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| Born | Masami Yoshida (1962-01-07)January 7, 1962 (age 64) Kitakyushu, Japan[1] |
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| Ring name(s) | Devil Masami Madama Devil Shizuka Minami Super Heel Devil Masami |
| Billed height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Billed weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Trained by | AJW Dojo |
| Debut | August 21, 1978 |
| Retired | December 30, 2008 |
Masami Yoshida (吉田 雅美，born January 7, 1962) is a retired Japaneseprofessional wrestler best known for her appearances inAll Japan Women's Pro Wrestling,GAEA Japan andJWP Joshi Puroresu under the nameDevil Masami. She is a member of the All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame, being inducted in 1998.
Masami debuted on August 21, 1978.
She began teaming with Tarantula in 1981, winning theWWWA World Tag Team Championship on August 10, 1982 and vacating the title shortly thereafter in early 1983. On April 1, 1984, she defeatedJudy Martin to win the vacatedAll Pacific Championship. Masami vacated on December 12, 1985 after winning the vacatedWWWA World Single Championship in a match againstDump Matsumoto. She held that title until August 23, 1986, losing it to Yukari Omori. On December 26, 1987, Masami facedChigusa Nagayo in her mandatory retirement match upon reaching the age of 25.[2] Masami would continue wrestling as a freelancer shortly after her retirement, wrestling forJapan Women's Pro-Wrestling andJWP.
She then came out of retirement and began working forGAEA Japan in 1995. On November 2, 1996 in Singapore,Chigusa Nagayo defeated Masami in a match to crown the firstAAAW Single Champion. Masami, however, defeated Nagayo for the title on November 20, 1997, holding it until August 23, 1998, when Nagayo defeated her to regain the title.
On September 20, 1997 inKawasaki, Japan, she defeated Zero (Chigusa Nagayo) forWorld Championship Wrestling's vacantWCW Women's Championship. The title, however, was abandoned after GAEA and WCW ceased their working relationship.
On February 11, 2003 she teamed withAja Kong to defeat the team ofMeiko Satomura andAyako Hamada for theAAAW Tag Team Championship. They held the title until they were defeated byChikayo Nagashima andMeiko Satomura on September 23 of that year.
Masami wrestled in the main event of AJW's final card on April 17, 2005, teaming up withAmazing Kong to defeatKyoko Inoue andMisae Genki.
Masami announced in 2007 that she would retire from wrestling in 2008 after thirty years in the business. Her retirement match was on December 30, 2008 where she teamed up withDynamite Kansai andCarlos Amano to lose to Aja Kong,Toshie Uematsu, andRan Yu-Yu, when Uematsu pinned Masami with a Dragon Suplex.
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