VIEW FROM THE RISING SUN
by Masanori Horie

Joshi Puroresu 2000

Bionic J & Yumi Fukawa
Bionic J and Yumi Fukawa (February 25, 2001)

Yumi Fukawa will have her retirement match against Mariko Yoshida at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on Tuesday, March 20, 2001 (a Japanese public holiday, "Vernal Equinox Day"). Fukawa was rushed to the hospital after taking a face first powerbomb off of the second rope during a six-man tag team match at Korakuen Hall on July 16, 2000. She spent a week in intensive care and two weeks in a regular room before being allowed to go home.

Now, she has made a full recovery with no long-term damage and requested to retire as an "active" wrestler. After much testing and research, Hiroshi Ogawa (ARSION president) agreed that it was safe for her to have a submission style match to face Yoshida, who is one of the most respectable woman wrestlers in Japan, in her final match. After her retirement, Fukawa will start her new work as a trainer at a training gym and will also be doing TV work.

Yumi Fukawa
Sports Card Magazine (January 2001)

Yumi Fukawa, 152cm / 53kg, was born in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa on May 22, 1976. She had an audition at All Japan Woman Pro Wrestling on January 17, 1993, and passed a pro test at Korakuen Hall on October 10, 1993. She debuted as a pro wrestler, teaming with Kumiko Maekawa against Chikako Shiratori & Miki Yokoe at Korakuen Hall, on November 12, 1993 (9:05 Shiratori beat Fukawa), when she was 17 years old. Unfortunately, she had to be absent until April 15, 1995 because she broke her right collarbone in her second match on November 17, 1993. She started over at Korakuen Hall on April 16, 1995. She is always counted as one of the most lovely woman wrestlers here in Japan, but she was never a wrestler of ability in those days. She quit All Japan Woman Pro Wrestling after a match at Nippon Budokan on August 20, 1997. Then, she joined a new office named ARSION. ARSION wrestlers trained in their Dojo every day and also attended Pancrase's Dojo every Monday and Battlarts' Dojo every Friday to learn much more about pro wrestling, Lucha Libre, and shoot style wrestling in those days. Fans were surprised when she drew with Candy Okutsu in ARSION's Grand Opening show at Korakuen Hall on February 18, 1998. She gained confidence in herself through very hard training.


Japanese woman's professional wrestling, "Joshi Puroresu," has produced a lot of unforgettable wrestlers and had countless quality, risky, great matches for years. However, their efforts haven't been crowned with enough success in Japanese puroresu history. But, they have wrestled very hard, even in front of 100 fans at a local small town gym every night. A woman wrestler in Japan said, "Being a wrestler, especially in Japan with the hard blows that we take, having aches and pains is a normal part of life."


VFTRS Japanese Woman Wrestlers Title Matches in 2000

January

January 3, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (All Japan Woman)
WWWA World Tag Team title match
Tomoko Watanabe & Kumiko Maekawa beat Manami Toyota & Miho Wakizawa (2-1)
(1) Maekawa beat Wakizawa (17:07)
(2) Toyota beat Maekawa (6:15)
(3) Watanabe beat Wakizawa (2:59)
---Watanabe & Maekawa kept the titlle

Takahashi, Wakizawa, Nomi, & Nakanishi
Nanae Takahashi, Miho Wakizawa, Kayo Nomi, & Momoe Nakanishi
(All Japan Woman)

January 4, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (All Japan Woman)
WWWA World Singles title match
Manami Toyota beat Yumiko Hotta (21:01)
---Toyota became the 50th champion
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January 4, 2000 (12:00 p.m.)---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (All Japan Woman)
All Pacific title match
Kumiko Maekawa beat Miho Wakizawa (16:12)
---Maekawa kept the title

January 4, 2000 (6:30 p.m.)---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (LLPW)
LLPW Six-Man Tag Team title match
Rumi Kazama, Eagle Sawai (Tomoko Sawai) & Carol Midori (Midori Saito) beat Harley Saito (Sayori Saito), Noriyo Tateno, & Keiko Aono (22:38 Kazama beat Harley)
---Kazama, Sawai, & Midori kept thee title

January 7, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (ARSION)
Sky High of ARSION title match
Chaparrita ASARI (Masami Watanabe) beat Ai Fujita (6:44)
---ASARI kept the title

January 8, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (JWP)
JWP Junior title match
Kayoko Haruyama beat Acute Sae (Tomiko Sai) (18:56)
---Haruyama kept the title

January 10, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (Jd')
AWF World Women title match
The Bloody (Naomi Kato) beat Yoshiko Takura (13:56)
---Bloody became the seventh champion

