JWP Joshi Puroresu explained

JWP Joshi Puroresu
Acronym:JWP
Established:April 3, 1992
Folded:April 2, 2017
Style:Joshi puroresu
Location:Adachi, Tokyo
Founder:Masatoshi Yamamoto
Owner:Kiyoshi Shinozaki
Split:Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
Website:JWP-Produce.com

, also known as or simply JWP, was a Japanese joshi puroresu (women's professional wrestling) promotion, founded in 1992 as a splinter promotion of Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. Celebrating its 25th anniversary at the time of its folding in 2017, JWP was the oldest joshi puroresu promotion in Japan and its Openweight Championship was the oldest championship in all of joshi.[1] [2] Command Bolshoi, who had worked for the promotion since the beginning, served as the final president of JWP.[3] The promotion's slogan was "Pure Heart, Pure Wrestling".[4]

History

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 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. 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.[3] 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 not only trained a large number of wrestlers, but was also 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] JWP had a close working relationship with the Ice Ribbon promotion.[17] JWP also had 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] JWP has also participated in Chikara's premier tournament, the King of Trios, on two occasions, with Bolshoi, Kuragaki and Yoneyama participating in 2012,[20] [21] and Bolshoi, Hanako Nakamori and Manami Katsu in 2016.[22]

On February 8, 2017, JWP held a press conference to announce that the promotion would fold following its 25th anniversary event on April 2, 2017, after which all of its wrestlers would become freelancers. The group's contract with the JWP production company was set to expire in April and the two sides had not been able to come to terms on a new one. Bolshoi would remain in charge of Pure Dream Japanese: [[kabushiki gaisha]], which she had established the previous November and through which she would launch a new promotion on August 11, 2017. The new company would retain control of the Daily Sports Women's Tag Team and Princess of Pro-Wrestling Championships, while the JWP name and the JWP Openweight, Tag Team and Junior Championships all remained with the JWP production company. JWP's folding marked the end of the oldest women's professional wrestling promotion still in operation at that point in time.[23] [24] [25] The following month, it was announced that Bolshoi's new promotion would be called "Pure-J".[26] [27] JWP's final show in Korakuen Hall on April 2, 2017, was attended by 1,180 people, and featured appearances by several wrestlers from the promotion's past, including Azumi Hyuga, Cutie Suzuki, Dynamite Kansai, Hikari Fukuoka, Kayoko Haruyama and Mayumi Ozaki.[28] [29]

Final roster

Wrestlers

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Kazuki
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Yako Fujigasaki[33]

Notable alumni/guests

Staff

Championships

Singles

ChampionshipDate of entryFirst championDate retiredFinal championYears activeNotes
JWP Openweight ChampionshipDecember 2, 1992Dynamite KansaiApril 2, 2017Hanako Nakamori24The title was retired when JWP Joshi Puroresu goes out of business.
JWP Junior ChampionshipJune 16, 1995Candy OkutsuApril 2, 2017Yako Fujigasaki21The title was retired when JWP Joshi Puroresu goes out of business.
Princess of Pro-Wrestling ChampionshipJune 17, 2007Tyrannosaurus OkudaApril 2, 20179Originally created in JDStar,[34] the title was defended at JWP Joshi Puroresu with the closing of JDStar. On April 2, 2017, after the closing of JWP, Pure-J owned the rights of the title.[35]

Tag Team

ChampionshipDate of entryFirst championDate retiredFinal championYears activeNotes
Daily Sports Women's Tag Team ChampionshipAugust 3, 2008Harukura
April 2, 2017P-Ray-L
8On April 2, 2017, after the closing of JWP, Pure-J owned the rights of the title.
JWP Korakuen Tag Team ChampionshipApril 21, 1996Tomoko Kuzumi and Yuki Miyazaki1997Kanoko Motoya and Tomoko Kuzumi1The championship was deactivated for undocumented reasons. The exact date the title was deactivated is uncertain, somewhere in 2017 at or after September 20, where Kuzumi and Motoya won the title.
JWP Tag Team ChampionshipAugust 9, 1992 Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi OzakiApril 2, 2017Command Bolshoi and Leon24The title was retired when JWP Joshi Puroresu goes out of business.

