Bull Nakano | |
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Birth name | Keiko Nakano |
Born | [1] Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan | 8 January 1968
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Bull Nakano Keiko Nakano |
Billed height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[2] |
Billed weight | 91 kg (201 lb)[3] |
Billed from | Kawaguchi, Japan[2] |
Trained by | All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling |
Debut | 1983 |
Retired | 1997[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.