Yoshiko Tamura
Yoshiko Tamura (NEO)

January 15, 2000---Tokushima City Gym (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
Ayako Hamada & AKINO (Mika Akino) beat Candy Okutsu (Tomoko Okutsu) & Ai Fujita (23:18 AKINO beat Fujita)
---Ayako & AKINO kept the title
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January 30, 2000---Zepp Tokyo (ARSION)
Queen of ARSION title match
Aja Kong beat Candy Okutsu (Tomoko Okutsu) (16:13)
---Aja kept the title

January 30, 2000---Zepp Tokyo (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
Ayako Hamada & AKINO (Mika Akino) beat Mikiko Futagami & Rie Tamada (16:46 Ayako beat Futagami)
---Ayako & AKINO kept the title
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February

February 10, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (JWP)
JWP Tag Team title match
ZAP "I" (Kaoru Ito) & ZAP"T" (Tomoko Watanabe) beat Commando Bolshoi & Carlos Amano (20:33 ZAP "I" beat Bolshoi)
---ZAP became the 15th champions

February 11, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (All Japan Woman)
All Pacific title match
Azumi Hyuga (Tomoko Kuzumi) beat Kumiko Maekawa (16:08)
---Hyuga became the 38th champion

February 13, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (GAEA)
AAA Singles title match
Aja Kong (Erika Shishido) beat KAORU (Kaoru Maeda) (16:34)
---Aja kept the title

Aja Kong
Aja Kong

February 13, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (GAEA)
AAA Tag Team title match
Sugar Sato (Toshie Sato) & Chikayo Nagashima beat Lioness Aska (Tomoko Kitamura) & Sonoko Kato (18:16 Nagashima beat Kato)
---Sato & Nagashima kept the title<

February 13, 2000---KBS Hall, Kyoto (CMLL-Japan)
CMLL-Japan Women title match
Chikako Shiratori (Chikako Hasegawa) beat La Diabolica (14:49)
---Shiratori kept the title

February 18, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
Aja Kong & Mariko Yoshida beat Ayako Hamada & AKINO (Mika Akino) (24:40 Yoshida beat AKINO)
---Aja & Yoshida became the third cchampions

February 27, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (FMW)
WEW Tag Team title match
Kodo Fuyuki (Hiromichi Fuyuki) & Kyoko Inoue beat "H" (Eiji Ezaki) & Mr. Gannosuke (Masashi Honda) (14:30 Fuyuki beat Gannosuke)
---Fuyuki & Kyoko kept the title


March

March 1, 2000---Hakata StarLanes, Fukuoka (All Japan Woman)
All Japan title Tournament
Nanae Takahashi beat Miyuki Fujii (9:55)
---Takahashi became the 28th champion

March 6, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (LLPW)
LLPW Singles title match
Harley Saito (Sayori Saitou) beat Rumi Kazama (18:02)
---Saito kept the title

March 7, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (Jd')
TWF World Tag Team title match
Lioness Aska (Tomoko Kitamura), Crusher Maedomari (Yoshika Maedomari), Morimatsu (Yuki Morimatsu), & KAZUKI (Kazuko Fujiwara) beat Yuko Kosugi, Megumi Yabushita, Ran-maru (Tomoka Isozaki), & Hime-maru (Jaguar Yokota)
(1) Kosugi beat Morimatsu (8:04)
(2) Aska beat Yabushita (2:38)
(3) Maedomari beat Ran-maru (12:46)
---Maedomari & Morimatsu became thee fifth champions

March 15, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
Aja Kong & Mariko Yoshida beat Rie Tamada & Hiromi Yagi (19:09 Aja beat Tamada)
---Aja & Yoshida kept the title
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Mariko Yoshida
Mariko Yoshida (ARSION)

March 15, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (ARSION)
Sky High of ARSION title match
Mari Apache beat Chaparrita ASARI (Masami Watanabe) (12:16)
---Mari became the second champion
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March 19, 2000---Takamatsu International Hotel, Kagawa (All Japan Woman)
All Japan title match
Nanae Takahashi beat Kayo Nomi (9:05)
---Takahashi kept the title

March 20, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (JWP)
JWP Singles title match
Yuyu Ran (Tomoko Miyaguchi) beat Misae Genki (Misae Watanabe) (22:34)
---Ran kept the title

Yuyu Ran
Yuyu Ran (JWP)

March 23, 2000---Kaikyo Messe Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi (CMLL-Japan)
CMLL-Japan Women title match
Chikako Shiratori (Chikako Hasegawa) beat Yuki Miyazaki (12:29)
---Shiratori kept the title


