[1][2][3] Wrestling Journalist and historian Dave Meltzer has stated that in the 1980s, the Crush Gals reached a level of popularity in Japan equatable to Hulk Hogan in the United States in the same period,[3] and thereafter Chigusa Nagayo was the most popular woman in wrestling for an extended period until her first retirement in 1989.

[citation needed] The Crush Gals then wrestled to another 60-minute draw against Jaguar Yokota and Devil Masami in June to a crowd of 5,000 fans.

[4] The Crush Gals released their first music single on August 21, called Bible of Fire, eventually selling over 100,000 copies.

[4] On August 25, the Crush Gals finally defeated their rivals, the Dynamite Girls, to capture the WWWA World Tag Team Championship.

[citation needed] On February 25, 1985, Matsumoto and Crane Yu defeated the Crush Gals for the WWWA World Tag Team Championship.

[citation needed] On March 20, 1986, the Crush Gals re-captured the WWWA World Tag Team Championship from The Jumping Bomb Angels, who had won the vacated belts.

[citation needed] The rematch was held on November 7, with Nagayo gaining revenge and cutting Matsumoto's hair.

[citation needed] On February 25, 1988, two of Nagayo's main rivals, Dump Matsumoto and Yukari Omori retired.

[citation needed] To mark this occasion, Nagayo and Lioness Asuka teamed up to take on the oddball pairing of Dump Matsumoto and Yukari Omori.

[citation needed] On March 4, 1989, the Crush Gals won the WWWA Tag Titles for the last time from The Calgary Typhoons of Yumi Ogura and Mika Komatsu.

[citation needed] In Nagayo's retirement match, she teamed with Lioness Asuka against Mitsuko Nishiwaki and Akira Hokuto.

[citation needed] Nagayo returned from retirement at All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling Dream Slam 1 on April 2, 1993, losing to Devil Masami.

After the departure of then champion Akira Hokuto, she would appear on the September 20, 1997 edition of WCW Japan competing for the vacant title, though she would be defeated by Devil Masami.

Nagayo retired a week later after losing to her protégée, Meiko Satomura in the main event of GAEA's Eternal Last Gong Show, the promotion's farewell card.

[13] Having spent five years being mostly inactive, Nagayo returned to the ring in late 2013 to participate in a storyline at Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling, where she took Meiko Satomura trainee Kagetsu under her wing.

[14] On December 11, 2013, Nagayo announced that she would return to the ring at her self-produced event on March 22, 2014, when she would face Dump Matsumoto in a six-woman tag team match.

At the end of the event, Nagayo announced she was planning on starting her own promotion named Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling.

[18] On September 12, Nagayo and Atsushi Onita defeated Dump Matsumoto and Taru to become the inaugural Bakuha-ō ("Blast King") Tag Team Champions.

In March 2024 Nagayo announced she would be once again retiring from active in-ring wrestling following a retirement match that pitted Nagayo, Queen Aminata & Takumi Iroha against Masha Slamovich, Mio Momono & Sandra Moone for San Francisco-based wrestling promotion West Coast Pro.