Wrestling Girls Fight 1

Women’s amateur wrestling and
Women’s professional wrestling

In Japan, professional wrestling done by female wrestlers is called joshi puroresu (女子プロレス?) or joshi puro for short. Female wrestling is usually handled by promotions that specialize in joshi puroresu, rather than divisions of otherwise male-dominated promotions as is the case in the United States (the only exception was FMW, a men’s promotion which had a small women’s division, but even then depended on talent from women’s federations to provide competition). However, joshi puroresu promotions usually have agreements with male puroresu promotions such that they recognize each other’s titles as legitimate, and may share cards.