15 Biggest Differences Between WWE And Japanese Wrestling

10. Different Promotions For Different Genders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuLgKfkTFCk On one hand, you could say that WWE has been a champion of gender equality, successfully challenging the ban on women€™s wrestling in 1972, and featuring women prominently on their programming. On the other hand, it is even easier to argue that women€™s wrestling in WWE is the exact opposite, really hurting how women are portrayed on TV. No single moment in WWE history exemplifies this second position better than that infamous promo where Vince McMahon made Trish Stratus bark like a dog. Japan is very different in this regard because they don€™t have men and women on the same shows; in fact, they don€™t even have them wrestle in the same company. All Japan, New Japan, NOAH, Wrestle-1, all the top Japanese companies feature only male wrestlers. Female wrestlers in Japan, called joshi, have their own companies. The two most popular were All Japan Women€™s Pro Wrestling (AJW) and GAEA Japan. Both of them focused exclusively on women€™s wrestling, producing some of the finest wrestling matches of all time. AJW in particular became famous for having some of the most talented joshi in the world, including Kyoko Inoue, Bull Nakano, and Manami Toyota. Unfortunately, this is one area where Japan falters when compared to WWE. AJW lost its TV spot in 2005 and closed its doors after 37 years, and GAEA Japan closed in the same year. From the looks of it, despite the higher quality of matches they produced, it appears that Japanese promotions using women exclusively isn€™t a good business model. So even if women€™s wrestling on the main shows isn€™t as great as it could be, at least the women have a place to work.