Japanese pro wrestling star Miyu Yamashita gears up for Las Vegas return at Slam Fest

Slam Fest is shaping up to beryllium the cleanable mode for pro wrestling fans to get amped successful the week starring up to WrestleMania 42 successful Las Vegas.

Paragon Talent Group and Palms Casino Resort volition big the festival opening connected April 15 done April 18. Talent from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), House of Glory (HOG), World Wonder Ring Stardom and Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling volition beryllium featured for respective days of high-octane matches.

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Miyu Yamashita takes connected Yuka Sakazaki during the Pro-Wrestling 'Cyber Fight Festival' astatine the Saitama Super Arena connected June 6, 2021 successful Saitama, Japan. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

Miyu Yamashita volition beryllium among the TJPW stars successful the mix. She volition instrumentality to Las Vegas a twelvemonth aft battling WWE fable Nattie Niedhart astatine Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII. She spoke to Fox News Digital astir what it meant to beryllium capable to instrumentality to Las Vegas for the star-studded event.

"It feels peculiar to maine to beryllium successful America arsenic the Tokyo Joshi team," she said done her translator Koryu Haku. "In Vegas, we were determination past year, aforesaid venue. It’s a precise peculiar feeling – the ambience, the air, it being a peculiar week. The fans are other excited, other hyped and that straight translates to our information and warring successful the ring."

For the mean American pro wrestling fan, Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling whitethorn beryllium unfamiliar. The promotion itself, which consists of lone women, was founded arsenic a sister promotion to DDT Pro-Wrestling successful 2012 and it became its ain standalone institution successful 2015.

Yamashita joined the promotion successful 2013 and rapidly earned her mode up the ladder. She became the archetypal Tokyo Princess of Princess champion successful 2016. She’s held the rubric 4 times successful full and has been a Princess tag squad champion twice. She besides won the Tokyo Princess Cup successful 2023.

She gave immoderate penetration connected what fans could expect from the TJPW wrestlers.

Miyu Yamashita celebrates her triumph during the Pro-Wrestling 'Cyber Fight Festival' astatine the Saitama Super Arena connected June 6, 2021 successful Saitama, Japan.  (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

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"The diagnostic happening astir Tokyo Joshi is that each wrestler has a precise unsocial character," she told Fox News Digital. "Their property is precise beardown and I consciousness that is enhanced erstwhile we travel to the States. Perhaps, everyone’s reasoning astir the connection obstruction and they’re trying to emote much oregon effort to person caller fans recognize who they are.

"So, caller fans coming into Tokyo Joshi, I deliberation they’ll beryllium capable to place a favorite, find a idiosyncratic that they similar due to the fact that everybody is antithetic and, particularly erstwhile we travel to the States, that quality besides stands retired due to the fact that everybody’s trying to beryllium ace expressive and trying to person radical recognize who they are."

Yamashita is besides acceptable to beryllium progressive successful BloodSport XV during the aforesaid week, arsenic is Neidhart.

It’s unclear, arsenic of now, if they volition quadrate disconnected against each other. But Yamashita said she hoped to beryllium capable to look the WWE prima again.

"Nattie is idiosyncratic I person been watching from a precise aboriginal signifier successful my career," Yamashita told Fox News Digital. "And she’s idiosyncratic who not lone I look up to, I find precise cool. She fights a benignant that I like. One of my goals is to beryllium idiosyncratic similar her – a beardown woman, a pugnacious woman.

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"That was BloodSport with BloodSport rules truthful 1 time I would similar to combat Nattie again successful regular wrestling rules and pin her for the one, 2 three."

The Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling lawsuit volition instrumentality spot astatine the Pearl Concert Theater connected April 16 from 11 a.m. PT to 1:15 p.m. PT with a conscionable and greet afterward.

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