It was actually started and so the first company that I started watching in Japan because it's the biggest female 1 and yeah, I mean obviously everyone to starts watching it falls in love with it because the women are just crazy incredible. Well how gozaimasu? Konnichiwa konbanwa for whenever you're listening to the Joshi pod your weekly Podcast about the world of Japanese women's wrestling Joshi wrestling. I'm your host Erick Howard coming to you from beautiful San Diego California. First of all, I wish you guys all very happy New Year. I hope you have a safe and fun New Year's. I hope everybody visiting in Japan for the biggest International week of wrestling is enjoying themselves. If you're listening from Japan, please shoot me a tweet at the Joshi pod last week's episode with Alex Grassi was our most listened to show to date I sincerely appreciate all the support. You've given this little podcast. I was pretty humbling to see the download numbers that came out. 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This is the biggest week outside of WrestleMania week in the world. There's so many stacks shows the total. Yoshi Pro show this week is completely stacked. Well, we'll go over the that card and we'll look at some of the shows going on this week. We'll see where look at even further to see where Josie performers are performing outside of Japan and in our big Main Event interview. We speak with Australia's own Avery who competed in 2019 five-star Grand Prix for stardom. I was actually at the last day of the Grand Prix in saw her defeat sooner Natsu if you listen to this show know before, you know, how much I love Natsu and you know, I had to ask Avery about her without further delay. Let's get to the biggest Headlines from this past week that I brought to you by quiet white designs. If you need a logo for a t-shirt podcast or anything else, please watch reach out to no one in the team at quiet white designs. You can search for them on Facebook @ q u IE T Wy ATT one word designs. You can also find their products on red bubble the T-shirt design I have on pro wrestling T's.com. The Joshi pod was also designed by quiet white designs again reach out to no one in the team at quiet white designs. They'll take good care of you. Headline number one no sake no champion. And Jason is Aki defeated takumi hero huddle in the Regina to waive championship this past week in the bill for this match and izaki did to go to a marvelous show and defeat. Iroha Europa. Aroha also defeated in Ozaukee on a show. So they were kind of one in once this was the tiebreaker if you will in Rohan doesn't lose a whole lot of marvelous show. So it was a Sign it is Aki was up to the task and the next top person for producing wave a Rojas amazing. And there's like he's clearly been number one for wave with her. Oh boy recently announcing her retirement who's just 24. The future wave is kind of up in the air in Nagasaki is the youngest of the poor wave group wave could use an influx of young talent. But this is Aki is the the right person to be the champion right now and hopefully Chef is she's a pretty good title run in her head. line number 2 Yeah. Thank you. The women have got to move the got to move on demand service went live on January 1st with the when you sign up. The first seven days are free. The Senate process is really simple. I was able to do it really quickly to sign up. Do it Lulu pencil said and go to got to move X GA toh mov. Eax dot pivot shared.com got to move as put also put some new t-shirts available on their pro wrestling T store. There's some different styles of t-shirts. Check it out. But yeah, If you want the full experience from each aquella without having to go to each akaya get the Gotta Move experience and see what all the hype and hoopla is about hype and hoopla them a whole lot. But the first couple videos we have on there are pretty awesome and you're gonna get a better idea of what got to move an inch a kaya is all about headline number three putting their differences aside. So Dave Meltzer reported that aw new Japan's relationship has changed. He's not saying there's a formal working agreement yet. But he says that the hostilities kind of simmered a bit could that mean more stardom Talent need W started Talent star times Talent is all over aw already with be Priestly and rijo, Jamie hater and others, but you wonder if it opens the door possibly for my you itani to come in for a show or for Kona me or jungle keyonna or Hannah camera who I think would be an absolute super-duper star in America if she made the jump, but you just wonder if with Abu she wrote I did New Japan and just building that bridge and maybe ignore Little bit of the Ring of Honor relationship that you Japan has that it's a possibility. We're going to see more stardom talents in the u.s. Rios has been super successful. I think it's a champion so far the crowd is really into her. I don't want to say there's better Talent than her in starting but I think there is and I think there's people who could do what she does and