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The most notable annual events in AJW were the Japan Grand Prix and Tag League the Best.The Japan Grand Prix was held each summer, from 1985 to 2004, and was a tournament to determine the number one contender for the WWWA World Single Championship, similar to the G1 Climax or Champion Carnival seen in the men's promotions New Japan Pro-Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling, respectively.
On June 4, 2012, Tokyo Joshi Pro was announced by DDT Pro-Wrestling. Set to be run by former Ice Ribbon and NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling promoter and booker Tetsuya Koda and wrestler Nozomi, the promotion was established in late 2012 and thus a recruitment process began for wrestlers.
Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling was founded in 2005 by Meiko Satomura, a female professional wrestler who achieved success in the 2000s with the women's promotion Gaea Japan, and Jinsei Shinzaki, a male professional wrestler who is also the president of Michinoku Pro Wrestling.
Nagayo returned from retirement at All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling Dream Slam 1 on April 2, 1993, losing to Devil Masami. [10] She said was encouraged by Kōhei Tsuka to return to wrestling. [4] She also wrestled at All Japan Women's Big Egg Wrestling Universe on November 20, 1994, defeating Reggie Bennett. [citation needed]
The Crush Gals were a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo.Formed in 1983 in the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) promotion, the Crush Gals would become an extremely popular and influential unit throughout the 1980s, helping to propel both themselves and AJW into mainstream popularity in Japan.
The Jumping Bomb Angels were a female Japanese professional wrestling tag team consisting of Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki. They competed primarily for the wrestling promotions AJW (All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling) and WWF (World Wrestling Federation), where they held each company’s main tag team championships.
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling was the only women's professional wrestling promotion prior to 1986. All Japan Women's was experiencing a boom period due to the Crush Gals of Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo as was Onyanko Club, a Japanese idol music group. Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling was imagined to be a wrestling version of Onyanko Club. [3]
The Global Honored Crown (GHC) Women's Championship (Japanese: GHC女子座, Hepburn: GHC Joshi Ōza) is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah. [1] [2] [3]