Kaoru Maeda

Acting

Kaoru Maeda

Born

1969-02-09 (57)

Place of birth

Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

11 titles

Kaoru Maeda (born February 9, 1969), better known by her ring names KAORU and Infernal KAORU, is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. Billed as the "Original Hardcore Queen," she is known for her chaotic wrestling style, which combines high-flying with hardcore wrestling. Trained by the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) promotion, Maeda worked in both Japan and Mexico in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before making her breakthrough in the GAEA Japan promotion, where she most notably was a founding member of the D-Fix stable. After GAEA Japan folded in 2005, Maeda became a freelancer, though closely affiliating herself with Mayumi Ozaki's OZ Academy promotion and winning the OZ Aca…

Known for

Sendai Girls' Pro-Wrestling poster
NR

Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling was founded in 2005 by Meiko Satomura, a female professional wrestler who achieved success in the 2000s with the women's promotion GAEA Japan, and Jinsei Shinzaki, a male professional wrestler who is also the president of Michinoku Pro Wrestling. On July 9, 2006, the new promotion held its first show in front of 2,498 fans at Sendai's Sun Plaza, and has been running consistently ever since.

Sendai Girls' Pro-Wrestling

2006

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

GAEA Champ Forum

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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

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

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

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

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

1990s · 4 titles

Series credits