Artist of Stardom Championship

Artist of Stardom Championship
Artist of Stardom Championship belts (2012 – present)
Details
Promotion	World Wonder Ring Stardom
Date established	December 24, 2012
Current champion(s)	Abarenbo GE
Date won	January 3, 2024
Statistics First champion(s) Kawasaki Katsushika Saikyou Densetsu (Act Yasukawa, Natsuki☆Taiyo and Saki Kashima) Most reigns As a team: Queen's Quest (AZM, HZK and Io Shirai) and Stars (Mayu Iwatani, Saki Kashima and Tam Nakano) (2 reigns) As an individual: Io Shirai (6 reigns) Longest reign Cosmic Angels (Mina Shirakawa, Tam Nakano and Unagi Sayaka) (291 days) Shortest reign Queen's Quest (AZM, HZK and Io Shirai) (21 days) Oldest champion Kyoko Kimura (39 years, 197 days) Youngest champion AZM (14 years, 196 days) Heaviest champion Alpha Female (95 kg (209 lb)) Lightest champion AZM (40 kg (88 lb))

The Artist of Stardom Championship (アーティスト・オブ・スターダム王座, Ātisuto Obu Sutādamu Ōza) is a professional wrestling six-woman tag team championship owned by World Wonder Ring Stardom. 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 single-elimination tournament announced to determine the inaugural champions. The current champions are Abarenbo GE in their first reign.

Title history

Maika with the orange belt (left) and Natsupoi with the blue belt (right).

On January 14, 2013, Kawasaki Katsushika Saikyou Densetsu (Act Yasukawa, Natsuki☆Taiyo and Saki Kashima) defeated Team Shimmer (Kellie Skater, Portia Perez and Tomoka Nakagawa) in the finals of the tournament to become the inaugural champions.

Belt design

The championship belts were introduced on February 6, 2013, when they arrived to Stardom's office from their American 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 three-woman tag team which holds the championship.

April 15, 2017 tournament

On April 9, 2017, the title was vacated due to Momo Watanabe being unable to perform due to an injury. On April 15, a one-day, four-team tournament took place to crown a new champion. The winners were Queen's Quest (AZM, HZK and Io Shirai).

Reigns

As of January 23, 2024, there have been 28 reigns between 26 teams composed of 46 individual champions and five vacancies. The inaugural championship team was Kawasaki Katsushika Saikyou Densetsu (Act Yasukawa, Natsuki☆Taiyo and Saki Kashima). The teams Stars (Mayu Iwatani, Saki Kashima and Tam Nakano) and Queen's Quest (AZM, HZK and Io Shirai) are tied with most reigns at two, while individually, Shirai has the most reigns at six. As a team, Cosmic Angels (Mina Shirakawa, Nakano and Unagi Sayaka) has the longest reign at 291 days, while AZM's, HZK's, and Shirai's first reign is the shortest at 21 days. Kyoko Kimura is the oldest champion at 39 years old, while AZM is the youngest at 14 years old.

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been thirty reigns shared among twenty-eight teams and forty-nine wrestlers.

Combined reigns

As of January 23, 2024.

By team

By wrestler