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Takeaways from the Yuzupon interview with KAIRI on her WWE years, translation is rough be forewarned...
>Kudos to her for adjusting so quickly to efforts to Americanize, as living in a spread out city in Florida it was mandatory to study English both written and spoken to help get a Driver's License, SSN card, several language exams and gym memberships, and just plain how to communicate with people.
>A great amount of help was thankfully given to her by her fellow workers at NXT in this adjustment, names of friends like Shayna Baszler, Akira Tozawa, Jesse Eleban, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lacey Evans come up, as well as HHH.
>For a Japanese player, working in America felt like a voyage in an unknown world. She claims she didn't have that much courage from day 1 and it took her around a year to shake off the anxiety, especially after all the publicity of her winning the MYC ,photos, doing ESPN and high profile blog interviews.
>Training at the Performance Center was usually 10 minutes of stretching and then practicing moves in the ring. KAIRI claims she took the initiative to use the PC gym to lose weight.
>The NXT schedule on the road was both a great learning experience and a grind.
>It was a jilted experience to go from where she was in NXT to Smackdown, where her future became a bit more unclear and this time period seems to be where some depression episodes began.
>Asuka became like a sister to her, and when they were paired with each other as the Kabuki Warriors they would always go out for lunch together.
>She claims she bought $150,000 worth of name brand clothing, Gucci, etc, and she was talking about some sort of episode where there became a problem one day with transferring money to pay for it.
>Matches in WWE are different than in Stardom as who is going over is decided on the day of the match rather than beforehand where it is known on the announcement of the booking who is going to win and lose.
