| Misae Genki | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1973-02-14)February 14, 1973 (age 52)[1] Iruma, Japan |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Giant Bolshoi G. Warrior Misae-chan Misae Genki Misae Moe Moe Misae Watanabe |
| Billed height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[2] |
| Billed weight | 83 kg (183 lb) |
| Debut | 1994 |
| Retired | 2008 |
Misae Watanabe (渡辺みさえ,Watanabe Misae) better known by herring nameMisae Genki is a Japanese retiredprofessional wrestler best known for her tenure with the JapanesepromotionsNEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling,All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling andJWP Joshi Puroresu.[3]
Watanabe is known for competing in various promotions from theJapanese independent scene. She competed in two of the earliest events promoted byIce Ribbon, both held on September 9, 2006, respective theIce Ribbon The Fifth Ice Ribbon Part 2 and 3, where she first teamed up withCherry to defeatAoi Kizuki andKaori Yoneyama,[4] and secondly withAyako Sato to defeat Kizuki andRay.[5] AtOz Academy Wizard on April 1, 2007, she teamed up withYuki Miyazaki in a losing effort againstChikayo Nagashima andDynamite Kansai.[6] She also took part in independent events such asJaguar Yokota's 30th Anniversary Convention from March 11, 2007, where she competed in a32-person battle royal won byDevil Masami and also involving popular wrestlers from the 1980s and 1990s likeAkino,Carlos Amano,Gami,Mayumi Ozaki,Sachie Abe,Toshie Uematsu,Yumiko Hotta and many others.[7]
Watanabe also competed in JWP. Her most notable works mainly focused on title matches, such as the one fromJWP Climax 2008 on December 28, where she teamed up with Keiko Aono to unsuccessfully challenge Ran Yu-Yu and Toshie Uematsu for both theJWP Tag Team Championship and theDaily Sports Women's Tag Team Championship.[8]
Watanabe made herprofessional wrestling debut inAll Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling atAJW Japan Grand Prix '94 on August 28, 1994, where she teamed up with Kumiko Maekawa and faced Rie Tamada andYoko Takahashi.[9]
During her eleven-year tenure with the promotion, Watanabe competed in various of the promotion's signarute events. As for theTag League the Best, she made her first appearance at the 2001 edition where she teamed up with Kumiko Maekawa and scored a total of five points after going against the teams ofManami Toyota andYumiko Hotta,Kaoru Ito andMomoe Nakanishi, Las Cachorras Orientales (Etsuko Mita andMima Shimoda), Kiss no Sekai (Kayo Noumi andMiho Wakizawa) andNanae Takahashi and Tomoko Watanabe.[10] At the 2002 edition she teamed up with Maekawa again, scoring a total of seven points after competing against Kiss no Sekai (Kayo Noumi and Momoe Nakanishi),Takako Inoue and Tomoko Watanabe, Las Cachorras Orientales (Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda), Fang Suzuki and Nanae Takahashi,Mariko Yoshida and Yumiko Hotta,Megumi Yabushita andSumie Sakai, and Mika Nishio and Miyuki Fujii.[11]
Anothee event in which she took part was theJapan Grand Prix, the promotion's greatest yearly tournament, in which she made her first appearance at the 1997 edition where she scored a total of five known points against Kaoru Ito, Manami Toyota, Kumiko Maekawa, Etsuko Mita, Mima Shimoda,Tomoko Watanabe, Rie Tamada, Saya Endo, Tanny Mouse, Yoshiko Tamura and Mariko Yoshida.[12] Her last appearance took place at the 2004 edition where she defeated Nanae Takahashi in the first rounds but fell short to Hikaru in the second ones.[12]
