
Keiko Nakano
Born
January 8, 1968 (57 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Saitama, Japan
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). She is an overall one time champion in WWE. After she stopped working for AJW, Nakano traveled to Mexico in June 1992, where she was a finalist in a 12-woman battle royal and later defeated Lola González to become Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's first World Women's Champion. She lost the title to Xóchitl Hamada in March 1993.
She then made her way to the United States and competed for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) once again. Debuting as an associate of Luna Vachon, Nakano competed against the WWF Women's Champion, Alundra Blayze in August 1994 at SummerSlam, but failed to win the title. Nakano eventually defeated Blayze for the title on November 20, 1994 in Tokyo at the Big Egg Wrestling Universe event. Nakano held the title for approximately five months, until losing it back to Blayze on the April 3, 1995 episode of Raw. The WWF had planned on bringing in Bertha Faye to feud with Nakano while Blayze got plastic surgery on her nose and breasts, but Nakano was found in possession of cocaine and quickly fired from the company.
Retirement
Due to injuries, Bull Nakano retired from professional wrestling in 1997. On January 8, 2012, Nakano produced her own professional wrestling event, titled "Empress", which saw her recreate her most famous matches with her old opponents. The event ended with Nakano's official retirement ceremony, though she had not been an active wrestler for several years.
RISE Wrestling (2017)
It was announced at RISE Wrestling's Bellatrix 26/RISE 4 event on September 15, 2017, that Bull Nakano would join the promotion as a facilitator, along with Cheerleader Melissa and Madusa, Nakano's former rival. Nakano turned heel during her appearance at RISE 6 on December 1, when she attacked Melissa during her match against Kikyo, and formed a modified version of her heel faction, Gokumon-To; aligning with Kikyo, Dynamite DiDi, and Kris Wolf. Nakano appeared later in the event as a heel manager for Kris Wolf in her match against Shotzi Blackheart (who had Madusa in her corner), and provided interference that led to Wolf defeating Blackheart.
Known For

WrestleMania XL Saturday
Bull Nakano
2024

WWE Hall of Fame 2024
Bull Nakano
2024

Sukeban World Premiere
Bull Nakano
2023

Stardom Queen's Fest
Commentary
2018

Stardom 7th Anniversary
Commentary
2018

RISE Wrestling. RISE 6 Brutality
Bull Nakano
2017

The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions
Bull Nakano
2012
Bull Nakano Retirement Show
Bull Nakano
2012

WCW Clash of The Champions XXXIII
Bull Nakano
1996

WCW Hog Wild 1996
Bull Nakano
1996

World Wrestling Peace Festival
1996
Jd' Yoshimoto Joshi Puroresu Osaka Pre Debut
Bull Nakano
1995

AJW Destiny
Bull Nakano
1995

NJPW & WCW Collision In Korea
Bull Nakano
1995

WWE Wham, Bam, Bodyslam!
Bull Nakano
1995

AJW Big Egg Wrestling Universe
1994

WWE SummerSlam 1994
Bull Nakano
1994

WWF SummerSlam Spectacular 1994: Sunday Night Slam
Bull Nakano
1994

Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
1993

AJW Dream Slam 1
Bull Nakano
1993

Raw
Bull Nakano · (4 episodes)
1993

The Devils Of The Ring
Bull Nakano
1991

The Best of the WWF: volume 16 Around the World
Bull Nakano
1988