Arisa Nakajima Arisa Nakajima ( June 4 , 1989 ) is a Japanese professional wrestler . Professional wrestling career . Major Girl ' s Fighting AtoZ ( 2006 ) . Nakajima began training professional wrestling with the Major Girl ' s Fighting AtoZ promotion in 2005 and made her debut on January 3 , 2006 , facing fellow rookie Mika Mizunuma in Korakuen Hall . During her first months in the business , Nakajima wrestled several other matches against Mizunuma , including a " Best of Three " match series in February and a singles rematch on March 18 in Korakuen Hall , which Nakajima went on to win . Nakajima and Mizunuma also wrestled against each other at a Wrestling Marvelous of the Future ( WMF ) event on March 27 , with Nakajima picking up the win . JWP Joshi Puroresu ( 2006 – present ) . While still affiliated with AtoZ , Nakajima made her debut for JWP Joshi Puroresu on April 30 , 2006 , when she faced Kaori Yoneyama in a losing effort . Following the folding of AtoZ , Nakajima began working regularly for JWP , starting on May 21 . However , she was still officially without a home promotion , working freelancer for various promotions , often teaming with fellow AtoZ alum Sachie Abe as the tag team " Hysteric Babe " . In JWP , Hysteric Babe teamed only once , on July 16 , when they were defeated by Ran Yu - Yu and Toshie Uematsu in a match to determine the number one contenders to the JWP Tag Team Championship . In August , Nakajima made several appearances for the new Ice Ribbon promotion . During a JWP event on August 6 , both Nakajima and Abe announced that they had signed with the promotion , becoming full - fledged members of its roster , with Nakajima becoming the first JWP wrestler born in the Heisei period . Afterwards , Abe left Nakajima to reform her old JDStar tag team " The☆Wanted ! ? " with Kazuki . After a series of losses , Nakajima finally picked up her first JWP win on September 3 , when she defeated Yuri Urai . On November 26 , Nakajima entered a tournament for the vacant JWP Junior Championship , defeating Hanako Kobayashi in her first round match . The tournament continued on December 12 , when Nakajima defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto in her semifinal match . Finally , on Christmas Eve , Nakajima defeated Ice Ribbon representative Aoi Kizuki in the finals to become the new JWP Junior Champion . JWP ' s year ended with the promotion naming Nakajima the 2006 Newcomer of the Year . On April 8 , 2007 , Nakajima entered the Discover New Heroine Tag Tournament , teaming with JWP Openweight Champion Azumi Hyuga . In their first round match , Nakajima and Hyuga defeated the NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling duo of Nagisa Nozaki and Yuki Miyazaki . On April 15 , Nakajima and Hyuga first defeated Ayumi Kurihara and Yoshiko Tamura , also representing NEO , in their second round match and then the Passion Red team of Nanae Takahashi and Natsuki☆Taiyo in the semifinals . Later that same event , Nakajima and Hyuga were defeated in the finals of the tournament by the team of Aya Yuki and Misae Genki . During the summer of 2007 , Nakajima also took part in JDStar ' s League Princess tournament . The tournament concluded on June 17 , when Nakajima defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto and Yuri Urai in a three - way Dogfight final to not only win the tournament , but to also become the new Princess of Pro - Wrestling ( POP ) Champion . As this was one of JDStar ' s final ever events , the POP Championship was unified with the JWP Junior Championship and the two titles have ever since been defended together . On August 5 , Nakajima made her third successful defense of the JWP Junior Championship and her first successful defense of the POP Championship by defeating Aoi Kizuki . Nakajima followed that up by also successfully defending the titles against Misaki Ohata on October 21 . During the second half of 2007 , Nakajima started an interpromotional storyline rivalry with Sendai Girls ' Pro Wrestling ' s Tyrannosaurus Okuda . One early notable match in the rivalry saw Nakajima and Okuda team up with their respective mentors , Azumi Hyuga and Meiko Satomura , in a tag team match at a Sendai Girls ' event on October 5 , which was won by the JWP duo . On November 18 , Nakajima lost the JWP Junior and POP Championship to Okuda in the main event of a Sendai Girls ' event . The year ended with JWP ' s fifth Junior All Star event , during which Nakajima teamed with Hanako Kobayashi and Hiroyo Matsumoto to defeat Okuda , Aoi Kizuki and Aya Yuki in a main event " Best of Juniors " match . The year ended with Nakajima being named the MVP of JWP ' s Junior division , while also being given the Fighting Spirit award . On February 11 , 2008 , Nakajima entered a tournament to determine the number one contender