Kyoko Inoue
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| Kyoko Inoue | |
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| Billed height | 166 cm (5'3") |
| Billed weight | 95 kg (209 lbs) |
| Born | April 22, 1969 |
| Trained by | Jaguar Yokota |
| Debut | October 10, 1988 versus Takako Inoue |
Kyoko Inoue is a Japanese female professional wrestler. She has held the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship three times, and is the first woman to win a men's title in Japan. She is also the founder of the joshi promotion NEO Japan. Kyoko Inoue was trained by famous Japanese wrestler, Jaguar Yokota.
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[edit] Career
For most of the 1990s Inoue wrestled for the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling promotion, where she held both the top singles title (the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship) and the top tag title (the WWWA World Tag Team Championship). On January 20, 1997, Inoue achieved the so-called AJW Triple Crown when, already in possession of the WWWA Championship, she won the unified All Pacific Championship and IWA World Women's Championship, and then unified them with the WWWA Championship. She vacated her titles on May 11, 1997, after a defense against Kaoru Ito went to a sixty-minute draw. Inoue is well known for her charismatic personality, Her extensive repertoire of wrestling holds, and long matches, having gone to 60-minute draws with not only Ito, but with Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada as well. She was also one of the first female wrestlers to use face paint.
Later in 1997, Inoue left AJW and started the NEO Japan Ladies' Wrestling promotion. NEO held its first card on January 9, 1998. Kyoko made history in February of 2000 by winning the WEW Tag Team Championship with Kodo Fuyuki. This made her the first known woman to win a men's title in a Japanese pro wrestling promotion. Inoue also has the distinction of having competed in 4 matches that were given a 5-Star rating by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (Second only to Toyota):
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- Kyoko Inoue & Takako Inoue vs. Cutie Suzuki & Mayumi Ozaki, April 2, 1993
- Kyoko Inoue vs. Manami Toyota, August 24, 1994
- Kyoko Inoue vs. Manami Toyota, May 7, 1995
- Kyoko Inoue, Takako Inoue, Aja Kong, Sakie Hasegawa vs. Dynamite Kansai, Mayumi Ozaki, Hikari Fukuoka & Cutie Suzuki, July 31, 1993
[edit] In wrestling
- Finishing and signature moves
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- Victoria Driver (Inverted Death Valley driver) - Innovated
- Niagara Driver (Sitout thunder fire powerbomb) - Innovated
- Spinning Niagara Driver (Airplane Spin Sitout thunder fire powerbomb) - Innovated
- Torture Crab (Elevated Boston crab with a knee to the back)
- Avalanche Powerslam (Super Scoop Powerslam)
- Argentine Backbreaker
- Springboard Back Elbow
[edit] Championships and Accomplishments
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- AJW Champion (1 time)
- Japan Grand Prix (1991)
- WWWA World Heavyweight Champion (3 times)
- WWWA World Tag Team Champion (4 times) - with Takako Inoue (4)
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- WEW Tag Team Champion (1 time) - with Hiromichi Fuyuki
- WEW 6-Man Tag Team Champion (2 times) - with Kodo Fuyuki & Chocoball Mukai
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- TWF World Women's Champion (2 times)
- NEO
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- NWA Pacific Women's Champion (2 times)
- 1995 Match of the Year (vs Manami Toyota)
[edit] References
Championships taken from wrestling-titles.com
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| NAME | Inoue Kyoko |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Japanese professional wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1969 |
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