{"id":11839,"date":"2018-01-07T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2018-01-07T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:07:08","slug":"revpro-crowns-first-revpro-womens-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/01\/07\/revpro-crowns-first-revpro-womens-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: RevPro Crowns First RevPro Women&#8217;s Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that companies around the world are finally catching up on the idea that having their own Women&#8217;s Champion is not only good ethics, but good for business. Last year saw UK giant <strong>PROGRESS<\/strong> crown their first ever Women&#8217;s Champion in <strong>Toni Storm<\/strong>, while <strong>AAW<\/strong> in the States (<strong>Jessicka Havok<\/strong>) and <strong>wXw<\/strong> in Germany (<strong>Killer Kelly<\/strong>) also crowned their inaugural Women&#8217;s Champs.\u00a0At today&#8217;s <em><strong>Live at the Cockpit 25<\/strong> <\/em>event, <strong>Revolution Pro (RevPro)<\/strong> crowned their very own RevPro Women&#8217;s Champion, when <strong>Jinny<\/strong> outlasted seven other women in the weekend&#8217;s tournaments to become RevPro&#8217;s first official British Women&#8217;s Champion.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProWresLand\/status\/950095711143645184<\/p>\n<p>Going in on Friday&#8217;s <em><strong>Live at the Cockpit 24<\/strong><\/em>, the tournament bracket featured a solid mix of veteran and emerging UK talent, such as Jinny, <strong>Nina Samuels, Charlie Evans<\/strong>, and US star <strong>Deonna Purrazzo<\/strong>. After Day 1, it was Jinny, Purrazzo, and youngsters <strong>Millie McKenzie<\/strong> (a potential 2018 breakout UK star) and <strong>Zoe Lucas<\/strong> moving on to today&#8217;s action.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11841\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11841\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/DS6_YZSW0AAxBqX-1024x613.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: RevPro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jinny Couture has been a soldier on the UK circuit since she debuted back in 2014 with PROGRESS and <strong>IPW:UK<\/strong>, being one of the real pioneers of the UK&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Revolution. She just lost out on two historic titles in 2017, losing in the Triple Threat Finals for the PROGRESS Women&#8217;s title and losing to eventual winner Killer Kelly in the wXw Women&#8217;s title tournament as well. After defeating youngster McKenzie in the semi-final, she met and defeated Deonna Purrazzo in the finals to become RevPro&#8217;s British Women&#8217;s Champion. She also took part in two PROGRESS showcase events for the WWE at last year&#8217;s <strong>WrestleMania AXXESS<\/strong> in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So your winner, and inaugural Rev Pro Women&#39;s champion&#8230; Congratulations to Jinny! Finally, golden queen! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pjeJ5fsTva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pjeJ5fsTva<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BackBodyDrop.com (@BigBackBodyDrop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigBackBodyDrop\/status\/950107030089551872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While this is RevPro&#8217;s first official women&#8217;s champion, they had previously been recognizing the <strong>Pro Wrestling EVE<\/strong> Champion on RevPro events, similar to how Ring of Honor used to recognize the <strong>SHIMMER<\/strong> Champion. In fact, current EVE Champion <strong>Sammii Jayne<\/strong> was an entrant, but lost out first night to Purrazzo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11844\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/tumblr_onyx6sqKQ31trn8c3o1_540.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/tumblr_onyx6sqKQ31trn8c3o1_540.png 540w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/tumblr_onyx6sqKQ31trn8c3o1_540-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/01\/tumblr_onyx6sqKQ31trn8c3o1_540-349x420.png 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: James Musselwhite &#8211; Portrait of a Wrestler facebook.com\/portraitofawrestler\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that companies around the world are finally catching up on the idea that having their own Women&#8217;s Champion is not only good ethics, but good for business. Last year saw UK giant PROGRESS crown their first ever Women&#8217;s Champion in Toni Storm, while AAW in the States (Jessicka Havok) and wXw in Germany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":11843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,19,317],"tags":[1162,951,1949,1947,1477,1946,1948],"class_list":["post-11839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-revpro","category-women","tag-deonna-purrazzo","tag-jinny","tag-jinny-couture","tag-millie-mckenzie","tag-revpro","tag-revpro-british-womens-champion","tag-zoe-lucas"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}