Kaori Yoneyama

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kaori Yoneyama
Occupation	Professional Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Feb 26, 1981(1981-02-26)
Age	43
Birthplace	Zushi
Country	Japan
Birth City	Kanagawa Prefecture
Horoscope	Aquarius

Kaori Yoneyama Biography

Kaori Yoneyama is one of the most popular and richest Professional Wrestler who was born on February 26, 1981 in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Kaori Yaoneyama (Mi Shan Xiang Zhi , Yaoyama Kaori born February 26 1981) is a Japanese professional wrestler now working as a freelancer in the Japanese independent circuit. Yoneyama began her professional career in 1999, working for her company’s JWP Joshi Puroresu promotion. In the years following she was a one-time JWP Openweight Champion as well as a one-time JWP Junior Champion and the 5-time JWP Tag Team Champion, and a 3-time Daily Sports Women’s Tag Team Champion. Some of the titles she’s held beyond JWP include the All JWP’s AJW Championship and AJW Tag Team Championship Ice Ribbon’s International Ribbon Tag Team Championship and NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling’s High Speed Championship. In July of 2011, Yoneyama announced that she would be ending her 12 year career in December. After a tour of retirement, that involved Yoneyama not just across Japan, but also across the Japanese independent circuit as well as into in the United States, she announced during her retirement celebration in the United States that she’d changed her decision and decided to pursue her professional career. In January of 2013, Yoneyama quit JWP to become a freelancerand worked on promotions for companies like Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling, Oz Academy, Union Pro Wrestling and World Wonder Ring Stardom.

On the 10th of July, Yoneyama announced after a match that she was planning to quit professionally wrestling after the conclusion in the current year. The announcement was followed by Yoneyama not being able to challenge Hailey Hatred for the JWP Openweight, TLW World Women’s and IMW Hybrid Fighting Championships on August 7. The Yoneyama retirement tour included appearances at promotions such as Universal Women’s Pro Wrestling Reina, Pro Wrestling Wave, Oz Academy and the Sendai Girls’ Pro Wrestling, and Freedoms. On the 13th of November, Yoneyama and Hatred put their TLW World Women’s Tag Team Championship up with JWP Tag Team as well as Daily Sports Women’s Tag Team Champions Kayoko Haruyama and Tsubasa Kuragaki. Yoneyama and Hatred were able to win the match and be Triple Crown Tag Team Champions. Yoneyama’s retirement trip has also brought her to make her American debut as she participated at Chikara’s JoshiMania weekend as a last-minute replacement for wounded Command Bolshoi. On December 2 , in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Yoneyama joined forces with Hanako Nakamori as well as Tsubasa Kuragaki to beat Archibald Peck, El Hijo del Ice Cream and Ice Cream Jr. in an intergender tag team game. On the following day at Everett, Massachusetts, Yoneyama defeated Nakamori in a singles game. In the third and last day of the tournament at Manhattan, New York, Yoneyama was defeated by Mayumi Ozaki in singles matches. On the 14th of December Yoneyama wrestled in her Ice Ribbon farewell match, in which she took on Hiroyo Matsumoto to a 10-minute drawing timelimit. On the 23rd of December, Yoneyama was defeated by Kayoko Haruyama in her final match. But, in the post- match celebration, Yoneyama stopped a ten-bell salute for her professional career, and announced the fact that she’d changed her mind, and decided that she did not plan to retire at all. The unexpected twist resulted in JWP providing a refund for anyone who was a part of the event, and announcing that wrestlers in the future must sign contracts to ensure that they don’t retire before their retirement matches. They also ended up taking away Queens Revolution of all three of their tag team championships. JWP also offered refunds for tickets to all events , from the announcement of her retirement until her expected retirement match. Yoneyama apologized afterward for breaching her loyal fans and colleagues and stated that she made the decision to quit following the mandible injury, believing that, given her long JWP Openweight Championship reign, she had achieved all that she could within JWP and didn’t want to risk her health for the rest of her life. But, she began to notice a change in her heart, triggered due to her visit into her home in the United States. Yoneyama continued to wrestle for JWP on the 9th of January at the first JWP show of the year.

