| Bull Nakano | |
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| Ring name(s) | Bull Nakano Keiko Nakano (kanji) bù rù naka no |
| Billed height | 168 cm (5 ft 07 in) |
| Billed weight | 95 kg (209 lb) |
| Born | January 8, 1968 Kawaguchi, Saitama |
| Resides | Orlando, Florida |
| Trained by | All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling |
| Debut | 1983 |
| Retired | 1997 |
Keiko "Bull" Nakano (born January 8, 1968) is a professional golfer and former professional wrestler. Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1933. Orlando is a major City in central Florida, USA and is the County seat of Orange County Florida. Not related to All Japan Pro Wrestling for men which was founded in 1972 Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In Golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional Sport, where all matches are scripted by the promotion's booking staff 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 and WWWA World Heavyweight Championship. In Professional wrestling, a heel is a Villain character In non-wrestling jargon heels are the "bad guys" in pro wrestling storylines. This article is about the championship that is currently defended on the Raw brand of WWE The WWWA World Heavyweight Championship was the top singles championship in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling from 1970 until it closed in 2005
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At the age of 15, Keiko Nakano began her career as a professional wrestler in her homeland of Japan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. She trained and performed with the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling organization (AJW), and quickly became one of the greatest heels in the history of Japanese women's pro wrestling. Not related to All Japan Pro Wrestling for men which was founded in 1972 In Professional wrestling, a heel is a Villain character In non-wrestling jargon heels are the "bad guys" in pro wrestling storylines.
After winning the AJW Junior Championship under her real name, her identity was changed to Bull Nakano and she teamed with the legendary Dump Matsumoto to feud with the popular Crush Gals (Chigusa Nagayo and Lioness Asuka). The AJW Junior Championship was a secondary singles title in the Japanese Professional wrestling promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Kaoru Matsumoto is a retired Japanese professional wrestler known by her ringname Dump Matsumoto, who competed in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling as one of the is a retired female Professional wrestler best known for her mainstream popularity in the 1980s for her Tag team The Crush Gals with long-time partner Lioness (born July 28, 1963) is a Professional wrestler from Tokyo, Japan. With Matsumoto as her partner, Nakano won the WWWA World Tag Team Championship. The World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA World Tag Team Championship was the top doubles championship in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW from 1970 until it closed 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. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, Kaoru Matsumoto is a retired Japanese professional wrestler known by her ringname Dump Matsumoto, who competed in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling as one of the
After Matsumoto's retirement, Nakano became the default top heel, forming her own faction, Prison Gate Party, which consisted of several luminaries, most notably Aja Kong and Bison Kimura, who would later separate from Nakano, after she had won the WWWA title, to form Jungle Jack. (born September 25, 1970) is a professional wrestler, better known by the stage name Aja Kong, and the founder of the ARSION all-women Professional
In 1990, Nakano won a tournament to win the vacant WWWA World Heavyweight Championship, and went on to hold the title for nearly three years, before dropping it to Aja Kong. The WWWA World Heavyweight Championship was the top singles championship in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling from 1970 until it closed in 2005
Nakano also traveled to Mexico, in 1992, where she won a battle royal to become the first CMLL World Women's Champion. In Professional wrestling, a battle royal (sometimes battle royale; plural battles royal or battle royals) is a multi-competitor match type The CMLL World Women's Championship is the top title for female wrestlers in the Mexican Professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha 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 in Tokyo, Japan at the record-setting Big Egg Wrestling Universe show held at the Tokyo Egg Dome. Gertrude Vachon (born January 12 1962) is a retired Canadian professional wrestler better known by the Ring name Luna Vachon This article is about the professional wrestler and Monster truck driver for the ancient Greek mythological figure see Medusa Debra Ann This article is about the championship that is currently defended on the Raw brand of WWE Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. 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. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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 in Poughkeepsie, New York. Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Poughkeepsie (pəˈkɪpsiː is a City in New York, USA and serves as the County seat of Dutchess County, located in the Hudson 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 of cocaine and quickly fired from the company. Cocaine ( benzoylmethyl ecgonine) is a Crystalline Tropane Alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the Coca plant
Later in 1995 Nakano compete at the WCW World War 3 pay-per-view event and teamed with Akira Hokuto against the team of Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi 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. World War 3 was an annual Professional wrestling Pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling. born July 13, 1967 is a former Professional wrestler better known as. (born October 28, 1968) is a Japanese female professional wrestler. WCW Monday Nitro was a weekly Professional wrestling program produced by World Championship Wrestling.
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. In Golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained Nakano is also studying linguistics at a university. .
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. The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional Golfers The organization whose headquarters are She is currently based in Orlando, Florida, U.S.. Orlando is a major City in central Florida, USA and is the County seat of Orange County Florida. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the [1]