History Wrestling / BullNakano

She's also had memorable appearances in [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling]], LLPW, JWP, Jd' Star and Wrestling/{{New Japan|ProWrestling}}. Nakano unofficially retired from professional wrestling in 1997 to pursue a career in golf, though continued to take the occasional booking until her official retirement in 2012.

Keiko Nakano (born January 8, 1968), better known as Bull Nakano, is a former {{professional wrestl|ing}}er. She began competing in 1983 under the Bull Nakano ring name as a teenager in Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling as a {{heel}}, went on to hold several of AJW's singles and tag team championships and briefly entered the WWF's Women's Tag Team division with Dump Matsumoto. AJW began to phase her out in 1992 as she returned to North America to compete in Mexico's Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, becoming its first World Women's Champion, though Nakano made return trips to AJW with her new belt, including two successful defenses against Akira Hokuto and Yumiko Hotta. In 1994, she made her way back to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] (WWF), where she feuded with [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Alundra Blayze]] over their Women's Championship belt. After reigning as champion once following another return trip to Zenjo, she switched to competing in [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW), where she continued her feud with Blayze, who had returned to her older ring name, Madusa.

* FightingWithChucks: Especially during her managerial career

* IHaveTheHighGround: Be afraid if she scales the turnbuckle.

* BikerBabe: She rode a bike in WCW, through her ride wad destroyed by Madusa at ''Road Wild''.

* TheQuincyPunk: Bull Nakano gimmick in a nutshell, especially when she represented Gokumon-to with Grizzly Iwamoto, who even had {{multicolored hair}} and a leather jacket.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Nakano her page]] over at [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]].

* ByTheHair: A frequent offender, even amongst female wrestlers, who traditionally do this to each other more than men. She rarely did not do a Moolah Whip or hair mare.

* WrestlingMonster: She once no-sold being dropped on her head. Maybe it was the hair that cushioned it?

* FightingWithChucks: Especially in her post active competition managerial career

* PowerStable: The Atrocious Alliance, then Gokumon-to in Zenjo. She started a second version of Gokumon-to with Kris Wolf, Kikyo Nakamura and Didi Cruz in RISE.

* {{Acrofatic}}: She was initially kinda big when she first showed up as one half of the Japanese Devils in the WWF, but was always agile and the more mobile of the two. She had slimmed down by the time of her official debut as a singles wrestler.

* PowerStable: The Atrocious Alliance, then Gokumon-to in Zenjo.

** Madusa is her most encountered opponent outside of Zenjo, the two of them [[FireforgedFriends becoming friends]] at the 5*Star Grand Prix when Nakano made a surprise appearance.

'''Keiko Nakano''' (born January 8, 1968), better known as '''Bull Nakano''', is a former {{professional wrestl|ing}}er. She began competing in 1983 under the Bull Nakano ring name as a teenager in Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling as a {{heel}}, went on to hold several of AJW's singles and tag team championships and briefly entered the WWF's Women's TagTeam division with Dump Matsumoto. AJW began to phase her out phase her in 1992 as she returned to North America to compete in Mexico's Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, becoming its first World Women's Champion, though Nakano made return trips to AJW with her new belt, including two successful defenses against Akira Hokuto and Yumiko Hotta. In 1994, she made her way back to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] (WWF), where she feuded with [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Alundra Blayze]] over their Women's Championship belt. After reigning as champion once following another return trip to Zenjo, she switched to competing in [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW), where she continued her feud with Blayze, who had returned to her older ring name, Madusa.

* ArchEnemy: The Atrocious Alliance's feud against The Crush Gals is legendary, though Chigusa Nagayo is Bull Nakano's arch enemy specifically. Nakano was able to come to a ''few'' short term agreements with Wrestling/LionessAsuka.
* BikerBabe: Through her ride wad destroyed by Madusa.

** Milked it for all its worth with Sonny Onoo in WCW. Not when the show was in Japan, then she was the hometown shero (heroine).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Dropped the "Bull" from her name and simply went by Keiko after winning her first championship belt, the AJW Junior Heavyweight Singles title. After she dropped it she went back to "Bull" and stayed.