April

April 1, 2000---Yokosuka City Gym, Kanagawa (FMW)
WEW Tag Team title match
Gedo & Koji Nakagawa beat Kodo Fuyuki (Hiromichi Fuyuki) & Kyoko Inoue (14:41 Gedo beat Kyoko)
---Gedo & Nakagawa became the fifthh champions

April 7, 2000---Kawasaki City Gym, Kanagawa (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
Mima Shimoda & Michiko Ohmukai beat Aja Kong & Mariko Yoshida (15:11 Shimoda beat Yoshida)
---Shimoda & Ohmukai became the fouurth champions

April 9, 2000---Ryogoku Sumo Hall, Tokyo (Michinoku)
WWWA World Super Lightweight title match
Chaparrita ASARI (Masami Watanabe) beat Hiromi Yagi (Hiromi Yaginuma)
---ASARI kept the title

April 20, 2000---Korakuen Hall (ARSION)
Queen of ARSION title match
Aja Kong beat Etsuko Mita (16:47)
---Aja kept the title

April 23, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Mayumi Ozaki beat Sakura Hirota (7:46)

April 23, 2000---Sanbo Hall, Kobe, Hyogo (ARSION)
Sky High of ARSION title match
Mari Apache beat Faby Apache (10:13)
---Mari kept the title

Fabi & Mari Apache
Faby & Mari Apache (ARSION)

April 25, 2000---ON AIR EAST, Shibuya, Tokyo (FMW)
WEW Six-Man Tag Team title match
Kodo Fuyuki (Hiromichi Fuyuki), Kyoko Inoue, & Chocoball Mukai beat Jado, Gedo, & Koji Nakagawa (18:39 Fuyuki beat Jado)
---Fuyuki, Kyoko, & Mukai became thhe fifth champions

April 29, 2000---IPM Hall, Osaka (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Toshiyo Yamada beat Sakura Hirota (9:33)

April 29, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (Jd')
TWF World Singles title match
Lioness Aska (Tomoko Kitamura) beat The Bloody (11:27)
---Aska kept the title

April 29, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (Jd')
TWF World Tag Team title match
Yuko Kosugi & Hiroyo Muto beat Crusher Maedomari & Morimatsu (Yuki Morimatsu) (14:56 Kosugi beat Morimatsu)
---Kosugi & Muto became the fourth champions and title was held up


May

May 3, 2000---Hakata StarLanes, Fukuoka (FMW)
WEW Six-Man Tag Team title match
Jado, Gedo, & Koji Nakagawa beat Kodo Fuyuki (Hiromichi Fuyuki), Kyoko Inoue, & Chocoball Mukai (13:55 Jado beat Fuyuki)
---Jado, Gedo, & Nakagawa became thhe sixth champions

May 3, 2000---Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo (Jd')
AWF World Women title match
The Bloody (Naomi Kato) beat Yuko Kosugi (2:48)
---Bloody kept the title and held up thhe title

May 3, 2000---Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo (Jd')
AWF World Women title match
(1) Fang Suzuki (Tomoko Suzuki) beat Megumi Yabushita (10:43)
(2) Morimatsu (Yuki Morimatsu) beat Suzuki (12:30)
(3) Yuko Kosugi beat Morimatsu (16:30)
(4) Yabushita beat Yuko Kosugi (26:00)
(5) Kosugi beat Yabushita (28:05)
---Kosugi became the eighth champion

Jd
(L-R) Saya Endo, Drake Morimatsu, Fang Suzuki
(L-R) KAZUKI, The Bloody, Hime-maru (Jaguar Yokota)

May 6, 2000---Kawasaki City Gym, Kanagawa (All Japan Woman)
WWWA World Super Lightweight title match
Chaparrita ASARI (Masami Watanabe) beat Miyuki Fujii (11:15)
---ASARI kept the title

May 12, 2000---Hokkaido Prefecture Sports Center, Sapporo (All Japan Woman)
WWWA World Singles title match
Manami Toyota beat Yuyu Ran (Tomoko Miyaguchi) (17:58)
---Toyota kept the title

May 12, 2000---Hokkaido Prefecture Sports Center, Sapporo (All Japan Woman)
WWWA World Tag Team title match
Tomoko Watanabe & Kumiko Maekawa beat Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita (2-1)
(1) Maekawa beat Shimoda (28 seconds)
(2) Mita beat Maekawa (1:58)
(3) Watanabe beat Shimoda (17:18)
---Watanabe & Maekawa kept the titlle and held up the title on May 20

