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#3: Bull Nakano tried bringing the Japanese style to America
In 2018, the WWE continues to promote equality over their roster, with the women of the company hosting their own revolution in recent years.
But long before the WWE’s women’s revolution, something similar had already happened in Japan, where many all-female promotions were being praised, and with Bull Nakano leading the way.
Winning her first championship aged ‘just’ 15, Nakano showed her determination to be a global star, leaving her spotlight in Japan to wrestle in the US for the WWE.
Alongside Alundra Blayze, who is appropriately respected by the company as a legend, Nakano wrestled some of the first truly great matches contested over the Women’s Championship throughout the winter of 1994.
Granted, Nakano wasn’t the first Japanese woman to go state-side, with the Jumping Bomb Angels making their presence known in the 1980s, though they too have been forgotten, as it has been decades since the company cared about Women’s tag wrestling.
As a former champion, who helped give fans their first glimpse of great female wrestling, Nakano could at least get a mention for the Hall of Fame, yet the company continues to never acknowledge her at all, despite it being obvious that Nakano paved the way to bring the Japanese style to America.
