*anese professional wrestler (born 1969)

Takako Inoue (井上 貴子, Inoue Takako, born November 7, 1969) is a *anese professional wrestler. She wrestled primarily for the All *an Women's Pro-Wrestling promotion, and held several championships, primarily in tag team wrestling. She was well known as one-half of the tag team Double Inoue, which she formed with fellow wrestler Kyoko Inoue (no relation).

Contents

• 1 Professional wrestling career
  • 1.1 All *an Women's Pro Wrestling (1988–1999)
  • 1.2 Freelance (1999–present)
• 2 Other fields
• 3 Championships and accomplishments
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Professional wrestling career

All *an Women's Pro Wrestling (1988–1999)

She was born November 7, 1969, in Toride, Ibaraki. A magazine model at the time, she possessed an athletic background in track and field and amateur wrestling. She failed her first audition for AJW but trained with Mayumi Ozaki. While she failed her first AJW audition, she p*ed the second screening for the music group, Onyanko Club. Ozaki p*ed her audition for *an Women's Pro Wrestling and invited Takako to join, but she declined. She then p*ed her AJW audition and joined in October, 1987, where she was trained by Jaguar Yokota. Takako made her debut on October 8, 1988, against (not related) fellow rookie and future tag team partner Kyoko Inoue for the All *an Women’s Pro-Wrestling (AJW) promotion.

On April 2, 1991, she defeated Kyoko Inoue for the All *an Singles *le. This was an important push for a wrestler so young, but her beauty and improving work rate was considered strong enough to put her over for the belt. She held it for a year, pretty outstanding for the time. She lost the *le to Mariko Yoshida exactly one year later.

She was paired with Mariko Yoshida; the brain trust figuring their styles would complement each other. They were booked to win the All *an Tag Team *les on August 2, 1991, from Esther Moreno & Cynthia Moreno.

On November 21, 1991, Inoue released a single called "Door of Miracle".

Inoue and Yoshida then lost them to another up and coming team, Sakie Hasegawa & Debbie Malenko, on January 5, 1992. On April 25, 1992, Takako and Yoshida took the *les back from Sakie Hawegawa and Debbie Malenko before losing them to Bat Yoshinaga & Tomoko Watanabe on December 1, 1992.

After the hot tag run ended, Takako found herself in the supporting role of a tag team with Yumiko Hotta. On September 5, 1993, she and Hotta won the UWA Tag Team *les from Akira Hokuto and Suzuka Minami. They had a good run, though only defending the *les occasionally, while the AJW brain trust was figuring her future. This caused Inoue to consider retirement. Hotta and Inoue finally lost the *les on March 30, 1994, to Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda.

Her big break came when she and Kyoko Inoue formed a tag-team named “Double Inoue”, in which Takako adopted Kyoko's usual face paint design. They defeated Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada for the WWWA World Tag Team *les from on October 9, 1994, ending Toyota and Yamada’s almost 21⁄2 year domination. They defended the *les once, and then vacated them in an angle where they, being the 99th WWWA tag champs, wanted to be the 100th. On March 21, 1995, a one-night tournament was held with Double Inoue winning three matches to regain the *les. Double Inoue would now go on to dominate the tag *les, becoming the hot tag team in AJW for the next eighteen months. (They held the WWWA tag *les three times during this period.) Their hottest feud during this time was with the team of Manami Toyota and Sakie Hasegawa (or her masked alter ego, Blizzard Yuki). The feud produced quite a few outstanding tussles, including the one-night tournament final. After losing the *les to Manami Toyota and Mima Shimoda on June 22, 1996, the Inoues split up; it was decided that Kyoko would be getting a serious push at the WWWA World Single Championship.

Takako was not forgotten, however, as she would also win singles gold during this time. She defeated Reggie Bennett for the IWA Women’s *le on December 4, 1995, and would defeat Bennett once again on November 21, 1996, in a unification match where Takako walked off with both the IWA *le and the All-Pacific *le. Takako then challenged ex-partner and WWWA champion Kyoko Inoue on January 20, 1997, in a losing effort to unify all three *les. After Kyoko vacated the All-Pacific *le, Takako defeated Toshiyo Yamada to regain the belt on June 18, 1997. However, a severe eye injury suffered in a *le defense caused Takako to miss three months and vacate the *le. Once healed, she won the All-Pacific *le back on January 3, 1998. She then lost it on April 21, 1998, to ZAP T (Tomoko Watanabe as a masked heel).

