ROH Women's Pure Championship

ROH Women's Pure Championship
Details
PromotionRing of Honor
Date establishedApril 12, 2025
Current championDeonna Purrazzo
Date wonDecember 5, 2025
Statistics
First championDeonna Purrazzo

The ROH Women's Pure Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). Established on April 12, 2025, it is a specialty title that is contested under "Pure Wrestling Rules". The current champion is Deonna Purrazzo, who became the inaugural champion by defeating Billie Starkz in a tournament final at Final Battle on December 5, 2025.

History

Inaugural champion Deonna Purrazzo.

On April 12, 2025, after sister promotion All Elite Wrestling's (AEW) taping of Saturday Night Collision, Tony Khan introduced the ROH Women's Pure Championship to Ring of Honor (ROH), the women's version of the ROH Pure Championship contested under the same "Pure Wrestling Rules". It was revealed that the inaugural champion would be crowned via a 16-woman single-elimination tournament. It was originally announced that the tournament final for the title would happen at Supercard of Honor, but it was cancelled due to timing issues.[1] On the April 24 episode of Honor Club, it was announced that Queen Aminata and Serena Deeb would face off in the first round of the tournament on The Sit Down with Lexy Nair.[2][3][4] Other names later confirmed were Deonna Purrazzo, Taya Valkyrie, and Leila Grey.[5] On May 23, 2025, it was announced that Billie Starkz would also be entering the tournament.[6] At Death Before Dishonor on August 29, 2025, the inaugural tournament bracket was revealed, adding three more participants: Trish Adora, Olympia, and Yuka Sakazaki.[7] On November 6, 2025, it was announced that the tournament final would now take place at Final Battle on December 5, 2025.[8]

On December 4, 2025, it was revealed that Aminata could no longer compete in the tournament due to a neck injury, having Purrazzo advance to the final via forfeit. During the same episode, Starkz advanced to the final by defeating Sakazaki.[9][10][11] At Final Battle, Purrazzo defeated Starkz via submission to become the inaugural ROH Women's Pure Champion.[12]

Inaugural championship tournament

Quarterfinals
Death Before Dishonor
August 29, 2025
Ring of Honor Wrestling
September 25, 2025 – November 28, 2025 		Semifinals
Ring of Honor Wrestling
December 4, 2025 		Final
Final Battle
December 5, 2025
         
Taya Valkyrie 8:24[13]
Queen Aminata Pinfall
Queen Aminata Forfeit
Deonna Purrazzo Bye1
Deonna Purrazzo Submission
Trish Adora 7:02[14]
Deonna Purrazzo Submission
Billie Starkz 13:51[12]
Billie Starkz Pinfall
Olympia 10:46[15]
Billie Starkz Pinfall
Yuka Sakazaki 10:43[17]
Serena Deeb 10:31[16]
Yuka Sakazaki Pinfall

1 ^ Aminata forfeited her semifinal match to Purrazzo due to a neck injury.

Pure wrestling rules

  • Matches for the ROH Women's Pure Championship are conducted under the same "Pure Wrestling Rules" of the men's title, which as of 2023,[18] the rules are as follows:
  1. Each wrestler has three rope breaks to stop submission holds and pinfalls.
  2. After a wrestler exhausts his rope breaks, submission and pin attempts on or under the ropes by his opponent are considered legal.
  3. No closed-fist punches to the face permitted.
  4. Open-handed slaps or chops to the face are permitted.
  5. Punches to the rest of the body are allowed, excluding low blows.
  6. The first use of a closed fist to the face receives a warning.
  7. The second use of a closed fist to the face results in disqualification.
  8. The title can change hands via disqualification and countout.
  9. Outside interference will result in automatic termination from the roster for the wrestler that interferes.
  10. If a title match reaches its time limit without a winner being declared, the winner is decided by a panel of three judges.

