Kyoko Inoue

Kyoko Inoue
Kyoko Inoue
	Inoue in January 2020
Birth name	Kyoko Inoue
Born	April 22, 1969 (age 54); Nan'yō, Yamagata
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Kyoko Inoue ; Adamo Inoue ; Madori Inoue
Billed height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Billed weight	108 kg (238 lb)
Trained by	Jaguar Yokota
Debut	1988

Kyoko Inoue (井上京子, Inoue Kyōko, born April 22, 1969)^[1] is a Japanese female professional wrestler. She has held the WWWA World Single Championship three times, and is the first woman to win a men's title in Japan.

Inoue performed in the World Wrestling Federation at Survivor Series 1995 in an all-women's Survivor Series elimination match that included WWF Women's Champion Alundra Blayze, Bertha Faye and Aja Kong.

She is also the founder of the joshi promotion NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling. After leaving NEO in May 2010, Inoue founded the World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana promotion in January 2011. Kyoko Inoue was trained by famous Japanese wrestler, Jaguar Yokota.

Professional wrestling career

On May 11, 1994, Inoue made her first appearance on World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during a live event in Japan, where she unsuccessfully challenged Alundra Blayze for the WWF Women's Championship.^[2] On November 19, 1995, at Survivor Series, Inoue joined the team of Blayze in the traditional Survivor Series elimination match, Where Blayze's team lost, as Aja Kong remained the sole survivor of the opponent team. On the November 27th episode of Monday Night Raw, Inoue alongside Blayze lost to Kong and Tomoko Watanabe.^[3]

WWWD Queen Championship/WWWD World Single Championship (4 times)^[5]^[6]^[7]
WWWD World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Tomoko Watanabe (1)^[8] and Yumiko Hotta (1)^[9]
Queen Championship Tournament (2013)^[5]

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^ タイトル名称変更. World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana (in Japanese). May 28, 2013. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
^ 9/16(水)新宿大会試合結果. World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana (in Japanese). September 17, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
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