She has also worked many inter-promotional matches while with AJW, being among the first to work them, notably against Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki of JWP Joshi Puroresu. But for all that, she was never positioned as a top-level single in AJW, instead being a top mid-carder, used to set up those for the push into the top level. Amazingly, for someone with her experience, she had only two matches for the WWWA *le: one against Kyoko Inoue, and in October, 1995, she was Dynamite Kansai’s first defense after Kansai had just won the WWWA *le. Her last major singles hurrah for AJW during this period was her push for the All-Pacific *le.

Given the fact she was spinning her wheels and facing the specter of continued bookings against the ZAPs, in what essentially turned into comedy matches, Takako left AJW in 1999 to freelance. Getting out from under AJW seemed to help, for she found herself in demand. She soon landed in Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling, where, on September 2, 2000, Takako, Rumi Kazama and Eagle Sawai (collectively known as Black Joker) won the vacant LLPW Six Woman Tag Team *les from Miho Wakizawa, Manami Toyota and Nanae Takahashi. They held the belts for almost two years before dropping them to Mizuki Endo, Keiko Aono, & Rieko Amano on June 15, 2002.

Freelance (1999–present)

As a freelancer she worked for various women's promotions, such as LLPW (Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling), Oz Academy, and Arsion. She has been signed to LLPW since February 2005.

Other fields

Inoue has posed for several modeling photobooks. In 2008, she appeared with fellow wrestlers Mio Shirai and Kayo Noumi in The Brute Educational Ins*ution (野獣学園, Yajū Gakuen), a video with lesbian discipline and catfight themes, released by ATTACK ZONE, a label of Attackers.

Championships and accomplishments

• All *an Women's Pro-Wrestling
  • All Pacific Championship (3 times)
  • AJW Championship (1 time)
  • AJW Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Mariko Yoshida (2) Tomoko Watannabe (1)
  • IWA World Women's Championship (1 time)
  • UWA World Women's Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Yumiko Hotta
  • WWWA World Tag Team Championship (6 times) - with Kyoko Inoue (4), Mima Shimoda (1), and Rumi Kazama (1)
  • Tag League the Best (1994) – with Manami Toyota
• Arsion
  • Twin Star of Arsion Championship (1 time) - with Rie Tamada
• Dramatic Dream Team
  • Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (1 time)
• Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling
  • LLPW Six Woman Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Rumi Kazama and Eagle Sawai
  • LLPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Shinobu Kandori

