We previously spoke on Lioness Asuka's former tag-team partner, Chigusa Nagayo on the list. Now, it's time to give Lioness Asuka her flowers as well. Asuka, born Tomoko Kitamura, has a rather unorthodox style of wrestling in regards to being a woman. She's a purebred roughneck that isn't afraid to take things to the next level. She was never a legitimate high fly act, but she was known for her hardcore style of wrestling, hard-hitting strikes, and submission maneuvers.
The former Crush Gal made her professional wrestling debut in the AJW in 1980 where she became an instant dominant force. Her emotionless demeanor in the ring didn't keep the fans from flocking to arenas to watch her. Alongside her partner, Nagayo the two even recorded multiple top ten musical records during their peak in the '80s. Throughout her illustrious twenty-five career, Asuka has racked up four TWF World Women's Championship honors, two AJW Championships, two WWWA World Single Championships, four WWWA World Tag Team Championships, a Japan Grand Prix (1985), and three Twin Star of Arsion Championships. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Famer is rightfully enjoying her retirement as she deserves.
In the US, the average spent on an engagement ring is $6,351 but how do these figures compare with our favorite celebrities? The answer: they don't. As the diamonds increase in size, obviously the price tag appreciates handsomely. Well, we've compiled a list of some of the most expensive celebrity engagement rings.
This list would be nothing without Kim Kardashian's rock from Kanye, which clocked in at around a cool $4 million when he presented it to her at his stadium proposal in October 2013. Unfortunately, though, the 15-carat sparkler was among the jewelry stolen during Kim's infamous Paris robbery in 2016.
Jennifer Lopez's husband Alex Rodriguez popped the question to the singer, and he really had to step it up to outshine her previous engagement rings—and wow, did he deliver. The baseball star proposed with a reported 15-20 carat emerald cut stunner set on a platinum band that was estimated at $5 million. It's getting harder and harder not to be fooled by the rocks she's got...
It should come as no surprise that Beyonce herself totes one of the world's highest-valued diamonds. Weighing in at 24 carats, Jay reportedly paid around $5 million (now worth $6,047,013) for Bey's flashy emerald-cut ring back in 2008.
Anna Kournikova's relationship Latin music artist Enrique Iglesias since the early '00s has been one of the most lowkey celebrity relationships to date. That is with the exception of her $5,400,000 engagement ring that made headlines in 2004. Now, worth a whopping $7,443,596, the giant yellow stunner was spotted on Kournikova even during her tennis matches. (Pssst! It's rumored she got two rings from Iglesias. Prior to this, she sported an equally giant pink pear-shaped ring.)
Clocking in as the most expensive celebrity engagement ring, Mariah Carey's 35-carat bling from ex-fiancé James Packer reportedly cost a cool $10 million. And the "Obsessed" singer seemed to be a bit, well, obsessed with the jewel. She continued to wear the ring over a year post-breakup, and didn't part ways with the bauble until May 2018, selling it to a Los Angeles jeweler for $2.1 million.