more on the stardom roster. I think I got like I said, I think hand I could be the mainstream superstar that Joshi rest. Things needed for quite a long time. Shibuya the show of the week this week is the ribbon Mania 2019 from New Year's Eve at Kirk and Hall which Drew over 1,300 fans. So ice ribbons biggest show of the year the show opened up with a gauntlet tag team match. I'm not going to go over all the names but it at the end I kind of Fujita and I saw he defeated Bonnie hot Okawa and humu cauchy to win the match of the end. Fun opener sloppy at times some other names in the match or Tejon Mama. Yappy Ram Kai Chow, who I'm in Reading Yamashita Ram Kai Chow who absolutely want to meet when I go back to Japan again fun opener kind of Vegeta who will be doing Excursion over to the u.s. In March and April. I believe of this year 2020. Hopefully we'll get her on the show as well while she's in the US. The next match was a singles match when SRI it Sheree condo got these Submission win over Reese's Sarah a lot of needs from Recess Sarah Siri uses her MMA background helped her get the win. Not sure sir. He will commit to wrestling full-time or should continue to pursue anime career. She's doing pretty well with both but she's 30 years old now, so she's at the prime both careers. So let's see what she decides to do for the rest of 2020. The next match was the international ribbon tag team match where Tsukasa Fujimoto and to cushy the Champions retained over Ibuki Hoshi and Suzuki. Nice old school tag team work from Hoshi and suzu everybody would all out for this one. It was a lot of fun. This is a really will work match and Fun match and it's worth going out of your way to seeing this one. The next match was the ice Xfinity title match. Where my he defeated Mike Ozaki my is the Ace of ice ribbon and she picked up a nice win over her sake my has been very aggressive in this man showed a little respect for the union. Manasseh trained was lucky. I was lucky did show some of her powerlifting and to muscle around my enduring parts of the match, but my Yuki is the champion heading into 2020 the final match in the show was the tequila Sia retirement match where she had a gauntlet where she wrestled thirtysomething people and one minute matches some of the highlights. She wants a time limit draw with most people which you obviously can can understand what just a minute she Tejon Mama Mike Ozaki was in the match. He Roy who's retiring her I said earlier in the show. Was in this match Ramen Kai Chow Sheree was in the matching the Yamashita of y'all with the time limit drones Risa. Sarah tequila did beat Minami Toyota in 40 seconds and that the end Souza Suzuki pinned tequila Sia and then tequila did a speech at the end of the show with her calling it a career. She still working in a restaurant and I think a bar and restaurant in Tokyo, which I hope to attend next time. I'm there. But again a fun show go on your way. To watch it. It's their biggest show of the Year 1300 fans in Korea can haul some very nice crowd and very comparable to start them's into the your climax. This is as far as the number of people in the crowd starting. It's a lot of attention for a lot of fans, but you know in Japan 1300 fans is nothing to sneeze at and they're showing they are an equal level as stardom. Hey guys, what's going on? My name is Steve. I'm the host of The Last podcast you'd want. Do you like movies? Well, that's what we talked about. I bring a guest on maybe more than one and we talked about movies. They like movies. They don't like movies from their childhood movies. They give him nightmares just some of the few topics that we talked about on the last podcast you'd want. So if you like movies, you can find us on Apple podcast you can find us. Google podcast you can find us on most major podcast Outlets tip the feel try the staff check out the show. The shows in Japan this week on tonight, January 3rd ice ribbon. Is that the ice ribbon dojo in saitama? I received an autograph picture from yappy this past week. Thank you happy. I'm trying to get her as a guest on the show. And then your future also the third start on Section key buffer string my you itani in sake Kashima face could get soon had a camera kind of the old way totai reunited as for one night as part of cat gets his retirement tour also in the third Julie and unders Miyagi face net Sukkot. Or a and Joshi patil. Um Zoe sky on the fourth Tokyo Joshi pro has a completely stacked card at korakuen Hall. Wish I could be there for this show. I'm gonna watch it on the DDT streaming service. And this will be the show that I review next week. The main event is me you Yamashita challenging for the princess of Princess title against yuccas akazake think we're going to see a title change their we're gonna get me you as the champion again where she belongs mockito defense for international princess championship against Hikari Noah. I think Maki retains and takes the title to pro wrestling Eve. Where should be part of Russell queendom. I go Rica and me you Yamashita