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mpwma · 5 months

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🎙️🤼‍♀️ FOLKS, we've just witnessed Stardom Gold Rush 2023, and let me tell you, it was a gold-plated event, just like everything I touch. Now, for the Wonder of Stardom Championship, we had a showdown between Mirai and Saori Anou – two tremendous competitors.

🏆 Mirai, the reigning champ, faced off against Saori Anou, and let me say, it was a tremendous battle. I know about battles; I've had the biggest and best battles, and this one was no exception.

🎙️ Now, here's the big question – should we cover this show on the podcast? I want to hear from you in the comments. We're all about controversy, we're all about combative discussions, just like a championship match should be.

🎙️ Don't miss out on Stardom Gold Rush 2023. If you want us to cover it on the podcast, let us know in the comments. We're making wrestling discussions great again. #StardomGoldRush #WonderofStardom #MiraiVsAnou #PodcastPoll #TrumpedUpWrestling #MakingWrestlingGreatAgain

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gdwessel · 2 years

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Golden Week Begins: NOAH Majestic Night 1 - 4/29/2022; STARDOM Cinderella Tournament 2022 Finals - 4/29/2022; AJPW Champion Carnival 2022 Final Set; Dragon Gate, TJPW, DDT, Osaka Pro, More

Golden Week has begun. The annual week of holidays always has a lot of pro wrestling going on, so let’s just get into this special post.

Pro Wrestling NOAH

NOAH returned to action for the first time in nearly two weeks, with the first night of Majestic 2022 from Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan. This was the “N Innovation” part of the event, with a lot of outside wrestlers coming in from the USA, Mexico and Australia. Possibly the most talent from outside of Japan on a single show since the pandemic started. Jushin Thunder Liger was a guest on commentary for this show.

Majestic 2022 - 4/29/2022, Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan (ABEMA)

Ikuto Hidaka [Perros del Mal de Japon] d. Kai Fujimura (Shawn Capture, 6:37)

Slex d. Yasutaka Yano (Business Bomb, 8:37)

Kotaro Suzuki [Perros del Mal de Japon] TLD Yuya Susumu [STINGER] (20:00)

NOSAWA Rongai, Texano Jr. & Super Crazy [Perros del Mal de Japon] d. Tadasuke [Kongo], Hajime Ohara [Kongo] & Shuji Kondo [Dragon Gate] (Texano > Tadasuke, Road to Texas, 10:46)

Hair v. Hair + Loser Must Change Name: Hao d. Nio [Kongo] (Tatsumaki, 16:03)

Extreme Tiger [FREE] d. Seiki Yoshioka [STINGER] (Tijuana Lock, 11:31)

HYO, SB KENTo & Shun Skywalker [Z-Brats] d. Daisuke Harada, Alejandro & Junta Miyawaki (Skywalker > Miyawaki, SSW, 25:00)

3-Way Elimination Match: Ninja Mack [GCW] d. Dragon Bane [IWRG] & Alpha Wolf [IWRG] Order of Eliminations: - Bane > Wolf, Twister Bane, 15:47 - Mack > Bane, Ninja Bomb, 18:03

GHC Juniorheavyweight Tag Team Championship: Yoshinari Ogawa & Chris Ridgeway [STINGER] d. Atsushi Kotoge & YO-HEY (c) (Ridgeway > Kotoge, Stretch Muffler, 33:41) - Kotoge/YO-HEY fail their 3rd defense - Ogawa/Ridgeway are the 50th champions

GHC Juniorheavyweight Championship: HAYATA [STINGER] d. Eita [Perros del Mal de Japon] © (Headache, 28:08) - Eita fails his 1st defense - HAYATA is the 49th champion

Eita doesn’t even last his first defense, which makes sense, as he is not a NOAH-contracted wrestler, despite the fact there is a lot of Dragon Gate talent nowadays (Z-Brats and Eita today, Masaaki Mochizuki and Don Fujii on tomorrow’s show). Daisuke Harada v. HYO in a singles match will happen on 5/14/2022 in Yokohama.

HAYATA declared he would usher in a new era of NOAH. I hope that’s good, what with attendances not great (1585 reported today), and everyone associated with their English social media accounts being gotten-to weirdos (to wit, getting into it with one of my oldest friends in puroresu internetting, over them misspelling it as “Ryuguku” on a meme edit yesterday).

Is this the first time Texano Jr. has appeared in NOAH? It would appear so. I know he is no longer in AAA since last year, so he is freelance as of now. Ninja Mack said he wants to become the GHC Junior champion. It’s good to have goals. Alpha Wolf is also known as Hijo de Canis Lupus.

Nio of Kongo lost his hair, and also now will lose his name, following defeat to his former Kongo stablemate Hao. Slex is an Australian wrestler; he once wrestled Kazuchika Okada in Sydney.

The GHC Heavyweight title match has now been confirmed, as Kaito Kiyomiya will in fact be Go Shiozaki’s opponent in the decision match main event tomorrow at Ryogoku. That will be on Wrestle Universe. As a reminder, an utter piece of human filth is in a featured match on this show facing Masa Kitamiya, so be warned.

- 4/30/2022, Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan (Wrestle Universe)

Slex & Kai Fujimura v. Alejandro & Yasutaka Yano

King Tany, Muhammad Yone & Akitoshi Saito [Funky Express] v. Manabu Soya, Tadasuke & Hajime Ohara [Kongo]

NOSAWA Rongai, Eita, Texano Jr., Kotaro Suzuki & Super Crazy [Perros del Mal de Japon] v. HAYATA, Yoshinari Ogawa, Chris Ridgeway, Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu [STINGER]

Kazushi Sakuraba & Kendo Kashin [Sugiura-gun] v. Masaaki Mochizuki [M’s Alliance] & Don Fujii [Dragon Gate]

Masato Tanaka [M’s Alliance] & Daiki Inaba v. Renee Dupree [FREE] & Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. [FREE]

Masa Kitamiya v. Michael Elgin [FREE]

GHC National Championship: Masakatsu Funaki [Kongo] (c) v. Simon Gotch [FREE]

Daisuke Harada, Atsushi Kotoge, YO-HEY & Junta Miyawaki v. Dreagon Bane [IWRG], Alpha Wolf [IWRG], Extreme Tiger [FREE] & Ninja Mack [GCW]

Naomichi Marufuji [M’s Alliance] & X v. Yoshiki Inamura & Kinya Okada

GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Takashi Sugiura & Hideki Suzuki [Sugiura-gun] © v. Kenoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima [Kongo]

GHC Heavyweight Championship Decision Match: Go Shiozaki v. Kaito Kiyomiya

STARDOM

The winner of the Cinderella Tournament 2022 has been determined, on a show that also featured several title matches, including the World Of Stardom championship.

Cinderella Tournament 2022 Finals - 4/29/2022, Tokyo Ota Ward Gymnasium

3-Way Match: Ami Sorei [God’s Eye] d. Mai Sakurai [Donna del Mondo] and Waka Tsukiyama [Cosmic Angels] (Sorei > Tsukuiyama, Brainbuster, 4:19)

Future of Stardom Championship: Hanan [STARS] © d. Hina [Queen’s Quest] (Backdrop Hold, 6:26) - Hanan succeeds her 5th defense

Cinderella Tournament 2022 Semifinal: Koguma [STARS] d. Hazuki [STARS] (Jackknife Hold, 6:17)

Cinderella Tournament 2022 Semifinal: MIRAI [God’s Eye] d. Natsupoi [Donna del Mondo] (Miramare, 8:17)

Trios Gauntlet Match: Tam Nakano, Mina Shirakawa & Unagi Sayaka [Cosmic Angels] d. Giulia, Maika & Thekla [Donna del Mondo] and Utami Hayashishita, Saya Kamitani & Lady C [Queen’s Quest] and Ruaka, Starlight Kid & Momo Watanabe [Oedo Tai] and Mayu Iwatani, Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo [STARS] and Saki Kashima, Rina & Fukigen Death [Oedo Tai] Order of Eliminations: - Iwatani > Lady C, 4:06 - Watanabe > Iida, 5:11 - Kid > Sayaka, 5:01 - Maika > Ruaka, 3:35 - Nakano > Giulia, 7:19

High Speed Championship: AZM [Queen’s Quest] © d. Mei Suruga [Gatoh Move] (Azumisushi, 13:06) - AZM succeeds her 2nd defense

Cinderella Tournament 2022 Final: MIRAI [God’s Eye] d. Koguma [STARS] (Miramare, 11:45) - MIRAI wins the Cinderella Tournament 2022

World of Stardom Championship: Syuri [God’s Eye] © d. Himeka [Donna del Mondo] (SyuSekai, 21:24) - Syuri succeeds her 4th defense

MIRAI wins the tournament, and afterwards challenges her stable’s leader Syuri to the Red Belt. Mei Suruga asked to form a team with AZM following her defeat in the High Speed title match.

STARDOM have a whole Golden Week Fight Tour coming up starting Sunday, with a big show on 5/5/2022 from Fukuoka Kokusai Center that will feature three title matches, as well as an elimination match between Donna del Mondo v. God’s Eye. I’d type it all up here but my day has already gotten away from me.

All Japan Pro Wrestling

The Champion Carnival 2022 Final is now set, as we had the end of B Block today.

- 4/29/2022, Aichi Nagoya Congress Center

Shuji Ishikawa & Takao Omori d. Shigehiro Irie & Ryo Inoue (Takao > Inoue, Boston Crab, 7:42)

Black Menso-re d. Konaka = Pale One [666] (5:44)

TAJIRI & Yusuke Kodama [TOTAL ECLIPSE] d. Atsuski Aoyagi & Rising HAYATO [NEXTREAM] (Kodama > HAYATO, Mad Splash, 9:41)

Jake Lee, Ryuki Honda & Hokuto Omori [TOTAL ECLIPSE] d. Shotaro Ashino, Hikaru Sato & Dan Tamura [Evolution] (Lee > Tamura, D4C, 11:50)

Champion Carnival B Block: Takuya Nomura [BJW] d. Kuma Arashi [TOTAL ECLIPSE] (Ground Cobra Twist, 11:05)

Champion Carnival B Block: Yoshitatsu d. Suwama [Evolution] (6:54)

Champion Carnival B Block: Kento Miyahara [NEXTREAM] TLD Yuma Aoyagi [NEXTREAM] (30:00)

Yuma Aoyagi advances to the Final after drawing with his stablemate (and Triple Crown Champion) Kento Miyahara, but also will face off against his former stablemate in Jake Lee. That will happen on Wednesday, 5/4/2022 from Korakuen Hall. No other matches have been announced as yet.

Shuji Ishikawa announced he will challenge for Runaway SUPLEX’s World Tag Team Championship, partnering with Kohei Sato on 5/14/2022 in Sapporo, which will also have an All Asia tag title defense on the card.

Final Champion Carnival 2022 standings:

A Block Lee: 8pts (4W 0D 1L) ***WINNER*** Ishikawa: 6pts (3W 0D 2L) Ashino: 6pts (3W 0D 2L) Irie: 5pts (2W 1D 2L) T-Hawk: 5pts (2W 1D 2L) Honda: 0pts (0W 0D 5L)

B Block Aoyagi: 7pts (3W 1D 1L) ***WINNER*** Miyahara: 6pts (2W 2D 1L) Nomura: 6pts (3W 0D 2L) Suwama: 5pts (2W 1D 2L) Yoshitatsu: 4pts (2W 0D 3L) Arashi: 2pts (1W 0D 4L)

Dragon Gate

The Gate of Passion 2022 tour continued today.

The Gate of Passion 2022 Night 15 - 4/29/2022, Hiroshima Sangyo Hall

KAI, BxB Hulk & Diamante [Z-Brats] d. Susumu Yokosuka, Genki Horiguchi & Jacky “Funky” Kamei [Natural Vibes] (Diamante > Kamei, Vuelta Finale, 10:11)

Yosuke Santa Maria d. Konomama Ichikawa (Inside Cradle, 7:58)

Kota Minoura, Kaito Ishida & Minorita [Gold Class] d. Takashi Yoshida, Punch Tominaga & Ho Ho Lun (Minoura > Tominaga, R-201, 12:27)

Ben-K [HIGH-END] d. Shachihoko Boy (Spear, 8:08)

Dragon Dia & Yuki Yoshioka [D’Courage] d. Yasushi Kanda & Ishin Iihashi (Dia > Ishin, Double Cork, 11:07)

Kzy, Big Boss Shimizu, U-T & Jason Lee [Natural Vibes] d. YAMATO, Dragon Kid, Kagetora & Keisuke Okuda [HIGH-END] (U-T > Kagetora, Hikari no Wa, 15:04)

Jason Lee, while not getting the pin, wins in his first match as a member of Natural Vibes.

DG run shows tomorrow and Sunday as well, before the first of three livestreamed showed beginning Tuesday, a two-night stand at Kyoto KBS Hall and then Dead Or Alive 2022 on Thursday.

