Sunday, March 11, 2012

Women's Wrestling: Aja Kong


Real name: Erika Shishido
Billed height: 5'5"
Billed weight: 220 lbs.
Born: September 25, 1970
Billed from: Tokyo, Japan
Trained by: Jaguar Yokota
Debut: September 16, 1986
Finishing Move: Urken
Favorite Moves: Northern Lights Superplex, Powerbomb, Brainbuster, Backdrop Suplex,
Notable Feuds: Bull Nakano

Shishido was trained by All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling and made her debut in the summer of 1986.  She immediately joined the Atrocious Alliance, a heel stable which included wrestlers Dump Matsumoto and Nobuko Kimura.  After Matsumoto retired, the group dissolved and Shishido and Kimura went their separate ways only to reunite in 1990 as Jungle Jack.  They now went by the ring names Aja Kong and Bison Kimura and they got into a two-year feud with Bull Nakano and her heel stable Gokumon-to.  During this time, Jungle Jack won the World Women's Wrestling Association World Tag Team Championship twice and took part in some very memorable matches.  Their most famous one was a hair vs. hair match on January 11, 1991.  Jungle Jack lost this match and had to have their heads shaved.  Kong challenged Nakano for the World Women's Wrestling Association World Tag Team Championship several times during the early '90s and failed repeatedly until November 15, 1992 when she won it, thus ending Nakano's three year title reign.

Kong then signed on with the World Wrestling Federation and was the sole survivor of a women's elimination match at Survivor Series 1995, pinning 4 members of the opposing team, including then-WWF Women's Champion, Alundra Blayze.  Kong appeared in two episodes of Monday Night Raw, winning both matches.  One of those matches was a vicious bout where she broke the nose of Chaparita Asari.  Kong was being built up as a challenger for the WWF Women's Championship, which was held by Alundra Blayze.  Kong and Blayze were set to go at it at the Royal Rumble in 1996 but Blayze was fired before this could happen.  Kong also left.

In 1997, Kong left the AJW and started her own independent promotion called Hyper Visual Fighting ARSION (simply known as ARSION).  She led the organization until February 12, 2001 when she announced on television that she was quitting and walked out of a tag team match.  She continues to wrestle for various independent promotions in Japan.  She recently formed a tag team match with Double Kong (Awesome Kong/Amazing Kong/Kharma) and held tag team championships in AJW, GAEA, and Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling (Japanese women's promotions).  On June 6, 2006, the team wrestled as Erika and Margaret against Wataru Sakata and Ryoji Sai and won the HUSTLE Super Tag Team Championship.  They lost the titles to the American tag team Bubba Ray and Devon in a three-way match which also included the team of Sodom and Gamora.  The match took place on October 9, 2006.  Currently, Aja is wrestling for Oz Academy, where she has held the championship title and currently leads the Jungle Jack 21 stable, which includes AKINO and Tomoka Nakagawa.  In December 2011, Aja participated in Chikara's JoshiMania where she lost to Sara Del Rey in the first night's main event on December 2nd.  The next day, Aja defeated Ayako Hamada in the main event and got together with Mio Shirai and Tsubasa Kuragaki to defeat Hanako Nakamori, Manami Toyota and Sawako Shimono in a six woman tag team match on the third and final night of the JoshiMania tour.

Here is a video of Aja Kong wrestling against Awesome Kong:

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