to the JWP Openweight Championship . After winning only one of her four round - robin stage matches , Nakajima failed to advance to the finals of the tournament . On June 8 , Nakajima defeated Tyrannosaurus Okuda at a JWP event to regain the JWP Junior and Princess of Pro - Wrestling Championships . Nakajima made her first title defense on October 12 , defeating Sendai Girls ' Pro Wrestling representative Ryo Mizunami . On February 21 , 2009 , Nakajima , teaming with Toujyuki Leon , received her first shot at the JWP Tag Team and Daily Sports Women ' s Tag Team Championship s , but the two were defeated by the defending champions , Keito and Yumiko Hotta . On April 19 , Nakajima was defeated by Saki Maemura in a singles match . Following the match , JWP sidelined Nakajima from in - ring action due to " poor health " . On May 31 , Nakajima officially quit JWP and three days later announced her retirement from professional wrestling , however , keeping the door open for a possible return down the road . After remaining inactive for two and a half years , Nakajima made a surprise return to JWP on December 23 , 2011 , announcing that she would be making her return the following year . Nakajima wrestled her return match on April 22 , 2012 , at JWP ' s 20th anniversary event , where she teamed with her former Hysteric Babe partner Sachie Abe in a losing effort against the team of Hanako Nakamori and Misaki Ohata . Nakajima then formed a tag team with Manami Katsu and picked up her first win since her return on May 20 , when the two defeated Leon and Rabbit Miu in a tag team match . On June 17 , Nakajima and Katsu received a shot at the JWP Tag Team and Daily Sports Women ' s Tag Team Championships , but were unable to dethrone the defending champions , Emi Sakura and Kaori Yoneyama . On June 24 , Nakajima and Katsu made their debuts for the Reina X World promotion , losing to La Malcriada and Zeuxis in the main event of the evening . Through JWP ' s working relationship with Ice Ribbon , Nakajima returned to the promotion on July 11 , wrestling the promotion ' s top champion , ICE×60 Champion Hikaru Shida , to a ten - minute time limit draw . Afterwards , the two agreed to team up in the upcoming JRibbon Natsu Onna Kettei Tournament , a JWP staple , which was this time co - produced by JWP and Ice Ribbon . The tournament took place over two " JRibbon " events on July 28 ; an afternoon Ice Ribbon event and an evening JWP event . During the Ice Ribbon event , Nakajima and Shida defeated Hamuko Hoshi and Kayoko Haruyama to advance to the JWP event where they defeated Command Bolshoi and Hikari Minami in their semifinal match , which went to an overtime after an original fifteen - minute time limit draw . However , in the finals of the tournament later that same event , Nakajima and Shida were defeated by the team of Hanako Nakamori and Maki Narumiya . In August , Nakajima became one of the key members of the JWP Seikigun ( " regular army " ) , during the promotion ' s storyline rivalry with Emi Sakura and Kaori Yoneyama , representing the Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling promotion . After being defeated by Sakura in a singles match August 12 , > Nakajima and fellow Seikigun member Command Bolshoi defeated Sakura and Yoneyama on August 19 to win the JWP Tag Team and Daily Sports Women ' s Tag Team Championships . Nakajima and Bolshoi made their first successful title defense on September 9 , defeating Leon and Ray . On October 7 , the JWP Seikigun , represented by Nakajima , Bolshoi , Kayoko Haruyama and Manami Katsu , were defeated in an eight woman captain ' s fall elimination tag team main event by Emi Sakura ' s and Kaori Yoneyama ' s new Heart Move Kei Reform ( HMK ) stable , which in addition to the two also included Hanako Nakamori and Morii . Nakajima was the only JWP representative not eliminated from the match . On October 28 , Nakajima and Bolshoi successfully defended their titles against Nakamori and Morii . Following the main event , where HMK member Emi Sakura captured the JWP Openweight Championship from Kayoko Haruyama , Nakajima entered the ring and made a challenge for the title . On November 11 , Nakajima defeated Morii and Nakamori in a four - woman tournament to become the number one contender to the JWP Openweight Championship . En route to the title match , Nakajima was pinned for the win by Kaori Yoneyama in an eight woman captain ' s fall elimination tag team main event between JWP and HMK on December 2 . On December 24 , Nakajima capped off her return year by defeating Emi Sakura to win the JWP Openweight Championship for the first time . Afterwards , the bloody champion , thirteen years younger than her opponent and the second youngest JWP Openweight Champion in history , announced that she wanted to defend the