Queens Quest - Japanese Women Wrestling

The Japanese wrestling promotion Stardom's Heel Stable, Queen's Quest (Viper, Io Shirai, HZK, Momo Watanabe, AZM).
The stable debuted on April 12th, 2016 when Jungle Kyona, Kairi Hojo and Mayu Iwatani took on HZK, Io Shirai and Momo Watanabe.
As far as I can tell, HZM was added in 2017 and Viper in 2018.

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Io Shirai - Japanese Female Wrestling

Japanese wrestler Io Shirai has wrestled on the Independent circuit in Japan, was a part of Team Makehen, a member of Triple Tails, wrestled (and trained) in Mexico worked for World Wonder Ring Stardom and was almost a WWE Diva last year.

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Io Shirai Not Going To WWE

Well it looks like the former two time World of Stardom Champion, one-time Goddess of Stardom, Wonder of Stardom, High Speed and SWA World Champion, five-time Artist of Stardom Champion and 2015 and 2016 women's wrestler of the year (Tokyo Sports) is not going to the WWE.

She and Kairi Hojo had been contacted and offered WWE contracts, starting in 2017.
But after a WWE medical examination discovered a neck injury that would delay Shirai's WWE debut, she was released even after doctors had cleared Shirai to return to the ring.

The WWE said that they had a "general rule of not wanting to bring in new talent that either has concussion issues or neck issues".

I wonder what, if any, effect that will have on Kairi Hojo (Kairi Sane) since she suffered both a concussion and a neck injury during the tapings of the Mae Young Classic tournament.

Io Shirai - Japanese Women Wrestling

Female Japanese wrestler Io Shirai has come a long way since I started following her and her sister (Mio Shirai) back in 2009.
Io has worked for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Pro Wrestling Zero1, Ice Ribbon, NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), World Wonder Ring Stardom and even showed up on Lucha Underground.

And there is a rumor that she might be signing with the WWE like her former team mate Kana (aka Asuka). 

Io Shirai - Japanese Women Wrestling

Haven't done anything on female Japanese wrestler Io Shirai in a while....so here you go.
The younger sister of another Japanese female wrestler Mio Shirai, Io is doing quite well for herself these days.

On April 29th, 2013, Io won the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion's World of Stardom Championship belt and has been defending it ever since.
Right now she is up to five title defenses putting her right behind Nanae Takahashi, who had seven.

Io Shirai vs Kellie Skater

Io Shirai and Mio Shirai - Japanese Female Wrestling

Io Shirai and Mio Shirai are two Japanese female wrestlers that were at one time part of the stable Team Makehen and were popularly known as "The Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters".
They debuted in 2007 and made a pretty good name for themselves in wrestling circles working for promotions like
Ibuki, Pro Wrestling Wave, Japanese Women Pro-Wrestling (JWP) Project, Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling and a whole host of others.

In 2010, along with Kana, they formed the very popular Triple Tails stable.
And also in 2010, Mio and Io went to Mexico to work for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), where they wrestled as Kaguya and Oyuki

In 2011, Io left the group to work on her singles career.

Mio Shirai and Io Shirai taking on Senri Kuroki and Yukari Ishino

Eight Woman Tag Team Match - Japanese Women Wrestling

Here is a eight woman tag team match posted by kapengmabula on YouTube.
It's Japanese women wrestlers Ayumi Kurihara, Mio Shirai, Io Shirai and Makoto taking on Mima Shimoda, Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto and Tomoka Nakagawa at a NEO event.

First we have a little video background leading up to the match, then Mima, Kyoko, Atsuko and Tomoka come to the ring already armed with folding chairs and chains.

Then Ayumi, Mio, Io and Makoto come in...unarmed.

The intros start but never finish as it immediately turns into what "Good Ole JR" would call a pier six brawl.

The action comes back into the ring and normalcy is restored for a moment and it looks like the match will go on like a normal contest.
But not for long...

Pretty soon everyone is back in the ring and going at it again.

Somewhat unusually.

Mima gets upset by a slow count....

...and finally a team turns on one of it's members.

You can see this video and more like it at kapengmabula's YouTube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/kapengmabula

Eight Woman Tag Team Match - Japanese Women Wrestling, posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on September 26th, 2010

Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters

These two ladies are known in Joshi Puroresu as "The Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters".
They are Mio and Io Shirai, so I'm assuming that they really are sisters.

Here is part one of a video of Mio and Io Shirai wrestling Misaki Ohata and Hiroyo Matsumoto



And here's part two