What Weight Class Are Women's Titles?

[Tradewynd]

I know this isn't the kind of thing you normally think about, in the US its just the "Women's" title and in Japan its usually just the champ of a given promotion, but what class would women's titles be? Jr. Heavyweight? Featherweight? Middleweight?

[Ganso]

I believe Featherweight and Middleweight do not apply to womens wrestling, those weight classes are associated with Men's Lucha Libre and Boxing. To my knowledge in Women's Pro-Wrestling there are only 2 weight classes Jr. and Heavy. I'm not sure what the limit is but it could be easy to find out the weights of these "jr." women's wrestlers: Chaparitta ASARI, Ai Fujita and Mika Akino (aka AKINO & noki-A). Once you find that out it should be simple to recognize the weight limits.


But hey, I could be wrong

[DangerousBD]

The line between junior and heavyweight divisions in Joshi puroresu are very blurry indeed.

Seeing as how the average women's weight in Joshi is between 120-160lbs, I see the junior division as more of a difference in style rather than weight.

So I don't really know if there are weight requirements in these divisions unless there is a obvious weight advantage for one wrestler or another (ie. Aja Kong, Eagle Sawaii, etc.)

[Dr Feelgood]

It's more a difference in style, I think. The AJW lightweight title was mainly brought in to accommodate the style and feud of Chaparrita ASARI and Candy Okutsu. ARSION have the Sky High title which serves about the same purpose: promote the high-flying lucha style and push young wrestlers with a junior belt.
There again, the Sky High doesn't have any official weight requirements or limitations and without it really being a separate class (Ayako Hamada won the QoA title months after winning the Sky high title and while still holding that title).
JWP also had an openweight title, I seem to remember, which allowed for "light" wrestlers to challenge the "heavies" for a title.

Joshi is (or at least was) very weight class-conscious, and Manami Toyota seems to have been very much the exception among the KANSAIs, Kongs and Nakanos winning the WWWA heavyweight championship title.