Francoise vs Ayako Sato

The last wrestling match I posted here was Ayako Sato and Misaki Ohata.
Well this one is Ayako again, but this time against a blog favorite, Francoise (Huransowazu).

Francoise Hirota has worked for Osaka Pro, LLPW Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling and she also worked for the Japanese wrestling promotion HUSTLE as the valet of the late Lance Cade.
I believe this is her actual wrestling debut on January 5th, 2007 for LLPW.

First up we have an interview with Francoise showing her working out and yes setting up the ring and cleaning.
You dont just go into Japanese wrestling and say "I wanna be a star".
There are dues to pay.

So finally at about 2:30 we get to her actual match against Ayako.
She looks a bit nervous, but who can blame her?

Francoise recovers from that pretty quickly and immediately opens up with a running drop kick.
She tags Ayako a few more times with dropkick and goes for a quick pin which Ayako breaks up with the ropes.

Now Ayako opens up with her own series of dropkicks, followed up with some bone-jarring snapmares which Francoise sells pretty good for a rookie.

Ayako then traps Francoise in a rear headlock, and adding a bodyscissors, shows the rookie that she's not gonna be getting any mercy.

Francoise gets to the ropes and Ayako releases her which leads to some more back and forth till Ayako finally traps her in a boston crab.

Sadly, embedding is disabled on this match, but you can go to YouTube and watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVOrg7GaGGM



Francoise vs Ayako Sato, posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on January 21st, 2011

Japanese Female Wrestlers - Ai Fujita

Japanese female wrestler Ai Fujita seems to be showing a recent upsurge in interest.
Ai was born on February 15 1976 and actually had two pro wrestling debuts.
She debuted against La Amapola in 1998 in Mexico, and in 1999 in a tag team match with Candy Okutsu against Ayako Hamada (current TNA Knockout Hamada) and Mika Akino in Japan.

Here is part one of a match between Ai Fujita and Momoe Nakanishi posted by...take a wild guess...yes, nagashimark on YouTube



Doesn't the interviewer kinda look like Hiro Nakamura on "Heroes"?
Of course you can see the second part of the match and more Japanese female wrestlers on nagashimark's YouTube channel.


Japanese Female Wrestlers - Ai Fujita posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on Sept 21st, 2009

Apple Miyuki - Japanese Wrestling

Japanese female wrestler Apple Miyuki (Rumi Miyuki), was born on June 14th, 1985 in Tenri, Nara, Japan.
She was a wrestler for Japanese professional wrestling promotion Kaientai Dojo and was one of their most popular wrestlers.
Apple was trained by Taka Michinoku and made her pro wrestling debut on January 14th, 2002, in Puerto Rico against another K-Dojo wrestler, Ofune.
So far Apple has held the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship twice with YOSHIYA, and they won the K-AWARD for Best Tag Match of 2005.
On September 10th, 2008, Apple announced that she was leaving K-Dojo and her final show was September 14th at Korakuen Hall.
She started working for other Japanese wrestling promotions like Pro Wrestling WAVE in 2009.

Apple Miyuki and Yuu Yamagata taking on KAORU and Caribbean Rum.

Hiromi Yagi - Japanese Wrestling

Japanese female wrestler Hiromi Yagi was born Hiromi Hirashima on August 5th, 1971.
She is five foot one and weighs 110 pounds.
In 1995, Hiromi defeated Candy Okutsu for the JWP Junior title, but she vacated it a day later because she wasn't happy with the match.
Candy had suffered an injury before the match, and Hiromi felt the victory was hollow.
Then in 1996, she won the vacant title, only to lose it back to Candy.
In 1997, she retired from wrestling to get married, but returned in 1998, teaming with Rie Tamada, to win the Twin Star of ARSION.
They lost the titles in 1999 to Mika Akino and Ayako Hamada.




Here is Hiromi Yagi wrestling Aja Kong from the Arsion ZION 1999 Tournament, posted on YouTube by lablue6uy

Candy Okutsu - Japanese Womens Wrestling

Retired female professional wrestler Candy Okutsu was born Tomoko Okutsu on January 16th, 1975 in Japan.
She made her professional wrestling debut on August 4th, 1992.
Candy worked for the JWP Project promotion from then until 1997, when she retired due to an injury.

