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owned by the

World Wonder Ring Stardom World Wonder Ring Stardom (スターダム女子プロレス), often referred to simply as Stardom (stylized as ST★RDOM), is a Japanese ''joshi puroresu'' or women's professional wrestling promotion based in Tokyo, Japan. Stardom was founded in ...

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. The title was first announced during Stardom's year-end event on December 24, 2012, and two days later its name was revealed as the "Artist of Stardom Championship", with a four-team one night

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announced to determine the inaugural champions.

Title history

On January 14, 2013, Kawasaki Katsushika Saikyou Densetsu (

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, Natsuki☆Taiyo &

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) defeated Team Shimmer (

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) in the finals of the tournament to become the inaugural champions. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been twenty-seven reigns shared among twenty-five teams and forty-three wrestlers.

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) are the current champions in their first reign, while it's the fifth reign individually for Kashima, the third for Watanabe and the first for Kid.

Belt design

The championship belts were introduced on February 6, 2013, when they arrived to Stardom's office from their

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maker "Top Rope Belts". The belts are rare among all other tag team championship belts in that they are all of different color; one is blue, one orange and one pink. There is no rule for the belt color distribution into the teams. Each title holder gets to choose her own belt colour freely. The biggest star-shaped plate is inscribed with "Three stars make the highest magic", while the three smaller star plates feature the words "high, art, bonds". These inscriptions depict the strong unity of the six-woman tag team which holds the championship.

Reigns

Combined reigns

As of , .

By team

By wrestler

References

External links

World Wonder Ring Stardom's official website
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