On April 22, Yoneyama faced Emi Sakura in a special singles match, where the loser would have to join the winner’s promotion. Sakura won the match and, as a result, Yoneyama was forced to join her new Thailand-based Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling promotion. On May 4, Yoneyama and Sakura defeated Command Bolshoi and Rabbit Miu to win the vacant JWP Tag Team and Daily Sports Women’s Tag Team Championships, taking the belts with them to Thailand three days later. Upon joining Gatoh Move, Yoneyama, along with male wrestler Madoka, began helping Sakura train wrestlers for the promotion. Yoneyama and Sakura, now known collectively as the “Tai-Pan Sisters”, returned to JWP on June 17 to make their first successful defense of the JWP Tag Team and Daily Sports Women’s Tag Team Championships against the team of Arisa Nakajima and Manami Katsu. Yoneyama and Sakura made their second successful defense on July 15 against the team of Kazuki and Morii, after which they changed their team name from the Tai-Pan Sisters to “Reset”. On August 19, Reset lost the titles to Arisa Nakajima and Command Bolshoi in their third title defense. On September 9, Yoneyama and Sakura defeated Hanako Nakamori and Morii in a tag team match, after which the two agreed to join Reset to form the “Heart Move Kei Reform” (HMK) stable. On September 14, Yoneyama returned to the United States and Chikara as she, Command Bolshoi and Tsubasa Kuragaki entered the 2012 King of Trios in Easton, Pennsylvania as Team JWP, defeating The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield, Mark Angelosetti and Matt Classic) in their opening match of the tournament. The following day, Team JWP was eliminated from the tournament in the quarter-finals, after losing to F.I.S.T. (Chuck Taylor, Icarus and Johnny Gargano). On the third and final day of the tournament, Yoneyama teamed with Manami Toyota in a tag team match, where they were defeated by Bolshoi and Kuragaki. Back in JWP, the first big match between HMK and the JWP Seikigun (“regular army”) took place on October 7, when Yoneyama, Sakura, Nakamori and Morii defeated Arisa Nakajima, Command Bolshoi, Kayoko Haruyama and Manami Katsu 3–0 in an eight-woman captain’s fall elimination tag team main event, with Yoneyama scoring the deciding pinfall over the JWP Openweight Champion Haruyama. Afterwards, Yoneyama was named the number one contender to Haruyama’s title. On October 21, Yoneyama failed in her title challenge against Haruyama. On November 10, Yoneyama made a special appearance for Pro- Wrestling: EVE in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, teaming with April Davids in a tag team tournament. After defeating The Blossom Twins (Hannah and Holly) in their first round match, Yoneyama and Davids were defeated in the finals of the tournament by Bete Noire and Viper. On December 24 at JWP’s year-end event, Yoneyama was defeated by Command Bolshoi in a singles grudge match. After the match, the two seemingly buried their hatchet. On January 6 at JWP’s first event of 2013, Yoneyama and Morii were defeated in a tag team match by Kazuki and Sachie Abe, with Kazuki pinning Yoneyama for the win. Following the match, Yoneyama thanked the fans in attendance for their support during the past thirteen years and announced that she was resigning from the promotion. She, however, announced that she reveal the actual date of her resignation at a later date. JWP confirmed the upcoming resignation the following day. On January 13, Yoneyama teamed with Sareee in a tag team match, where they were defeated by Arisa Nakajima and Kay Lee Ray. Following the match, Yoneyama announced that she would be wrestling her final JWP match on January 27. On January 27, 2013, Yoneyama wrestled her JWP farewell match, a six-woman tag team match, where she, Hanako Nakamori and Morii were defeated by Arisa Nakajima, Command Bolshoi and Kana, with Nakajima pinning her for the win. Following the event, Yoneyama announced that in the future, she would be working as a freelancer.

