Japan Grand Prix
The Japan Grand Prix was an annual professional wrestling tournament held by the promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) to determine the number one contender for the promotion's highest achievement, the WWWA World Single Championship. The tournament was held in the summer every year from 1985 to 2004. In 2005, AJW was closed for good, and the WWWA Championship was abandoned.
List of winners
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Results
[edit]1985
[edit]The 1985 Japan Grand Prix was a 10-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 25, 1985.
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Lioness Asuka | 7.0 |
| Dump Matsumoto | 6.5 |
| Chigusa Nagayo | 6.5 |
| Devil Masami | 6.0 |
| Yukari Omori | 5.0 |
| Jumbo Hori | 4.5 |
| Noriyo Tateno | 3.5 |
| Crane Yu | 2.5 |
| Itsuki Yamazaki | 2.0 |
| Bull Nakano | 1.5 |
| Second-place tie-breaker | Final | ||||||||
| 1 | Lioness Asuka | ||||||||
| 2 | Dump Matsumoto | Dump Matsumoto | |||||||
| 3 | Chigusa Nagayo | ||||||||
1986
[edit]The 1986 Japan Grand Prix was a 12-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 22, 1986.
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Yukari Omori | 9.0 |
| Lioness Asuka | 8.5 |
| Chigusa Nagayo | 8.5 |
| Dump Matsumoto | 8.5 |
| Bull Nakano | 6.5 |
| Itsuki Yamazaki | 6.5 |
| Noriyo Tateno | 5.5 |
| ? | 4.5 |
| ? | 3.5 |
| ? | 2.5 |
| ? | 2.0 |
| Condor Saito | 0.5 |
| Finals | ||||
| 1 | Chigusa Nagayo | Pin | ||
| 2 | Yukari Omori | 27:21 | ||
1987
[edit]The 1987 Japan Grand Prix was a 13-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 28, 1987.[1]
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Chigusa Nagayo | 9.0 |
| Dump Matsumoto | 9.0 |
| Yumiko Hotta | 9.0 |
| Lioness Asuka | 7.5 |
| ? | 7.0 |
| ? | 7.0 |
| ? | 6.5 |
| Devil Masami | 6.0 |
| Bull Nakano | 5.0 |
| ? | 4.0 |
| Condor Saito | 3.0 |
| Hisako Uno | 2.0 |
| ? | 2.0 |
| Second-place tie-breaker | Final | ||||||||
| 1 | Chigusa Nagayo | ||||||||
| 2 | Yumiko Hotta | Dump Matsumoto | 12:26 | ||||||
| 3 | Dump Matsumoto | 5:46 | |||||||
1988
[edit]The 1988 Japan Grand Prix was an 11-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 26, 1988.[1]
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Bull Nakano | 7.5 |
| Yumiko Hotta | 7.5 |
| Mitsuko Nishiwaki | 7.5 |
| ? | 6.0 |
| Dynamite Queen | 6.0 |
| Hisako Uno | 5.5 |
| Mika Suzuki | 5.0 |
| Dynamite King | 4.0 |
| ? | 3.0 |
| ? | 3.0 |
| Dynamite Bar | 0.0 |
| Second-place tie-breaker | Final | ||||||||
| 1 | Yumiko Hotta | ||||||||
| 2 | Bull Nakano | Bull Nakano | 10:30 | ||||||
| 3 | Mitsuko Nishiwaki | 10:37 | |||||||
1989
[edit]The 1989 Japan Grand Prix was a 19-woman single-elimination tournament held from June 25 to August 24, 1989.[1]
| First round | Second round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noriyo Tateno | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yumiko Hotta | Yumiko Hotta | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mika Takahashi | Yumiko Hotta | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mima Shimoda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yumiko Hotta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Madusa Miceli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kaoru Maeda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miori Kamiya | Madusa Miceli | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Erika Shishido | Erika Shishido | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Madusa Miceli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Madusa Miceli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mitsuko Nishiwaki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bull Nakano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Suzuka Minami | Suzuka Minami | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Etsuko Mita | Bull Nakano | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Akira Hokuto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Akira Hokuto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manami Toyota | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bull Nakano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mitsuko Nishiwaki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sakie Hasegawa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toshiyo Yamada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toshiyo Yamada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mitsuko Nishiwaki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bison Kimura | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mitsuko Nishiwaki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990