defend the tag titles against the bucket retsu sisters Yuki, I know and edokko Tenma. I think the Champions will retain their there's so much more on the card. Even the mean those three matches are amazing. There's there's so much more. Sorry faces natsume Maki pom harju cars on the same team and Sasha Kong, which I cannot wait to see thunder Osa returns to Japan. Saki-sama faces Yuki come a fuku probably the only two women on the Tokyo Joe's cheaper roster as tall as I am. But I wait like 10 times more than all of them. Both of them combined probably but that should be a whole lot of fun seeing those two go at it and then she'll code Nakajima also faces hyper massell again a stack card and we'll review it next week. Also on the fourth ice ribbons that you'll come Yokohama radiate Hall in the morning and then Diana has a show there in the evening the fourth also started as at KFC. See Hall when you choose nerio Goku the Stars team of my yutani Arisa Husky and starlight kid face Moma Watanabe AZ Amanda Tommy hayashida. What should be an absolutely terrific match and then also on that car Julie and unders Miyagi face had a camera and death Yama Saint and then irisa my you Julia and Hannah will head quickly to the Tokyo Dome and be the dark match the start of wrestle Kingdom at the Tokyo Dome. Like I said, and so they have the double header there pretty quickly. They'll have to make the trip over pretty quick. It's not too far away, but I got double duty on the fourth on the 5th at Shinjuku face. Sendai girls are have a show in the morning and then odds Academy. Are there in the evening Tokyo Joe's hiepro is it did boshy greenhalgh seedlings that shin-kiba first ring with the main event of nanaia Takahashi Rio Mazuma Muses Nami and Emmy Sakura facing yoshiko hero you Matsumoto and I think one of the best up-and-comers, yeah me some more off from to aw. I was able to see her at a couple different shows when I was in Japan in September and she really impressed me. She stood out in a few of the shows that I saw her at. You know, she's very very talented young woman. I think she's gonna go places here in the near future also in that card Makoto and irisa Nakajima face one of my favorites really Yamashita and Kaho Kobayashi. Also on the fifth pure Jays at the commie arena in Tokyo on the sixth got some moves a teacher Kya chocolate Square. So all the people that are still there from the wrestle Kingdom shows go see gotta move and in Chicago a chocolate square if you don't you're going to regret it. Not sure if there's tickets still available, but go see but yeah, if you have the opportunity to go go go go go teach a chocolate square and finally on the 8th actress girls are at shin-kiba first Arena. Let's take a quick look at where Josie performers are pouring outside of Japan Eve right girls have wrestling present Russell queendom three on January 11th and London mockito faces session. Moth Martina a mucus akazake will face the winner of the match between Nightshade and Lana Austin who faced each other at ease battlecry event on January 4th ticket information will be available in the show notes Sumi Sakai returns to Southern California on January 10th that pcw Ultra anniversary show. She'll be defending her Ultras Women's Championship against true be raised again. We'll put links for the tickets in the show notes Ruby raises a really a standout performance Southern California right now. She's finally getting her do I think is In recognition from people outside of Southern California Tokyo just you Pro will be at WrestleMania weekend on Friday April 3rd at Russell con more information on an offer on sale date for tickets is forthcoming. I reached out again trying to get information was told that because it's so crazy right now in Tokyo with Russell queen Kingdom and all the Tokyo Joshi Pro shows going on right now during the wrestle Kingdom week that they're probably going out something after those shows at the dust after this the dust settles. From those shows. Hey everyone. This is the Pink Dream Alex Gracia. And you're listening to the Joshi pod before I get into the big Main Event interview with Avery. I want to again thank you guys all for downloading this episode of the Joshi pod. If you'd like to follow the show on Twitter, you can't at the Joshi pod. You can follow me on Twitter at Eric San Diego. Remember to visit procent. He's from January 1st to January 5th. You can get 20% off everything on the site using the code New Year. One word support paskus like Kikyo and Nicole Savoy. I'll put a link for the Joshi wrestlers who have processing T stores on. Show notes. It's a great way to support the women you because uh, kisaki has a shirt on their rijo hit car Rasheeda Asha Kong hero. Yo Matsumoto go with a Crossing T's.com take advantage of that 20% off and got to move again. Like I said earlier in the show has new shirts available. So if you bought the first round two shirts go back on there and save 20% using the code New Year. Again. Thank you guys for downloading this episode. We'll see you next