Occasionally drops by wrestling podcasts, but remains rather elusive. Joined the Japanese wrestling fan scene in summer 2017, and continues to work on bridging the language gap between fans. Outside of wrestling, she’s a dog mom, perpetual Japanese learner, and when conditions permit, world traveler. Never skips dessert.
August starts with tournament upsets and updates, multiple card changes due to various medical clearance issues and everyone is in summer festival mode!
The 2022 Five Star Grand Prix kicked off at Ota Ward Gymnasium with the tournament’s largest participant field to date and two notable alumnae returns!
The summer continues to heat up further with matches worldwide, milestone celebrations, promotions celebrating anniversaries, and unfortunately, more illnesses and injuries.
Suzu Suzuki won the CATCH THE WAVE 2022 Tournament to become the youngest Regina de WAVE Champion at nineteen years old by defeating Miyuki Takase after Nagisa Nozaki vacated due to injury.
The Summer of Surprises continues as titles are defended, unexpected guests arrive, championships are defended and the tournament season lights the summer up like fireworks.
Shoko Nakajima answers the DSW Open Interview Challenge, Maya Fukuda Signs with GLEAT as a LIDET UWF Competitor & Jaguar Yokota prepares to celebrate her 46th Anniversary!
Karen Peterson covers all the latest Joshi news with CyberFight Festival coming up, Maki Itoh, Stardom’s Purple Stars Block for its 5 Star Grand Prix, weekly match recommendation & more.