The other day Manami Toyota asked Mayumi Ozaki for a match with Mika Nishio on the April 30 OZ Academy show at Shinjuku FACE. In recent years, Toyota's role has been the grumpy old bitch upset with younger wrestlers and of course Nishio is a younger wrestler. The match was going fine for ten minutes when Toyota hit a plancha on Nishio on the arena floor.
We don't know what went wrong but Nishio was motionless and the match was stopped by the ref. Nishio was taken out in a stretcher. Unfortunately this was not an angle. Mika Nishio suffered a serious spinal cord injury and was taken to the hospital for emergency surgery. I am told she could feel her feet after her surgery. Will she ever wrestle again? At this point it isn't even known if she will walk again and she has a long rehabilitation ahead of her to get to that point. She'll have a rough time living a normal life so I think the chances are pretty good that she's finished as a wrestler. It's a very sad story and on behalf of all her fans I would like to wish Mika Nishio a speedy and complete recovery.
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