She made her comeback on February 18th, 1998 when she had joined the ARSION promotion.
Candy became the first female version of Tiger Mask when she worked a few times as Tiger Dream.
She retired from pro wrestling on January 5th, 2001.
Before she retired candy held the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Championship once and the  JWP Junior Championship twice.

Manami Toyota vs. Candy Okutsu (Part 1)

Devil Masami - Japanese Wrestling

Japanese female wrestler Devil Masami was born on January 7th, 1962 in Kitakyushu, Japan.
She trained at the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Dojo and made her pro wrestling debut on August 21st, 1978
Devil worked for the AJW wrestling promotion from 1978 to 1995.
During that time she held the WWWA World Tag Team Championship on August 10, 1982 (with Tarantula), the All Pacific Championship and the WWWA World Championship.
Devil left AJW and went to work for GAEA Japan in 1995.
There she held the AAAW Singles Championship, the WCW Women's Championship (WCW was working with GAEA at the time) and the AAAW Tag Team Championship (with Aja Kong).
On November 29, 1998, she was inducted into the All Japan Womens Hall of Fame.
In 2005 she went back to AJW and wrestled in the main event of AJW's final card on April 17th, teaming up with  Amazing Kong to take on (and defeat) Kyoko Inoue and Misae Genki.
On December 30, 2008, she wrestled her retirement match and left the business after 30 years.

Manami Toyota - Part 2

However, the feud between Manami and Toshiyo Yamada was not yet over.
It reached it's climax on August 15th, 1992 at Korakuen Hall in a Hair vs. Hair match. The bout was a very dramatic one, but what made the event was what occurred after the match. Manami, even though she had won the match, did not want Toshiyo to get her head shaved, and had to be forcefully restrained by four preliminary girls, who eventually forced her back to the mat. In respect of the match conditions Toshiyo wanted her head shaved and went ahead with the stipulation.

Soon after this match the two women once again teamed up to win their first World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA) World Tag Team Championship in March 1992, defeating "Jungle Jack" (Aja Kong and Bison Kimura) in Tokyo. At AJW’s Dreamrush shown on November 26th, Manami and Toshiyo defended their WWWA Tag Team wrestling titles against Dynamite Kansai and Mayumi Ozaki in a legendary two out of three falls match, which is considered one of the best wrestling matches ever.

In April of 1992 Manami furthered her singles career by defeating Kyoko Inoue on April 25th in Yokohama for the IWA World Women's Championship. Toyota defended that title eight times over the course of the next three years, before losing it to Reggie Bennett in Niigata Prefecture, Japan on May 15th, 1995.

At Dreamslam II, on April 11th, 1993 Manami and Toshiyo fought a rematch against JWP Project's Kansai and Ozaki in yet another highly-rated two out of three falls encounter. This time, however, Manami and Toshiyo were on the losing side, and Kansai and Ozaki got their revenge. The feud concluded at AJW’s St. Battle Final event, on December 6th, 1993, when Manami and Toshiyo regained their tag titles.

On August 24th, 1994 Manami once again squared off against Kyoko Inoue, and defeated her to unify the IWA and All Pacific Singles Championships. Manami’s run with the two titles was not to last very long, because on October 9th, 1994, Inoue gained a measure of revenge against Manami, when Kyoko and her partner Takako Inoue (no relation) won the WWWA Tag Team Championship from Manami and Toshiyo. Manami then vacated her All Pacific Championship, prior to her first WWWA Heavyweight Championship match against the monstrous Aja Kong at AJW’s Queendom III show, on March 26th, 1995. The match saw Manami reach the summit of AJW when she won and became the 39th WWWA Champion.

On May 7th, Manami defended her crown against arch-rival Kyoko Inoue at the Korakuen Hall, where the two fought to a 60 minute time limit draw. Despite piledrivers on the floor, German suplexes off the top rope, and multiple finishers, neither combatant was able to secure outright victory. Nonetheless, Manami retained, and the match was voted Match of the Year for 1995 in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

The following month, Manami lost the WWWA Championship to former champion Aja Kong, on June 27.

Manami Toyota vs Kyoko Inoue (May 7, 1995)