* TerribleTrio: With Shinja and [[Wrestling/JinseiShinzaki]] in the WWF as the UnwittingPawns of Wrestling/JerryLawler, who had convinced them Wrestling/BretHart was racist against Japanese people.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Dropped the "Bull" from her name and simply went by Keiko after winning her title, the AJW Junior Heavyweight Single championship belt. After she dropped it she went back to "Bull" and stayed.

* SignatureMove: A Scorpion crosslock (elevated inverted scorpion deathlock combined with a surfboard), described by the commentators as "something oriental" (based on such but [[GlobalIgnorance it's actually a lucha lock]]). Also an axe guillotine driver (back to belly piledriver) called Bull's Poseidon which was usually done to counter Blayze's powerbomb attempts.

* {{Cameo}}: In 2012 Bull Nakano was one of Kyoko Inoue's opponents for the 25th Anniversary Gauntlet match Inoue went through in the Diana promotion.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Dropped the "Bull" from her name and simply went by Keiko after winning her title, the AJW Junior Heavyweight Single championship belt. After she dropped it she went back to "Bull" and stayed
* FacialMarkings: Blue paint.
* FightingYourFriend: When she had to defend the WWF's women's championship against Kyoko Inoue.
* FinishingMove: A top rope leg drop. At ''Bull Nakano Produce: Empress'' she booked a {{gimmick match|es}} between four different wrestlers using it as their finishing move in four different promotions[[note]]Kayoko Haruyama from JWP, Ryo Mizunami from WAVE, AKINO from Oz Academy, Maki Narumiya from Ice Ribbon[[/note]].

** The Devils Of Japan, though subverted as they kept the name when they teamed up to win the WWWA Tag Team Titles from The Crush Gals in Japan.

* {{Leitmotif}}: "Boss Of The World"

* SignatureMove: A Scorpion crosslock (elevated inverted scorpion deathlock combined with a surfboard), described by the commentators as "something oriental" (based on such but [[GlobalIgnorance it's actually a lucha lock]]). Also an axe guillotine driver (back to belly piledriver) called Bull's Poseidon which was usually done to counter Blayze's power bomb attempts.
* TagTeam: Besides with Matsumoto, Nakano held the WWWA Tag Team titles for The Atrocious Alliance with Condor Saito and for Gokumon-to with Grizzly Iwamoto
* TournamentArc: Of a sort. She and Lola González were the last two women of their respective sides not eliminated during a Torneo Cibernético on ''Súper Viernes''. This lead to them facing each other one on one to decide who would be CMLL's first World Women's champion. González lost.
* TheBusCameBack: She and Dump Matsumoto were sent back to Japan almost as soon as they arrived in the WWF, only having three matches. Once they put an end to both of their women's divisions two years later it was assumed she would never return but then WWF decided it wanted to promote the singles title belt again and saw Nakano was south of the border.

* FinishingMove: A top rope leg drop. At ''Bull Nakano Produce: Empress'' she booked a match between four different wrestlers using it as their finishing move in four different promotions.

'''Keiko Nakano''' (born January 8, 1968), better known as '''Bull Nakano''', is a former {{professional wrestl|ing}}er. She began competing in 1983 under the Bull Nakano ring name as a teenager in Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling as a {{heel}}, went on to hold several of AJW's singles and tag team championships and briefly entered the WWF's Women's TagTeam division with Dump Matsumoto. AJW began to phase her out phase her in 1992 as she returned to North America to compete in Mexico's ''Wrestling/{{CMLL}}'', becoming its first World Women's Champion, though Nakano made return trips to AJW with her new belt, including two successful defenses against Akira Hokuto and Yumiko Hotta. In 1994, she made her way back to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] (WWF), where she feuded with [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Alundra Blayze]] over their Women's Championship belt. After reigning as champion once following another return trip to Zenjo, she switched to competing in [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW), where she continued her feud with Blayze, who had returned to her older ring name, Madusa.

** Madusa is her most encountered opponent outside of Zenjo, the two of them eventually [[FireforgedFriends becoming friends]].

