Saturday, August 30, 2008

Japanese female wrestler, Ayana Mizumura.


Japanese female wrestler, Ayana Mizumura.
In her wrestling career, she has faced many of the great Japanese female wrestlers such as Jaguar Yakota, Dynamite Kansai, Carlos Amano, Chigusa Nagayo.
Ayana Mizumura retired from wrestling April 10, 2005 at the GAEA final card in Kourakuen Hall.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Aya Yuki




Aya Yuki is a Japanese womens wrestler.

Here's a video of her in action, wrestling Arisa Nakajima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miaj9AgIWkE

And another of her, teamed with Nagisa Nozaki, wrestling Arisa Nakajima and Kaori Oki.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPztrbfznWE

Miyoko Nakayama

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Miyoko Nakayama was born October 10 1950. She was better known under her wrestling name, Miyoko Hoshino
Miyoko worked for the AJW promotion her entire career
She defeated Sarah Lee for the WWWA Singles title on July 26 1972. She lost it to Sandy Parker, but won it back before finally dropping the title to Jumbo Miyamoto.
Miyoko then turned around and won the WWWA Tag Team Wrestling titles three times with Jumbo Miyamoto.
After losing the titles, she teamed with Peggy Kuroda and won them a fourth time.

Miyoko was inducted into the AJW Hall of Fame on November 29, 1998 at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Apple Miyuki - Japanese Wrestling

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Japanese female wrestler Apple Miyuki (Rumi Miyuki), was born on June 14th, 1985 in Tenri, Nara, Japan.
She was a wrestler for Japanese professional wrestling promotion Kaientai Dojo and was one of their most popular wrestlers.
Apple was trained by Taka Michinoku and made her pro wrestling debut on January 14th, 2002, in Puerto Rico against another K-Dojo wrestler, Ofune.
So far Apple has held the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship twice with YOSHIYA, and they won the K-AWARD for Best Tag Match of 2005.
On September 10th, 2008, Apple announced that she was leaving K-Dojo and her final show was September 14th at Korakuen Hall.
She started working for other Japanese wrestling promotions like Pro Wrestling WAVE in 2009.

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Apple Miyuki and Yuu Yamagata taking on KAORU and Caribbean Rum.


Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Japanese women wrestlers face same results as in Athens

Kyoko Hamaguchi

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- At the Beijing Olympics over the weekend,Japanese "Fantastic Four" wrestlers got same result as they did in Athens, with Kaori Icho winning women's freestyle 63kg title and Kyoko Hamaguchi ending with a bronze in the 72kg category on Sunday, and Adding Saori Yoshida's 55kg gold and Chiharu Icho's silver in 48kg on Saturday.
Icho, 24, retained her Olympic title by defeating Alena Kartashova of Russia by winning each of two bouts in overtime. The victory made Icho the second woman to successfully defend the Olympic title after Yoshida won the trophy in 55kg. Both Icho and Yoshida are Athens gold medalists.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/17/content_9444994.htm

Monday, August 18, 2008

Japan's formidable women's wrestlers

Chiharu Icho

Saori Yoshida



This isn't pro wrestling, but it is wrestling....

Japan's formidable women's wrestlers launched their Olympics campaign in convincing style as world champions Saori Yoshida and Chiharu Icho reached the 55kg and 48kg finals Saturday.
Defending 55kg holder Yoshida overwhelmed Canada's Tonya Verbeek 2-0 in the semi-finals, a rematch of their final clash at the Athens Games four years ago, to face China's 18-year-old Xu Li in the gold-medal showdown later in the day.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics2008/2008/0816/wrestling.html

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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