May 12, 2000---Hokkaido Prefecture Sports Center, Sapporo (All Japan Woman)
All Japan Tag Team title match
Miho Wakizawa & Kayo Nomi beat Kana Mizaki (Kanako Motoya) & Tsubasa Kuragaki (14:40 Wakizawa beat Kuragaki)
---Wakizawa & Nakanishi kept the tiitle

Kana Mizaki
Kana Mizaki (JWP)

May 14, 2000---Shin-kawasaki, Kanagawa (Big Japan)
International Eight-Man Scramble Championship
(Great Kojika, Kamikaze [Shoichi Maruyama], Chabinger [Masayoshi Motegi], Harley Lewis, Terry Bull, Kiyoko Ichiki, Chihiro Nakano, Misae Genki [Misae Watanabe])
Kiyoko Ichiki beat Great Kojika (Shinya Kojika) (19:26)

May 14, 2000---Ariake Coliseum, Tokyo (GAEA)
AAA Singles title match
Aja Kong (Erika Shishido) beat Meiko Satomura (15:22)
---Aja kept the title

May 14, 2000---Ariake Coliseum, Tokyo (GAEA)
AAA Tag Team title match
Sugar Sato (Toshie Sato) & Chikayo Nagashima beat Toshie Uematsu & The Bloody (Naomi Kato) (16:15 Sato beat Bloody)
---Sato & Nagashima kept the title<

May 20, 2000---IPM Hall, Osaka (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Dynamite Kansai (Chieko Suzuki) & RIE (Rie Nakamura) beat Sugar Sato (Toshie Sato) & Sakura Hirota (8:46 Kansai beat Sato)

Dynamite Kansai
Dynamite Kansai

May 28, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (FMW)
WEW Six-Man Tag Team title match
Kodo Fuyuki (Hiromichi Fuyuki), Kyoko Inoue, & Chocoball Mukai beat Jado, Gedo, & Koji Nakagawa (18:25 Fuyuki beat Gedo)
---Fuyuki, Kyoko, & Mukai became thhe seventh champions

May 28, 2000---Umeda Heat Beat, Osaka (Osaka Pro)
CMLL-Japan Women title match
Chikako Shiratori (Chikako Hasegawa) beat Yuki Miyazaki (10:57)
---Shiratori kept the title


June

June 18, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (JWP)
JWP Tag Team title match
Commando Bolshoi & Azumi Hyuga (Tomoko Kuzumi) drew ZAP "I" (Kaoru Ito) & ZAP"T" (Tomoko Watanabe) (16:18 No Contest)
---The title was held up

JWP
JWP

June 10, 2000---Teisen Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido (ARSION)
Queen of ARSION title match
Aja Kong beat GAMI (Mikiko Futagami) (16:31)
---Aja kept the title

June 10, 2000---Teisen Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
Mima Shimoda & Michiko Ohmukai beat Xochitl & Ayako Hamada (17:59 Ohmukai beat Xochitl)
---Shimoda & Ohmukai kept the titlee

June 11, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Saika Takeuchi drew Sakura Hirota (15 minutes)

June 17, 2000---Tokyo Marine (All Japan Woman)
All Japan title match
Nanae Takahashi beat Miyuki Fujii (16:24)
---Takahashi kept the title

June 24, 2000---Wildwood Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
NWA Pacific Ladies / NEO Singles title match
Yoshiko Tamura beat Nicole Bass (11:00)
---Tamura became the first champion
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June 25, 2000---IMP Hall, Osaka (GAEA)
HHH Championship
KAORU (Kaoru Maeda) beat Sakura Hirota (8:24)

June 26, 2000---Isezaki Civic Gym, Gumma (FMW)
WEW Six-Man Tag Team title match
"H" (Eiji Ezaki), Hisakatsu Oya, & Tetsuhiro Kuroda beat Kodo Fuyuki (Hiromichi Fuyuki), Kyoko Inoue, & Chocoball Mukai (19:03 "H" beat Mukai)
---"H", Oya, & Kuroda beccame the eighth champions

June 29, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (ARSION)
P*MIX Grand Prix Tag Team Tournament Final
Gran Hamada (Hiroaki Hamada) & Ayako Hamada beat Minoru Tanaka & Yumi Fukawa (13:41 Gran Hamada beat Tanaka)
---Hamadas became the first champions

June 29, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (ARSION)
Sky High of ARSION title match
Mari Apache beat AKINO (Mika Akino) (12:36)
---Mari kept the title


July

July 2, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (Big Japan)
Big Japan Women Singles title match
Misae Genki (Misae Watanabe) beat Kiyoko Ichiki (16:56)
---Genki became the first champion
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July 9, 2000---Club Heaven, Yokohama, Kanagawa (Jd')
AWF World Women title match
Yuko Kosugi beat Sachie Abe (14:53)
---Kosugi kept the title and title was held up on August 3

