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Showing posts with label japan women wrestling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label japan women wrestling. Show all posts
Female Japanese wrestler Io Shirai has come a long way since I started following her and her sister (Mio Shirai) back in 2009.
Io has worked for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Pro Wrestling Zero1, Ice Ribbon, NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling, Asistencia AsesorÃa y Administración (AAA), World Wonder Ring Stardom and even showed up on Lucha Underground.
And there is a rumor that she might be signing with the WWE like her former team mate Kana (aka Asuka).
I used to say, "When in doubt post Kana."
But now it seems like the most popular lady here is the legendary Mimi Hagiwara.
So here is basically just a Mimi Hagiwara picture dump.
Enjoy.
The beautiful Yumi Ohka was born Yumiko Abe on April 4, 1979 in Koga, Ibaraki.
She was trained by Jaguar Yokota and Toshie Uematsu and made her wrestling debut on August 19th, 2001.
Yumi has worked for JDStar promotion, Oz Academy and Pro Wrestling Wave in Japan and has crossed over the ocean to work for Shimmer Women Athletes a few times.
During her career she has held the Dramatic Dream Team Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, the JDStar TWF World Tag Team Championship (twice with The Bloody), the Oz Academy Tag Team Championship (with Mayumi Ozaki), and in Pro Wrestling Wave, the Wave Single Championship and the Wave Tag Team Championship (with Hikaru Shida).
On November 20th, 2014, in Tokyo, Japan, Arisa Nakajima and Kana defeated Lin Byron and Syuri in the finals of a four-team tournament to win the vacant Reina World Tag Team Championships.
And before they were partners, Arisa Nakajima vs Kana
Right behind Kana, Mio Shirai is one of the most popular women on this blog.
She was trained by Tomohiko Hashimoto and Toshie Uematsu and has been wrestling for almost eight years.
Of course in the beginning she was teamed with her younger sister Io Shirai as the "Purple Thunder" sisters.
Then for a while they both formed the Triple Tails stable with the popular Kana.
Currently Mio has a four way contract with Japanese wrestling promotions Ice Ribbon, Oz Academy, Pro Wrestling Wave and Union Pro.
Joshi may not be as hot as it once was in Japan, but there's one place it's still pretty hot here in the US....Shimmer.
Shimmer Women Athletes has been bringing some of the best female wrestlers in Japan over here for awhile now.
Tons of Japanese stars like Leon, Ray, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Tomoka Nakagawa, Ayako Hamada, Ayumi Kurihara and Kana have all worked for Shimmer.
And Hiroyo Matsumoto and Misaki Ohata (Seven Star Sisters), Tomoka Nakagawa, Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara have all held titles in the promotion.
Okay Seven Star Sisters only held theirs for a day but still.....
Kana Vs Jessie McKay http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/
I have mentioned several times here that it seems like the biggest Japanese women wrestlers are winding up here in the US.
And I have made no secret about how much I like Kana.
Well here is part of a match posted by CHIKARA on YouTube of Kana taking on "Everybody's Favorite Girlfriend" Jessie McKay in a match on October 7th, 2011 in Burlington, North Carolina (my old home state).
I wish it was the whole match, but hey, it's good to see even a clip.
And it's good to see these Japanese women wrestling stars working here in the States.
Maybe the WWE will see matches like this and raise the bar.
If you wanna show your friends why you like Japanese female pro wrestling, I can think of no better place to start than this video posted by MrLARIATO on YouTube.
It's a video of round one of the Sendai Girls "Dantai Taikou Flash Tournament" that took place on October 27th, 2011 at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall.
As you can probably tell, it was a full house (the Hall has a capacity of approximately 1,800 people and there were 1,835 people there).
This video features some of the big name Japanese women professional wrestlers working today.
Team WAVE consisted of GAMI, Toshie Uematsu, Yumi Ohka, Shu Shibutani and Moeka Haruhi....
Team JWP had Command Bolshoi, Kayoko Haruyama, Kaori Yoneyama, Leon and Hanako Nakamori...
You know how much I love Japanese wrestler Kana?
Well here is something that further cemented that love.
You know who Yoshihiro Tajiri is right?
Well he's just TAJIRI in SMASH now (and obviously loves all caps).
Anyway, before Tajiri became a pretty much running gag in the WWE, he was a pretty bad man in ECW.
Here is Tajiri at the SMASH 21 Press Conference on August 30, 2011.
As he's talking, look who comes in with a samurai sword and clears house.
Yep, Kana.
I think her glare alone would be enough to clear out a room, but add the sword to it...
And if that's not enough Kana for you, check out this "Greatest Hits" vid posted by tripletails on YouTube...
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 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.
Apple Miyuki and Yuu Yamagata taking on KAORU and Caribbean Rum.
Japanese female wrestler Hiromi Yagi was born Hiromi Hirashima on August 5th, 1971.
She is five foot one and weighs 110 pounds.
In 1995, Hiromi defeated Candy Okutsu for the JWP Junior title, but she vacated it a day later because she wasn't happy with the match.
Candy had suffered an injury before the match, and Hiromi felt the victory was hollow.
