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Kyoko Inoue
Ring name(s)	Kyoko Inoue
Billed height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Billed weight	100 kg (220 lb)
Born	(1969-04-22) April 22, 1969 (age 43) Nan'yō, Yamagata
Trained by	Jaguar Yokota
Debut	October 10, 1988

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

In wrestling [link]

• Finishing moves
  • Niagara Driver (Sitout one shoulder powerbomb) – innovated
  • Victoria Driver (Inverted Death Valley driver) – innovated

• Signature moves
  • Backbreaker rack
  • Diving back elbow drop
  • Lariat
  • Overhead belly to belly suplex, sometimes from the top rope
  • Springboard back elbow
  • Standing scoop powerslam, sometimes from the top rope
  • Torture Crab (Elevated Boston crab with a knee to the back)

Championships and accomplishments [link]

• All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling

• AJW Championship (1 time)
• IWA World Women's Championship (2 times)
• WWWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
• WWWA World Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Takako Inoue
• Japan Grand Prix (1991)

• Dramatic Dream Team

• Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (2 times)

• JDStar

• TWF World Women's Championship (2 times)

• NEO Japan Ladies' Wrestling

• All Pacific Championship (2 times)
• NEO Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Hiroyo Matsumoto
• NEO Mid-Summer Tag Tournament 7 (2008) - with Hiroyo Matsumoto

• World Entertainment Wrestling

• WEW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Kodo Fuyuki and Chocoball Mukai
• WEW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Hiromichi Fuyuki

• Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards

• 5 Star Match (1993) with Takako Inoue vs. Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki on April 2
• 5 Star Match (1993) with Takako Inoue, Aja Kong, and Sakie Hasegawa vs. Dynamite Kansai, Mayumi Ozaki, Hikari Fukuoka, and Cutie Suzuki on July 31
• 5 Star Match (1994) vs. Manami Toyota on August 24
• 5 Star Match (1995) vs. Manami Toyota on May 7
• Match of the Year (1995) vs. Manami Toyota on May 7

References [link]

Professional wrestling portal

Championships taken from wrestling-titles.com

• Kyoko Inoue at the Internet Movie Database