Nagisa Nozaki - Japanese Female Wrestlers

Japanese female wrestler Nagisa Nozaki was born on November 22, 1990 in the Minamisaku District, Nagano, Japan.
She was trained by Etsuko Mita at the NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling dojo and made her pro wrestling debut on Movember 3rd, 2006.
Nagisa has worked for the Japanese wrestling promotions NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling, World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana, Pro Wrestling Wave and Wrestling New Classic.

Maya Yukihi - Japanese Women Wrestlers

Japanese female wrestler Maya Yukihi was born on January 9th, ???? in Chiba, Japan.
I have no idea what year.
She is five foot three and weighs 121 pounds.
Maya was trained in the Ice Ribbon Promotion by Maki Narumiya and 235(Fumiko Sato) and made her pro wrestling debut on November 24th, 2014.

Eiger vs Takako Inoue - Japanese Women Wrestling

Eiger vs Takako Inoue - Japanese Women Wrestling

Here is a picture of the always frightening Eiger (or Aiger) applying a clawhold to the always beautiful Takako Inoue.
In case you didn't know, Eiger is actually joshi wrestler Mizuki Endo.

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Kana in the Ring - Japanese Female Wrestlers

You know how I always say on this blog, "When in doubt, post Kana"?
Well sadly I was in doubt and didn't know what to post.
So...Kana of course.
So here are just some random shots of Kana mixing it up in the ring.

All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling

You probably already knew that several female Japanese wrestlers, not only wrestled, but also had singing careers.
To me, most of this is as painful to watch as the WWF/WWE's "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection", which I have tried very hard to forget.
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling really pushed this with several songs and CDs being released.

If the idea and the picture above are not enough to stop you...how about a video of the top five songs?

Mimi Hagiwara In Her Infamous White Swimsuit

Here is a picture I found on a Yahoo Japan Blog of Japanese female wrestler Mimi Hagiwara in her infamous white swimsuit/wrestling gear.
And...um...really that's all I have to say......

Japanese wrestling legend Bull Nakano

     Photo Credit:   www.wwe.com

Here is Japanese wrestling legend Bull Nakano with a Dragon Sleeper on....someone.
I thought at first it was Madusa, but the lady in the hold is too...ummm.."small" I think.
And she looks like she's wearing a one piece from GLOW.
Update: It's Heidi Lee Morgan

Now below, this IS a picture of Madusa aka Alundra Blayze getting flattened by Bull.

Mika Nagano - MMA and Wrestling

Mika Nagano was born on December 29th, 1983 in Gifu, Gifu, Japan.
She's five foot three and weighs 114 pounds and before becoming a wrestler, Mika Nagano was a Japanese female mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter.
In MMA, she goes by Mika "Future Princess" Nagano and her win-loss record is 14-9-0.
Her last MMA fight was a win over Emi Murata via submission (armbar) at Jewels - 14th Ring on May 14th, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan.


Mika started her MMA career back in 2006 then debuted with Ice Ribbon in August of 2009.
She stayed with them a few months, then appeared to leave pro wrestling to focus on MMA in February of 2010.

But now it looks like Mika will be doing both MMA and pro wrestling after showing back up in the wrestling promotion Stardom's debut show in January of 2011.

Nanae Takahashi, Tsukasa Fujimoto and Mika Nagano vs Kaori Yoneyama, Hiroyo Matsumoto and Syuri 

Japanese Women Wrestling on YouTube

Well.
Thanks to YouTube, I have had to totally redo this entire post.
It seems they deleted every single video that I had put here.
Thanks YouTube!

Anyway, I went back into YouTube (which I am sure I will regret doing later) and got the top five most popular Japanese Female Wrestling videos there.
Watch them while you can before YouTube takes them down again....

Pro Wrestling WAVE #121
Kana vs Melanie Cruise.
Yumi Ohka vs Hikaru Shida

Kana vs Mio Shirai

Manami Toyota and Blizzard Yuki vs Takako Inoue and Kyoko Inoue

Akira Hokuto vs Mayumi Ozaki

Chigusa

Nagayo vs Devil Masami



Syuri vs. Makoto

NXT'S Asuka/Kana Vs Hikaru Shida

Manami Toyota Wrestling Kyoko Inoue

Here is Manami Toyota taking on Kyoko Inoue from March 31st, 1996.

