At the 48th slot on the list, Chigusa Nagayo, hailing from Omura, Nagasaki, Japan. While only standing at 5'5 was known for her intimidating demeanor and grit. Nagayo was a trained submission specialist known to leave her opponents writhing in pain. Nagayo began her wrestling journey in 1980 in the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling league (Zenjo) and gained popularity as one-half of The Crush Gals alongside, Lioness Asuka.
Nagayo wrestled from 1980 to 1989 and returned from her early retirement in 1993 and wrestled until 2005. Within that time, Nagayo started her very own highly-successful pro-wrestling promotion company called, the GAEA Women's Professional Wrestling organization (GAEA) and briefly wrestled as under the alter ego Lady Zero. Throughout her wrestling career, Nagayo captured the AJW Junior Championship (2x), All-Pacific Championship (2x), IWA World Women's Championship (2x), WWWA World Single Championship, and WWWA World Tag Team Championship (4x). Nagayo is truly a pioneer for the sport.