Bull Nakano

Bull Nakano
Birth nameKeiko Nakano
Born (1968-01-08) 8 January 1968 (age 56)[1]
Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Bull Nakano
Keiko Nakano
Billed height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[2]
Billed weight91 kg (201 lb)[3]
Billed fromKawaguchi, Japan[2]
Trained byAll Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
Debut1983
Retired1997[2]

Keiko Aoki (青木 恵子, Aoki Keiko, née Nakano (中野), born 8 January 1968) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and professional golfer better known as Bull Nakano (ブル中野, Burunakano). 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, who often teamed with her mentor Dump Matsumoto. In Japan, she 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 Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), becoming its first World Women's Champion. In 1994, she made her way to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where she had feuded with Alundra Blayze over the WWF Women's Championship. After holding the title once, she also competed in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In 1998, Nakano began competing as a professional golfer, and in 2006, she joined a tour with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). She was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame on 2001 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2024.

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