Emiko Kado

Emiko Kado (門 恵美子, Kado Emiko); January 28, 1976 – April 9, 1999) was a Japanese female professional wrestler. She died after a wrestling injury, only months into her professional career.

Emiko Kado
Born(1976-01-28)January 28, 1976
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
DiedApril 9, 1999(1999-04-09) (aged 23)
Fukuoka, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Emiko Kado
Billed height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Billed weight61 kg (134 lb)
DebutFebruary 18, 1999

Kado's wrestling-related ring death was the second to occur in Japan. (The first was fellow joshi wrestler Plum Mariko.)

Career

Kado had her first match in February, 1999 at the ARSION First Anniversary Show at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall in front of 1550 people, losing to Aja Kong. Kado went on to wrestle fourteen more matches in her short career, losing every one. In her last match, on March 31, 1999, she teamed up with Michiko Omukai to face the team of Mariko Yoshida and Mikiko Futagami. About 22 minutes into the match she suffered a serious injury from a blow to the head. Kado was rushed to a hospital in Fukuoka, where she died from intracerebral bleeding on April 9.[1][2][3][4]

See also

References
  1. Horie, Masanorie; Rob Moore (2001-04-20). "View from the Rising Sun". Rob's Wrrestling World. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
  2. Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Wrestling Observer Newsletter. July 2004.
  3. Shoemaker, David (2013-10-31). The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-101-60974-3.
  4. Muchnick, Irv (2010-11-16). Wrestling Babylon: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55490-286-6.

Further reading
  • Muchnick, Irvin. Wrestling Babylon: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal. Toronto: ECW Press, 1997. ISBN 1-55022-761-0
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