Momoe Nakanishi
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Nakanishi during her Ice Ribbon exhibition match in March 2011
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| Birth name | Momoe Nakanishi |
| Born |
July 7, 1980 Fujiidera, Osaka |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Momo☆ Momoe Nakanishi Momoe Oe |
| Billed height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) |
| Billed weight | 60 kg (130 lb) |
| Trained by |
All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Masanobu Kurisu |
| Debut | July 14, 1996 |
| Retired | January 7, 2005 |
Momoe Oe (大江 百重 Ōe Momoe?, born July 7, 1980) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler, better known by her maiden name, Momoe Nakanishi (中西 百重 Nakanishi Momoe?) Nakanishi made her debut for the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) in July 1996 at the age of sixteen and during the next seven years, won all of the promotion's top titles, including the WWWA World Championship and the WWWA World Tag Team Championship. In 2003, Nakanishi quit AJW to become a freelancer and went on to win the AtoZ World Championship later that same year and the NEO Single and NWA Women's Pacific Championships in 2004. Nakanishi retired from professional wrestling on January 7, 2005, at the age of just twenty-four. She now works as a trainer at the U.W.F. Snakepit gym.
After graduating from junior high school in 1996, Nakanishi, with a sports background in gymnastics, joined the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) promotion for a career in professional wrestling. She made her in-ring debut later that same year on July 14 at the age of sixteen, facing fellow debutant Nanae Takahashi at an event in Tokyo's Korakuen Hall. For the first months of her career, Nakanishi worked exclusively with other AJW rookies, winning her first title, the AJW Junior Championship on March 23, 1997. During the summer of 1997, Nakanishi was finally given her chance to break out, after several AJW veterans had quit the promotion, and despite her inexperience and small stature, began being recognized as one of the top workers in the promotion. Her breakout match took place on October 18, when she and Kumiko Maekawa faced Las Cachorras Orientales (Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda) in Yokohama. Maekawa's regular tag team partner Tomoko Watanabe was unable to attend the event and had to be replaced by Nakanishi. Though Nakanishi was pinned by Shimoda for the win, her performance was praised, with Chris Zavisa of the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter writing "[she] turned in a performance worthy of a five-year veteran ranked among the world's ten best workers" and "she has more talent than any new prospect this decade". Nakanishi finished off her 1997 by teaming with Nanae Takahashi to win the AJW Tag Team Championship on November 23 and finally winning the AJW Championship on December 12. At the end of her second year in professional wrestling, AJW named Nakanishi the promotion's MVP of 1997. The following year, Nakanishi won both the AJW Championship and AJW Tag Team Championship once more, before defeating Chaparita Asari on July 11, 1999, for her first World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA) title, the World Super Lightweight Championship.
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