[edit]The 1990 Japan Grand Prix was a seven-woman single-elimination tournament concluding on June 17, 1990.[1]
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Akira Hokuto | ||||||||||||||
| Manami Toyota | ||||||||||||||
| Manami Toyota | ||||||||||||||
| Madusa Miceli | ||||||||||||||
| Madusa Miceli | ||||||||||||||
| Noriyo Tateno | ||||||||||||||
| Manami Toyota | ||||||||||||||
| Yumiko Hotta | ||||||||||||||
| Yumiko Hotta | ||||||||||||||
| Grizzly Iwamoto | ||||||||||||||
| Yumiko Hotta | ||||||||||||||
| Mitsuko Nishiwaki | ||||||||||||||
1991
[edit]The 1991 Japan Grand Prix was a 16-woman single-elimination tournament held from July 7 to August 18, 1991.[1]
| First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Mima Shimoda | |||||||||||||||
| Manami Toyota | |||||||||||||||
| Manami Toyota | |||||||||||||||
| Suzuka Minami | |||||||||||||||
| Takako Inoue | |||||||||||||||
| Suzuka Minami | |||||||||||||||
| Manami Toyota | |||||||||||||||
| Kyoko Inoue | |||||||||||||||
| Miori Kamiya | |||||||||||||||
| Toshiyo Yamada | |||||||||||||||
| Toshiyo Yamada | |||||||||||||||
| Kyoko Inoue | |||||||||||||||
| Kyoko Inoue | |||||||||||||||
| Debbie Malenko | |||||||||||||||
| Kyoko Inoue | |||||||||||||||
| Bison Kimura | |||||||||||||||
| Esther Moreno | |||||||||||||||
| Mariko Yoshida | |||||||||||||||
| Mariko Yoshida | |||||||||||||||
| Aja Kong | |||||||||||||||
| Yumiko Hotta | |||||||||||||||
| Aja Kong | |||||||||||||||
| Bison Kimura | |||||||||||||||
| Aja Kong | |||||||||||||||
| Akira Hokuto | |||||||||||||||
| Etsuko Mita | |||||||||||||||
| Akira Hokuto | |||||||||||||||
| Bison Kimura | |||||||||||||||
| Bison Kimura | |||||||||||||||
| Mika Takahashi | |||||||||||||||
1992
[edit]The 1992 Japan Grand Prix was a round-robin tournament consisting of two 10-woman blocks, held from June 27 to August 30, 1992.[1][2]
| Block A | Block B | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrestler: | Points: | Wrestler: | Points: |
| Manami Toyota | 9.0 | Toshiyo Yamada | 8.0 |
| Aja Kong | 8.0 | Mariko Yoshida | 7.0 |
| Takako Inoue | 6.0 | Kyoko Inoue | 7.0 |
| Suzuka Minami | 5.0 | Akira Hokuto | 4.5 |
| Etsuko Mita | 5.0 | Sakie Hasegawa | 4.0 |
| Mima Shimoda | 5.0 | Yumiko Hotta | 4.0 |
| Bat Yoshinaga | 4.0 | Miori Kamiya | 3.0 |
| Tomoko Watanabe | 3.0 | Debbie Malenko | 3.0 |
| Cynthia Moreno | 1.0 | Terri Power | 3.0 |
| Bison Kimura | 0.0 | Kaoru Ito | 1.5 |
| Semifinal | Final | ||||||||
| 1 | Manami Toyota | ||||||||
| 2 | Aja Kong | Aja Kong | 13:01 | ||||||
| 3 | Toshiyo Yamada | 17:07 | |||||||
1993
[edit]The 1993 Japan Grand Prix was a round-robin tournament consisting of two eight-woman blocks, with the top two finishers from each block advancing to a single-elimination tournament. It was held from May 3 to August 21, 1993.
| Block A | Block B | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrestler: | Points: | Wrestler: | Points: |
| Akira Hokuto | 6.0 | Yumiko Hotta | 6.0 |
| Harley Saito | 5.0 | Manami Toyota | 5.0 |
| Toshiyo Yamada | 4.5 | Bat Yoshinaga | 5.0 |
| Suzuka Minami | 3.0 | Hikari Fukuoka | 4.0 |
| Sakie Hasegawa | 3.0 | Kyoko Inoue | 3.5 |
| Takako Inoue | 3.0 | Mima Shimoda | 2.5 |
| Etsuko Mita | 3.0 | Kaoru Ito | 2.0 |
| Tomoko Watanabe | 0.5 | Saemi Numata | 0.0 |
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| A1 | Akira Hokuto | ||||||||
| B2 | Manami Toyota | ||||||||
| A1 | Akira Hokuto | ||||||||
| B1 | Yumiko Hotta | 19:52 | |||||||
| B1 | Yumiko Hotta | ||||||||
| A2 | Harley Saito | ||||||||
1994
[edit]The 1994 Japan Grand Prix was a 10-woman round-robin tournament held from June 3 to August 28, 1994.
