10 pro-wrestlers who’ve had the most matches outside WWE

#8 Manami Toyota - 2,264

This woman was once voted the best wrestler in the

world,

and for good reason

Widely considered the greatest women’s wrestler of all time, Manami Toyota was one of the true pioneers of women’s wrestling. Her in-ring career spanned a whopping thirty years, and she reached her peak almost immediately.

She wrestled over 2,200 matches during her career, including one show in 2010 on which she wrestled all five matches. Her prime work was between 1989 and 1996, where and her co-workers in All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling (AJW) put on some of the most legendary wrestling clinics ever seen.

She was so far ahead of her time that she was voted the Wrestling Observer Newsletter’s Most Outstanding Wrestler in 1995, becoming the only woman to ever do so. In fact, she even kept wrestling for AJW beyond that promotion’s then-mandatory retirement age of 25, which is even further testament to how great of a wrestler she was.