- Keiko Nakano
Infobox Wrestler
name=Bull Nakano
names=Bull Nakano
Keiko Nakano
(kanji) bù rù naka no
height=168 cm (5 ft 07 in)
weight=95 kg (209 lb)
birth_date =birth date and age|year=1968|month=1|day=8
birth_place =Kawaguchi, Saitama
resides=Orlando, Florida
billed=
trainer=All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
debut=1983
retired=1997|Keiko Nakano (born
January 8 ,1968 ) is aprofessional golfer and formerprofessional wrestler . Better known by her ringname Bull Nakano, as a wrestler she was a famous heel, both in Japan and North America, and is the only person to have held both the WWF Women's Championship andWWWA World Heavyweight Championship .Career
At the age of 15, Keiko Nakano began her career as a professional wrestler in her homeland of
Japan . She trained and performed with theAll Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling organization (AJW), and quickly became one of the greatest heels in the history of Japanese women's pro wrestling.After winning the
AJW Junior Championship under her real name, her identity was changed to Bull Nakano and she teamed with the legendaryDump Matsumoto to feud with the popular Crush Gals (Chigusa Nagayo andLioness Asuka ). With Matsumoto as her partner, Nakano won theWWWA World Tag Team Championship . She later won the title a second and third time, with Condor Saito and Grizzly Iwamoto as successive partners.Nakano briefly wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation in 1986, teaming again with
Dump Matsumoto as the Devils of Japan. After Matsumoto's retirement, Nakano became the default top heel, forming her own faction, Prison Gate Party, which consisted of several luminaries, most notablyAja Kong and Bison Kimura, who would later separate from Nakano, after she had won the WWWA title, to form Jungle Jack. In 1990, Nakano won a tournament to win the vacantWWWA World Heavyweight Championship , and went on to hold the title for nearly three years, before dropping it to Aja Kong.Nakano also traveled to Mexico, in 1992, where she won a battle royal to become the first CMLL World Women's Champion. She then made her way to the United States and competed for the World Wrestling Federation once again. Debuting as an associate of Luna Vachon, Nakano dominated the WWF Women's champion, Alundra Blayze, in a series of matches and won the WWF Women's Championship on
November 20 ,1994 inTokyo ,Japan at the record-setting Big Egg Wrestling Universe show held at the Tokyo Egg Dome. This made Bull Nakano the only person to have held both the WWWA Championship and the WWF Women's Championship, both of which claim a historic lineage, dating back to 1937 and 1956 respectively. Furthermore, she was also the first female of Asian descent to win the WWF/WWE Women's Championship.Nakano held the title for five months, until losing the title back to Blayze on
April 3 ,1995 inPoughkeepsie, New York . The WWF had planned on bringing in Bertha Faye to feud with Nakano while Blayze got a nose and breast job, but Nakano was found in possession ofcocaine and quickly fired from the company. [cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingBiosS/sing_rhonda_01jan-can.html|title=SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Rhonda Sing / Monster Ripper|author=Laroche, Stephen|publisher=SLAM! Wrestling|accessdate=2008-08-23|date=January 9, 2001]Later in 1995 Nakano compete at the
WCW World War 3 pay-per-view event and teamed withAkira Hokuto against the team ofCutie Suzuki andMayumi Ozaki in which Nakano and Hokuto won, they also compete against the same team the next night on "WCW Monday Nitro ", which they also won.Nakano returned to Japan, where she continued to compete in AJW, then went back to the United States in 1996 to feud with Blayze, now going by her original ring name, Madusa, in
World Championship Wrestling . That was the last time Bull Nakano was seen on North American television. She continued to wrestle in Japan, but ended her wrestling career without having the traditional retirement ceremony in 1997 to pursue a career in professional golf. Nakano is also studying linguistics at a university..Post-Retirement
In the years following her retirement, Nakano began to diet and gradually lose much of the weight she had to maintain to stay in her role as one of AJW's monster heels, going from a peak of 250 pounds down to 143 pounds. In 1998, Nakano released a book about her weight loss called "Bull Nakano no Diet Nikki: 19-gou Size no Watashi ga 9-gou Size ni" (Translated: Bull Nakano's Diet Journal: How I went from a Size 19 to a Size 9).
In January 2006, Nakano, still pursuing her pro golf career, joined the Duramed Futures Tour on the Ladies Professional Golf Association. She is currently based in
Orlando, Florida , U.S.. [ [http://www.duramedfuturestour.com/PlayerBios/NakanoKeiko.html Duramed FUTURES Tour - 2006 Player Roster] ]In wrestling
*Finishing and signature moves:*"Bull's
Poseidon " (Back to belly piledriver):*Diving leg drop, sometimes while doing a somersault in mid-air:*Bridging belly to back suplex:*Bridging German suplex:*Dragon sleeper:*Enzuigiri:*Falling powerbomb:*Inverted Boston crab:*Lariat:*Moonsault :*Northern Lights suplex:*Piledriver:*Rear naked choke:*Reverse DDT:*Sharpshooter:*Single-leg Boston crab:*Snapmare:*Suicide dive:*Thunderfire powerbomb*Managers:*Luna Vachon:*
Sonny Onoo Championships and accomplishments
*
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling :*AJW Championship (1 time):*AJW Junior Championship (1 time):*All Pacific Championship (1 time):*WWWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time):*WWWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Dump Matsumoto (1), Condor Saito (1), and Grizzly Iwamoto (1):*AJW Hall of Fame (1998) [cite web |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/zenjo/hof.html |title=All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Hall of Fame |accessdate=2007-10-09 |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2003 |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Puroresu Dojo |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] :*Japan Grand Prix (1988)*
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre :*CMLL World Women's Championship (1 time)*World Wrestling Federation:*WWF Women's Champion (1 time)
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Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards :*Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2001)References
External links
* [http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/b/bull-nakano.html Online World Of Wrestling Profile]
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