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Kris Wolf is all about the character/personality. If you're looking for technically great/very good wrestling matches then you're looking in the wrong place with her. She provides something different to most and plays her character well. It's very subjective and completely depends on what you're in to. I think wrestling needs a good balance of top talent but various personalities and characters. Comedy works well when it's done right and she manages to do that quite well at times. She's very marmite. Some will absolutely get her and love her. Others won't get it at all and find it ridiculously cringey. That's wrestling and life in general. For me personally wrestling needs over the top characters like her.

Mayu finally won the red belt yesterday. Interestingly in other news Io said today that she's been suffering from neck issues and is taking time out to get treatment. I'd imagine that confirms her not being in the WWE Women's tournament.

Not sure it's an NXT tournament? Last I saw it's billed as a Women's tournament, likely will be similar to the Cruiserweight classic, will be interesting to see if the winner goes straight up to the main roster or works in NXT first and what they even get for winning for that matter. The company didn't have title's/champions prior CWC and UK tournaments so it made sense for those to crown a champion. I imagine this one will be a trophy or something along those lines. I'd expect her to win it unless Io announces she's signed with the WWE before then. I'm convinced we'll see Asuka/Kairi at some stage this year or very early next year.

Kairi just announced she's leaving Stardom (which confirms what we pretty much already knew).

Except she does have the character to set her apart. She's one of the absolute best females out there at selling inside the ring and making you get behind her and root for her. I'm confident she can bring that over and translate it to a much bigger audience. People still love to root for the sympathetic babyface that can take an absolute beating and make you believe every moment of it. It's worked for people like Bayley, Sami Zayn and so on. They're completely different characters to Kairi but IMO she's in a similar mould in being able to make the audience really buy into her and care about her. She takes beatings brilliantly, her expressions, the sounds she makes, the way she moves around the ring...everything just comes together. And when you couple that with the fact that she's actually a ridiculously good worker who can go stiff as f*ck you've pretty much got yourself a winning combination. Io will be fine because as I've mentioned before on here, for me there's no better female in business. She'll get over because she's that damn good. Kairi IMO will provide something completely different to both her and Asuka which will help her not get lost in the shuffle behind the two. She'll be in great hands down in NXT (if this all goes ahead of course and she starts down there, which you'd have to expect she would) where she'll be given plenty of build, protected well and given time to get familiar with the style and for the audience to follow along on her journey. I don't think her not speaking much English will hurt her in the slightest. Like I said, she's charismatic and I think the audience she'll be going out to will quickly warm to her. If she can settle into a completely different environment and country then I think she'll be more than fine, I guess time will tell though mate.

Not getting the "Kairi won't do well in the WWE" stuff what so ever. She'll be completely fine if she goes there. She's got the style and charisma to quickly get the fans on her side and to care about her. The benefit for Kairi is that she offers something completely different to Io and Asuka which will help her stand out, she's absolutely fantastic at playing a sympathetic babyface style role at times that really makes you care and root for her, she's just so believable in everything she sells. Think she'll quickly become popular with the mainstream audience.

Don't agree what so ever, she's not only the best female worker in the business IMO but one of the best workers period. For some bizarre reason a few people seem to have a dislike for her and Stardom in general. Nobody delivers on a high quality level that she does consistently bar possibly two/three women (Satomura being one of those). Tsukushi better than Io? Seriously? Yoshiko? Come on man.. It's not even close to being a stretch, take away your clear dislike for her because the idea that she's not among the best females working in the business right now is bizarre.

Io is the best female worker in the business (and even if you don't agree, you can't argue that she's not among the best). She's not even close to being stale.

Surely set up for Iwatani to finally defeat Io soon and win the title.

"Speaks volumes about who was in the wrong..." It's pointless even continuing the discussion when you're making comments like that. Yeah, Yoshiko did nothing wrong. Let's ignore the actual video evidence showing Yoshiko beating the ever living sh*t out of Act, beating her to a bloody pulp and even going as far as to target the eye she had surgery on. Poor old Yoshiko, such an innocent loving woman. Who cares about the woman who got absolutely battered, hospitalised and had her career brought to an end.

Load of absolute nonsense. What Yoshiko did was nothing short of absolutely disgusting and to be perfectly frank she shouldn't be wrestling again period. Absolutely zero respect or care for the woman after that incident. Even more disgusting considering how she targeted the bad eye of Act. She ended the career of somebody who absolutely loved the business and somebody who had been through a large amount of stuff in her life yet overcome it to continue in wrestling. Your choice how you want to see it though, was just stating that I'll never personally watch any match involving her again and will only tune into the MMA fight in hope of seeing her get finished.

Yeah, no. She's a disgusting person who ended the career of another wrestler in an inexcusable way. How anybody can even attempt to defend that is beyond me. Zero desire to ever watch her wrestle a match again. But hey, if you like people that legit beat the shit out of others in what's supposed to be a scripted and worked match and take away their career from them, that's up to you.

Weight advantage will play into her hands but I can always hope to see somebody as unlikable as her get finished.

Great news, hopefully she get's absolutely destroyed and KO'ed. The only time I'll be tuning in to watch anything she does.

Wrestling is very subjective and opinionated, it all comes down to the styles you like and don't like. Personally I appreciate a wide range of styles and for me Viper brings something a little different to the table and a stylistically different matchup to keep things fresh. Actually really enjoyed their previous match for the title (back in February I think? Seems like forever ago), I think this one has potential to be pretty good too but get that not everybody is going to enjoy it probably as much as I will.

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