At the tender age of just 16-year-old, Manami Toyota began her professional wrestling debut in the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling league(AJW) in 1987. And since that day on, she's been a force to be reckoned with. Her ability to sprint towards the ropes, balance on the top rope, and flip off of the rope towards her opponent is one of the most daring moves executed in all of wrestling. Toyota has all the tools that any organization would want in a wrestler, agility, strength, finesse, poise, and beauty. Not to mention one of the most intriguing finishers in the Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex.
The Masuda, Shimane, Japan-bred wrestler recently retired in November 2017 at the age of 46-years-old. Toyota is a proud member of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame and has a long list of accolades that are amongst the best not in just amongst women, but all wrestlers in general. Manami Toyota is a 4x Japan Grand Prix winner, a one-time AJW Champion, 2x All-Pacific Champion, one-time IWA World Women's Champion, 4x WWWA World Single Championship and 3x WWWA World Tag Team Champion alongside Toshiyo Yamada twice and Mima Shimoda once.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.