10 best Japanese wrestlers who were wasted in the US

#6 Chigusa Nagayo

One half of the greatest women's wrestling tag team ever

Chigusa Nagayo is one half of the most popular women’s tag team of all time, The Crush Gals. Throughout the 1980s, Nagayo and her partner Lioness Asuka were pop culture icons and brought in ratings over 12.0 on a regular basis in their native Japan.

Nagayo wrestled for AJW (All Japan Women’s Pro-Wresting) until she reached their mandatory retirement age of 26. After that, she wrestled all over the world, including in the United States in WCW.

Unfortunately, WCW didn’t know how to use a wrestler of her calibre, and thus only limited her to a handful of matches against the likes of Akira Hokuto and Madusa. Because of this lack of faith in her, American audiences didn’t get the chance to see one of the greatest women’s wrestlers of all time perform in front of them. Had WCW given her more chances, it’s likely that WCW could’ve actually developed their own women’s division properly.