Chigusa Nagayo
Wrestler
Japanese wrestler best known as a member of the tag team The Crush Gals, she was a founder of GAEA Women's Professional Wrestling.
She formed the Crush Gals in the early 1980's.
She formed GAEA due to All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling league's policy of mandatory retirement at age 26 for female wrestlers.
She had to keep her wrestling interests a secret from her disapproving parents.
She and Joan Laurer, a.k.a. Chyna, both wrestled in Japan.