DDT / Tokyo Joshi

Tokyo Joshi ran the first of two nights at Tokyo Ryogoku KFC Hall earlier today.

TJPW Spring Tour ‘22 - 4/29/2022, Tokyo Ryogoku KFC Hall

Yuki Aino d. Kaya Toribami (Venus DDT, 6:57)

Miu Watanabe d. Haruna Neko (Canadian Backbreaker, 7:33)

Hikari Noa & Nao Kakuta d. Rika Tatsumi & Arisu Endo (Kakuta > Endo, Shidenkai, 11:20)

Miyu Yamashita d. Moka Miyamoto (Attitude Adjustment, 8:25)

Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki & Raku d. Maki Itoh, Yuki Kamifuku & Mahiro Kiryu (Sakazaki > Kiryu, Toy Story 4, 13:01)

Shoko Nakajima & Pom Harajuku d. Hyper Misao & Suzume (Nakajima > Suzume, Northern Lights Suplex, 12:45)

Nakajima accidentally unmasked Hyper Misao during a hurricanrana spot. Reika Saiki will be retiring on Tuesday from Korakuen Hall, and will have a three-minute exhibition match with former partner Arisu Endo.

TJPW runs one last show before Tuesday’s Korakuen Hall show. In the meantime, DDT held an outdoor street wrestling match, as a last preview before Sunday’s big show in Yokohama

DDT “Just Before Yokohama Budokan! Rojo Pro Wrestling In I-Canal Street” - 4/29/2022, Yokohama i-Canal Street (YouTube)

Falls Count Anywhere 3-Way Tag Match: MAO & Shunma Katsumata [The 37KAMIINA] d. Kazusada Higuchi & Hideki Okatani [Eruption] and Yuki Naya & Yuki Ishida (Katsumata > Ishida, Diving Body Press From Telephone Pole Through Table, 29:08)

DDT does the kind of match that only DDT can really do.

Other News

Osaka Pro ran today, showing off their new title belt that will be crowned on Sunday. They also announced a new Light Heavyweight title that will be determined via tournament beginning on 6/26/2022, with the champion being crowned on 7/31/2022.

Big Japan, 2AW, Michinoku Pro, Kyushu Pro, Diana, SEAdLINNNG, Colega, Sportiva, and several other produced shows all ran today.

More shows happening all through the weekend, and into all next week. See you Sunday.

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hellopopculture · 2 years

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Top 20 Female/Joshi Wrestlers of 2021 (Part 3)

Description: We're a long way away from the "Women's Revolution" and in some ways the treatment of female wrestling talent in the West has reverted back to the "Diva Era". In contrast, Joshi Wrestling at companies like STARDOM, has not only been able to stay afloat but grow during the pandemic. Not to be outdone though; the women's divisions of WWE, AEW, Impact & ROH still put up and good fight and overall made it a competitive year for women in Pro Wrestling.

12. Jordynne Grace-The Inaugural Digital Media Champion remains maybe the only female presence in Impact that not only generated a buzz in a deeper talent pool before women like Tessa Blanchard & Taya Valkyrie left but continues to keep all eyes on her as her popularity and interest from fans reaches outside of the company limits.

Thicc Momma Pump was having kind of a pedestrian year at the start of 2021 pursuing the tag titles with Rachael Ellering, but she made history when she became the first Digital Media Champion and the First Triple Crown Women's Champion in Impact. The championship is open weight and intergender, so she had to defeat women and men of all shapes and sizes to not only become champion but retain her title.

11. Meiko Satomura-Because STARDOM is the most recognizable all-Joshi promotion to the States, Satormura often gets overlooked, being the creator and owner of Sendai Girls. She's kind of like the "Mother of Pro Wrestling" in this era. She trained a lot of women including Joshi sensation, Chihiro Hashimoto and retired STARDOM bad girl, Kagetsu...she also re-trained Sasha Banks when she was on hiatus from WWE.

Today she's not only a wrestler/coach for NXT UK and a trainer in the London Performance Center but she's the current NXT UK Women's Champion. Joshi breeds a different level of female athletes and apparently WWE wanted to bring that to their company. Natalya Neidhart had a similar role for their main roster. She helped train a lot of her peers, but she also helps them polish up in the ring, working with them on the show.

10. Rhea Ripley-Rhea had her final match in NXT at New Years Evil in a last woman standing match against Raquel González. Those two found a chemistry in their similarities that was perhaps unmatched in that era of NXT, at least for the women's division. When she debuted on WWE Raw in February of 2021 she immediately challenged Asuka for her title at WrestleMania XXXVIII which Asuka accepted. Rhea didn't win the Royal Rumble but she didn't have to, we already expected her to be a top contender on whatever brand she was on, and she made her presence felt on day one. Rhea won the title at Mania to secure her spot as the parallel to the actual Royal Rumble winner, Bianca Belair on SmackDown.

She has been glued to the hip with Charlotte since she was in the Mae Young Classic because of their similar height, hair color and muscular build and even when she transitioned into "The Nightmare", WWE didn't let up on a rivalry between them. Only problem is they don't really know how to handle any feud with Charlotte Flair where she doesn't completely dominate her opponent so even when Charlotte was losing, it somehow felt like nothing was being accomplished. There's no real magic between these two and although they had some good matches, Rhea's momentum was kind of dragged down by Charlotte's interjection into her journey.

She did have a tag team title reign with Nikki A.S.H. before the new year but that also didn't really work as the idea seemed half baked. Rhea has a lot of potential to be a staple in this women's division but luckily for her she's young. She was only 24 in this position so imagine how much WWE can accomplish by the time she's 30 if they keep working on her.

9. Tam Nakano-The former J-Pop Idol, Yuria Tauchi debuted for Wonder Ring STARDOM in 2017 and made a big splash almost immediately. Entering into the world of Pro Wrestling, the insanely cute Tam Nakano put it all on the line working deathmatches for Atsushi Onita; showing that for someone so petite and adorable, she's not afraid of anything and has a rougher side to her. She worked her first match in July of 2016 and by that same time the following year she would have ambitions to enter STARDOM's 5★Grand Prix which is maybe the toughest women's tournament in the world. Women come from every continent to try and earn their stripes there. Tam bombed in the Grand Prix but during that time she was being groomed to become a prominent member of the antagonist stable, Oedo Tai.

As a member of Oedo Tai, Tam began exhibiting qualities that would make her the valuable component of the company she is today. She's very lovable and charismatic which probably comes from her time as an Idol but she's also a very skilled in-ring performer and commands attention even when she's not having a match. As a casualty of Oedo Tai's war with Queen's Quest, Tam was separated from the stable and without a home she was welcomed to Mayu Iwatani's Stardom Army. From her early days, the factions in the company would play tug of war with the possibility of making Tam one of them because her potential was attractive.

As Tam would win championships and tournaments her ego would grow, and she would start to come into her own as a prominent figure on STARDOM's roster. While under the leadership of Mayu Iwatani she had become incredibly loyal not just to her but her stablemates, but she still took her opportunities to branch out on her own create some of the greatest rivalries of her generation.

Tam won her first major title in 2021 defeating reigning STARDOM MVP, Giulia in a hair vs. hair match. Seeing Guilia as an obvious future flagbearer for the company, Tam went to war with her over the Wonder of Stardom Championship also known as "The White Belt", putting her on notice that, there is a tough road ahead of her. She also created her own stable with Mina Shirakawa and Unagi Sayaka, called The Cosmic Angels solidifying herself as a leader for the first time.

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I am the 17th Wonder of Stardom Champion!

I fulfilled my promise to everyone.

Does it look good on me?

My white belt of hope.

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distantlaughter · 9 months

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New kid on the grid follows his father's formula

By Donald McRae for The Guardian, originally written 6 March 2006 (x)

Talented and charismatic, Nico Rosberg brings the same kind of individuality and personality to the track as his world championship-winning father, says Donald McRae.

"I was about 10 years old when I first understood how complex and difficult the whole father-son thing is for us," Nico Rosberg says as he tugs at a set of tousled blond locks that look as if they've just drifted off the set of Neighbours rather than into a hushed boardroom at the Williams formula one headquarters in Oxfordshire. The 20-year-old might appear more suited to soap stardom than one of sport's most unforgiving environments, but Rosberg offers some acute insights into his competitive relationship with his father, Keke, a former world champion driver for the same Williams team.

They also illustrate why a compelling story this year is likely to revolve around the debut season of the talented and charismatic Rosberg - managed by his father, a large 57-year-old who now resembles a cheery walrus rather than the chain-smoking champion from a more glamorous era. But the two men, sharing an intense bond as universal as it is personal, promise to bring much needed colour to formula one's increasingly anodyne world.

The Rosberg name, inevitably, has added to Nico's allure. "It's opened up a lot of doors and given me plenty of opportunities, because people are interested to see if I have my father's ability. So I'm grateful for that." But, as Nico stresses, the heavy shadow of his father brings its own conflict. "It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me."

The tangled emotions have hardly been loosened by Nico's decision to appoint Keke as his manager. "Our relationship is very good - but claustrophobic. We're both quite difficult people - I would say especially him! So we argue a lot but I never shout. What happens instead is that one of us walks away and then, after a while, we make it up. It's not really big fights anyway. It's more about me wanting to get home and have a break and he's asking me about racing. I don't want to listen - and he gets mad.

"So while it is difficult I also know he is absolutely the best manager for me. I trust him completely but he would be great for any driver. Look at the job he did for Mika [Hakkinen] when he won the championship [for McLaren in 1998 and '99]. My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever."

Keke Rosberg won the 1982 world championship for Williams - three years before Nico was born. "Back in those days," Nico says, "I think racing seemed more special. A lot of people miss that kind of individuality and personality the drivers brought to the track. There was much more freedom - and my dad told me that if he'd had to train then as much as I do now he would have become a dentist instead. His thing was just getting into the car and driving fast."

Rosberg's answer is blunt when I wonder if he might secretly yearn to have competed in those different days. "No. All the training and gym work is not hard for me. I'm very motivated to succeed now. I have a strong will and I'm competing in a much tougher world than my dad's - and that's good."

But there's never time to slip out for a defiant fag, à la the relentlessly puffing Keke . . . "I wouldn't want to," Rosberg sniffs. "Smoking is disgusting. But I understand that those guys had a certain glamour - and formula one is much more faceless today."

Rosberg hesitates when prompted to put forward a name from the current era who might have thrived during racing's more vibrant past. "Probably [Juan Pablo] Montoya - with his Latin look. He's the only one that comes to mind. But he's still not Ayrton Senna. He's not the person you'd want to look up to. Same goes with Kimi [Raikkonen]. He might be quick - but there's not the personality to inspire anyone. But [motor racing's governing body] the FIA are now making an effort to bring back some excitement to formula one."

Bernie Ecclestone has campaigned for a new style of driver - and has specifically named Rosberg and Valentino Rossi as the kind of exuberant racers who could bring renewed vitality to the grid. "Campaigned might be too strong a word," Rosberg cautions. "But he did speak to Frank [Williams] and say it would be a good idea to sign me."

Few team principals are as tough-minded as Frank Williams - and so Nico's winning of the 2002 BMW Championship and last year's fledgling GP2 series will have been far more significant than Keke's evocative ties to the team. GP2 was, in fact, widely regarded to have featured better racing than the F1 championship it supports.

"Oh no," Rosberg groans, "maybe I'm going into the wrong series. Those GP2 cars were fantastic to drive, the competition was intense and the reverse grid on Sunday was great because they would switch around the first eight cars and so I learned how to overtake. But I was pretty dominant in the end and now it's time to step up to another level."

On the grid in Bahrain for this Sunday's opening race, Rosberg expects "to feel a mixture of happiness that I've made it to formula one and some nervousness. But I've always coped with such emotions before and it helps that I've raced on 12 of the grand prix circuits. You always have good memories of places where you've done well and, last year, in GP2, I won in Bahrain. People complain about the heat and sand but it doesn't bother me at all."

There is a neat symbolism in the fact that Rosberg, the youngest F1 driver this year, has only previously competed against the oldest racer on the grid. "I was up against [Michael] Schumacher five years ago in a go-kart race. I was 15 and he was 32. He finished second and I was third, close behind. We spoke afterwards because he knew my dad and we had a good chat. It was an important moment for me to see how hard I had pushed the best racing driver in the world."

Rosberg shares a nationality with Schumacher rather than his Finnish father. Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, to a German mother, Sina, Rosberg gradually assumed her nationality - even if, with Keke and Sina, he grew up in Monaco. Their family home is now in the Austrian Alps and with his immaculate English apparently surpassed by his German, French and Italian, Rosberg professes "not to be sure of my nationality. It says German on my passport but that's mostly because we speak German at home and watch German TV. People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad and that's great but it's the one language I can't speak. It was up to my dad to teach me but he decided I should concentrate on other languages."

