Mio Shirai Announces Her Plan To Retire

February 17, 2015

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Mio Shirai held a press conference today to announce she will be retiring from pro wrestling in September. Shirai was accompanied by representatives from the four companies she is under contract with. There was Naomi Susan from Union, Mayumi Ozaki from Oz Academy, Tsukasa Fujimoto from Ice Ribbon and Yumi Ohka from Pro Wrestling WAVE. All four gave Mio a lot of praise for her match with her sister Io Shirai from Saturday’s “M.I.O 2” event. There will be three more “M.I.O” shows. “M.I.O 3” takes place in Osaka Ikuno Kumin Center on 9t May, “M.I.O 4” will be in Shunjuku FACE on 19th June and the final “M.I.O” show will be in Korakuen Hall on 20th September. That show will be the destination of Mio Shirai’s retirement match.

Mio made her decision to retire due to neck problems. She has suffered from numbness in her neck for over two years but was still able to wrestle thanks to her training. Her doctor said there is no official name for her condition but explained the bones in her neck sometimes become slippery which causes the numbness. Mio spent a good amount of time thinking about her decision. She and Susan joked about putting her in a singles match with Shuji Ishikawa and taking the Splash Mountain last year. Mio said she will face Ishikawa again without hesitation if she gets the opportunity.

When asked what she is going to do after wrestling, Mio said she’d like to start doing four panel manga strips about what happens in joshi waiting rooms. For her retirement match Mio hasn’t decided who she wants to wrestle or team with. However she squashed any ideas of teaming with Io again. She doesn’t think it will happen, at least right now.

Mio ended the conference with an appeal to the entire women’s wrestling world. Wrestling does not offer long careers for women. Their bodies take a lot of abuse in a short amount of time and the effects can be long lasting for them. Mio wants every joshi to wrestle because it is what they want to do and also to have no regrets when the time comes for them to leave the business. Mio was only able to show a little part of her dream to her fans but she was still able to live her dream.

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Ibushi Vs Yoshihiko II, Union Gets The Glory

February 17, 2015

DDT “INTO THE FIGHT 2015”, 21/02/2015
Shinjuku FACE

0. Kazusada Higuchi & Shunma Katsumata Vs Kota Umeda & Kouki Iwasaki
0. King Of Dark Title: Gota Ihashi (c) Vs Suguru Miyatake
1. Danshoku Dino & Super Sasadango Machine Vs Toru Owashi & DJ Nira
2. Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi Vs Akito & Yasu Urano
3. Kazuki Hirata Tokyo GO Numbers Game – 1st Round: Kazuki Hirata Vs HARASHIMA
4. Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie, Soma Takao & MIKAMI Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi, Masa Takanashi & Tomomitsu Matsunaga
5. Tetsuya Endo Vs Yuji Okabayashi
6. Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Antonio Honda & Konosuke Takeshita

The new DDT Extreme Champion Shiori Asahi has been promoted to existential status and is no longer marked down as X on the match cards.

Not sure what to put down for Gota Ihashi if he loses the King Of Dark Title Match and stays as champion. D1 (defeat) defence, L1 (Loss) defence or should I just stick with V1 (Victory) for the irony?

UNION “GET THE GLORY MATINEE”, 22/02/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MON☆STAR

1. Get The Glory 2015! Round 1: Ryu Gouma Vs Hiroshi Fukuda
2. Get The Glory 2015! Round 1: Daicho Kazato Vs Isami Kodaka
3. Get The Glory 2015! Round 1: Shuji Ishikawa Vs Cherry
4. Get The Glory 2015! Round 1: Seiya Morohashi Vs Goro Jr.
5. Get The Glory 2015! Round 2: SAGAT Vs Winner of Match #1
6. Get The Glory 2015! Round 2: Mio Shirai Vs Winner of Match #2
7. Get The Glory 2015! Round 2: Ladybeard Vs Winner of Match #3
8. Get The Glory 2015! Round 2: FUMA Vs Winner of Match #4

Union has two shows in one day for its Get The Glory tournament. The first two rounds take place in the afternoon and the later rounds take place in the evening.

UNION “GET THE GLORY SOIREE”, 22/02/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MON☆STAR

1. Get The Glory 2015! Semi Final:
2. Get The Glory 2015! Semi Final:
3. Get The Glory 2015! Final:

Madoka will be in non-tournament action for the evening show.

DDT “SAITAMA SLAM SPECIAL! 2015 ~TELETAMA BROADCASTING 1ST ANNIVERSARY~”, 21/03/2015
Saitama Kasukabe Hall

1. KO-D Openweight Title: Kota Ibushi (c) Vs Yoshihiko

Kota Ibushi has picked Yoshihiko to be the No. 1 Contender for the KO-D Openweight Title. It’s been five and a half years since their classic battle. Ibushi thinks its time they tangled again. During the times they fought since then, Ibushi noticed Yoshihiko has become heavier. He thinks that is a little scary.

DDT “JUDGEMENT 2015”, 29/03/2015
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi (c) Vs Danshoku Dino & Super Sasadango Machine

The new KO-D Tag Team Champions knew they now have a bunch of DDT tag teams chasing after them. They just didn’t expect Danshoku Dino & Super Sasadango Machine to be leading the pack.

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