Queens Quest - Japanese Women Wrestling

The Japanese wrestling promotion Stardom's Heel Stable, Queen's Quest (Viper, Io Shirai, HZK, Momo Watanabe, AZM).
The stable debuted on April 12th, 2016 when Jungle Kyona, Kairi Hojo and Mayu Iwatani took on HZK, Io Shirai and Momo Watanabe.
As far as I can tell, HZM was added in 2017 and Viper in 2018.

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Makoto - Japanese Women Wrestling

Japanese pro wrestler Makoto.
Makoto was born September on 26th, 1989 in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
She was trained by Emi Sakura and made her wrestling debut for the Ice Ribbon promotion in July 2006.
Makoto is a former one time Reina World Women's Champion and a two time Reina World Tag Team Champion.

Arisa Nakajima - Female Japanese Wrestlers

I havent done anything on the lovely Arisa Nakajima in a while, so here's an update.
Arisa was born on April 6th, 1989 in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan, the same city that famous Japanese pro wrestler Akira Taue is from.
After training with the Major Girl's Fighting AtoZ promotion for a little over a year, she made her wrestling debut on January 3rd, 2006, against Mika Mizunuma in Korakuen Hall.

She has worked for Major Girl's Fighting AtoZ, JWP Joshi Puroresu (JWP Project) and JDStar and during her career has held more titles and won more awards than you can shake a stick at.
Arisa is five foot three and weighs in at 130 pounds.

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?

Mio Shirai - Female Japanese Wrestlers

I know that when I can't think of anything else to talk about, I usually go to Kana, but today I thought I'd mention one of my other favorite Joshi wrestlers, Mio Shirai.
It's almost like mentioning Kana.
Yeah I know I just posted about Mio and her sister Io when they were the Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters a while back, but Mio has been doing quite a bit in Japan solo.

Mio and Kana defeated Misaki Ohata and Tsukasa Fujimoto on April 21st, 2013 and won the Wave Tag Team Championship, which is the first title Triple Tails.S has had.
Oh yeah, Triple Tails.S is the Mio/Kana tag-team that used to be just called Triple Tails when Io was a member.

Occasionally Mio and Kana have to face each other like they did here at the Regina di Wave Championship tournament.

You can check out Mio's Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/mio.shirai.39

Ayumi Kurihara To Retire

I mentioned Ayumi Kurihara several months ago in a post about Joshi wrestlers here in the US.
Since then (on Match 28th, 2013) she announced that due to all the injuries she has suffered during her career, she will be retiring from professional wrestling on August 4th.

It's sad but Ayumi has had a great career since she first debuted in 2005.
She has held world championship titles in promotions like Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Dramatic Dream Team, NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling, Oz Academy, Pro Wrestling Wave, Shimmer Women Athletes and Xtreme Latin American Wrestling.

Io Shirai and Mio Shirai - Japanese Female Wrestling

Io Shirai and Mio Shirai are two Japanese female wrestlers that were at one time part of the stable Team Makehen and were popularly known as "The Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters".
They debuted in 2007 and made a pretty good name for themselves in wrestling circles working for promotions like
Ibuki, Pro Wrestling Wave, Japanese Women Pro-Wrestling (JWP) Project, Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling and a whole host of others.

In 2010, along with Kana, they formed the very popular Triple Tails stable.
And also in 2010, Mio and Io went to Mexico to work for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), where they wrestled as Kaguya and Oyuki

In 2011, Io left the group to work on her singles career.

Mio Shirai and Io Shirai taking on Senri Kuroki and Yukari Ishino

Mima Shimoda - Female Japanese Wrestlers

Here are a couple of shots of one of my favorite female Japanese wrestlers of all time, Mima Shimoda.
Mima was born on December 23rd, 1970 in Tokyo, Japan and was trained by the legendary Akira Hokuto.

