Aja Kong, also known as Shishido, is a renowned Japanese professional wrestler, founder of the ARSION all-women professional wrestling promotion, and a multifaceted champion in both singles and tag team divisions. With a storied career spanning decades, she has primarily competed with All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW).
Trained by AJW, Shishido graduated in 1986 as part of the promotion's class, making her debut that summer. She quickly joined Dump Matsumoto's heel stable Gokuaku Domei, alongside classmate and tag team partner Nobuko Kimura. After the stable disbanded in 1988 due to Matsumoto's retirement, Shishido and Kimura reformed as Jungle Jack in 1990.
As Aja Kong and Bison Kimura, they engaged in a two-year feud against their former allies Bull Nakano and her heel stable Gokumon-to. During this period, they won the WWWA World Tag Team Championship twice and participated in several memorable matches. The most notable of these was a hair versus hair match on January 11, 1991, which resulted in both women being shaved bald.
Kong also pursued Nakano for the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship during the early 1990s, ultimately achieving her goal on November 15, 1992, ending Nakano's three-year reign.
Kong made a notable wrestling appearance in the United States, participating in a women's elimination match at the World Wrestling Federation's Survivor Series 1995, pinning all four members of her opposing team, including WWF Women's Champion Alundra Blayze. She also appeared on two episodes of Monday Night Raw, winning both bouts, including one brutal match where she broke the nose of Chaparita Asari.
Kong was being built up as a challenger for the WWF Women's Championship, which was held by Alundra Blayze at the time. She was scheduled to face Blayze at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view in 1996, but Blayze was fired before the match could occur.
Presently, Aja Kong wrestles for Mayumi Ozaki's promotion, Oz Academy, where she has previously held the championship title and currently leads the Jungle Jack 21 stable, which includes AKINO and Tomoka Nakagawa.
In December 2011, Kong took part in American promotion Chikara's JoshiMania weekend, losing to Sara Del Rey in the main event of night one on December 2. The following day, Kong defeated Ayako Hamada in the main event. On the third and final night of the tour, Kong teamed with Mio Shirai and Tsubasa Kuragaki to defeat Hanako Nakamori, Manami Toyota, and Sawako Shimono in a six-woman tag team match.
In her personal life, Shishido is half Japanese and half African-American, with her father having served in the US military.
