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Plum Mariko Memorial Show
The Plum Mariko Memorial Show was an annual professional wrestling event held in 1997 and 1998 in memory of Plum Mariko featuring representatives from Puroresu#Joshi_puroresu, joshi promotions All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, J'd, JWP Joshi Puroresu, Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling and NEO as well as puroresu, puroresu promotions Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, IWA Japan and Yoshiaki Yatsu's Super Pro Wrestling Federation. The first show was held in Tokyo, Japan at the Ota Ward Gym on October 30, 1997, and was attended by 2,500 fans. The main event featured Cutie Suzuki and Dynamite Kansai defeating Mayumi Ozaki in a handicapping, "handicap" match. On the undercard, AJW's Kaoru Ito and Nanae Takahashi defeated Kumiko Maekawa and Momoe Nakanishi and FMW's Crusher Maedomari defeated Kaoru Nakayama. A second show was held the following year at the Ota Ward Gym on August 13, 1998, with 2,703 in attendance. Mayumi Ozaki and Devil Masami defeated Cutie Suzuki and Dyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Wrestling
Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring or—as in televised wrestling shows—in backstage areas of the venue, in similar form to reality television. Professional wrestling as a form of theater evolved out of the widespread practice of match fixing among wrestlers in the early 20th century. Rather than sanction the wrestlers for their deceit as was done with boxers, the public instead came to see professional wrestling as a performance art rather than a sport. Professional wrestlers responded to the public's attitude by dispensing with verisimilitude in favor of entertainment, adding melodrama and outlandish stuntwork to their performances. Although the mock combat they performed ceased to resemble any authentic wrestling form, the wrestlers nevertheless continued to pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanae Takahashi
(born December 23, 1978) is a Japanese professional wrestler and the founder of Seadlinnng. She has wrestled for prominent Japanese promotions All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Sun, and is a two-time women's world champion in major professional wrestling promotions. Professional wrestling career Freelancing (1996-present) Nanae Takahashi graduated from All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling's (AJW) training class of 1996, and rose to prominence at a time when AJW was beginning its decline. Early on, she achieved the most fame as part of the tag team Nanamomo with classmate Momoe Nakanishi. Together, Nanamomo won four tag team championships, the AJW Tag Team Championship twice (on November 23, 1997 and August 23, 1998) and the WWWA World Tag Team Championship twice (on July 16, 2000, and July 6, 2002). Concurrently, Takahashi was making a name for herself as a singles competitor, winning the AJW Championship on March 1, 2000, and the junior division competition at that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harley Saito
Sayori Saito (斉藤 さより) (December 21, 1967 – December 15, 2016) was a Japanese professional wrestler, who performed under the name of Harley Saito (ハーレー斉藤). She spent much of her career for Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling. Career Trained by Nancy Kumi at the JWP Joshi Puroresu Dojo, Sayori Saito mader her debut for JWP in 1986, adopting the name Halley, from Halley's comet. In March 1987, she wrestled a show for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, losing to Miss A. During that time, she changed her ring name to Harley, from Harley-Davidson motorcycles. She avenged the loss in April 1988 at the Ikki Kajiwara Memorial Show. In 1992, she went overseas to the United States, wrestling for the Ladies Professional Wrestling Association. While in the LPWA, she defeated Denise Storm in the finals of a tournament to determine the first LPWA Japanese Champion. She was the first and only champion, as the LPWA folded later that year. Upon returning to Japan, she joined the exodus fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emi Sakura
, better known by the ring name , is a Japanese people, Japanese Professional wrestling, professional wrestler performing for All Elite Wrestling (AEW). After starting her career in International Wrestling Association of Japan in August 1995, Sakura worked for several promotions across Japan, winning numerous titles, before founding her own promotion, Ice Ribbon, in early 2006. Sakura not only wrestled for the promotion, but was also solely responsible for training wrestlers for the promotion, where she went on to become a two-time ICE Cross Infinity Championship, ICE×60 Champion and a five-time International Ribbon Tag Team Championship, International Ribbon Tag Team Champion. During 2009, Sakura held not only both the ICE×60 and International Ribbon Tag Team Championships, but also the Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Championship, Daily Sports Women's and JWP Tag Team Championships and the NWA Women's Pacific/NEO Single Championship, NEO Single and NWA Women's Pacific Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiharu
is a feminine Japanese given name which is occasionally used by men. Possible writings Chiharu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *千春, "thousand, spring" *千晴, "thousand, sunny weather" *知春, "wisdom, spring" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name * Chiharu Araki (千陽, born 1982), Japanese politician * Chiharu Icho (千春, born 1981), Japanese wrestler * Chiharu Igaya (千春, born 1931), Japanese Olympic alpine skier * Chiharu Kawai (千春, born 1973), Japanese actress, model, and voice actress * Chiharu Kitaoka (千陽, born 1988), Japanese voice actress *Chiharu Matsuyama (千春, born 1955), Japanese singer-songwriter *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese businesswoman and singer *Chiharu Nakamura (知春, born 1988), Japanese rugby sevens player *Chiharu Niiyama (千春), a Japanese actress and gravure idol *, Japanese speed skater *, Japanese male boxer *Chiharu Saiguchi (千晴, born 1938), Justice of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Moreno
María Esther Moreno León (born February 20, 1969) is a Mexican ''luchadora'', or female professional wrestler best known under the ring name Esther Moreno. In AAA she is a former 2 time AAA Reina de Reinas Champion. Professional wrestling career In the early 1990s Esther and her sister Cynthia Moreno travelled to Japan to wrestle for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. On April 21, 1991 the Moreno sisters defeated Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda to win the AJW Tag Team Championship, making them the first Mexican team to hold a championship in Japan. They would hold the titles until August 2, 1991 where they lost the title to Takako Inoue and Mariko Yoshida. Personal life Esther Moreno is a member of an extended wrestling family founded by her father Alfonso Moreno who was both a wrestler and a wrestling promoter and her mother who took over promoting wrestling in Arena Azteca Budokan in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State after Alfonso Moreno died. Esther's sisters Rossy Alda and Cynthia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoko Inoue
