Smash Diva Championship
Professional wrestling women's championship
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The Smash Diva Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship, owned by the Japanese Smash promotion. Championship reigns were determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors were involved in scripted rivalries. These narratives created feuds between the various competitors, which cast them as villains and heroines.
| Smash Diva Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Smash | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | September 8, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | March 14, 2012[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Title history
The tournament to crown the inaugural champion was held over three months and four events. The first round was held over two events, Smash.18 and Smash.19 on June 9 and July 15, 2011, with the semis on Smash.20 on August 11, 2011, and the final on Smash.21 on September 8, 2011.
Inaugural tournament
| Round one (Smash.18–19) | Semifinals (Smash.20) | Finals (Smash.21) | ||||||||||||
| Makoto | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Chii Tomiya | 3:59[2] | |||||||||||||
| Makoto | 13:10[3] | |||||||||||||
| Serena | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Serena | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Tomoka Nakagawa | 11:24[2] | |||||||||||||
| Serena | 12:05[4] | |||||||||||||
| Kana | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Syuri | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Hikaru Shida | 11:24[5] | |||||||||||||
| Syuri | 13:25[3] | |||||||||||||
| Kana | Sub | |||||||||||||
| Kana | Sub | |||||||||||||
| Lin "Bitch" Byron | 8:51[5] | |||||||||||||
Reigns
Over the championship's six-month history, there have been four reigns between three champions. Kana was the inaugural champions, and holds the record for most reigns at two. Syuri was the last champion. Kana's first reign was the longest at 77 days, while Syuri's reign was the shortest at 24 days. Kana was the oldest champion at 30 years old, while Syuri is the youngest at 23 years old.
| No. | Overall reign number |
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| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Kana | September 8, 2011 | Smash.21 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 77 | 0 | Defeated Serena in the finals of an eight-woman single-elimination tournament to become the inaugural champion. | [4] |
| 2 | Tomoka Nakagawa | November 24, 2011 | Smash.23 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 56 | 0 | [6] | |
| 3 | Kana | January 19, 2012 | We Are Smash | Tokyo, Japan | 2 | 31 | 0 | [7] | |
| 4 | Syuri | February 19, 2012 | Smash.25 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 24 | 0 | [8] | |
| — | Deactivated | March 14, 2012 | Smash.Final | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | — | Syuri retired the championship during Smash's final event. | [1] |
Combined reigns
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
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| 1 | Kana | 2 | 0 | 108 |
| 2 | Tomoka Nakagawa | 1 | 0 | 56 |
| 3 | Syuri | 1 | 0 | 24 |