Women's Wrestlers With The Most World Titles (Across All Major Promotions)

2 JWP Openweight Championships

1 WWWA World Single Championships

1 AAAW Single Championship

1 Oz Academy Openweight Championship

Deciding which titles to take into account for joshi was tricky, as the major Japanese wrestling federations rarely featured a women's title. Instead, the movement established itself through the emergence of female-only companies. Historically, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (1968-2005) and JWP Joshi Puroresu (1992-2017) were the two most significant, especially the former.

Aside from these two, as well as Stardom, the current "Big Time" for Japanese female wrestling, four other titles were considered for this list: Oz Academy Openweight, Sendai Girls, AAAW Single (originally from GAEA, now defended in Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling) and WWWD (from Pro-Wrestling Diana). All of those titles are still active, have received notable media and critical attention, and have been held by some of the most prestigious names in all of Joshi puro.

This tedious methodological clarification leaves little room to discuss Dynamite Kansai, but that might be for the better. If you want to get a taste of Kansai's hard-hitting style and unmistakable bravado, there is no substitute to watching her bouts. Among those, you'll find a 1993 tag match with Mayumi Ozaki opposite Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada, which was the first ever women's match to win Wrestling Newsletter Observer's MOTY award.