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Yumiko Hotta | 13 |
| Manami Toyota | 12 |
| Sakie Hasegawa | 11 |
| Toshiyo Yamada | 10 |
| Mima Shimoda | 10 |
| Takako Inoue | 10 |
| Etsuko Mita | 10 |
| Suzuka Minami | 8 |
| Kaoru Ito | 6 |
| Tomoko Watanabe | 0 |
1995
[edit]The 1995 Japan Grand Prix was a 16-woman round-robin tournament, consisting of two eight-woman blocks, concluding on September 3, 1995.
| Block A | Block B | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrestler: | Points: | Wrestler: | Points: |
| Manami Toyota | 11 | Yumiko Hotta | 12 |
| Bison Kimura | 9 | Takako Inoue | 11 |
| Reggie Bennett | 8 | Kyoko Inoue | 9 |
| Kaoru Ito | 8 | Mariko Yoshida | 8 |
| Mima Shimoda | 8 | Sakie Hasegawa | 6 |
| Toshiyo Yamada | 8 | Etsuko Mita | 6 |
| Rie Tamada | 2 | Tomoko Watanabe | 4 |
| Chaparita Asari | 0 | Kumiko Maekawa | 0 |
| Finals | ||||
| A1 | Manami Toyota | Pin | ||
| B1 | Yumiko Hotta | 23:39 | ||
1996
[edit]The 1996 Japan Grand Prix was a 12-woman round-robin tournament held from July 14 to August 30, 1996.
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Aja Kong | 16 |
| Reggie Bennett | 14 |
| Yumiko Hotta | 14 |
| Kyoko Inoue | 14 |
| Mima Shimoda | 12 |
| Toshiyo Yamada | 12 |
| Takako Inoue | 10 |
| Kaoru Ito | 10 |
| Etsuko Mita | 8 |
| Tomoko Watanabe | 8 |
| Mariko Yoshida | 8 |
| Chaparita Asari | 4 |
1997
[edit]The 1997 Japan Grand Prix was a 12-woman round-robin tournament concluding on August 10, 1997.
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Kaoru Ito | 18 |
| Manami Toyota | 17 |
| Kumiko Maekawa | 16 |
| Etsuko Mita | 15 |
| Mima Shimoda | 15 |
| Tomoko Watanabe | 15 |
| Rie Tamada | 10 † |
| Saya Endo | 7 |
| Misae Genki | 5 † |
| Tanny Mouse | 4 † |
| Yoshiko Tamura | 4 † |
| Mariko Yoshida | 2 |
1998
[edit]The 1998 Japan Grand Prix was a round-robin tournament consisting of two six-woman blocks, with the top three finishers from the Main League and the top finisher from the Junior League advancing to a single-elimination tournament. It was held from June 14 to August 9, 1998.
| Main League | Junior League | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrestler: | Points: | Wrestler: | Points: |
| Manami Toyota | 12 | Miho Wakizawa | 12 |
| Zap I | 12 | Emi Motokawa | 12 |
| Yumiko Hotta | 12 | Momoe Nakawaki | 12 |
| Takako Inoue | 10 | Nanae Takahashi | 11 |
| Kumiko Maekeawa | 8 | Noriko Toyoda | 9 |
| Zap T | 6 | ZAP Nakahara | 5 |
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| J1 | Miho Wakizawa | Pin | |||||||
| M2 | ZAP I | 13:26 | |||||||
| M2 | ZAP I | Pin | |||||||
| M1 | Manami Toyota | 23:47 | |||||||
| M1 | Manami Toyota | Pin | |||||||
| M3 | Yumiko Hotta | 20:31 | |||||||
1999
[edit]The 1999 Japan Grand Prix was a nine-woman round-robin tournament, with the second, third and fourth finishers advancing to a second round-robin. The winner of the second round-robin advanced to face the first-place finisher from the initial round-robin. The tournament was held from June 6 to August 15, 1999.
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Yumiko Hotta | 11 |
| Manami Toyota | 9 |
| Kaoru Ito | 9 |
| Momoe Nakanishi | 9 |
| Takako Inoue | 8 |
| Kumiko Maekawa | 8 |
| Nanae Takahashi | 7 |
| Tomoko Watanabe | 6 |
| Miho Wakizawa | 5 |
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Manami Toyota | 4 |
| Kaoru Ito | 2 |
| Momoe Nakanishi | 2 |
| Ito | Nakanishi | Toyota | |
| Ito | — | Ito (1:32) | Toyota (4:17) |
| Nakanishi | Ito (1:32) | — | (1) Nakanishi (10:46) (2) Toyota (2:08) |
| Toyota | Toyota (4:17) | (1) Nakanishi (10:46) (2) Toyota (2:08) |
— |
| Final | ||||
| 1 | Yumiko Hotta | Pin | ||
| 2 | Manami Toyota | 18:45 | ||
2000
[edit]The 2000 Japan Grand Prix was a nine-woman single-elimination tournament held from June 11 to August 20, 2000. Also a six-woman Junior Division round-robin tournament was held.