One of Rosberg's more intriguing characteristics is that, unlike the archetypal grand prix driver, he appears interested in a world beyond the paddock. It is a curious experience to be asked questions about my own nationality, and for my views on language and culture, by a young racing driver - especially when the breed usually appear bored witless by any interview. Rosberg may eventually be worn down but, for now, he actually apologises for his "not so scintillating answers". He explains how exhausted he is by the ceaseless formula one treadmill and grins in seeming relief when reassured that he offers more engaging company than most of his contemporaries.

"Really?" he jokes. "They must be even more boring than I thought."

His wider perspective is again evident in the revelation that Rosberg could have studied aerodynamics at Imperial College in London. "They offered me a place and all my friends had gone off to college so I thought, 'Oh, what do I do now?' But I'd test-driven a Williams F1 car when I was 17 [in December 2002] and there's no way I could give up that dream. Aerodynamics would've been interesting but it could never have given me the buzz I'll get on the grid in Bahrain."

Rosberg will be racing a car there that, following the team's acrimonious split from BMW, now uses Cosworth engines - as his father did when he won the title - and Bridgestone tyres. "There are a lot of changes but I would say the package is looking good at the moment. Bahrain will tell us where we are, but maybe the best way of expressing it is to say that we expect a good year on the way back to the top."

Rosberg may not cry as many tears as he did all those years ago when losing to his father on the tennis court, but the same intensity of emotion still surges through both men. "Of course. We are both alike - and we're used to winning. We might have learnt to control them but the feelings are still there. I just like the fact that we're now on the same side, working together, with the hope that I might one day match what he did and win a world championship."

#nico rosberg #nicology

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evileyekabuki · 4 days

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Becoming The Poisonous Commander

April 29th, 2019 It was the finals of the Cinderella Tournament, Queen’s Quest vs Queen’s Quest, Iyo Sky vs Yasmina Tetsuya. Iyo was the top star of STARDOM, the best Joshi Puroresu wrestler of this generation, former World of Stardom Champion but most importantly the leader of Queen’s Quest, STARDOM’s greatest faction to ever be created & it was started because of Iyo & Yasmina.

Iyo would betray her Thunder Rock tag team partner Mayu Iwatani to create Queen’s Quest alongside her would be the first member of Queen’s Quest, her second in command & her protege, Yasmina Tetsuya. Iyo would first meet Yasmina in Mexico during STARDOM’s tour in Mexico & she automatically saw the potential she had & decided to take her under her wing & make her better than she already was. That’s when Iyo started discussing her plan of the formation of Queen’s Quest & ditch her pathetic partner behind to make a better one & that’s what exactly happened. After betraying Mayu, Iyo had reach more success than she had ever done with Mayu & Kairi, it was Yasmina who made her the best version of herself & in return Iyo would do the same for Yasmina. It was because of her Yasmina would win her first ever championship in STARDOM, the Goddess Of Stardom Championship with Iyo defeating her former friends Mayu & Kairi. Everything was going spectacular for Queen’s Quest but that was until Momo Watanabe betrayed Mayu as well & joined Queen’s Quest.

Iyo was very satisfied with Yasmina & her progress but she felt she that she could do it again with a younger talent, she saw the potential Momo had & she wanted to take it to the advantage of making Queen’s Quest better than what it already was with a new face, a new protege & even maybe a new queen & Yasmina hated it. As soon as Momo joined so would the others like AZM, someone else who she couldn’t stand & loathed, Iyo has new play things so she didn’t need Yasmina so much as she did in the beginning of Queen’s Quest in fact she would start teaming with her Goddess of Stardom tag team partner less & less but she always made time for Momo & AZM, she even won the Artist of Stardom Championships with them not caring about the Goddess with Yasmina, when they lost the titles Iyo acted like she didn’t care while Yasmina was devastated, it was the first championship she won in STARDOM, in Japan & Iyo acted like she didn’t care. That’s when the hatred for someone who she used to consider her best friend & sister started to brew deeply inside of her.

It would get worse when Yasmina suffered a knee injury that would take her out for 9 months, she torn her ACL, when she was on the sidelines Momo was becoming one of the best joshi’s in STARDOM, to the point she challenged Iyo for the Wonder of Stardom Championship & WON!?!?!?! IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE YASMINA’S CHAMPIONSHIP IYO PROMISED! IYO PROMISED! SHE PROMISED! That was her breaking point & when she would return during the beginning of 2019 she would go back on her winning streak that she had when she first joined STARDOM, she awakened this new person inside of her, someone who deep down was anger but she had to hide it from Iyo & Queen’s Quest so when she returned she went back to teaming with Queen’s Quest acting like how things were before she got injured. Without them knowing Yasmina was plotting & it would start at the Cinderella Tournament.

Now we’re here the finals of the Cinderella Tournament. She made it her plan worked! She made it to the finals now all that would determine if it truly worked was to defeated her former mentor, Iyo Sky. The match was a hard battle between two women who knew each other so well, the mornings & nights training together & the deep conversations that they shared. But that didn’t matter to her anymore all that she wanted to do was destroy Iyo, destroy the faction they created together & break her protege, Momo Watanabe. Some point during the match the referee was knocked down, Iyo & Yasmina were down on the mat trying to caught their breath. That’s when someone unexpectedly came out running to the ring to cause some type of trouble, it was Bullet Club to be specific it was Alina King, Timeless Toni Storm, Rhea Ripley, Bayley & Mercedes Mone. Bullet Club & Queen’s Quest had already had their share of problems & they hated each other & now they were going to ruin this historical finals of the Cinderella Tournament? Once Iyo & Yasmina realized what was happening they stopped fighting each other & paid their attention to Bullet Club, as Iyo was yelling at Bullet Club, unfortunately for Ito she didn’t notice the Serpent King, Alina King sliding a steel chair to a Yasmina Tetsuya. Alina & Yasmina gave each other evil smiles that was before

WHAM!

Iyo was hit in the head with a steel chair by Yasmina, out of all people she couldn’t it was Yasmina who did this to her, she couldn’t believe it after all she did for her, if it wasn’t for her she wouldn’t even be in STARDOM, it wasn’t just about STARDOM that she was upset about it was their relationship, after everything they’ve been through together & just for someone she saw as her best friend & sister to betray her? She was bleeding from the top of her head to the point it started to drip on her face, she was dizzy & couldn’t stand up that’s when Yasmina brutally kicked her in her already bleeding head to pin her.

1…2…3…

Yasmina Tetsuya just pinned Iyo Sky to win the STARDOM 2019 Cinderella Tournament. What have she done?! She betrayed Iyo! She betrayed Queen’s Quest! But the most important question did she just join Bullet Club?!?!?

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Hit Me Like Bang (and Now I'm Never Looking Back), Part 2

A "Take My Hands, Wreck My Plans" fic

Pairings: David Finlay x OFC / past!Jay White x OFC Word Count: 11k Warnings: Language; alcohol use; radioactive levels of angst but also fluff; and a little smidge of smut so 18+

On the road to Dominion, Nellie's past and present converge to solidify the truth of what's been in front of her all along.

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Read it on AO3

A/N: Herein is the end of Nellie's story, and I am emotional :') Don't worry―there are more prequels forthcoming that will go more into her previous relationships and how she got here, but this is her happy ending.

One small note: there's quite a bit of flashback scenes in this chapter, and they're not in chronological order to each other, so pay attention to the dates. That said, this fic and Nellie truly are my baby, and thank you for coming on this two-plus-year journey with me. I hope you enjoy reading her story just as much as I've enjoyed creating it for you <3

tags: @aussiearrow @cowboyslariat @knifepervert @sldghmmr @cardblade @missbrownstone @meteora-fc @bec0m @thatgirlforever5 @rocca09 @aussiespam

Friday, April 14, 2023 Tokyo, Japan

It took about seven minutes bell-to-bell for Nellie to dispose of Mariah May in their title match at Korakuen Hall. She hadn’t even broken a sweat. But she’d anticipated short work. She’d already planned to make up for it in her backstage comments.

“Alright, I’ll make sure this is short and sweet just like that match,” she started as she stepped in front of the camera. “Do you see this title?” She held up the championship in her hand. “I have been the SWA World Champion since May fifth of last year. Twenty-twenty-two. That is three hundred and forty-five days, just twenty days short of an entire year. And no one here at World Wonder Ring Stardom seems to give a shit about it, or the verifiable fact that I am the only person in history to hold this title more than once!

“But here’s the thing: I know exactly why they don’t care. Because I’m a gaijin. Never mind that I’ve been dedicated to this company since twenty-eighteen; that I’ve lived in Japan for over three years, through a fucking pandemic; that I’ve learned the language. Apparently, none of that matters, because I’m still not from here. I’m still an outsider. And God forbid a gaijin become the face of Stardom, so what do they do? They hold me in place with this title that they clearly don’t give a shit about and allow me to defend it once a quarter. And Mariah May?” She scoffed. “Do you know how many times I’ve already beaten Mariah in title matches? Tonight makes three, and the other two were in her home country for the RevPro Undisputed British Women’s Championship. So please, someone enlighten me: if Mariah May couldn’t get it done against me in her home country, why the fuck did anyone think she stood a chance against me here, in Korakuen of all places? I might be from Philly, but Tokyo is my home. Stardom is my home. The Stardom dojo beat me down, built me back up, and turned me into the joshi I am today, and in return I made history. And I refuse to be held in place any longer.

“Saya Kamitani. You’ve made history, too. We have history. Because see, everyone associates you with Hayashishita-san and me with Torrance—but you and I were partners first. We were Goddess of Stardom champions together. We’re both champions now. And at All Star Grand Queendom, I want you in a winner takes all match for my SWA World Championship, and your Wonder of Stardom Championship. And it’ll be a gaijin from Philadelphia who puts an end to your history-making reign.”

And with that she walked off camera, the gauntlet thrown.

* * * *

Sunday, October 30, 2022 Tokyo, Japan

Nellie was in good spirits. She was fresh off defending her SWA World Championship against Mayu Iwatani in New York City. Halloween was tomorrow, and David had come over for a horror movie marathon. He’d brought takeout from her favorite sushi place and a six-pack of Sapporo. She intended to tell him how she felt. And she couldn’t have been more nervous.

“Is everything alright?” he casually asked. “It seems like something’s on your mind.”

She brought her feet up to sit cross-legged on the couch and pulled her soft checkered fleece blanket over her lap. Of course he could tell something was on her mind—it was David. He paid attention. He was perceptive; emotionally mature. It was one of the many, many things that drew her to him, something that set him apart from most guys she’d been involved with in the past. And now, after her few days away, she knew for certain.

“Yeah… I, um,” she started. “I just guess I realized something when I was in New York.”

“Yeah? What’s that?”

“Well,” she stalled, nervous. But there was no turning back now—and she didn’t want to. “I went out with a few people after the show, and… Kyle Fletcher kissed me. But all it did was make me realize that I have feelings for someone else.”

David wasn’t looking at her as she said it, queuing up the first movie on her TV. And Nellie quickly started to overthink, worried that maybe he’d focus on the fact that Kyle had kissed her and not what she was trying to tell him—

But then the corner of his mouth quirked up. “Oh, yeah? Who’s the lucky guy?”

He glanced at her as he set down the remote. She pursed her lips at him. “Are you seriously gonna make me say it?”

“I kind of want you to, yeah.”

She bit back a grin. Her heart was pounding so hard in her chest that she worried he could hear it. “Well… I don’t know how he feels, so I’m kind of nervous to.”

“Well, let me clear things up for you, then…” David said, and he pulled her in and kissed her. Nellie melted into him. His lips were soft, his kiss slow and sweet, and the way he cradled her head in his hands felt natural, as if they’d done this a thousand times before. And she already knew she wanted to do it a thousand times more.

He pulled back from her lips but still held her close. “I’ve been wanting to do that for the last three months,” he said.

She grinned. “You have?”

“Yeah. And since we’re talking about it… I wasn’t sure how you felt. Sometimes it seemed like you were still hung up on Jay.”

Nellie sighed and leaned back into the couch. Admittedly, he wasn’t entirely wrong.

“Honestly, at the start of the summer, I was still hung up on him. And I think it was because I never got any definite closure when we broke up, and so when he showed up out of nowhere at Dontaku it did feel like there was still something there between us. And he made it seem like there was, too, which didn’t help at all. But then you came back for the G1, and we reconnected, and genuinely—you’ve put in more effort over the last three months than Jay ever put into our entire relationship. And that really put things into perspective for me. But then it was complicated, too, because I know how close you and Jay used to be, and sometimes I worried that getting involved with you after him would look… I don’t know… messy? As stupid as that sounds.”

“No, I get it,” David nodded. “No matter how you and Jay left things, there was a point in time when you cared about him, so of course you wouldn’t want to throw salt in a wound. I mean, there was a point in time when I cared about him, too; he was my best friend. But it’s not like you and Jay just broke up, and he and I aren’t as close as we used to be, either.” He reached up and pushed her hair behind her ear; Nellie’s skin tingled at his touch. “Besides… technically I went out with you first, anyway.”

