28 Facts About Kairi Sane

Kairi Sane is currently one-third of the Artist of Stardom Champion in her fifth reign and her first with Natsupoi and Saori Anou as part of REStart.

Kairi Sane won the 2015 5-Star GP and the 2016 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League.

Kairi Sane won the inaugural Mae Young Classic tournament the same year, and was then assigned to the NXT brand.

Kairi Sane captured the NXT Women's Championship in 2018 and subsequently won the 2018 NXT Year-End Awards for Female Competitor of the Year and for Overall Competitor of the Year.

Kairi Sane has a sister, who is three years older than her.

Kairi Sane has an extensive sports background in yachting, competing in intercollegiate and national competitions, while taking part in world championships with dreams of making it to the Olympics.

Kairi Sane did some theater work and one of her performances, where she performed as a professional wrestling villain, was seen by Fuka, the general manager of the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion, who invited Housako to one of their events.

Kairi Sane quickly fell in love with professional wrestling's aspect of combining acting with sports and decided to become a wrestler herself.

Housako, now working under the ring name "Kairi Sane Hojo", made her debut for Stardom on January 7,2012, losing to Yuzuki Aikawa.

Kairi Sane quickly became a founding member of the Zenryoku Joshi stable, led by Aikawa.

Kairi Sane had contemplated retirement due to her age and injuries, but decided to go wrestle overseas after consulting Bull Nakano.

Reportedly, Kairi Sane suffered both a concussion and a neck injury during the tapings.

In October 2017, Kairi Sane made her television debut on NXT, defeating Aliyah.

On January 28,2018, at the Royal Rumble, Kairi Sane participated in the first women's Royal Rumble match, entering at number 6 and lasting around 5 minutes before being eliminated by Dana Brooke.

Shortly after, Kairi Sane started a feud with Lacey Evans as the two exchanged victories and attacked each other throughout the next few weeks.

Three weeks later, at NXT TakeOver: WarGames, Kairi Sane received her rematch against Baszler in a two out of three falls match, but she failed to regain the title after interference from Duke and Shafir again.

Shortly after, Kai was sidelined with an injury and Kairi Sane continued to team with Shirai, forming a tag team known as "The Sky Pirates" while continuing to defeat various teams.

That same night, Kairi Sane went one-on-one with Lynch, where she lost by submission.

Kairi Sane represented Team Raw at Survivor Series in a 5-on-5-on-5 elimination tag team match, being eliminated by Sasha Banks.

At the event, The Kabuki Warriors retained their titles against Lynch and Flair in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match; during the match, Kairi Sane suffered a legitmate concussion, which caused the remainder of the match to be changed on the fly.

The video features Kairi Sane saying her goodbyes to everyone in WWE as she prepares to go back to Japan with superstars such as Asuka, Shinsuke Nakamura and Akira Tozawa all wishing her well.

On October 2,2020, Kairi Sane announced that she had started working as an ambassador and trainer for WWE's branch in her native Japan.

Kairi Sane ruptured her eardrum during the match and revealed the injury in a post-match interview.

In November 2022, Kairi Sane defeated Mayu Iwatani in the main event of Historic X-Over, a professional wrestling event co-promoted by Stardom and its sister promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling, to become the inaugural IWGP Women's Champion.

In 2023, Kairi Sane defended her title against Tam Nakano at Wrestle Kingdom 17.

At the event, Kairi Sane was defeated by Mone; ending her reign at 90 days.

On March 24,2023, Kairi Sane confirmed she became a free agent.

Kairi Sane made her video game debut as a playable character in WWE 2K19.