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Bull Nakano
is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and professional golfer better known as . She began competing in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) as a teenager under the ring name Bull Nakano. As a wrestler she was a villain, who often teamed with her mentor Dump Matsumoto. In Japan, she held several of AJW's singles and tag team championships. After being phased out by the company in the early 1990s, she traveled to North America, where she first competed in Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), becoming its first World Women's Champion. In 1994, she made her way to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where she had feuded with Alundra Blayze over the WWF Women's Championship. After holding the title once, she also competed in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In 1998, Nakano began competing as a professional golfer, and in 2006, she joined a tour with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). She was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newslette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawaguchi, Saitama
is a Cities of Japan, city located in southwestern Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 595,011 in 293,582 households and a population density of 9605 persons per km². The total area of the city is . It is the Greater Tokyo Area's 8th most populated city (after passing Hachioji), and second largest in Saitama Prefecture, after eponymous Saitama (city), Saitama. Geography Kawaguchi is located near the center of the Kantō Plain in southwestern Saitama Prefecture in east-central Honshu, and is bordered by the Tokyo wards of Kita-ku, Tokyo, Kita-ku and Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Adachi-ku to the south. The city area is mostly flat and mainly residential except for the Omiya tableland, which occupies part of the north and east area. The Arakawa River (Kanto), Arakawa River runs across the border with Kita-ku to the south.The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Kawaguchi." ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', May 22, 2018https://www.britannica.com/place/Kawaguchi./r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall Of Fame
The ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' (''WON'') Hall of Fame is a professional wrestling and mixed martial arts (MMA) hall of fame that recognizes people who make significant contributions to their professions. It was founded in 1996 by Dave Meltzer, editor of ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WON''. Like many other wrestling halls of fame, such as the WWE Hall of Fame, WWE, TNA Hall of Fame, TNA, ROH Hall of Fame , ROH and WCW Hall of Fame, WCW halls of fame, ''WON''s Hall of Fame is not contained in a building. There are no ceremonies for inductions other than a highly detailed biographical documentation of their career in the newsletter. Inductees include wrestlers/fighters, Manager (professional wrestling), managers, Promoter (entertainment), promoters, trainers, and Sportscaster, commentators. On select occasions, groups, either tag teams, ''trios'', or quartets, have been inducted rather than the individual members of the group. This first occurred in 1996, when The Fabulous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noriyo Tateno
(born December 1, 1965) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler who is best known as one half of the tag team Jumping Bomb Angels with Itsuki Yamazaki. She worked in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, WWF and has been working in Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling since 1992, until her retirement in 2010. Professional wrestling career All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (1981-1992) Tateno competed in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling in the 1980s. On August 10, 1982, she defeated Chigusa Nagayo to win the AJW Junior Championship, which she held until January 8, 1984 when she lost it to Nagayo. On February 28, 1984, she was defeated by future partner Itsuki Yamazaki for the AJW Championship. Tateno also held the All Pacific Championship in All Japan. She defeated Bull Nakano for the title on November 13, 1989 and held it until April 30, 1990, when she was defeated by Aja Kong. The Jumping Bomb Angels (1982-1989) Tateno teamed with Itsuki Yamazaki to form a tag team that initially co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Pacific Championship
The All Pacific Championship was the secondary singles women's professional wrestling title in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling or AJW. The belt was started as the Hawaiian Pacific Championship in 1977 and was renamed the All Pacific Championship in 1978. Title history Combined reigns See also * List of professional wrestling promotions in Japan * List of women's wrestling promotions * Professional wrestling in Japan References All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling championships Women's professional wrestling championships Regional professional wrestling championships {{All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Grand Prix
The Japan Grand Prix was an annual professional wrestling tournament held by the promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) to determine the number one contender for the promotion's highest achievement, the WWWA World Single Championship. The tournament was held in the summer every year from 1985 to 2004. In 2005, AJW was closed for good, and the WWWA Championship was abandoned. List of winners Results 1985 The 1985 Japan Grand Prix was a 10-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 25, 1985. 1986 The 1986 Japan Grand Prix was a 12-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 22, 1986. 1987 The 1987 Japan Grand Prix was a 13-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 28, 1987. 1988 The 1988 Japan Grand Prix was an 11-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 26, 1988. 1989 The 1989 Japan Grand Prix was a 19-woman single-elimination tournament held from June 25 to August 24, 1989. 1990 The 1990 Japan Grand Prix was a seven-woman sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Marie Johnston
Dawn Marie Johnston is a former professional wrestler, better known by her ring name, Dawn Marie. She was active in the 1980s and early 1990s. She wrestled primarily in Japan, National Wrestling Federation (NWF), World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and Ladies Professional Wrestling Association (LPWA). Professional wrestling career In a six-woman match in Japan during the summer of 1985, Johnston teamed with Desiree Petersen and Dump Matsumoto against Jaguar Yokota (Rimi Yokota) and the Jumping Bomb Angels ( Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki). The heels controlled from the get go due to a sneak attack before the bell. The faces just made brief comebacks during the first 12 minutes. Dump won the match for her team. In March 1986, she wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) at the Boston Garden, teaming with Velvet McIntyre against Bull Nakano and Dump Masamoto. She also wrestled as a part of Sensational Sherri's team at the Survivor Series Survivor Series, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velvet McIntyre