Tournaments

TournamentLast winner(s)Last heldNotes
Makafushigi
February 21, 2016 Round-robin tournament, with a head-to-head final match between the top two teams.[36] Held in a single-elimination format in 2016.[37]
July 28, 2012 Single-elimination tournament
every other year for tag teams and every other for singles wrestlers.[38]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: JWP (Japan Women Project) . July 1, 2012 . Puroresu Representin'.
  2. Web site: Wed.update: Rock's return, Punk on Ice Cream bars, WWE back on NBC, Marquardt update, Ratings, doc . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715224558/http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/96-wwe/21348-wedupdate-rocks-return-punk-on-ice-cream-barswwe-back-on-nbc-marquardt-update-ratings-doc . Meltzer . Dave . Dave Meltzer . July 15, 2011 . July 13, 2011 . July 1, 2012 . . Hatred, the first American to win the JWP title (which is actually the longest running women's title in Japan)....
  3. Web site: Indy News #3: Chikara's JoshiMania in December . https://web.archive.org/web/20111122053156/http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1321466188 . Martin . Adam . November 22, 2011 . November 16, 2011 . July 1, 2012 . . Wrestleview.
  4. Web site: グッズ情報 JWP激闘史2008 ～Pure Heart Pure Wrestling～ . https://web.archive.org/web/20120210100853/http://jwpinfo.blog53.fc2.com/blog-entry-775.html . February 10, 2012 . April 3, 2009 . July 1, 2012 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . . ja.
  5. Web site: Lipstick, Dynamite and Glowworms, Part 13 . July 1, 2012 . Online World of Wrestling.
  6. Meltzer. Dave. Dave Meltzer. January 20, 1992. Jan 20 1992 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: 1991 year-end awards issue, Herd leaves WCW, more (back issue). Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California. 1083-9593. 11. The biggest news of the week in Japan is that after Sunday afternoon's show at Korakuen Hall, the JWP promotion announced it was folding. The death of the group, the least popular of all the promotions running full-time schedules in Japan, wasn't unexpected and had been rumored since late last year. It is expected that with the ending of the JWP group that two of its wrestlers, Rumi Kazama and Shinobu Kandori, were going to approach Hachiro Tanaka (who already owns SWS and PWF and apparently is going sponsor Antonio Inoki in some ways) about financing a new women's promotion which would employ most of the old JWP women. No word if All Japan Women will hire any of the JWP wrestlers who are now out of wrestling work..
  7. Meltzer. Dave. Dave Meltzer. January 27, 1992. Jan 27 1992 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: Flair wins Royal Rumble, more awards, WCW courts Bret (back issue). Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California. 1083-9593. 15. JWP finishing up its final tour before it goes out of business drew 1,132 on 1/18 in Hiroshima as Pink Cadillac & Cutie Suzuki beat three girls in a handicap match and Harley Saito & Devil Masami beat Eagle Sawai & Dynamite Kansai..
  8. Meltzer. Dave. Dave Meltzer. March 30, 1992. Mar 30 1992 Observer Newsletter: No buzz for 92 Mania, WWE steroid symposium, Donahue fallout, more (back issue). Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California. 1083-9593. 8. JWP, after closing down for re-financing, starts back in business on 4/3 in Tokyo's Korakuen Hall headlined by Dynamite Kansai & Hikari Fukuoka vs. Cutie Suzuki & Mayumi Ozaki and they'll be back 4/11 in the same building with Kansai vs. Plum Mariko in the main event..
