Girls’s wrestling continues to climb to fresh peaks in america.
Mercedes Varnado is wrestling for Unused Japan Professional-Wrestling and Stardom. Trinity Fatu simply seemed in Affect. AEW has a splendid international champion in Jamie Hayter, in addition to a secondary champ in Jade Cargill, and WWE is powered on a weekly foundation by means of superstars like Becky Lynch, Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley and Bayley. But there’s nonetheless exponential room for expansion. Taking into account that free wrestling is the heart beat of the business, it’s only becoming that the upcoming state of the art card is Queen of Indies.
Run by means of Professional Wrestling Revolution and West Coast Professional, the display will whip park on Saturday in San Francisco. The cardboard options Chigusa Nagayo, a ladies’s wrestling pioneer and true famous person of the business. She’s going to combat in a trios tag fit with Takumi Iroha and Sandra Moone in opposition to Woman Apache, Nicole Savoy and Karisma, marking an extraordinary probability to peer Chigusa step again between the ropes.
“First of all, I would like to show my sincere thanks to West Coast Pro and Pro Wrestling Revolution for Queen of Indies, which is giving me a chance to stand in their ring,” says Chigusa, talking via a translator. “I am no longer active in Japan. Now I train and show respect to all the wrestlers in the ring with me. Yet if someone attacks me or my teammates, I can still get physical.”
Chigusa debuted as a certified wrestler in 1980 and has loved a mythical 43-year occupation. Her loyalty and strategy to the craft served as an inspiration for determined wrestlers world wide. She showcased a method of hard-hitting, uncooked brutality, paving the trail for girls to embody violence within the ring. However for all her luck, she by no means envisioned that her hard-hitting, intense taste would backup grow to be her right into a legend.
“Practice makes perfect,” says Chigusa, 58. “There is no other secret to what I have accomplished. And to tell the truth, I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. But because of a family problem, I had to give up that dream, and that eventually brought me to wrestling. What I do now is to pass down what I have learned to future wrestlers.”
Along with the trios fit, Queen of Indies will even constituent an eight-woman match to crown the primary queen of the independents. The garden contains Masha Slamovich, Hyan, Woman Frost, Dulce Tormenta, Billie Starkz, Unagi Sayaka, Mia Momono and Maria. The display is a part of Gabe Ramirez’s visual to exhibit probably the most compelling skill on the earth to a hungry target audience.
“It is important to shed light to the incredible talent that is being overlooked in our industry,” says Ramirez, whose display airs live to tell the tale IWTV. “Our King of Indies has been a trendsetter to all the tournaments that have taken place since 2001, and we want to start the same with Queen of Indies.”
Ramirez, who additionally ran November’s King of Indies display, booked wrestlers from around the globe for Queen of Indies. His operating dating with Marvelous, a joshi promotion in Japan, performed a key position in bringing such an array of skill recognized essentially in that nation.
“Working with West Coast Pro Wrestling opened the doors to working with Marvelous,” says Ramirez. “This opened the door for me to bring them to the United States and have them on our work visas. My contacts with Mexico and lucha libre are my priority, and having both Japan and Mexico on this event is very special—and not often done at this level.”
Some other key piece of the Queen of Indies display is Woman Apache, who may be within the trios fit. She is a lucha libre famous person in Mexico, the place she has wrestled for the year 3 a long time.
Apache has starred in Mexican promotions AAA and CMLL, in addition to throughout Japan, turning into probably the most embellished ladies’s wrestler from Mexico. She has conquer implausible stumbling blocks all the way through her occupation, together with when ladies’s wrestling used to be outlawed in Mexico Town. However she has helped blaze a path for a fresh month to be successful.
“I will make history facing Chigusa, an icon of Japanese wrestling,” says Woman Apache, the reigning Professional Wrestling Revolution champ, talking via a translator. “I feel very honored by what I have achieved throughout my career, but specifically the acceptance of my work and the love of the public has been fundamental to leaving a mark in wrestling and being part of its history. And this match against Chigusa will fulfill one of my most important dreams.”
Chigusa’s arrival within the U.S. will confidently additional make stronger her legend. She realistic to life the important thing variations between joshi and American wrestling, which proceed to achieve extra similarities.
“When it comes to American-style wrestling, their performances are so outstanding,” says Chigusa, who has two scholars—Slamovich and Hyan—wrestling within the Queen of Indies tourney. “Japanese style, fine techniques are highly valued. When these two combine, hybrid wrestling will be born. By learning things that we both need, we will be able to build up a wonderful wrestling style we have never seen until now.”
Many level to the vintage in 1985 in opposition to Satan Masami as the best fit in her occupation, however she holds a special opinion. (“It was my Hair vs. Hair match with Dump Matsumoto in 1985—I believe this was the most unforgettable battle in women’s pro wrestling history.”) She now has the probability to deliver a style of her greatness to the U.S. on an evening that can praise ladies’s wrestling.
Queen of Indies is professional wrestling in its purest mode. That includes stars of the year and provide, in addition to integral items of its day, this is a pleasure for Ramirez to percentage this card with the sector.
“It’s an opportunity to see talent from Japan, America and Mexico,” says Ramirez. “Chigusa and Lady Apache are legends in this sport, and to have them together, on the same show, in the USA, that has never happened. That alone is worth the cost of a ticket, and you also have the tournament featuring the top fighters in the world. It is going to be a historic night for pro wrestling.”
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