10 best retired wrestlers you have never heard of

#6 Bull Nakano

Even in the wacky days of 1990s WWF, Nakano was a force to be feared.

Bull Nakano was one of the most influential women ever to step foot in a WWE ring. During the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, Nakano was a major influence on women’s wrestling.

She was lucky enough to spend several years wrestling for All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling (AJW), which was the same promotion that launched the careers of such legendary wrestlers as Kyoko Inoue, Aja Kong and Manami Toyota.

After making a big impression over there – and winning the WWWA World Championship and holding it for three years – Nakano came to the U.S., where she feuded extensively with Alundra Blayze/Madusa in both WWE and WCW.

Their matches together were some of the best women’s matches of the early 1990s and would’ve had a much greater influence had WWE not abandoned that approach to women’s wrestling in favour of the direction they chose in the Attitude Era.