Then in 1996, she won the vacant title, only to lose it back to Candy.
In 1997, she retired from wrestling to get married, but returned in 1998, teaming with Rie Tamada, to win the Twin Star of ARSION.
They lost the titles in 1999 to Mika Akino and Ayako Hamada.
Here is Hiromi Yagi wrestling Aja Kong from the Arsion ZION 1999 Tournament, posted on YouTube by lablue6uy
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.
In 1996, the WCW decided to establish a women's championship and struck a deal with the GAEA Japan organization to bring in women wrestlers.
A tournament was held in the fall of 1996.
Madusa defeated Reina Jubuki in the first round, and Zero in the semi-final, but she lost to Akira Hokuto (who lost to Madusa earlier in the tournament as Reina Jubuki) in the finals of the tournament on December 29th, 1996 at StarrCade.
Madusa never could win the title.
She claimed to have won it in Japan, but records indicated otherwise.
Ring name(s) Sumie Sakai,Yellow Michinoku Ranger (CZW)
Height 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight 54 kg (119 lb)
Born November 24th, 1971,Suzuka, Mie, Japan
Resides Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Billed from Osaka
Trained by Jaguar Yokota, Lioness Asuka, Cooga ,Bison Kimura, Steve Bradley, Killer Kowalski, Slyck Wagner Brown
Debut April 20th, 1997
Sumie Sakai is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. She currently resides in the US, appearing with pro wrestling promotions in the United States such as Women's Extreme Wrestling and CHIKARA.
Japanese female wrestler Devil Masami was born on January 7th, 1962 in Kitakyushu, Japan.
She trained at the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Dojo and made her pro wrestling debut on August 21st, 1978
Devil worked for the AJW wrestling promotion from 1978 to 1995.
During that time she held the WWWA World Tag Team Championship on August 10, 1982 (with Tarantula), the All Pacific Championship and the WWWA World Championship.
Devil left AJW and went to work for GAEA Japan in 1995.
There she held the AAAW Singles Championship, the WCW Women's Championship (WCW was working with GAEA at the time) and the AAAW Tag Team Championship (with Aja Kong).
On November 29, 1998, she was inducted into the All Japan Womens Hall of Fame.
In 2005 she went back to AJW and wrestled in the main event of AJW's final card on April 17th, teaming up with Amazing Kong to take on (and defeat) Kyoko Inoue and Misae Genki.
On December 30, 2008, she wrestled her retirement match and left the business after 30 years.
However, the feud between Manami and Toshiyo Yamada was not yet over.
It reached it's climax on August 15th, 1992 at Korakuen Hall in a Hair vs. Hair match. The bout was a very dramatic one, but what made the event was what occurred after the match. Manami, even though she had won the match, did not want Toshiyo to get her head shaved, and had to be forcefully restrained by four preliminary girls, who eventually forced her back to the mat. In respect of the match conditions Toshiyo wanted her head shaved and went ahead with the stipulation.
Soon after this match the two women once again teamed up to win their first World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA) World Tag Team Championship in March 1992, defeating "Jungle Jack" (Aja Kong and Bison Kimura) in Tokyo. At AJW’s Dreamrush shown on November 26th, Manami and Toshiyo defended their WWWA Tag Team wrestling titles against Dynamite Kansai and Mayumi Ozaki in a legendary two out of three falls match, which is considered one of the best wrestling matches ever.
In April of 1992 Manami furthered her singles career by defeating Kyoko Inoue on April 25th in Yokohama for the IWA World Women's Championship. Toyota defended that title eight times over the course of the next three years, before losing it to Reggie Bennett in Niigata Prefecture, Japan on May 15th, 1995.
At Dreamslam II, on April 11th, 1993 Manami and Toshiyo fought a rematch against JWP Project's Kansai and Ozaki in yet another highly-rated two out of three falls encounter. This time, however, Manami and Toshiyo were on the losing side, and Kansai and Ozaki got their revenge. The feud concluded at AJW’s St. Battle Final event, on December 6th, 1993, when Manami and Toshiyo regained their tag titles.
On August 24th, 1994 Manami once again squared off against Kyoko Inoue, and defeated her to unify the IWA and All Pacific Singles Championships. Manami’s run with the two titles was not to last very long, because on October 9th, 1994, Inoue gained a measure of revenge against Manami, when Kyoko and her partner Takako Inoue (no relation) won the WWWA Tag Team Championship from Manami and Toshiyo. Manami then vacated her All Pacific Championship, prior to her first WWWA Heavyweight Championship match against the monstrous Aja Kong at AJW’s Queendom III show, on March 26th, 1995. The match saw Manami reach the summit of AJW when she won and became the 39th WWWA Champion.
On May 7th, Manami defended her crown against arch-rival Kyoko Inoue at the Korakuen Hall, where the two fought to a 60 minute time limit draw. Despite piledrivers on the floor, German suplexes off the top rope, and multiple finishers, neither combatant was able to secure outright victory. Nonetheless, Manami retained, and the match was voted Match of the Year for 1995 in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
The following month, Manami lost the WWWA Championship to former champion Aja Kong, on June 27.
