JWP Joshi Puroresu

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JWP Joshi Puroresu
Acronym JWP
Founded April 3, 1992
Style Joshi puroresu
Headquarters Adachi, Tokyo[1]
Founder(s) Masatoshi Yamamoto
Owner(s) Kiyoshi Shinozaki
Website JWP-Produce.com

JWP Joshi Puroresu (JWP女子プロレス JWP Joshi Puroresu?), also known as JWP Project (JWPプロジェクト JWP Purojekuto?) or simply JWP, is a Japanese joshi puroresu or female professional wrestling promotion, founded in 1992 as a splinter promotion of Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2012, JWP is the oldest joshi puroresu promotion in Japan and its Openweight Championship is the oldest championship in all of joshi.[2][3] Command Bolshoi, who has worked for the promotion since the beginning, serves as the current president of JWP.[4] The promotion's slogan is "Pure Heart, Pure Wrestling".[1]

History

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Current JWP president, Command Bolshoi

JWP Joshi Puroresu was founded in early 1992, when Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP), ravaged by internal politics, split up into two camps, dubbed the "shooters" and the "entertainers",[5] and eventually folded on January 18.[6][7] The "shooter" side went on to form Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling (LLPW), while the "entertainer" side, led by Jackie Sato and financed by Masatoshi Yamamoto, founded JWP Project, later renamed JWP Joshi Puroresu, which held its first event on April 3, 1992.[5][8][9] Already the following year, JWP managed to sign a television deal with the WOWOW channel.[10] In 1994, Jaleco published the JWP Joshi Pro Wrestling: Pure Wrestle Queens (JWP女子プロレス ピュア・レッスル・クイーンズ JWP Joshi Puroresu Pyua Ressuru Kuīnzu?) video game for the Super Famicom game console.[11]

JWP's goal from the start was to rival All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), the top joshi puroresu promotion in the country, but always remained in its shadow.[12] After closing the gap between the two promotions in 1996, JWP was hit hard in 1997, when two of its top workers, Candy Okutsu and Hiromi Yagi retired, Dynamite Kansai was sidelined with health problems and finally, when, on August 16, another top worker, Plum Mariko, died in the ring during one of its events.[12] These were followed by Jackie Sato's death from stomach cancer on August 9, 1999.[5] After a co-promoted event with AJW in February 2000 turned out to be a failure, JWP closed its doors at the end of the year.[5] However, the promotion returned just a few months later, now under new management, headed by wrestler Command Bolshoi.[4] JWP continued working with former rival promotion AJW until the promotion folded in April 2005. JWP then adopted AJW's premier wrestling tournament, Tag League the Best,[13] and also inherited the promotion's old sponsor, the Daily Sports newspaper, which led to JWP most notably introducing the Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Championship in August 2008.[14][15]

JWP has not only trained a large number of wrestlers, but has also been able to recruit wrestlers from other folding joshi puroresu promotions, including Arisa Nakajima, Leon and Sachie Abe from AtoZ, Kazuki from JDStar and Hanako Nakamori and Tomoko Morii from Ito Dojo, while also employing freelancers such as Emi Sakura, Kana and Misaki Ohata.[16] Currently, JWP has a close working relationship with the Ice Ribbon promotion.[17] JWP also has a relationship with American promotion Chikara, with Hanako Nakamori, Tsubasa Kuragaki and Kaori Yoneyama, a replacement for an injured Command Bolshoi, representing the promotion at Chikara's JoshiMania weekend in December 2011.[18][19] Bolshoi, Kuragaki and Yoneyama also represented JWP in Chikara's 2012 King of Trios tournament in September 2012.[20][21][22]

Roster

Wrestlers

Ring name Real name Notes
Arisa Nakajima Arisa Nakajima[23] JWP Openweight Champion
Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Champion
JWP Tag Team Champion
Command Bolshoi Unknown[23]
Eri Eriko Susa[24] Inactive; brain hemorrhage
Hanako Nakamori Hanako Kobayashi[23]
Kazuki Kazuko Fujiwara[23]
Leon Rena Takase[23]
Manami Katsu Manami Katsu[23]
Morii Tomoko Morii[23] Inactive; arm injury
Rabbit Miu Miyuki Shioda[23]
Rino Orikono Rino Orikono Trainee; yet to debut[25]
Rydeen Hagane Noriko Matsumoto[23] JWP Junior Champion
Princess of Pro-Wrestling Champion
Tsukasa Fujimoto Tsukasa Fujimoto Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Champion
JWP Tag Team Champion
Ice Ribbon
Yako Fujigasaki Yako Fujigasaki[26]
Yua Hayashi Yua Hayashi[26]

Notable alumni

Staff

  • Tessy Sugo (referee)

Championships

Current

Championship Current champion(s) Reign Date won Days held Previous champion(s)
JWP Openweight Championship Arisa Nakajima 3 April 3, 2016 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Mayumi Ozaki
JWP Tag Team Championship Best Friends
(Arisa Nakajima and Tsukasa Fujimoto)		 1 December 27, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Jumonji Sisters
(Dash Chisako and Sendai Sachiko)
Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Championship
JWP Junior and Princess of Pro-Wrestling Championships Rydeen Hagane 2 September 23, 2015 Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. Kaho Kobayashi

Defunct

Championship Final champion(s) Date won
JWP Korakuen Tag Team Championship Kanako Motoya and Tomoko Kuzumi September 20, 1997

Tournaments

Tournament Last winner(s) Last held Notes
JWP Tag League the Best /
JWP Tag Tournament		 Makafushigi
(Hanako Nakamori and Makoto)		 February 21, 2016 Round-robin tournament, with a head-to-head final match between the top two teams.[27] Held in a single-elimination format in 2016.[28]
Natsu Onna Kettei Tournament Hanako Nakamori and Maki Narumiya July 28, 2012 Single-elimination tournament; every other year for tag teams and every other for singles wrestlers.[29]

References

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