Last September I saw a rumour of a new joshi company to start in the spring of 2008. Just what we need, right? At the time it seemed like idle talk and therefore difficult to take seriously. But over the last week I have seen indications that this is going to happen and there's one name mentioned that may surprise you. There's a wrestling company in Nagoya City called SGP owned by the wrestler known as Ultra Man Robin (Atsushi Onai). The company has been around since 1994. He started talking about starting a joshi fed last year. I suspect this will be regional to Nagoya and may run their first show as early as May.
From what I can tell, it appears that Ultra Man Robin plans to go the rookie/idol wrestler route and I don't know if he plans to bring freelancers from Tokyo. This got my attention last week when Erika Ura started telling various media outlets that she plans to become a full time wrestler. She's a 21 year old singer/actress who has dabbled a bit in wrestling in the past. She trained in NEO and appeared at the Wrestle Expo show in Aug. 2006. She also trained at Maheken. But mostly she has a singing group and has appeared on TV. You may recall that last July Pro Wrestling SUN introduced their first trainee named Yoko Hashizume. She's a former amateur soccer player and was to be trained by Animal Hamiguchi. So her name coming up for this definitely got my attention. Nothing has been announced yet but it does appear that this new joshi company is going to happen.
From what I can tell, it appears that Ultra Man Robin plans to go the rookie/idol wrestler route and I don't know if he plans to bring freelancers from Tokyo. This got my attention last week when Erika Ura started telling various media outlets that she plans to become a full time wrestler. She's a 21 year old singer/actress who has dabbled a bit in wrestling in the past. She trained in NEO and appeared at the Wrestle Expo show in Aug. 2006. She also trained at Maheken. But mostly she has a singing group and has appeared on TV. You may recall that last July Pro Wrestling SUN introduced their first trainee named Yoko Hashizume. She's a former amateur soccer player and was to be trained by Animal Hamiguchi. So her name coming up for this definitely got my attention. Nothing has been announced yet but it does appear that this new joshi company is going to happen.
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