July 14, 2000---Fuji Television, Tokyo (All Japan Woman)
WWWA World Singles title match
Manami Toyota beat Eagle Sawai (Tomoko Sawai) (19:14)
---Toyota kept the title

July 14, 2000---Fuji Television, Tokyo (All Japan Woman)
All Pacific title match
Tomoko Watanabe beat Azumi Hyuga (Tomoko Kuzumi) (14:31)
---Watanabe became the 39th champion

July 16, 2000---Fuji Television, Tokyo (All Japan Woman)
WWWA World Tag Team Tournament Final
Momoe Nakanishi & Nanae Takahashi beat Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita (22:02 Takahashi beat Mita)
---Nakanishi & Takahashi became thee 108th champions

July 16, 2000---IMP Hall, Osaka (GAEA)
HHH Championship
The Bloody (Naomi Kato) bat Sakura Hirota (5:44)

July 22, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Sakura Hirota beat Saika Takeuchi (7:33)

July 23, 2000---Differ Ariake, Tokyo (FMW)
WEW Singles title match
(1) Hayabusa (Eiji Ezaki) beat Flyingkid Ichihara (Akihito Ichihara) (19 seconds)
(2) Hayabusa beat Chocoball Mukai (3 seconds)
(3) Hayabusa beat Kintaro Kanemura (Yukihiro Kanemura) (3:07)
(4) Hayabusa beat Yoshinori Sasaki (3:38)
(5) Hayabusa beat Hideki Hosaka (2:57)
(6) Hayabusa beat GOEMON (Koji Nakagawa) (6:18)
(7) Hayabusa beat Kyoko Inoue (2:26)
(8) Kodo Fuyuki (Hiromichi Fuyuki) beat Hayabusa (8:08)
---Fuyuki kept the title

July 29, 2000---Hisaya-ohdori Park, Nagoya, Aichi (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Chigusa Nagayo beat Sakura Hirota (7:16 KO)

Chigusa Nagayo
Chigusa Nagayo (GAEA)

July 30, 2000---Hisaya-ohdori Park, Nagoya, Aichi (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Lioness Aska (Tomoko Kitamura) beat Sakura Hirota (8:18)

Lioness Aska
Lioness Aska

July 30, 2000---KBS Hall, Kyoto (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
Mima Shimoda & Michiko Ohmukai beat Aja Kong & Mariko Yoshida (21:52 Shimoda beat Aja)
---Shimoda & Ohmukai kept the titlee


August

August 6, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (JWP)
JWP Singles title match
Commando Bolshoi beat Yuyu Ran (Tomoko Miyaguchi) (23:16)
---Bolshoi became the seventh champion<

Commando Bolshoi
Commando Bolshoi (a.k.a. PIKO)

August 12, 2000---Rainbow Hall #3, Nagoya, Aichi (ARSION)
Sky High of ARSION title match
Ayako Hamada beat Mari Apache (10:59)
---Ayako became the third champion
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August 15, 2000---NGK Studio, Osaka (Osaka Pro)
CMLL-Japan Women title match
Chikako Shiratori (Chikako Hasegawa) beat Alda Moreno (9:40)
---Shiratori kept the title

August 19, 2000---Soka City Sports & Health Memorial Gym, Saitama (LLPW)
LLPW Singles title match
Eagle Sawai (Tomoko Sawai) beat Harley Saito (Sayori Saito) (18:02)
---Sawai became the ninth champion
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August 20, 2000---Namihaya Dome, Osaka (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
GAMI (Mikiko Futagami) & Rie Tamada beat Mima Shimoda & Michiko Ohmukai (16:08 GAMI beat Ohmukai)
---"ReDrug" became the fifth champions

August 27, 2000---Differ Ariake, Tokyo (Jd')
AWF World Women title match
(1) Megumi Yabushita beat Yuki Morimatsu (17:30)
(2) Yabushita beat Fang Suzuki (Tomoko Suzuki) (18:14)
(3) Suzuki beat Yabushita (21:25)
(4) Sumie Sakai beat Suzuki (24:20)
(5) Morimatsu beat Sakai (31:15)
---Morimatsu became the ninth champion<

August 29, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (Big Japan)
Big Japan Women Singles title match
Misae Genki (Misae Watanabe) beat Chihiro Nakano (14:28)
---Genki kept the title