week. I got to go sign Moss. Our Guest this week is one of the top performers in Australia and in August of last year, you know 2019 is last year now. She was selected to come over to stardom to take part in their five-star Grand Prix going to welcome to the show Avery I had to do some editing with the interview a little bit out smart. But we start the conversation with Avery asking her about how she was selected to come over to start them. Enjoy the interview. Do you know how they decided to pick you or why they selected you to come over. No idea it is always been a massive dream of mine to work and start them and it's always been that thing which I wanted to travel the world and get as much experience of his praying just get us goes. I can basically train hard and then maybe try my luck and trying to get into stardom. So it definitely was a big shock when they contacted me. So is it storm specifically you wanted to go to her just Japan in general. It was actually started. Instantly the first company that I started watching in Japan because it's the biggest female 1 and yeah, I mean obviously everyone that starts watching it falls in love with it because the women are just crazy incredible. So yeah started watching it when I first started wrestling where we a long time ago, and that was yeah always the one which was just like that's held some of the best women in the world right there. I want to really want to work for that. So, okay. So you you get picked to come to stardom you fly over or what do you do to prepare to before? Are you before you come over? How do you prepare yourself to be ready? For the Japanese wrestling? I'm sure you've heard stories about Japanese wrestling. Yeah, basically I everything I was told and everything I heard was acceptance from one person and I remember Scarlet giving me some advice towards it and everything. She said was awesome. But every everybody else that gave me some advice or anything heading into it. I got there and it was completely wrong. It was completely Different than what everyone had told me so I went in very much blind and I think all I really wanted Olie Billy Kidd was trying because I knew I would be a large person that I knew I would be a very tall. I know I would be heavier. Whereas in Australia. I'm used to getting thrown around like an absolute Ragdoll like there's a window smaller wrestlers here, but I knew I would be a quite large quite tall heavier person. So I had to just kind of completely change up everything that I kind of learnt up. Until then and just yeah start trying to be this Powerhouse hilarious. But so did Rossi Greek you at the airport? And he was I think I was supposed to but he was really busy that day something ended up coming up and one of the men oh my gosh. I'm terrible person of completely forgot his name one of the men lovely lovely Garden whoever drove us around everywhere. Basically in order to the world. It shows he ended up picking you up. Because the communication barrier, I don't speak any Japanese. He spoke very a bit of broken English. So it was kind of like a you this random phone white girl. Yeah, put the mic. I hope you're the right person. So you did take they take your straight over to the apartment or what happened then yeah. They took me straight to the I ain't never met the other girls and it was I think the first thing that happened was I was given a strong zero and the rest was a bit blurry but who gave you the strong 0 can I guess take a wild guess Martina? No. No, Jamie. Oh, okay. Drunk zeros is a couple in the fridge and I'm like, I would love heard so much about these. I've obviously have to give him a try. I think I had about two of them and I'm like, oh, wow, I'm already legless. I look up. I mean, I'm looking for them in America. I can't find him. I've had a few I was there as well apparently. Yeah, that's what everyone says. You're the crazy expensive on that was yeah, I'm going back in March. I want to hide some of my suitcase when I come home. Oh do it that's what I did. All right. So how many days were you there before? You actually had your first match at shin-kiba? I think it was So I think I landed on the 15th. Yeah, I think I landed on the 15th and the first match was the 17th. So it goes really not sure not long after I land it out had the first match. I think I had like one Dojo session or we went. Oh, no the next day. We went straight to the house at the interviews the what's it called? Well, you kind of sit down and you talk about yourself socially why you should win this fight five stuff grim. Three and so I thought that was the next day after I landed and the day after that was the match. So is that one of you on the fancy pictures with your sash on and stuff? Yeah. Yeah. That's the one that's amazing. How awesome is that? Um completely surreal. I'm definitely terrible terrible at promos and speaking and I'm trying to make myself seem good. I'm terrible at that. I'm very good at the self-deprecation jokes that anything else. I'm not that great on the bike. So I wasn't gonna