Saturday, April 28, 2007

Toshiyo Yamada - Female Japanese Wrestlers


Height: 168 cm
Weight: 70 kg
Birthday: February 27, 1970
Hometown: Saitama, Saitama
Trained by: Jaguar Yokota
Wrestling Debut: July 27, 1987

Toshiyo Yamada (born February 27, 1970) is a Japanese female professional wrestler. She was trained by Jaguar Yokota. In the 1990s, Yamada wrestled for the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling promotion (AJW).

A year after her professional wrestling debut in 1987, Toshiyo Yamada was awarded the All Japan Junior Championship. She then formed the tag team Dream Orca with Etsuko Mita. The team won the All Japan Tag Team Championship in June, 1989, but was forced to vacate the titles in March, 1990, when Yamada she injured her neck. She was told she would never wrestle again, but she worked hard and was able to revive her career.

After her return, she toured Mexico with Kyoko Inoue, and later won the WWWA World Tag Team Wrestling Championship twice with Manami Toyota. In the mid-1990s, she left All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling for the new promotion GAEA Japan.

As of 2006, she is semi-retired.

Titles:
All Japan Women's Pro-WrestlingWWWA World Tag Team Wrestling Champion (2 times) - with Manami Toyota (2)
All Japan Tag Team Wrestling Championship (1 time) - with Etsuko Mita
All Japan Junior Championship (1 time)


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