Blayze would have her work cut out for her to retain her title. Going into the match, Blayze knew she had Nakano’s size, technical skill, and ruthlessness to deal with, along with Vachon in Nakano’s corner, ready to cause trouble. Flashforward to this feud and Nakano’s WWF return was as an AJW legend and like her opponent, she was a maker of women’s wrestling history, having been the first World Women’s Champion of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) just two years prior.
Nakano then showed up in WWF early in her career as one-half of The Devils of Japan with her mentor Dump Matsumoto. She’d started wrestling there at age 15 and won her first championship the next year. Like Blayze, Nakano had a history in AJW. And she didn’t just look intimidating: She had submission wrestling expertise on her side and over two hundred pounds that she knew how to use to dominate smaller opponents. Nakano was confident and imposing with her towering dyed mohawk and frightening makeup. Her challenger, Bull Nakano, was brought over by Luna Vachon to defeat her longtime rival when she hadn’t been able to get the job done herself. She won her belt in a tournament, defeating six other women to become the first holder of the reinstated title. She had been the first non-Japanese wrestler to work for the notoriously hardcore All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling (AJW) and had been chosen to revitalize the WWF women’s division in the mid-nineties. The Feudīlayze had a level of skill, athleticism, and hardworking attitude that befitted a defending champion.
Alundra Blayze and Bull Nakano’s yearlong feud would make this title feel important and their match at SummerSlam would go down in history as a bonafide classic. On August 29, 1994, two women from opposite sides of the world entered the ring in Chicago’s United Center, ready to fight for the same prize: the WWF Women’s Championship. ’s Classic Match series takes a closer look at significant and super cool matches from wrestling history.
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