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Wrestler: Yuka Nakamura
Height: 5' 2" (155cm)
Weight: 118.8lbs (54kg)
Date of Birth: December 26rd, 1979
Pro Wrestling Debut: August 16th, 1998 vs. Mima Shimoda
Wrestling Promotions: She debuted with Neo Ladies (1998-2000), NEO (2000-)
Yuka has teamed with Kaori Nakayama, Nattie Neidhart, Haruka Matsuo, Junko Yagi, Mima Shimoda, Misae Genki and Acute Sae.
Wrestler: Yoshiko Tamura
Height: 5' 5" (165cm)
Weight: 149.6lbs (68kg)
Date of Birth: February 6 1976
Pro Wrestling Debut: September 15 1994 versus Kaoru Kaneyama
Promotions: AJW (1994-1997), Neo Ladies (1997-2000), NEO (2000-)
On June 26 1995, she defeated Misae Watanabe (Misae Genki) for the AJW Junior title. She lost it on September 1 1996 to Tomoko Miyaguchi.
July 19 1997 - She defeated Toshie Uematsu for the WCW Womens Wrestling Cruiserweight title. Lost it on September 20 1997 to Sugar Sato.
On December 7 1999, she defeated The Bloody for the AWF Women's title. She lost it on January 10 2000 to The Bloody.
August 23 2000, she defeated Nicole Bass to become the first NWA Pacific and NEO Singles champion. Lost the titles on February 11 2001 to Mima Shimoda.
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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.
Wrestler: Mimi Hagiwara
Trained by: Jackie Sato
Pro wrestling Debut: 1979
Born: February 6th,1956 in Tokyo Japan.
Titles: The World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA) World Tag Team Championships (with Yukari Ohmori in 1981), All Pacific Women's Wrestling Championship (twice, once in 1981 and again in 1982)
Mimi also did some acting, she was in the Japanese TV series Kamen Rider, as Choko.
And she also did some singing with several number one pop hits on the Japanese Top 40.
Wrestler: Miss Mongol
Height: 5' 1" (154cm)
Weight: 143lbs (65kg)
Real Name: Aki Kanbayashi
Date of Birth: September 2 1976
Aki "Miss Mongol" Kanbayashi, 154cm / 65kg, was born in Sapporo City, Hokkaido on September 2, 1976.
She was trained with Sugar Sato (Toshie Sato / GAEA-Japan), Kiyoko Ichiki (Big Japan), and Genki Misae (Misae Watanabe / NEO) by Kotetsu Yamamoto at a wrestling school for a TV program.
Then, she was hired by Atsushi Onita's FMW. She Pro Wrestling Debuted as a pro wrestler against Yukie Nabeno in Joetsu City, Niigata on October 25, 1995, when she was 19 years old.
Young woman wrestlers usually idolized Japanese "super heroines" like Chigusa Nagayo, Manami Toyota, or Aja Kong, but she was different. She was a big fan of American style women wrestlers like Leilani Kai and Judy Martin.
Since leaving FMW in February 1998, she is constantly going back and forth between Tokyo and Victor Quinones' IWA in Puerto Rico wrestling as La Malcriada, where some of the WWE's developmental wrestlers are wrestling now.
She will follow her dream to have her name up in the USA until it comes true. http://www.geocities.com/smokyrobmoore/jp060500.htm
Retired: March 28 1999, with Candy Okutsu and Hiromi Yagi , wrestled to a draw with Commando Bolshoi, Azumi Hyuga and Carlos Amano.
Promotions: Japanese Women's Pro [1989-1992], JWP [1992-1999]
January 8, 1995 - She won the JWP Tag Team Wrestling titles with Mayumi Ozaki, from Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda. Lose titles on March 18, 1995 to Cuty Suzuki and Dynamite Kansai.
On December 9, 1995 - Won the JWP Tag Team titles with KAORU from Dynamite Kansai and Cuty Suzuki. Lost them back to Dynamite and Cuty on July 7, 1996.
November 26, 1996 - She won the JWP Tag Team Wrestling titles with Devil Masami from Dynamite and Cuty, Lost belts to Kaoru Ito and Manami Toyota, January 23 1998.
April 8, 1997 - Won the JWP Title from Dynamite Kansai. Lost it on February 28 1999 to Azumi Hiuga [Tomoko Kuzumi].
On February 11, 1998 - She won JWP Tag Team titles with Tomoko Kuzumi from Manami Toyota and Kaoru Ito. Lost them to Devil Masami and Cuty Suzuki.
