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Ever since New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) was founded in 1972, the company had never had a women's championship. On July 29, 2022, it was announced by Takaaki Kidani, owner of World Wonder Ring Stardom and former chairman of NJPW through parent company Bushiroad, that Stardom's roster would compete for NJPW's first-ever women's championship, the IWGP Women's Championship, at the co-promoted ...
Co-produced with All Japan Pro Wrestling, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, Fighting Network Rings, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, Go Gundan, International Wrestling Association of Japan, JWP Joshi Puroresu, Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling, Michinoku Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi, and UWF International: April 28–29 Collision in Korea
Battle in the Valley was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on February 18, 2023, at San Jose Civic in San Jose, California. It was the second event under the Battle in the Valley chronology. Ten matches were contested at the event, including two on the pre-show.
The Road of Women's Pro Wrestling - Day 1 Tokyo, Japan: 1 107 Inoue and Shimoda defeated Kayo Noumi and Momoe Nakanishi in a two-out-of-three falls match to win the vacant championship. [1] [43] 117 Etsuko Mita (5) and Nanae Takahashi (4) April 20, 2003: The Road of Women's Pro Wrestling - Day 39 Tokyo, Japan: 1 42 This was a two-out-of-three ...
Sukeban by definition is a new Japanese women’s Joshi wrestling league. An ode to the girl gangs in the 1960s and 1970s — in Japanese, Sukeban is a term meaning “delinquent girl,” and the ...
The show did not use a wrestling ring, and instead all matches took place on training mats, similar to the Ice Ribbon promotion in its early years. [4] Along with wrestling matches, the debut show featured live music from idol units. As TJP's roster was very small at the start, most of their early shows followed this same formula and only ran ...
The United States closed the gap on Japan in women’s wrestling at the Paris Olympics. The Japanese won four of the six gold medals for the third straight Olympics and claimed two bronze medals ...
Risako Kinjo (neé Kawai) (金城 梨沙子, Kinjo Risako, born 21 November 1994) [1] is a Japanese wrestler. She is a two-time gold medalist at the Olympic Games, a three-time gold medalist at the World Wrestling Championships and a four-time gold medalist at the Asian Wrestling Championships.