is a retired Japanese
professional wrestler
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best known for her time with the Japanese
promotion
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Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling
, often abbreviated to TJPW, is a Japanese joshi puroresu or women's professional wrestling promotion founded in 2012 as a sister promotion of DDT Pro Wrestling. Initially running alongside other shows such as live music and other idol performa ...
where she is a former
Princess Tag Team Champion.
Professional wrestling career
Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling (2015–2018)
Takigawa made her
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 o ...
debut in
Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling
, often abbreviated to TJPW, is a Japanese joshi puroresu or women's professional wrestling promotion founded in 2012 as a sister promotion of DDT Pro Wrestling. Initially running alongside other shows such as live music and other idol performa ...
at ''TJPW You Grow Up'' on September 22, 2018, where she fell short to
Miyu Yamashita
is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling. Yamashita was trained by DDT Pro Wrestling's Kyohei Mikami, and made her debut in August 2013 as one of the first members of DDT's all female Tokyo Joshi Pro sister promoti ...
in a
Singles match. During her time in the promotion, she was part of the Neo Biishiki-gun stable and chased after various championships promoted by it. She won the
Princess Tag Team Championship
The is a women's professional wrestling world tag team championship promoted by the CyberFight promotion, defended on their Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW) brand. The title was introduced on August 12, 2017.
Like most professional wrestling c ...
alongside Sakisama at ''Let's Go! Go! If You Go! When You Go! If You Get Lost You Just Go to Nerima!'' on May 3, 2018 by defeating MiraClians (Shoko Nakajima and Yuka Sakazaki). At ''TJPW At This Time, Get Excited In Narimasu!'' on April 8, 2017, she unsuccessfully challenged Yuu for the
Princess of Princess Championship
The is a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW). The title, which is situated at the top of TJPW's championship hierarchy, was introduced on October 12, 2015, and the inaugural champion was crown ...
. Takigawa wrestled her last match at ''TJPW 5th Anniversary Shin-Kiba Tour 2018 Autumn One'' on October 27, 2018, where she faced the likes of
Hikari Noa,
Hyper Misao
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese promotions Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling.
Professional wrestling career Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (2015–present)
Misao made her professional wrestling debut at '' TJPW Shinju ...
,
Maki Itoh
is a Japanese professional wrestler, actress, and singer affiliated with Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, where she is a former International Princess Champion. She initially debuted as a member of the idol group LinQ, and currently, she is currently ...
, Tetsuya Koda,
Reika Saiki
is a Japanese actress and former bodybuilder, singer, idol and professional wrestler.
Saiki was trained for a career in pro wrestling in the Wrestle-1 dojo under Akira Nogami and Kaz Hayashi, and made her debut in March 2016. In June of the sam ...
,
Yuki Kamifuku
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer and is best known for her tenure with the Japanese promotions DDT Pro-Wrestling and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling.
Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2017&ndash ...
,
Yuna Manase
, better know by her ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working as a freelancer and is best known for her tenure with the Japanese promotion Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling. She also works as a coach and trained various wrestlers ...
and others in a
best three-out-of-five falls 18-on-one handicap match.
DDT Pro-Wrestling (2016–2018)
Due to being a TJPW wrestler, Takigawa is known for competing in sister-promotion
DDT Pro-Wrestling
is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Its name stands for Dramatic Dream Team, which was the promotion's official name from 1997 to 2004. Founded in March 1997 by Shintaro Muto, the promotion was eventually bo ...
. She made appearances in several of the promotion's signature events such as the
DDT Judgement, marking her first performance at
Judgement 2016: DDT 19th Anniversary on March 21 where she participated in a
13-woman battle royal won by
Yuka Sakazaki
is a Japanese professional wrestler. She is signed to Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, where she is the current Princess of Princess Champion and former two-time Tokyo Princess Tag Team Champion, and is also signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
E ...
and also involving
Ai Shimizu
is a Japanese voice actress and professional wrestler. She has a career as a singer, signed to Lantis. She has released 14 singles (including joint and character singles) and four albums. She covered Yumi Matsutoya's " Toki o Kakeru Shōjo" as ...
