Emi Sakura

Quick Facts

Full Name	Emi Sakura
Occupation	Professional Wrestler
Date Of Birth	Oct 4, 1976(1976-10-04)
Age	48
Birthplace	Kimitsu
Country	Japan
Birth City	Chiba Prefecture
Horoscope	Libra

Emi Sakura Biography

Emi Sakura is one of the most popular and richest Professional Wrestler who was born on October 4, 1976 in Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Emi Motokawa (Yuan Chuan Hui Mei, Motokawa Emi born on 4 October 1976) is a Japanese professional wrestler who is currently contracted to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) who is more popularly known as the name of the ring Emi Sakura (sakura Emi , Sakura Emi) . When she began her professional career with the International Wrestling Association of Japan in August 1995 Sakura was a part of several promotions throughout Japan with numerous titlesbefore starting her own company, Ice Ribbon, in the beginning of 2006. Sakura was not just a wrestler for the organization, but she was also the sole person responsible for training wrestlers in the organization, and she became an twice ICEx60 Champion as well as 5 times International Ribbon Tag Team Champion. In the 2009 season, Sakura took part in not only the ICEx60 as well as the International Ribbon Tag Team Championships and also the Daily Sports Women’s and JWP Tag Team Championships and the NEO Single and NWA Women’s Pacific Championships which resulted in Tokyo Sports magazine naming her the 2009 Joshi wrestling champion of 2009. After six years of Ice Ribbon, Sakura left the promotion due to “personal reasons” in January 2012. In the next months, Sakura formed the Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling promotion in Bangkok, Thailand. In the year 2012 Sakura was also a frequent participant with JWP Joshi Puroresu, winning the JWP Openweight Championship in October.

In April of 2006, Sakura left Gatokunyan to create her own company called Ice Ribbon. After purchasing an otaku Saitama, Sakura continued to train wrestlers that she had brought with her from Gatokunyan which included Aika Ando, Aoi Kizuki, Hikari Minami, Mai Ichii, Makoto, Riho and Seina. Ice Ribbon held its first two shows on June 20th 2006. Sakura wrestled in her first match in the event on the 15th of October, losing to Riho. Sakura was a regular participant for the majority in her initial year at Ice Ribbon as a student alongside her nine-year-old teacher. Since the beginning, Ice Ribbon had a close connection to The NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling promotion, which resulted in Sakura as well as a few of her pupils making regular appearances at the event. In the storyline, the association was explained by a relationship that was established between Sakura as well as NEO the president Tetsuya Koda. The 18th of February, 2007 The Sakura Ribbon Army, a group of Sakura along with a few of her friends and trainees took on NEO Machineguns Army NEO Machineguns Army during the battle royal seven-on-7 and earned Sakura as well as Koda an opportunity to wed together and to unify NEO together. Ice Ribbon. After a plea from her students, Sakura turned on Koda and left Koda at the altar, which ended the story. On the 16th of July, Sakura was joined by Yoshiko Tamura to take on Haruka Matsuo as well as Misae Genki in the NEO Tag Team Championship. The title was lost by defeating Ayako Hamada as well as Kaoru Ito just 13 days after. In 2009, Sakura was the first actress to make her debut in The production Three Count, which was set in the world of professional wrestling. The film also featured fellow wrestlers Kyoko Inoue, as well as Yoshiko Tamura. In the production of the film Sakura was able to recruit three new students to their Ice Ribbon dojo, Hikaru Shida, Miyako Matsumoto and Tsukasa Fujimoto. On the 15th of November in 2009, Sakura joined forces with female grappler Ribbon Takanashi to unsuccessfully challenge Riho and Yuki Sato to win victory in the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship. In April of the following year, Sakura teamed with another one of her apprentices, Makoto, facing Nanae Takahashi and Minori Makiba in a loss attempt to win the unopposed International Ribbon Tag Team Championship.

Also in January, Sakura debuted her newest trainee, the twelve-year-old Tsukushi, with whom she would work for most of the year. On April 3, Riho won the ICE×60 Championship for the first time and immediately afterwards nominated her trainer Sakura as her first challenger for the title, however, as the title had a 60 kg (130 lb) weight limit, Sakura first had to drop 10 kg (22 lb) of weight before being eligible to challenge for the title. On May 3 at Golden Ribbon, Sakura defeated Riho to win the ICE×60 Championship for the second time. After successful defenses against Tsukasa Fujimoto and Tsukushi, Sakura lost the title to Hikari Minami on July 19. On September 19, Sakura unsuccessfully challenged Kaori Yoneyama for the JWP Openweight Championship and was then, as per stipulation of the match, shaved bald. In late 2010, Ice Ribbon started an interpromotional storyline rivalry with the Sendai Girls’ Pro Wrestling, which saw Sendai Girls’ founder Meiko Satomura arrive to Ice Ribbon on September 23 to defeat Sakura in a singles match. Two days later, Sakura and Nanae Takahashi defeated Gentaro and Mai Ichii for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship. On November 22, Sakura made her debut for Smash at Smash.10, where she teamed with Kaori Yoneyama in a losing effort against the team of Kana and Syuri. After a three-month reign, Sakura and Takahashi were stripped of the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship on December 11, after a title defense against Hikaru Shida and Yoshiko Tamura ended in a twenty-minute time limit draw. Sakura and Takahashi attempted to regain the title on December 23, but were defeated in the finals of a tournament by Muscle Venus (Hikaru Shida and Tsukasa Fujimoto). The following day, Sakura returned to Smash at Happening Eve, where she was defeated by Jessica Love.

On September 9, Sakura and Yoneyama defeated Hanako Nakamori and Morii in a tag team match, after which the two agreed to join Reset to form the “Heart Move Kei Reform” (HMK) stable. The first big match between HMK and the JWP Seikigun (“regular army”) took place on October 7, when Sakura, Yoneyama, Nakamori and Morii defeated Arisa Nakajima, Command Bolshoi, Kayoko Haruyama and Manami Katsu 3–0 in an eight-woman captain’s fall elimination tag team main event. Later that same day, Sakura’s former Ice Ribbon protégé Riho, who had recently left Ice Ribbon to rejoin her trainer, made her debut for Gatoh Move, wrestling Sakura to a ten-minute time limit draw at an event in Shinjuku, Tokyo. On October 28, Sakura defeated Kayoko Haruyama to win the JWP Openweight Championship for the first time. Sakura made her first successful defense of the title at Pro-Wrestling: EVE’s Wrestle-Fever internet pay-per- view event in Sudbury, Suffolk, England on November 10, 2012, defeating Kay Lee Ray. Later that evening, Sakura would answer an open challenge issued by the Pro-Wrestling: EVE Champion Nikki Storm, leading to Sakura defeating her to win the title. On December 20, Sakura made her first successful defense of the Pro-Wrestling: EVE Championship, wrestling Hiroyo Matsumoto to a twenty- minute time limit draw at a Gatoh Move event in Itabashi, Tokyo. Four days later, Sakura lost the JWP Openweight Championship to Arisa Nakajima in her second defense, ending her reign at just 57 days. The match ended the collaboration between Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling and JWP. While Hanako Nakamori and Morii chose to return to JWP, wrestling their final Gatoh Move matches on January 25, 2013, Kaori Yoneyama instead chose to quit the promotion she had been affiliated with for her entire career and become a freelancer following January 27 in order to be able to continue working for Gatoh Move. On February 2, Sakura returned to England, losing the Pro-Wrestling: EVE Championship back to Nikki Storm. Sakura returned to JWP on April 14, teaming with the debuting Nikki Storm to defeat former stablemates Hanako Nakamori and Morii in a tag team match. On May 11, Sakura defeated DJ Nira at a Gatoh Move event and, as a result, won his “Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere” contract, which gives its owner the right to challenge for the DDT Pro-Wrestling promotion’s KO-D Openweight Championship. The following day, Sakura made her debut for World Wonder Ring Stardom, wrestling Nanae Takahashi to a fifteen-minute time limit draw. On May 17, before being able to cash it in, Sakura lost the “Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere” contract to Sayaka Obihiro. On May 25, Sakura made another trip to England to take part in Pro-Wrestling: EVE’s 2013 Queen of the Ring tournament, where she made it to the finals, before losing to Shanna. Also in May, Sakura was involved in a storyline, where she supposedly found the old AWF World Women’s Championship at the Hanazono Shrine flea market. She then contacted IWA Japan president Tatsukuni Asano, who bought back the title for ¥2000. On June 1, Sakura returned to her original home promotion, IWA Japan, defeating Kappa Komachi to win the AWF World Women’s Championship for the second time, sixteen years after she had won it the first time. She made her first successful defense of the title at a Gatoh Move event on July 15 against old associate Kiyoko Ichiki. Sakura’s second successful title defense took place on August 10, when she defeated Welsh wrestler Pollyanna.

In 2002, she joined her first Gatokunyan (GTKN) promotions in which she spent the first time as a trainer. She was then returning to the Ring in 2003 under the new ring’s name Emi Sakura. While as a member of the GTKN, Sakura split her time between training and wrestling almost all wrestlers in the organization.