Belt design

The title design is similar to the 2023 ROH Pure Championship title design introduced on March 31, 2023, that debuted at Supercard of Honor but has the word Women's in the center above the word pure and has ladies wrestling each other on the side plates instead of men.[19][3]

Reigns

As of February 20, 2026, there has been one reign. The current champion is Deonna Purrazzo, who became the inaugural champion by defeating Billie Starkz in a tournament final at Final Battle on December 5, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio.

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
Ring of Honor (ROH)
1 Deonna Purrazzo December 5, 2025 Final Battle Columbus, OH 1 77+ Defeated Billie Starkz in a tournament final to become the inaugural champion. [20]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Clark, Ryan (April 18, 2025). "New ROH Women's Pure Championship Debuts (View It Here), Two Big Returns Planned For Next Week's Episode Of ROH TV On HonorClub". Wrestling Headlines. Retrieved April 18, 2025.
  3. ^ a b Pizzazz, Manolo Has (April 22, 2025). "ROH introduces new Women's Pure Championship". Cageside Seats. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  4. ^ D'ALESSANDRO, JULIEN (April 23, 2025). "ROH Officially Unveils New Women's Pure Championship Title Belt". www.wrestling.com. Archived from the original on April 23, 2025. Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  5. ^ Lambert, Jeremy (April 24, 2025). "Deonna Purrazzo, Taya Valkyrie, And Leila Grey To Participate In ROH Women's Pure Title Tournament". Fightful. Retrieved April 26, 2025.
  6. ^ DEFELICE, ROBERT (May 23, 2025). "Athena Announces Billie Starkz's Entry Into ROH Women's Pure Title Tournament". Www.fightful.com. Retrieved May 23, 2025.
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  8. ^ Renner, Ethan (November 6, 2025). "First ROH Final Battle matches official". Figure Four Online. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
  9. ^ Pulido, Luis. "ROH On Honor Club Results (12/4/2025): Mercedes Moné Makes Her ROH Debut, Komander vs. The Beast Mortos, Death Riders, Billie Starkz, More". Www.fightful.com. Retrieved December 4, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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  11. ^ Pollock, John. "Billie Starkz to meet Deonna Purrazzo at ROH Final Battle". Www.Postwrestling.com. Retrieved December 4, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ a b Moss, Jeff. "Ring of Honor Final Battle live results: Survival of the Fittest World title match". Www.f4wonline.com. Retrieved December 5, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ Vetter, Chris (August 30, 2025). "ROH Death Before Dishonor results: Vetter's review of Athena vs. Mina Shirakawa for the ROH Women's Championship, Bandido vs. Hechicero for the ROH Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved August 31, 2025.
  14. ^ Robinson, Sam (November 7, 2025). "ROH on HonorClub results (11/6): Robinson's review of ROH Pure Rules Champion Lee Moriarty vs. Komander in a Proving Ground match, STP vs. Beef and the Work Horsemen for the ROH Six-Man Tag Team Titles". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 9, 2025.
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  16. ^ Robinson, Sam (November 29, 2025). "ROH on HonorClub results (11/28): Robinson's review of Komander vs. Mansoor, Serena Deeb vs. Yuka Sakazaki in an ROH Women's Pure Rules Title tournament match". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 2, 2025.
  17. ^ Robinson, Sam (December 5, 2025). "ROH on HonorClub results (12/4): Yuka Sakazaki vs. Billie Starkz in an ROH Women's Pure Title tournament semifinal match, ROH Women's TV Champion Mercedes Mone vs. Lovely Miss Larkan in a non-title match". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 5, 2025.
  18. ^ "ROH Wrestling Pure Rules Clarified". Archived from the original on February 26, 2023.
  19. ^ Thomas, Jeremy (April 1, 2023). "New ROH Title Designs Revealed At Supercard of Honor". 411Mania. Retrieved April 3, 2023.
  20. ^ Moss, Jeff. "Ring of Honor Final Battle live results: Survival of the Fittest World title match". Www.f4wonline.com. Retrieved December 5, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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