  9. Meltzer. Dave. Dave Meltzer. May 4, 1992. May 4, 1992 Observer Newsletter: NWA Title tourney, Luger lawsuit, early Russo heat, Wrestlemarinpiad (back issue). Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California. 1083-9593. 9–10. Next major JWP show is 5/23 in Yashio. The new JWP consists of ten women and it's like PWF and UWFI where they pretty much have the same match-ups all the time. Of the ten, the major names are Devil Masami, Cutie Suzuki, Plum Mariko and Dynamite Kansai. The other three major names from the old JWP, Harley Saito, Rumi Kazama and Shinobu Kandori are trying to start up their own company which is tentatively scheduled to open in June..
  10. Meltzer. Dave. Dave Meltzer. July 26, 1993. July 26, 1993 Observer Newsletter: Beach Blast, WWF and WCW booking discussions, tons more (back issue). Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, California. 1083-9593. 13. JWP's first television show aired on WOWOW channel on 7/10 featuring a hot 27:00 main event with Dynamite Kansai & Plum Mariko vs. Devil Masami & Cutie Suzuki that was in the four-star range..
  11. Web site: JWP女子プロレス ピュア・レッスル・クイーンズ . July 28, 2012 . Super-Famicom.jp . ja.
  12. Web site: 5 Yrs Ago: Zavisa ranks the top Japanese promotions (part two) . Zavisa . Chris . January 31, 1998 . July 1, 2012 . Pro Wrestling Torch.
  13. Web site: http://ameblo.jp/ringstars/day-20110107.html . ja:１月７日更新ニュース . January 7, 2011 . July 1, 2012 . Ringstars . . ja.
  14. Web site: http://jwpinfo.blog53.fc2.com/blog-entry-507.html . ja:デイリースポーツ創刊６０周年記念・女子プロレス「サマードリーム２００８」チケット発売のお知らせ . March 12, 2008 . July 1, 2012 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . . ja.
  15. Web site: http://jwpinfo.blog53.fc2.com/blog-entry-617.html . ja:(結果)8月3日（日）デイリースポーツ創刊60周年記念大会「サマードリーム2008」東京大会 . August 4, 2008 . July 1, 2012 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . . ja . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120211022018/http://jwpinfo.blog53.fc2.com/blog-entry-617.html . February 11, 2012 .
  16. Web site: http://jwpinfo.blog53.fc2.com/blog-category-6.html . ja:選手紹介 . July 1, 2012 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . . ja.
  17. Web site: http://ice-ribbon.ne07.jp/page/newsData_439.html . ja:【大会情報】7/28横浜大会は『J Ribbon-2012夏女決定ﾄｰﾅﾒﾝﾄ』!! . June 19, 2012 . July 1, 2012 . . ja.
  18. Web site: Wed. update: Record audience for Dos Santos vs. Cain; Ratings, Spike adding new TV show; TNA cancel . https://web.archive.org/web/20111119232725/http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/96-wwe/23019-wed-update-record-audience-for-dos-santos-vs-cain-ratings-spike-adding-new-tv-show-tna-cancel . Meltzer . Dave . Dave Meltzer . November 19, 2011 . November 16, 2011 . July 3, 2012 . Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
  19. Web site: JoshiMania tonight in Phily with Toys for Tots . https://web.archive.org/web/20111206215835/http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1322823060 . Magee . Bob . December 6, 2011 . December 2, 2011 . July 3, 2012 . Wrestleview.
  20. Web site: Radican's DVD Review Series - "Chikara 2012 King of Trios Night 1" 9/14: Team ROH vs. Faces of Pain, Team WWF . Radican . Sean . October 8, 2012 . November 18, 2017 . Pro Wrestling Torch.
  21. Web site: 9/15 Chikara "King of Trios: Night 2" Results: Easton, PA . https://web.archive.org/web/20120919191838/http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1347767033 . Namako . Jason . September 19, 2012 . September 15, 2012 . September 16, 2012 . Wrestleview.
