Miyako Matsumoto

Miyako Matsumoto (松本 都) is a Japanese professional wrestler and actress.

She is best known for her work in the Ice Ribbon promotion, where she is a former two-time ICE×60, three-time Triangle Ribbon Champion and a two-time International Ribbon Tag Team Champion, making her the promotion's second Triple Crown Champion.

She also wrestles regularly for Oz Academy and Reina Joshi Puroresu and has also promoted her own shows under the Gake no Fuchi Puroresu banner.

After graduating from Nihon University's College of Art, Matsumoto embarked on a career as an actress, most notably working on the television series Muscle Venus, forming an idol group with fellow cast members Hikaru Shida, Hina Kozuki, Ichiko Mayu, Sachiko Koga, Tomoyo Morihisa, Tsukasa Fujimoto, Yuki Ueda and Yuri Natsume.

In 2008, the Muscle Venus group, excluding Kozuki and Natsume, was cast in a film titled Three Count, set in the world of professional wrestling and also starring veteran professional wrestlers Emi Sakura, Kyoko Inoue and Yoshiko Tamura.

As part of their roles, all members began training professional wrestling under Sakura.

Matsumoto made her debut for Emi Sakura's Ice Ribbon promotion on July 29, 2008, wrestling Yuki Ueda to a three-minute time limit draw.

Though all Muscle Venus members made their debuts around the same time, only Matsumoto, Hikaru Shida and Tsukasa Fujimoto lasted more than six months, making new careers out of professional wrestling.

Matsumoto's wrestling character included her wearing different cosplay outfits, dancing in the middle of matches, intentionally botching spots and other comedic behaviour.

Matsumoto gained her first victory on December 13, defeating Chii Tomiya.

The following month, despite her unimpressive win–loss record, Matsumoto declared herself the "ace" of all professional wrestling, before unsuccessfully challenging Kiyoko Ichiki for Ice Ribbon's top title, the ICE×60 Championship.

The following summer, Matsumoto started a storyline rivalry with International Wrestling Association of Japan manager Haru Miyako, which led to her bringing her associates to face Matsumoto sporadically for the next two years.

On December 31, 2009, Matsumoto made her debut for NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling in a three-way match to determine the "number one Matsumoto".

The match, which also included Dump Matsumoto, was won by Hiroyo Matsumoto; none of the three are related to each other.

On March 21, 2010, Matsumoto won her first championship, when she scored an upset victory over Tsukasa Fujimoto to become the new ICE×60 Champion.

The following day, Matsumoto defeated defending champion Riho and Kazumi Shimouma in a three-way match to also become the new Triangle Ribbon Champion.

After a successful ICE×60 Championship defense against Makoto on March 27, Matsumoto's luck started to change, when she first was defeated in a DDT Pro-Wrestling Extreme Division Championship match by Gentaro on March 31, then lost the ICE×60 Championship to Riho on April 3, and finally also lost the Triangle Ribbon Championship to Nanae Takahashi on April 17.

As Matsumoto was left weeping in the ring, she was approached by deathmatch wrestler Jun Kasai, whom she had earlier surprisingly declared as her favorite wrestler, who then proceeded to suggest that the two should go for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship together.

On May 3, Matsumoto and Kasai, dubbed "385Myankie's", defeated the defending champions Passion Red (Nanae Takahashi and Kazumi Shimouna) and the team of Gentaro and Keita Yano in a three-way hardcore match to win the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship.

With the win, Matsumoto became Ice Ribbon second Triple Crown Champion, after Riho.

Afterwards, Matsumoto began feuding with Chii Tomiya.

On July 19, Matsumoto and Kasai made their first successful title defense against the team of Tomiya and Command Bolshoi.

On August 7, Matsumoto and Kasai lost the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship to Tomiya and Isami Kodaka in their second defense.

On September 23, Matsumoto, Kasai and Jaki Numazawa unsuccessfully challenged The Great Kojika, Mr. #6 and Riho for the DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team, DDT Nihonkai Six-Man Tag Team and UWA World Trios Championships.

As Kasai was not a regular member of Ice Ribbon's roster and only made sporadic appearances for the promotion, Matsumoto went on to join Hikaru Shida, Mochi Miyagi and Tsukasa Fujimoto to form the "Ichinisanshidan" stable.

On November 23, Matsumoto and Shida unsuccessfully challenged Emi Sakura and Nanae Takahashi for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship.

Meanwhile, Matsumoto continued her rivalry with Chii Tomiya, now a member of rival stable Heisei YTR, building to a hardcore match on March 21, 2011, where Matsumoto and Jun Kasai defeated Tomiya and Kazuhiko Ogasawara.

After a losing streak, which included several losses against rookie Maki Narumiya, Matsumoto was defeated on May 11 by Emi Sakura 11–0 in a twenty-minute Iron Man match, which led to Sakura telling her to start improving her game.

This led to Matsumoto challenging ICE×60 Champion Tsukasa Fujimoto to a title match, where she offered to put her Ice Ribbon career on the line.

On May 25, Matsumoto failed in her title match against Fujimoto and, as a result, left Ice Ribbon.

Matsumoto then went on to form her own Gake no Fuchi Puroresu (崖のふちプロレス) promotion.

GakePro's events have featured appearances from Ice Ribbon wrestlers like Emi Sakura, Makoto, and Tsukasa Fujimoto, as well as well known male wrestlers like Great Sasuke, Munenori Sawa, and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi.

On December 3, Matsumoto returned to Ice Ribbon, in storyline being brought back by Ken Ohka to attack his estranged tag team partner Hikari Minami.

The following day, Matsumoto and Ohka defeated Minami and Makoto Oishi in a tag team match.

On December 25 at RibbonMania, the reunited Matsumoto and Jun Kasai were defeated by Danshoku Dino and Makoto Oishi in a three-way tag team match, which also included Hikari Minami and Ken Ohka.

Matsumoto then began chasing the Triangle Ribbon Championship, held by male wrestler Ribbon Takanashi.

On January 4, 2012, Takanashi defeated Matsumoto and Yasu Urano to retain his title.

In another title match on January 25, Matsumoto was pinned by Neko Nitta, who, as a result, became the new Triangle Ribbon Champion.

Afterwards, Matsumoto demanded another shot at the Triangle Ribbon Championship and announced that since Nitta had used her cat-like attributes to defeat her, she was going to bring another animal, "Crazy Monkey" Jun Kasai, as the second challenger for the title match.

On February 5 at Yokohama Ribbon, Matsumoto defeated Nitta and Kasai to win the Triangle Ribbon Championship for the second time.