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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.
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]
JWP Joshi Puroresu was founded in early 1992, when Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP), ravaged by internal politics, split up into two camps, dubbed the "shooters" and the "entertainers", [6] and eventually folded on January 18.
Pages in category "Japanese female professional wrestlers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 275 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The inaugural Strong Women's Champion, Willow Nightingale In 2022, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) established a women's division. On July 29 of that year, the promotion created the IWGP Women's Championship, the first women's title in the company's history, [2] [3] which was first held by Kairi. [4]
Kaoru Matsumoto (松本 香, Matsumoto Kaoru), better known by her ring name Dump Matsumoto (ダンプ松本, Danpu Matsumoto, born November 11, 1960), is a Japanese professional wrestler. She came to prominence as one of the leading female wrestlers in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) during the 1980s.
The Princess of Princess Championship (Japanese: プリンセス・オブ・プリンセス王座, Hepburn: Purinsesu Obu Purinsesu Ōza) is a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW).
The promotions slogans are, "Masked wrestlers, comedians and idol wrestlers will bring a new wind to the professional wrestling world" [4] and "I want to deliver dreams to children!". [ 9 ] The promotions features wrestlers from various occupations who see wrestling as a second career and aims to produce idols and entertainers who want to make ...