  22. Web site: 9/2-9/4 Chikara King of Trios Results – three-night tournament featuring CWC & former WWF/E Women’s Teams . September 5, 2016 . September 5, 2016 . Pro Wrestling Torch.
  23. Web site: https://www.daily.co.jp/ring/2017/02/08/0009899091.shtml . ja:日本最古の女子プロ団体ＪＷＰの全選手が独立、新団体旗揚げへ . February 8, 2017 . February 8, 2017 . Daily Sports Online . . ja.
  24. Web site: http://battle-news.com/?p=27316 . ja:JWPから全選手が独立し新団体を8月に旗揚げ！JWPが今後開催されるかは未定 . February 8, 2017 . February 8, 2017 . Battle News . ja.
  25. Web site: http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/prores/womens_prores/649904/ . ja:【ＪＷＰ】４・２「２５周年大会」を最後に全選手独立 . February 9, 2017 . February 9, 2017 . . ja.
  26. Web site: http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/prores/womens_prores/667934/ . ja:JWPから「Pure-J」へ　8・11後楽園大会で旗揚げ . March 28, 2017 . March 28, 2017 . . ja.
  27. Web site: https://www.daily.co.jp/ring/2017/03/28/0010043301.shtml . ja:女子プロレス「JWP」、新団体名「Pure-J」を発表 . March 28, 2017 . March 28, 2017 . Daily Sports Online . . ja.
  28. Web site: http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/prores/womens_prores/670105/ . ja:「ＪＷＰ」２５年の歴史に幕　尾崎魔弓らＯＧも別れ . April 2, 2017 . April 2, 2017 . . ja.
  29. Web site: https://www.daily.co.jp/ring/2017/04/02/0010059643.shtml . ja:ＪＷＰが２５周年大会で日本最古の歴史に幕　Ｃ鈴木、Ｄ関西、福岡晶らＯＧ集結 . April 2, 2017 . April 2, 2017 . Daily Sports Online . . ja.
  30. Web site: http://jwpinfo.blog53.fc2.com/blog-category-6.html . https://web.archive.org/web/20130709180425/http://jwpinfo.blog53.fc2.com/blog-category-6.html . ja:選手紹介 . July 9, 2013 . April 4, 2013 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . . ja . dead .
  31. Web site: http://jwp-produce.com/report/ . https://web.archive.org/web/20160717102633/http://jwp-produce.com/report/ . ja:【試合結果】７月１７日（日）両国・ＫＦＣホール　１３時 . July 17, 2016 . July 17, 2016 . August 3, 2016 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . ja.
  32. Web site: http://jwp-produce.com/fighters/ . https://web.archive.org/web/20160808143745/http://jwp-produce.com/fighters/ . ja:選手紹介 . August 8, 2016 . August 3, 2016 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . ja . dead .
  33. Web site: http://jwpinfo.blog53.fc2.com/blog-category-6.html . https://web.archive.org/web/20141020144122/http://jwpinfo.blog53.fc2.com/blog-category-6.html . ja:選手紹介 . October 20, 2014 . January 1, 2014 . November 12, 2014 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . . ja.
  34. Web site: 格闘美～Future～ . https://web.archive.org/web/20070424135707/http://www.jdstar.co.jp/jd_star/schedule_result/report/back_number/report06_0624.html . April 24, 2007 . July 1, 2012 . . Japanese.
  35. Web site: https://www.daily.co.jp/ring/2017/02/08/0009899091.shtml . ja:日本最古の女子プロ団体ＪＷＰの全選手が独立、新団体旗揚げへ . February 8, 2017 . February 8, 2017 . Daily Sports Online . . Japanese.
  36. Web site: 2015.3.22 神奈川・ラゾーナ川崎クラブソル 13時半　試合 . March 24, 2015 . March 25, 2015 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . . ja.
  37. Web site: http://jwp-produce.com/report/ . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303005845/http://jwp-produce.com/report/ . ja:【試合結果】２月２１日（日）ラゾーナ川崎プラザソル 13:30 . March 3, 2016 . February 21, 2016 . February 21, 2016 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . ja . dead .
  38. Web site: http://jwpinfo.blog53.fc2.com/blog-entry-2256.html . ja:(結果)７月２８日（土）横浜ラジアントホール　. July 28, 2012 . July 28, 2012 . JWP Joshi Puroresu . . ja.

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