Mima Shimoda | |
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Born |
Tokyo, Japan |
December 23, 1970
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Mima-chan Mima Shimoda |
Billed height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) |
Billed weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
Trained by | Akira Hokuto |
Debut | August 5, 1987 |
Mima Shimoda (下田 美馬 Shimoda Mima?, born on December 23, 1970 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese female professional wrestler, who is working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Japanese promotion World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana.
Shimoda trained in the All Japan Women's Dojo and was part of the "class of 1987" along with Manami Toyota, Toshiyo Yamada and Etsuko Mita. Shimoda was paired up with Toyota to form a tag team called The Sweethearts. She would later turn heel (wrestlers who portray the "bad guy" characters) and join her trainer Akira Hokuto's Las Cachorras Orientales and become a regular tag team with Etsuko Mita. Over the years Shimoda and Mita won a number of tag team titles. In 2006 Shimoda moved to Mexico and began working regularly for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as well as making frequent trips to Japan to work with a number of Japanese women's promotions, often touring with other CMLL wrestlers.