Main league
| First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Reggie Bennett | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kaoru Ito | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kaoru Ito | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tomoko Watanabe | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kumiko Maekawa | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tomoko Watanabe | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kaoru Ito | |||||||||||||||||||
| Etsuko Mita | |||||||||||||||||||
| Etsuko Mita | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nanae Takahashi | |||||||||||||||||||
| Etsuko Mita | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mima Shimoda | Yumiko Hotta | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manami Toyota | Manami Toyota | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yumiko Hotta | |||||||||||||||||||
21st Century League
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Nanae Takahashi | 7 |
| Momoe Nakanishi | 7 |
| Kayoko Haruyama | 5 |
| Miho Wakizawa | 5 |
| Kayo Noumi | 4 |
| Miyuki Fuji | 2 |
| Final | ||||
| 1 | Momoe Nakanishi | |||
| 2 | Nanae Takahashi | 7:44 | ||
2001
[edit]The 2001 Japan Grand Prix was a 12-woman round-robin tournament held from June 1 to August 17, 2001.
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Momoe Nakanishi | 16 |
| Kumiko Maekawa | 16 |
| Kaoru Ito | 15 |
| Manami Toyota | 13 |
| Etsuko Mita | 13 |
| Tomoko Watanabe | 12 |
| Mima Shimoda | 12 |
| Yumiko Hotta | 11 |
| Miho Wakizawa | 10 |
| Nanae Takahashi | 10 |
| Kayo Noumi | 4 |
| Miyuki Fuji | 0 |
| Final | ||||
| 1 | Kumiko Maekawa | Pin | ||
| 2 | Momoe Nakanishi | 12:28 | ||
2002
[edit]The 2002 Japan Grand Prix was a nine-woman round-robin tournament held from May 25 to July 9, 2002. The top four finishers advanced to a single-elimination tournament.[3]
| Wrestler: | Points: |
|---|---|
| Nanae Takahashi | 10 |
| Momoe Nakanishi | 10 |
| Rie Tamada | 10 |
| Kumiko Maekawa | 10 |
| Yumiko Hotta | 9 |
| Tomoko Watanabe | 9 |
| Kayo Noumi | 8 |
| Miyuki Gujii | 4 |
| Kaoru Ito | 2 |
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
| 1 | Nanae Takahashi | Pin | |||||||
| 4 | Kumiko Maekawa | 6:57 | |||||||
| 1 | Nanae Takahashi | Sub | |||||||
| 2 | Momoe Nakanishi | 6:20 | |||||||
| 2 | Momoe Nakanishi | Pin | |||||||
| 3 | Yumiko Hotta | 5:53 | |||||||
2003
[edit]The 2003 Japan Grand Prix was a 10-woman single-elimination tournament held from July 20 to August 3, 2003.
| First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
| Sasori | |||||||||||||||
| Kumiko Maekawa | Kumiko Maekawa | ||||||||||||||
| Emi Sakura | Sasori | ||||||||||||||
| Nanae Takahashi | |||||||||||||||
| Kayo Noumi | |||||||||||||||
| Nanae Takahashi | |||||||||||||||
| Nanae Takahashi | |||||||||||||||
| Amazing Kong | |||||||||||||||
| Amazing Kong | |||||||||||||||
| Amazing Kong | Takako Inoue | ||||||||||||||
| Makai Witch #2 | Amazing Kong | ||||||||||||||
| ZAP T | |||||||||||||||
| Hikaru | |||||||||||||||
| Zap T | |||||||||||||||
2004
[edit]The 2004 Japan Grand Prix was a 10-woman single-elimination tournament held on August 1, 2004.
| First round | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||||
| Hikaru | |||||||||||||||||||
| Saki Maemura | Sasori | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sasori | Hikaru | ||||||||||||||||||
| Misae Genki | |||||||||||||||||||
| Misae Genki | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nanae Takahashi | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hikaru | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kumiko Maekawa | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kumiko Maekawa | |||||||||||||||||||
| Amazing Kong | Tomoko Watanabe | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kumiko Maekawa | Kumiko Maekawa | ||||||||||||||||||
| Takako Inoue | |||||||||||||||||||
| Takako Inoue | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Mayumi Ozaki | ||||||||||||||||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "AJW All Japan Women´s Pro-Wrestling (1987 – 1992)". wwfoldschool.com. WWF Old School. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ^ Byrne, Liam (October 28, 2020). "THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS: 1992 (PART 47 / AUGUST 15)". voicesofwrestling.com. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ^ Quebrada. "AJW ALL JAPAN WOMEN'S PRO-WRESTLING 2002". quebrada.net. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
- "AJW Japan Grand Prix 1980s". Wrestling Supercards and Tournaments. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- "AJW Japan Grand Prix 1990s". Wrestling Supercards and Tournaments. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
- "AJW Japan Grand Prix 2000s". Wrestling Supercards and Tournaments. Retrieved 2008-07-19.