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

Joshi Puroresu in the USA

You know a lot of us have always had to rely on YouTube and other internet sources to see joshi puroresu.
But thanks to Shimmer Women Athletes, ROH and Chikara, we are actually getting to see female Japanese wrestlers here in the US in action.

If you can make it to the Berwyn Eagles Club in Berwyn, Illinois (just outside Chicago), on Saturday and Sunday, March 26th and 27th, 2011 you'll get to see Ayako Hamada, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Misaki Ohata, Ayumi Kurihara and Tomoka Nakagawa
More info here: http://shimmerwrestling.blogspot.com/

If you can get to Ring of Honor's "Honor Takes Center Stage" on April 2nd, 2011 at the Center Stage Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, you will get to see Hiroyo Matsumoto, Ayumi Kurihara and Tomoka Nakagawa there as well.
More info here: http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/atlanta-ga-april-2nd/

And on April 15,16 and 17th, if you can get to The Asylum Arena in South Philadelphia, Pennslyvania, you'll get to see joshi legend Manami Toyota team up with Mike Quakenbush and Jigsaw at Chikara's King of Trios 2011 tournament.
More info here: http://www.chikarapro.com/events.php

I havent said anything about the tragedy in Japan here, but I have been praying for the people there.
I am also glad to hear that just about all the wrestlers I have spoken with in the past are okay.
The hard times arent over in Japan yet people.
If you can help out, here's the Red Cross website:
https://american.redcross.org/
And if you cant afford it (I know times are tough), there's no price tag on prayers, positive energy and well wishes.

The Top Ten Japanese Female Wrestlers in August

I haven't done a top ten of Japanese female wrestlers here in awhile, so here we go.

1. Hamada
Without a doubt the most popular Japanese lady wrestler on here.
Of course the worldwide exposure on TNA has a "little" something to do with that.
I'm hoping that might start some more interest in Joshi Puroresu over here.

2. Kaori Yoneyama
Surprisingly to me, Kaori Yoneyama came in at the second postion.
Last month HybridDolphinELPS put up a video tribute to Kaori on YouTube that you can see here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey5lRK_r2ec

3. Francoise
Last month, the lovely Francoise, recently from Hustle, came in at number three.
Here's a short video of Francoise wrestling another Japanese beauty Cherry posted by persicummalum on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQZKsEYpJM0

4. Misaki Ohata
Coming in at number four is Misaki Ohata.
You can see a video of Misaki wrestling Sachiko posted by kapengmabula on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThAWNB5ZIxs

5. Momoe Nakanishi
Japanese female wrestler Momoe Nakanishi came in at number five last month.
Here is a video of Momoe Nakanishi taking on Ayako Hamada (Yes, now TNA Knockout Hamada) at the AJW 35th Anniversary Show, May 11 2003 posted by the infamous DoubleMiz on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ktjRNdUO3w

6. Chaparrita Asari
The high flying Chaparrita Asari came in at number six last month.
You can watch a video of Chaparrita ASARI wrestling Baby-A from the ARSION 5th Anniversary Show, again posted by DoubleMiz on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8YXllD3pAE

7. Etsuko Mita
Etsuko Mita came in at nuber seven last month.
Here is a video of Etsuko Mita taking on Hiroyo Matsumoto posted by nagashimark over at YouTube.
The match is from the NEO Stage 09 tournament, semi finals on February 8, 2009.
You can see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNqFZ2n3LuI

8. Kana
The popular Kana came in at number eight last month.
And here is a video of Kana taking on Minori Makiba at the May 5, 2009 NEO "May History", posted by yoshitonic1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTw4rkNhnGY

9. Kayoko Haruyama
Number nine last month was Kayoko Haruyama.
You can watch Kayoko Haruyama taking on Tojuki Leon on this video posted by kapengmabula on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2rUAOj7Yak

10. Mimi Hagiwara
And last, but not by any means least, is the beautiful Mimi Hagiwara.
Mimi no longer wrestles, but here is a video of her going up against Chigusa Nagayo. posted by hajimanko on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7WzzeyEt4Q

I'd like to thank all of these posters that have put up Joshi videos on YouTube, that give eveyone a chance to get in on the action.
If you go to the vids (sorry I didn't hyperlink them, but Goggle seems to get cranky if I do that too much in a post) make sure to subscribe to these posters channels.
And let them know you appreciate their work at getting these matches out there.


posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on Sept 9th, 2009

Japanese Female Wrestling - Ladies of Hustle part 4

Blanca X
Except for her looking like a female version of Speed Racer's brother, Racer X and holding an electric toothbrush (?) I dont know anything about Blanca X.
Other than even with the mask on, she looks kinda familiar.

Aoki Hiroko
Again I got nothing.
Is this possibly Japanese bikini model Yuko Aoki?

Chizuru
The last Hustle worker I know nothing about.
It looks kinda like she stole Candice Michelle's old fairy wand.
Or maybe Candice stole hers?

Sendai Sachiko, Yukari Ishino and Moeka Haruhi

Sendai Sachiko (Sachiko Kanari) was born December 26th, 1989 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
She is a female wrestler that has worked for SENDAI GIRLS since 2005.
Her pro wrestling debut was against Kyoko Inoue on July 9th, 2006.
I imagine the descrepancy in dates is between traing and actually getting into the ring.


Japanese female wrestler Yukari Ishino was born on June 24th, 1992 in Settsu, Osaka, Japan.
Her pro wrestling debut was against Chikayo Nagashima on August 24th, 2008.
She also works for SENDAI GIRLS.


Moeka Haruhi aws born on October 8th, 1984.
She made her pro wrestling debut on February 13th, 2005 against Rika Takahashi.
Moeka has worked for GTKN and WAVE wrestling promotions in Japan.

