Keiko Nakano
| Bull Nakano | |
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Nakano in August 2011.
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| Birth name | Keiko Nakano |
| Born |
January 8, 1968 Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan |
| Residence | Orlando, Florida, United States |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Bull Nakano Keiko Nakano |
| Billed height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Billed weight | 91 kg (201 lb) |
| Billed from | Kawaguchi, Japan |
| Trained by | All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling |
| Debut | 1983 |
| Retired | 1997 |
Keiko Nakano (born January 8, 1968), better known as Bull Nakano, is a Japanese professional golfer and former professional wrestler. She began competing in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) as a teenager under the ring name Bull Nakano. As a wrestler she was a villain, who often teamed with her mentor Dump Matsumoto. In Japan, she held several of AJW's singles and tag team championships. After being phased out by the company in the early 1990s, she traveled to North America, where she first competed in Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), becoming its first World Women's Champion. In 1994, she made her way to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where she had feuded with Alundra Blayze over the WWF Women's Championship. After holding the title once, she also competed in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In 1998, Nakano began competing as a professional golfer, and in 2006, she joined a tour with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).
Nakano's career as a professional wrestler began in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) organization in Japan when she was 15 years old. After winning the AJW Junior Championship at the age of 16 in 1984, her ring name was changed to Bull Nakano. In July 1985, she won the AJW Championship, which she held for the next three years. Meanwhile, she teamed with Dump Matsumoto—who was also her mentor—as a pair of villains. With Matsumoto as her partner, Nakano won the WWWA World Tag Team Championship in August 1986. Nakano and Matsumoto briefly wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation in 1986 against the team of Velvet McIntyre and Dawn Marie Johnston.
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