Emiko Kado

Emiko Kado
Birth name Emiko Kado
Born (1976-01-28)January 28, 1976
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Died April 9, 1999(1999-04-09) (aged 23)
Fukuoka, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Emiko Kado
Billed height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Billed weight 61 kg (134 lb)
Debut February 18, 1999

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.

While her wrestling career was brief, Kado's wrestling-related ring death is the second to occur in Japan since the death of female wrestler Plum Mariko who died after receiving a Liger Bomb during a JWP Joshi Puroresu match on August 16, 1997.

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 Futugami. About 22 minutes into the match she suffered a serious injury from a blow to the head, later discovered to be a sprained acute membrane in her brain. Kado was rushed to a hospital in Fukuoka, where she died from intercerebral bleeding on April 9.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Horie, Masanorie; Rob Moore (2001-04-20). "View from the Rising Sun". Rob's Wrrestling World. Retrieved 2012-04-29.

Further reading

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

See also

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