is a Japanese female professional wrestler. She has held the WWWA World Single Championship three times, and is the first woman to win a men's title in Japan. Inoue performed in the World Wrestling Federation at Survivor Series 1995 in an all-women's Survivor Series elimination match that included WWF Women's Champion Alundra Blayze, Bertha Faye and Aja Kong. She is also the founder of the ''joshi'' promotion NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling. After leaving NEO in May 2010, Inoue founded the World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana promotion in January 2011. Kyoko Inoue was trained by famous Japanese wrestler, Jaguar Yokota. Professional wrestling career World Wrestling Federation (1994; 1995) On May 11, 1994, Inoue made her first appearance on World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during a live event in Japan, where she unsuccessfully challenged Alundra Blayze for the WWF Women's Championship. On November 19, 1995, at Survivor Series, Inoue joined the team of Blayze in the traditional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azumi Hyuga
better known by her ring name Azumi Hyuga is a Japanese retired professional wrestler best known for her tenure with various Japanese promotions such as All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, JWP Joshi Puroresu and NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (1995-2009) As a freelancer, Kuzumi is known for competing in multiple promotions of the Japanese independent scene. On the fourth night of the ''Starlet'' tournament of Arsion which took place on April 6, 2003, Kuzumi teamed up with Baby-A and Mariko Yoshida in a losing effort against Bionic J, Gami and Police Woman as a result of a best two out of three falls six-woman tag team match. At ''JDStar Fighting Beauty ~ Dreamer ~'' on December 17, 2005, Kuzumi defeated Kana. At ''NEO Be Happy Again ~ 10th Anniversary'', an event promoted by NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling on January 6, 2008, she participated in a 30-person battle royal won by Mima Shimoda and also involving Etsuko Mita, Munenori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Command Bolshoi
is a retired Japanese professional wrestler. She debuted for Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP) in November 1991 and worked for its follow-up promotion JWP Joshi Puroresu from 1992 until its folding in 2017, also serving as its final president. During her years in JWP, Bolshoi became a two-time JWP Openweight Champion, seven-time JWP Tag Team Champion and a four-time Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Champion. Bolshoi has worked under mask for a majority of her career and has managed to keep her real name and birthdate secret. Professional wrestling career JWP Joshi Puroresu (1991–2017) After spending two years training at the JWP Dojo, Bolshoi made her professional wrestling debut for the Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP) promotion on November 26, 1991, teaming with Mami Kitamura in a tag team match, where the two faced Hikari Fukuoka and Reiko Hoshino. Originally she worked under a clown mask and the ring name "Bolshoi Kid", named after the Russian Bolshoi Circus. The follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomoko Miyaguchi
Tomoko (ともこ, トモコ) is a female Japanese given name. Like many Japanese names, Tomoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: * 友子 - "friendly child" * 知子 - "knowing child" * 智子 - "wise child" * 朋子 - "friendly child" * 皆子 - "beautiful girl" * 詩子 - "poetic child" People with the name * , Japanese politician * , Japanese voice actress * Tomoko Aran (荒野智子), born January 14, 1958, Japanese city pop artist * , Japanese judoka * , Japanese origami writer * , Japanese swimmer * , Japanese announcer * , Japanese actress and essayist * , Japanese motorcycle racer * , Japanese actress * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese politician * , victim of Minamata disease and subject of the photo '' Tomoko and Mother in the Bath'' * , Japanese singer * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese artist * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese singer * , Japanese professional wrestler * , Japanese singer, part of 1980s J-Pop duo BaBe * , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rieko Amano
is a Japanese retired professional wrestler better known by the ring name . Amano made her debut for JWP Joshi Puroresu in December 1994 and early on began also making appearances for the Gaea Japan promotion, where she most notably became one of the four founding members of the Oz Academy stable. Amano joined Gaea Japan full-time in 2002 and remained with the promotion until its folding in 2005, becoming a one-time AAAW Tag Team Champion. Afterwards, Amano began working for Oz Academy, now a full-time promotion, where she went on to become a two-time Oz Academy Openweight Champion and a three-time Oz Academy Tag Team Champion. Amano retired from professional wrestling in August 2014. Professional wrestling career JWP and Gaea Japan (1994–2005) Amano made her debut under her real name for the JWP Joshi Puroresu on December 4, 1994, when she faced another debutante, Tomoko Miyaguchi, in a singles match. Early on in her career, Amano also began making regular appearances for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manami Toyota
is a retired professional wrestler, best known for her work with the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) promotion. She is considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. Following AJW's closure, she continued to work in other ''joshi'' promotions such as Gaea and NEO. Professional wrestling career All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (1987–2009) Manami Toyota made her professional wrestling debut on August 5, 1987, at the age of 16, in a singles match against Sachiko Nakamura.John Molinaro, ''The Top 100 Pro Wrestlers of All Time'', (Winding Stair Press: 2002), p. 208. Her big break came in her second year, on the first ''Wrestlemarinpiad'' show from Yokohama Arena, on May 6, 1989. Teamed with Mima Shimoda as the Tokyo Sweethearts, she defeated Etsuko Mita and Toshiyo Yamada in a match that nearly stole the card from the more established veterans. The bout had all the basic ingredients that made Toyota a star, including flashy moves, fast and frequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
