Chigusa Nagayo

Acting

Chigusa Nagayo

Born 1964-12-08 · Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Chigusa Nagayo (born December 8, 1964) is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for her time in Japanese promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) during the 1980s. She was one-half of the Crush Gals tag team, with partner Lioness Asuka, and achieved massive mainstream popularity before her first retirement in 1989. In 1995, she founded GAEA Japan, and in 2014, created its successor Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling, which she still operates. Nagayo is often regarded as the most popular female wrestler of all time, as well as being one of the greatest and most influential.

Acting credits

FMW 7th Anniversary Show poster
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FMW Kawasaki Stadium 7th Anniversary

FMW 7th Anniversary Show

1996

FMW Yamato Nadeshiko III poster
NR

Singles Match Misae Watanabe vs. Aki Kambayashi Singles Match Chikayo Nagashima vs. Miwa Sato Tag Team Match Bolshoi Kid & Saburo vs. Chihiro Nakano & Yukie Nabeno Singles Match Mima Shimoda vs. Bad Nurse Nakamura Tag Team Match Crusher Maedomari & Shark Tsuchiya vs. Kaori Nakayama & Yukari Ishikura Tag Team Match Chigusa Nagayo & Combat Toyoda vs. KAORU & Megumi Kudo

FMW Yamato Nadeshiko III

1996

Stardom 10th Anniversary ~Hinamatsuri All Star Dream Cinderella~ poster
8.0

10th Anniversary ~Hinamatsuri All Star Dream Cinderella was a professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom, held on March 3, 2021 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan. The super-show commemorated the promotion's 10th anniversary, and featured a highly emotional, hair vs. hair match between Giulia and Tam Nakano for the Wonder of Stardom Championship in the main event.

Stardom 10th Anniversary ~Hinamatsuri All Star Dream Cinderella~

2021

Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears poster
NR

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Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears

1993

Gaea Girls poster
6.7

This fascinating documentary is based around the Japanese wrestling organisation Gaea's rural training camp, and traces, in the main, the careers of four hopefuls. In charge are two magnificent specimens, the butch champion Chigusa Nagayo, still venting her hurt at the hands of her army father as she tries to whip her surrogate daughters through the pain and commitment barriers; and her sophisticated and slightly menacing Chairman. It's a gruelling, physical film, as you would expect, but the makers don't make heavy weather of it. And it certainly disposes of any idea that the game is faked.

Gaea Girls

2000

AJW All-Star Dream Slam I poster
9.0

In celebration of its 25th anniversary as a promotion, All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling (AJW) invited women from JWP, LLPW, and FMW to compete in a night full of inter-promotional battles to the chorus of 16,500 fans inside the Yokohama Arena.

AJW All-Star Dream Slam I

1993

Marvelous 10th Anniversary poster
NR

Marvelous 10th Anniversary was a professional wrestling event promoted by Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling, commemorating the company's tenth anniversary of full-fledged operations. It took place on May 5, 2026, at Yokohama BUNTAI in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Marvelous 10th Anniversary

2026

FMW Yamato Nadeshiko II poster
NR

Tag Team Match Aki Kambayashi & Sonoko Kato vs. Chihiro Nakano & Chikayo Nagashima Singles Match Miwa Sato vs. Bomber Hikari Tag Team Match Kaori Nakayama & Yukari Ishikura vs. Hiromi Sugo & Kanako Motoya Singles Match Chigusa Nagayo vs. Bad Nurse Nakamura Singles Match Combat Toyoda vs. KAORU No Ropes Barbed Wire Death Match Megumi Kudo vs. Shark Tsuchiya

FMW Yamato Nadeshiko II

1995

AJW Big Egg Wrestling Universe poster
9.0

The Big Egg Wrestling Universe was a professional wrestling event held by All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling (AJW) inside the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on November 20, 1994 and was attended by 32,500 fans. However, some sources claim the event was attended by over 42,000 fans. The event featured representatives from joshi promotions GAEA Japan (GAEA), JWP Joshi Puroresu (JWP) and Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling (LLPW), as well as puroresu promotions Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (MPW) and American wrestling promotion the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). In addition to female wrestlers, the event also featured matches with male wrestlers, midget wrestling, female amateur wrestlers, female kickboxers and female shootboxers. The event lasted lasted ten hours and was promoted as the biggest card in the history of women’s wrestling, featuring 23 matches of various styles.

AJW Big Egg Wrestling Universe

1994

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Itsuki Yamazaki & Noriyo Tateno vs. Yukari Omori & Ayumi Hori Fuji TV Cup Tag League Match: Crush Gals vs. Dump Matsumoto & Crane Yu WWWA & UWA World Title Unification Match: Jaguar Yokota vs. La Galactica. Jaguar wins UWA Title. 9/26/84 2/3 Falls '84 Tag League Final: Jaguar Yokota & Devil Masami vs. Crush Gals

AJW Riot of the Rising Sun

1984

Shin rei bideo VI: Honto ni atta kowai hanashi - kyôfu tarento taikendan poster
10.0

Documentary Directed by Takashi Shimizu

Shin rei bideo VI: Honto ni atta kowai hanashi - kyôfu tarento taikendan

2000

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NR

The King and The Modern-Day Warrior collide with both The WCCW & AWA World Titles on the line!

WCCW Cotton Bowl Extravaganza '88

1988

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Highlights of the incidents that lead up to the big rematch and full match

AJW Kamikiri Match Chigusa Nagayo vs. Dump Matsumoto

1986

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NEO ENERGY QUEEN HISTORY '95 League Match: Toshie Sato vs. Chihiro Nakano NEO ENERGY QUEEN HISTORY '95 League Match: Meiko Satomura vs. Makie Numao Sonoko Kato vs. Bomber Hikaru ATTACK 3: KAORU & Hikari Fukuoka vs. Chikayo Nagashima & Toshie Uematsu Sakie Hasegawa Single Countdown Special: Sakie Hasegawa vs. Chigusa Nagayo

GAEA TOO HOT! IN KORAKUEN Single Countdown Special Chigusa Nagayo vs. Sakie Hasegawa

1996

Yumiko Hotta Debut 35th Anniversary Show poster
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Anniversary show in Tokyo, Japan

Yumiko Hotta Debut 35th Anniversary Show

2021

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Debut GAEA show

GAEA MEMORIAL FIRST GONG IN KORAKUEN

1995

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Double Title WWWA & All Pacific Title Unification Match: Yukari Omori (WWWA champ) vs. Chigusa Nagayo (All-Pacific champ)

AJW The War Dream WWWA World & All Pacific Double Title Match - Yukari Omori vs. Chigusa Nagayo

1987

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1/4/83 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

AJW Slant Eyed Slaughter

1983

Behind the camera