July 31, 1998 - Won JWP Tag Team titles with Tomoko Kuzumi from Devil Masami and Cuty Suzuki. Lost them to Commando Bolshoi and Rieko Amano, January 15 1999.
Signature moves: The Moonsault Stomp, Rider Kick.
JWP named the Hikari Fukuoka and Tomoko Kuzumi vs. Rieko Amano and Tomoko Miyaguchi match on October 21 as their 1998 match of the year.
Has starred in a couple of photo books, one was entitled Desnuda.
Tiger Mask (Japanese: タイガーマスク) began as a manga in 1968 and was later adapted into a successful anime series in 1969. In real life, the name has been used by a succession of Japanese professional wrestling characters as a gimmick. The Tiger Mask persona is instantly recognizable by its trademark mask, designed to look like a tiger's head, as well as the combination of high flying attacks and martial arts in the ring.
The anime ended in 1971 but it continued to be so popular that the bookers in the New Japan Pro Wrestling promotion licensed the character and created a real-life Tiger Mask in 1981, originally portrayed by Satoru Sayama. Sayama played the role until 1983 when he left New Japan due to his hatred for the backstage politics of pro wrestling in general and eventually became one of the first mixed martial artists in the world. As Tiger Mask, Sayama feuded with Kuniaki Kobayashi, and Englishmen Dynamite Kid, the original Black Tiger , and Steve Wright, as well as Mexico's Fishman.
Sayama also gave brief authorization for a female version of the character, called Tiger Dream, to be played by female wrestler Candy Okutsu in the mid-1990s. He and Tiger Mask IV also provided her with training. However, Okutsu being injury-prone and having to take several sabbaticals from the ring, the character was easily forgotten by the fans and eventually abandoned.
Wrestler:Toshie Uematsu
Height: 5' 2" (157cm)
Weight: 143lbs (65kg)
Date of Birth: April 14 1974
Debut: April 15 1995 vs. Chikayo Nagashima
Promotions: GAEA (1994-)
April 7 1997 - Defeated Malia Hosaka to win the WCW Womens Cruiserweight title. Lost the belt to Yoshiko Tamura on July 19 1997.
Wrestler name(s) Mayumi Ozaki,Pure Wild,Queen Of The Street Fight
Billed height 156cm (5'3")
Billed weight 54kg (119lbs)
Born October 28, 1968 Pro Wrestling Debut August 17, 1986 with Esther Moreno Vs. Maiko Tsurugi & Reina Gallegos
Mayumi Ozaki debuted in a tag match in August, 1986. In her career, she held the WWWA tag team wrestling titles with Dynamite Kansai from April 11, 1993 to December 6, 1993 (both winning from and losing to Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW). She also held the UWA Junior and JWP Junior Wrestling titles between 1988 and 1991, and teamed with Cuty Suzuki and Hikari Fukuoka to win the JWP Tag Titles a number of times between 1992 and 1995. Most recently, she held the AAAW Tag title with Aja Kong, beating GAEA's Sugar Sato and Chikayo Nagashima on August 23, 1998 in Tokyo.
Until recently, Ozaki usually wrestled in JWP (Japan Women's Project), but was also the leader of her own heel stable called the Oz Academy, which freelanced in other women's promotions in Japan, such as AJW and GAEA. In 1998 Ozaki became a true free agent, and began to promote her own shows using her Oz Academy wrestlers, looking for a niche in the fragmented joshi puroresu scene.
Ozaki has a talent for setting up and working with the psychology of a match. She is able to work any style from mat wrestling to "street fighting," and is able to look credible dominating larger wrestlers, such as former partner Dynamite Kansai, and she is especially good at settling down young or erratic workers and making a match flow smoothly. Her own moves are crisp and intense, with no wasted motion; and every movement has meaning.
Height: 5' 2" (156cm)
Weight: 123.2lbs (56kg)
Debut: August 17 1996 vs. Kyoko Ichiki
Date of Birth: October 4 1976
Hometown: Chiba
Career Title History
January 24 1998 - Defeated Momoe Nakanishi to win the AJW Singles title. Lost it on April 12 1998 to Momoe Nakanishi.
Meiko Satomura
Height: 5' 2" (157cm)
Weight: 158.4lbs (72kg)
Date of Birth: November 17 1979
Pro Wrestling Debut: April 15 1995, vs. Sonoko Kato
Promotions: GAEA (1994-)
November 2 1996 - With Sonoko Kato, won the AAAW Junior Tag team titles, defeating Sugar Sato and Chikayo Nagashima. Lost the titles on March 2 1998 to Sugar Sato and Chikayo Nagashima.
