Here is a picture of legendary joshi puroresu star Jaguar Yokota.This also was posted by hugo999 at the Box y Lucha forum, again showing Japanese womens wrestling's appeal.
In her prime, Jaguar was considered one of the best wrestlers in the world, male or female.
And she held the belts to prove it.
She held the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) All Japan Junior Championship, the AJW All Japan Singles Championship, the World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA) World Tag Team Championship (with Ayumi Hori), the WWWA World Singles Championship twice, the NWA International Tag Team Championship (with Hitomi Okumura), the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) World Women's Championship, the TWF World Women's Title, the TWF World Women's Tag Team Championship (with Yuko Kosugi) and the AWF Women's Championship.
And in 1996, Jaguar Yokota was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.
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These pictures make me wish America had a richer history of Women's wrestlers. Maybe with some vets, the art-form wouldn't always be in such rough shape here.
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