On April 27, 2015, Yoneyama made her debut for the newly revived FMW promotion, teaming with Kagetsu in a tag team match, where they were defeated by Miss Mongol and Ray. On December 13, Yoneyama and Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Kagetsu and Kaho Kobayashi to win the Oz Academy Tag Team Championship. On December 22, Yoneyama defeated DJ Nira at Gatoh Move’s year-end show to win the IWA Triple Crown Championship. She lost the title to Riho on June 22,

2016. On September 11, Yoneyama and Kuragaki lost the Oz Academy Tag Team Championship to Hikaru Shida and Syuri. On June 17, 2017, Yoneyama won the Artist of Stardom Championship for the third time, when she, Hiroyo Matsumoto and Jungle Kyona defeated AZM, HZK and Io Shirai for the title. On July 2, Yoneyama and Cherry defeated Yuki Miyazaki and Yumi Ohka to win the Wave Tag Team Championship. They lost the title to Hiroe Nagahama and Kaho Kobayashi in their first defense on August 12. The following day, Yoneyama, Kyona and Matsumoto lost the Artist of Stardom Championship to HZK, Io Shirai and Viper, also in their first defense.

On July 4 on the 4th of July, 2010 Yoneyama lost to Kayoko Haruyama in the final of a tournament to become the top contender for win the JWP Openweight Championship. On the 18th of July, Yoneyama defeated Nanae Takahashi to be the winner of the JWP Openweight Championship for the first time. Afterward, Yoneyama announced that start of the “Yoneyama Revolution”, during which she announced that she would defend the JWP Openweight Championship against any wrestler from any organization. On July 24th, Yoneyama entered the 2010 Natsu Onna Kettei Tag Tournament together with JWP promoter and founder Command Bolshoi The two winning Kayoko Haruyama as well as Tanny Mouse, in the initial round match. On August 15 Yoneyama as well as Bolshoi first beat Dynamite Kansai along with Tsubasa Kuragaki in the semi-finals and later Kagetsu along with Leon at the end of their match to triumph in the Natsu Onna Kettei Tag Tournament. On the 19th of September, Yoneyama defeated former partner Emi Sakura in an JWP Openweight Championship vs. Hair match. As it turned out, Sakura was shaved bald. On the 10th of October, Yoneyama faced American Hailey Hatred in a fight that saw her put the JWP Openweight Championship and Hatred her Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW) Women’s and Totally Lethal Wrestling (TLW) World Women’s Championships in danger. The first bout was two knockouts, Yoneyama and Hatred wrestled another matchthat resulted with a double knockout so both champions were able to keep their titles. On November 22nd, Yoneyama made her debut at Smash at Smash.10 in which she wrestled with Emi Sakura for an unofficial tag team match in which they were defeated by Kana as well as Syuri. Following their match Yoneyama was offered the chance to defend her JWP Openweight Championship against Syuri. On November 30th, Yoneyama and Hailey Hatred together, referred to in the ring as “Queens Revolution”, defeated Cherry Bomb and Sexy Star in an event called Joshi 4 Hope event to be the first TLW World Women’s Tag Team Champions. Yoneyama came back to Smash on the 11th of December at Smash.11 and teamed along with Command Bolshoi to defeat Syuri and Nagisa Nozaki in a tag team battle. On December 24 , at Happening Eve, Yoneyama defeated Syuri in the main event to win her title of JWP Openweight Championship. In January of 2011, Yoneyama brought back the Yoneyamakao Lee character, and under the name the character, began appearing regularly in the event Ice Ribbon. In the following month, Yoneyamakao joined the tag team of Hikari Minami. This led to them unsuccessfully competing against Emi Sakura as well as Ray to an International Ribbon Tag Team Championship within a month. After returning to JWP, Yoneyama and Hatred joined together with Kyoko Kimura as well as Sayaka Obihiro in forming an organization called Yoneyama Kakumei-gun (“Yoneyama Revolutionary Army”). On April 3rd Yoneyama was defeated in his JWP Openweight Championship to Leon in a contest that was also the venue for the NEO High Speed Championship. His reign lasted for 258 days and featured record-breaking ten title defenses, all of which were against JWP outsiders in”The “Yoneyama Revolution”. Afterward, Yoneyama was sidelined for two months due to an injury to his mandible.

