Japan Grand Prix


The Japan Grand Prix was an annual professional wrestling tournament held by the promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling to determine the number one contender for the promotion's highest achievement, the WWWA World Single Championship. The tournament was held in the summer every year from 1985 to 2004. In 2005, AJW was closed for good, and the WWWA Championship was abandoned.

List of winners

Results

1985

The 1985 Japan Grand Prix was a 10-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 25, 1985.
Wrestler:Points:
Lioness Asuka7.0
Dump Matsumoto6.5
Chigusa Nagayo6.5
Devil Masami6.0
Yukari Omori5.0
Jumbo Hori4.5
Noriyo Tateno3.5
Crane Yu2.5
Itsuki Yamazaki2.0
Bull Nakano1.5

1986

The 1986 Japan Grand Prix was a 12-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 22, 1986.
Wrestler:Points:
Yukari Omori9.0
Lioness Asuka8.5
Chigusa Nagayo8.5
Dump Matsumoto8.5
Bull Nakano6.5
Itsuki Yamazaki6.5
Noriyo Tateno5.5
?4.5
?3.5
?2.5
?2.0
Condor Saito0.5

1987

The 1987 Japan Grand Prix was a 13-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 28, 1987.
Wrestler:Points:
Chigusa Nagayo9.0
Dump Matsumoto9.0
Yumiko Hotta9.0
Lioness Asuka7.5
?7.0
?7.0
?6.5
Devil Masami6.0
Bull Nakano5.0
?4.0
Condor Saito3.0
Hisako Uno2.0
?2.0

1988

The 1988 Japan Grand Prix was an 11-woman round-robin tournament concluding on June 26, 1988.
Wrestler:Points:
Bull Nakano7.5
Yumiko Hotta7.5
Mitsuko Nishiwaki7.5
?6.0
Dynamite Queen6.0
Hisako Uno5.5
Mika Suzuki5.0
Dynamite King4.0
?3.0
?3.0
Dynamite Bar0.0

1989

The 1989 Japan Grand Prix was a 19-woman single-elimination tournament held from June 25 to August 24, 1989.

1990

The 1990 Japan Grand Prix was a seven-woman single-elimination tournament concluding on June 17, 1990.

1991

The 1991 Japan Grand Prix was a 16-woman single-elimination tournament held from July 7 to August 18, 1991.

1992

The 1992 Japan Grand Prix was a round-robin tournament consisting of two 10-woman blocks, held from June 27 to August 30, 1992.

1993

The 1993 Japan Grand Prix was a round-robin tournament consisting of two eight-woman blocks, with the top two finishers from each block advancing to a single-elimination tournament. It was held from May 3 to August 21, 1993.

1994

The 1994 Japan Grand Prix was a 10-woman round-robin tournament held from June 3 to August 28, 1994.
Wrestler:Points:
Yumiko Hotta13
Manami Toyota12
Sakie Hasegawa11
Toshiyo Yamada10
Mima Shimoda10
Takako Inoue10
Etsuko Mita10
Suzuka Minami8
Kaoru Ito6
Tomoko Watanabe0

1995

The 1995 Japan Grand Prix was a 16-woman round-robin tournament, consisting of two eight-woman blocks, concluding on September 3, 1995.

1996

The 1996 Japan Grand Prix was a 12-woman round-robin tournament held from July 14 to August 30, 1996.
Wrestler:Points:
Aja Kong16
Reggie Bennett14
Yumiko Hotta14
Kyoko Inoue14
Mima Shimoda12
Toshiyo Yamada12
Takako Inoue10
Kaoru Ito10
Etsuko Mita8
Tomoko Watanabe8
Mariko Yoshida8
Chaparita Asari4

1997

The 1997 Japan Grand Prix was a 12-woman round-robin tournament concluding on August 10, 1997.
Wrestler:Points:
Kaoru Ito18
Manami Toyota17
Kumiko Maekawa16
Etsuko Mita15
Mima Shimoda15
Tomoko Watanabe15
Rie Tamada10 †
Saya Endo7
Misae Genki5 †
Tanny Mouse4 †
Yoshiko Tamura4 †
Mariko Yoshida2

† These scores are not the actual scores. These wrestlers had one match with the results unknown.

1998

The 1998 Japan Grand Prix was a round-robin tournament consisting of two six-woman blocks, with the top three finishers from the Main League and the top finisher from the Junior League advancing to a single-elimination tournament. It was held from June 14 to August 9, 1998.

1999

The 1999 Japan Grand Prix was a nine-woman round-robin tournament, with the second, third and fourth finishers advancing to a second round-robin. The winner of the second round-robin advanced to face the first-place finisher from the initial round-robin. The tournament was held from June 6 to August 15, 1999.
Wrestler:Points:
Yumiko Hotta11
Manami Toyota9
Kaoru Ito9
Momoe Nakanishi9
Takako Inoue8
Kumiko Maekawa8
Nanae Takahashi7
Tomoko Watanabe6
Miho Wakizawa5

Wrestler:Points:
Manami Toyota4
Kaoru Ito2
Momoe Nakanishi2

ItoNakanishiToyota
ItoIto Toyota
NakanishiIto Nakanishi
Toyota
ToyotaToyota Nakanishi
Toyota

2000

The 2000 Japan Grand Prix was a nine-woman single-elimination tournament held from June 11 to August 20, 2000. Also a six-woman Junior Division round-robin tournament was held.
Main league
21st Century League
Wrestler:Points:
Nanae Takahashi7
Momoe Nakanishi7
Kayoko Haruyama5
Miho Wakizawa5
Kayo Noumi4
Miyuki Fuji2

2001

The 2001 Japan Grand Prix was a 12-woman round-robin tournament held from June 1 to August 17, 2001.
Wrestler:Points:
Momoe Nakanishi16
Kumiko Maekawa16
Kaoru Ito15
Manami Toyota13
Etsuko Mita13
Tomoko Watanabe12
Mima Shimoda12
Yumiko Hotta11
Miho Wakizawa10
Nanae Takahashi10
Kayo Noumi4
Miyuki Fuji0

2002

The 2002 Japan Grand Prix was a nine-woman round-robin tournament held from May 25 to July 9, 2002. The top four finishers advanced to a single-elimination tournament.
Wrestler:Points:
Nanae Takahashi10
Momoe Nakanishi10
Rie Tamada10
Kumiko Maekawa10
Yumiko Hotta9
Tomoko Watanabe9
Kayo Noumi8
Miyuki Gujii4
Kaoru Ito2

2003

The 2003 Japan Grand Prix was a 10-woman single-elimination tournament held from July 20 to August 3, 2003.

2004

The 2004 Japan Grand Prix was a 10-woman single-elimination tournament held on August 1, 2004.