 96	0
6	Kurumi	2	March 23, 2012		Warabi	19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling 109	0
7	Tsukasa Fujimoto	1	June 1, 2012		Warabi	19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling 118: 2nd Anniversary Show	0
8	Aki Shizuku	1	August 10, 2012		Warabi	19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling 127	0
9	Hamuko Hoshi	1	October 19, 2012		Warabi	19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling 136	1
10	Tsukasa Fujimoto	2	June 22, 2013		Nagoya	Ice Ribbon Nagoya Event	1
—	Retired	—	July 14, 2013	—	Tokyo	Ice Ribbon Shinjuku Tournament	—	Fujimoto defeated Tsukushi in a championship unification match to unify the title with the ICE×60 Championship.

List of combined reigns

Rank	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined defenses	Combined days
1	Hamuko Hoshi	1	1	246
2	Tsukushi	2	3	178
3	Kurumi	2	1	147
4	Tsukasa Fujimoto	2	1	92
5	Aki Shizuku	1	0	70
6	Chii Tomiya	1	2	47
7	Hikari Minami	1	0	5

External links

• Title history at IceRibbon.com
• 19Pro.ne07.jp