Kyoko Inoue

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name=Kyoko Inoue
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nihongo|Kyoko Inoue|井上京子|Inoue Kyouko 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.

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 wrestling 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 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):

:*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

In wrestling

*Finishing and signature moves:*"Victoria Driver" (Inverted Death Valley driver) - Innovated:*"Niagara Driver" (One shoulder powerbomb) - Innovated:*"Torture Crab" (Elevated Boston crab with a knee to the back):*Standing scoop powerslam, sometimes from the top rope:*Overhead belly to belly suplex, sometimes from the top rope:*Diving back elbow drop:*Backbreaker rack:*Springboard back elbow

Championships and accomplishments

*All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling:*AJW Championship (1 time):*WWWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times):*WWWA World Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Takako Inoue (4):*Japan Grand Prix (1991)

*Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling:*FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Kodo Fuyuki & Chocoball Mukai:*WEW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Hiromichi Fuyuki

*JDStar:*TWF World Women's Champion (2 times)

*NEO:*NWA Pacific Women's Champion (2 times)

*Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
**5 Star Match (1993) with Takako Inoue vs. Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki on April 2
**5 Star Match (1993) with Aja Kong, Sakie Hasegawa, and Takako Inoue vs. Dynamite Kansai, Cutie Suzuki, Mayumi Ozaki, and Hikari Fukuoka on July 31
**5 Star Match (1994) vs. Manami Toyota on August 24
**5 Star Match (1995) vs. Manami Toyota on May 7
**Match of the Year (1995) vs. Manami Toyota on May 7, Tokyo, Japan

References

[http://www.wrestling-titles.com 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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