13 Wrestlers Who Died In The Ring
5. Plum Mariko
As we have previously established, Japanese womens’ wrestling is hard. Very hard. The wrestling style is very physical, with lots of hard hitting moves executed in every match. The ring is also very hard, as you can see in the above video. There is nowhere near as much give in their rings as in a western wrestling ring.
Plum Mariko was an original member of JWP, the Japanese Womens’ Pro-Wrestling promotion and made her debut aged 18 at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall. Mariko herself was a renowned submission based wrestler who competed in a ‘shoot style’ (similar to Gary Albright’s style in UWFI), who invented the very painful looking ‘Stretch Plum’ submission manoeuvre. The weekend of August 15th-17th 1997 was earmarked as a sad occasion already, due to the retirement that weekend of Candy Okutsu, who was retiring before her time due to a persistent bad problem.
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