Mimi Hagiwara vs Peggy Lee - Japanese Women Wrestling

Here is an "Old School" picture of Peggy Lee Leather going up against Mimi Hagiwara.
Well...pretty much mauling Mimi which is what Peggy was good at giving and Mimi was good at receiving.

And here is the match that I think the picture came from on YouTube....

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 

 

Io Shirai - Japanese Women Wrestling

Haven't done anything on female Japanese wrestler Io Shirai in a while....so here you go.
The younger sister of another Japanese female wrestler Mio Shirai, Io is doing quite well for herself these days.

On April 29th, 2013, Io won the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion's World of Stardom Championship belt and has been defending it ever since.
Right now she is up to five title defenses putting her right behind Nanae Takahashi, who had seven.

Io Shirai vs Kellie Skater

Manami Katsu – Japanese Women Wrestling

19 year old Japanese female wrestler Manami Katsu
Manami was born on October 23rd, 1994 in Tokyo, Japan.
She is five foot three and weighs 148 pounds.
Though she is only 19, she has already worked for wrestling promotions like JWP, Ice Ribbon, Oz Academy, Reina X World and World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana.

Commando Bolshoi vs Manami Katsu

Hikaru Shida - Japanese Wrestling

Japanese female wrestler Hikaru Shida is not only attractive, but she's skilled.
Usually when you hear "actress" in a wrestler's resume you roll your eyes and move on.
But this young lady is a former actress and has held the Ice Ribbon ICE×60 Championship, the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship four times, won the Double Crown Tag Championship Tournament, held the Oz Academy Tag Team Championship (with Aja Kong), held the Pro Wrestling Wave Tag Team Championship, the Reina X World Tag Team Championship and won the Reina World Tag Team Championship 1Day Tournament.
So yeah, she is more than a pretty face.

Besides all that, she is also Ice Ribbon's co-head trainer and has trained over twenty female wrestlers.
She is also a commentator and sometimes referee of the promotion's 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling project.
AND she regular appearances for Oz Academy and Pro Wrestling Wave!

Hikaru was trained by Emi Sakura and made her pro wrestling debut on July 20, 2008.
One of Hikaru's fellow trainees was another actress/model turned champion female wrestler, Miyako Matsumoto.

 

Hikaru taking on Mio Shirai

Japanese Female Wrestling: Misaki Ohata vs Pinky Mayuka

Looking through all the great Japanese womens wrestling videos on YouTube I thought, "Why let nagashimark and DoubleMiz have all the fun?".
Here is a video posted by HybridDolphinELPS of a match between Misaki Ohata and Pinky Mayuka.
In the video, Pinky is challenging for Misaki's JWP Junior/Pop titles at JWP Pureslam on July 19th, 2009.
Here are some vidcaps from the match......

First up, Pinky Mayuka (in Pink of course) and Misaki square off.

Pinky gets Mayuka up against the ropes and delivers some serious forearm shots.

Pinky traps Misaki in an intricate submission hold. Can anybody tell me what it's called?

Pinky continues to pour on the pressure, taking Misaki to her knee.

After escaping the hold, Misaki clamps on an MMA style leglock.

Misaki goes for a cover, but will Pinky kick out?

Japanese Female Wrestling - Saki Maemura vs. Takako Inoue

Here are some Japanese female wrestling video captures from a match posted on YouTube by nagashimark between female wrestlers Saki Maemura and Takako Inoue.
This took place in the Japanese wrestling promotion AJW (All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling) on March 29, 2009.


Of course with almost any joshi puroresu match, you're gonna see not only high flying, high risk maneuvers, but some mat based submission wrestling moves as well.
Here we see Takako applying what I think is a Stepover Toehold Facelock (STF) to Saki.


The punishment continues as Takako switches to a camel clutch.


Not satisfied with that, she leans back and wraps Saki in a rear body scissors.


Saki gets her revenge later on, as she traps Takako in her own camel clutch.

Of course to get the full effect of these moves, you really need to go to YouTube and check out the full match.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5abd417pblk


nagashimark always posts some Japanese wrestling videos and this is no exception.

Japanese Female Wrestlers - Ai Fujita

Japanese female wrestler Ai Fujita seems to be showing a recent upsurge in interest.
Ai was born on February 15 1976 and actually had two pro wrestling debuts.
She debuted against La Amapola in 1998 in Mexico, and in 1999 in a tag team match with Candy Okutsu against Ayako Hamada (current TNA Knockout Hamada) and Mika Akino in Japan.

Here is part one of a match between Ai Fujita and Momoe Nakanishi posted by...take a wild guess...yes, nagashimark on YouTube



Doesn't the interviewer kinda look like Hiro Nakamura on "Heroes"?
Of course you can see the second part of the match and more Japanese female wrestlers on nagashimark's YouTube channel.


Japanese Female Wrestlers - Ai Fujita posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on Sept 21st, 2009

Japanese Female Wrestler - Cuty Suzuki (Cutie Suzuki)

And next to Chikako Shiratori, the most popular Japanese female wrestler here lately is the lady that was in the video I linked to last time, Cuty Suzuki (Cutie Suzuki).
Cuty was born on October 22, 1969 in Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan and made her pro wrestling debut on September 19, 1986.
Cuty is retired now, but during her career, she held the UWA Junior Wrestling title, the JWP Junior Wrestling title and one half of the JWP Tag Team Women's Wrestling titles five times.
Twice with Mayumi Ozaki, once with Devil Masami and twice with Dynamite Kansai.

Here is a video of Cuty going up against Candy Okutsu in a JWP match from July 18, 1997, posted once again to YouTube by nagashimark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssxykArhAWk


Cuty Suzuki (Cutie Suzuki) posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on Sept 18th, 2009

Candy Okutsu - Female Japanese Wrestlers

Retired female professional wrestler Candy Okutsu was born Tomoko Okutsu on January 16th, 1975 in Japan.

She made her professional wrestling debut on August 4th, 1992.
Candy worked for the JWP Project promotion from then until 1997, when she retired due to an injury.

She made her comeback on February 18th, 1998 when she had joined the ARSION promotion.
Candy became the first female version of Tiger Mask when she worked a few times as Tiger Dream.
She retired from pro wrestling on January 5th, 2001.
Before she retired candy held the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Championship once and the  JWP Junior Championship twice.