KAZUKI, Keito and Pinky Mayuka

KAZUKI (Kazuko Fujiwara) is a Japanese female wrestler.
She was born in Okayama Japan on December 25th, 1975.
KAZUKI made her pro wrestling debut on May 26th, 1997 wrestling Masami Iizuka.
Her signature wrestling move is the K-Crusher (Hard Neckbreaker) .
She has wrestled for Yoshimoto Pro Jd' and JWP.
KAZUKI is five foot one and weighs 148 pounds.

Keito (Keiko Aono),was born on April 8th, 1973 in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut on February 10th, 1975 against Leo Kitamura.
Her signature wrestling move is a modified Shubain (Side Brainbuster Driver).
She has wrestled for LLPW and JWP.
Keito is five foot four, 154 pounds and now uses the name Keiko Aono.


Pinky Mayuka (Mayuka Niizeki) was born on January 16th, 1992 in Ota Ward, Tokyo, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut against Arisa Nakajima on December 9th, 2007.
Pinky has wrestled for JWP since she started.
She retired in December of 2009 because of asthma and other health issues.

Yuki Miyazaki

Yuki Miyazaki is a Japanese female wrestler.
She was born on February 2 1979.
Yuki made her pro wrestling debut on January 8 1995 against Tomoko Kuzumi.
She has worked for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP), JDStar (Jd'), Free, NEO and Dramatic Dream Team (DDT).
Her favorite wrestling moves are the Moonsault Footstomp, the Moonsault Press and the Texas Cloverleaf.
Here's a video of Yuki Miyazaki wrestling Asuka Ohki in Tokyo, Japan at the Itabashi Green Hall.

Toshie Uematsu

Toshie Uematsu

Wrestler name(s) To-chan, Toshi-A
Height: 5 ft 2 in
Weight: 130 lbs
Born: April 14th, 1974
Trained by: Chigusa Nagayo
Wrestling Debut: April 15th, 1995

Toshie Uematsu is a Japanese female Pro Wrestler who was very popular in the 1990s and 2000s.
Toshie was one of the first female wrestlers trained by Chigusa Nagayo when she formed the GAEA Japan promotion.
She is currently a free-lance wrestler.

Toshie was born on April 14th, 1974 and made her pro wrestling debut at the age of 21 on April 15th, 1995 at Memorial First Gong, which was the first show of the GAEA Japan joshi puroresu wrestling promotion.
In 1997, several GAEA wrestlers, including Toshie, appeared in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and were entered in the inaugural tournament for the new women's cruiserweight title.
Toshie won the tournament, defeating Malia Hosaka on April 7th, 1997 in Hunstville, Alabama, and became the first holder of the WCW Women's Cruiserweight Championship.
She lost the belt to Yoshiko Tamura on July 19th, 1997 and the title was vacated soon afterwards.
Toshie held the AAAW Tag Team title twice with her partner Ran Yu-Yu.
Toshie and Ran often bent the rules, winning a lot of their matches by countout after luring their opponents as far away from the ring as possible.
During her career so far, Toshie has held the WCW Women’s Cruiserweight Champion (once), the AAAW Tag Team Championship (twice with Ran Yu-Yu), the JWP Tag Team Championship (four times), the Daily Sports Tag Team Championship (once), the WDB Tag Team Championship (once) and the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship (three times).


Toshie can change her looks as evidenced by the photo above, and below.




Toshie Uematsu Wrestling Meiko Satomura from February 3rd, 1999, posted by nagashimark

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Mariko Yoshida - Japanese Women Wrestling

Mariko Yoshida was born on February 15th, 1970 in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan.
She is a female professional wrestler best known for her work in the ARSION wrestling promotion, where she also served as the head trainer.

Mariko made her wrestling debut in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW / Zenjo) on October 10, 1988 at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall in a match against Keiko Waki.
She was one of the best young stars in AJW, often using Lucha Libre inspired aerial maneuvers to go along with her extremely good mat work skills.

Mariko left AJW in 1997 and joined Aja Kong's ARSION promotion, becoming their head trainer.
In ARSION, she became known as a technical wrestling master, and got a push as a major star.
Mariko was nicknamed "ARSION no Shinjutsu", or "ARSION True Heart".
Giving up the high-flying techniques of her run in Zenjo (because of a neck injury in 1992), her style in ARSION was ground work and submission wrestling moves.

In 2006, Yoshida was presented with the Cauliflower Alley Club's Future Legend Award, becoming only the second female (Cheerleader Melissa was the first), to win this award.

Mariko in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6stpJEP7Yk&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdE4rGmyO5E

Momoe Nakanishi - Japanese Wrestling

Japanese female wrestler Momoe Nakanishi was born on July 7th 1980.
She was trained by All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) and made her wrestling debut on July 14th 1996, in a match against fellow AJW trainee, Nanae Takahashi.

During her career, Momoe held the All Japan Junior title, the AJW Tag Team Championship (twice with Nanae Takahashi), the All Japan Singles title, the WWWA Super lightweight title, the WWWA World Tag Team Championship (twice with Nanae Takahashi as NANA*MOMO), the All Pacific title, the WWWA Title and the AtoZ title.

Momo retired from wrestling on January 7th, 2005.
Her retirement match was fittingly against the lady that she came up through AJW with, Nanae
Takahashi.

Momoe Nakanishi taking on Ayako Hamada - Part 1 of 3, posted by DoubleMiz

Momoe Nakanishi - Japanese Wrestling, posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on 4-3-2007

Manami Toyota - Part 2

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.

Manami Toyota vs Kyoko Inoue (May 7, 1995)