She made her pro wrestling debut back on August 5th, 1987 so she has been wrestling for almost 30 years!
Now she is mainly in Mexico wrestling for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), but she does manage to get to back to Japan now and then to work for the promotions there.

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......

Aja Kong - Still Going Strong

Aja Kong is 41 years old and has been wrestling for almost 26 years.
And she is still going strong.
She won the OZ Academy Best Bout Award for 2011 for her match with Mayumi Ozaki on April 10, 2011.

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Kana Vs Jessie McKay

Kana Vs Jessie McKay
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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.

Right.

Ice Ribbon vs Pro-Wrestling: EVE

Here is some big Joshi news (if you live in the UK).
On October 8th and 9th of this year, the European all-female professional wrestling promotion Pro-Wrestling:EVE will be hosting Japanese women's wrestling promotion Ice Ribbon at Gym Combat, Crocus Street in Nottingham, NG2 3DP.
They will be putting on three shows (one on Saturday and two on Sunday).
So far the line up includes Pro-Wrestling:EVE Champion: "The Female Fight Machine" Jenny Sjodin, The Alpha Female, "The Dynamite Princess" Nikki Storm,"The All Star" Erin Angel, "Portugal's Perfect Athlete" Shanna, Carmel Jacob, Sara-Marie Taylor, "The Lancashire Terrier" April Davids and Kay Lee Ray.
So far from Ice Ribbon we have: former International Ribbon Tag Team Champion Hikaru Shida, former ICEx60 Champion Tsukasa Fujimoto, Makoto, Kurumi, Tsukushi, Emi Sakura, Hamuko Hoshi and Mochi Miyagi.

Here is a video from Pro-Wrestling:EVE, "Ice Ribbon's Message For UK Wrestling Fans"...



You can get more info and where to buy tickets at the Pro-Wrestling:EVE website here:
http://www.evewrestling.com/events

Masumi Arakawa - Japanese Women Wrestling

masu-me (or Masumi Arakawa) was born on July 9th, 1988 in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.
She started her wrestling training in September of 2010 (which is kinda late for Joshi) and made her in-ring debut on December 23rd, 2010 in Korakuen Hall at JWP Climax 2010 against KAZUKI.
masu-me is also a singer, which harkens back to the old days of Joshi with the "singer/wrestlers".



She has released at least one single and a photobook.
(Her single was released the same day she made her wrestling debut)
masu-me is five foot one and weighs 95 pounds.
In JWP, she has formed a tag-team with Tsukasa Fujimoto called Kyutipea.

JWP Spot with Kaori Yoneyama and masu-me



(actually there are a ton of interview videos on YouTube with her)

World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana

This month, there will be a new womens wrestling promotion in Japan called Diana or World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana.
The promotion is being run by NEO founder and 23 year Joshi veteran Kyoko Inoue.

The roster for Diana includes....
Kyoko Inoue
Kaoru Ito
Ayako Sato
Keiko Aono
Nagisa Nozaki
Aya Yuki
Sareee

The first card will be held on March 21st, and it will feature....
Ayako Sato vs Aya Yuki
Keiko Aono vs Mariko Yoshida
Nagisa Nozaki vs Aja Kong
Sareee vs Akira Kinuko
And a tag team match with Kyoko Inoue and Aya Yuki taking on Kaoru Ito and Ayako Sato.

So far they have events scheduled for March, April, May and June.

Here is a promo video for the promotion...



You can check out their website here:
http://www-diana.com/

Stardom - Japanese Female Wrestling Promotion

Former ARSION head Rossy Ogawa and retired Japanese female wrestler Fuka's had a new wrestling promotion debut in January called "Stardom".
The roster (as far as I can tell) is...

Nanae Takahashi
Nanae Takahashi has wrestled for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, Pro Wrestling SUN, AWA Superstars of Wrestling, Ice Ribbon, JDStar, NEO Japan Ladies' Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX and more.

Natsuki*Taiyo
Natsuki*Taiyo has worked for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, Pro Wrestling SUN, Passion Red, NEO, Ice Ribbon and more.

