Kyoko Inoue

{{short description|Japanese female professional wrestler (born 1969)}}

{{Infobox professional wrestler

| name = Kyoko Inoue

| image = 20230429kyouko1 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Inoue in July 2023

| names = {{plainlist|

Adamo Inoue
Kyoko Inoue
Madori Inoue

}}

| birth_name = Kyoko Inoue

| height = 167 cm{{cite web |url=https://www-diana.com/en/members/inoue/ |title=Kyoko Inoue |website=World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana |date=24 February 2021 |access-date=October 14, 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610203816/https://www-diana.com/en/members/inoue/ |archive-date=June 10, 2023}}

| weight = {{convert|108|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|4|22|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Nan'yō, Yamagata, Japan

| trainer = Jaguar Yokota{{cite book |last1=Molinaro |first1=John |editor-last1=Marek |editor-first1=Jeff |editor-link1=Jeff Marek |editor-last2=Meltzer |editor-first2=Dave |editor-link2=Dave Meltzer |year=2002 |title=Top 100 Pro Wrestlers of All Time |publisher=Winding Stair Press |location=Toronto, Ontario |pages=167 |isbn=1-55366-305-5}}{{cite web |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/226302-cvc-jaguar-yokota-for-greatest-womens-champion |title=CvC: Jaguar Yokota for Greatest Women's Champion |last=Triggs |first=James |date=July 29, 2009 |website=Bleacher Report |access-date=October 20, 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126163521/https://bleacherreport.com/articles/226302-cvc-jaguar-yokota-for-greatest-womens-champion |archive-date=November 26, 2021}}

| debut = October 10, 1988

}}

{{nihongo|Kyoko Inoue|井上京子|Inoue Kyōko|born April 22, 1969}}{{cite web | url = http://www-diana.com/members/inoue/ | script-title=ja:プロフィール | access-date=March 3, 2013 | work=World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana | date=11 August 2012 | language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304010627/http://www-diana.com/members/inoue/ |archive-date=March 4, 2013}} is a Japanese female professional wrestler currently signed to World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana.{{cite web |url=https://www-diana.com/member/ |website=World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana |date=8 May 2023 |language=ja |script-title=ja:選手紹介 |access-date=October 14, 2023}} She has held the WWWA World Single Championship three times, and is the first woman to win a men's title in Japan.

Inoue is the founder of NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling. After leaving NEO in May 2010, Inoue founded World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana in January 2011.

Professional wrestling career

= Early career (1988–1994) =

Inoue was trained by famous Japanese wrestler, Jaguar Yokota. Inoue made her debut on October 11, 1988. From 1991 to 1992 she worked for CMLL in Mexico.

= World Wrestling Federation (1994; 1995) =

On May 11, 1994, Inoue made her first appearance on World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during a live event in Japan, where she unsuccessfully challenged Alundra Blayze for the WWF Women's Championship.{{cite web|title=WWF Mania Tour Tag 4: Sapporo Mania|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=38131|work=Cagematch - The Internet Wrestling Database|access-date=February 19, 2022}}

On November 19, 1995, at Survivor Series, Inoue joined the team of Blayze in the traditional Survivor Series elimination match. Blayze's team lost, as Aja Kong remained the sole survivor of the opposing team. On the November 27th episode of Monday Night Raw, Inoue alongside Blayze lost to Kong and Tomoko Watanabe.{{cite web|title=What the World Was Watching: Monday Night RAW – November 27, 1995|url=https://blogofdoom.com/index.php/2018/06/08/what-the-world-was-watching-monday-night-raw-november-27-1995/|work=Scott's Blog of Doom|date=June 8, 2018|access-date=February 19, 2022}}

= Late career (1995–present) =

On March 26, 1995, as part of AJW's Wrestling Queendom Victory event, Inoue challenged Bull Nakano for her WWF Women's Championship - who had held it since Big Egg Wrestling Universe in November 1994.{{cite web | url=https://www.blogofdoom.com/2019/11/18/joshi-spotlight-ajw-wrestling-queendom-victory/ | title=Joshi Spotlight- AJW Wrestling Queendom- VICTORY - Scott's Blog of Doom! | date=18 November 2019 }}https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=38454 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}} Nakano retained at the 17:05 mark ahead of her anticipated title match with Alundra Blayze at Wrestlemania XI (it would instead happen on the April 3rd edition of Raw).

File:20230429kyouko2.jpg at a Diana event in April 2023]]

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She has worked for many women's promotions in Japan.

Championships and accomplishments

All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling

:*AJW Championship (1 time)

:*All Pacific Championship (3 times)

:*IWA World Women's Championship (2 times)

:*WWWA World Single Championship (3 times)

:*WWWA World Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Takako Inoue

:*Japan Grand Prix (1991)

:*Tag League the Best (1991) – with Toshiyo Yamada

:*Tag League the Best (1992) – with Aja Kong

:*Tag League the Best (1995) – with Tomoko Watanabe

Dramatic Dream Team

:*Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (2 times)

JDStar

:*TWF World Women's Championship (2 times)

NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling

:*NEO Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Hiroyo Matsumoto

:*NWA Women's Pacific/NEO Single Championship (3 times)

:*NEO Mid-Summer Tag Tournament 7 (2008) - with Hiroyo Matsumoto

Tokyo Sports

:* Joshi Puroresu Grand Prize (1996){{cite news|url=http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/wrestling/wrestling_past3/|script-title=ja:東京スポーツプロレス大賞|access-date=2014-01-20|work=Tokyo Sports|language=ja}}

World Entertainment Wrestling

:*WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Kodo Fuyuki and Chocoball Mukai

:*WEW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Hiromichi Fuyuki

World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana

:*WWWD Queen Elizabeth Championship (3 times, current)

:*WWWD Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Tomoko Watanabe (1),{{cite web | url= http://www-diana.com/2013/12/15/1215 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215185651/http://www-diana.com/2013/12/15/1215%E6%97%A5%E6%96%B0%E5%AE%BF%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A-%E8%A9%A6%E5%90%88%E7%B5%90%E6%9E%9C/|archive-date=2013-12-15|script-title=ja:12/15(日) 新宿大会試合結果 | date=December 15, 2013 | access-date=2016-09-27 | work=World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana | language=ja}} Yumiko Hotta (1),{{cite web | url=http://www-diana.com/2015/08/16/11498/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407223228/http://www-diana.com/2015/08/16/11498/ |archive-date=April 7, 2016 |title=8/16(日)新宿大会試合結果 | date=August 16, 2015 | access-date=August 16, 2015 | work=World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana | language=ja}} Kaoru Ito (1) and Takako Inoue (1)

:*WWWD World Championship (4 times, inaugural){{cite web | url = http://www-diana.com/2013/03/04/ | script-title=ja:3月3日（日）ラゾーナ川崎プラザソル試合結果 | date=March 4, 2013 | access-date=March 3, 2013 | work=World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana | language=ja}}{{cite web | url = http://www-diana.com/2013/05/28/タイトル名称変更/ | script-title=ja:タイトル名称変更 | date=May 28, 2013 | access-date=August 4, 2013 | work=World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana | language=ja}}{{cite web | url = http://www-diana.com/2015/09/17/916水新宿大会-試合結果/ | script-title=ja:9/16(水)新宿大会試合結果 | date=September 17, 2015 | access-date=September 17, 2015 | work=World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana | language=ja}}

:*Queen Championship Tournament (2013)