September

September 2, 2000---Yokohama Bunka Gym (LLPW)
LLPW Six-Man Tag Team title match
Rumi Kazama, Eagle Sawai (Tomoko Sawai), & Takako Inoue beat Manami Toyota, Nanae Takahashi, & Miho Wakizawa (22:56 Kazama beat Wakizawa)
---Kazama, Sawai, & Inoue became thhe seventh champions

All Japan Woman & LLPW
All Japan Woman & LLPW

September 3, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (JWP)
JWP Junior title match
Tsubasa Kuragaki beat Kayoko Haruyama (14:05)
---Tsubasa became the seventh champion<

September 3, 2000---ActCity Hamamatsu, Shizuoka (ARSION)
P*MIX Grand Prix Tag Team title match
Gran Hamada (Hiroaki Hamada) & Ayako Hamada beat Gran Apache & Mari Apache (14:01 Gran Hamada beat Gran Apache)
---Hamadas kept the title

September 13, 2000---Akita City Gym (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
GAMI (Mikiko Futagami) & Rie Tamada beat Red Lynks (Candy Okutsu) & PIKO (Commando Bolshoi) (22:07 GAMI beat Lynks)
---"ReDrug" kept the title

September 15, 2000---Yokohama Bunka Gym, Kanagawa (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Sakura Hirota beat Police (6:04)

September 17, 2000 (6:30)---Differ Ariake, Tokyo (FMW)
WEW Six-Man Tag Team title match
Jado, Gedo, & Kaori Nakayama beat Kodo Fuyuki (Hiromichi Fuyuki), Mr. Gannosuke, & Shinjuku-zame (Hiroshi Ohsumi) (11:42 Nakayama beat Fuyuki)
---Jado, Gedo, & Nakayama became thhe 10th champions

September 17, 2000 (12:00)---Differ Ariake, Tokyo (All Japan Woman)
WWWA World Singles title match
Kaoru Ito beat Manami Toyota (24:02)
---Ito became the 51st champion

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September 17, 2000---Tokyo Marine (All Japan Woman)
All Japan title match
Miho Wakizawa beat Nanae Takahashi (20:57)
---Wakizawa became the 29th champion

September 22, 2000---Sendai City Gym #2, Miyagi (ARSION)
Queen of ARSION title match
Aja Kong beat Mima Shimoda (12:32)
---Aja kept the title

Bionic J & Abdullah the Butcher
Bionic J (ARSION) & Abdullah the Butcher

September 22, 2000---Itabashi San-bun Hall, Tokyo (NEO)
NWA Pacific Ladies / NEO Singles title match
Yoshiko Tamura beat Takako Inoue (17:06)
---Tamura kept the title

September 23, 2000---Hakata StarLanes, Fukuoka (All Japan Woman)
WWWA World Tag Team title match
Momoe Nakanishi & Nanae Takahashi beat Miho Wakizawa & Kayo Nomi
(1) Wakizawa beat Nakanishi (16:17)
(2) Takahashi beat Wakizawa (4:45)
(3) Nakanishi beat Wakizawa (6:20)
---Nakanishi & Takahashi kept the ttitle

September 23, 2000---Kawasaki City Gym, Kanagawa (Jd')
TWF World Singles title match
Lioness Aska (Tomoko Kitamura) beat Megumi Yabushita (11:37)
---Aska kept the title

September 23, 2000---Kawasaki City Gym, Kanagawa (Jd')
AWF World Women title match
Yuki Morimatsu beat Fang Suzuki (14:35)
---Morimatsu kept the title

September 30, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (All Japan Woman)
All Pacific title match
Tomoko Watanabe beat Momoe Nakanishi (15:58)
---Watanabe kept the title

September 30, 2000---Hon-kawagoe Pepe Hall, Saitama (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Toshie Uematsu beat Sakura Hirota (9:24)


October

October 7, 2000---SATY Yao, Osaka (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
GAMI (Mikiko Futagami) & Rie Tamada beat Mari & Faby Apache (17:25 GAMI beat Faby)
---"ReDrug" kept the title

October 13, 2000---Itabashi San-bun Hall, Tokyo (NEO)
NWA Pacific Ladies / NEO Singles title match
Yoshiko Tamura beat Misae Genki (Misae Watanabe) (40:06)
---Tamura kept the title

October 14, 2000---Teisen Hall, Sapporo Hokkaido (Big Japan)
Big Japan Women Singles title match
Misae Genki (Misae Watanabe) beat Marcela (11:27)
---Genki kept the title

