1. Yuzuki Aikawa is a Japanese gravure idol and retired professional wrestler.
24 Facts About Yuzuki Aikawa
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In 2010, Yuzuki Aikawa transitioned into professional wrestling, joining the newly founded World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion, becoming its public face and the inaugural holder of the Wonder of Stardom and Goddesses of Stardom Championships.
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Yuzuki Aikawa produced six of her own independent wrestling events under the banner of Yuzupon Matsuri, in the vein of her trainer Fuka Kakimoto's old Fuka Matsuri events.
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Yuzuki Aikawa was never defeated for either of her championships, being stripped of the Goddesses of Stardom Championship in October 2012, after her partner Yoko Bito was injured, and relinquishing the Wonder of Stardom Championship a month prior to her final match.
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Yuzuki Aikawa began her modeling career in 2003, appearing mainly in men's magazines, eventually being dubbed the "gravure queen of the next generation".
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In 2005, Yuzuki Aikawa won the Nittelegenic competition to become an official model for Nippon Television.
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Yuzuki Aikawa voiced the character of Yuzu in the 2005 video game Yakuza.
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In 2008, Yuzuki Aikawa became part of an idol group named Bakunyu Sentai Pai Ranger, a parody version of Super Sentai, which released both a film and an album.
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In late 2009, Yuzuki Aikawa accepted a challenge made by Tokyo Broadcasting System television program Gakeppuchi to get 20,000,000 hits on her blog in three months or retire from the entertainment industry.
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In 2011, Yuzuki Aikawa appeared in a commercial for PlayStation 3.
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Yuzuki Aikawa appeared in Monobright's 2011 music video for their song Wonder World.
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On September 7,2010, Yuzuki Aikawa, then known primarily as a gravure idol, announced that she was transitioning to professional wrestling, having begun training the previous May under retired professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and model Fuka Kakimoto.
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Six days later, Yuzuki Aikawa took her first win in Stardom, defeating Eri Susa.
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Later that same day, Yuzuki Aikawa made an appearance for DDT Pro-Wrestling as a member of the TKG48 stable, wrestling in a fifteen-person Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship battle royal, from which she was eliminated by Emi Sakura.
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Yuzuki Aikawa wrestled in a thirteen-person battle royal for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, from which she was the sixth person eliminated by Yoshiaki Fujiwara, who went on to win the entire match.
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Later that same event, Yuzuki Aikawa took part in a "Handicap Rumble match", acting as one of Sanshiro Takagi's equalizer's in his match with Minoru Suzuki.
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On October 27, Yuzuki Aikawa entered the 2012 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League, teaming with Zenryoku Joshi stablemate Yuhi.
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On December 18, Yuzuki Aikawa announced that she would retire from professional wrestling on April 29,2013.
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Yuzuki Aikawa revealed that she had contemplated retirement throughout the year, feeling that professional wrestling had started to get too tough on her near thirty-year-old body, finally deciding to continue until Stardom's big event in Ryogoku Kokugikan.
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Two days later, Yuzuki Aikawa relinquished the title at a press conference, where the card was announced for the Ryogoku Kokugikan event.
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Twelve of the matches ended in one-minute time limit draws, Yuzuki Aikawa won four of them and suffered her only loss in the final match against Yuhi.
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Yuzuki Aikawa refereed a match in her Yuzupon Mask character, helping Mini Iotica win a four-way match.
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On March 3,2021, Yuzuki Aikawa competed in the Stardom All Star Rumble at Stardom All Star Dream Cinderella.
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Yuzuki Aikawa married her partner of two years on September 7,2017.