Jaguar Yokota

[7.0] "As a trainer, one of the most innovative of all time. As a wrestler....she's good, but calling her great would be a stretch. She's mostly robotic, there and knows what to do, but won't really shock you or make you awe like Hokuto, Nagayo or Matsumoto"

[6.0] "So far, I've only seen matches from the modern era featuring this wrestler. But I think I can rate her. For now, I don't understand her phenomenon or the impact she's had on the industry, so my rating reflects what I've seen. And I've seen the matches, and it's clear that she's not in the form she probably was in during her heyday. I'm not a hater and I don't want to spoil anyone else's fun by rating her on this site. I'm just saying that based on my observations, I'm judging her based on my conscience. I don't rule out the possibility that after seeing some of the better matches from her career, I'll change my rating. Let's love and enjoy wrestling <3"

[10.0] "Can't believe she's going still and holding gold as a senior citizen. She's pulling a Terry Funk but not stopping no matter how old she gets. She also has a habit of dominating and winning for an extended amount of time like John Cena during his "Super Cena" era. Truly an icon not just for Japanese Wrestling, but Women's wrestling in general as well. Rather than having Moolah as the measuring stick (not to take anything away from her), I believe Yokota is the true zenith of women's wrestling."

"The best female wrestler to ever do it and shes still going strong she deserves her flowers and then some."

[10.0] "Not only one of the best wrestlers to ever do it, but quite possibly trained the best trainer of all time just looking at who she mentored in AJW. Innovative, technical, outstanding in ring awareness. They broke the mold with Jaguar and she doesn't get anywhere near enough praise for all she's done for wrestling and especially Joshi Puroresu"

[10.0] "I saw her do an outside-the-ring Rolling Thunder senton at 63 years old. That is enough for me to rate her a 10. Seriously though, it is incredible how Yokota is still wrestling regularly, and her career's pretty much outlived the career's of some 2000s American and Japanese wrestling legends (although that's cus she's retired for most of the 90s). She is in my Top 10 greatest wrestlers in history, not only for her work making AJW's joshi wrestling the biggest wrestling style in the 80s, but also because of her longevity. Long Live the Jaguar."

[10.0] "Easily the greatest wrestler of all time. The most innovative and skilled wrestler to ever grace the ring."

[10.0] "Jaguar Yakota is an absolute legend. A revolutionary performer. One of the greatest female wrestlers and wrestlers in general. The Inventor of Tiger Driver and Jackhammer. 10 out of 10."

[10.0] "Incredibly innovative and influential in-ring psychologist and technical worker who helped train and mentor one of if not the greatest class of wrestlers of all time in Manami, Aja, Akira, Bull, etc."

[10.0] "One of the greatest female wrestlers of all-time. Inventor of the Tiger Driver, Jackhammer and Manami Roll, Yokota helped to push joshi wrestling to the next level. Faster, more intense, more impactful. Mixing strong style and lucha libre before Michinoku Pro would do it. A brilliant technical worker with smooth transitions and brutal looking holds. A great teacher too, the mentor of Megumi Kudo, Aja Kong, Toshiyo Yamada and Double Inoue amongst others. At age 62, she is still a champion in two joshi promotions and showed she can still hang with younger talent even in companies like Stardom. She still has a lot to offer."

[10.0] "People say that Tiger Mask and Dynamite Kid were decades ahead of their time in the early 1980s, but they fail to mention a contemporary of theirs that matched their innovation. Jaguar Yokota invented the Tiger Driver long before Misawa made it big. She was doing the Manami roll before her student Manami Toyota, for whom the move is named after. Her matches against Chigusa Nagayo and Lioness Asuka in the early 1980s were at least a decade ahead of wrestling everywhere else on the planet. As a trainer, she played an important role in developing the greatest cohort of wrestling trainees of all time. One of the greatest wrestlers of the 1980s."

[10.0] "Going by pure wrestling, Jaguar is perhaps the greatest female wrestler of all time. Absolute dynamite in the ring, who took joshi puroresu into the modern era with her high impact, high octane workrate. A super athlete whose legacy paved the way for some all time greats (will get to that in a minute). She was ahead of her time. Classics against Lioness Asuka and La Galactica are some of the must 80s matches. Influences from strong style, lucha libre and technical skills figured into her work. All extremely smooth but vicious. She patented the jackhammer made famous by Goldberg. Her various suplexes are a thing of beauty. Perhaps even bigger than her was that she served as a trainer for countless women who came through the doors of the All Japan Women dojo. The classics we see in the 90s are Yokota's legacy on display. Even after coming out of retirement in the 90s, she hadn't missed a beat. Her wrestling is in fact a blueprint for all joshi that followed her. The Godmother of women's wrestling!"

[10.0] "Without a doubt in the 10 if not 5 best female wrestlers of all time. Created both the Tiger Driver and the Jackhammer, trained some of the best wrestlers and was a huge draw in the 80s."

[10.0] "Unarguably among the best Joshi performers of all time."

[10.0] "In the early and mid 1980s, this woman was one of the best wrestlers in the world, and during a 9 year absence from the ring she trained girls who would go on to create a golden era for Japanese ladies wrestling. A fantastic wrestler in her prime and a fantastic trainer. She also innovated Bill Goldberg's Jackhammer and Mitsuharu Misawa's Tiger Driver '91."