Nanae Takahashi Nanae Takahashi ( December 23 , 1978 ) is a Japan ese professional wrestler . She has wrestled for prominent Japanese promotions All Japan Women ' s Pro - Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Sun , and has held multiple world championships . Currently she belongs to World Wonder Ring Stardom as the playing manager . Career . Nanae Takahashi graduated from All Japan Women ' s Pro - Wrestling ' s ( AJW ) training class of 1996 , and rose to prominence at a time when AJW was beginning its decline . Early on , she achieved the most fame as part of the tag team Nanamomo with classmate Momoe Nakanishi . Together , Nanamomo won four tag team championships , the AJW Tag Team Championship twice ( on November 23 , 1997 and August 23 , 1998 ) and the WWWA World Tag Team Championship twice ( on July 16 , 2000 and July 6 , 2002 ) . Concurrently , Takahashi was making a name for herself as a singles competitor , winning the AJW Championship on March 1 , 2000 , and the junior division competition at that year ' s Japan Grand Prix . Having established herself as a major competitor , Takahashi won the 2002 Japan Grand Prix , and won her first WWWA World Heavyweight Championship on December 12 , 2004 . During AJW ' s final years she won the WWWA World Tag Team Championship three more times ( each time with a different partner ) , and the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship once more . She was the last WWWA champion , handing over the belt to promoter Takashi Matsunaga immediately after winning it on March 26 , 2006 . At an independent show held on July 14 , 2006 to celebrate her tenth anniversary in professional wrestling , Takahashi announced her intention to start her own promotion . Her stable , the Dream Catchers , held their final show on the following September 3 . On October 1 , 2006 , Takahashi defeated Africa 55 for the resurrected AWA World Women ' s Championship at the debut of her new promotion , Pro Wrestling Sun . The promotion is a sister promotion to Pro Wrestling Zero1 - Max , and at the time an affiliate of the revived American Wrestling Association . On January 14 , 2007 , Takahashi lost her world championship to Amazing Kong , but regained it again on May 13 of the same year , in Los Angeles , California . She became recognized as the first AWA Japan Women ' s Champion on June 19 , 2007 , after the AWA World Women ' s title was retired out of respect for four - time former champion Sherri Martel , who had died on June 15 . After Sun closed on March 3 , 2008 , Takahashi formed a unit called " Passion Red " with Natsuki☆Taiyo and Kana . They were active mainly with NEO Japan Ladie ' s Pro Wrestling . On October 4 , 2008 , Takahashi beat Kyoko Inoue to win NWA Women ' s Pacific / NEO Single Championship . On October 10 , 2009 , she won NEO Tag Team Championship with Kana . From January 25 , 2009 to December 29 , 2010 , Takahashi was also active with Ice Ribbon and held International Ribbon Tag Team Championship three times ( with Minori Makiba , Kazumi Shimouma and Emi Sakura ) and Triangle Ribbon Championship once . On April 18 , 2010 , Takahashi beat Kayoko Haruyama to win JWP Openweight Championship . She became the second champion from outside since Manami Toyota in 2006 . On September 7 , 2010 , Takahashi announced with Fuka and Rossy Ogawa that they founded a new promotion called World Wonder Ring Stardom . They had their first card on January 23 , 2011 . On December 15 , 2010 , Takahashi won Women ' s Award of Tokyo Sports .