Why you must watch her: Shes literally the best womens wrestler ever. From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, Toyota was literally the best womens wrestler on earth. She could do anything and everything: execute painful-looking submission holds, fly around and out of the ring like a cruiserweight, strike her opponents with hard strikes, and use a devastating array of Suplexes with an unmatched grace and precision. Because of her immense skill, Toyota was responsible for ushering in another golden age of womens wrestling in Japan, during which she wrestled in 60-minute matches against her archrivals and withstood an unbelievable amount of punishment. It was in her matches that wrestling fans truly began to see how women could be equal to men in a sport thats centered primarily on male performers. Though she isnt known that much outside of Japan, Toyotas legendary matches make her a truly worthwhile wrestler to watch.
Alexander Podgorski is a writer for WhatCulture that has been a fan of professional wrestling since he was 8 years old. He loves all kinds of wrestling, from WWE and sports entertainment, to puroresu in Japan.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University in Political Studies and French, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration. He speaks English, French, Polish, a bit of German, and knows some odd words and phrases in half a dozen other languages.