Yuzuki Aikawa
Former Japanese Idol Yuzuki Aikawa has been trained by Fuka and also has eight years martial arts experience in Taekwondo.

Yoko Bito
Yoko Bito is new comer to wrestling, but a Japanese Kyokushin Karate champion.

Yoshiko (World Tiger 4)
Another newcomer, Yoshiko was born on July 26th, 1993.

Eri Susa
Newcomer Eri Susa was born on July 23rd, 1993 and was trained in aikido before starting wrestling.

Mayu Iwatani
Mayu Iwatani was born on February 19th, 1993 and before wrestling she was trained in judo.

Haruka
Little Haruka was born on April 2nd, 2002. Yep, she's only eight years old.

Arisa Hoshiki
Arisa Hoshiki was born on October 13th, 1995. Before wrestling she trained in boxing and kickboxing.

Mika Nagano
Before becoming a wrestler, Mika Nagano was a Japanese female mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. Her MMA record is 7-4-0.

Iris
Iris was born on October 19th, 1990 in Mexico. She was trained in Lucha Libre by Ultimo Guerrero.

Here is the poster from the Stardom Launching Event "Birth of Nova" on January 23rd, 2011...




You can check out their official site here:
http://wwr-stardom.p-kit.com/

Francoise vs Ayako Sato - Japanese Female Wrestling

The last wrestling match I posted here was Ayako Sato and Misaki Ohata.
Well this one is Ayako again, but this time against a blog favorite, Francoise (Huransowazu).

Francoise Hirota has worked for Osaka Pro, LLPW Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling and she also worked for the Japanese wrestling promotion HUSTLE as the valet of the late Lance Cade.
I believe this is her actual wrestling debut on January 5th, 2007 for LLPW.

First up we have an interview with Francoise showing her working out and yes setting up the ring and cleaning.
You dont just go into Japanese wrestling and say "I wanna be a star".
There are dues to pay.

So finally at about 2:30 we get to her actual match against Ayako.
She looks a bit nervous, but who can blame her?

Francoise recovers from that pretty quickly and immediately opens up with a running drop kick.
She tags Ayako a few more times with dropkick and goes for a quick pin which Ayako breaks up with the ropes.

Now Ayako opens up with her own series of dropkicks, followed up with some bone-jarring snapmares which Francoise sells pretty good for a rookie.

Ayako then traps Francoise in a rear headlock, and adding a bodyscissors, shows the rookie that she's not gonna be getting any mercy.

Francoise gets to the ropes and Ayako releases her which leads to some more back and forth till Ayako finally traps her in a boston crab.

Wonderfully, good old YouTube has taken down the video.
Thanks guys!



Francoise vs Ayako Sato, posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on January 21st, 2011

Misaki Ohata Wrestling Ayako Sato

Here is a match posted by nagashimark on YouTube, of Misaki Ohata taking on Ayako Sato.
This match was for the Sendai Girls wrestling promotion on April 20th, 2008.


Misaki Ohata has shown up a few times on this blog.
She was trained by the famous Mariko Yoshida and worked for many wrestling promotions in Japan like JDStar.
You can see her now in the US with Shimmer.


Ayako Sato has wrestled for JWP, NEO and if I'm not mistaken, has done some Olympic-style wrestling as well.

After the introductions, we jump right into the match where Ayako has Misaki trapped in a leg lock.

Misaki manages to slip out of that and trap Ayako in a figure four headscissors.

That doesn't last for long though as Ayako slips out of that hold and clamps on a double leg lock.

Which then then transitions into a bow and arrow.

Misaki escapes, but Ayako literally rocks her world with some devastating dropkicks and goes for a pin.
Unfortunately for Ayako, Misaki kicks out, then catches her in an arm bar.

You can see the whole match here...

Well at one time you could.
But once again, good old YouTube has deleted the video.
Thanks Google!