title against wrestlers from her own generation . Three days later , Nakajima was named JWP ' s MVP of 2012 , while her and Bolshoi ' s tag team title match with Sakura and Yoneyama from August 19 was named the Match of the Year . On January 6 at JWP ' s first event of 2013 , Nakajima and Bolshoi lost the JWP Tag Team and Daily Sports Women ' s Tag Team Championships to Kayoko Haruyama and Tsubasa Kuragaki , with Haruyama pinning Nakajima for the win . On January 27 , the storyline rivalry between HMK and JWP was blown off , when Hanako Nakamori , Kaori Yoneyama and Morii were defeated in a six - woman tag team match by Nakajima , Bolshoi and freelancer and AtoZ alum Kana , whom Nakajima had invited to the promotion , much to the dismay of Bolshoi . On February 17 , Nakajima made her first successful defense of the JWP Openweight Championship against Kayoko Haruyama , avenging the pinfall loss from the tag team title match . In March , Nakajima and Bolshoi took part in the 2013 Tag League the Best , defeating Leon and Neko Nitta on March 3 , before losing to Hanako Nakamori and Morii on March 31 , as a result failing to qualify for the finals . On April 14 , Nakajima defeated Yumiko Hotta in a No Holds Barred match for her second successful defense of the JWP Openweight Championship , avenging a tag team match loss against the World Woman Pro - Wrestling Diana representative from a month earlier . On April 25 , Nakajima made her debut for Wrestling New Classic ( WNC ) , taking part in a seven - way match for the WNC Women ' s Championship . The match , which also included Command Bolshoi , Kayoko Haruyama , Nikki Storm and Syuri , ended when Lin Byron pinned defending champion Makoto to become the new champion . On April 29 , Nakajima took part in World Woman Pro - Wrestling Diana ' s second anniversary event , teaming with Command Bolshoi in a tag team match , where they defeated Megumi Yabushita and Piyota Mask . Later in the semi - main event , Nakajima interfered in a WWWD Tag Team Championship match , helping Keiko Aono and Yumiko Hotta defeat Kaoru Ito and Tomoko Watanabe for the title , aligning herself with Hotta ' s Bousou - gun stable and turning heel for the first time in her career . Back in JWP on May 5 , Nakajima ' s friendship with Kana exploded into a storyline rivalry between the two , when Kana submitted Nakajima at the end of a heated tag team match . > Post - match , Nakajima and Kana came to blows , before being separated by other JWP wrestlers This new rivalry also led to matches between Nakajima and Kana in other promotions , including Osaka Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Wave . In the latter promotion , Nakajima entered the 2013 Catch the Wave tournament on May 15 , defeating Shuu Shibutani in her first round - robin match . Nakajima finished her round - robin block on June 19 with a record of two wins , three draws and one loss , suffered against Mio Shirai , and advanced to the knockout stage . On July 15 , Nakajima first defeated Shuu Shibutani in her first round match and then Syuri in her semifinal match to advance to the finals of the 2013 Catch the Wave , where she was defeated by Misaki Ohata . Back in JWP on July 28 , Nakajima defeated Command Bolshoi to not only make her third successful defense of the JWP Openweight Championship , but to also win the CMLL - Reina International Championship . On August 18 , Nakajima lost the JWP Openweight Championship to Kana in her third title defense , ending her reign at 237 days . Following the loss of her title , Nakajima began portraying a darker , brooding persona and while she talked about a possible rematch with Kana , she went on a losing streak against Kazuki and Leon . On September 29 , Nakajima returned to WNC , however , her match with Makoto had to be ended early , when she dislocated her right shoulder and had to be rushed to a hospital . Nakajima returned to the ring on October 14 , wrestling Bolshoi in a three - minute exhibition match . Nakajima wrestled her official return match on October 18 at a World Woman Pro - Wrestling Diana event . During a tag team match , where she and Kyoko Inoue faced Yumiko Hotta and Mask de Sun , Nakajima turned on Inoue and joined Hotta ' s Bousou - gun stable , vowing to show her violent side in the future . Following the turn , Nakajima began making regular appearances for Diana as a representative of Bousou - gun . Back in JWP , Nakajima entered a storyline , where Kana began professing her love for her , even naming Nakajima the next challenger to her JWP Openweight Championship . On December 15 , Nakajima defeated Kana to regain the JWP Openweight Championship . That same evening , Nakajima won her second JWP MVP award in a row , while her match with Kana that same day was named the 2013 Match of the Year . Prior to