Emi Sakura

I know he did a seminar and stuff like that, and a bunch of the AIW kids did the seminar.

I think they did one with Emi Sakura and one with Skyd.

Wow.

Okay.

I believe October 3rd.

So, yeah, that is, I think, the day after Pro Wrestling Eve show, which does see Killer Queens of Emi Sakura and Macy Ruga taking on Hyperactive, by the way, my friend.

Yeah.

You know what? You didn't get to announce it on this show, a little other show about Pro Wrestling Eve.

We have teased Marina Shafir and Miyu Yamashita because Marina Shafir at the show, I was at choked out Miyu Yamashita at the end of the show.

So clearly we're going somewhere there.

We do have Hyperactive taking on the Killer Queens, which is Mesa Rugen, Emi Sakura.

That is coming up October, Lily's birthday, October 2nd.

Set the pace.

It's no secret to anyone who listens that we were super fucking excited to see Emi Sakura wrestle.

Hell yeah.

And Mei Tsuruga, but...

Come on.

Emi Sakura, everybody.

And watching Emi Sakura in this opening match, I was like, I can go home.

Because there's just a specialness when you watch the true greats, the commanding presences in a ring, the effortlessness of a 30-plus-year-old vet in that ring.

So we have got, just as I'm looking hyperactive, we've got two great matches lined up.

The first one that we've got lined up is against the Killer Queens, Mesa Rugga and Emi Sakura, which is going to be taking place on Friday, October 2nd at Global Thunder Queens Attack.

That is a big penny social.

Lily's birthday.

They just didn't make the list, for instance.

Same thing with like a Hikaru Shida or Emi Sakura or things like that.

Even if they're contracted overseas, I still count them because they're Joshi to me at least.

Well, I mean, you can actually see Hikaru Shida and Emi Sakura, for instance, in the BBM Joshi cards, so that should kinda tell you what you need to know as well.

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Mm-hmm.

Ryo tries to show the barging Kong, nothing, again, nothing again, still nothing, eventually Riho manages to knock Kong down, Kong doesn't appreciate that, she responds with several slaps, and then absolutely flattens Riho with a clothesline, that's already plenty of showmanship for me, I love stuff like that.

Emi Sakura gets involved.

Then Yuka gets tagged back in.

Here comes the magical girl.

In fact, it was my match of the night.

I was actually tempted to put one of the Japanese women and the six women tag team matching the Ultimo 5.

Especially Emi Sakura, in particular, really impressed me.

But looking at that match as a whole, I felt all six women worked really well together.

yeah that's true

so like there's potentially another tag team there but that's still like five teams do you know what i mean like yeah I know, I think Emi Sakura and Riho, like Emi Sakura posted a thing on like Twitter and said hi rolling birds.

Yeah, they did a photo of themselves standing in a red phone box saying hi birds.

Yeah, that's good.

I like that, yeah.

Yeah, bring them too, but I miss them.

I miss Riho and Emi Sakura.

For real, bring them back.

We're also not going to include anyone who was not signed full-time with TJPW.

There's been a huge number of local Japanese wrestlers and foreigners, the likes of Emi Sakura, Ryo Mizunami, Nyla Rose, Thunder Rosa, who have made appearances in both TJPW and AEW, but they were never technically like TJPW wrestlers.

That said, all of those ladies I mentioned do pop in for matches here and there today, but as we set our ground rules, TJPW wrestlers sign to TJPW full-time at the time of the match.

There's still quite a bit of matches within those parameters, so we're also going to keep it to matches that have just a little bit of significance to them, debuts, main events, tournaments, title matches, pay-per-views, that sort of thing.

Riho, who would also go on to do tremendous things in AEW, the first ever AEW Women's Champion.

And Ryo Mizunami, Aniki.

And they took on the team of Aja Kong, Emi Sakura, and Yuka Sakazaki.

This is Yuka Sakazaki's AEW debut.

Kazarian and Scorpio Sky beat the Lucha Bros and Private Party in the tag title match.

Rio beat Emi Sakura for the women's title.

And Jon Moxley had the infamous match with Kenny Omega, which was the lights out match.

So pretty, pretty good card, wasn't it? Sounds like a very good match, yeah.

Obviously, she was the big kind of first women's championship.

She is still employed by them, but as someone who watches AEW more or less every week this year, I don't think I've seen her on the product at all.

And Emi Sakura, again, who is still employed but not used.

And then obviously you've got Moxley and Kenny Omega, who are still very much front and center of the product.