Mimi Hagiwara - Japanese Girls Wrestling

I used to say, "When in doubt post Kana."
But now it seems like the most popular lady here is the legendary Mimi Hagiwara.
So here is basically just a Mimi Hagiwara picture dump.
Enjoy.

Hamuko Hoshi - Japanese Female Wrestling

Japanese female wrestler Hamuko Hoshi was born on October 19th, 1982 in Iwamizawa, Hokkaido.
She works for the Ice Ribbon promotion and makes appearances for the World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana promotion.
Hamuko was trained by Ice Ribbon founder Emi Sakura and made her wrestling debut on April 12th, 2008.
She is the ICE×∞ Champion (she defeated defeated Aoi Kizuki), she has held the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship (4 times), the IW19 Championship and won the 4th 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling Tournament.
Hamuko also held the Reina World Tag Team Championship with Hailey Hatred.

Command Bolshoi - Japanese Female Wrestling

Command Bolshoi is almost a legend in Japanese female wrestling.
And with good reason.
She has held six titles in Ice Ribbon, JWP Joshi Puroresu and Reina Joshi Puroresu.
She has won tons of wrestling awards.
Since her debut in JWP back in 1991, she has managed to keep her real name, birthday and birthplace secret.
And she is currently the president of JWP Joshi Puroresu promotion.
Oh yean...earlier I did say her debut in 1991.

Yes...Command Bolshoi has been wrestling for 24 years.
And actually she looks better than ever now.
It seems she has gotten into Bodybuilding and it shows...

Nanae Takahashi - Japanese Women Wrestlers

Nanae Takahashi is one of the veteran Japanese women wrestlers still active today.
She was born on December 23rd, 1978 and made her wrestling debut on July 14th, 1996 in a match against Momoe Nakanishi, in Korakuen Hall, Tokyo.
So this July she will celebrate 16 years in the business.
During those 16 years she has held a ton of titles including belts in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, AWA Superstars of Wrestling, Ice Ribbon, JDStar, JWP, NEO Japan Ladies' Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX and now Stardom.

Nanae Takahashi vs Meiko Satomura

Japanese Women Wrestlers at xDangerousQueensx

Do you like Joshi?
Do you like tumblr?
Then you need to check out xDangerousQueensx (http://xdangerousqueenx.tumblr.com/).
TONS of great pictures and videos. not just Japanese women wrestlers but a lot of Indy wrestling as well.
I found this picture of Kana there, and that's just the tip of the iceberg....

Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara in Shimmer

Like I said in my last entry, Joshi may not be burning everything up in Japan these days, but we are reaping the benefit of that downturn here in the US.
Mainly because of Shimmer.
Here we have Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara, who held the Shimmer Tag Team Championship from October 1st, 2011 to March 18th 2012.
Interestingly, the tag team they defeated for the belt was Daizee Haze and another Joshi star, Tomoka Nakagawa.

     http://shimmerwrestling.blogspot.com/

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?

Sakura Emi (Emi Sakura) - Japanese Female Wrestling

This is Japanese female wrestler Sakura Emi (or Emi Sakura, take your pick)
Emi was born on October 4th, 1976 in Kimitsu, Chiba, Japan.
She started out wrestling under her own name (Emi Motokawa) for wrestling promotions like the International Wrestling Association of Japan and Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling.

Emi went on to wrestle as a freelancer for promotions like Gatokunyan (GTKN) and NEO.
Notably though, she is the founder of the all women's wrestling promotion, Ice Ribbon.
This five foot two, 154 pound wrestler has held a ton of titles so far in her career including the AJW Singles Championship, the AWF Women’s Championship, the NEO Singles and NWA Women’s Pacific Championship, the NEO Tag Team Championship (once with Kyoko Kimura), the JWP Tag Team Championship, the Daily Sports Tag Team Champion (once with Kaori Yoneyama), the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship (twice), the ICEx60 Singles Championship (twice) and the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship (three times, once with Kaori Yoneyama, once with Nanae Takahashi and once with Ray)