Mayumi Ozaki

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Mayumi Ozaki
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Ring name(s)	Mayumi Ozaki Pure Wild Queen Of The Street Fight
Billed height	156cm (5'3")
Billed weight	54kg (119lbs)
Born	October 28, 1968
Debut	August 17, 1986 with Esther Moreno Vs. Maiko Tsurugi & Reina Gallegos

Mayumi Ozaki(尾崎魔弓) is a Japanese female professional wrestler.

1 Career
2 Finishing/Signature Moves
3 Championships and accomplishments
- 3.1 Wrestling Observer Newsletter

[edit] Career

Mayumi Ozaki is quite probably the most underrated worker in women's puroresu. Neither a "monster" like Nakano or Kong nor a highspot artist like Toyota, Ozaki merely manages to find herself in one great match after another against a wide variety of competitors, as well as training younger wrestlers.

Ozaki debuted in a tag match in August, 1986. In her career, she had held the WWWA tag titles with Dynamite Kansai from April 11, 1993 to December 6, 1993 (both winning from and losing to Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW). She also held the UWA Junior and JWP Junior titles in the time period between 1988 and 1991, and teamed with Cuty Suzuki and Hikari Fukuoka to win the JWP Tag Titles a number of times between 1992 and 1995. Most recently, she held the AAAW Tag title with Aja Kong, beating GAEA's Sugar Sato and Chikayo Nagashima on August 23, 1998 in Tokyo.

Until recently, Ms. Ozaki usually wrestled in JWP (Japan Women's Project), but was also the leader of her own heelish "group" called the Oz Academy, which free-lanced among other various women's promotions in Japan such as AJW and GAEA. Ozaki has now become a true free agent and begun to promote her own shows using her Oz Academy wrestlers, looking for a niche among the fragmented women's puroresu scene, as of 1998.

Oz is terrific in setting up and working with the psychology of a match. She can work any style from mat wrestling to "street fighting," can look credible in dominating larger wrestlers such as former partner Dynamite Kansai, and her speciality is settling down young or erratic workers and making a match flow smoothly. Her own moves are crisp, intense, with no wasted motion; and every movement has meaning.

From the toss of her hair to the combination half-nelson/hammerlock suplex that she calls the Tequila Sunrise and uses as a finishing move nowadays, her work as a wrestler is pure-- pure lines, "pure wild", and pure Oz.