She mirrored his grin. He wasn’t wrong about that, either. David had gone out with her first, on an awkward date back in 2017, the first time Nellie had ever set foot in Japan. Back before she’d met Zack, or Riley, or Kyle, or ever gotten involved with Jay—David had been first. But she hadn’t seen it then.

“Not technically—you did,” she confirmed. “And lately I’ve wondered how different things would be if I’d given you a chance back then.”

“Nah,” he returned with a shake of his head. “I was a clown back then; I don’t blame you for not giving me a chance. Plus, I’ve come to believe that everything meaningful happens when it’s supposed to.” He smiled to himself. “I was actually planning on telling you how I felt tonight. But you beat me to it.”

Nellie’s smile widened. “Oh yeah?”

He nodded. “Yeah. So, I guess I owe Kyle Fletcher a beer for kissing you and helping you figure shit out.”

“Ha!” she laughed, and he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close, and she snuggled into him, moving the blanket so that he was underneath it, too. It felt right—a perfect fit. And as David pressed play on the first movie, Nellie knew in her heart that this was when it was all supposed to fall into place, and not a moment sooner.

* * * *

“God, you are a sight for sore eyes.”

Nellie smiled at David through her phone screen. It was only a few days ago that he’d left, and he’d only be gone a few days more, working Capital Collision in Washington, D.C., and then Collision in Philadelphia before flying right back to Tokyo—to her. But Nellie already felt the ache of his absence.

“You have no idea how bad I wish you were here right now.” She settled back into her bed pillows, getting comfortable. “I have some pent-up energy that could really use working out.”

David grinned, crooked and handsome. It didn’t help her situation. “I know you do. I just watched your backstage comments.”

She waited, expecting him to say something more, wanting him to. After all, his opinion was the one that mattered most to her. “And?” she impatiently pressed.

“And it took everything in me not to share the video wherever I could,” he said. “I’m proud of you, babe. You already deserved that match; I don’t see how they can’t give it to you now.”

The ache in Nellie’s core deepened. But so did the warmth in her heart. “Thanks, babe. I’m hoping it’ll be official by tomorrow, but… we’ll see.”

“Do you have a match tomorrow?”

She laughed shortly to herself; the expression on her face said it all. “Yeah… a best two out of three falls eight-woman tag match. Me, Tam, Poi, and Mina against Donna del Mondo. It’s the main event.”

“Shit,” David commented before she’d even finished. “That’s gonna be charged.”

“Tell me about it,” she lowly returned. And then, “Thekla thinks I should take the opportunity to leave Cosmic Angels.”

“I was just about to say. It’s the perfect opportunity, isn’t it?”

She drew in a hesitant breath. “Potentially? Actually, if the Cosmic Angels-Club Venus shit finally hits the fan like I expect it to, it probably will be the perfect opportunity. I could just say they’re too dysfunctional and walk out. That’s exactly how I left Queen’s Quest.”

“Then I say do it,” David returned. “You’d be better served somewhere other than Cosmic Angels, I know you would. You know you would.”

“I do know I would,” she agreed. “I’m just… I don’t know. Worried about hurting people’s feelings even though I know I shouldn’t be.”

“Torrance will be fine,” David dismissed; it went without saying that she meant her. “She has Mariah and Mina.”

“No shit,” Nellie breathed. “They’re three peas in a pod these days. Which doesn’t really surprise me… Torr and Mariah are basically the same person in slightly different fonts.” David laughed at that. “Well, it’s true!” she doubled down.

“No, it is,” he nodded. “But I could always just say you’re Bullet Club, too. I’m sure that would get the point across to Tam.”

A grin spread over Nellie’s face. It felt inevitable that she would be Bullet Club, and sooner rather than later. But he’d reminded her. “Speaking of Bullet Club, are you gonna tell me who Riley’s replacement is yet?”

He smirked and shook his head. “No. That’s privileged information.”

Her eyebrows arched. “And I’m not privileged to it? I’m your girlfriend!”

“You’ll find out tomorrow,” he assured her. “Don’t worry—it’s someone you like. I can’t have anyone in Bullet Club who doesn’t get along with my girl.”

“Well, there’s some people you need to kick out, then,” she returned—just as she heard a knock-knock-knock on the front door of her apartment. She glanced toward the sound in confusion. David noticed.

“What?”

“Someone just knocked on my door.”

He looked confused then. “Isn’t it almost 10 p.m. there?” he asked. But Nellie was already pulling up the live feed from her video doorbell—and she saw a familiar figure.

“It’s Torr.” She sighed. Something told her she wasn’t just dropping by.

“I guess you should go, then,” David figured. Nellie’s brow furrowed.

“Probably. I’m sorry.”

“No, don’t apologize,” he gently said. “I should probably get going myself, and you two are overdue for a talk.”

“Yeah… because I don’t want to have it,” she muttered.

David smirked. “Go, babe. I’ll talk to you later.”

She pouted. “Okay. See you soon,” she returned—and before they disconnected, she almost said it. I love you. She knew she did. But she wanted the first time she told him to be in person.

She left her phone in her bedroom and padded down the hall to the front door. She unlocked and opened it just as Torrance was getting ready to knock again. She quickly put her hand down, almost as if she was surprised Nellie had answered.

“Hey.” Torrance took in her appearance—pajamas on, makeup off. Her brow furrowed. “You weren’t in bed, were you?”

“Well, technically,” Nellie returned. “But I was talking with David.”

Torrance’s frown deepened. “Oh. I’m sorry, I should have texted—”

“No, it’s fine,” Nellie dismissed, and she opened the door wider so she could come inside. Torrance hesitated for a beat before she crossed the threshold. It was odd. They both had keys to each other’s apartments; it used to be that Torrance would just let herself in without so much as a knock. But a lot had changed over the last three months.

“What’s up?” Nellie asked as she shut the door. She noticed that Torrance was dressed for a night out in a shiny pink miniskirt and white bustier tank top, her hair and makeup done to perfection. And again, Torrance hesitated.

“Um, well,” she started with a bit of a nervous laugh. “I actually came over here to ask if you wanted to come out with us, but—”

“Who’s ‘us’?”

Torrance bit her lip. “Me, Mariah, and Mina.”

Nellie couldn’t help her laugh. “You’re joking, right?”

Torrance’s expression turned stony. “No, actually, I’m not.”

“Torr,” Nellie breathed out. “Come on. I literally just beat Mariah in a title match and then talked shit about her, you really think either of us want to hang out with each other?”

“Well, Mariah’s willing to put that aside because she knows you’re my best friend,” Torrance returned. She looked down at her hands. “And I feel like we’ve barely seen each other since… well, since the Triangle Derby started.”

So, since Club Venus became a thing, Nellie wanted to say. But she figured it wouldn’t help. “Because we haven’t,” she regretfully returned. “But it’s not intentional. You’ve just been doing your thing with Mariah and Mina, and I’ve been doing mine with Tam and Poi. Or I was. And I know I sort of went off into my own little world when David came back, so…”

Torrance looked back up at her. “Yeah, so are you and him…?”

“Together? Officially?�� Nellie finished. “Yeah, we are,” she confirmed, and the mood lightened a bit. Torrance smiled.

“Took long enough.”

Nellie breathed a laugh. “I know. But I think it happened right when it was supposed to.”

“No, I think so, too,” Torrance agreed. “He’s good for you, I can tell. You’ve carried yourself differently ever since he came back; more confident.”

“Thanks,” Nellie genuinely returned. She’d noticed that change in herself, too. David was good for her. He was good to her. And she wasn’t the only one who’d changed. “You’ve been more confident with Club Venus, too.”

Torrance looked down again, the corners of her mouth turned up, almost as if she was bashful to hear that Nellie had noticed. “Yeah, they’ve really helped me come into my own. Mina really pushes me. And I don’t know… it just feels like we’re all on equal footing.”

Nellie nodded in understanding. “Unlike when we were a tag team?”

Torrance frowned again. “I wasn’t trying to imply—”

“No, I get it,” Nellie assured her. And she did get it. After she and Torrance had won the 2021 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League, throughout their entire reign as Goddess of Stardom Champions, people had said that Nellie carried Torrance. That Nellie was the better wrestler, that Torrance would never be champion without her. So, it was no wonder Torrance felt more confident with Mariah and Mina. People weren’t comparing her to them; instead, they were acknowledging how much she’d improved. And as much as Nellie didn’t care for Club Venus, she still wanted the best for Torrance.

“And for what it’s worth, I never felt like I was carrying our team,” she told her. “I should have told you that back then. I’m sorry I didn’t.”

“No, I know you never felt that way,” Torrance returned, and nothing else needed to be said. She and Nellie understood each other. They always had.

“But… I guess I can’t persuade you to get dressed and come out with us?” she added.

Nellie shook her head. “Not a chance.”

Torrance nodded. “It was worth a shot.” She started for the door. “Well, sorry for interrupting your call with your man.” She stopped. “I didn’t interrupt… something, did I?”

Nellie let out a laugh. “No, it wasn’t one of those calls. He’ll be back Tuesday; I think I can manage ‘til then.”

“Tuesday?” Torrance noted. “Okay, I’ll be sure to steer clear of here that whole day.”

She let herself out, and Nellie told her to have a glass of water for every drink—she had to work tomorrow. And as Torrance waved goodbye and Nellie shut the door, she knew that neither of them were the same people anymore. They’d grown. Professionally, apart. But not in their hearts.

* * * *

Sunday, November 20, 2022 NJPW/Stardom Historic X-Over – Tokyo, Japan

If anyone was surprised at how well Cosmic Queendom and Aussie Open worked together in the ring, it wasn’t Nellie, Torrance, Kyle, or Mark. It felt like they’d been teaming together for years, and the deeper they got into the match against Los Ingobernables de Japon and Fukuoka Double Crazy, the more Nellie knew they were creating something special for fans of NJPW and Stardom alike. But it wasn’t all serious. Nellie couldn’t help but mess with Sanada and Naito a bit—a callback to her days in Suzuki-gun with Zack. In the end, it was Torrance who got the pin over Koguma after she and Nellie surprised Mark and Kyle by doing Coriolis. And when their arms were raised in victory, Nellie almost wished that she and Torrance had joined United Empire like they’d half-joked about a year ago.

Almost.

More members of United Empire greeted them as they returned backstage; Jeff Cobb, Great O-Khan, and Aaron Henare’s match against Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano, and Great Muta was next. Mark and Kyle exchanged “Crowns Up” with all their teammates—and then Jeff looked expectantly at Nellie.

“Come on, you know you want to,” he tempted, wiggling his hands at her.

“Fine; but only for you,” she reluctantly gave in, and she made a crown with her hands and touched her fingers to his.

“I don’t know,” Jeff teased, his voice raising leadingly. “After seeing that Coriolis, I think there’s definitely a spot for Cosmic Queendom in the Empire.”

“Ha!” Torrance bluntly dismissed. Jeff pressed his mouth into a line.

“Okay, maybe just a spot for Nellie, then.”

“Yeah, how long have you two been planning that?” Mark asked, tactfully shifting the focus away from the ghost of Torrance and Will’s relationship. Thank God Will was elsewhere.

“Not long; we only just thought of trying it a few days ago,” Nellie said. “You’re not upset we did it?”

She looked hesitantly between Mark and Kyle, but they both quickly shook their heads. “Hell no, it was perfect,” Kyle assured, and Nellie smiled. They’d talked everything out that night he’d kissed her three weeks ago in New York City, and there wasn’t any awkwardness at all between them. They’d had a fling a year ago that just hadn’t panned out, and that was that. They were just friends. Easy.

“Well, thanks,” she said. “But Torr and I are kind of a package deal, so if she’s not in, I’m not, either. Sorry, Jeff.”

“A package deal?” O-Khan slyly asked. Torrance’s eyes widened.

“Not that kind of package deal!” she proclaimed. And then, more under her breath, “Not that anyone hasn’t asked me that before, but.”

Nellie whipped her head around at her. “Wait, what?”

“Yes, please share with the class,” Jeff eagerly added, propping his chin on his fist. But O-Khan’s entrance music started to play and inadvertently gave Torrance the perfect out from answering.

“Good luck!” she said, and the guys all groaned and booed after them as she and Nellie left. Nellie could tell by Torrance’s clipping pace that she was keyed up.

“You alright?”

“I need to get out of here and get a drink,” she returned. “How many more matches are there?”

“Um,” Nellie thought about it for a second. “Three, I think? But that reminds me—Gabe invited us out with the LA Dojo guys. I told him I wasn’t sure if you had anything in mind already and would let him know.” She shrugged. “I don’t know, it could be fun. Although that Clark guy seems like he might be trouble.”

“I don’t have anything in mind,” Torrance returned. “And honestly, I’m up for a bit of trouble.”