tell me it kind of speaks you're trying to speak simple English of the interstate. Rose like cracking me ducks. And so he's like, oh it's okay relax, just you know act strong act tough or whatever you want to do and I was just like, oh crap, probably the scariest part of the whole truth. So your first match was against Natsu Couture Arena and raqqa good kind of get your car. Get your feet wet. It shouldn't keep a ring. Yes, although the first match was crazy because there goes my first match there. I remember one girl was so so young. She just turned 15 and The one was 15 and I'm like, oh my gosh. I'm about to get my ass handed to me by two 15 year olds, and it's like playing a video game. Okay, so then you're thrown straight into the fire when you get a face Momo Watanabe. How what was that like probably? She's someone that I admired for the like watched religiously on the stardom but meeting her in person and everything was a completely different experience and she was just so incredibly lovely and she's just I mean, they're so incredibly lovely to get out there and there's start wailing on each other. It's gonna love it. They did. What's the prize anything surprise you when you wrestled Momo like strikes anything like that at all? I mean, I don't can't say anything surprised me because I was expecting quite a lot. I was expecting to get hit pretty brutally. I was expecting a very tough match obviously, but it can't say a lot surprised me but I mean just being in the ring in the first singles match was a very very surreal and very very I mean that whole in itself was shocking and surprising so then you get you keep going Your next match is against my you eunuch singles matches against my you. Yeah, my next. So think I was cracking my ducks most of that money because I guess she's the stardom icon. She's pretty much. Yeah, the first thing you see when you click on a stardom page and so I say yeah very very nervous going into that one. She's good as advertised in the ring you think oh Beyond She's like he's so amazing. I can't stress how like crazily awesome doors the way she just like moves and cells and bumps and lands everything about her was just I was just like I remember just like Sally watching on the ground looking at it. I'm just like Jesus Christ. Like what what have I gotten myself into? So what was that is how do you communicate in the ring with her or with all the women? Um, honestly just didn't you arm have different, you know hand signals you have different like, you know, for instance like the Iggy's and stuff which is a very Universal wrestling at language and that's pretty much all you have. If everything kind of went wrong and you can needed to say anything it was I was blind. I just couldn't really say anything. I mean I learnt I remember And Leo, they taught me some like basic words like hurt and right knee pain things like that. I told me like basic words, but other than that, it was very much. Yeah after the my you Matt you got about a week before your next match. What kind of things did you do in Japan during your week off of them? What else which I really really Loved even the days off the floor and girls but down at the dojo, you know to expelling each other up. They're definitely trying to help me as much as they could so they would bring me down to the dojo really try and get me moving at me bumpy and get me, you know, trying to get me up just handed. So I really respected the them for that and then it was Dojo again for about three days and we had yeah, we had about two days off a week, roughly and yeah, yeah. Then the first foreign girls would take me down to the dojo and just keep me training. Keep me moving cab you go to the gym. We definitely got into the some drunken debauchery and had some drinks or went out partying. But if we only went out partying twice on the trip, which was quite a lot considering how jam-packed the schedule was, but it was a lot of fun and you're the foreign girls were be and Jamie and Martina. Yeah. It wasn't there when I was there. Okay. That's what she wasn't there. Yeah. Yeah. I think there was supposed to be a Casey Owens. Oh Kelsey Owens, but she was supposed to be in the five start to but I think something happened and something ended up going a bit skewers there something wrong with the visas or I don't know. Well next next you got a hand a camera. I'm sorry. We're going we're going a little match my match. You're a little bit just so I can no that's all right. That was probably one of the most fun I've had her Charisma in the ring was just another level a lot of things like, you know weren't playing and stuff and she just like went for and really gave it her all and like obviously has she's so crew is mattock in the ring. It's hard to start to begin their with it and not just like Swoon, but it was yeah, do you think her Charisma? Do you think her Charisma could translate outside of Japan? Oh 100% I know she's a fan of the western culture. I remember talking to her about RuPaul's Drag Race and we communicated over that we both