Bull Nakano

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Keiko Aoki (née Nakano)
Bull Nakano 2011

Bull Nakano 2011
Data
Ring name Bull Nakano
height 170
Fighting weight 91
birth January 9, 1968
Kawaguchi , Japan
Announced from Kawaguchi, Japan
Trained by All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
debut 1983
retirement 1997

Keiko Aoki ( Japanese 青木 恵 子 , Aoki Keiko ; born January 9, 1968 in Kawaguchi , Saitama Prefecture , Japan as Keiko Nakano ( 中 野 恵 子 ), better known as Bull Nakano ( ブ ル 中 野 , Buru Nakano )) is a Japanese golfer and former wrestler . She was best known in the West through her time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE).

Life

Japan (1983-1992)

Keiko Nakano's career as a wrestler began at the age of 15 with the Japanese women's wrestling promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling . At the age of 16 she won the AJW Junior Championship. It was around this time that she took on the ring name Bull Nakano. In July 1985 she won the main title of the doctorate with the AJW Championship, which she was allowed to hold for three years. She made a name for herself primarily as a heel and also appeared as a tag team wrestler with her partner Dump Matsumoto . Together they won the World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA) World Tag Team Championship in August 1986. The two also competed for the first time in 1986 for the World Wrestling Federation.

After Matsumoto ended her wrestling career, Bull Nakano teamed up with others. In 1987 she won the WWWA Tag Team title again with Condor Saito and in 1988 with Grizzly Iwamoto. In 1988 she was allowed to win the Japan Grand Prix Tournament. In 1989 she held the All Pacific Championship . From 1990 to 1992 she was also a holder of the WWWA World Single Championship. In 1992 she finally left her doctorate after it was used less and less.

America (1992-1996)

She had her first match on the American continent in June 1992 in the Mexican Liga Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre . There she took part in a Battle Royal and became the first World Women's Champion to graduate . She lost the title in March 1993.

She then went to the World Wrestling Federation, where she had a long-running feud with WWF Women's Champion Alundra Blayze . The first time she faced Blayze at SummerSlam 1994, but was defeated by her opponent. On November 20, 1994, she was allowed to win the title at the AJW's Big Egg Wrestling Universe in Tokyo. Five months later, she lost the title again to Alundra Blaze. Then Bertha Faye was planned as an interim champion, while Alundra Blaze underwent plastic surgery. Bull Nakano should act as her opponent. However, she was caught with cocaine by the police and released by the WWF.

In 1995, Bull Nakano took part in the major event Collision in Korea , a joint event of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), which was considered to be the largest wrestling event to date. There she competed with Akira Hokuto against Manami Toyota and Mariko Yoshida . Then Bull Nakano wrestled for the WCW and there again went against Blayze, who had also left the WWF, and now appeared again under her alter ego Madusa. The two valued each other very much in private life.

1997 Nakano retired from wrestling due to injury. In 2010 she married the kickboxer Daisuke Aoki ( 青木 大 輔 ). On January 8, 2012, however, she fulfilled a dream and organized her own wrestling event with Empress, at which she gave a retrospective of her career with old companions and opponents.

Golf career

From 1998 she devoted herself to golf. After a few less successful years, she has been playing in the Ladies Professional Golf Association since 2006 and was allowed to take part in the LPGA Tour 2006.

Wrestling titles and honors

  • All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
    • AJW Championship (1 ×)
    • AJW Junior Championship (1 ×)
    • All Pacific Championship (1 ×)
    • WWWA World Single Championship (1 ×)
    • WWWA World Tag Team Championship (3 ×) - with Dump Matsumoto (1 ×), Condor Saito (1 ×) and Grizzly Iwamoto (1 ×)
    • Japanese Grand Prix (1988)
    • Tag League the Best (1985) - with Dump Matsumoto
    • AJW Hall of Fame (1998)
  • Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
    • CMLL World Women's Championship (1 × and first)
  • Wrestling Observer Newsletter
    • Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2001)
  • World Wrestling Federation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kevin Sullivan , Brian Shields: WWE Encyclopedia: the definitive guide to World Wrestling Entertainment . 1st American ed. DK, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-7566-4190-0 , pp. 51 .
  2. ↑ JIM SPEARS, T&D Production Manager: Women's wrestlers today are tougher, better . In: The Times and Democrat . ( thetandd.com [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  3. ^ Royal Duncan, Gary Will: Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present . 4th ed., Fully rev. & updated. Archeus Communications, Waterloo, Ont. 2000, ISBN 0-9698161-5-4 .
  4. ↑ All Japan Title. Accessed December 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b WWWA World Tag Team Title (Japan). Accessed December 10, 2017 .
  6. ^ All Pacific Title (Japan). Accessed December 10, 2017 .
  7. ^ Royal Duncan, Gary Will: Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present . 4th ed., Fully rev. & updated. Archeus Communications, Waterloo, Ont. 2000, ISBN 0-9698161-5-4 , pp. 397 .
  8. ↑ WWE - Summer Slam 1994 . In: Pro Wrestling Illustrated: The 2008 wrestling almanac and book of facts. tape 5 , no. 29 . Sports & Entertainment Publications, 1996, ISSN  1084-9602 ( worldcat.org [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  9. ^ Women's Championship . In: WWE . ( wwe.com [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Stephen Laroche: SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Rhonda Sing / Monster Ripper. In: Slam! Sports. January 9, 2001, accessed December 10, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Ric Flair describes wrestling in North Korea in front of 190,000 people . In: USA Today . January 22, 2014 ( usatoday.com [accessed December 10, 2017]).
  12. ^ WCW / New Japan Pay Per Views. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  13. ^ Carolan, Vinnie .: Wrestle radio USA: grapplers speak . ECW Press, Toronto [Ont.] 2004, ISBN 1-55022-646-0 .
  14. ↑ ブ ル 中 野 の 子 供 と 旦 那 は？ ダ ン プ 松本 と の 出 会 い は？ 驚異 驚異 の ダ イ エ ッ ト 方法 で 手術 も? . In: ニ ュ ー ス ポ 24 . Retrieved February 25, 2018 (Japanese).
  15. ↑ ス ポ ー ツ ナ ビ ｜ 格 闘 技 ｜ 速 報. (No longer available online.) January 11, 2012, archived from the original on January 11, 2012 ; Retrieved December 10, 2017 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp
  16. ↑ Duramed FUTURES Tour - Player Biographies. (No longer available online.) June 24, 2008, archived from the original on June 24, 2008 ; accessed December 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duramedfuturestour.com
  17. ↑ Japan Grand Prix Results 1980s . Pro wrestling history. Retrieved May 16, 2009.
  18. ^ The Best Tag Team League 1985 . In: Pro Wrestling History . Retrieved March 28, 2013.
  19. ^ All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Hall of Fame . Puroresu Dojo. 2003. Retrieved October 9, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Nakano, Bull
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ブ ル 中 野 (ring name, Japanese); 青木 恵 子 (real name, Japanese); Aoki Keiko (real name); 中 野 恵 子 (maiden name, Japanese); Nakano, Keiko (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese golfer and former wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Kawaguchi , Saitama Prefecture , Japan