December 15 2001 - Won the AAAW Title from Aja Kong. Lost it on June 2 2002 to Chikayo Nagashima.
October 20 2002 - With Ayako Hamada won the AAAW Tag Team titles from KAORU and Mayumi Ozaki. Lost the titles to Aja Kong and Devil Masami, February 11 2003.
Height: 5' 3" (158cm)
Weight: 147.4lbs (67kg)
Date of Birth: June 11 1976
Pro Wrestling Debut: April 15 1995, vs. Meiko Satomura
Promotions: GAEA (1994-)
Career Title History
November 2 1996 - With Meiko Satomura, won the AAAW Junior tag team title, defeating Sugar Sato and Chikayo Nagashima. Lost the titles on March 29 1998 to Chikayo Nagashima and Sugar Sato.
Other Notes
Winner of the 1999 GAEA High Spurt 600 tournament.
Ai Fujita
Height: 5' 3" (160cm)
Weight: 127.6lbs (58kg)
Date of Birth: February 15 1976
Mexican Pro Wrestling Debut: July 18 1998, vs. Ampola
Japanese Pro Wrestling Debut: April 14 1999, with Candy Okutsu vs. Ayako Hamada & Mika Akino
Promotions: ARSION (1999-)
February 17 2002 - With Michiko Ohmukai won the Twin Star of ARSION from GAMI and Rie Tamada. Current holders.
Name: Nagayo Chigusa
Date Of Birth: December 8 1964,Omura, Nagasaki
Height: 165 cm (5 ft, 5 inches)
Weight: 71 kg (192 lb)
Pro Wrestling Debut: August 8, 1980 (against Yukari Omori)
Promotions: AJW (1980-1989), Free (1993-1994), GAEA (1994-)
Chigusa Nagayo is a female Professional Wrestler best known for her popularity in the 1980s for her tag team The Crush Gals with partner Lioness Asuka. She was the founder of the GAEA Women's Professional Wrestling organization (known simply as GAEA) She briefly competed as alter-ego Lady Zero in GAEA and in the WCW.
Nagayo appears in the 2000 documentary Gaea Girls made for the BBC by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams.
Nagayo & Lioness Asuka vs. Dynamite Girls on August 27, 1983 was named as the 1983 AJW Match Of The Year.
Devil Masami vs. Chigusa Nagoya on August 22, 1985 was named as the 1985 AJW Match of the Year.
Yumiko Hotta & Chigusa Nagayo vs. Akira Hokuto & Yukari Omori on October 10 1986 was named as the AJW 1986 Match of the Year.
Inducted into the All Japan Womens Wrestling Hall of Fame on November 29, 1998.
Formed in the early 1980s, the Crush Gals were possibly the most famous and beloved women's tag team of all time. During the mid-80's they had three runs as WWWA World Tag Team Champions at All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), and were pop culture sensations. They had several top 10 pop singles, and their main event feud against Dump Matsumoto's heel stable drew consistent ratings over 12.0 for AJW's weekly television program on Fuji TV. The feud was highlighted by events such as the first women's hair vs. hair match in Japan between Nagoya and Matsumoto on August 28, 1985, and a vicious run-in on September 10, 1986, when Matsumoto and her gang interrupted as the Crush Gals performed a concert in the ring, and proceeded to cut up Nagoya's clothes, leading to a second hair vs. hair match. The success and popularity of the Crush Gals inspired many young Japanese women to enter pro wrestling. Later in the decade, Nagoya achieved the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship, finishing Yukari Omori with a moonsault, on August 22, 1988. Nagoya lost the belt to her best-friend and Crush Gals partner, Lioness Asuka, on January 22, 1989, after a historic and emotional feud.
In 1989, Nagoya reached age 26, the mandatory retirement age for female wrestlers in Japan, at the time; however, she came out of retirement in the mid-90's to form GAEA Japan. She wrestled as one of GAEA's main eventers and top faces. In December, 1998, Asuka debuted in GAEA and played a heel, allying with Nagoya's rivals and winning the presidency of GAEA from Nagoya in their first match together in ten years, on April 4, 1999. Eventually, however, on December 27, 1999, the Crush Gals were re-united, and went on to win their fourth tag team championship together in spring 2004.