References

External links

• Oz Academy profile
• Official Site
• Takako Inoue
• Takako Info
• JGLAM

Common

• Aika
• Akihiro
• Chotaro Kamoi
• Kazuki Ohkubo
• Kazuhiko Ogasawara
• Yuka Nakamura
• Hyota Echizenya
• Yusuke Ino*a
• Shinichiro Kawamatsu (current)
• Kenshin
• Miyuki Matsuyama
• Senpai
• Mecha Mummy
• Kotatsu
• Futoshi Miwa
• Bullfight Sora
• Toshiyuki Moriya
• Yuuki
• Riki Senshu
• Yusuke Ino*a
• Chiharu
• Taiyo Rojo
• Misae-chan
• Yuki Arai
• Naoshi Sano
• Takeshi Aida
• Chinsuke Nakamura
• Masakazu Nagase
• "Showa"
• Maho Kurone
• Guts-Seijin
• Kaede
• Megumi Grace Asano
• Kazumasa Nihei
• Kasai-Shi
• Ebessan
• Cerealman
• The Great Mampuku
• Ajayu
• Mataro
• Yuni
• Tetsuya Koda
• Abe Wakichi
• Jarek 1:20
• Nate Webb
• Ryota Sakai
• 2 Tough Tony
• 296
• 726
• A Bolivian boy
• A chef
• A taxi driver
• A television cameraman
• AD Yamamoto
• Aika Sawaguchi
• Airi Ueda
• Akira Aoki
• Albret Neklenburg
• Ankoku Sherman Monolith
• Ano
• Antonio Koinoki
• Asako Galapagos Akita
• Ashton Phoenix
• Bill Hanstock
• Bio-Monster DNA
• Brandon Stroud
• Brian Metz
• Brian Walters
• Bull Armor Takuya
• CPA
• Cuban Heat
• Daisuke Kiso
• Dokaben
• Fang Suzuki
• Fushicho Karasu
• Giovanni Lombardo Jr.
• Gudo
• Haruka Matsuo
• Hebider/Jakaibo Hebider
• Heppoko Chojin
• Hidex
• Hinata
• Hironosuke Izumii
• Hiroshige
• Hisaya Imabayashi
• Ikeda Seijin
• Issei Fujisawa
• Izumi
• Jack the Jobber
• Jimmy Lloyd
• Johnny *strong
• Jon Murray
• Jushin Satsugai Liger
• Karate Mummy
• Kawano
• Keiko Saito
• Keisuke Masuda
• Keita Yano
• Ken Kataya
• Kenshin Chikano
• Kent
• Kevin Quinn
• Kinoko
• Leonard Dodeka *a
• Leonard Takatsu
• Levi Everrett
• Lucky Ikeda
• Macho Bump
• Maru
• Masashi Kakuta
• Matt Caraballo
• Mecha Mummy Gold
• Michael Mamezawa
• Michiaki Nakano
• Mika
• Minami Tanabe
• Miyuki Maeda
• Momomi Wagatsuma
• Mr. Sato
• Nasty Black Panther
• Natsumi Misaki
• Nikolai Gotchanski
• Nodoka Onesan
• Norikazu Fujioka
• Ohashi Dynamite
• Para-Para *a-san
• Pink Tiger
• Pinkie Sanchez
• Poa Poa
• Pork Bun
• Rei Takagi
• Reiji Azuma
• Remi Nagano
• Rey Paloma
• Rick Knox
• Rikiya Shindo
• Risa Azuma
• Rise Shiokawa
• Robert Sharpe
• Royce Isaacs
• Satoru
• Sayuri Namba
• Seito Kaicho
• Shigero Kato
• Shimon Nagao
• Shiori Takahashi
• Shoppana Yanagiya
• Suge D
• Suguru Miyatake
• Super Stanley
• Sosa with the Cosa
• Soto Utashiro
• "Spider-Man"
• Steven Pena
• Takashi Echigo
• Takashi Niwada
• Takeshi Okada
• Taneichi Kacho
• Tanny Mouse
• Tanya Cornell
• Tarzan Goto
• Ted Tanabe
• Tetsuhiro Kuroda
• Tetsuya Koda
• The Bloody
• The MAC
• Tokihiro Nakamura
• Tokura Sepa
• Uematsu Papa
• Ultraman Robin
• Ventvert Jack
• World's PK
• Yoshiaki Yago
• Yuichi
• Yukihiro Abe
• Yukinori Matsui
• Yuna Mizumori
• Yusuke Kubo

Collective champions
(teams, groups)

• Airi Ueda, Minami Tanabe and Shiori Takahashi
• Beyond Wrestling audience
• Hiroshi Yamato and Toru Owashi
• Mizuki Watase, Antonio Honda, Danshoku Dino and Yukio Naya
• The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian)
• The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)
• 100,000 DDT YouTube subscribers

Objects, animals, etc.

• Yoshihiko
• Arnold Skeskejanaker
• The Young Bucks’ autobiography Killing the Business
• Yatchan
• Cocolo
• Saki Akai's photo book "Lip Hip Shake"
• The Invisible Man
• Bunny
• Ladder
• "Kōmyō"
• Acupuncture foot mat
• A desk at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
• Akihiro
• Apple
• Baseball bat
• Beer
• Big *an Pro Wrestling ring truck
• Bus
• Chair
• Chair (II)
• Chiba-kun Stuffed Animal
• Chiririn
• D-Oh Grand Prix trophy
• Desk
• Dish
• Disposable chopsticks
• Excellent mince cutlet
• Gota Ihashi's tights
• Gota Ihashi's underwear
• Ironman *le belt
• Kagami mochi
• Kitty-chan doll
• Mah-kun
• Mitsuboshi curry
• Pro Wrestling Wave poster
• Rice
• Ringside mat at Ice Ribbon Dojo
• RN: Konyamoanokodenuitarou
• Trash bin
• TV Tokyo Camera Crane
• Vince McMahon's Hollywood Walk of Fame star
• Yakitori
• Yakitori (II)
• Yakitori (III)

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