Oz Academy - Japanese Lady Wrestling

Oz Academy Women's Professional Wrestling (or Oz Academy for short) was founded in 1998 by legendary Japanese female professional wrestler, Mayumi Ozaki.
Although Mayumi considers the start to be earlier in 1996 because that was when the actual stable itself was formed.
Some of the very best in joshi puroresu have worked for Oz.

The promotion itself has two titles, the OZ Academy Openweight Championship and the OZ Academy Tag Team Championship.
As far as I know, Jungle Jack 21 (Hiroyo Matsumoto and Tomoka Nakagawa) still have the tagteam belts and Akino is the Openweight Champion.

Oz Academy 12th Annual - January 2014

Is Act Yasukawa The Next Kana?

Well she might be.
This five foot four, 125 pound lady from Misawa, Aomori, Japan was born on November 13th, 1986.
She has not been going at this long, having only made her pro wrestling debut in February of 2012.

This young lady overcame a lot to get to where she is today.
You can find out just how much as this article here

I haven't seen a great deal of her matches, but what I have seen I like.
And she has that "something" that you cant just learn.
Act may be one to watch in the coming years.

Stardom 5STAR Grand Prix: Act Yasukawa vs. Yuzuki Aikawa

Mio Shirai vs Moeka Haruhi - Asian Women's Wrestling

Here is a shot of Japanese female wrestler Mio Shirai punishing the arm of Moeka Haruhi in the ropes.
Mio has been wrestling now for seven years and has worked for Japanese wrestling promotions like Ice Ribbon, Oz Academy, Pro Wrestling Wave and Union Pro.
Moeka has actually been wrestling longer than Mio, making her debut in 2005.

Here is Moeka in action against Hiren

Sachie Abe - Japanese Female Wrestling

Japanese wrestler Sachie Abe was born on September 18th, 1974 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.
She is five feet tall and weighs 117 pounds.
Sachie works for the Japanese Women Pro-Wrestling Project wrestling promotion in Japan and has been a co-holder of their tag-team titles three times.

Sachie Abe vs Leon

Mio Shirai vs Kana - Japanese Female Wrestling

My old rule on this blog is, "When in doubt...post Kana."
So here she is.
And of course there is nothing wrong with throwing in a Shirai sister.
So here is Mio Shirai and Kana.

Old video of Mio Shirai taking on Kana

Mima Shimoda vs Makoto - Japanese Women Wrestling

Here's a nice shot of legendary female Japanese wrestler Mima Shimoda punishing Makoto in the ropes.
Mima is 43 years old and has been wrestling since 1987.
She actually made her pro wrestling debut two years before Makoto was even born!

Ayumi Kurihara, Mio Shirai, Io Shirai and Makoto vs Mima Shimoda, Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto and Tomoka 

 

Manami Toyota With The Muta Lock

Here is a picture of female Japanese wrestling legend Manami Toyota with a Muta-Lock on.....someone....
Help me out people...who is she submitting here?

Yuzuki Aikawa - Japanese Wrestlers

Here are a couple of pictures of retired Japanese female wrestler Yuzuki Aikawa.
This model turned wrestler was pretty much considered a joke when she started, but she proved the fans wrong.

During her career in World Wonder Ring Stardom she held the Goddesses of Stardom Championship (with Yoko Bito), the Wonder of Stardom Championship and she won several Best Match of the Year awards, MVP awards and Outstanding Performance awards.
She retired on April 29th and her last match was against Yoshiko, which she lost.

Yuzuki taking on Ayumi Kurihara