Tsubasa Kuragaki - Japanese Women Wrestling

This is female Japanese wrestler Tsubasa Kuragaki.
Although I have mentioned her before, I haven't really done anything on her.



Tsubasa was born on December 7th, 1975 in Chiba City, Kamagaya, Japan.
She's five foot three, 140 pounds and she made her pro wrestling debut either January 8th, 1995 or October 21st, 1998.
I've seen two different accounts.



She has wrestled almost exclusively for JWP (Japan Women Project), but she has also done some freelance work as well.
During her career so far, she has held the JWP Openweight Championship, the JWP Tag Team Championship (once with AKINO and twice with Kayoko Haruyama), the Daily Sports Tag Team Championship (twice with Kayoko Haruyama), the JWP Jr. Championship and the NEO Singles and NWA Women’s Pacific Championship.



Is it just me, or does it look like she uses the same tailor as Awesome Kong?

Here is Tsubasa wrestling Ran Yu-Yu for JWP on July 27th, 2008, posted on YouTube by kapengmabula (with credit to nagashimark)





Tsubasa Kuragaki - Japanese Women Wrestling, posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on February 3rd, 2011

Hiren wrestling Tomoko Nakagawa

This time we have a video posted by HybridDolphinELPS on YouTube of Hiren wrestling Tomoko Nakagawa in Japan for the Oz Academy wrestling promotion.
I know Oz Academy started out as a stable, but I think by this time they were putting on their own shows.

This video is a little different from the others as in it is basically a beat down.
Oh there are some cool MMA style moves in it, and submission holds that would make a WWE Diva or TNA Knockout (well not all of them) submit in about 30 seconds.
But it's pretty much just a one sided attack.



First up you have Hiren.
Hiren (Yurie Kaneko) was born on January 16th, 1986 in Katsushika City, Tokyo, Japan and made her pro wrestling debut on July 9th, 2006, wrestling Mariko Yoshida.



And her opponent Tomoko Nakagawa.
She was born on September 29th, 1981, in Asahikawa Hokkaido, Japan and made her pro wrestling debut on January 23rd, 2005 with Yuu Yamagata against TAKA Michinoku and Ryota Chikuzen.



Hiren immediately takes control, as her corner people attack Tomoko and really work over her leg, like old school nWo.
Then Hiren proceeds to hit her with every spare folding chair in the arena.
This must be no DQ.



Focusing on the injured leg, Hiren clamps on a leg lock going for a submission.



In perfect heel style, Hiren smiles and looks like she is really enjoying punishing her opponent.



But Tomoko, isnt about to give up, she escapes and even hopping on one leg, launches her own counter-attack.



Tomoko is too badly damaged though, and quickly Hiren clamps on an ankle lock that would make Kurt Angle or Ken Shamrock proud.



This would have ended a regular match here, but Tomoko refuses to give in, and Hiren adds grinding a boot into the back of Tomoko's head to add insult to injury.

Here is the match in it's entirety, and if you like it, go to HybridDolphinELPS' page and subscribe for even more great Joshi videos.

For more Japanese female wrestling you can go here:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Japanese-Female-Wrestlers

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

Japanese Female Wrestler - Cuty Suzuki (Cutie Suzuki)

And next to Chikako Shiratori, the most popular Japanese female wrestler here lately is the lady that was in the video I linked to last time, Cuty Suzuki (Cutie Suzuki).
Cuty was born on October 22, 1969 in Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan and made her pro wrestling debut on September 19, 1986.
Cuty is retired now, but during her career, she held the UWA Junior Wrestling title, the JWP Junior Wrestling title and one half of the JWP Tag Team Women's Wrestling titles five times.
Twice with Mayumi Ozaki, once with Devil Masami and twice with Dynamite Kansai.

Here is a video of Cuty going up against Candy Okutsu in a JWP match from July 18, 1997, posted once again to YouTube by nagashimark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssxykArhAWk


Cuty Suzuki (Cutie Suzuki) posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on Sept 18th, 2009

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)