Japan and Mexico (1998–2008) Ayako Hamada debuted at the age of seventeen against Candy Okutsu on August 9, 1998, for the Japanese
Arsion promotion. Hamada was a regular for
AAA in Mexico for most of 2007 and 2008. On November 30, 2007, she and
Mr. Niebla were involved in four-way mixed tag team match with
Billy Boy and
Faby Apache,
Espiritu and
La Diabólica and Gran and
Mari Apache for the vacant
World Mixed Tag Team Championship. In November 2008, she left the promotion to join
Martha Villalobos's wrestling school, where she worked as a trainer.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2009–2010) in TNA in 2009 On April 8, 2009, it was announced at a press conference that the April 19 Ito Dojo show would be Hamada's final match in Japan as she had signed with
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. On August 6, 2009,
Jeremy Borash announced on his
Twitter page that Hamada would be starting with the company after the
Hard Justice pay-per-view. On the August 27 edition of
Impact!, Hamada made her debut as a
face, defeating
Daffney in a
No Disqualification match. The following week on
Impact! she and
Sojo Bolt were eliminated in the first round of the
Knockouts Tag Team Championship tournament by
Tara and
Christy Hemme, with Hamada afterwards hitting Bolt with the Hamada Driver. On the September 24 edition of
Impact! she was assaulted by
Alissa Flash while giving an interview. Flash proceeded to throw Hamada down some stairs, sparking a feud between the two. On the October 15 edition of
Impact! Hamada defeated Flash in a
Falls Count Anywhere match. On the November 19 and December 3 editions of
Impact! Hamada beat
Taylor Wilde and then
Sarita, the Knockouts Tag Team Champions, with the Hamada Driver. On the December 10 edition of
Impact!, Hamada was granted a
TNA Global Championship shot by
Kevin Nash, who was in charge for the evening. The champion,
Eric Young, claimed that his group of foreign wrestlers, named World Elite, had been eyeing Hamada for some time and that this would be her initiation match. Though Hamada dominated the match, Young was able to retain his title by pinning her with his feet on the ropes. The following week Hamada and her new tag team partner
Awesome Kong defeated Sarita and Wilde and the
Beautiful People (
Madison Rayne and
Velvet Sky) in a three-way non-title tag team match. On the December 31 edition of
Impact! Hamada defeated Madison Rayne and
Roxxi on her way to the finals of a #1 contender's tournament, where she was defeated by
ODB, after going through a table brought out by Awesome Kong. The following Monday on the live three-hour edition of
Impact! Hamada and Kong defeated Sarita and Wilde to win the Knockouts Tag Team Championship. On March 1 Hamada's tag team partner Awesome Kong was reportedly released from TNA Wrestling, while the team still held the Knockouts Tag Team Championship. On the March 8 Monday night edition of
Impact! Hamada and Kong were stripped of the titles after allegedly failing to defend them in 30 days, even though in fact the team defended the titles just 21 days prior against Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky. After being off television for four months, Hamada returned on July 27 at the tapings of the August 5 edition of
Impact!, teaming with Taylor Wilde to defeat The Beautiful People (Velvet Sky and
Lacey Von Erich) to win the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship for the second time. In October 2010 Hamada returned to Japan and shortly afterwards requested her release from TNA. After months of inactivity in TNA, it was reported on December 6 that the promotion had agreed to release Hamada and vacate her Knockouts Tag Team Championship.
