First-ever ROH Women’s Pure Champion crowned
The first-ever ROH Women’s Pure Champion has been crowned.
Deonna Purrazzo defeated Billie Starkz to become the first-ever Women’s Pure Champion Friday at ROH Final Battle. After Starkz used all three of her rope breaks, the two traded submissions until Starkz got caught. With no other course of action, Starkz submitted.
The path to crown the first-ever champion was hammered with delays and injuries. The title and tournament were first introduced in April of this year, with the finals originally set to take place at Supercard of Honor in July. The tournament was then delayed due to timing issues. The first round finally started at Death Before Dishonor in August and continued through the fall. Starkz defeated Olympia and Yuka Sakazaki to make it to the finals.
Before the finals were set to take place at Final Battle, Queen Aminata had to be pulled from the semifinals at the last minute due to injury, allowing Purrazzo to advance to the finals via a bye. After Purrazzo won the title on Friday, Aminata emerged at the entranceway in a neckbrace and had a staredown with the new champion.
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