And that was how, later that night, they found themselves at a dive bar in Roppongi with Gabriel Kidd, Clark Connors, and Alex Coughlin. There had been more people with them at the outset, but one by one they’d dropped off bar after bar and called it a night. But not Nellie and Torrance. They were both familiar with Gabe from his time as a Young Lion, although they hadn’t seen him in a year-and-a-half. As for Clark and Alex, the girls barely knew either of them—but the guys seemed very keen on changing that.

“How the hell is it we haven’t hung out before tonight?” Clark asked Nellie, turning toward her as they sat together at the bar. “I know you were around when I was here in twenty-nineteen.”

“Probably because I was around, but I wasn’t living here yet,” she explained. “I moved here in twenty-twenty, right before everything shut down.”

“Yeah, Nell and I were in that same shitty boat,” Gabe said. “At least you weren’t stuck quarantined in fucking dojo housing.”

She snorted through her nose. “No, I was just stuck quarantined with my ex.”

“No shit!” Clark exclaimed. “Who’s that?”

“Jesus, Clark, mind your business!” Alex shot, his New York accent becoming even more pronounced. Torrance chuckled beside him.

“It’s fine,” Nellie dismissed with a wave of her hand. “It was Zack. Sabre Jr.,” she added, as if there was another pro wrestler named Zack living in Japan.

“Oh shit, you were with ZSJ, weren’t you?” Clark realized. “Actually, now that you mention it, I remember working a RevPro show with you, him, and Suzuki a few years back. Both of y’all were there too,” he said to Alex and Gabe.

They both nodded. “Yeah, bruv, I know exactly what show you’re talking about,” Gabe confirmed. “And clearly Nellie has a thing for Brits, so we should switch spots.”

Clark flipped him off. “You want another drink?” he asked Nellie.

“Nah, I’ll get it,” Gabe said, already flagging down the bartender.

“How about I get us all the next round?” Alex interjected. “You two are embarrassing yourselves.”

Clark and Gabe both let Alex know exactly what they thought of that, and Nellie took the opportunity to slide off her barstool. “Well, while you guys figure it out, I’m gonna run to the bathroom.”

“I’ll go with you,” Torrance said.

“It’s a one-stall bathroom,” Clark pointed out.

“Well, good thing I’m going just so we can talk about the three of you, then,” she sweetly returned, and Nellie laughed at the look on Clark’s face as they both walked away.

“Looks like you have your pick of Clark and Gabe tonight,” Torrance smirked once they were out of earshot. Nellie genially rolled her eyes.

“Come on… you know I’m not available.”

“Yeah, I know,” Torrance started—and Nellie could sense it coming.

“But?”

“But,” she went on. “As much as I want things to work out with you and David, you’ve already spent enough time waiting on guys, Nell. More than enough, more than you ever should have. I mean, speaking of Zack—he’s literally the only guy since I’ve known you who didn’t leave you in some sort of limbo.”

Nellie’s eyebrows arched. “Jesus, when you put it like that.” She tried the restroom door handle as they arrived, but it was occupied, and so they both leaned back against the wall on either side of the hall to wait.

“I’m just being honest,” Torrance returned.

“No, I know,” Nellie breathed; and, admittedly, Torrance did have a point.

David had left Japan less than a week after he and Nellie had finally told each other how they felt; and with no timetable for when he’d be back, they’d made the mutual decision not to put a label on anything. “That would make me no better than Jay, and I refuse to do that to you,” David had said. But it didn’t dishearten Nellie. Instead, it emboldened her. Because, to her, it confirmed that what she and David had wasn’t conditional. It was real.

“And I get what you’re saying, I do,” she told Torrance. “But it doesn’t feel like I’m in a limbo this time, Torr, and I can’t explain it other than to say I just have this deep-seated feeling in my soul that David and I have something real that’s worth waiting for. I mean, we’ve talked every single day since he left, and I sure as shit couldn’t say that about Jay when he was stuck in the States, and we were actually in a relationship.”

“I know,” Torrance nodded. “David’s a good guy, and I have a lot more faith in him than most, I do. But I’m just saying… I’ll still kick his ass if I have to.”

Nellie grinned. “I know you will. But I’m telling you you won’t.” The restroom door opened, and a woman smiled and bowed her head at them as she exited. “You go ahead,” Nellie offered Torrance.

“Okay, cool; turns out I do have to go,” she said, and she ducked inside and locked the door behind her as Nellie fished her phone out of her small crossbody bag. The clock widget on her home screen informed her it was after 10 a.m. on the East Coast of the U.S., but David was in Los Angeles filming an episode of NJPW Strong; ironically, he had an eight-man tag match against a team that included Jay and Riley. But she decided to text him, anyway. Even if he wasn’t up, he’d get back to her when he was.

She pulled up their text chain and smiled seeing their messages from just a few hours ago; he’d gotten up in the middle of the night to watch her and Torrance’s Historic X-Over match live. Torr and I are out with the LA Dojo guys, she wrote. I’m having fun, but it’s also just making me miss you.

She sent it off and switched over to Instagram, not expecting a reply. But then David’s name popped up on her screen.

Are you? They’re good guys, don’t let their antics fool you. And I miss you too, every day.

Butterflies. Meaningful ones.

They exchanged a few more texts before Torrance emerged from the bathroom, and Nellie told him she’d let him go to start his day. Okay, let me know when you make it back home, he wrote back. You know I’ll start to worry if I don’t hear from you.

I know, she returned, and she sent it off with a kissy face emoji. Because even though there wasn’t a label on her and David’s relationship, in every other way, every way that mattered, they were together.

* * * *

Sunday, April 23, 2023 Stardom All Star Grand Queendom – Yokohama, Japan

Doggedness and determination. That’s what Nellie was running on by the end of the winner takes all match against Saya Kamitani.

She’d been prepared, thoroughly. But as well as Nellie knew Saya, she wasn’t used to being opposite her, at least not one-on-one, and she realized early on that she couldn’t afford a single misstep. But the reverse was also true—and unlike Nellie, Saya had nothing to gain or prove. She’d surpassed the record set by Momo Watanabe for defenses of the Wonder of Stardom Championship, eclipsed Kairi by more than one hundred days to become the white belt’s second-longest reigning champion, her position as one of Stardom’s best and brightest secure. She had nothing to fight for outside maintaining the status quo.

But Nellie had everything to gain, everything to prove, everything to fight for. Despite being a long-tenured champion herself, despite being the older and more experienced wrestler of the two, she was decidedly the underdog. That was her motivation, her drive, her fire. And by the halfway point, there were more people cheering for Nellie in Saya’s hometown crowd than there had been at the opening bell. If she lost, at least she would have that.

But she won.

She knew she’d done it as soon as she hit her new finisher, a variation on a lifting reverse STO that she’d worked out with David and dubbed the Wit Hit. (“As in a cheesesteak wit onion, not as in like, a quick wit,” she’d explained. “Honestly, it works either way,” he’d smirked.) And when she hooked Saya’s leg and felt the referee count one, two, three, she knew she’d earned the crowd’s respect.

And she had Saya’s, too. All along.

As Nellie stood with tears in her eyes and the winner’s trophy in her hands, Saya fastened the Wonder of Stardom Championship around her waist. And after she raised her arm in victory, she pulled her into a hug and told her in Japanese, “You are always welcome in Queen’s Quest, Nellie-san.”

Nellie hadn’t expected it. It gave her even more to think about.

But she’d worry about that later. Right now, her priority was setting her intention as the new Wonder of Stardom Champion.

“What did I say?” she started as she stepped in front of the backstage camera; sweaty and worn, laden with gold. “I said I would end Saya Kamitani’s history-making reign, and that’s exactly what I did. And now a gaijin from Philadelphia is the 9th SWA World Champion and the 17th Wonder of Stardom Champion—and I intend to be a fighting champion.” She shook her head. “No more going five months without a defense. No more being placated and overlooked. Whoever wants a shot at either of my titles, just say the word. Kamitani-san had fifteen defenses of this championship? I want sixteen. Seventeen, eighteen, more. So whoever wants to try to take it from me, let Rossy know. He can’t ignore me now.”

She stopped to draw in a breath, collecting herself before she went on. “And now that I have proven just how un-ignorable I am, how much of an asset I am to this company, there’s another piece of business I need to address. For an entire week now people have been asking me nonstop backstage, online, stopping me out in the street—Who are you with, Nellie? Are you with Cosmic Angels or Club Venus? And frankly? The answer is neither.

“Tam and Poi, you welcomed me into Cosmic Angels without question. You gave me a place when I was suddenly without one, and I’ll never take that for granted. Torr and I won the Goddess titles with your backing, I won this SWA title for a history-making second time with your backing, the three of us nearly went the distance in the Triangle Derby. But despite all that success, we all knew I was something of a black sheep in your colorful, kawaii flock. It was like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, and what happened? I wore myself down to try to fit.” She shook her head again. “Not anymore. My edge is back—and with all due respect, I’ve outgrown Cosmic Angels. And with no due respect, I’m sure as shit not joining Club Venus.”

She adjusted the SWA title on her shoulder. She was exhausted, and it was getting heavier by the minute. “But even though I know at the end of the day I can only really rely on me, myself, and I, I’m not really into the whole lone wolf thing, either. I recognize that there’s strength in numbers, and I’ll be taking my time to consider my next move. But for now, I’m gonna go put all this down because it’s fucking heavy, and then I’m gonna crack open a Sapporo and celebrate the sweet, sweet return of Two-Belt Nell.”

* * * *

Wednesday, May 3, 2023 Wrestling Dontaku – Fukuoka, Japan

The Stardom bus arrived at the Fukuoka International Center fifteen minutes before bell time. They’d had a show earlier that afternoon in Shimonoseki, and with Stardom running a pay-per-view in Fukuoka tomorrow, they’d loaded up and made the hour-and-a-half trip down for the NJPW show there that evening. And as soon as she could, Nellie shot off the bus like a bullet.

David had been back in Japan for two weeks, but Nellie had only gotten to spend a handful of hours with him. He’d arrived in Tokyo only to turn around and leave for the Road to Dontaku tour, and their schedules had kept them apart in separate corners of the country. And because of that, Nellie still hadn’t said those three little-big words.

They’d been on the tip of her tongue the day he’d come back. She’d felt them in the way he’d touched her, looked at her, in every breath during that abbreviated time they’d spent together before he had to leave to get on the bus. But she hadn’t wanted to say it only for him to be physically absent again. If she was going to tell him she loved him, she needed to feel it, live in it for longer than just a few hours.

And tonight, the timing was finally right.

She made a beeline for his dressing room, pausing impatiently when she ran into Aussie Open, and they both hugged her and congratulated her on winning the Wonder of Stardom Championship before she took off again. She knocked on the door when she arrived, and David called for her to come in. Her heart melted at the sight of his smile.

“Finally,” he breathed, and then his lips were on hers. Hungry, eager, heated, as if it had been two months instead of just two weeks.

But then Nellie had a thought. “Are you sharing this room with Kenta?” she quickly asked. She hadn’t noticed any other luggage around, but she hadn’t really looked, either.

David shook his head, a smirk on his lips. “Not tonight. We have this all to ourselves.”

That was all the information she needed. She pushed him down onto a seat and straddled his lap, and then they were the only two people in the entire arena again. David ignited her entire being in a way that no one ever had, mind, body, soul—heart. And before they lost themselves in each other, she needed to tell him.

She pulled back and looked down at him. His eyes were dark and hooded, full of desire. “What?” he softly asked.

“I love you.”

Nellie knew he felt the same, she knew he did—but there was still that anxious knot in her gut. Until a smile spread over David’s face.

“I was wondering when you’d finally say it.”

She let go of the breath she’d been holding. “Are you serious right—”

He silenced her with a kiss, and she melted into him like she always did. She loved him; he loved her. It was undeniable.

He pulled back, their lips still close, noses brushing. “I love you, too. I have since the fall.”

Butterflies exploded in Nellie’s stomach. “You have?”

“Mhm,” he nodded. “I spent that entire tour last year falling in love with you, and when I left Japan, it felt like I’d left part of myself behind. And then the night of Historic X-Over, when you called me after you got home from being out with the LA Dojo guys… I knew.”

Nellie’s smile lit up her entire face, her entire being. “I was drunk when I called you that night,” she remembered.

“Yeah, I know you were,” David grinned. “Which reminds me, I have to tell Clark he can’t take my girlfriend out and ply her with alcohol anymore.”

She laughed. “But it would just be a little Bullet Club bonding,” she innocently returned. It made him arch a brow.

“You saying you’re Bullet Club? Is that what I’m hearing?”

She shrugged. “I don’t know… that’s kind of up to you.”

He drew her closer on his lap. “It would be nice to have you out there with me when I win the title tonight…”

He trailed off and kissed her neck. She bit back a grin. “I don’t want to stir the pot just yet. I just won the Wonder of Stardom title; it probably wouldn’t be the best idea to ruffle any company feathers.”

David hummed against her skin. “Mm… yeah, you’re not ready. That’s not something someone in Bullet Club would say.”

