1. Manami Toyota is a Japanese retired professional wrestler, best known for her work with All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling.
24 Facts About Manami Toyota
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Manami Toyota is widely considered to be one of the greatest female professional wrestlers of all time.
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Manami Toyota made her professional wrestling debut on August 5,1987, at the age of 16, in a singles match against Sachiko Nakamura.
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Manami Toyota won her first title on November 18,1989, when she defeated Mika Takahashi for the AJW Championship.
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Manami Toyota defended that title eight times over the course of three years, before losing it to Reggie Bennett on May 15,1995.
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Manami Toyota's run with the two titles was not to last long.
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Manami Toyota then vacated her All Pacific Championship, prior to her first WWWA Heavyweight Championship match against the monstrous Aja Kong at AJW's Queendom III show, on March 26,1995.
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The match saw Manami Toyota reach the summit of AJW when she won and became the 39th WWWA World Single Champion.
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Nonetheless, Manami Toyota retained, and the match was voted Match of the Year for 1995 in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
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Manami Toyota is the only woman to have competed in 13 matches that were given a 5-Star rating by the Wrestling Observer.
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On November 28,1998, Manami Toyota faced the legendary Chigusa Nagayo in a one-time-only legends bout that saw arguably the two best female wrestlers ever go at it.
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Manami Toyota was brought in by Aja Kong to Chigusa Nagayo's Gaea Japan wrestling group.
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Manami Toyota feuded with her old partner Toshiyo Yamada, as well as Dynamite Kansai.
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Manami Toyota competed there from 2002 to 2004 before moving on.
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Manami Toyota put her wrestler career on hiatus after her August 2007 Tribute Show, where she wrestled in every match.
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On March 17,2017, Manami Toyota announced that she would retire from professional wrestling on November 3 with her final match at a special thirty-anniversary show in Japan.
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Manami Toyota then had her retirement match with no time limit against her hand-picked successor, Tsukasa Fujimoto, which she won with the Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex.
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However, Manami Toyota demanded a rematch and went on to defeat Fujimoto again with the Japanese Ocean Queen Bee Bomb.
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On July 25,2010, it was announced that Manami Toyota would make her first wrestling appearance in the United States, wrestling for the Chikara promotion in September.
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On September 18,2010, in Baltimore, Maryland, Manami Toyota defeated Daizee Haze in her first match on American soil.
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On February 10,2011, Chikara announced that Manami Toyota would be returning to the promotion in April to take part in the 2011 King of Trios tournament, where she would team up with Jigsaw and Mike Quackenbush.
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Manami Toyota returned to Chikara on December 2,2011, to take part in the special JoshiMania weekend, defeating Toshie Uematsu on night one.
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Manami Toyota was presented with the Diva Dirt Legacy Award, honoring her career.
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On September 14,2012, Manami Toyota made yet another return to Chikara to team with Jigsaw and Mike Quackenbush in the 2012 King of Trios, with the three defeating combatAnt, deviAnt and Soldier Ant in their first round match.