>>8086504 Okay?
Syuri, Riho, Asuka and Hikaru Shida are the only dark ages joshi wrestlers who made it to prominence.
(Tsukasa Fujimoto won the Tokyo Sports award, but is still not known by many people; Arisa Nakajima, Hiroyo Matsumoto and Makoto are still nobodies.)
But their origins are as relevant as the first film Tom Cruise was cast in.
Not many people know or care about the promotions they came from, because those promotions are completely unknown to most wrestling fans, never mind the general public.
Before joining Stardom, Syuri was an ordinary wrestler, but after joining Stardom, her abilities became widely recognized and she became a popular wrestler. She wrestled on the indies for almost 10 years and nobody cared.
