The Best Moves Ever: Kudome Valentine

I've said it once, and I'll say it again, those Joshi girls are CRAZY. With that craziness though comes a certain degree of innovation, which is needed since in an inherently sexist society like Japan, they're not going to get the credit they deserve without going big rather than going home. It's no surprise that a lot of the big moves known to us as puroresu staples were innovated by women. Tiger Driver '91 was performed for the first time in 1991 not by Mitsuharu Misawa but by Jaguar Yokota. The Burning Hammer was originally Kyoko Inoue's Victoria Driver. And the Vertebreaker? It was originally called the Kudome Valentine and performed by Megumi Kudo, as you'll see here. Brutal stuff:



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