Nellie playfully rolled her eyes. But he pulled her mouth against his again, and they let their bodies finish the conversation.

* * * *

Sunday, June 12, 2022 Osaka, Japan

For the longest time, this was all Nellie had wanted. To feel Jay again. To feel wanted by him again. And now that she’d finally gotten it, all she felt was uncertainty. Still.

She lay next to him in his hotel room, facing the other way, listening to him breathe. In and out, steady. Last night had been an intoxicating blur of adrenaline and emotion. She blamed Osaka, the romance of a different setting, the context of why they were there. Stardom and NJPW both had shows in the city; Jay had a match against Okada for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at Dominion that night. And last night, Nellie had felt like her body was a prize for Jay just as much as that title. Something for him to win, to take. Part of her regretted letting him have it. But another part of her still yearned to belong to him.

She felt him stir beside her, and then he wrapped his arm around her and pulled her back against his chest. She closed her eyes and folded into him.

“Mm,” he hummed. “I missed this.”

He pressed his lips against her neck, and Nellie let him. But she couldn’t keep from asking.

“Did you?”

“Of course,” he easily returned. Almost as if he’d expected her to question him, as if he’d had the answer at the ready that he knew she wanted to hear. But then his mouth was working down her body, his lips leaving a trail of goosebumps over her skin, until his head was between her legs and his tongue inside her. And she gave into him, writhing and arching her back, curling her fingers in his hair until she came undone. And all the while, she didn’t stop questioning.

He kissed his way back up to her lips, his naked body hovering over her. His cock pressed hard against her inner thigh. She wanted it. She hated that she did. But she wanted him.

“Let’s get in the shower,” he breathed. And she let him pull her from the bed and lead her into the shower where he had her again, her back pressed up against the wet tile, legs wrapped tight around his waist as her nails left tiny moon-shaped marks on his shoulders. Because even though Nellie knew it wouldn’t last, that Jay would just be gone again come tomorrow, she wanted to pretend he was hers for just a little while longer.

* * * *

Saturday, May 27, 2023 Stardom Flashing Champions – Tokyo, Japan

Two defenses in just over a month. Nellie had said she’d wanted to be a fighting champion, and her challengers had quickly formed a line.

Natsupoi had been first, eager and determined. Nellie bested her in a main event twenty-minute battle in Fukuoka the night after David won the NEVER Openweight Championship. Tonight, it was Unagi Sayaka, defeated in just over fifteen minutes. Nellie wasn’t surprised that her former teammates had been the first to step up. They wanted to defend the honor of Cosmic Angels in the wake of her departure, even if there wasn’t any bad blood. But their efforts had fallen short—and Nellie was still an island unto herself. She was biding her time, weighing her options between Donna del Mondo and Queen’s Quest. This time around, the ball was in her court; she wasn’t going to fumble it.

She returned to the locker room after making her backstage comments and automatically checked her phone. David was flying in tomorrow after being back in the States for the last three weeks and change, returning early to spend time with her before Dominion and the next Stardom tour. She smiled when she saw she had a text from him.

Two down, fourteen to go. Proud of you, babe. I can’t wait to see you tomorrow.

Tomorrow isn’t soon enough, she returned with a kissy face emoji.

But David wasn’t the only one who’d texted her. So had Clark.

Congrats, champ. We’re going out to celebrate, right?

Her brow furrowed. Who’s we? she sent back. She and Clark were friends, but he could get too friendly sometimes.

His response came quick. You, me, and your Stardom friends. The hot single ones.

She rolled her eyes, but her phone pinged again. He’d sent her the name of a bar in Roppongi; of course that was where he wanted to go. She pursed her lips as she wrote back.

My hot single friends might already have plans, she told him.

Alright but if Dave asks it was your idea for just the two of us to hang out, not mine, he returned.

Nellie breathed out. As irritated as she wanted to be, she had to give him that one. But she sent him an eye roll emoji and said, I’ll ask Torr and Thekla and let you know, and threw her phone in her bag to head to the shower.

* * * *

As it turned out, Nellie’s hot single friends did already have plans—to go to a different bar in Roppongi. But that worked just fine for Clark, and he told Nellie he’d meet them there. And honestly, she hoped he’d get there sooner rather than later, because the current company was a mixed bag, to say the least.

Thekla had come, along with Giulia and Mai Sakurai, the three of which were in a celebratory mood—they’d won the Artist of Stardom Championship from REStart that night. Torrance had also come; it was the first time she and Nellie had gone out together in months.

But she’d brought Club Venus with her.

“They’re really not that bad if you get to know them,” Thekla told Nellie over the music as they sat together in the booth; all the others were off dancing or getting drinks. It earned her a skeptical stare. “I know, I know,” she returned. “You’re Team Tam even if you’re not in Cosmic Angels anymore. But Torrance is your best friend, and Mariah is practically her clone. Her much taller British clone, but still.”

Nellie laughed, remembering how she’d told David almost the exact same thing. But then Thekla changed the subject.

“And speaking of you not being in Cosmic Angels anymore… when’re you gonna bite the bullet and join DDM?”

Nellie breathed out. She’d expected this to come up.

“It’s been over a month, Nell.”

“I’m aware,” she replied. “But Giulia doesn’t seem nearly as eager to have me in DDM as Utami does to have me back in Queen’s Quest.”

She sent Thekla a pointed look over her drink. Thekla’s eyebrows arched in understanding.

“Giulia is hard to read, I’ll give you that,” she admitted. “And I’ll be honest with you—you’d have to earn her trust because of how close you are with Tam. Which I mean, can you blame her? Tam shaved her head.”

“Okay, but she rocked that look, though,” Nellie pointed out.

Thekla grinned. “She did, but still. The good news is you’re already halfway there.”

“Am I?” she curiously asked.

“Yeah. Because Giulia trusts me and my judgment—and I want you in DDM, dammit.”

Nellie grinned. “And I appreciate that. And as soon as I make my decision, I’ll let you know.”

“Look who we found at the bar.”

They both looked up. Giulia and Mai had returned, and they had Clark with them.

“I wouldn’t expect you to find him anywhere else,” Nellie quipped.

He set a shot glass in front of her and Thekla each. “Here, I bought us all a round,” he said, and then, in a higher-pitched voice, “‘Oh, thank you, Clark, you’re so sweet and thoughtful and also incredibly handsome.’”

Thekla snorted. Nellie's expression was deadpan. “I already regret telling you where to meet us.”

“Scoot over,” he said with a nudge of her shoulder, and she and Thekla made room so he could sit down while Giulia and Mai did the same on the other side of the booth.

“What is this?” Nellie asked as she picked up the shot.

“Tequila,” Clark said. “I remember what you like.”

She ignored the comment and brought the liquor to her lips.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” he quickly stopped her. “We gotta toast!” He raised his glass and looked expectantly around the table. The girls all obliged. “To the success of Donna del Mondo,” he started, “and the restoration of fucking Bullet Club.”

A smirk pulled at Nellie’s lips, and they all toasted and kicked back the tequila, some grimacing more than others as it went down. “Okay, that one was for you, but we're getting whiskey next round,” Clark winced.

“What, can’t handle it?” Nellie teased. “I remember Gabe shooting tequila just fine.”

“A-heh-heh-heh,” he screwed up his face and mock-laughed in return. “But speaking of Gabe—I heard you’re gonna be at Dominion?”

Her brow furrowed in confusion; that segue didn’t make any sense. What did Gabe have to do with Dominion?

But before she could ask, Thekla interjected, “Wait, what? Isn’t Dominion the same day as our Korakuen show?”

Nellie nodded. “It is. But I told Rossy I want to be in Osaka to support David at ringside and that if he really wants to elevate Stardom’s global profile, he needs to start putting me and my two titles on NJPW TV.”

Thekla’s eyebrows arched. “And he agreed to that?”

“Mhm,” Nellie proudly returned. “I think he admired my nerve.”

“Hell yeah,” Clark grinned. “I cannot wait to see the look on ELP’s face when you walk out there with us.”

She gave him another curious look. Us? As far as she knew, Clark wasn’t booked to be at Dominion. “Okay, is there something—”

“What the fuck is this twat doing here?”

Nellie whipped her head around. She saw Torrance first, her face flushed from dancing. And then she saw Dan Moloney.

“I know you’re not talking about me,” Clark returned.

“Well, I don’t see any other twats sat at this table.”

Nellie shot a tense look at Torrance, asking with her face what the hell Dan was doing there. He and Clark had just tried to murder each other in their Best of the Super Juniors tournament match three days ago; the last thing she wanted to do tonight was pull apart another United Empire-Bullet Club fight.

Clark stood from the booth, and Nellie almost grabbed the back of his shirt—but then he greeted Dan like they were best mates.

“I didn’t know you’d be here tonight, man. You should’ve said something.”

“Yeah, well, kind of a last-minute thing. This one invited me,” Dan said with a thumb at Torrance.

Nellie, meanwhile, was at a complete loss. “I’m sorry—what?”

“I don’t know—men,” Thekla shrugged. “They beat the shit out of each other once and suddenly they’re best friends.”

Clark sat back down next to Nellie while Mai made room for Torrance and Dan on the other side of the booth, and Torrance and Nellie’s gaze connected again. Torrance tapped her phone; and no sooner had she than Nellie felt hers vibrate in the back pocket of her jeans. She pulled it out and read the text.

We may have hooked up. Surprise?

Nellie widened her eyes at her friend. She just shrugged.

Surprised and not surprised, she wrote back. I guess bro code doesn’t count for shit in UE.

She waited for Torrance to see the response. Her phone lit up—and she scoffed before quickly typing back.

Whatever, I don’t care. Will had already moved on to another warm body before my side of the bed was even cold.

Nellie read the text and gave her a look that said, “You’re not wrong,” before sending a written reply.

Maybe Dan isn’t even in UE anymore. Him and Clark acting all buddy-buddy right now is suspicious AF.

Torrance’s eyes went wide, and she typed quickly back. Don’t even joke. I’m so done fucking with Bullet Club boys.

Nellie just laughed; she’d thought the same after she and Jay had broken up. And yet, here she was, just days away from declaring herself Bullet Club, too—something that only she, David, and Clark knew.

As far as she knew, anyway.

* * * *

Friday, November 4, 2022 Osaka, Japan

Tomorrow would be David’s last show in Japan until he didn’t know when. It sucked—it really sucked. He and Nellie had only realized their mutual desire for something more than just friendship five days ago. But Nellie didn’t want to focus on their painfully poor timing. As it worked out, their schedules had synced up to give them a full day off together in Osaka, and they’d taken full advantage.

They started off with getting breakfast at an American-style diner, splitting chocolate banana pancakes and a bacon and cheese omelet because neither of them could decide which sounded better. Then they’d gone on the famous Osaka costumed go-kart sightseeing tour that Nellie had always wanted to try but never had the chance; she’d dressed up as Yoshi, David as Pikachu. Afterward, they’d stopped at one of the city’s numerous food stalls for deep-fried chicken and sticky-sweet rice balls before heading back to David’s hotel room, where they’d fallen asleep watching TV together on the bed. It felt so natural, so comfortable, so uncomplicated sleeping in David’s arms.

But when they awoke, it only made it that much more difficult not to think about how their time together was dwindling all too quickly.

“I don’t want to leave you at all,” David said as they still lay together, his arm around her, her head on his chest. “But I also feel like I need the time away for myself to reset; go back to the fucking drawing board. My G1 was shit; I really wanted that TV Title… I don’t know. I need to figure out what I need to do to stop just spinning my wheels.”

“Your G1 wasn’t shit,” Nellie gently returned. “Will won your block with what? Eight points? And you and everyone else but Juice finished with six. Most people finished with six this year. And if it helps at all, that TV Title is ugly as shit.”

David let out a laugh. “You’re right about that. And yeah, at least I did beat Juice. But it’s just one disappointment after another, you know?”

“I do know. You know I do. And I think you’re right. I don’t want you to leave, either. But even more than that, I don’t want you to get burned out from frustration.” She lifted her head to look at him. “So, take some time to do what you need to do, and then come back to me.”

He gave her a soft smile. “I know this probably feels like an uncomfortably familiar situation. But I promise, Nell—I’m not Jay.”

She shook her head. “I know you’re not,” she said, and she kissed him. She’d meant it to be just one, short and sweet, assuring; but neither of them wanted to stop at just one. David rolled her underneath him, and her hand unintentionally slipped under his shirt. Nellie wanted him; she wanted to cross that line. But she knew all too well that sleeping with him now would only make his absence hurt that much more—

And then her phone started ringing.

He pulled back. “Is someone calling you?”

She sighed. “Guarantee it’s Torrance.” Sure enough, when she retrieved her phone from the nightstand, Torrance’s name was displayed on the screen. David just laughed.

Nellie answered the call, and she and Torrance talked for a few minutes, figuring out what the plans were for the evening (“The Aussies and Jeff and Francesco want to get dinner with us, but I don’t want to be around Will,” Torrance explained). When she hung up, she looked back at David. The previous tension still hung in the air between them.

