Bull Nakano will be taking her rightful place in the WWE Hall of Fame.
ESPN broke the news on Wednesday morning. Nakano is considered to be one of the greatest women’s wrestlers of all time after making her debut in Japan in the ’80s and becoming one of the top draws for All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling.
In the ’90s, she went to Mexico, where she won the CMLL World Women’s Championship in 1992 before having a memorable feud with Alundra Blayze (also known as Madusa) in WWE, where she later won the Women’s Titles at the Tokyo Dome in 1994 on an all-women’s card put on by All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling, a rare WWE title defense in the country.
She later dropped it back to Blazye the following year. She briefly worked for WCW in the 90s. Most notably, she worked the WCW and New Japan Pro-Wrestling co-promoted shows in North Korea that drew the largest crowds in the history of wrestling. She retired in 1997.
This is the second inductee to be revealed for the ceremony that takes place in Philadelphia, the iconic home of ECW, following SmackDown on April 5th at the Wells Fargo Center on WrestleMania weekend.
Triple H picked Paul Heyman to be the first inductee of this year’s class and likely headliner.