,
Marika Kobashi,
Nodoka Tenma
also known as Nodoka-Oneesan is a retired Japanese professional wrestler best known for her time in the Japanese promotion Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling.
Professional wrestling career Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling (2015–2022)
Tenma made her professio ...
and others. At
Judgement 2017: DDT 20th Anniversary on March 20, she teamed up with
Reika Saiki
is a Japanese actress and former bodybuilder, singer, idol and professional wrestler.
Saiki was trained for a career in pro wrestling in the Wrestle-1 dojo under Akira Nogami and Kaz Hayashi, and made her debut in March 2016. In June of the sam ...
and
Rika Tatsumi
better known by her ring name is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese promotions Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling and DDT Pro Wrestling.
Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2014-present) Tokyo Joshi Pro ...
in a losing effort against
Yuu,
Mil Clown and
Maki Itoh
is a Japanese professional wrestler, actress, and singer affiliated with Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, where she is a former International Princess Champion. She initially debuted as a member of the idol group LinQ, and currently, she is currently ...
. Another branch of events in which Misao has worked is
DDT Peter Pan
is an annual Japanese professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). The event has been held since 2009 and aired domestically on Fighting TV Samurai and later as an internet pay-per-view (iPPV) on DDT's streaming service Wr ...
, making her first appearance at
Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2017
was a professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). The event took place on August 20, 2017, in Tokyo at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. The event featured seventeen matches, seven of which were contested for championships. The event ...
on August 20, where she competed in a
Rumble rules match for the
Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship
The is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion CyberFight in its DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) brand. Open to anyone, regardless of gender or DDT employment status, the championship is defended " 24/7", as i ...
won by Yuu and also involving
Yuna Manase
, better know by her ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working as a freelancer and is best known for her tenure with the Japanese promotion Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling. She also works as a coach and trained various wrestlers ...
,
Mizuki,
Maho Kurone and others. She has also made appearances in non-flaghsip events such as the ''DDT/Saki Akai Produce DDT Collection'' from March 14, 2018, where she competed in a
GM for a day match won by
Kazuki Hirata
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT).
Professional wrestling career DDT Pro-Wrestling (2010-present)
Hirata's first known match as a professional wrestle ...
and also involving notable male opponents of the roster such as
Akito,
Antonio Honda
is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name . He is currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). He is the son of actor Tetsu Watanabe.
Professional wrestling career Indepe ...
,
Danshoku Dino
, better known by his ring name , also written Danshoku Dieno, is a Japanese professional wrestler. Dino has spent most of his career competing for DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), where he plays an overly exaggerated homosexual character. His ring nam ...
,
Harashima
Harashima (stylised in all capital letters) (born July 6, 1974) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in DDT Pro-Wrestling (formally Dramatic Dream Team), where he is a ten-time KO-D Openweight Champion and a curren ...
,
Konosuke Takeshita
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to both All Elite Wrestling (AEW) in the United States and DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) in Japan. Takeshita was named the Rookie of the Year by ''Tokyo Sports'' in 2013 and is the youngest KO-D O ...
,
Yuki Ueno
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT).
Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2016–present)
Ueno made his professional wrestling debut at ...
,
Yuko Miyamoto
is a Japanese professional wrestler. He originally started his career in Wrestling Marvelous Future in August 2003, but later left the promotion and in 2004, signed with Dark Pro-Wrestling 666 (666). Miyamoto has since appeared in Big Japan Pro W ...
and female, such as
Yoshiko.
Championships and accomplishments
*
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling
, often abbreviated to TJPW, is a Japanese joshi puroresu or women's professional wrestling promotion founded in 2012 as a sister promotion of DDT Pro Wrestling. Initially running alongside other shows such as live music and other idol perform ...
**
Tokyo Princess Tag Team Championship (
1 time) – with
Sakisama
References
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Living people
1987 births
Japanese female professional wrestlers
21st-century female professional wrestlers
Professional wrestlers from Tokyo
Sportspeople from Tokyo
Princess Tag Team Champions