Wave Single Championship

The Wave Single Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the Pro Wrestling Wave promotion. The title is nicknamed and more commonly referred to as the "Regina di Wave",[6] which is Italian for "Queen of Wave".[1] The championship, which is situated at the top of Pro Wrestling Wave's championship hierarchy, was first announced on December 5, 2012.[1] The inaugural champion was crowned on March 17, 2013, when Yumi Ohka defeated Kana in the finals of a five-woman tournament.[3]

Wave Single Championship
Yumi Ohka, inaugural and longest-reigning Wave Single Champion
Details
PromotionPro Wrestling Wave
Date establishedDecember 5, 2012[1]
Current champion(s)Sakura Hirota
Date wonDecember 27, 2020[2]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been sixteen reigns shared among eleven wrestlers. Sakura Hirota is the current champion in her first reign.[2]

History

On December 5, 2012, Pro Wrestling Wave's founder and booker Gami announced the creation of the Wave Single Championship.[1] Prior to the announcement, Wave, which was founded in August 2007, had no singles championships; instead the annual Catch the Wave tournament served as the promotion's top singles achievement.

Regina di Wave tournament

Gami then announced that the inaugural champion would be determined in a four-woman single-elimination "Regina di Wave" tournament, which would include three former winners of Catch the Wave; Ayumi Kurihara (winner of the 2012 tournament), Kana (2011) and Yumi Ohka (2009), and the winner of a one-night Zan-1 tournament, a three-round tournament, which included a battle royal, a rock-paper-scissors round and a fan vote. Gami herself was also a former Catch the Wave winner from 2010, but decided not to put herself in the title tournament.[1] On December 16, Misaki Ohata won the Zan-1 tournament to earn the fourth and final spot in the title tournament.[7][8] On January 23, 2013, a random draw decided that in the first round of the tournament on February 17, Ayumi Kurihara would face Kana, while Misaki Ohata would face Yumi Ohka.[9][10] The finals of the tournament were set to take place on March 17.[8] On February 16, Wave announced that Kurihara had suffered a nasal and orbital floor fracture and would be forced to pull out of the tournament.[11][12] She would be replaced by Mio Shirai, who had finished second in the Zan-1 tournament.[12] In the following day's semifinal matches, Kana defeated Shirai, while Ohka defeated Ohata. However, it was announced that if Kurihara was able to return to the ring by March 17, she would get to wrestle Kana for a spot in the finals.[13][14][15][16] On March 7, Kurihara announced that she was going to make her return for the match against Kana. In order to prevent Ohka from having the advantage of having to wrestle only one match on March 17, she was put in a non-tournament match against Gami.[17] On March 17, Kana defeated Kurihara to hold on to her spot in the finals of the tournament.[3] Later that same day, Ohka defeated Kana in the finals to win the tournament and become the inaugural Wave Single Champion.[3][18][19]

  Semifinal
(February 17, 2013)		 Semifinals
(February 17, 2013
March 17, 2013)		 Finals
(March 17, 2013)
                     
 
  Yumi Ohka Pin  
    Misaki Ohata 20:17[16]  
   
    Yumi Ohka Pin
  Kana 15:04[3]
   
 
Ayumi Kurihara Sub
    Kana 14:16[3]  
Kana Sub
  Mio Shirai 11:26[16]  

Title history
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign DaysDefenses
1 Yumi Ohka March 17, 2013 Sunday Wave Vol. 14 Tokyo, Japan 1 5256[20] Ohka defeated Kana in the finals of a five-woman tournament to become the inaugural champion. [3]
2 Hikaru Shida August 24, 2014 Happy Anniversary Wave: Seven Tokyo, Japan 1 1714[21] [20]
3 Ayako Hamada February 11, 2015 Second Virgin Tokyo, Japan 1 3194[22] [21]
4 Yuu Yamagata December 27, 2015 Thanksgiving Wave Tokyo, Japan 1 3684[23] [22]
5 Ryo Mizunami December 29, 2016 Thanksgiving Wave 16 Tokyo, Japan 1 1854[24] [23]
6 Rina Yamashita July 2, 2017 Be Exciting! Tokyo, Japan 1 992[25] [24]
7 Misaki Ohata October 9, 2017 Saint October Tokyo, Japan 1 815 [25]
8 Yumi Ohka December 29, 2017 Thanksgiving WAVE '17 Tokyo, Japan 2 222 [26]
9 Misaki Ohata January 20, 2018 Saturday Night Fever January Tokyo, Japan 2 1592 [27]
10 Takumi Iroha June 28, 2018 Weekday Wave Vol. 116 ~Height Max!~ Tokyo, Japan 1 520 [28]
11 Asuka August 19, 2018 Anivarsario WAVE 2018 Tokyo, Japan 1 1182[29] [30]
12 Ryo Mizunami December 15, 2018 Dai Shiwazu Nishi 18 Vol. 2 Tokyo, Japan 2 140
13 Misaki Ohata December 29, 2018 Phase 1 Final ~Kick Out~ - Misaki Ohata Retirement ~Beautifully Bloom~ Tokyo, Japan 3 <10
— Vacated December 29, 2018 Phase 1 Final ~Kick Out~ - Misaki Ohata Retirement ~Beautifully Bloom~ Tokyo, Japan — —— The championship was vacated due to Ohata' retirement from professional wrestling. [31]
14 Takumi Iroha July 15, 2019 Catch The Wave 2019 Final Tokyo, Japan 2 1675 Iroha defeated Nagisa Nozaki and Ryo Mizunami in the finals of Catch the WAVE tournament to win the vacant championship. [32]
15 Nagisa Nozaki December 29, 2019 Thanksgiving Wave Tokyo, Japan 1 3645 [33]
16 Sakura Hirota December 27, 2020 Thanksgiving Wave ~ Byebye 2020 Tokyo, Japan 1 39+1 [2]

Combined reigns

As of February 4, 2021

Current champion Sakura Hirota
† Indicates the current champions
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined
defenses		 Combined
ddays
1 Yumi Ohka28547
2 Yuu Yamagata14368
3 Nagisa Nozaki15364
4 Ayako Hamada14319
5 Misaki Ohata37240
6 Takumi Iroha25219
7 Ryo Mizunami24199
8 Hikaru Shida14171
9 Asuka12118
10 Rina Yamashita1299
11 Sakura Hirota †1139+

See also

References
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