Nanae Takahashi

[Grimmas]

jushin muta liger said:

"One of the most underrated workers in the last twenty years. Has a deep resume of great matches that either people have not discovered or have been dismissed by people who have personal bias against her. Has a big bomb throwing style that people who don't watch joshi would love but made it believable. Always produced quality matches in her ace runs in SUN, JWP, STARDOM and SEAdLINNNG. Great as a single, great as tag worker, even great at intergender matches."

[Jetlag]

Great worker when it comes to killing the joshi scene and getting away with it. She's carryable when in the ring with a good worker, and can be pretty dreadful otherwise. I don't think she would make my Top 100 female wrestlers.

[jushin muta liger]

Obviously, I disagree because I nominated her.

But here a list of recommended matches I wrote up a while ago for Reddit but added some more

7/16/2000 Nanae & Momoe Nakanishi vs LCO (Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita) - AJW

11/23/2000 Nanae, Momoe & Kaoru Ito vs LCO & Kumiko Maekawa (Cage Match) - AJW

2/28/2001 Nanae, Momoe, Ito & Tomoko Watanabe vs LCO, Kumiko Maekawa & Manami Toyota (Elimination Tag) - AJW

4/4/2004 Nanae & Ayako Hamada vs Momoe & AKINO - M's Style

12/12/2004 Nanae vs Ayako Hamada (WWWA Championship) - AJW

3/26/2006 Nanae vs Kumiko Maekawa (WWWA Championship and Maekawa's Retirement Match)

8/23/2009 - Emi Sakura vs. Nanae Takahashi - Ice Ribbon

11/22/2009 Nanae & Kana vs Natsuko Taiyo & Ray - NEO

3/20/2012 Nanae vs Meiko Satomura - STARDOM

1/11/2016 Nanae vs Masato Tanaka - SEAdLINNNG

5/4/2016 Nanae & Emi Sakura vs Best Friends (Arisa Nakajima & Tsukasa Fujimoto) - Ice Ribbon

7/11/2016 Nanae & Yoshiko vs DASH Chisako & Meiko Satomura - SEAdLINNNG

7/24/2016 - Nanae & Yoshiko vs Best Friends (Arisa Nakajima & Tsukasa Fujimoto) - JWP

9/28/2016 Nanae vs Rina Yamashita - SEAdLINNNG

1/26/2017 Nanae vs Arisa Nakajima - SEAdLINNNG

7/14/2017 Nanae & Sareee vs Best Friends - SEAdLINNNG

9/5/2018 Nanae vs Go Shiozaki - SEAdLINNNG

10/3/2019 Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Nanae Takahashi - SEAdLINNNG

5/29/2019 Nanae Takahashi vs. Takumi Iroha - SEAdLINNNG

11/2/2019 Arisa Nakajima vs. Nanae Takahashi - SEAdLINNNG

2/10/2021 Arisa Nakajima & Nanae Takahashi vs. Momo Watanabe & Saya Iida - SEAdLINNNG

3/3/2021 Momo Watanabe vs. Nanae Takahashi - STARDOM

[Grimmas]

On 4/15/2021 at 2:39 AM, Jetlag said:

Great worker when it comes to killing the joshi scene and getting away with it. She's carryable when in the ring with a good worker, and can be pretty dreadful otherwise. I don't think she would make my Top 100 female wrestlers.

How did Nanae kill the joshi scene? Seems like an odd claim.

Whether you like her in ring here is a different topic. I'm not ready to make a big case for her, I've liked what I've seen.  There is a LOT of great female workers, so not top 100 is really not a dig.