“It’s probably for the best she interrupted,” he softly said. “I don’t want to do that just to turn around and leave for I don’t know how long.”

Nellie sighed again. “I know. But you know you saying that only makes me want it more, right?”

He grinned. “Maybe that’s the point,” he teased, and he kissed her again. Once, tender and meaningful.

They got up from the bed, and David walked her to the door and told her to let him know when she made it back to her hotel—she wanted to shower and change before dinner—and Nellie made her way to the elevators. She looked down at her phone as one arrived with a ding; but when the doors slid open, a stone dropped into her stomach.

Jay.

He looked like he’d just arrived, luggage in tow, sunglasses on. He pushed them on top of his head and grinned. The cat who caught the canary.

“Well, fancy meeting you here.”

He stepped out of the elevator, but his suitcase blocked her way and the doors slid closed. Not that Nellie could move, anyway. It felt like her legs had suddenly turned to lead.

“Is Stardom in this hotel?” he asked. “I thought your show was in Nara tomorrow?”

She tried not to think about why he knew that as she answered. “It is, and we’re not. I’m here with David.”

It was more gratifying than she expected to say that to Jay’s face. And even though his face didn’t give much away, she could see it in his eyes. Resentment. But then he turned them down and nodded.

“Are you? That’s kind of surprising.”

Nellie’s brow hardened. “What’s so surprising about it?”

He shook his head. “Nothing—well. It’s just that when you started hanging out with him during the G1… I thought you were doing it just to get back at me.”

Anger bubbled up in Nellie’s chest. Shock, disbelief, to the point that she felt ill. She looked him dead in the eye. “If you think I would use someone like that, then you really don’t know me at all.”

She hit the down button again.

“Nell, come on,” Jay breathed. “What else was I supposed to think? When I got back to Japan it seemed like you wanted to fix things between us, and then next thing I knew, you were out getting drinks with my old best friend.”

“I did want to fix things!” she burst. “Against my own better judgment, I did! And what happened? You fucked me one last time—here, in Osaka, to pump yourself up for your World Title match—and then you disappeared again.”

His eyebrows arched. “Are you joking? I had other bookings; that was two weeks before Forbidden Door.”

The elevator arrived, but Nellie didn’t get on. “Okay, but you didn’t talk to me! You didn’t show me anything, Jay—nothing changed! And you know what David did? He showed me that he gave a shit about me.”

The elevator doors started to close, and Nellie caught them with her arm and stepped inside. She looked back at Jay. The resentment in his eyes had given way to something else. Guilt.

“Nell… I don’t want to leave it like this.”

She shook her head. “Now’s not the time,” she told him, and the elevator doors slid closed, putting a pause on the one conversation that she knew, eventually, she’d no longer be able to avoid.

* * * *

Friday, June 2, 2023 Tokyo, Japan

“You remember the last time we were in Osaka together?”

David asked the question as they finished packing. The big weekend had finally arrived. They were taking the bullet train down to Osaka tomorrow for Dominion on Sunday, and Nellie was buzzing with excitement.

“Yeah, I was just thinking about that,” she said as she zipped up her suitcase and moved it with some effort from her bed to the floor. “It’s crazy to think how much has changed since then.”

Everything had changed. Seven months ago, she and David had been reluctantly pulled apart from one another, both frustrated and floundering in their careers, nothing but uncertainty on the horizon. And now, they were both champions; David the leader of Bullet Club, Nellie on the verge of making her membership known to the world. It felt like they had the whole world ahead of them. And they were doing it together.

“I know,” David returned. “I’d never wanted to board a plane less in my life than I did after that show.”

“Even more than this last time you left?”

“Oh, for sure,” he answered, no hesitation. “Because when I leave now, I know exactly when I’m coming back. It was the not knowing back then that really made it hard.”

Nellie didn’t reply as she climbed onto her bed and settled against the pillows, her thoughts turning inward. After Dominion, David didn’t have any bookings until the G1, over a month away. And they hadn’t really discussed that—if he would extend his stay to spend some extra time with her before heading back home to Florida, if he would come back early before the tournament, if he’d even given it any thought at all. It didn’t worry her, per se; they’d both been busy. But now it was right there in front of her.

“Which, actually, there’s something I wanted to talk to you about.”

She looked back at him, pulled from her thoughts. “What is it?” she asked.

He settled next to her on the bed, and the atmosphere suddenly felt different. Not tense. But important. Nellie felt her heart pick up a beat.

“I know we’ve been moving kind of fast since I came back in March,” David began. “But truthfully—and I think you feel the same—I don’t see the point in waiting if we both know what we want. And so… I’ve decided that I want to move here, to Tokyo. And if you want, I’d like us to get a new place together.”

If Nellie had been buzzing before, she was positively vibrating now. “Are you being serious?”

He nodded. “Of course. I fucking hate every time I have to get on a plane and leave you again. I hate it. And this last time I was gone, I realized… it’s not just my career that’s here now. My life is, too.”

He looked her in the eyes, full of love and trust, and her heart grew wings. “I would love to get a new place together.”

David smiled. “Yeah?”

“Yes, of course,” she said, and she kissed him. She couldn’t contain her excitement. “Babe! This is a big deal!”

“I know, but it’s what I want,” he reiterated. “And plus, this timing works out because I have a month-and-a-half off after Sunday, so that’ll give me a good amount of time to sort everything out and get my place in Florida packed up and shipped over here.”

“That’s a process,” she told him. “Trust me, I know from experience.”

“I know. But to be honest with you, I already started.”

Nellie smiled at him. “You did?”

He nodded. “Yeah. I had a feeling you’d say yes, so I figured I’d get a head start when I was home.”

“Oh, you had a feeling?”

“I did,” he grinned. “Come here.”

He pulled her into another kiss, and Nellie had never felt so much love, so much trust, so much understanding, so much faith that this was right. That everything she’d been through, that they’d been through, had purposefully brought them exactly to where they were now. And she couldn’t wait to find out what else they would build—together.

“I love you,” David said against her lips, and Nellie smiled.

“I love you, too.”

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Sunday, June 4, 2023 Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-jo Hall – Osaka, Japan

Nellie had thought she was the only surprise David had in store that night. Boy, had she thought wrong.

The first surprise came after the IWGP Junior Tag Title match. Catch 2/2 had staved off Intergalactic Jetsetters only for Clark to come strutting down to the ring—with a gold cap on one of his teeth and a too-orange spray tan, God bless him—and at first, Nellie hadn’t understood. No one had; he was outnumbered, what was he going to do? But everyone got their answer when Dan Moloney, who had been at ringside for the match, unexpectedly attacked Francesco and TJP, officially turning on United Empire and joining Bullet Club. And Torrance had texted Nellie almost as soon as it had happened.

Nellie I swear to God if you knew about this and didn’t tell me.

Dude I had NO idea I swear, I’m just as shocked as you are, she’d quickly sent back. But as Dan and Clark had walked back up the ramp, the sight of them together made a little too much sense.

“They’re gonna bring out the absolute worst in each other,” she’d noted. David had just laughed.

And then, the match after the next, there was another surprise.

After Bishamon had defeated House of Torture and United Empire to win both the IWGP Tag Team and Strong Openweight Tag Team championships, Alex Coughlin and Gabe Kidd had shown up in Bullet Club shirts and put the boots to them, declaring their intent and establishing their allegiance in one fell swoop. It explained why Clark had brought up Dominion after Nellie had mentioned Gabe last week. She had to admit—she was impressed.

But now it was her turn to be the surprise.

She’d never felt more confident than she did now in her BC Decade t-shirt, cropped to show off her figure; although, she wore her Wonder of Stardom Championship around her waist and her SWA World Championship diagonally across her chest, so she was mostly gold. David had explicitly told her to show off. “You’ve earned that,” he’d told her. “We run this fucking place.”

Excited butterflies teemed in her stomach as they all stood at the ready at the Gorilla curtain. David smirked down at her.

“Last chance to back out.”

She grinned and shook her head. “Not a chance,” she told him, and sealed it with a kiss.

His entrance music started. Clark and Dan went out first, followed by Gabe and Alex. They stood on either side of the stage, and then David went up the steps, followed closely by Nellie, Gedo behind her. She could hear the surprise of the crowd when they saw her, feel it course through her body, energizing her. It was a familiar feeling, but renewed. Different. Deeper.

They walked down to the ring, and while David’s focus was zeroed in on El Phantasmo, ELP was looking at Nellie. Except it wasn’t ELP; not right then. Right then, it was Riley.

“Seriously?” he said down to her. “You never once came out here with Jay.”

Nellie didn’t hesitate. “Jay never asked,” she returned, and David slid into the ring and attacked him.

Twenty-six minutes later, he was victorious. And Nellie hadn’t gotten involved; none of the other members of Bullet Club had. David didn’t need their help; he didn’t need them to interfere. This was a different Bullet Club than what it had been under Jay, a return to the original. And when they all joined David in the ring and raised up the Too Sweet above ELP, Nellie had never felt more like she belonged. Not in Cosmic Angels, not in Queen’s Quest, not even in Suzuki-gun. This was her home, beside David—and it just so happened to be in Bullet Club.

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Libra Season Overview for 🐞🐍⛲🐝ALL SIGNS

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Libra season is a time of returning to balance. If you’ve been working hard at something dearly beloved to your Soul, this is harvest season. If you’ve been stuck, energies are flowing more smoothly now. If you’ve been ill, health is returning. But if you’ve been pushing yourself too hard, too… you might get a cold just so your body gets to rest.

At any rate, this season is a time for paying attention to subtle energetic changes that reset/recalibrate you to your centre. If you manage to work with these changes and return to balance, you will be propelled faster🏎️💨towards your Destiny.

If right now, your future self could come through and tell you how everything is wonderful in the future—that you are successful, happy, and thriving—would you be braver now? No matter how tall the challenges and how low you feel every now and then; would you keep your hope, and faith?

Tipping Balance for 🐞Fire Signs – Green Alchemist (Nicolas Flamel)

Pause to smell the roses; your passion has brought you this far—you’ve done well. For the time being, enjoy what you’ve managed to achieve even if you’re only beginning. When it comes to passion, there’s no end to it. You'll never run out of exciting things to do, so take your time to rest when you need it.

🐏Aries – King of Wands Rx

In spite of what people usually say about the negative qualities of Aries, this energy is actually really, really, extremely generous. You’re kind, friendly and helpful. And because you have a strong spirit, you want to be a champion or warrior for a lot of other people. There’s cosmic fire in your Soul—you have a heart that will always care.

For a while now, you’ve been feeling a lack of power. There are restrictions put around the goals you’ve envisioned for yourself. You’re suffocating and the lack of oxygen has caused your fire to become dimmed. You feel a sense of detachment from the people or projects you used to care about. Don’t feel bad about any of this though.

Think of this phase as an arrow about to be shot into stardom. That’s you. You feel like you’re being held back, but the truth of the matter is that you’re being prepared for extremely fast propulsion. You’re amassing great spiritual power and you’re gaining momentum. When the moment comes, you’re gonna grow so big and gain success so fast people can’t understand how you do it all.

🦁Leo – 9 of Pentacles Rx

You tend to be really generous with your resources when socialising. Maybe you like to party and have a good time. Maybe you simply like do, create and build things within a group setting. You care about other people and will go the extra mile to help others. But you do this because you also know you can benefit from others when the time comes🤠

Still, for a while now you’ve been feeling suffocated by your connections. You’ve begun to sense something is amiss and yearn for something deeper, purer. But more importantly, you crave independence. Not freedom per se; independence—to feel enough and capable on your own.

You want to start anew, but to do this, you know some things need to come to a close. When the old is taken care of and finances are safely in place, you’ll feel secure to tread a new path that is more suited to your Soul’s calling. It’s OK to go about this one day at a time. You don’t have to have it all figured out from the get go. Just keep swimming~

🎠Sagittarius – Ace of Pentacles Rx

There is a new beginning you’ve been praying for. Some of you have been hard at work trying to allow a change to happen, but manifestation is taking so long. Some of you have simply been stuck in a rut; can’t even begin to work on anything unless an energetic shift has taken place. Know that this Libra season is opening the floodgates of abundance and a sense of personal freedom.

What I’m seeing here is that up until now you’ve not had a great energy. This could involve many things: maybe your health has been on the low; maybe you’ve been psychically attacked; maybe you’ve been in post-op surgery recovery; maybe you’re in rehab after a great mental health issue; maybe you’re healing from a traumatic experience with a toxic or abusive partner; etc.

At any rate, the key to your balance lies in the protection of your spiritual and emotional energy. Before you can receive this season’s blessings, you must prioritise protecting yourself from toxic or draining situations, as well as take necessary measures to maintain your physical health. If walking, exercising or taking supplements help, do that. If you need a nutritionist or learn healthy living from YouTube, do that.

This season, just take care of your health first, especially physically. Trust that everything else will just magically resolve itself in divine timing!

