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Slam Fest is shaping up to beryllium nan cleanable measurement for pro wrestling fans to get amped successful nan week starring up to WrestleMania 42 successful Las Vegas.
Paragon Talent Group and Palms Casino Resort will host nan 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 will beryllium featured for respective days of high-octane matches.
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Miyu Yamashita takes connected Yuka Sakazaki during nan Pro-Wrestling 'Cyber Fight Festival' astatine nan Saitama Super Arena connected June 6, 2021 successful Saitama, Japan. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)
Miyu Yamashita will beryllium among nan TJPW stars successful nan mix. She will return to Las Vegas a twelvemonth aft battling WWE fable Nattie Niedhart astatine Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII. She said to Fox News Digital astir what it meant to beryllium capable to return to Las Vegas for nan star-studded event.
"It feels typical to maine to beryllium successful America arsenic nan Tokyo Joshi team," she said done her translator Koryu Haku. "In Vegas, we were location past year, aforesaid venue. It’s a very typical emotion – nan ambience, nan air, it being a typical week. The fans are other excited, other hyped and that straight translates to our information and fighting successful nan ring."
For nan mean American pro wrestling fan, Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling whitethorn beryllium unfamiliar. The promotion itself, which consists of only women, was founded arsenic a sister promotion to DDT Pro-Wrestling successful 2012 and it became its ain standalone institution successful 2015.
Yamashita joined nan promotion successful 2013 and quickly earned her measurement up nan ladder. She became nan first Tokyo Princess of Princess champion successful 2016. She’s held nan title 4 times successful full and has been a Princess tag squad champion twice. She besides won nan Tokyo Princess Cup successful 2023.
She gave immoderate penetration connected what fans could expect from nan TJPW wrestlers.
Miyu Yamashita celebrates her triumph during nan Pro-Wrestling 'Cyber Fight Festival' astatine nan Saitama Super Arena connected June 6, 2021 successful Saitama, Japan. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)
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"The characteristic point astir Tokyo Joshi is that each wrestler has a very unsocial character," she told Fox News Digital. "Their characteristic is very beardown and I consciousness that is enhanced erstwhile we travel to nan States. Perhaps, everyone’s reasoning astir nan connection obstruction and they’re trying to emote much aliases effort to person caller fans understand who they are.
"So, caller fans coming into Tokyo Joshi, I deliberation they’ll beryllium capable to place a favorite, find a personification that they for illustration because everybody is different and, particularly erstwhile we travel to nan States, that quality besides stands retired because everybody’s trying to beryllium ace expressive and trying to person group understand who they are."
Yamashita is besides group to beryllium progressive successful BloodSport XV during nan aforesaid week, arsenic is Neidhart.
It’s unclear, arsenic of now, if they will quadrate disconnected against each other. But Yamashita said she hoped to beryllium capable to look nan WWE star again.
"Nattie is personification I person been watching from a very early shape successful my career," Yamashita told Fox News Digital. "And she’s personification who not only I look up to, I find very cool. She fights a style that I like. One of my goals is to beryllium personification for illustration her – a beardown woman, a reliable woman.
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"That was BloodSport pinch BloodSport rules truthful 1 time I would for illustration to conflict Nattie again successful regular wrestling rules and pin her for nan one, 2 three."
The Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling arena will return spot astatine nan Pearl Concert Theater connected April 16 from 11 a.m. PT to 1:15 p.m. PT pinch a meet and shake hands afterward.
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Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
