23 Facts About Sumie Sakai

Sumie Sakai is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist.

Sumie Sakai is best known for her extensive tenure in Ring of Honor, where she was the inaugural and longest reigning Women of Honor Champion.

Sumie Sakai trained under Jaguar Yokota, and made her debut on April 20,1997, with the Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling promotion, facing Yabushita at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

Sumie Sakai went on to form a tag team with Yabushita named Yabusaka.

Later in 1997, Sumie Sakai began wrestling for Yokota's JDStar promotion, where she won both the JDStar Junior Championship and the JDStar Queen of the Ring Championship.

Sumie Sakai won the Women's Championship of the affiliated American Wrestling Federation and the Tag Team Championship of the affiliated Trans-World Wrestling Federation.

Sumie Sakai furthered her training under Bison Kimura, Cooga and Lioness Asuka.

Sumie Sakai wrestled her first match in the United States in 2002.

In 2009, Sumie Sakai began training with Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Bill Scott.

In 2012, Sumie Sakai joined Kurt Pellegrino's Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Belmar, NJ to better her BJJ and pursue her MMA career.

In January 2024, Sumie Sakai was named of the head trainer of Spark Joshi Puroresu of America's dojo.

Sumie Sakai first appeared in Ring of Honor in June 2002 and defeated Simply Luscious in the very first women's match on an ROH card.

Sumie Sakai returned in December 2003 and January 2004, defeating Alison Danger and losing to Alexis Laree and April Hunter.

Sumie Sakai returned to ROH on August 20,2005, losing to Lacey at Do or Die 5.

Sumie Sakai returned to ROH in 2014 and been performing regularly for ROH since 2015 for its Women of Honor division.

On September 26,2015, Sumie Sakai faced Veda Scott in a losing effort as part of "Women of Honor Wednesday" program.

Sumie Sakai made her televised debut on the June 26,2016, episode of ROH TV, where Sumie Sakai alongside Mary Dobson and Thunderkitty faced the team of Allysin Kay, Amber Gallows and Scott in a losing effort.

Sumie Sakai had plenty of other matches in the ROH Women of Honor division teaming with talent such as Mandy Leon, Deonna Purrazzo, Faye Jackson and facing talent such as Taeler Hendrix and others.

Since 2018, Sumie Sakai took part in the tournament to crown the inaugural Women of Honor World champion, where she won in the first round against Hana Kimura.

Sumie Sakai became the inaugural Women of Honor champion at Supercard of Honor XII after defeating Kelly Klein.

At Final Battle 2018 Sumie Sakai lost the championship to Klein in a Four Corner Survival match which involved Karen Q and Rayne.

On January 11,2020, at the Saturday Night at Center Stage, Sumie Sakai teamed with Nicole Savoy when they faced The Allure in a losing effort.

Sumie Sakai made her mixed martial arts debut on October 14,2006, fighting American kickboxer Amy Davis in a bout promoted by Tom Supnet of the "Primal Tribe Fighting Club" as part of the Xtreme Fight Series II event.