1. Ayumi Kurihara was born on July 13,1984 and is a retired joshi puroresu wrestler best known for her tenures with Pro Wrestling Wave and NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling.
19 Facts About Ayumi Kurihara
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Ayumi Kurihara then lost her following tournament match when Toshie Uematsu beat her with a flying body press.
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Since then, Ayumi Kurihara has wrestled as a freelancer, in Neo, JWP Project, JDStar, Ibuki and Pro Wrestling Sun.
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In December 2006, Ayumi Kurihara wrestled Shuu Shibutani in a special show geared toward the upcoming generation of wrestlers.
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On July 16,2007, at the Pro Wrestling NEO "Summer Stampede '07" show in Korakuen Hall, while teaming alongside Shuu Shibutani versus Aoi Kizuki and Nagisa Nozaki, Ayumi Kurihara broke her clavicle receiving a hard flying clothesline by Kizuki.
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Ayumi Kurihara finished the match, hitting three more missile dropkicks before scoring the pinfall.
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Ayumi Kurihara returned to action on December 9,2007, to compete in the main event tag match in Michiko Ohmukai's retirement show, but re-aggravated her injury causing her to need surgery.
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On December 20,2007, Ayumi Kurihara underwent the surgery in which the doctor removed bone and bone marrow from her hip to use to reconstruct her clavicle along with a titanium plate and screws.
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Around mid-March 2008 Ayumi Kurihara began light training again with Mariko Yoshida and in the U-FILE Dojo.
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Ayumi Kurihara teamed with Yoshiko Tamura to challenge Nanae Takahashi and Kana for the NEO tag team championships on December 31,2009, in Korakuen Hall.
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Ayumi Kurihara appeared for Jersey All Pro Wrestling the same month.
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That same day Ayumi Kurihara then returned to the Arena Mexico and Dragon Mania V for a tag match, where she and Marcela defeated Mima Shimoda and La Comandante.
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On December 31,2010, Ayumi Kurihara defeated Yoshiko Tamura in Tamura's retirement match to win the NWA Women's Pacific and NEO Single Championships.
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On November 26,2011, Kurihara defeated Marcela in the main event of an Ayumi Kurihara Produce event to win Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's World Women's Championship.
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On July 16, Ayumi Kurihara defeated Ryo Mizunami to win Pro Wrestling Wave's 2012 Catch the Wave tournament.
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On March 28,2013, Ayumi Kurihara announced that, due to the various injuries she had suffered during her career, she would be retiring from professional wrestling on August 4.
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Ayumi Kurihara wrestled two matches during the event; first she defeated her trainee Mika Iida in the opening match and then teamed with Iida and Akino in a six-woman tag team main event, where they defeated Aja Kong, Gami and Tomoka Nakagawa, with Ayumi Kurihara pinning Kong for the final win of her career.
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Ayumi Kurihara's parents' Tokyo yakiniku barbecue restaurant, the "Three Jewels" was not only a place where wrestlers often ate, but is a sponsor of pro wrestling events.
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Ayumi Kurihara played basketball in high school in Tokyo, and after graduation, she went to work at her family's restaurant.