Shimmer Championship
The Shimmer Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship in Shimmer Women Athletes, and has also been defended on shows of sister promotions Ring of Honor and Full Impact Pro. Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries. These narratives create feuds between the various competitors, which cast them as villains and heroines.
| Shimmer Championship | |||||||||||||||||
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 The inaugural champion Sara Del Rey with the title in 2007. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Shimmer Women Athletes | ||||||||||||||||
| Date established | June 1, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | November 1, 2021 | ||||||||||||||||
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History
Shimmer was founded by Dave Prazak and Allison Danger in 2005. Originally, the wrestlers had matches for competition or personal rivalries, with no prize on the line. After nearly two years, a championship for the promotion was launched. The title was created on June 1, 2007, and it was put on the line during a two-night, single-elimination tournament in Berwyn, IL. In the finals Sara Del Rey defeated Lacey to become the first champion.
Inaugural championship tournament (2007)
The tournament was held over two nights on June 1, 2007 and June 2, 2007 at the Eagles Club in Berwyn, Illinois. The first two rounds were held on the first night, with the semis and final held on the second. The first and second rounds were filmed for release on Volume 11, while the semi-finals and finals were filmed the next night for Volume 12.
The tournament brackets were:[1]
| First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| MsChif | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lexie Fyfe | 8:23 | ||||||||||||||||||
| MsChif | 9:12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sarah Stock | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cheerleader Melissa | 8:25 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sarah Stock1 | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sarah Stock | 19:51 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sara Del Rey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sara Del Rey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cindy Rogers | 10:45 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sara Del Rey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alicia | 9:00 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ariel | 6:15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alicia2 | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sara Del Rey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lacey | 19:33 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Allison Danger | 9:21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Malia Hosaka | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Malia Hosaka | 9:01 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Daizee Haze | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Daizee Haze | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Portia Perez | 5:46 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Daizee Haze | 14:05 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lacey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lacey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eden Black | 10:57 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lacey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nikki Roxx | 16:21 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nikki Roxx | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rain | 8:09 | ||||||||||||||||||
1: Sarah Stock was listed as an 'International Wildcard' entry, having never competed in Shimmer before.
2: Alicia substituted for Serena Deeb, who was unable to make it to the building in time for her match due to a car accident.
Reigns
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | ||||
| 1 | Sara Del Rey | June 2, 2007 | Volume 12 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 329 | 5[2] | Sara Del Rey defeated Lacey in the finals of a sixteen-woman tournament to become the inaugural champion. | [3] |
| 2 | MsChif | April 26, 2008 | Volume 18 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 715 | 15[2] | [4] | |
| 3 | Madison Eagles | April 11, 2010 | Volume 31 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 539 | 10[2] | [5] | |
| 4 | Cheerleader Melissa | October 2, 2011 | Volume 44 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 168 | 3[2] | [6] | |
| 5 | Saraya Knight | March 18, 2012 | Volume 48 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 384 | 7[2] | [7] | |
| 6 | Cheerleader Melissa | April 6, 2013 | Volume 53 | Secaucus, NJ | 2 | 560 | 10[2] | This was a steel cage match. | [8] |
| 7 | Nicole Matthews | October 18, 2014 | Volume 68 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 357 | 8[2] | This was a four-way elimination match, also involving Athena and Madison Eagles. Matthews won the championship with lastly eliminating Eagles. | [9] |
| 8 | Madison Eagles | October 10, 2015 | Volume 77 | Berwyn, IL | 2 | 260 | 7[2] | This was a No Disqualification match. | [10] |
| 9 | Mercedes Martinez | June 26, 2016 | Volume 85 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 139 | 0[2] | [11] | |
| 10 | Kellie Skater | November 12, 2016 | Volume 87 | Chicago, IL | 1 | 1 | 2[2] | [12] | |
| 11 | Mercedes Martinez | November 13, 2016 | Volume 90 | Berwyn, IL | 2 | 364 | 9[2] | [13] | |
| 12 | Nicole Savoy | November 12, 2017 | Volume 99 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 721 | 17[2] | [14] | |
| 13 | Kimber Lee | November 3, 2019 | Volume 116 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 728 | 3[2] | This was a four-way elimination match, also involving Priscilla Kelly and Shotzi Blackheart. | [15] |
| 14 | Zoey Skye | October 31, 2021 | Volume 120 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 1 | 0[2] | [16] | |
| — | Deactivated | November 1, 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | On November 1, 2021 this title became deactivated. | |
Combined reigns
As of October 25, 2023
| † | Indicates the current champion |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined defenses |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madison Eagles | 2 | 10 | 799 |
| 2 | Cheerleader Melissa | 2 | 13 | 728 |
| 3 | Kimber Lee | 1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Nicole Savoy | 1 | 17 | 721 |
| 5 | Mschif | 1 | 15 | 715 |
| 6 | Mercedes Martinez | 2 | 9 | 503 |
| 7 | Saraya Knight | 1 | 7 | 384 |
| 8 | Nicole Matthews | 1 | 8 | 357 |
| 9 | Sara Del Rey | 1 | 5 | 329 |
| 10 | Kellie Skater | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 11 | Zoey Skye | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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