Progress Women's World Championship
| Progress Women's World Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 The current Progress Women's World Championship belt design (2024–present) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Progress Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | 28 May 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion | Rhio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | 26 July 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Progress World Women's Championship is a women's world professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the British professional wrestling promotion Progress Wrestling. The current champions is Rhio, who is in her record-setting third reign. She won the title by defeating Alexxis Falcon at Chapter 196: Scorchio on 26 July 2026, in London, England.
History
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Inaugural championship tournament
[edit]The Natural Progression Series IV was a 12-woman single-elimination tournament held to crown the inaugural PROGRESS Women's Champion. This was the only edition of the tournament to feature female participants.[1] In the three-way tournament final at Chapter 49: Super Strong Style 16 Tournament Edition on 28 May 2017, Toni Storm defeated Jinny and Laura Di Matteo to become the inaugural champion.[2]
Championship belt design
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The original Progress Women's World Championship belt was designed and crafted by Peter Ellis.[3] At Chapter 169: The Devil On My Shoulder on July 28, 2024, a new design of the championship belt was unveiled. Progress Wrestling collaborated with Khalil Butt to create the new design, which bears a close resemblance to the Progress Men's World Championship belt but with a white strap, evocative of the design of the WWE Intercontinental Championship belt that was used from 1985 to 1998 and from 2011 to 2019. Then co-owner Lee McAteer highlighted the importance of parity between the male and female wrestlers with the redesign of the championship belt.[4]
Reigns
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Overall, there have been 15 reigns among 11 champions with two vacancies. Toni Storm is the inaugural champion. Rhio has the most reigns with three. Jinny in her second reign held the title the longest at 482 days with two successful title defenses, while Kanji in her first reign held the title the shortest at 82 days with three successful title defenses. Meiko Satomura is the oldest champion, winning the title at 39 years and 302 days old, while Storm is the youngest champion, winning the title at 21 years and 221 days old.
Rhio is the current champion in her record-setting third reign. She won the title by defeating Alexxis Falcon at Chapter 196: Scorchio on 26 July 2026, in London, England.
| 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 |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Toni Storm | 28 May 2017 | Chapter 49: Super Strong Style 16 Tournament Edition Night 2 |
Camden Town, London, England | 1 | 357 | 14 | Defeated Jinny and Laura Di Matteo in the three-way Natural Progression Series IV final to become the inaugural champion. | [5] [6] |
| 2 | Jinny | 20 May 2018 | Chapter 69: Be Here Now | Manchester, England | 1 | 224 | 6 | [7] | |
| 3 | Jordynne Grace | 30 December 2018 | Chapter 82: Unboxing Live, A Dukla Prague Away Kit | Camden Town, London, England | 1 | 259 | 9 | [8] | |
| 4 | Meiko Satomura | 15 September 2019 | Chapter 95: Still Chasing | Haringey, London, England | 1 | 91 | 1 | [9] | |
| 5 | Jinny | 15 December 2019 | Chapter 99: With a Flake, Please | Sheffield, England | 2 | 482 | 2 | [10] | |
| — | Vacated | 10 April 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | Jinny vacated the title due to COVID-19 restrictions. | |
| 6 | Kanji | 22 May 2021 | Chapter 111: One Leg in the Air | Sheffield, England | 1 | 84 | 3 | Defeated Gisele Shaw 2–1 in a Best of Three series. | [11] |
| — | Vacated | 14 August 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | Vacated after Kanji sustained an arm injury that would require surgery. | |
| 7 | Gisele Shaw | 14 August 2021 | Chapter 117: Making Diamonds | Sheffield, England | 1 | 295 | 7 | Defeated Alexxis Falcon and Mercedez Blaze in a three-way elimination match to win the vacant title. | [12] |
| 8 | Kanji | 5 June 2022 | Chapter 135: Super Strong Style 16 Tournament Edition | London, England | 2 | 175 | 7 | Won 2–1 in a 2-out-of-3 falls match. | [13] |
| 9 | Lana Austin | 27 November 2022 | Chapter 146: They Think It's All Over... | London, England | 1 | 329 | 7 | [14] | |
| 10 | Rhio | 22 October 2023 | Chapter 158: The Long Halloween | London, England | 1 | 434 | 20 | [15] | |
| 11 | Nina Samuels | 29 December 2024 | Chapter 175: Unboxing VII: The Curtain Call | ||||||