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: Dropped the "Bull" from her name and simply went by Keiko after winning her title, the AJW Junior Heavyweight Single championship belt. After she dropped it she went back to "Bull" and stayed

'''Keiko Nakano''' (born January 8, 1968), better known as '''Bull Nakano''', is a former {{professional wrestl|ing}}er. She began competing in 1983 under the Bull Nakano ring name as a teenager in Wrestling/AllJapan WomensProWrestling as a {{heel}}, went on to hold several of AJW's singles and tag team championships and briefly entered the WWF's Women's TagTeam division with Dump Matsumoto. AJW began to phase her out phase her in 1992 as she returned to North America to compete in Mexico's ''Wrestling/{{CMLL}}'', becoming its first World Women's Champion, though Nakano made return trips to AJW with her new belt, including two successful defenses against Akira Hokuto and Yumiko Hotta. In 1994, she made her way back to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] (WWF), where she feuded with [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Alundra Blayze]] over their Women's Championship belt. After reigning as champion once following another return trip to Zenjo, she switched to competing in [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW), where she continued her feud with Blayze, who had returned to her older ring name, Madusa.

'''Keiko Nakano''' (born January 8, 1968), better known as '''Bull Nakano''', is a former {{professional wrestl|ing}}er. She began competing in 1983 under the Bull Nakano ring name as a teenager in Wrestling/AllJapan WomenProWrestling as a {{heel}}, went on to hold several of AJW's singles and tag team championships and briefly entered the WWF's Women's TagTeam division with Dump Matsumoto. AJW began to phase her out phase her in 1992 as she returned to North America to compete in Mexico's ''Wrestling/{{CMLL}}'', becoming its first World Women's Champion, though Nakano made return trips to AJW with her new belt, including two successful defenses against Akira Hokuto and Yumiko Hotta. In 1994, she made her way back to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] (WWF), where she feuded with [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Alundra Blayze]] over their Women's Championship belt. After reigning as champion once following another return trip to Zenjo, she switched to competing in [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW), where she continued her feud with Blayze, who had returned to her older ring name, Madusa.

'''Keiko Nakano''' (born January 8, 1968), better known as '''Bull Nakano''', is a former {{professional wrestl|ing}}er. She began competing under the Bull Nakano ring name as a teenager in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) as a {{heel}}, and held several of AJW's singles and tag team championships. After being phased out by the company in the early 1990s, she traveled to North America, where she first competed in Mexico's ''Wrestling/{{CMLL}}'', becoming its first World Women's Champion. In 1994, she made her way to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] (WWF), where she feuded with [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Alundra Blayze]] over the WWF Women's Championship. After holding the title once, she also competed in [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW), where she continued her feud with Blayze, who was now known as Madusa. She retired from professional wrestling in 1997.

* {{Acrofatic}}: She was initially kinda big when she first showed up as one half of the Japanese Devils, but was always agile and the more mobile of the two. She had slimmed down by the time of her official debut as a singles wrestler.
* BrawnHilda: Heel.

* CuteMonsterGirl: Face.

* FightingYourFriend: When she had to defend the championship against Kyoko Inoue.
* FinishingMove: A top rope leg drop.
* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Milked it for all its worth with Sonny Onoo in WCW. Not when the show was in Japan, then she was the hometown shero (heroine).

* ImprobableHairstyle: Long before the likes of [[Characters/WWETagTeams Scotty 2 Hotty]] and [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Paul Phoenix]]. Bobby Heenan in WCW compared it to a porcupine.
* SignatureMove: A Scorpion crosslock (combined Sharpshooter/full nelson), described by the commentators as "something oriental" ([[GlobalIgnorance it's actually a lucha lock]]). Also an axe guillotine driver (back to belly piledriver) called Bull's Poseidon which was usually done to counter Blayze's power bomb attempts.

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'''Keiko Nakano''' (born January 8, 1968), better known as '''Bull Nakano''', is a former {{professional wrestl|ing}}er. She began competing in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) as a teenager under the ring name Bull Nakano. As a wrestler she was a villain, and held several of AJW's singles and tag team championships. After being phased out by the company in the early 1990s, she traveled to North America, where she first competed in Mexico's ''Wrestling/{{CMLL}}'', becoming its first World Women's Champion. In 1994, she made her way to the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]] (WWF), where she had feuded with [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Alundra Blayze]] over the WWF Women's Championship. After holding the title once, she also competed in [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} World Championship Wrestling]] (WCW), where she continued her feud with Blayze, who was now known as Madusa. She retired from professional wrestling in 1997.