Japanese Wrestling Legends Bull Nakano and Akira Hokuto

Japanese Wrestling Legends Bull Nakano and Akira Hokuto.
Did you know that before she started wrestling, Akira organized the Bull Nakano fanclub?
And that she took the name Akira in honor of Akira Maeda, who was a Japanese wrestling promoter, professional wrestler and MMA pioneer?
Also that both women wrestled in the WCW?

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Akira Hokuto in the WCW

Since I mentioned her in the last post, here is Japanese female wrestler Akira Hokuto and her then manager Sonny Onoo.
Akira is wearing the WCW Women's Championship belt she won in 1996.

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Bull Nakano Punishes Madusa

I guess this is kind of a follow up to my old "Akira Hokuto Destroys Madusa" post.
Legendary Japanese female wrestler Bull Nakano punishing Madusa with a ...ummm...what hold is that anyway?
Answer, it's a Scorpion cross lock

I think they shot this hold from every angle possible

Stretch Muffler, modified Boston Crab?

Gaea

Gaea Japan was a well known Japanese women's professional wrestling promotion founded by Chigusa Nagayo in 1995.
During it's run, the promotion had ties with Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and even had it's own weekly show on The Wrestling Channel.
At a press conference on August 24, 1994, charter members Chigusa, KAORU, and Bomber Hikaru (Mitsuyo Mura) announced the formation of the promotion, and wasted no time in holding rookie auditions the same day.
The new promotion held its first show on April 15, 1995 at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall. "Memorial First Gong" was a sellout and GAEA went on to hold monthly shows at Korakuen and went on the road to hold events in other Japanese cities.
Some of the other wrestlers that worked for Gaea included Toshiyo Yamada, Meiko Satomura, Chikayo Nagashima, Sugar Sato and Carlos Amano.
One of the biggest events in Gaea's run was on December 27, 1999, with the reunion of 80's tag team sensations, the Crush Gals (Chigusa Nagayo and Lioness Asuka).
On April 10, 2005, GAEA's run ended at the appropriately titled, "Eternal Last Gong" ending in the place it began, Korakuen Hall.
At the show, Chigusa lost to her protégée, Meiko Satomura in the main event.
Chigusa Nagayo offically retired after the match.

Gaea Japan was the focus of the 2000 documentary "Gaea Girls", by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams.

And here is part one of Mayumi Ozaki and Chikayo Nagashima wrestling Akira Hokuto and Maiko Matsumoto at GAEA, on April 29, 1997.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UiQH86pVgw
The video was posted by nagashimark on YouTube. You should really check out his channel, he's got a lot of good videos posted there.