Kaori Yoneyama Net Worth

Kaori Yoneyama is one of the richest Professional Wrestler from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kaori Yoneyama 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Yoneyama began her professional wrestling debut with JWP’s Joshi Puroresu promotion the 29th of November 1999, during an encounter against Kayoko Haruyama. During the match, she was injured in the eye that required her to take a short break from her career. When she returned in the early 2000s, Yoneyama continued wrestling for JWP however she also appeared in other promotions like All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling (AJW), Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), Hyper Visual Fighting Arsion, JDStar, International Wrestling Association of Japan, Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling (LLPW) and NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling. Yoneyama was the winner of her first professional championship the 6th of July, 2002 in which she defeated Erika Watanabe in an appearance in the JWP Junior Championship. On the 20th of July, Yoneyama as well as Kayoko Haruyama beat Mika Nishio, and Miyuki Fujii in their place in the AJW Tag Team Championship, that was followed by Yoneyama winning against Fujii during a one-on-one bout on November 29 to take home the AJW Championship. On January 2 2003 Yoneyama was awarded a second title when she defeated Princesa Sandy to win her BJW Women’s World Championship. She won the title on January 2, 2003. AJW Championship reign ended two days later when she was defeated Mika Nishio. One month later, she and Haruyama were removed from title in the AJW Tag Team Championship.

On the 25th of January, 2004, Yoneyama and Haruyama defeated Etsuko Mita and Misae Genki to reach a final of the tournament to win the JWP Tag Team Championship. On August 15th, Yoneyama ended her two-year tenure by winning an exit from the JWP Junior Championship by vacating the title. On December 12 Yoneyama and Haruyama were eliminated from their JWP Tag Team Championship to Akino and Tsubasa Kuragaki. Yoneyama was able to regain his title by beating Akino as well as Kuragaki the 15th of May 2005, this time partnering alongside Toujyuki Leon. On August 7th, Yoneyama won over Tanny Mouse to win the 99th Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion, but soon after, he was stripped of the title and went into the battle royal to decide who would be the 200th Champion. The match ended in a tie, Mouse would regain the title. After a period of 15 months, Yoneyama and Leon lost the JWP Tag Team Championship to Ran Yu-Yu and Toshie Uematsu on 6 August in 2006. Although they continued to run JWP as her main promotional partner, during September, Yoneyama began working regularly with her pal Emi Sakura’s Ice Ribbon promotion. Yoneyama completed the year with taking home the Daily Sports Christmas Cup. On February 28th, 2007, Yoneyama along with Toshie Uematsu took home a one night event to be the top contenders for win the JWP Tag Team Championship. They would not be able to win the title in their final battle with Kazuki as well as Sachie Abe on the 21st of March. In the final quarter of 2007 Yoneyama began to fight between herself and JWP Openweight Champion Azumi Hyuga that resulted in a title fight with the pair on the 9th of December where Hyuga defended her title. On January 9, 2009 Yoneyama presented a different character named Yoneyamakao Lee Yoneyamakao Lee, an Chinese wrestler who was supposedly contracted to the fictitious New Beijing Pro Wrestling (NBPW) promotion. The character appeared primarily for DDT which was the source of the NBPW concept. On the 19th of July, Yoneyama and Emi Sakura defeated Command Bolshoi and Megumi Yabushita in their place in the JWP Tag Team and Daily Sports Women’s Tag Team Championships. On August 2nd, Yoneyama defeated Pro Wrestling Wave representative Yumi Ohka in the finals to take home the 2010 Natsu Onna Kettei Tournament. On September 20th, Yoneyama made an appearance for NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling and defeated NatsukiTaiyo to win an NEO High Speed Championship. On the following morning, Yoneyama and Sakura won another title by beating Minori Makiba as well as Nanae Takahashi to win Ice Ribbon’s International Ribbon Tag Team Championship This meant that, for the first consecutive time during her life Yoneyama was holding multiple championships at the same time. The three years of Yoneyama and Sakura’s reign ended on the 13th of December in which they lost all their titles as tag teams in the hands of Azumi Hyuga as well as Ran Yu-Yu.

