Female Wrestling-Former TNA Knockout Hamada

TNA has always seemed to me to put talent before looks in their female wrestling division, also known as The TNA Knockouts.
Many of their female wrestlers have had years of experience before they even set foot in TNA's octagonal ring.
As opposed to the OTHER wrestling promotion that seems to like to hire swimsuit models to work for them.
Recently TNA acquired Lucha Libre wrestler Sarah Stock (AKA Dark Angel) and renamed her "Sarita".
And now they have acquired another fantastic female wrestler, Ayako Hamada.

Ayako has an extensive wrestling background.
She was born Ayako Valentina Hamada Villareal on February 14th, 1981 in Mexico City Mexico.
Ayako is of mixed Japanese and Mexican descent, her father being legendary wrestler Gran Hamada (the innovator of the Hama–Chan Cutter).
Her older sister Xóchitl Guadalupe Hamada Villarreal is also a wrestler known as Xóchitl Hamada.
(Xóchitl actually had a "hair versus hair" match with Ayako back in 2000 that Ayako won.)
Not only does Ayako have the blood of Gran Hamada in her veins, but she was trained by some of the best wrestlers in the world such as her father, Aja Kong, Mariko Yoshida and Gran Apache.
Ayako's first pro wrestling match was at the age of seventeen for the Japanese wrestling promotion ARISON.
At the age of eighteen, she and Mika Akino won the Twinstar of ARSION tag belts.
Then at the age of twenty, she beat one of her mentors, Aja Kong, for the QUEEN of ARSION title.

She left ARISON in 2001 and moved around working for various Japanese and Mexican promotions such as All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, GAEA Japan, Grupo Internacional Revolucion, NEO Japan, Universal Wrestling Association, World Wrestling Association, Hustle and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA).

Ayako has also held many titles during her career including the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship twice, the Twinstar of ARSION twice (once with with Mika Akino and once with Michiko Omukai), Skyhigh of ARSION and QUEEN of ARSION, the AAAW Singles Championship and the AAAW Tag Team Championship (with with Meiko Satomura), the IWRG Women's Championship, the NEO Japan Tag Team Championship (with Kaoru Itoh), the UWA World Women's Championship and the WWA World Women's Championship.

Ayako also held the P*MIX Tag Team Titles with her father, Gran Hamada. Mixed tag team matches are more common in Japan and Mexico and are not considered "gimmick" matches like they are up here. There are even titles involved with some of them such as the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship.

Ayako has signed on with TNA and they are billing her as just "Hamada".
I'm really interested to see how they handle her there and if they will do anything with her and Awesome Kong, a wrestler she has faced many times in the past.
Since TNA is bringing back the Women's Tag Team division, I'm really hoping to see Hamada and Sarita team up.

After woefully under using Ayako for months (as in not hardly at all), she returned to Japan and requested her release from TNA which was granted on December 6th, 2010.
Ayako then went to work for wrestling promotions here in the States like Shimmer Women Athletes, Jersey All Pro Wrestling and Chikara.

All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
WWWA World Heavyweight Championship (twice)
WWWA World Tag Team Championship (with Nanae Takahashi)

ARSION
Twinstar of ARSION (twice with Mika Akino and Michiko Omukai)
Skyhigh of ARSION
QUEEN of ARSION
P*MIX Grand Prix (with Gran Hamada)

GAEA Japan
AAAW Singles Championship
AAAW Tag Team Championship (with Meiko Satomura)

International Wrestling Revolution Group
IWRG Intercontinental Women's Championship

NEO Japan
NEO Japan Tag Team Championship (with Kaoru Itoh)

Shimmer Women Athletes
Shimmer Tag Team Championship (with Ayumi Kurihara)

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship (with Awesome Kong and Taylor Wilde)

Universal Wrestling Association
UWA World Women's Championship

World Wrestling Association
WWA World Women's Championship