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| - The PRIDE AFCW International Championship is PRIDE All-Female Wrestling Championship second-tier championship accomplishment, right after the PRIDE Championship. The title, as well as the aforementioned PRIDE AFCW Pride Championship, PRIDE AFCW Tag Team Championship and PRIDE AFCW Extreme Championship was first awarded during PRIDE Coronation 2012. The inaugural champion was Maia Lopez, who won a five-woman elimination match on March 25, 2012 at PRIDE AFCW's Coronation pay-per-view event to crown the first PRIDE AFCW International Champion. At 315 days, Caramel Cane holds the record for longest reign in the title's history. Maia Lopez and Bianca Salvador's only reigns share the record for shortest reign in the title's history at 42 days each. Caramel Cane also is the youngest International Champion in history, at 18 years of age. Mercedes Vargas is the oldest champion, having won the title at the age of 32. When Vargas won the title at Apotheosis on August 5, 2012, she became the first and only member of the current roster to have previously won a title in PRIDE's previous promotion, All-Female Pride Wrestling, as one-half of the inaugural Tag Team Champions with Kelly Knite. Vargas also set numerous other records during her reign, including being the first International Champion to have held the title for 7 weeks or more on September 24, 2012, the first champion, the third singles champion in PRIDE and the fifth overall champion to surpass 100 days during a single reign on November 14, 2012, the first champion, the third singles champions in PRIDE and the eighth champion to carry a title reign from one calender year into the next on January 1, 2013, and the first champion, overall third singles champion in PRIDE and overall fifth champion to surpass 200 days during a single reign on February 22, 2013. Vargas defended the title for a record 280 days, including defenses against Asylum in the first-ever Pure Rules match at Fans' Night 2012 on December 2 and against Michelle Taylor and Bianca Salvador in the first ever "Absolution" match, which was a new concept of the two out of three falls match, at Spring Break 2013 on March 3. The current champion is Caramel Cane, who is in her first reign and currently the longest reigning International Champion, who defeated Mercedes Vargas (entering her ninth month as champion and in her record third defense). Cane and Vargas are tied with the most successful defenses, with two each. Cane became just the second International Champion and ninth overall singles champion in PRIDE AFCW to surpass the 100-day mark of her reign on August 21. At Coronation on September 15, Cane successfully defended the title against Vargas in her rematch. On November 29, she became only the second International Champion to surpass the 200-day mark and ninth overall singles champion in PRIDE Wrestling to accomplish the feat. On February 17, Cane became the longest reigning International Champion when she surpassed Vargas' previous 280-day reign. At PRIDE 28 on the March 9 edition of Monday Night PRIDE Wrestling and the 2nd Anniversary Show (rescheduled from February 17), Cane became the first International Champion to surpass the 300-day mark during a single reign and the fourth overall singles champion to accomplish the feat. At the final event and pay-per-view for PRIDE AFCW at Apotheosis 2014 on March 23, she tied Vargas' mark for most defenses by successfully defending her title against Haley Dark. Overall, there have been 5 reigns shared between 5 wrestlers.
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