October 15, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (Jd')
TWF World Tag Team title match (Two hours)
(1) Drake Morimatsu (Yuki Morimatsu) & Hiroyo Muto beat Etsuko Mita & Sachie Abe (8:23 Muto beat Abe)
(2) Morimatsu & Muto drew Ran-maru (Jaguar Yokota) & Ran-maru (Tomoka Isozaki)
(3) Commando Bolshoi & Kayoko Haruyama beat Obacchi Iizuka (Masami Iizuka) & Harumi Torii (4:05 Haruyama beat Torii)
(4) Bolshoi & Haruyama beat Iizuka & Chiaki Nishi (2:01 Haruyama beat Nishi)
(5) Mita & Muto beat Bolshoi & Haruyama (5:15 Mita beat Haruyama)
(6) Roseta (Hiromi Yagi) & Fliar (Carlos Amano) beat Mita & Muto (6:24 Fliar beat Muto)
(7) Megumi Yabushita & Sumie Sakai beat Roseta & Fliar (10:09 Yabushita beat Roseta)
(8) Yabushita & Sakai beat Ran-maru & Tsuki-maru (10:03 Sakai beat Ran-maru)
(9) Yabushita & Sakai beat Fang Suzuki (Tomoko Suzuki) & Saya Endo (Nobue Endo) (0:34 Sakai beat Suzuki)
(10) Yabushita & Sakai drew The Bloody (Naomi Kato) & KAZUKI (Kazuko Fujiwara)
(11) Morimatsu & Suzuki beat Hime-maru & Tsuki-maru (7:03 Suzuki beat Tsuki-maru)
(12) Morimatsu & Suzuki drew Yabushita & Sakai
---Morimatsu & Suzuki became the seeventh champions

Jaguar Yokota
Jaguar Yokota (Jd')

October 22, 2000 (6:30 p.m.)---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (FMW)
WEW Six-Man Tag Team title match
Jado, Gedo, & Kaori Nakayama beat GOEMON (Koji Nakagawa), Flyingkid Ichihara (Akihito Ichihara), & Shinjuku-zame (Hiroshi Ohsumi) (13:49 Jado beat Icihara)
---Jado, Gedo, & Nakayama kept the title

October 22, 2000 (12:00 p.m.)---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Sonoko Kato beat Sakura Hirota (8:23)

October 24, 2000---Osaka Gym #2 (FMW)
WEW Six-Man Tag Team title match
Jado, Gedo, & Kaori Nakayama beat Hisakatsu Oya, Azusa Kudo, & Emi Motokawa (11:53 Gedo beat Kudo)
---Jado, Gedo, & Nakayama kept the title

October 27, 2000---Iwate Prefecture Gym, Morioka (ARSION)
Sky High of ARSION title match
Ayako Hamada beat Mari Apache (13:27)
---Ayako kept the title

October 30, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (Big Japan)
Big Japan Women Singles title match
Kiyoko Ichiki beat Misae Genki (Misae Watanabe) (16:50)
---Ichiki became the second champion annd held up the title


November

November 1, 2000---Ota City Sports Park Gym, Gumma (ARSION)
Sky High of ARSION title match
Ayako Hamada beat Chaparrita ASARI (Masami Watanabe) (11:38)
---Ayako kept the title

November 3, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Sakura Hirota beat Chikayo Nagashima (7:04)
Devil Masami (Masami Yoshida) beat Sakura Hirota (5:35)

November 9, 2000---Toyohashi City Gym, Aichi (ARSION)
Sky High of ARSION title match
Ayako Hamada drew AKINO (Mika Akino) (30:00 time up)
---Ayako kept the title and held up thee title

November 12, 2000---Yokohama Bunka Gym, Kanagawa (FMW)
WEW Six-Man Tag Team title match
Jado, Gedo, & Kaori Nakayama beat Pat Tanaka, Brian Eliot, & Damian Blade (11:33 Gedo beat Tanaka)
---Jado, Gedo, & Nakayama kept the title

November 14, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (Jd')
TWF World Tag Team title match
Drake Morimatsu (Yuki Morimatsu) & Fang Suzuki (Tomoko Suzuki) drew Megumi Yabushita & Sumie Sakai (18:49 No Contest)
---Morimatsu & Suzuki kept the titlle

Sumie Sakai
Sumie Sakai (Jd')

November 29, 2000---Kumamoto City Gym (All Japan Woman)
All Japan title match
Miho Wakizawa beat Miyuki Fujii (12:27)
---Wakizawa kept the title

November 21, 2000---Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo (NEO)
NWA Pacific Ladies / NEO Singles title match
Yoshiko Tamura beat Kyoko Inoue (36:55)
---Tamura kept the title