Velvet McIntyre (born November 24, 1962) is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. After beginning her career in 1980, she wrestled in American independent promotions before joining the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). She had rivalries with both The Fabulous Moolah and Sherri Martel and held the WWF Women's Championship and WWF Women's Tag Team Championship. After the WWF's women's division went on hiatus in the 1990s, McIntyre wrestled in several Canadian promotions, holding several championships. McIntyre wore wrestling boots for the first four years of her career, but later wrestled barefoot when someone took one of her boots as a joke and she was forced to wrestle without them. Wrestling barefoot subsequently became one of her trademarks, as well as her high flying wrestling maneuvers. Early life She had three brothers with whom she wrestled. After finishing high school, she moved to Oregon in 1980 to train with Sandy Barr, under whom she trained with her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWWA World Tag Team Championship
The World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA) World Tag Team Championship was the top doubles championship in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) from 1971 until it closed in 2005. During those years the title was held by many of the most famous tag teams in Japanese women's professional wrestling, including the Beauty Pair ( Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda) and the Crush Gals (Chigusa Nagayo and Lioness Asuka). The WWWA Tag Team belt succeeded AJW's original tag belt, the American Girls Wrestling Association (AGWA) International Tag Team Championship, which was contested in AJW from 1968 until 1971. Reigns Combined reigns By team By wrestler See also * List of professional wrestling promotions in Japan * List of women's wrestling promotions * Professional wrestling in Japan Professional wrestling in Japan has existed for several decades. The first Japanese person to involve themselves in catch wrestling (the basis of traditional professional wrestling) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heel (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a ''rudo'' in ''lucha libre'') is a wrestler who portrays a villain, "bad guy", "baddie", "evil-doer", or "rulebreaker", and acts as an antagonist to the Face (professional wrestling), faces, who are the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters. Not everything a heel wrestler does must be villainous: heels need only to be booed or jeered by the audience to be effective characters, although most truly successful heels embrace other aspects of their devious personalities, such as cheating to win or using Glossary of professional wrestling terms#foreign object, foreign objects. "The role of a heel is to get 'heat,' which means spurring the crowd to obstreperous hatred, and generally involves cheating and any other manner of socially unacceptable behavior." To gain Heat (professional wrestling), heat (with boos and jeers from the audience), heels are often portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner by breaking rules or otherwise ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaoru Matsumoto
, better known by her ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler. She came to prominence as one of the leading female wrestlers in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) during the 1980s. The longtime leader of the Atrocious Alliance stable, which included Crane Yu, Condor Saito and Bull Nakano, she was one of the main rivals of the popular tag team the Crush Gals. Their long-running feud would become extremely popular in Japan during the 1980s, with their televised matches resulting in some of the highest rated in Japanese television as well as the promotion regularly selling out arenas. Early life Matsumoto came from poverty; She was born to a regularly unemployed alcoholic father and mother who had irregular work in the city of Kumagaya in the Saitama Prefecture. The family, which also included Matsumoto's sister Hiromi, lived in a one-room apartment and depended on her father's family for support. His family ran a farm in nearby Higashimatsuyama. Matsumoto has recalled st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AJW Championship
The AJW Championship was a tertiary belt in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) promotion. The first champion, in 1980, was Rimi Yokota. During the title's history, no one held the belt more than two times. The belt was abandoned in 2005 after AJW was closed down. The AJW Championship first design was a brown belt that also represented the AJW Junior Championship. Later, its design was replaced by one inspired on Fabulous Moolah's World Women's Championship belt. When the IWA World Championship was introduced in AJW in 1988, All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling worked with three regular tertiary singles belts. The WWWA World Single Championship and the All Pacific Championship were the most prestigious (world championship) and the second most prestigious (secondary championship) singles belts, respectively. Title history Combined reigns Footnotes See also * List of professional wrestling promotions in Japan * List of women's wrestling promotions * Professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AJW Junior Championship
The AJW Junior Championship was a tertiary singles title in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. The title started in 1980 and was retired in April 2005 when the promotion closed. The prize was originally contested among wrestlers under the age of 20, but in 1993, they changed it to wrestlers with less than two years of experience in professional wrestling. The first belt design was a brown belt that also represented the AJW Championship. Later, the Junior Championship became a golden belt with a turquoise strap. Title history Combined reigns Footnotes See also * List of professional wrestling promotions in Japan * List of women's wrestling promotions * Professional wrestling in Japan Professional wrestling in Japan has existed for several decades. The first Japanese person to involve themselves in catch wrestling (the basis of traditional professional wrestling) was former sumo wrestler Sorakichi Matsuda. There were subsequ ... References {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
