Yumiko Hotta
Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yumiko Hotta (堀田 祐美子, Hotta Yumiko, born January 10, 1967)[1][3] is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Hotta was trained by and started her career in the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) promotion in June 1985. She worked for the promotion until 2003, becoming a three-time WWWA World Single and WWWA World Tag Team Champion. In June 2003, Hotta took over the Hyper Visual Fighting Arsion promotion and renamed it Major Girl's Fighting AtoZ. Under Hotta's leadership, the promotion lasted only three years, before folding in 2006, after which Hotta became a freelancer. In January 2011, Hotta joined the new Universal Woman's Pro Wrestling Reina promotion, but just sixteen months later she announced that the promotion was folding. Afterwards, she affiliated herself with the World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana promotion, becoming the leader of the villainous Bousou-gun stable. She resigned from Diana in July 2016 to once again become a freelancer. Since 1995, Hotta has also fought several mixed martial arts matches, mostly at events put together by joshi puroresu promotions.
Yumiko Hotta | |
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Birth name | Yumiko Hotta[1][2] |
Born | (1967-01-10) January 10, 1967 (age 57)[1][3] Kobe, Hyōgo[1][3] |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | KY Hotta Passion Hotty Yumiko Hotta |
Billed height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1][3] |
Billed weight | 72 kg (159 lb)[1] |
Trained by | AJW dojo (professional wrestling)[3] Makoto Nakamura (Kyokushin)[3] |
Debut | June 5, 1985[1][3] |