Megumi Kudo
Height: 5 ft 4 in
Weight: 132 lb
Born: September 20th, 1969 in Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan
Resides in: Chiba, Japan
Ring names: "Evil Princess" Megumi Kudo
Pro Wrestling Debut: August 8th, 1986 against Kaoru Maeda
Retired: April 29th, 1997
Retired Japanese female wrestler Megumii Kudo was born Megumi Takayama on September 20th, 1969 in Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan.
Megumi started out with sports playing basketball in high school.
At the age of 16 she joined the joshi puroresu wrestling promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (also known as AJW or Zenjo).
Not finding a lot of success there, she was released after two years and worked as a kindergarten teacher for a time.
Megumi still wanted to pursue pro wrestling though, so in 1990, she joined Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW) a Japanese hardcore wrestling promotion that featured matches with weapons such as barbed wire and fire.
She went to the top of the card fairly quickly.
A lot of people assumed it was because of her looks, but Megumi trained hard, becoming a talented in-ring performer.
Because of her looks and skills, she became one of the most popular female wrestlers in Japan.
Megumi did all types of matches for FMW, but she was best known for "death matches".
Of course they aren't actually "death matches", the bouts usually consisted of the ropes being replaced with barbed wire.
In FMW, she feuded with other female wrestlers like Shark Tsuchiya, Combat Toyoda and Sumie Sakai.
She also created the Vertebreaker (called the Kudo Driver or the Kudome Valentine) which is a back to back double underhook piledriver.
On April 29th, 1997, Megumi had her retirement match against her old rival Shark Tsuchiya.
The match had one of the coolest names ever, a "No ropes, 200 volt double hell, double barbed wire barricade, double landmine glass crush death match"
Outside of wrestling, Megumi has worked as a commentator for pro wrestling events, hosted a weekly radio show in Japan, released a music CD titled "Keep On Running", and appeared in the 1992 film, A Human Murder Weapon.
Yumi Fukawa
Height: 5' 1" (153cm)
Weight: 121 lbs (55kg)
Measurements: (CM) 86-69-90
Pro Wrestling Debut: November 11 1993 w/Kumiko Maekawa vs. Chikako Shiratori & Miki Yokoe
Date of Birth: May 22 1976
Nickname: Dynamite Mini
Promotions: AJW (1993-1997, ARSION (1997-)
Hometown: Kanagawa
December 4 1995 - Won the All Japan Womens tag team wrestling titles with Rie Tamada from Chaparrita ASARI and Kumiko Maekawa. Lost them to Chikayo Nagashima & Sugar Sato on September 1 1996.
Worked for the Arsion promotion.
Released a photo book called 'Aphrodite'.
Ring name(s) Mariko Yoshida
Billed height 5'4" (163 cm)
Billed weight 140.8 lbs (64 kg)
Born February 15, 1970,Hiroshima
Pro Wrestling Debut October 10, 1988
Mariko Yoshida, (born February 15th, 1970 in Onomichi, Hiroshima) is a female professional wrestler best known for her work with the ARSION wrestling promotion, where she was also head trainer.
Yoshida debuted for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW or Zenjo) on October 10, 1988 at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall in a match against Keiko Waki. Before her neck injury in late 1992 - which would cause her to miss two years of ring time - Yoshida was easily one of the best young stars in AJW, often showcasing beautiful Lucha Libre inspired aerial maneuvers to go along with her very good matwork skills.
In 1997, she left AJW to join Aja Kong's ARSION promotion, becoming their head trainer. There she was repackaged as a technical wrestling master, and was pushed as a major star. She has been nicknamed ARSION no Shinjutsu, or "ARSION True Heart". Forgoing the high-flying techniques of her run in Zenjo, her style in ARSION was centered around mat wrestling and submission holds derived from shoot wrestling, along with more elaborate lucha-inspired submissions.
In 2006, Yoshida was presented with the Cauliflower Alley Club's Future Legend Award, becoming only the second female after Cheerleader Melissa, to win this award.
Wrestler: Chaparrita ASARI
Real name Masami Watanabe
Nicknames Top of the Superlight
Name history Chaparrita ASARI
Birth date September 15, 1973 - Tokyo, Japan
Pro wrestling debut: November 19, 1992
Height 4'11"/152 cm
Weight 114 lbs/52kg
Signature moves Skytwister Press
Titles: AJW All Japan Tag Team Champion (with Kumiko Maekawa), AJW All Japan Junior Wrestling Champion (2), WWWA World Super Lightweight Champion (3), Sky High of ARSION Champion.
