If there's one word you'd never use to describe Bull Nakano, it's "Diva" because if you didn she'd probably trap you in that Scorpion Cross Lock. As mentioned in the previous entry on Alundra Blayze, the mid-nineties was briefly an amazing time for women's wrestling, and the other half of that equation was Bull Nakano Nakano began her wrestling career at the age of fifteen, and a year later she won the All-Japan Women's Pro Wrestling Junior Championship. She wrestled in WWF very briefly, teaming with Dump Matsumoto to take on Velvet McIntyre and Dawn Marie Johnston but it wouldn't be until roughly a decade later before she got her chance to shine in the USA. Bull burst onto the WWF scene as an associate of Luna Vachon, immediately gunning for Alundra Blayze, and together they redefined what women's wrestling was in America. She was unfortunately let go when she was found in possession of cocaine, but imagine a WWF where both Nakano and Blayze stayed through the nineties. Nakano retired from wrestling not long after, in 1997 and has since become very successful as a professional golfer. Her influence on pro wrestling will endure for decades, you only need to look at the WWE Divas Champion, Paige and her PTO submission manoeuvre to see the impact Bull made on a generation of women.