On February 3, 2013, Yoneyama made a surprise appearance for the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion, affiliating herself with Nanae Takahashi’s Nanae Gundan stable and challenging Natsuki☆Taiyo to a match for the High Speed Championship. The title match was made official on February 12. The following day, Yoneyama earned the right to name and design Union Pro Wrestling’s women’s title by pinning Cherry in a tag team match, where she and Masako Takanashi defeated Cherry and Mio Shirai. Despite her big sendoff from JWP, Yoneyama continued making appearances for the promotion as a freelancer, making her first appearance just three weeks after her farewell match on February 17, when she teamed with Leon to defeat Hanako Nakamori and Morii in a tag team match. On March 3, Yoneyama failed to capture the High Speed Championship from Natsuki☆Taiyo, when their title match ended in a thirty- minute time limit draw. On March 10, Yoneyama defeated Cherry to become the inaugural Union Fly to Everywhere World Champion. Yoneyama made her first successful defense of the title on April 5 against Nazo Fukumen B. On April 29, Yoneyama took part in World Wonder Ring Stardom’s big Ryōgoku Cinderella event at Ryōgoku Kokugikan, teaming with Hiroyo Matsumoto and Syuri in a six- woman tag team match, where they were defeated by Mika Nagano, Nanae Takahashi and Tsukasa Fujimoto. On May 3, Yoneyama lost the Fly to Everywhere World Championship to Cherry in a three-way elimination match, which also included Nazo Fukumen B. On June 2, Yoneyama defeated Natsuki☆Taiyo in a rematch to win the High Speed Championship for the second time. On June 23, Yoneyama, Kairi Hojo and Yuhi defeated Kimura Monster-gun (Christina Von Eerie, Hailey Hatred and Kyoko Kimura) in a decision match to win the vacant Artist of Stardom Championship. On July 7, Yoneyama made her first successful defense of the High Speed Championship against Mayu Iwatani. Yoneyama, Hojo and Yuhi made their first successful defense of the Artist of Stardom Championship on August 17 against Kawasaki Katsushika Saikyou Densetsu (Act Yasukawa, Natsuki☆Taiyo and Yoshiko). On September 16, Yoneyama produced her own independent event, which saw her team with Emi Sakura in a main event tag team match, where they defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto and “Kotori”. From August 25 to September 23, Yoneyama took part in Stardom’s 5★Star GP2013 tournament, where she finished with a record of two wins and three losses, failing to qualify for the finals. On October 14, Yoneyama, Hojo and Yuhi, now known collectively as “Chibis”, made their second successful defense of the Artist of Stardom Championship against Hiroyo Matsumoto, Mayu Iwatani and Miho Wakizawa. On October 20, Yoneyama and Yuhi entered the 2013 Goddesses of Stardom Tag Tournament, but were eliminated in their first round match by Act Yasukawa and Kyoko Kimura. On November 4 at Stardom’s 100th event, Chibis lost the Artist of Stardom Championship to the Kimura Monster-gun (Alpha Female, The Female Predator “Amazon” and Kyoko Kimura) in their third title defense.

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Kaori Ranked on the list of most popular Professional Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Kaori Yoneyama celebrates birthday on February 26 of every year.