November 23, 2000---Town Center, Odawara, Kanagawa (FMW)
WEW Six-Man Tag Team title match
Jado, Gedo, & Kaori Nakayama beat Hisakatsu Oya, Ricky Fuji, & Naohiko Yamazaki (15:15 Jado beat Yamazaki)
---Jado, Gedo, & Nakayama kept the title

November 23, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Lioness Aska (Tomoko Kitamura) beat Sakura Hirota (8:03)

November 24, 2000---Osaka Gym #2 (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
GAMI (Mikiko Futagami) & Rie Tamada beat Mariko Yoshida & Chaparrita ASARI (Masami Watanabe) (16:46 GAMI beat Yoshida)
---"ReDrug" kept the title

November 25, 2000---Gumma Prefecture Sports Center, Maebashi (Michinoku)
P*MIX Grand Prix Tag Team title match
Gran Hamada (Hiroaki Hamada) & Ayako Hamada beat Pentagon & Xochitl Hamada (10:20 Gran Hamada beat Pentagon)
---Hamadas kept the title

November 26, 2000---Umeda, Osaka (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Sugar Sato (Toshie Sato) beat Sakura Hirota (8:33)

November 26, 2000---Differ Ariake, Tokyo (Jd')
BS-Japan Queen of the Ring title match
The Bloody (Naomi Kato) beat Megumi Yabushita (18:31)
---Bloody became the first champion
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November 28, 2000---Kitazawa Town Hall, Tokyo (Jd')
AWF World Women title match
Megumi Morimatsu beat Yuki Morimatsu (15:26)
---Yabushita became the 10th champion


December

December 3, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (ARSION)
Queen of ARSION title match
Ayako Hamada beat Aja Kong (17:52)
---Aja kept the title

Ayako Hamada
Ayako Hamada (ARSION)

December 3, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita beat GAMI (Mikiko Futagami) & Rie Tamada (15:49 Shimoda beat GAMI)
---"Las Cachorras Orientales"; became the sixth champions

December 3, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (ARSION)
Sky High of ARSION title match
AKINO (Mika Akino) beat Chaparrita ASARI (11:15)
---AKINO became the fourth champion
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December 5, 2000---Nippon Budokan, Tokyo (ReMix)
ReMix Tournament Final
Merlos Koonen beat Megumi Yabushita
Megumi Yabushita (157cm / 56kg) beat Gundarenko Svetlana (191cm/150kg)
Megumi Yabushita beat Bambi
Kyoko Inoue (NEO), Junko Yagi (NEO), and Mika Harigae (JWP) lost the 1st or 2nd round matches.

Megumi Yabushita
Megumi Yabushita (Jd')

December 10---Differ Ariake, Tokyo (Jd')
TWF World Tag Team title match
Drake Morimatsu (Yuki Morimatsu) & Fang Suzuki (Tomoko Suzuki) beat Megumi Yabushita & Sumie Sakai (19:24 Morimatsu beat Yabushita)
---Morimatsu & Suzuki kept the titlle

December 14, 2000---GeoPolis, Korakuen, Tokyo (DDT)
DDT Ironman HeavyMetal title match
Shark Tsuchiya (Eriko Tsuchiya) won the title after 10-man battle royal
(Nagase Kancho, Issei Fujisawa, Toshiyuki Moriya, Naoshi Sano, Jigoku Soldier, Chotaro Kamoi, Shigeo Kato, Karasu, and Misae Genki [Misae Watanabe])

December 17, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (GAEA)
AAA Tag Team title match
Akira Hokuto (Hisako Sasaki) & Mayumi Ozaki beat Sugar Sato (Toshie Sato) & Chikayo Nagashima (24:37 Ozaki beat Nagashima)
---Hokuto & Ozaki became the fifth champions

December 17, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (GAEA)
HHH Championship
Dynamite Kansai (Chieko Suzuki) beat Sakura Hirota (7:48)

December 17, 2000---Teisen Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido (ARSION)
Twin Stars of ARSION title match
Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita drew GAMI (Mikiko Futagami) & Rie Tamada (30:00 time up)
---"Las Cachorras Orientales"; kept the title

December 24, 2000---Yokohama Bunka Gym, Kanagawa (All Japan Woman)
All Pacific title match
Tomoko Watanabe beat Kumiko Maekawa (14:15)
---Watanabe kept the title

December 24, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (ARSION)
Queen of ARSION title match
Ayako Hamada beat Xochitl Hamada (15:03)
---Ayako kept the title

December 29, 2000---Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (Jd')
AWF World Women / BS-Japan Queen of The Ring title match
Megumi Yabushita beat The Bloody (Naomi Kato) (17:08)
---Yabushita won the both titles


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