have big fan of that and she yeah, she's such a funny person. She's got such a big sense of humor. And yeah, did you meet her mom at all? Yes, I met her mom. I did meet her mom. It took me a moment to yeah, recognize who I was talking to in the moment. But once I did was a little bit star struck down there was like I remember those are also girl who came to every single show Who would wear the same big pink braids as a Hannah was and she was a mix like only just walking and she was wearing a big saying cargo pants and shiny glittery makeup, and it was just the coolest thing Mooney Hannah out. picture of her she's so cute. How do you say? Could kill it worldwide. All right. So next you got your first win against sake cosima. Long time to figure out like a finishing move. Look dad it took. Any all things actually started to work, but I guess once I finally did I got a winner over sucky that was shocking to me. So you're a little bit bigger than her sweetie. We able to throw around a little bit. It's almost like I know why girls really really really trying aim to strength because that's something that I've never really tried to do is just get as bulky as I can. But I have an up most respects for the girls who just practice training religiously because the We have Sterling someone else around was awesome. I feel like the Hulk. I feel like a stupid man. It was the best like I mean, yeah, it was probably that double her size and it was I mean, they're like all the girls completely out a child me. They would running circles around me, but it's a pretty awesome feeling. Well speaking the next with us. Hazuki's a pretty athletic young woman. Yes, yes. 100% out Certainly looking back to the his you can imagine Pizookie shoes. Just like kind of like Hayes it am Zoomies. I would just run circles around me. Basically. This is the kind of crazy she retired so young. I remember talking to her backstage and she has this almost the same birthday as me. We both turned 21 in. First I was looking at them and then I saw her retirement over the internet and I was like Jesus Christ. Like that's very young. Obviously. She's either going on a different path or she is, you know doing what's best for her. But I mean I was I was like, oh, wow. Wow, I'm really like guess just getting started. All right, then you fight a wrestle another pretty icon of I think an icon of stardom at this point am nakano. Oh my God. Hands down. It's got to be one of my favorite matches throughout the whole tournament. I had the most insane fun watching her wrestle and moves in. The ring was just watching it online before I met her. It was just crazy and then seeing her in person was another level and then actually being in the ring with her was like, I think I was more Starstruck the whole time that anything sounds like that's awesome, though. Yeah. some girls Going to his terrible about it. So you wrestled Azumi next sheet. I did. She she said she ran circles around you. Yep. Absolutely. This is how my name job. She was just a little Listen to me how good is she for being so young? Oh, it was incredible. extinct so the dojo training was it with only the foreign girls or did you work with my you and could get Sue as well? I know I'm what's with everyone? Every training session of someone different every every door to those someone different every time over there. There's somebody else taking a class. So there was like, you know, sometimes it was different structures. Sometimes there was different areas I could go for be runs and things and there's always somebody else leading it somebody else like different people. They're just on the days off. It was mainly the foreign girls that took me down and helped put my but a bit. So what was like training with my you Maya Sounds very quiet. I was remember she was very very quiet. I didn't but I didn't speak any Japanese which obviously are very much should have learnt before I went over there. I think I had about two months to prepare. So I was a bit hit and miss but yeah, it's not a whole her very much a language barrier so I couldn't really talk to her much but I mean the she's yeah crazily athletic Cruz. She's just kind of turns of this. In person, which is in the room and just yeah, but it's awesome to watch could get to seem so cool to me is she seems she is cool outside the ring as he seems inside the ring. Yeah. Definitely. I mean, she's pretty bloody cool to look at in the ring. So that's saying something just as awesome outside of it. She's just like this laid-back Packy awesome girl, and it was just I was great. I got to have a few conversations with her thankfully because yeah, she spoke a little bit little bit of English, which Awesome to so hard to get good to have a few conversations with her. That's good. All right. So your last match is the one that I saw live was with Natsu. I asked everybody about knots because she's so different than anybody else. Tell me what it's like to wrestle Natsu. Sorry my spine. I think that was the one I was like looking forward to some like okay I can get in some like weed character stuff in here because she's guys look a little bit on the side of light lights lights as I do. So I was like awesome. We were allowed to get her to get some like cool character things in here and it was As yeah completely. It was planning a match with her was very different than playing about the other girls, but it was equally as fun people these FAQ videos and you got something you got the Bronco Buster from her and it was the best moment of my life. Only downhill from here. I think a lot of people are jealous of you. So great. You had so much fun. All right. So your last match when stardom was a championship match against Arista house key. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm butcher. I butchered that language. I'm so sorry. But yeah, it was my I only found out that de Rossi came pulled me aside. He's like we're going to give you an opportunity for the Wipeout. I was like, are you kidding me? Have you watched me this five-star? Well, thank you. You sure. Oh no, he's like, yeah. Absolutely. Okay, go ahead and cut a promo once he gets to and Teresa finish their match. I was like you mean I have to come out after could get sued a race. I'd had a match. It's obviously it's going to be five star and blown out of the park and I have to come out after this after that talk that's like Jesus I was but I'm so so grateful. I got given that opportunity. Absolutely. Did she did she kick your head off? Yes. Missing it back and like I was trying to protect my head a few times and I remember a couple of times I would put my hand up and then just completely like not block the kick at all. Like it's just so just like would whack me in the head. I remember getting the think was the last two knees just being like well just gotta let it happen. Just like tasting Blood by the end of it so cover so much comes from of your kind of sum up your experience with stardom. I'm insane. It's incredible. Like it was an experience. I've had like no other the schedule the wrestling itself the passion that they have the just yeah, it's a life that's a job for them and it's incredibly it was amazing to be a part of it. I don't think I could stay there for more than like a year in time without maybe breaking in half, but I don't know how they do it honestly, but Definitely go back. Absolutely where it was the most incredible experience. I'd love to do it again. What did you take back in ring from when you from Japan back to Australia? Biggest thing it can taught me is just that fighting spirit that they have like, they'll get kicks 12 times and just get back up again and keep going and just keep throwing everything they have into it. And that was just the most impressive thing for me that I just wanted to yeah, definitely take back home and try and channel that passion. And yeah, I just wanted to be on that level it was inspiring. So I yeah, I can still really really trying to kick ass comes to training hard and hopefully I mean one day Imperfectly, I'll get up to that level and it's just think that's what yeah, my biggest thing. I'm taking away from it. What bit of advice would you give yourself now that if you could if you could talk to yourself before you went over. What would you what advice would you give yourself? I think I was crying too hard in the wrong places. And I think the biggest advice would just be just be yourself focus on your wrestling focus on what you do best in the ring. Don't try and do something that you'd be someone you're not and don't try and do things. You've never done before just really do what you know, you're good at Good. What's your why you want to share your social medias? Chrysler it. Why don't we Aw, guys, I do nothing, but post things about me making a fool of myself. So it's a lot of fun. I appreciate you joining the show, and hopefully we'll see you back in Japan soon. That's okay. Thank you so much for having me on it. Thank you.
This is the biggest week in wrestling outside of the USA all year and we have a big episode to match. Fresh off her participation at Stardom’s 5 Star Grand Prix, Australia’s own Avary joins The Joshi Pod. You will fall in love with her when you hear how genuine she is about being star-struck when facing some of the Stardom icons. Please have a listen. The Joshi show of the week is RibbonMania 2019 from Ice Ribbon. We look ahead to the calendar for shows this week in Japan. We see where Joshi wrestlers are performing outside of Japan. Pro Wrestling Tee’s Stores (From Jan 1-5, use the promo code NEWYEAR to save 20%): Nicole Savoy Kikyo Gatoh Move Tokyo Joshi Pro Stardom Hiroyo Matsumoto:  Aja Kong Riho  Hikaru Shida Yuka Sakazaki Social Media: Avary Twitter Instagram Merchandise The Joshi Pod: Twitter  Facebook Instagram Pro Wrestling Tees For tickets: Eve-Riot Grrrls of Wrestling Present: Wrestle Queendom 3  PCW Ultra WrestleCon Our Sponsors This Week: QuietWyatt Designs:  The Last Podcast You’d Want Music supplied by: Yume O Yume (Dream your Dream) by reiswerk (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. 