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Japanese female professional wrestler (born 1969) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kyoko Inoue (井上 京子, Inoue Kyōko, born April 22, 1969)[1] is a Japanese female professional wrestler currently signed to World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana.[5] She has held the WWWA World Single Championship three times, and is the first woman to win a men's title in Japan.
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Birth name | Kyoko Inoue |
Born | [1] Nan'yō, Yamagata, Japan[1] | April 22, 1969
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Billed height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in)[2] |
Billed weight | 108 kg (238 lb)[1] |
Trained by | Jaguar Yokota[3][4] |
Debut | October 10, 1988[1] |
Inoue is the founder of NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling. After leaving NEO in May 2010, Inoue founded World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana in January 2011.
Inoue was trained by famous Japanese wrestler, Jaguar Yokota. Inoue made her debut on October 11, 1988. From 1991 to 1992 she worked for CMLL in Mexico.
On May 11, 1994, Inoue made her first appearance on World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during a live event in Japan, where she unsuccessfully challenged Alundra Blayze for the WWF Women's Championship.[6] On November 19, 1995, at Survivor Series, Inoue joined the team of Blayze in the traditional Survivor Series elimination match. Blayze's team lost, as Aja Kong remained the sole survivor of the opposing team. On the November 27th episode of Monday Night Raw, Inoue alongside Blayze lost to Kong and Tomoko Watanabe.[7]
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On March 26, 1995, as part of AJW's Wrestling Queendom Victory event, Inoue challenged Bull Nakano for her WWF Women's Championship - who had held it since Big Egg Wrestling Universe in November 1994.[8][9] Nakano retained at the 17:05 mark ahead of her anticipated title match with Alundra Blayze at Wrestlemania XI (it would instead happen on the April 3rd edition of Raw).
She has worked for many women's promotions in Japan.
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