WWE: Top 8 Japanese Wrestlers From The Past 30 Years

4. Jumping Bomb Angels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poy4q7zYjMI This might seem like an awfully high ranking for a tag team that had such a short tenure in WWE, but if you€™ve seen any of their matches for the Women€™s Tag Team Championship against the Glamour Girls, you€™d understand why they deserve a spot on this list. Itzuki Yamazaki and Noriyo Tateno spent a decade teaming together and made their biggest impact in WWE in late 1987 €“ when they were the sole survivors of the women€™s Survivor Series match €“ and early 1988 €“ when they captured the tag titles at the inaugural Royal Rumble. Watch any of their matches and your jaw will drop with some of the moves they pull off: enzuigiri, double-underhook suplex, various pinning combinations and submission holds, including the octopus (which AJ Lee uses as the Black Widow). These moves were not commonplace in the late 80s, and you can hear Jesse €˜The Body€™ Ventura expressing genuine amazement and appreciation for their talent in the Survivor Series match. The pace and crispness of their moves is unreal, and when you consider that these matches are over 25 years old, it really blows your mind. WWE Divas today should be required to watch their matches with the Glamour Girls (who were no slouches in the ring either) and take notes.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.