Shimmer Women Athletes (2009–2013) On November 8, 2009, Hamada made her debut under her full name for Chicago-based all female wrestling promotion
Shimmer Women Athletes, defeating
Mercedes Martinez in a match taped for
Volume 27 and losing to
Sara Del Rey in a match taped for
Volume 28. On February 5, 2010, Shimmer announced that Hamada would be returning to the company on April 11 for the tapings of Volumes
31 and
32. On
Volume 31 she defeated
Daizee Haze and on
Volume 32 she was defeated in the main event by
Cheerleader Melissa. Hamada returned to Shimmer on September 11, 2010, defeating
Tomoka Nakagawa in a match taped for
Volume 33. Later that day on
Volume 34 she was defeated by
Jessie McKay in a three-way match, which also included Sara Del Rey. The following day Hamada defeated
Shimmer Tag Team Champion Nicole Matthews on
Volume 35 and then took part in an elimination tag team match on
Volume 36, where she,
Ayumi Kurihara, Cheerleader Melissa and
Serena Deeb defeated Daizee Haze,
Madison Eagles, Sara Del Rey and Tomoka Nakagawa. On March 26, 2011, Hamada took part in the tapings of Volumes
37 and
38, during which she defeated Jessie McKay and Ayumi Kurihara, respectively, in singles matches. The following day, after pinning
Shimmer Champion Madison Eagles on
Volume 39 in a tag team match, where she teamed with Cheerleader Melissa and Eagles with Sara Del Rey, Hamada was granted a shot at the Shimmer Championship. On August 26, 2011, it was announced that Hamada would return to the promotion on their tapings for Volumes
41 to
44 on October 1 and 2. On October 1 at the tapings of
Volume 41, Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara defeated Daizee Haze and Tomoka Nakagawa to win the Shimmer Tag Team Championship. Hamada and Kurihara made their first title defense later that same day on
Volume 42, defeating the Knight Dynasty (
Britani and
Saraya Knight). The team made their fourth defense of the title at a
Joshi 4 Hope event in Tokyo on February 22, 2012, defeating former champions
Hiroyo Matsumoto and
Misaki Ohata. This was the first time the Shimmer Tag Team Championship was defended outside North America. Hamada returned to Shimmer on March 17, when she and Kurihara successfully defended the Shimmer Tag Team Championship against Regeneration X (
Allison Danger and
Leva Bates) on
Volume 45. The following day on
Volume 47, Hamada and Kurihara successfully defended the title against the team of
Leon and
Ray. Hamada returned to Shimmer on October 27, 2012, when she defeated Kalamity on
Volume 49 and
Kana on
Volume 50. The following day on Volumes
51 and
52, Hamada defeated
Portia Perez and
Athena, respectively, to finish her weekend with a clean record of four wins out of four matches. On April 6, 2013, Hamada took part in Shimmer's first internet pay-per-view,
Volume 53, where she was defeated by Athena.
Other promotions (2010–2018) On January 9, 2010, Hamada made her debut for
Jersey All Pro Wrestling's Women's Division in a match, where she defeated
Rachel Summerlyn. Later in the night she challenged Sara Del Rey to a match for the
Women's Championship and Del Rey agreed to face her at any time and anywhere. The following day, Hamada was defeated by Aja Kong in the main event. On the third and final night of the tour, Hamada was defeated in another main event, this time by Sara Del Rey.
Pro Wrestling Wave (2011–2018) After returning to Japan from the
United States in 2011, Hamada began working for
Pro Wrestling Wave, where she aligned herself with the
villainous Black Dahlia
stable. On July 2, 2012, Hamada signed a contract to officially make Wave her new home promotion. On October 6, 2013, Hamada and her Las Aventureras tag team partner Yuu Yamagata won the
2013 Dual Shock Wave tournament. On October 30, Hamada and Yamagata defeated the Classic Gals (Cherry and
Shuu Shibutani) to win the
Wave Tag Team Championship, Hamada's first title in Wave. After a reign of 270 days, the longest in the title's history, Hamada and Yamagata lost the title to Yankii Nichokenju (
Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto) on July 27, 2014. They regained the title from Revolucion Amandla (
Kyoko Kimura and Tomoka Nakagawa) on October 29. On February 11, 2015, Hamada became a double champion, when she defeated
Hikaru Shida for the
Wave Single Championship. On March 15, Hamada and Yamagata lost the Wave Tag Team Championship to Mio Shirai and Misaki Ohata. On October 30, Hamada and Yamagata won the Wave Tag Team Championship for the third time, when they defeated
Kayoko Haruyama and
Tsubasa Kuragaki in the finals of the
2015 Dual Shock Wave tournament. On December 27, Hamada lost the Wave Single Championship to her tag team partner Yuu Yamagata. On August 7, 2016, Hamada and Yamagata lost the Wave Tag Team Championship to Misaki Ohata and Ryo Mizunami.
Return to AAA (2017) On March 19, 2017, Hamada returned to Mexico and AAA, defeating
Taya to win the
AAA Reina de Reinas Championship, 18 years after her sister
Xóchitl became the inaugural champion. Taya regained the title by defeating her during a live event on April 21, 2017; at 33 days, Hamada's reign is the shortest in the title's history.
Return to other promotions (2019–present) After a year, Hamada came out of retirement in July 2019. Her first match back was held on July 21 for Pro Wrestling Mexico, teaming with
Chik Tormenta, defeating
Taya Valkyrie and
Star Fire.
Second return to AAA (2019–present) On August 3, 2019, at
Triplemanía XXVII, Hamada made her return to AAA, where she participated in a
Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the vacant Reina de Reinas Championship, which was won by
Tessa Blanchard. ==Personal life==