Shimmer Championship
| Shimmer Championship | |||||||||||||||
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 Cheerleader Melissa with the Shimmer Championship belt at an NCW Femmes Fatales show in Montreal in April 2014. | |||||||||||||||
| Details | |||||||||||||||
| Promotion | Shimmer Women Athletes | ||||||||||||||
| Date established | June 2, 2007 | ||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Madison Eagles | ||||||||||||||
| Date won | October 10, 2015[1] | ||||||||||||||
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The Shimmer Championship is a professional wrestling championship in Shimmer Women Athletes. It is competed for in Shimmer Women Athletes, and has 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.
History
Shimmer was founded by Dave Prazak and Allison Danger in 2005. Since then the wrestlers fought matches for competition or personal rivalries, with no prize on the line. After nearly two years, it was decided that the time was right to create their own Championship that would have represented them all over the world. The title was created on June 2, 2007, and it was put on the line during a Two Nights Elimination Tournament in Berwyn, IL. In the finals Sara Del Rey defeated Lacey to become the first champion. She defended the title for 327 Days, including defenses at Ring of Honor shows against Lacey and Daizee Haze, and defenses in SHIMMER against Lacey, Amazing Kong, and Sarah Stock. Del Rey lost the title to MsChif who defeated her in Volume 18 to become the new champion. MsChif has also successfully defended her title more times (6) than Del Rey (5) despite having held the title for less time. MsChif has defended the title against Jetta, Mercedes Martinez, Daizee Haze, and Ariel in Shimmer, against Rain in Full Impact Pro, and against Del Rey in ROH as part of a Pay Per View taping (this was Del Rey's 'rematch' for the title). MsChif successfully defended the title at ROH's St. Louis event on March 13 against Haze after hitting the Desecrater. On April 11, 2010, at the tapings of Volume 31, Madison Eagles defeated MsChif to become the third Shimmer Champion. On September 3, 2011, the title was for the first time defended outside of the United States, when Eagles defeated Jessie McKay and Nicole Matthews at a Pro Wrestling Women's Alliance event in Australia. On October 2, 2011, at the tapings of Volume 44, Cheerleader Melissa defeated Eagles to become the fourth champion. On March 18, 2012, at the tapings of Volume 48, Melissa lost the title to Saraya Knight.[2] Melissa regained the title from Knight in a steel cage match on April 6, 2013, at the Volume 53 internet pay-per-view, becoming the first two-time Shimmer Champion.[3] She lost the title to Nicole Matthews on October 18, 2014, at Volume 68. One year later, on October 10, 2015, during the tapings of Volume 77, Madison Eagles defeated Nicolle Matthews to win the SHIMMER Championship for a record-tying second time.[4]
Tournament
The tournament was held over two nights on June 1 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:[5]
| First Round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| MsChif | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lexie Fyfe | |||||||||||||||||||
| MsChif | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sarah Stock | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cheerleader Melissa | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sarah Stock1 | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sarah Stock | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sara Del Rey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sara Del Rey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cindy Rogers | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sara Del Rey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alicia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ariel | |||||||||||||||||||
| Alicia2 | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sara Del Rey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lacey | |||||||||||||||||||
| Allison Danger | |||||||||||||||||||
| Malia Hosaka | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Malia Hosaka | |||||||||||||||||||
| Daizee Haze | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Daizee Haze | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Portia Perez | |||||||||||||||||||
| Daizee Haze | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lacey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lacey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eden Black | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lacey | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nikki Roxx | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nikki Roxx | Pin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rain | |||||||||||||||||||
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.
Title history
| # | Order in reign history |
| Reign | The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed |
| Event | The event in which the title was won |
| Successful defenses | The number of successful defenses the champion had during her reign |
| — | Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign |
| N/A | The information is not available or is unknown |
| + | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |
| # | Wrestler | Reign | Date | Days held |
Successful defenses | Location | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sara Del Rey | 1 | June 2, 2007 | 329 | 5 | Berwyn, Illinois | Volume 12 | Sara Del Rey defeated Lacey in the finals of a sixteen-woman tournament to become the inaugural champion.[6] |
| 2 | MsChif | 1 | April 26, 2008 | 715 | 15 | Berwyn, Illinois | Volume 18 | [7] |
| 3 | Madison Eagles | 1 | April 11, 2010 | 539 | 9 | Berwyn, Illinois | Volume 31 | [8] |
| 4 | Cheerleader Melissa | 1 | October 2, 2011 | 168 | 3 | Berwyn, Illinois | Volume 44 | [9] |
| 5 | Saraya Knight | 1 | March 18, 2012 | 384 | 7 | Berwyn, Illinois | Volume 48 | [2] |
| 6 | Cheerleader Melissa | 2 | April 6, 2013 | 560 | 10 | Secaucus, New Jersey | Volume 53 | This was a steel cage match.[3] |
| 7 | Nicole Matthews | 1 | October 18, 2014 | 357 | 8 | Berwyn, Illinois | Volume 68 | This was a fatal four–way elimination match also involving Athena and Madison Eagles. Matthews won the title with lastly eliminating Eagles.[1] |
| 8 | Madison Eagles | 2 | October 10, 2015 | 3311+ | 1 | Berwyn, Illinois | Volume 77 | This was a no–disqualification match.[10] |
List of combined reigns
As of November 2, 2024
| † | Indicates the current champion |
| <1 | Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day |
| Rank | Wrestler | # of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madison Eagles† | 2 | 3850+ |
| 2 | Cheerleader Melissa | 2 | 728 |
| 3 | MsChif | 1 | 715 |
| 4 | Saraya Knight | 1 | 384 |
| 5 | Nicole Matthews | 1 | 357 |
| 6 | Sara Del Rey | 1 | 329 |
See also
References
- ^ a b Bentley, Martin (2014-10-19). "New Shimmer Champion crowned and more: 10/18 Shimmer results from Berwyn, IL". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
- ^ a b Cooper, Chad (2012-03-19). "Results of Shimmer Vol. 47 and 48 tapings". WrestleView. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
- ^ a b Namako, Jason (2013-04-06). "4/6 Shimmer 53 iPPV Results: Secaucus, New Jersey". WrestleView. Retrieved 2013-04-06.
- ^ "Madison Eagles Wins the SHIMMER Championship". Diva-Dirt. Diva-Dirt. Retrieved 2015-10-10.
- ^ "Shimmer Volume 11, Volume 12, & Volume 13 Results". Shimmer Women Athletes. Visuex. Retrieved 2009-03-30.
- ^ "Volume 11, 12 and 13 - June 1 & 2, 2007 : Berwyn, IL". Shimmer Women Athletes. WrestleFuse. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
- ^ Prazak, Dave (18 November 2009). "News - Official RECAP/RESULTS from Nov. 8th tapings!". Shimmer Women Athletes. WrestleFuse. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
- ^ Johnson, Mike (2010-04-11). "New Shimmer Champion crowned". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
- ^ Martin, Adam (2011-10-03). "Shimmer Volume 43, 44 taping results". WrestleView. Retrieved 2011-10-03.
- ^ Bentley, Martin (2015-10-10). "Shimmer results from Berwyn, IL". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