You know...I know both Manami and Kyoko are highly skilled athletes, but when I saw Manami going to the ring at the beginning of the video, the only thing I could thing was "My God...her hair is beautiful!"

Anyway, both of these women are Joshi legends.

Manami made her pro wrestling debut in 1987...

and Kyoko debuted the next year in 1988.


This match is a sequel to Manami and Kyoko's match in 1995, which won the Wrestling Observer Match of the Year.

And this match takes off like a rocket with a missed dropkick, a giant swing and a kiwi roll all in rapid succession.

Coming up from that, they go into the classic test of strength...

Which leads into Kyoko unleashing an array of submission moves on Manami...








Manami Toyota vs. Kyoko Inoue - AJW 12/8/96 by Uppgreyedd

Nagisa Nozaki Wrestling Syuri

Well guess what?
Yep...this is yet ANOTHER video that YouTube has deleted.
Thanks YouTube!
So all there is left is the screen caps. 

Nagisa started wrestling when she was 15, and has been plagued by injuries.
This was Nagisa's return match, her first since 2009 when she injured her shoulder.
She's five foot five and weighs 123 pounds.

You may know her opponent Syuri as Karate Girl (KG) from the old HUSTLE wrestling promotion.
She wrestles, but throws some MMA into her matches as well.

First up. Syuri enters the ring...


Followed by Nagisa who doesn't look near as serious...

They shake hands and everything looks okay...

Till Nagisa blindsides Syuri and lays into her with a series of vicious chops...

She goes for a quick pin...

Syuri kicks out, but soon finds herself in a sleeper...

She gets up, but Nagisa follows her, keeping the hold clamped on.
See how much Nagisa seems to be enjoying herself?

Syuri gets fed up, escapes and lays into Nagisa with a series of roundhouse kicks...


Sorry it's gone but you can thank YouTube.

Ayumi Kurihara Vs Mai Ichii - Japanese Wrestling

Here is a match between Mai Ichii and Ayumi Kurihara, posted on Veoh

Ayumi Kurihara was born on July 13th, 1984 in Tokyo, Japan and was trained by Mariko Yoshida, AKINO, Michiko Ohmukai and GAMI.
She made her pro wrestling debut on April 24, 2005 and has worked for wrestling promotions like AtoZ, M's Style, NEO, JWP, Jd', Ibuki and Pro Wrestling SUN.

Mai Ichii was born on March 21st, 1980 in Saitama, Japan.
Besides being a wrestler, she is a MMA fighter with a 4-4-0 record.

This match starts off with Ayumi taking the offensive with a series of drop kicks that some of which I swear look pretty "stiff" to me.

After pummeling the fool out of Mai, Ayumi straddles her and clamps on a camel clutch.

Mai manages to bite her way out of it....yes...bite.
Undaunted, Ayumi turns and clamps on a double toe hold which Mai tries to unsuccessfully bite her way out of.

Failing the biting escape, Mai makes the ropes and opens up with a few dropkicks of her own.
Getting Ayumi down, she goes for a leg lock which Ayumi reverses.

Mai escapes, there’s another flurry of moves and Ayumi comes out on top with a headlock.


Watch Ayumi Kurihara vs. Mai Ichii (2/3/06) in Sports | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Itsuki Yamazaki Vs.Yukari Omori

This was a video posted on YouTube by xkingx2009 of Itsuki Yamazaki wrestling Yukari Omori at an old All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling event.
I say was because yes indeed...it is yet ANOTHER video that YouTube has taken down. 

Itsuki Yamazaki made her wrestling debut in 1980, and was one half of the famous Jumping Bomb Angels.
Yukari Omori was also part of a famous tag-team, the "Dynamite Girls".

This match is pretty much pure Joshi Puroresu.
No gimmicks, no over the top promotion, just two Japanese women in swimsuits (a Speedo swimsuit in Yukari's case) going at it in the ring.

After the intro, the ref going over the rules, the opening bell and a pretty quick series of moves, they lock up in the center of the ring...


Itsuki side-steps and rolls Yukari into a leg lock...


Then she moves up and puts her knee in Yukari's back, adding more pressure to the leg lock...


Another flurry of moves and Yukari winds up trapped in Itsuki's body scissors...


Yukari manages to escape, almost gets Itsuki in a boston crab, but gets rolled over into an attempted pin...


But Yukari escapes by trapping Itsuki in a head scissors...


Which Itsuki somehow manages to turn back into a modified leg lock.



And all this is less than four minutes into the match.