STARDOM's Syuri Tops The PWI Women's 150

The current World of Stardom Champion is #1 in this year's Women's 150.

By Andrew Pollard / October 27, 2022

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With today seeing the reveal of this year's PWI Women's 150, current World of Stardom Champion Syuri has nabbed the #1 spot.

Covering the period from 1 October 2021 to 15 September 2022, the criteria for the PWI Women's 150 takes into account in-ring achievement, influence on the industry and/or a certain promotion, technical ability, quality and variety of competition, and being active for at least ten matches or six months of the assessment period.

Having won STARDOM's top prize at Stardom Dream Queendom in December - besting Utami Hayashishita in a bout which also had Syuri's SWA World Title on the line - the 33-year-old Syuri-chan's reign with that prize has recently surpassed 300 days. For those wondering, the hugely talented performer landed at the #7 in last year's PWI Women's 150; a list that was topped by WWE's Bianca Belair.

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In taking the top spot in this year's rankings, Syuri beat out heated competition from the likes of Bianca Belair, Thunder Rosa, Becky Lynch and Jade Cargill.

The full top 20 for the 2022 PWI Women's 150 is as follows:

1) Syuri

2) Bianca Belair

3) Thunder Rosa

4) Becky Lynch

5) Jade Cargill

6) Jordynne Grace

7) Saya Kamitani

8) Charlotte Flair

9) Starlight Kid

10) Taya Valkyrie

11) Tasha Steelz

12) Miyu Yamashita

13) Britt Baker

14) Masha Slamovich

15) Mickie James

16) Azm

17) Liv Morgan

18) Ronda Rousey

19) Deonna Purrazzo

20) Utami Hayashishita

While the PWI 500 - which ranks male grapplers - debuted back in 1991, the PWI Female 50 was launched in 2008. Awesome Kong was the inaugural winner of that gong, and the Female 50 would become the Women's 100 before then being expanded as the Women's 150 in 2021.

This next edition of Pro Wrestling Illustrated is already available to purchase digitally, with pre-orders being taken for the physical print version of the magazine. Head on over to PWI-online.com for more details on this new issue.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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Posted On: 27th Oct 2022