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Tipping Balance for 🐍Earth Signs – Silver Physician (John Dee)

Honey, you’re dehydrated; please drink more this season. You also need to improve your relationship with food. Balance is key in everything and you can simply follow reason when it comes to ‘eating healthy’. When you feel refreshed physically, your mind also thinks clearly.

🐂Taurus – Queen of Wands Rx

If you’ve been feeling a lack of inspiration or motivation, it’s coming this season; but first, you need to take care of your physical health. I’m not a nutritionist or anything, but I’m seeing in your case you’re lethargic physically because you haven’t been eating right, and that’s caused a mental fog. And then, it just feels like you’re stuck or that any option available to you doesn’t seem viable or good enough to pursue/explore/attempt.

Wherever you are in the world, this season, try to calm down and slow down. If you can, learn about ‘healthy eating’ and try to build new habits surrounding this new knowledge. Most of us weren’t taught proper eating by our education system, so if you’re blind to this and need a lot of trial and error, it’s all dandy. The most important thing is that you’re learning something new.

And whatever life-changing endeavour you’re pursuing, which you feel a lack of confidence, thus the lack of motivation, I’m seeing the need to read up on a lot of materials on it. The more you study or immerse yourself in the practice of it, the more confident you feel about finding success in it. So that you won’t crumble easily, you need to have a strong foundation. Read up; study and exercise from NOW🌟You got this!

🧘🏻‍♀️Virgo – 7 of Swords

Did you witness someone cheating in life and caused you to miss an amazing opportunity? Perhaps something relating to your profession? Something like that happened in the past and you felt grossed out by it. But you actually learnt about the reality of what it takes to achieve success in this world. Sometimes you’ve got to do unsavoury shit to get by, and get ahead. By now, even you’ve done a thing or two that’s less than noble.

This may have caused you a great deal of mental burden—questioning your own morality and dignity. But here’s a little pat on your back: you did the clever thing to do to save a situation; this isn’t necessarily evil. Sometimes, when we’re lacking guidance or a situation is a total mess, we’ve got to think quick based on what’s most favourable at the time.

I guess this season brings you a more wholesome understanding of this dynamic, so you can learn to be at peace with yourself. Life is a balancing act; it is Yin and Yang. Sometimes we choose to do ‘dark’ things to serve a greater good. Whatever happens, believe in your innate goodness!

🐐Capricorn – 5 of Pentacles Rx

Oh, my gosh. It’s like you’re about to come out of poverty of sort! In fact, perhaps you’ve been fresh out of a hot oven that was frying you up spiritually or psychologically. This season brings that sense of breathing fresh air and dipping your entire self in cool Fiji waters. If you can, please indulge in drinking clean, quality water as much as you can.

Your body is 80% water so drinking quality water can speed up manifestation as well as spiritual purification. Trust me on this one. On top of that, I sense that you have a tendency of working so hard to a point of burning yourself up multiple times. This pattern needs to be broken. Try to control your urge to tackle a lot of challenges within a given day. If something needs to be done, it will be done in divine timing.

This Libra season is all about being kinder and gentler with yourself. You’ve survived so much murder, you’ve got to give yourself the biggest credit for just making it this far. A new chapter that’s easier and more peaceful is really beginning for you.

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Tipping Balance for ⛲Air Signs – Red Geographer (John Dee)

It’s time to plan ahead. Think different thoughts and apply unique methods. The solution is in your crazy—meaning, you’ve just got to flow with the rhythm of your intuition. Remember what you came here for: there are great things waiting to be made manifest by your earnest efforts.

👯Gemini – Queen of Pentacles

This season you will find a sense of stability in finances or just a practical sense of having mastered something. You may have just struggled with a little bit of imbalance/confusion in the recent past. Other than that, you might get some help or guidance from someone older or more professional than you. Other than that, too, you may simply make a connection with someone motherlike who will take care, provide for you. You’ll decide for yourself whether or not you like the assistance provided.

For some of you, you may realise that you’re done being helped by other people because that causes you to feel indebted—and you don’t like the connection. Suddenly, you’re motivated to make it yourself in whatever you’re working on. You’re motivated to resolve your own problems. You have more energy to finish more work and create or study more. You just have a lot of motivation and that’s a welcome change.

You are so capable of becoming the Queen of Pentacles yourself. This season, be wise with how you spend your energy so that you don’t burn yourself out. Work, rest, play, self-care; these are all equally important. Have faith that some kind of miracle is seeking you~ You just need to be in alignment with the energy of ease and excitement!

⚖️Libra – 7 of Pentacles Rx

This is your season, alright! 7 of Pentacles in reverse is totally saying that you aren’t resting, aren’t waiting anymore. Whatever is on your mind, whatever you’ve been working on or wanting to start, the GREEN LIGHT is here. There is a surge of energy for success, fortune, happiness, excitement, and creation. Use this energy, this moment, the best you can while it lasts. Enjoy it. Delight in it.

You’ll know when to make a move or start something new by means of synchronicity. Maybe angel numbers, precognitive dreams, synchronous names, etc. Be mindful of false synchronicities though. These ones happen the most when we are dead anxious. When you’re anxious, you’re seeing symbols and SYNKs that are created by your ego-based fears; these could be misleading.

To hear real guidance from the Higher Realms, one must always be in a relaxed state. Your mind must be cleared of environmental clutter. This season, a lot of good things are yours to take, but you must also take care of your mental state. Don’t overwork yourself. Don’t get too excited. Remain chill and casual about shit😎

🏺Aquarius – 4 of Pentacles

You’re cutting your losses and tying loose ends. You’re realising now it’s important to save up your hard earnt resources for yourself—and only those who truly truly truly matter in your Life. It’s high time you thought about the future—what you intend to do with your amazing wealth (or talent) to roll out changes in the bigger world once you’ve garnered enough power.

This season for you is the season for amassing wealth. Fortune and talents and knowledge and skills. Some of you will resonate with work, some with studies. Your personal world has the potential to set a good example for the public* so whatever you do with career, family, vocation, etc. can have an impact on the world at large. And in that way, you could be saving the world.

You’re powerful like that, so this season would be great for your studies and keeping to yourself, keeping to your dreams and visions, and making sure you have all the resources to manifest your Life Purpose.

*public can simply mean your co-workers, neighbours or social media following; take what resonates~

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Tipping Balance for 🐝Water Signs – Silver Astrologer (John Dee)

Look to the stars for guidance. A loving spirit guide is holding your everything tightly. Whoever this spirit guide might be, they’re trying to divulge a secret to your future—pssst, it’s Destiny! Look inwardly to hear all the great advice and empowering words of Love!

🦀Cancer – 8 of Cups

A Spirit Guide has been guiding you to come out of an unfortunate situation. Some of you are still on prison break (you’ll get out soon), but many of you have just been fresh out of hot water. This season then becomes a resting period for you. You need R&R, you’re deserving of it, and when you’re rejuvenated you will be so busy with new things that are exciting! Like, things are finally moving in the direction you and your Higher Self have always intended!

There is a lot of protection surrounding you at this time. I’m almost seeing a huge bubble of light protecting you from harmful energies, psychic attacks, malicious intents and all that bad juju. Your connection with your guardian angels is very strong at this moment. You’re advised to amplify, or at least maintain, this protection by resting well and eating clean. Need to shift habits that lower your vibe to new healthier habits.

Meditation, reiki, and subliminals are also useful in this scenario. Psst… please skip the whole solfeggio frequencies… they’re actually really bad for your manifestations.

🦂Scorpio – Knight of Pentacles Rx

This isn’t the time to be thinking too logically about things. What you’re dealing with may feel larger than you and you’re trying to resolve issues with a logical pattern. Nope. Stop that. This time around, you don’t go from 1 to 2 to 3. This season, you’re going FASTER. From 0 to 100 in an instant. The key to allowing this to happen smoothly? MAGICK.

Magic isn’t rational and it doesn’t follow convention. That’s the essence of magic anyway: miraculous, unexpected, and ends with glad tidings. You just follow whatever your intuition tells you. I saw on Pinterest a quote like this: your anxiety is lying to you, it’s not the end of the world; you can do this!

What you are seeking is seeking you, too. Relax, sit back, and allow yourself to be in alignment with the energy of miracles. Your Spirit Guides are orchestrating something big behind the scenes. You’ve done enough, let them do their job of serving you now!🎆

🎏Pisces – 3 of Cups Rx

You’ve either been in isolation or just out of touch with most people. At any rate, for quite a while now you’ve been feeling a lack of cheer. You feel quite lonesome and stagnant. But all of that is ‘bout to change. A stream of beauty consciousness is pouring into your Life. It’s like, things are just magically going to get brighter, sweeter, nicer and merrier.

I’m thinking aespa’s DREAMS COME TRUE for both its aesthetic and lyrics, really. And also, their LIFE’S TOO SHORT for those of you who’ve been dealing with haters or parents who wouldn’t allow you to DO YOU. You know? People who make you feel miserable because you’re just trying to be yourself.

Some of you may still be in the dark phase of the Moon. It’s quiet and boring maybe, but it’s just a natural part of the Cosmic Mechanism of the world. Sooner than you think, the Moon is going to wax again and when everything is bright and calm in your world you’ll be glad you didn’t give up.

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KAIRI Press Conference

The press conference occurred hours before the eventual YouTube upload as it was never meant to be streamed live.

KAIRI began by her press conference by expressing gratitude for the acceptance of Stardom.

“I wanted to meet everyone. The number of wrestlers that I could face was limited, but I was able to talk to many of them, and I was struck by the fact that each wrestler was really facing pro wrestling.

I think that I'm the biggest fan of all the fighters. The best highlights for me are 2022, the end of the year, the white belt, the wonder. The next day, I was able to fight Mayu Iwatani for the IWGP Women's championship, and become the 1st champion. That moment was really dreamy, and it's been dreamy since I was struggling with Stardom back in the day.

Thinking that this belt might would be my last mission, I raised the value of this belt, and if I lost, I was prepared to announce my retirement on the spot. Unfortunately, contrary to my expectations, I was only able to defend once, but even so, I played the main role with Mayu, defended at the Tokyo Dome, and fought Mercedes Mone in the United States. It was a rich time, an irreplaceable moment.

Because I challenged myself with determination, I felt a sense of loss, and I couldn't quite organize my mind. At that time, I received offers from various domestic organizations, offers from overseas, and many countries. At one point, I had decided that I wanted to retire, but it made me happy to know that there are people like me somewhere in the world who want to see my matches.

I made a decision. I can't say it clearly, but in preparation for a new voyage, a voyage of determination, I would like to suspend my activities for wrestling matches indefinitely at the end of September 2023. Please be assured that this is a positive decision.

Lastly, I would like to express my gratitude to President Ogawa, who never abandoned me and raised me, even though I was told that I had no talent. I would like to express my gratitude to all the fans who have supported me.”

The remaining schedule for the time being…

9/2 Sendai Girls 9/8 All Japan Pro-Wrestling Osaka event Tokyo event

Q: What made you make this decision?

When I received several offers from overseas, I felt like the gods of professional wrestling told me to keep going. After that, I was talking to my husband because it's important, and retirement is important, but he said, "You can't do it yet, don't regret it."

I have received offers from people who have taken care of me. I have received offers from others than the ones that I have mentioned earlier. There are still matches to fight, and I would be happy if you could come and see them.

Q: When is the last match?

I think it's really going to be at the last minute towards the end of September. In the end, I'd be happy if I could get into the Stardom ring, but I'm not in the 5-Star GP, so I want to fight someone who grew up in Stardom.

Q: What about the overseas reports?

I can't say specifically, but if I'm going to do it, I want to have a career that no one has ever done before. I'm already 34 years old, so I don't think I can do it for many more years. I want to walk a path that no one thought of before.

Q: What do you have to say about Io Shirai's big win?

We have overcome difficult times together in both Japan and the United States, so it is truly amazing that Io-san has been crowned with the highest peak belt. When I was in the United States, I was unable to practice due to the coronavirus pandemic. I respect Io-san from the bottom of my heart.

Q: Did you consult with anyone other than your family?

Stardom was often a listening ear. Mr. Ogawa pushed for me to do what was best. I want to do my best in the end.

Q: With the remaining two months, losing the IWGP Girls was the big trigger, but how do you feel about trying for it again?

At the time of the tournament, I was enthusiastic about another chance, so when I couldn't achieve it, I felt conscious and that I was immature.

Q: I think there are a lot of lonely fans and wrestlers. Is there a dream card match?

I think there is.

Q: When do you have a chance to meet your fans?

I will be suspend at the end of September, but I will continue to update SNS and blogs.

Q: Can we meet you if we go to the gym?

Thanks to you, we had many local people visit us over the last year, and we were able to hire employees. There are parts where I leave it to them, but when I put the time in, there are quite a few times that we can meet.

Q: When can we see the next brave version of you?

I wish I could show you as soon as possible. I hope to train even more, and show my strong side.

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