ARSION ARSION ( full official name Hyper Visual Fighting Arsion ) was a " joshi puroresu " ( women ' s professional wrestling ) promotion established in 1997 by Aja Kong . The first event took place on February 18th , 1998 and was called " Virgin " . History . In its initial conception the major key figures in the company were ARSION founder , Aja Kong , ARSION President ex - AJW businessman Hiroshi Ogawa , ARSION Manager former wrestler Sakie Hasegawa , and ARSION trainer Mariko Yoshida also a former wrestler . Their first event was entitled " Virgin . " It was held on February 18 , 1998 Tokyo to a sell - out crowd . The show was sponsored by BADboy clothing company and as a result the pre - show featured the wrestlers modelling BADboy outfits . Arsion started well with a sellout first show and developed a strong fan base in their initial shows . With the title belt on Markio Yoshida , their strongest submission wrestler , the promotion was in their prime . A lack of consistency in wrestling style amongst their wrestlers seemed to hurt the promotion as time went on . In 1999 in an attempt to boost audience numbers ARSION formed a pop group called CAZAI . Consisting of AKINO , Ayako Hamada , Candy Okutsu and Ai Fujita ARSION hoped to cash in on similar success that previous AJW pop / wrestling mixes the Beauty Pair and Crush Gals had . CAZAI did not have the same musical talent of the predecessors however and failed to gain interest prompting the promotion split them up . In an attempt to re - gain an audience ARSION put the spotlight on CAZAI member Ayako Hamada , a half Mexican half Japanese rookie whose father was the legendary Gran Hamada . Ayako Hamada won the Queen of Arsion title beating Aja Kong in late 2000 . By this time the style had changed to the more traditional fast work rate of Joshi puroresu elsewhere at the time . Ayako ' s title reign was unsuccessful in gaining back an audience . In 2001 Aja Kong left ARSION after a disagreement with management over the direction ARSION was heading . Aja Kong successfully sued ARSION president Ogawa for false advertising when he promoted her as being on a show two months after she had left . President Hiroshi Ogawa in June 2001 brought in Crush Gal Lioness Asuka as the promotions new booker . With ARSION still suffering from falling crowd numbers Asuka sought to boost the ailing promotion by pushing herself and close friends Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda into the major storylines . With Lioness as booker the promotion switched to more story driven matches mixed with comedy relief as a way to try and reinvent itself . An example of the comedic influence in their wrestling increasing over the years was most prevalent in wrestler Futagami . Originally packaged by Aja as a new “ Dynamite Kansai ” with solid kicks and matching physique GAMI as she became known was primarily a comedy wrestler by ARSION ’ s closure . Ayako Hamada , officially made it public that she would start working matches outside of ARSION to those in attendance to a show at Korakuen Hall on January 13 , 2002 . President Hiroshi Ogawa then made an announcement about Hamada ' s resignation . Ayako left due to internal politics within ARSION . Hamada felt she had been blamed by ARSION management and some wrestlers as being the reason ARSION didn ' t draw crowds . When Asuka took over the booking in June 2001 Ayako started to become a secondary player and felt she was being pushed out . Ayako moved on to work for GAEA where Aja Kong was also wrestling at the time . ARSION continued to falter and were eventually renamed AtoZ in 2003 by Yumiko Hotta who took over the promotion and would fold in the same year . Wrestling style . ARSION aimed at creating a new style within Josh Puroresu . Arsion wrestlers trained every day and attend Pancrase ' s dojo every Monday , and Battlarts ' dojo every Friday as a part of their routine . They learn pro - wrestling , Lucha Libre , and shoot style wrestling . The girls were taught a new stronger submission style grapple art . For smaller wrestlers who had a history of injuries from high risk moves and getting destroyed at times in matches from larger wrestlers the mat style meant they were able to work more competitively . Wrestlers that proved to adapt well to the style change and benefited from it included Candy Okutsu , Rie Tamada and Yumi Fukawa . Mariko Yoshida as ARSION ’ s head trainer also was a strong influence over the direction in the wrestling style of the company . An AJW veteran before joining ARSION , Yoshida was well versed in the aerial manoeuvrers of Lucha , having previously won the Mexican CMLL World Women ' s Championship title . The combination of strong mat style technique , lucha - inspired submissions , aerial high flying and Mariko ' s new look “ Spiderman ” wrestling outfits strongly reflected the lucha inspired style that was to become ARSION .