the title win , Nakajima had agreed to a double title match with World of Stardom Champion Io Shirai on the condition that she could regain the JWP Openweight Championship . The day after her title win , the match , where both titles would be on the line , was made official for World Wonder Ring Stardom ' s year - end event on December 29 . The match ended in a thirty - minute time limit draw , meaning that both champions retained their titles . Meanwhile , Nakajima continued her rivalry with Kana , with the two forming a dysfunctional tag team for the 2014 Tag League the Best . On February 25 , Nakajima wrestled her first deathmatch , booked by Kana as part of her independent Kana ProMania event , where she and Jun Kasai were defeated by Ayako Hamada and Ryuji Ito . Despite their issues with each other , Nakajima and Kana entered the final day of the round - robin portion of the Tag League the Best on March 2 with a chance to reach the finals . They were , however , eliminated after wrestling Command Bolshoi and Kyoko Kimura to a twenty - minute time limit draw . This led to a match on April 20 , where Nakajima made her second successful defense of the JWP Openweight Championship against Kimura . Nakajima continued her reign with successful title defenses against Sendai Girls ' Pro Wrestling representative Dash Chisako on July 13 , Leon on September 15 , and Hanako Nakamori on October 26 . After her win over Nakamori , Nakajima nominated Ice Ribbon ' s ICE×∞ Champion Tsukasa Fujimoto as her next challenger . Fujimoto later answered Nakajima with a nomination of her own , leading to JWP and Ice Ribbon announcing a double title match for December 28 at Korakuen Hall . First at " Ribbon Mania 2014 " , Ice Ribbon ' s biggest annual event , Fujimoto would defend the ICE×∞ Championship against Nakajima and six hours later at " JWP – Climax 2014 " , JWP ' s biggest event of the year , Nakajima would defend the JWP Openweight Championship against Fujimoto . Meanwhile , the storyline between Nakajima and Kana resurfared in the Reina Joshi Puroresu promotion , the former Reina X World , where Kana , the promotion ' s consultant , named Nakajima her partner for a tournament for the vacant Reina World Tag Team Championship . On November 20 , Nakajima and Kana first defeated Eri and Haruka Kato and then Lin Byron and Syuri to win the tournament and become the new champions . On December 7 , Nakajima came together with Hanako Nakamori to unsuccessfully challenge Command Bolshoi and Kyoko Kimura for the JWP Tag Team and Daily Sports Women ' s Tag Team Championships . On December 28 , Nakajima first unsuccessfully challenged Fujimoto for the ICE×∞ Championship at " Ribbon Mania 2014 " , before defeating her for her sixth successful defense of the JWP Openweight Championship at " JWP – Climax 2014 " . The following day , Nakajima was named JWP ' s MVP for the third year in a row , while her title defense against Leon was named the Match of the Year . On February 25 , 2015 , at Kana ' s " KanaProMania : Advance " event , Nakajima and Kana lost the Reina World Tag Team Championship to Hikaru Shida and Syuri . On April 5 , Nakajima ' s sixteen - month reign as the JWP Openweight Champion came to an end , when she was defeated by Kayoko Haruyama in her seventh title defense . In June 2015 , Nakajima formed a tag team named Best Friends with Ice Ribbon wrestler Tsukasa Fujimoto , with the two stating that their goal was to become the top tag team in all of " joshi puroresu " . On October 17 , Best Friends defeated another JWP / Ice Ribbon team of Aoi Kizuki and Kayoko Haruyama to win the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship . On December 27 , Best Friends won two more titles , when they defeated the Jumonji Sisters ( Dash Chisako and Sendai Sachiko ) for the Daily Sports Women ' s Tag Team and JWP Tag Team Championships . Following the win , Nakajima turned on JWP and Command Bolshoi and joined JWP Openweight Champion Mayumi Ozaki ' s villainous Seikigun stable , based in the Oz Academy promotion . This led to a match on January 10 , 2016 , where Nakajima unsuccessfully challenged Sonoko Kato for the Oz Academy Openweight Championship . Nakajima turned on Ozaki and Seikigun on March 20 , stating that she would bring the JWP Openweight Championship back to JWP . On April 3 , Nakajima defeated Ozaki to win the JWP Openweight Championship for the third time . On June 24 , Nakajima made her American debut for Shimmer Women Athletes , defeating Nicole Matthews at " Volume 81 " . The following day on " Volume 82 " , Nakajima challenged Madison Eagles for the Shimmer Championship , losing by disqualification when Eagles was attacked by Viper . Nakajima ended her Shimmer tour on June 26 by defeating Rhia O ' Reilly on " Volume 84 " and Shazza McKenzie on " Volume 85 " .