1. Yumiko Hotta is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist.
36 Facts About Yumiko Hotta
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Yumiko Hotta worked for the promotion until 2003, becoming a three-time WWWA World Single and WWWA World Tag Team Champion.
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In June 2003, Yumiko Hotta took over the Hyper Visual Fighting Arsion promotion and renamed it Major Girl's Fighting AtoZ.
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In January 2011, Yumiko Hotta joined the new Universal Woman's Pro Wrestling Reina promotion, but just sixteen months later she announced that the promotion was folding.
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Yumiko Hotta resigned from Diana in July 2016 to become a freelancer.
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Since 1995, Yumiko Hotta has fought several mixed martial arts matches, mostly at events put together by joshi puroresu promotions.
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Yumiko Hotta was part of the 1985 AJW rookie class alongside Hisako Uno, Suzuka Minami and Mitsuko Nishiwaki.
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Yumiko Hotta made her debut on June 5,1985, teaming with Megumi Nakamae in a tag team match, where they faced Fumie Kanzaki and Hisako Uno.
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Yumiko Hotta gained attention early on for her unorthodox wrestling style.
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Yumiko Hotta won her first title on April 15,1987, when she and Hisako Uno defeated Judy Martin and Leilani Kai to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Championship.
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Yumiko Hotta won her first singles title on September 24,1995, when she defeated Toshiyo Yamada for the All Pacific Championship.
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Yumiko Hotta vacated the title in mid-1996 to concentrate on chasing AJW's top singles title, the WWWA World Single Championship, as well as an upcoming vale tudo fight.
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However, on May 11,2003, Yumiko Hotta announced that she was quitting the dying promotion.
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On February 15,2004, Yumiko Hotta defeated Momoe Nakanishi to become the second AtoZ World Champion.
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Yumiko Hotta held the title until May 4,2006, when AtoZ went out of business.
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Yumiko Hotta made her debut for Ice Ribbon on February 2,2007, wrestling Hikari Minami to a draw, for NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling on April 2, teaming with Misae Genki to defeat Etsuko Mita and Yoshiko Tamura in a tag team main event, and on October 21,2007, entered Oz Academy's tournament to determine the number one contender to the promotion's Openweight Championship, from which she was eliminated in the second round on November 23 by Carlos Amano.
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Yumiko Hotta made appearances for Pro Wrestling Sun, under the ring name "KY Yumiko Hotta".
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On July 21,2008, Yumiko Hotta made an appearance for JWP Joshi Puroresu, when she and Manami Toyota entered a tournament to determine the inaugural Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Champions, defeating Chikayo Nagashima and Sonoko Kato in their first round match.
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In 2009, Yumiko Hotta joined Nanae Takahashi's Passion Red stable, adopting the ring name "Passion Hotty" in the process.
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In early 2011, Yumiko Hotta joined the newly formed Universal Woman's Pro Wrestling Reina promotion, which had a working relationship with the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre promotion.
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Yumiko Hotta returned to the ring on August 20,2011, at Reina 10, where she and Mima Shimoda were defeated in a tag team main event by La Comandante and Dama de Hierro, after Yumiko Hotta was pinned by La Comandante.
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Seven days later at Reina 16, Yumiko Hotta defeated visiting American Sara Del Rey in a main event singles match.
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Three days later at Reina 19, Yumiko Hotta faced La Comandante in a main event grudge match, winning via submission.
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Yumiko Hotta won the match via submission, forcing her rival to have her head shaved, but afterwards surprisingly announced that Reina was folding effective immediately.
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On December 31, Yumiko Hotta returned to Ice Ribbon to take part in RibbonMania 2012, where she wrestled Hamuko Hoshi to a fifteen-minute time limit draw.
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On March 10,2013, Yumiko Hotta made a special appearance for JWP, teaming with Keiko Aono in a main event tag team match, where they defeated JWP Openweight Champion Arisa Nakajima and Rabbit Miu, with Yumiko Hotta pinning Nakajima for the win.
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On January 4,2014, Yumiko Hotta produced her own Diana event, which featured a tag team main event, where she and Arisa Nakajima faced Kyoko Inoue and La Comandante.
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The match ended in a disqualification, when Yumiko Hotta attacked the referee, after La Comandante had turned on Inoue and joined Bousou-gun.
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However, immediately afterwards, Yumiko Hotta gave up the title in favor of joining Jaguar Yokota's new Crysis stable, which included Jenny Rose and male wrestlers "brother" Yasshi and Taru.
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On July 11,2016, Yumiko Hotta was announced as the head of the women's wrestling department of Atsushi Onita's new Fire Puroresu promotion, which would hold its first show on August 26.
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In 1994, Yumiko Hotta began practising mixed martial arts and qualified for the Ultimate L-1 Tournament, held by joshi puroresu promotion Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling on July 18,1995.
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On July 7,1996, Yumiko Hotta defeated Margot Neyhoft via submission at Vale Tudo Japan 1996.
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On February 18,2012, Yumiko Hotta fought her first MMA match in over eleven years, when she faced Amanda Lucas in a match to determine the Deep Women's Openweight Champion.
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Yumiko Hotta lost the match, submitting to a keylock at 2:16 in the third round.
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On December 22,2016, it was announced that Yumiko Hotta would replace an injured Shinobu Kandori and take on Gabi Garcia at Rizin Fighting Federation's New Year's Eve show.
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Yumiko Hotta lost the fight via technical knockout in 41 seconds.