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At JTO Michinoku The Super Best 2024 on May 10, Yanagawa won an Akama style battle royal disputed for the UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship in which she defeated reigning champion Naoya Akama and ARA, Arata, Blazer Tanni, Kensuke, Maxi, Mizuna and Mr. Mask. She became the first ever female wrestler to hold the title. [6]
Hiyori Kon (Japanese: 今 日和) is a Japanese amateur sumo wrestler, who is known for advocating for equal rights for women to compete professionally in Japan. She has been included in the BBC's list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019.
The following is a list of the heaviest professional sumo wrestlers. Only wrestlers weighing 200 kilograms (440 lb) or over are included. Wrestlers shown in bold are still active as of January 2023. Ōrora (left), the heaviest sumo wrestler ever, fights eighth-heaviest Kainowaka Yamamotoyama is the heaviest Japanese-born sumo wrestler ever ...
Pages in category "Japanese female professional wrestlers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 271 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Haruka Umesaki (梅咲遥, Umesaki Haruka, born February 7, 2001) is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana, where she is the current WWWD World Champion in her first reign. She is also a former three-time WWWD Tag Team Champion alongside Miyuki Takase.
Masami Yoshida (吉田 雅美，born January 7, 1962) is a Japanese professional wrestler best known for her appearances in All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling, GAEA Japan and JWP Joshi Puroresu under the name Devil Masami. She is a member of the All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame, being inducted in 1998.
GAEA established the two All Asia Athlete Women's (AAAW) titles (with AAAW being a play on the WWWA acronym of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling's titles), a singles championship and a tag team championship, on November 2, 1996. Originally, the singles belt was labeled "Heavyweight", while the tag team belts were labeled "Junior Heavyweight", but ...
Chigusa Nagayo (長与千種, Nagayo Chigusa, born December 8, 1964) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler best known for her mainstream popularity in the 1980s as a member of the Crush Gals with long-time tag team partner Lioness Asuka. In 1995 she founded GAEA Japan and in 2014 created its successor Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling ...