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REAL NAME: Nariko Inazuma
GENDER: Female
PICBASE: Jurina Matsui
RACE: Asian
NATIONALITY: Japanese (dual citizenship with both Japan & the United States)
D.O.B./AGE: March 5, 1999 / 20 years old
HOMETOWN: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
RESIDES: Boston, Massachusetts


RING NAME(S): Nariko Inazuma
NICKNAME(S): “Swift”
BILLED FROM: Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, Japan
HEIGHT: Five-foot-two (5’2”)
WEIGHT: One hundred and sixteen pounds (116 lbs)
TRAINED BY: Caroline Dallins & Colleen Harmon - All-Star Wrestling Gym in Tampa, Florida
CROWD AFFILIATION: Babyface
PROFESSIONAL DEBUT: January 7, 2017 (vs. Artemis Kaiser)
DIVISION: Angled / (Bi-Weekly or Monthly)


WRESTLING STYLE: Acrobatic high-flyer with daredevil tendencies (see: Hiromu Takahashi, Bandido, Jack Evans as examples)
MATCH TACTICS: As of now, her biggest weapon is her speed...and so, she’ll try to use it at any given window of opportunity to keep the pace fast, frenetic and in a position to where she can strike at and nail her opponents with your springboards, topes, high-flying kind of offense
CHARACTER PERSONALITY: She’s...honestly just happy to be here right now. While not completely innocent to the woes of pro wrestling, she has a far more optimistic attitude even in the face of various adversities and a win-loss record that would have most retire at this particular point. There’s an iron will to continue improving and getting better, but it also comes from a place where she deals with her own inadequacies in the process and beats herself up in private when considering that she’s already heard all the comparisons on whether she truly Chris Strike’s kid or that “the talent didn’t transfer down the family tree” type comparisons.
CHARACTER ANALYSIS: She’s young and energetic, but with youth, there’s a lack of experience and the susception to someone getting a rise out of her and using her own emotions against her in the course of a match. She strives to do the right thing and not deviate from a righteous path, even if it makes her gullible, naive or nowhere near as ruthless as certain other competitors.
GIMMICK DESCRIPTION: Daredevil type, who flies high and goes for absolute broke at any given opportunity in matches while relying more so on instinct than experience...go big or go home.

TWITTER: @narikoinazuma
EXPERIENCE: 2 years wrestling
PAST ACCOLADES: N/A




(Preferably, a submission finisher or signature needs to be added.)
PRIMARY FINISHER: Hōyoku Tenshō - Standing sitout Shiranui a.k.a. Salida del Sol
SECONDARY FINISHER: Os Arco-íris Gêmeos de Nariko - Springboard reverse hurricanrana
DESPERATION FINISHER: The Obama Roll - Victory Roll [the surprise roll-up, victory out of nowhere type]
FINAL FINISHER: Raw Blink on Hara-Kiri Rock (I Need Scissors 61) - Corkscrew 630 Senton


1. Sasuke Special into a hurricanrana to opponent on the outside
2. Running knee attack
3. Handspring into an enziguri
4. Springboard corkscrew crossbody
5. Standing moonsault with double knees to opponent’s gut


(15 is the minimum; you can keep past the 20.
1. Open palm chops
2. Arm drag
3. Roundhouse kick
4. DDT to a kneeling opponent
5. Hurricanrana
6. Jawbreaker
7. Flying head scissors
8. Russian leg sweep
9. Tope con giro
10. Tope suicida
11. Tiger feint kick
12. Missile dropkick
13. Diving leg drop
14. Frog splash
15. Really, just about any form of springboard attack moves she can do would apply...


ENTRANCE THEME: “New Born (feat. Nulie Nurly)” by Takeharu Ishimoto
ANNOUNCER INTRODUCTION: ERIN LAMBERT: From Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, Japan...weighing in at one hundred and sixteen pounds...NARIKOOOOOOO...INAAAAAZUMAAAAAAAA!!!!

ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION:

As the guitar riffs to “New Born (feat. Nulie Nurly)” by Takeharu Ishimoto hit the PA system, the lights begin to swirl around the arena as Nariko Inazuma gradually emerges from within the curtains and finds herself looking around at the crowd, absorbing her surroundings and the cheers from the audience at hand as she takes a deep breath, a sheepish grin on her face as she approaches the ramp and takes a knee, her head nodding to the beat of the music.

Once the chorus hits, she bursts down the ramp in a dash as if a racer within a track and continues her rapid movement around the ringside area, extending her right arm out as she runs near the guardrail and touches hands rapidly with fans all around before making the full lap around the ring and then in a display of sheer agility, she jumps from the floor towards the ring, sliding down under the bottom rope with finesse and grinning, sweeping her arms out and saying “SAFE!” as if someone who just stole 3rd base in baseball.

Wiping strands of hair off her eyesight, she rises back to a standing position and climbs up to the nearest turnbuckle, standing tall for a brief moment as she exhales and then pounds the area where her heart is twice before closing the right hand into a fist, pressing it to her lips and then raising the right hand with her index finger upwards, pointing to the sky before she jumps off the turnbuckle and examines her surroundings, preparing herself for the match to come.

CHAMPIONSHIP ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION:

As the guitar riffs to “New Born (feat. Nulie Nurly)” by Takeharu Ishimoto hit the PA system, the lights begin to swirl around the arena as Nariko Inazuma gradually emerges from within the curtains and finds herself looking around at the crowd, absorbing her surroundings and the cheers from the audience at hand as she takes a deep breath, a sheepish grin on her face as she approaches the ramp and takes a knee, her head nodding to the beat of the music as everyone can spot the championship belt’s leather straps wrapped around the right side of her chest, the main gold plate of the championship decorating her right shoulder as if an actual shoulder pad of some sort.

Once the chorus hits, she bursts down the ramp in a dash as if a racer within a track and continues her rapid movement around the ringside area, extending her right arm out as she runs near the guardrail and touches hands rapidly with fans all around before making the full lap around the ring and then in a display of sheer agility, she jumps from the floor towards the ring, sliding down under the bottom rope with finesse and grinning, sweeping her arms out and saying “SAFE!” as if someone who just stole 3rd base in baseball before unbuckling the championship belt and holding it on her left hand.

Wiping strands of hair off her eyesight, she rises back to a standing position and climbs up to the nearest turnbuckle, standing tall for a brief moment as she exhales and then pounds the area where her heart is twice before closing the right hand into a fist, pressing it to her lips and then raising the right hand with her index finger upwards, pointing to the sky while using the left hand to raise the championship belt alongside it. Nariko then jumps off the turnbuckle and examines her surroundings, handing her belt to the referee and preparing herself for the match to come.


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Long before she even stepped through the ropes, Nariko Inazuma was one thing: a critic.

Having one of the more recognized blogs that covered both the independents and major promotions in pro wrestling, the young Nariko was known for her multiple hot takes and the keyboard warrior like status under the pseudonym of “NotTableOfJapan.” Wrestling had been something of an escape to her over the years from many personal issues - raised by an alcoholic mother who went into the AV industry, absentee father, a grandfather who kept his many secrets from her as they moved from Japan to the United States, personal demons developed through teenage years - but it wasn’t until the year of 2016 where things truly did happen to change.

See, Nariko Inazuma had never known who her father was. It had been a family secret held back due to the bitterness of her own mother and grandfather right until near her grandfather’s passing, who had been her caretaker over the years after her mother’s abuse was enough to cause them both to leave Japan and move to the United States.

Her father happened to be none other than the SVW Hall of Famer, “The War Machine” Chris Strike.

The events over the course of the year allowed her to finally meet with Strike, confirm that they were in fact related and from there, begin to establish a relationship that led to Nariko Inazuma experiencing the world of professional wrestling up close and personal...and with it and certain circumstances of her own then somewhat normal life, having the burning desire to get in the ring herself for reasons that were unclear to everyone, her father included. Since June 2016, she began her training at the All Star Wrestling Gym in Tampa Bay, Florida under the tutelage of FFW Hall of Famer Caroline “Killer C” Stark and SVW Hall of Famer Colleen Harmon and with it, learning the ropes from two wrestlers who were experts at the scientific side of pro wrestling with technique, holds, submissions, the whole nine yards…

But as a way of developing her own style, Nariko Inazuma decided to pattern herself instead after a style similar to the one used by wrestlers such as (her now step-sister) Anastasia Starling, Cara Stone and Eileen Amaro where the emphasis is on striking alongside daredevil-esque acrobatics that critics on the internet are happy to call “stupid flippy bullshit” - with Nariko definitely leaning towards the latter. Needless to say, a lot of it has been self-learned through experimentation, watching a lot of tape and with some assistance from “Killer C” on the basics of the running of the ropes, springboards, etc and a fair share of bumps and bruises along the way.

After six months of training, Nariko Inazuma has earned her “graduation” stripes from ASWG and the timing couldn’t be any better. For unlike most rookies, she saw it fit to put herself in the biggest stage possible for anyone 25 and under in order to get her name out in the open and start paying her dues...and thus, she put her name down in the Young Guns Cup 2017 without anyone knowing about it.

So of course, she ended up getting Artemis Kaiser as her first opponent in it for her debut and of course she got her ass kicked. Were you expecting anything else?

Really, that was the entirety of Nariko’s first year as she eventually found herself going to Japan and working for DIVINE, being a true “young lion” in every sense with the beatings she’s taken alongside learning the basic duties of setting up a ring, taking it down, diligently taking it all in throughout her rookie year of wrestling. Another appearance in the YGC in 2018 saw her once again falling short in the first round under more dubious circumstances and with it, an eventual excursion to Shooting Star Wrestling Alliance happened. She finally got her first career win during said excursion but otherwise, it’s been a history of many losses and few wins during the excursion period that saw DIVINE shut down its doors for a year, at least, alongside an appearance at the infamous Experts Tournament, forming a tag team with a young luchador from Trinidad & Tobago named Sparrow known as “The Birds of Prey” and appearances throughout Pro Wrestling NEO...in which she finally signed a contract with after her stint in the “Heaven or Hell” tournament on her 20th birthday.