Height: 5' 5"
Weight: 127 lbs
Date of Birth: October 9th 1979
Wrestling Promotions: AJW (1996-)
Pro Wrestling Debut: July 28th 1996
Finishing Moves: Fisherman Buster
On March 13th, 1998 MihoKayo (Kayo Noumi and Miho Wakizawa) won the All Japan Women's tag team wrestling titles from Momoe Nakanishi and Nanae Takahashi. The titles were vacated later in June when Noumi broke her leg and missed several months of action.
On November 10th 1998, Wakizawa and Kayo Noumi challenged Yuko Kosugi and Sumie Sakai for the vacant All Japan Womens tag team wrestling titles. Sakai and Kosugi won the match
On November 29th 1998 (again with Kayo Noumi), Miho won the All Japan Women's tag team wrestling titles from Yuko Kosugi and Sumie Sakai. They lost them on July 10th 1999 to Kana Misaki and Tsubasa Kuragaki.
On May 12th, 2000, Miho and Kayo Noumi won the All Japan Women's tag team wrestling titles from Kana Misaki and Tsubasa Kuragaki.
Then on September 17th, 2000, Miho won the All Japan Singles title from Nanae Takahashi. She lost the title on May 26 2001 to Rumi Kazama.
On January 19th, 2002, Miho retired from wrestling.
Wrestler Name: Cutie Suzuki
Real Name: Yumi Suzuki
Born: October 22nd, 1969
Hometown: Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
Pro Wrestling Debut: : September 19th, 1986
Titles held: UWA Junior Wrestling title, JWP Junior Wrestling title, JWP Tag Team Women's Wrestling titles (five times, with Mayumi Ozaki twice, Devil Masami once and Dynamite Kansai twice)
Wrestling Promotions worked for: Japanese Women Pro-Wrestling Project (JWP)
Cutie starred in the Sega Mega Drive game, Cutie Suzuki no Ringside Angel.
Wrestlers Name: Yoshiko Tamura
Height: 5' 5" (165cm)
Weight: 149.6lbs (68kg)
Date of Birth: February 6 1976
Pro Wrestling Debut: September 15 1994 vs. Kaoru Kaneyama
Promotions: AJW (1994-1997), Neo Ladies (1997-2000), NEO (2000-)
June 26 1995 - Defeated Misae Watanabe (Misae Genki) for the AJW Junior Wrestling title. Lost it on September 1 1996 to Tomoko Miyaguchi.
July 19 1997 - Defeated Toshie Uematsu for the WCW Womens Cruiserweight Wrestling title. Lost it on September 20 1997 to Sugar Sato.
December 7 1999 - Defeated The Bloody for the AWF Women's Wrestling title. Lost it on January 10 2000 to The Bloody.
August 23 2000 - Defeated Nicole Bass to become the first NWA Pacific and NEO Singles champion. Lost the titles on February 11 2001 to Mima Shimoda.
Rie Tamada
Height: 5' 2" (158cm)
Weight: 125.4lbs (57kg)
Pro Wrestling Debut: October 4 1991 vs. Chikako Hasegawa
Date of Birth: March 16 1973
Nickname: Fighting Cheetah
Promotions: AJW (1991-1997), ARSION (1997-)
On August 10 1992 - Won the All Japan Junior Womens Wrestling title from Akemi Torisu, lost it to Kumiko Maekawa, September 15 1992.
March 17 1995 - Won the All Japan tag team wrestling titles with Mariko Yoshida, from Michiko Ohmukai and Carol Midori. Titles vacated.
On December 4 1995 Won the All Japan tag team wrestling titles with Yumi Fukawa. Lost them to Chikayo Nagashima & Sugar Sato on September 1 1996.
November 21 1996 - Won the All Japan Singles Wrestling title from Kumiko Maekawa, vacated it in December 1997.
On December 7 1998 - With Hiromi Yagi, won the Twin Star of ARSION, defeating Tiger Dream and Ayako Hamada in the tournament final. Lost the titles on June 30 1999 to Mika Akino and Ayako Hamada.
August 20 2000 - With GAMI, won the Twin Star of ARSION from Michiko Ohmukai and Mima Shimoda. Lost the titles on December 3 2000 to Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda.
On December 8 2001 - With GAMI, won the Twin Star of ARSION defeating Ai Fujita and Michiko Ohmukai. Lost the titles on February 17 2002 to Ai Fujita and Michiko Ohmukai.
December 17 2002 - With Takako Inoue won the Twin Star of ARSION.
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