Mayumi Ozaki

Professional wrestling career

Ozaki debuted in a tag team match in August, 1986. |access-date=13 February 2010}} In her career, she held the WWWA tag titles with Dynamite Kansai from April 11, 1993 to December 6, 1993 (both winning from and losing to Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, selected for "Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Match of the Year for 1993". They rematched in April 1993 and won at the Dreamslam II (and with it the titles); the first time a woman's match won the award. Their final match was at St. Battle Final in December. (AJW). |access-date=2016-09-27}} She also held the UWA Junior and JWP Junior titles between 1988 and 1991, and teamed with Cutie Suzuki and Hikari Fukuoka to win the JWP Tag Titles a number of times between 1992 and 1995. She held the AAAW Tag Team Championship with Aja Kong, beating GAEA's Sugar Sato and Chikayo Nagashima on August 23, 1998 in Tokyo.

In 1995 Ozaki competed at the 1995 World War 3 on pay-per-view It was the first World War 3 held and broadcast at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. |access-date=2016-09-27}} event where she teamed with Cutie Suzuki against Bull Nakano and Akira Hokuto where they lost. They also competed against the same team the very next night on WCW Monday Nitro which they also lost.

Until 1997, Ozaki usually wrestled in JWP Joshi Puroresu, but was also the leader of her own heel stable called the Oz Academy, |access-date=July 1, 2012 which freelanced in other women's promotions in Japan, such as AJW and GAEA. In 1998 Ozaki became a true free agent, and began to promote her own shows using her Oz Academy wrestlers, looking for a niche in the fragmented women's puroresu scene. Ozaki made her mark mostly in tag team matches as she competed in four bouts that were among the greatest ever in women's tag team wrestling, having earned a 5-star rating each by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.Ozaki visited the States to join tournament, and notably, the 2006 Queen of the Death Match Tournament. Barbed Wire Boards Match - Mayumi Ozaki b Sumie Sakai (quarters). A 2 Out of 3 Falls Log Cabin Match - Mayumi Ozaki b Sexxxy Eddy (semis); No Ropes Barbed Wire, Electrified Light Tubes Steel Cage Match - Mickie Knuckles b Maymi Ozaki (final) in Fans Bring the Weapons format. Ozaki ended up a finalist. {{cite web |access-date= 2016-09-27

In December 2011, Ozaki took part in American promotion Chikara's JoshiMania weekend, teaming with Mio Shirai in a losing effort against the team of Cherry and Ayako Hamada on night one on December 2.{{cite web |access-date=2011-12-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206215953/http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1322936288 |archive-date=2011-12-06 The following day, Ozaki defeated Shirai in a singles match.{{cite web |access-date=2011-12-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206220003/http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1323027609 |archive-date=2011-12-06 On the third and final night of the tour, Ozaki defeated Kaori Yoneyama in another singles match. |access-date=2011-12-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206220026/http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1323099875 |archive-date=2011-12-06

Championships and accomplishments

• All Japan Pro Wrestling
  • AJPW TV Six-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Suwama and Maya Yukihi
• All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
  • WWWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Dynamite Kansai
• Gaea Japan/Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling
  • AAAW Single Championship (2 times, current)
  • AAAW Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Aja Kong (1), Akira Hokuto (1), and Kaoru (1)
  • Gaora Cup (2001)
  • Tag Team Tournament (1998) – with Chikayo Nagashima
  • Tag Team Tournament (2001) – with Kaoru
• Guinness World Records :* Oldest (female) pair to win a professional tag team wrestling championship (2023) – with Jaguar Yokota
• Japan Women's Pro Wrestling
  • JWP Junior Championship (3 times)
  • UWA Junior Championship (1 time)
• JWP Joshi Puroresu
  • JWP Openweight Championship (1 time)
  • JWP Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Cutie Suzuki (2), and Hikari Fukuoka (1)
• Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling
  • AAAW Single Championship (2 times, current)
• Oz Academy
  • Oz Academy Openweight Championship (4 times)
  • Oz Academy Tag Team Championship (7 times, current) – with Jaguar Yokota (1, current), Kaoru (2), Maya Yukihi (1), Mio Shirai (1), Sakura Hirota (1) and Yumi Ohka (1)
  • Oz Academy Pioneer 3-Way Championship (1 time)
  • Oz Academy Openweight Title #1 Contendership League (2008)
  • Oz Academy Openweight Title #1 Contendership Tournament (2019)
  • Best Wizard Award (13 times)
    • Best Bout Award (2013) vs. Chikayo Nagashima on September 15
    • Best Bout Award (2017) with Maya Yukihi vs. Akino and Kaho Kobayashi on October 29
    • Best Bout Award (2019) vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto in a barbed wire current blast bat death match on August 25
    • Best Bout Award (2020) vs. Saori Anou on August 28
    • Best Bout Award (2021) vs. Maya Yukihi, Saori Anou and Yumi Ohka on August 18
    • Best Bout Award (2022) vs. Akino on December 30
    • Best Bout Award (2023) with Kakeru and Saori Anou vs. Chigusa Nagayo, Mio Momono and Tomoko Watanabe on October 22
    • Best Bout Award (2024) vs. Maya Yukihi on August 18
    • Best Singles Match Award (2010) vs. Kaoru on August 22
    • Best Singles Match Award (2011) vs. Aja Kong on April 10
    • Happening Award (2019) Ozaki's destroying the Openweight Championship
    • MVP Award (2011, 2019)
• Pro Wrestling Wave
  • Catch the Wave Award
    • Best Performance Award (2016) shared with Atsushi Ishiguro
• Super Fireworks Pro Wrestling :* Blast Queen Championship (1 time)
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter :*Match of the Year (1993) with Dynamite Kansai vs. Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada on April 11

Notes

Publications

Books

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Magazines

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Manga

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Videos

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Music

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References

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