The Top Ten Moves of Megumi Kudo

At long last, after a week of hype clips, the top ten is finally here. Megumi Kudo is one of the most recognizable Joshi wrestlers, though she tends to get overlooked a fair bit. Getting her start in the AJW dojo in 1986, she would stay with the promotion for two years, when she would be released for not showing enough improvement. She took a hiatus from the wrestling world for a couple of years, but the urge to wrestle never went away. In 1990, she joined the still-upstart promotion of FMW, and was quickly given a push to the top of the division. Some contend the push happened because of her looks, but Kudo made everyone take notice with her in-ring talent. In 1992, she also released a music CD, starred in a motion picture, and released several modeling photobooks, making her quite the all around star in the entertainment world of Japan. In 1993, she competed at AJW's Dreamslam event, teaming with Combat Toyoda against the home team of Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada. Despite coming up short, a rematch in FMW brought on different results, as Kudo avenged her loss with a pinfall over Yamada. She would return to All Japan to face off against Aja Kong, but would come up short against her larger opponent. 1996 was an eventful year for Kudo. At the annual FMW Kawasaki Stadium show, Combat Toyoda wrestled her final match against Kudo. This was a No Rope, Electrified Barbed Wire Deathmatch, marking the first time two women had competed in such a match. The match is still talked about today, and is considered by me to be the greatest deathmatch of all time. Kudo would defeat her longtime partner with a new move known as the Kudome Valentine, a move that is still one of the most devastating moves in wrestling history, and one that Kudo created herself. Later in the year, Kudo started a series of Barbed Wire Deathmatches with the likes of Shinobu Kandori and Shark Tsuchiya, unleashing the Valentine on both of them, and coming out victorious. 1997 started off with a bang, as she defeated Bison Kimura, once again bringing out the Kudome Valentine. In April of 1997, Kudo ended her career with two more deathmatches, one against Mayumi Ozaki, and the second(and final match of her career) against Shark. Personally, I found her retirement match to be a bit of a let down thanks to Shark. However, Kudo came out on top, and as of this post, has stuck to her retirement(and likely will at this point). Kudo's style is hard hitting and stylish, to an extent. Her small stature masks her true strength, as Kudo had little problem handling the majority of her opponents. As her career went on, Kudo began to favor the Double Underhook Powerbomb as a finisher, and eventually adopted a Sheerdrop version as well. However, most consider the Kudome Valentine to be her true finisher, and rightfully so. She invented the move, and knew exactly how to use it.

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[NallMasaki]

DAME! This woman is bad ass! Doe's she still wrestle?

[TheSuicidalDragon]

She retired in 1997, and hasn't wrestled since, actually.

[halberdear]

it looks like these guys are paid to be limp and get the shit beaten out of them buy women.

[TheSuicidalDragon]

Kudo never wrestled any males, actually.

[fm95master]

@newagepun Exactly. :)

The kudome valentine is a very dangerours move and can't be executed to a opponent that is larger than one is because a height difference would occure to a broken neck or death.

She did it once back then to a girl that was bigger than she was in height and almost killed her in the process. The piledriver is only allowed to be used by jerry the king lawler, the undertaker & kane in WWE through special permission. In the UK you get fined, in Mexico disqualified.

[newagepun]

@fm95master Also you can't fake botched moves at times, like the thunderfire powerbomb where the angle she dropped her opponent on her head could have risked potential head trauma. If that was the case, people would still be taking piledrivers like a boss and not worry about any spinal issues.

[fm95master]

@MrMRCrazyGamer the only "fake" about wrestling is that they script the match so no one will end up greatly injured or dead. They also decide who will win or lose before the match gets scripted.

All the moves are real and need one to be in a top physical shape, most bumps hurt as do many moves aswell so the physical part is definately not fake.

[MrMRCrazyGamer]

who can trust that wrestling is real lol and anyways if its real why does she let them to move their heads so they wont break their necks lol its sh1t and in some moves you can see that she aint even hitting them

[NallMasaki]

@TheSuicidalDragon Really?! Aww man that sucks.

[chainsawproof99]

I NEED Combat Toyoda vs. Megumi Kudo on DVD. Gonna order it now.

[Takerfanatic93]

The Killer-chick...best Death-queen and a great female Wrestler as well..

[itochiyanpon]

Why no Tiger suplex? She was using it for finish well.