better known by her

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Misae Genki is a Japanese retired

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best known for her tenure with the Japanese promotions

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All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling , nicknamed Zenjo (全女: 全 meaning "All", 女 meaning "Woman") was a ''joshi puroresu'' (women's professional wrestling) professional wrestling promotion, promotion established in 1968 by Takashi Matsunaga and his brothers. The group held th ...

and

JWP Joshi Puroresu , also known as or simply JWP, was a Japanese ''joshi puroresu'' (women's professional wrestling) promotion, founded in 1992 as a splinter promotion of Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. Celebrating its 25th anniversary at the time of its folding in 2 ...

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (1996–2008)

Watanabe is known for competing in various promotions from the Japanese independent scene. She competed in two of the earliest events promoted by

Ice Ribbon is a ''joshi puroresu'' (women's professional wrestling) professional wrestling promotion, promotion established in 2006 by Emi Sakura, after her split with Gatokunyan. History Ice Ribbon was founded by Emi Sakura, a professional wrestler wh ...

, both held on September 9, 2006, respective the ''Ice Ribbon The Fifth Ice Ribbon Part 2 and 3'', where she first teamed up with

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to defeat

Aoi Kizuki is a Japanese retired professional wrestler best known for her tenure with various Japanese promotions such as Ice Ribbon, JWP Joshi Puroresu and Oz Academy. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2005–2018) Kizuki made her pr ...

and

Kaori Yoneyama is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working as a freelancer on the Japanese independent circuit. Yoneyama started her career in 1999, working with the JWP Joshi Puroresu promotion. During the following years, she became a one-time J ...

, and secondly with

Ayako Sato (born January 4, 1986) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana, where she is a member of the CRYSIS stable. She is also known for her time in the Japanese promotions JWP Joshi Puroresu and Pure-J. ...

to defeat Kizuki and

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. At ''

Oz Academy is a Japanese ''joshi puroresu'' or women's professional wrestling promotion founded by Mayumi Ozaki. The promotion's full official name is . In addition to the contracted members of the roster, Oz Academy has also employed some of the top freel ...

Wizard'' on April 1, 2007, she teamed up with

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in a losing effort against

Chikayo Nagashima is a Japanese professional wrestler. She started her career in 1995, working for the Gaea Japan promotion, where she became a one-time AAAW Single Champion and a record five-time AAAW Tag Team Champion. She was also notably one of the four fou ...

and

Dynamite Kansai is a retired Japanese female professional wrestler, better known by the ring name . Career Chieko Suzuki was born on December 4, 1969, and was raised in Kyoto, Japan. In 1986 she auditioned for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), but was ...

. She also took part in independent events such as ''

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's 30th Anniversary Convention'' from March 11, 2007, where she competed in a 32-person battle royal won by

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and also involving popular wrestlers from the 1980s and 1990s like Akino,

Carlos 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 ...

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Sachie Abe better known by her ring name Sachie Abe is a Japanese retired professional wrestler best known for her tenure with the Japanese promotions JWP Joshi Puroresu and JDStar. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (1996-2014) As a freel ...

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and many others.

JWP Joshi Puroresu (1998–2008)

Watanabe also competed in JWP. Her most notable works mainly focused on title matches, such as the one from ''JWP Climax 2008'' on December 28, where she teamed up with Keiko Aono to unsuccessfully challenge Ran Yu-Yu and Toshie Uematsu for both the

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and the

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All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (1994–2005)

Watanabe made her

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debut in

at ''AJW Japan Grand Prix '94'' on August 28, 1994, where she teamed up with Kumiko Maekawa and faced Rie Tamada and

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. During her eleven-year tenure with the promotion, Watanabe competed in various of the promotion's signarute events. As for the

Tag League the Best __NOTOC__ The was an annual professional wrestling tag team tournament, founded by All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), which held it from 1985 to 2004 (with no tournament taking place in 1990). After the folding of AJW in 2005, the tournament wa ...

, she made her first appearance at the 2001 edition where she teamed up with Kumiko Maekawa and scored a total of five points after going against the teams of

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and

Kaoru Ito is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist currently working as a freelancer and is best known for her tenure with the Japanese promotions All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling and JWP Joshi Puroresu. Professional wrestling c ...

and

Momoe Nakanishi , née , born July 7, 1980 is a Japanese people, Japanese retired Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, better known by her Married and maiden names, maiden name, . Nakanishi made her debut for the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) in ...

, Las Cachorras Orientales (

Etsuko Mita is a retired Japanese professional wrestler. She formed a successful tag team with her partner Mima Shimoda as ''Las Cachorras Orientales'' (Spanish for "The Oriental Bitches"; which was originally a trio with Akira Hokuto) and Toshiyo Yamada as ...

and

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), Kiss no Sekai (Kayo Noumi and

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) and

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and Tomoko Watanabe. At the 2002 edition she teamed up with Maekawa again, scoring a total of seven points after competing against Kiss no Sekai (Kayo Noumi and Momoe Nakanishi),

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and Tomoko Watanabe, Las Cachorras Orientales (Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda), Fang Suzuki and Nanae Takahashi,

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and Yumiko Hotta,

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and

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, and Mika Nishio and Miyuki Fujii. Anothee event in which she took part was the

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, the promotion's greatest yearly tournament, in which she made her first appearance at the 1997 edition where she scored a total of five known points against Kaoru Ito, Manami Toyota, Kumiko Maekawa, Etsuko Mita, Mima Shimoda,

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, Rie Tamada, Saya Endo, Tanny Mouse, Yoshiko Tamura and Mariko Yoshida. Her last appearance took place at the 2004 edition where she defeated Nanae Takahashi in the first rounds but fell short to Hikaru in the second ones.

Championships and accomplishments

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** BJW Women's Championship ( 1 time, inaugural) *

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 ...

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 ...

( 5 times) *

( 1 time) – with

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( 3 times) **

NEO Tag Team Championship The NEO Tag Team Championship was the primary tag team title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling. The title was introduced in 2005 and was retired in December 2010 when the promotion closed. There have b ...

(2 times) – with Haruka Matsuo (1) and

Yoshiko Tamura is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. Tamura was trained by the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) promotion, made her debut in September 1994 and worked for the promotion for three years, winning the AJW Junior Championship, before ta ...

(1) **AWF World Women's Championship (1 time) **NEO Japan Cup (2001, 2002, 2005) **NEO Hall Of Fame (2010)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Genki, Misae 1973 births Living people 20th-century female professional wrestlers 21st-century female professional wrestlers Japanese female professional wrestlers People from Saitama Prefecture Sportspeople from Saitama Prefecture Ironman Heavymetalweight Champions JWP Tag Team Champions