The AJW Championship, Part 3

Mima Shimoda

On September 18, 1993 in Omiya, Saitama, Mima Shimoda defeated Bat Yoshinaga to win the belt. Less than a year later, Mima gave up the title to concentrate on her tag team matches with Estuko Mita.
Kaoru Ito defeated Rie Tamada on May 4, 1994 in Toda, Saitama to become the new AJW Champion.
Then on June 30, 1995, Tomoko Watanabe won the belt, vacating it in early 1996.
Kumiko Maekawa defeated Chaparita ASARI on May 4, 1996 to take the title, then Rie Tamada beat her for the belt on November 21, 1996 and held it for a little over a year before she too vacated it in December 1997.
On December 12, 1997 Momoe Nakanishi defeated Sachie Nishibori to become the new champion.
Emi Motokawa won the belt on January 24, 1998 and in turn, Momoe Nakanishi took the title back on April 12, 1998. Due to the title defense limit, Momoe vacated the belt in 1999.
Nanae Takahashi defeated Miyuki Fujii on March 1, 2000, in Fukuoka, Fukuoka to become the new champion.
And Miho Wakizawa defeated Nanae Takahashi to become champion on September 17, 2000 in Tokyo.

To be continued.......

Kaori Yoneyama

Kaori Yoneyama is a female Japanese wrestler.
She was born on February 26th, 1981 in Zushi-shi, Kanagawa, Japan.
She made her pro wrestling debut on November 11th, 1999 against Kayoko Haruyama.
Her favorite wrestling moves are the Diving Senton, the German Suplex and the Shiranui (a springboard backflip three-quarter facelock falling reverse DDT) .
She has worked for the JWP, LLPW, Jd ', NEO, IWA Japan, Japan, Shinjuku and Al-Zion promotions.
Kaori has held the JWP Tag Championship,the JWP Junior Championship and the Japan Tag Championship with Fang Leon.

Here is a video on YouTube of Kaori wrestling Carlos Amano from Oz Academy's White Rose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMSX1NaEEo

Japanese Female Wrestler Chikayo Nagashima

Chikayo Nagashima was born on January 24 1976.
She is a Japanese female professional wrestler.
Her pro wrestling debut was against Toshie Uematsu on April 15 1995.
She has held the AAAW Junior Heavyweight tag team wrestling titles with Sugar Satoh at least three times, the AJW Tag Team wrestling titles,(again with Sugar Satoh) and she held the AAAW Wrestling Championship.

Here is a wrestling video with Sonoko Kato wrestling Chikayo Nagashima.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF8H-vNN3Hk

Miyoko Hoshino

Miyoko Hoshino became the WWWA wrestling champion on July 26, 1972 by defeating Sarah Lee.
Miyoko also held the WWWA World Tag Championships with Jumbo Miyamoto six times! (At least that's what I counted)
Now my question is this......
Is this the same Miyoko Hoshino that recorded a Jazz album with Lionel Hampton in 1965?
I know it sounds far-fetched, but a lot of Japanese female wrestlers either turned singers or sang while their wrestling careers continued.
Though actually, the time line doesn't seem to work out.
Too bad though, if she was that would be so cool!

Japanese Female Wrestler Mari Okagi

Japanese Female Wrestler Mari Okagi

I couldn't find much on this lady.
Well nothing actually except this picture.
It looks like she was wrestling right around the Kyoko Okada, Aiko Kyo era.



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Kyoko Okada

Kyoko Okada was a Japanese female wrestler.
On September 1, 1968, she and Miyuki Yanagi won the American Girls' Wrestling Association International Tag Team Title in Tokyo, Japan.
They lost the titles, but on April 10, 1969, Kyoko and Aiko Kyo won the titles back in Hiroshima.
Some places list Aiko Kyo and Kyoko Okada as the first WWWA world tag champions.
Kyoko was also the All Japan Middleweight Wrestling champion at one time.
She retired from the wrestling ring in 1971.


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Hiroyo Matsumoto

Hiroyo Matsumoto is a female Japanese wrestler.
She works for the IBUKI promotion in Japan.
She also worked for Mayumi Ozaki's promotion, Oz Academy.
I found this video of her on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osi9PtyIGU0

Japanese female wrestler, Ayana Mizumura.

