The Women's World Championship was the first

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world title.

History

Cora Livingston Cora B. Bowser (1887/1889 – April 22, 1957), better known by the ring name Cora Livingston (also spelled as Livingstone) was an American professional wrestler. She is the first women's world champion in professional wrestling history. Early ...

defeated Hazel Parker in 1906. Though the contest was originally for the Featherweight Championship, from that point she was billed as the first women's champion of the world. She then went to face women's champion Laura Bennett in a champion vs champion match in 1910. While Livingston was proclaimed as world champion, Laura was simply referred as women's champion. The match saw

victorious and it was at that time she was officially recognized as the first women's world champion.

Mildred Burke Mildred Burke (August 5, 1915 – February 18, 1989) was an American professional wrestler. She is overall a three-time women's world champion under different incarnations and recognitions. Burke's heyday lasted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950 ...

won a woman's world championship title in 1937 and held it for close to two decades. Mildred Burke won the women's wrestling world championship title defeating Clara Mortenson the inaugural champion. Clara had competed for the vacant championship against Barbara Ware, with Clara coming out victorious, following her victory, she was billed as the first women's world champion. On June 14, 1953,

June Byers DeAlva Eyvonnie Sibley (May 25, 1922 – July 20, 1998), better known by her ring name June Byers, was an American women's professional wrestler famous in the 1950s and early 1960s. She held the Women's World Championship for ten years and is ...

won a 13-woman tournament in

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to claim the belt. She quickly became a popular fan favorite champion.June Byers at imdb.com
Retrieved on 2007-11-11. Byers and Burke wrestled a

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in 1954 it went to a no contest. Subsequently, Byers was recognized as the

NWA World Women's Champion The NWA World Women's Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The title was first won by Mildred Burke in 1937 def ...

, and Burke went on to create the

WWWA World Championship The was the top singles women's professional wrestling championship in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) from 1970 until it closed in 2005. It was also known in ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' and other London Publishing wrestling magazines as ...

and was recognized as its first champion.

Title history

References

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History

Title history

See also

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