Emi Sakura Net Worth

Emi Sakura is one of the richest Professional Wrestler from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Emi Sakura 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At 17 years old, Motokawa decided to find a profession in professional wrestling. After attending auditions for an organization called the Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling (LLPW) and Gaea Japan promotions, she was admitted to the International Wrestling Association of Japan dojo to learn. Motokawa was working with her actual name and professional wrestler name, made her debut on August 17th, 1995 in a match with Kiyoko Ichiki. Since IWA Japan did not have any male wrestlers other than women, Sakura spent her first year mostly working with Ichiki. On the 13th of August the 13th of August, 1997, Motokawa took home her first championship by defeating Luna Vachon at an IWA Japan event to take home the American Wrestling Federation’s (AWF) World Women’s Championship. After IWA Japan started a working partnership and All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling (AJW), Motokawa also began appearing for AJW after losing her attempt to challenge Momoe Nakanishi to an AJW Junior Championship on August 26. AJW Junior Championship the 26th of the 26th of August and joining forces with Manami Toyota at 1998’s Tag League the Best tournament. On the 24th of January, 1998, Sakura defeated Momoe Nakanishi to claim the AJW Championship. The title would be lost again in the hands of Nakanishi the following day on April 12. On March 19th 1999 Motokawa fell short of her AWF World Women’s Championship to Yuko Kosugi. After that, she resigned from IWA Japan.

On the 20th of August, 1999, Motokawa started working frequently with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) and often wrestled with Kaori Nakayama. On the 24th of October in 2000 Motokawa joined forces along with Azusa Kudo, and Hisakatsu Oya to defeat Nakayama, Gedo and Jado to win the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship. Motokawa wrestled frequently during the promotion until August 2001 and then began suffering from various injuries that eventually forced her to undergo an operation to repair hernias. After her surgery, FMW went out of business.

On May 3, 2009, Sakura defeated Nanae Takahashi at a NEO event to win the NEO Single and NWA Women’s Pacific Championships. The finish of the match had to be improvised, after Sakura legitimately knocked Takahashi unconscious with a sunset flip powerbomb, which resulted in the referee ending the match without a three count and NEO president Tetsuya Koda awarding the titles to Sakura. Her reign ended just two days later, when she was defeated by Yoshiko Tamura. On July 5, Sakura and Nanae Takahashi defeated Tamura and Fuka in the finals to win NEO’s Mid Summer Tag Tournament VIII. On July 19, Sakura teamed with Kaori Yoneyama at a JWP Joshi Puroresu event to defeat Command Bolshoi and Megumi Yabushita for the JWP Tag Team and Daily Sports Women’s Tag Team Championships. Sakura won her first championship in Ice Ribbon on September 21, when she and Yoneyama defeated Takahashi and Makiba for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship, becoming Triple Crown Tag Team Champions in the process. Sakura’s streak of title wins continued on October 12, when she defeated Makoto for Ice Ribbon’s top title, the ICE×60 Championship. During the next month, Sakura successfully defended the ICE×60 Championship eight times, defeating Hikari Minami, Mai Ichii, Chii Tomiya, Riho, Tsukasa Fujimoto, Makoto, Yukie Abe, and Misaki Ohata. On December 13, Sakura and Yoneyama lost all three of their tag team titles to Azumi Hyuga and Ran Yu-Yu at a JWP event. On December 17, in recognition of the six different championships Sakura held in 2009, the Tokyo Sports magazine named her the joshi wrestler of the year. On December 31, Sakura entered the Super-Ice Cup, where she put the ICE×60 Championship on the line in each of her matches. After defeating Miyako Matsumoto and Hikari Minami in her first round and semifinal matches, Sakura was defeated in the finals on January 4, 2010, by Tsukasa Fujimoto in just six seconds. With the defeat, Sakura’s reign ended at 84 days and ten successful defenses.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Emi Sakura Dating?

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On May 25, 2019, Sakura made her debut for All Elite Wrestling, competing in the six women tag-team match at AEW Double or Nothing. She made her return on October 9 at AEW Dynamite teaming with Bea Priestley in a losing effort against Riho and Britt Baker. On the October 29, 2019 episode of AEW Dark, Sakura picked up her first victory, by pinning Penelope Ford, in a four-way match against Allie and Sadie Gibbs. At Full Gear, she unsuccessfully challenged Riho for the AEW Women’s Championship.

Facts & Trivia

Emi Ranked on the list of most popular Professional Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Emi Sakura celebrates birthday on October 4 of every year.

Is Emi Sakura signed to AEW?

Emi Motokawa (元川 恵美, Motokawa Emi, born October 4, 1976), better known by the ring name Emi Sakura (さくら えみ, Sakura Emi), is a Japanese professional wrestler performing for All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

Who has Emi Sakura trained?

Since the early 2000s, Emi has trained or mentored a truly impressive list of wrestlers. Including technical wizards like 2018 Tokyo Sport’s Women’s wrestler of the year Tsukasa Fujimoto , hard-hitting hybrid wrestlers like current AEW women’s champion Hikaru Shida, unorthodox Psycho-Idol Miyako Matsumoto, and more.

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