Japanese female wrestler, Ayana Mizumura.
In her wrestling career, she has faced many of the great Japanese female wrestlers such as Jaguar Yakota, Dynamite Kansai, Carlos Amano, Chigusa Nagayo.
Ayana Mizumura retired from wrestling April 10, 2005 at the GAEA final card in Kourakuen Hall.

Aya Yuki

Aya Yuki is a Japanese womens wrestler.

Here's a video of her in action, wrestling Arisa Nakajima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miaj9AgIWkE

And another of her, teamed with Nagisa Nozaki, wrestling Arisa Nakajima and Kaori Oki.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPztrbfznWE

Miyoko Nakayama

Miyoko Nakayama was born October 10 1950. She was better known under her wrestling name, Miyoko Hoshino
Miyoko worked for the AJW promotion her entire career
She defeated Sarah Lee for the WWWA Singles title on July 26 1972. She lost it to Sandy Parker, but won it back before finally dropping the title to Jumbo Miyamoto.
Miyoko then turned around and won the WWWA Tag Team Wrestling titles three times with Jumbo Miyamoto.
After losing the titles, she teamed with Peggy Kuroda and won them a fourth time.

Miyoko was inducted into the AJW Hall of Fame on November 29, 1998 at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan.

"Mach" Fumiake

"Mach" Fumiake Watanabe was a female Japanese wrestler.
Mach held the WWWA title for two weeks in 1975, defeating Jumbo Miyamoto and then losing it back to her.
She is notable for being the first womens wrestler in Japan to release an album while still wrestling. This was done afterwards by several wrestlers.
Mach also was in a few movies, the most outstanding ( to me at least) was Gamera Super Monster!

Manami Toyota wrestling Kayo Noumi, part 2

The wily ring veteran Manami Toyota continues to torture Kayo Noumi.

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Wrestler: Plum Mariko

Wrestler: Plum Mariko

Real Name: Mariko Umeda
Born: November 1st, 1967
Last match: August 15th 1997 at the Hiroshima Sun Plaza, Plum teamed with Commando Bolshoi against Mayumi Ozaki and Rieko Amano.
Died: August 16 1997
Promotions: Japanese Women's Pro (1986-1992), JWP (1992-1997)

September 15 1989 - Plum won the UWA and JWP Junior titles by beating both Mayumi Ozaki and Cuty Suzuki.
She lost the belts to Rumi Kazama on January 10th 1990.
June 16 1990 - She won the UWA and JWP Junior titles beating Cuty Suzuki in a tournament final.
The Titles were later vacated.
Signature Wrestling Moves: Stretch Plum (The wrestler applies an inverted facelock to a seated opponent and then places his (or her) far leg between the opponent's legs and pushes his near leg's knee against the opponent's back. Then the wrestler pulls the opponent's head backwards with their arms and the opponent's far leg outwards with their leg), Rolling bodyscissors submission, Super hurricanrana

Unfortunately, Plum was the first person in Japan to die because of injuries suffered in a wrestling match.
Plum was said to have had head injuries and an absess on her brain prior to the match which may have contributed to the brain damage that killed her.
She was inducted into the All Japan Womens Hall of Fame on November 29, 1998.

In 1997 and 1998, the Plum Mariko Memorial Show was held in her honor.

Quebrada #30

by Mike Lorefice (M.L.Liger@juno.com)

8/19/97

The Tragic Death of Plum Mariko

It was well known that the weekend of August 15th-17th would be a sad one for women’s wrestling fans, as one of the most promising young stars, JWP’s Candy Okutsu, was retiring way before her time due to a bad back. However, the weekend turned into a catastrophe when long-time JWP star Plum Mariko tragically died after her match on the 15th. Plum, real name Mariko Umeda, teamed with Bolshoi Kid against Mayumi Ozaki & Rieko Amano at Hiroshima Sun Plaza. Ozaki used one of her regular spots, the Ligerbomb, to pin Plum. The move was not blown, rather it was executed no differently than normal, but it appears that have triggered a pre-existing problem, an abscess on Mariko’s brain. Since other wrestlers had faked not being able to get up after the finish (sold the finish) that night, the fans in the arena didn’t immediately realize there was a problem. It seems that this spot may not have been the planned finish of the match. In any case, Plum was knocked out from the Ligerbomb and didn’t kick out. After the match, Ozaki and the other wrestlers saw Plum, who still hadn't budged, snoring, which is a sign that her brain was bleeding.

Full article at: http://www.quebrada.net/QuebradaReviews.html

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