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Stardom's Miyu Amasaki: Her leap from the struggles that led her to be called a "supernova" - the truth she can now tell
>My first encounter with professional wrestling was when my father was watching men's wrestling when I was in elementary school. When I became a junior high school student, I started watching Dragon Gate on my own initiative, and I went to watch matches at the KBS Hall in my hometown of Kyoto. At the time, I never imagined that I would one day compete as a professional wrestler at this venue. However, as I watched the videos, I also learned about the existence of women's professional wrestling. When I looked it up on the internet, the first thing that came up was Stardom.
>"When I was in junior high school, I wanted to become a professional wrestler, but I was attending a combined junior and senior high school at the time, and my teachers were against it, so I decided to just graduate from high school. But I started preparing to become a professional wrestler back then. I played basketball, but I thought I needed a more flexible body, so I switched to the gymnastics club. I found a video of All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling on YouTube and learned that 'the splits are the hardest.' During my three years of high school, I tried to do things that would give me an advantage when I became a professional wrestler. I was able to do the splits in gymnastics, so I was glad (laughs)."
After graduating from high school, she moved to Tokyo and joined Stardom.
>"I passed the audition. Apparently several people came, but I was the only one who passed. If I hadn't passed, I might have gone to another company. But I passed, so I went straight to Stardom."
