WCW Women's Cruiserweight Championship

WCW Women's Cruiserweight Championship
Details
Promotion World Championship Wrestling
GAEA Japan
Date established April 7, 1997
Date retired April 3, 1998

The World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Women's Cruiserweight Championship was a short-lived singles women's professional wrestling championship in World Championship Wrestling for the smaller women. It was created as a joint venture between WCW and GAEA Japan. The weight limit for the women's cruiserweight division was 130 lb (as announced on WCW television). The first champion was crowned in a four-woman tournament that began on an episode of WCW Monday Nitro on March 31, 1997 and concluded on April 7, 1997.[1] Since the tournament final was only shown as a bonus match on WCW Main Event, and the results were never mentioned on WCW television again, it is speculated that the title was created solely to be used by the GAEA promotion in Japan.[2] In fact, the title was defended and changed hands twice in Japan until being abandoned in late 1998.

Title history

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
  1   Toshie Uematsu   April 7, 1997   WCW Main Event Huntsville, Alabama   1   103 Defeated Malia Hosaka in a tournament final to determine the first WCW Women's Cruiserweight Champion. [2]
  2   Yoshiko Tamura   July 19, 1997   The Dream & Future ~ 2nd Jr. All Stars Yokohama, Japan   1   63 [3][3]
  3   Sugar Sato   September 20, 1997   GAEA Double Destiny Kawasaki, Japan   1   195
— Deactivated   April 3, 1998   GAEA Full Bloom Yamaguchi, Japan — —

See also

References

  1. ↑ "WCW Title Tournaments". Retrieved 2006-06-16.
  2. 1 2 "This Week in the WCW for April 7, 1997". Retrieved 2007-06-16.
  3. 1 2 "PUROLOVE.com - Gaea Japan 1997 results (translated from original German)". Retrieved 2012-07-20.
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