IYO SKY [ Io Shirai ] Official Stan Thread

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Io's merch line :picard: sugoi dimes :cook:
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The match itself was fukking great, as expected. Thunder Rock (Io&Mayu) is the goat joshi tag team idgaf. Bittersweet knowing that it's really over :mjcry:

Some gifs from the match




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:whew:


One last Sundahhh Rock!! pose desu :to:





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Rossy confirming that Io's farewell was the biggest house Stardom has ever drawn at Korakuen Hall :queen:

She sells her merch independently of Stardom, keeping 100% of the profit. You can assume every last one of the people who attended spent at least $30 on average at her merch table. I posted a pic of her merch line above, they were lined up around the block.

So she must have easily cleared >$40k just in merch alone for that one show :eat:


Idk if I believe Meltzer that she'd accept less than that as a yearly salary to join NXT.

Sidenote: Io selling her shyt independently meant that literally the only way to get your hands on any of her merch was to attend a Stardom show in person and wait in line. There are a TON of international stans thirsting to buy an Io Shirai t-shirt. Watch WWE fukk that up by releasing some ugly bullshyt and/or one of those damn oil painting t-shirts they keep spamming.
 

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Now that the GOAT is officially signed, I'm gonna post some of her best matches in here. Might aswell start with the one that got me into joshi in the first place. This match will never leave my personal top 5




That pre-match video package is powerful brehs :wow: Even without speaking Japanese you can understand their energy. Kairi knows she's the underdog vs Io, but she's willing to do whatever it takes to win. Io as her friend is impressed by Kairi's determination, but she's not worried AT ALL.

That Chatmonchy song they used :dj2:
 

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I'm sure a lot of people have already seen this one. As far as I'm aware, this is her only televised match outside of Japan and Mexico so far.

To me, this is one of the things that puts her ahead of some of the other Joshi GOATs. How many of them would be able to go to America, work a completely new gimmick, perform virtually none of their signature moves, brawl with Pentagon Jr, and have it be this dope and get over this much with a live audience who had no idea who she was?

I'm not sure if Manami Toyota pulls this off brehs :hubie:
 
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