Chigusa Nagayo

Professional Trajectory

Chigusa Nagayo (born December 8, 1964) is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for her time in Japanese promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) during the 1980s. She was one-half of the Crush Gals tag team, with partner Lioness Asuka, and achieved massive mainstream popularity before her first retirement in 1989. In 1995, she founded GAEA Japan, and in 2014, created its successor Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling, which she still operates. Nagayo is often regarded as the most popular female wrestler of all time, as well as being one of the greatest and most influential.