Miyū Yamamoto

Miyu Yamamoto's record makes me think the sport arrived late, not her. She was a three-time freestyle wrestling world champion back when women's wrestling had no Olympic event to aim at, so the biggest prize simply did not exist for her generation. That alone would be a full career. Instead she walked into mixed martial arts past forty and fought her way to a Rizin super atomweight title shot, as a mother, inside a family where fighting is the trade. People call it good genes. I think that undersells the sheer volume of work she chose to keep doing.

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Name (English)

Miyū Yamamoto

Name (Japanese)

山本美憂

Reading

やまもと みゆう

Born

August 4, 1974 (age 52)

Origin

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

156 cm

Occupation

amateur wrestler / mixed martial arts fighter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyuu%20Yamamoto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E7%BE%8E%E6%86%82
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11469295

Tags

• Kanagawa Prefecture
• amateur wrestler
• mixed martial arts fighter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.