Makaze

Makaze (born 1982) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently under contract with Divas Unleashed.

History
Makaze's origins trace back to her associations with an underground criminal organization headed up by the Yakuza, though nothing further is known about her own history. This organization, which went by the codename "Sleight of Shadow", formed contracts with powerful executives and sent out assassins to eliminate important people and big-shots of modern society, however, the group kept its existence a secret and were ‘lone wolves’ in their own minds. Makaze was raised by the group since childhood, stripped of her freedom and choice for her future, having to train in how to use whatever weapons were put in her hands, as well as the more deadly aspects of martial arts. Eventually, she became free from the Sleight of Shadow after the leader was shot down during a police raid on the dockyard headquarters, while Makaze was in the middle of a mission and, with the chain of command now collapsed, Makaze escaped from the underground to roam the outside world with freedom. What served her well in her new life, was that she had been taught already about the world outside the underground, so she knew what she was getting herself into.

Makaze figured that she cannot live without inflicting pain and during her aimless wandering, she found out about the profession of pro wrestling and began to find some way to get connected. She soon reached Osaka, where she met an underground, lucha libre style wrestler known as the Great Gosuto, who informed her that he in fact sought an apprentice, and that he couldn’t find anyone else more troubled. Upon hearing the proposition, she accepted and achieved in weeks what normal people wouldn’t be able to achieve in years. She was trained in the high flying martial artist style of the Great Gosuto which had been learnt in Gosuto’s ancestry for ages. One day after finishing the last few trials of her training, Gosuto disappeared, never to be seen again. Makaze was on her own, indicating that the Great Gosuto decided she accomplished the goals set for her and was ready for pro wrestling.

Divas Unleashed
It wasn’t long till Makaze made her debut in the world of Divas Unleashed, a fed that was found by pure chance while wandering America, a country still so new to Makaze. From there she proceeded to make her debut match against two other newcomers to the fed, Bellatrix Turner and Totally Radd in a three-way match. As she violently fought in the ring in the way she was taught and trained she managed to hold her own. But disaster struck, and one of the other newcomers, won the match through chance. One day later, as she wandered the streets pondering her loss, she realized only one thing was holding her back. Her feelings for Gosuto, so far away, and yet somehow so near to her.

Her heart became a firestorm, and soon was filled with anger at him and the feelings she had. She finally lashed out, destroying the shrine she made for him and ripping her only picture of Gosuto up. She tossed it all in a bonfire in the basement of an abandoned building.

The next few days leading up to the next Exile, she decided that since she was now free of Gosuto, she would carve her new life onto the world, and a number of changes occurred with her. She threw away her body pant for her natural beauty, dying her hair to a more ginger color, and received more wrestling training to improve her already taught lucha libre skills as well as her martial arts training, even her ring attire was changed. And instead of reading oaths and lessons of duty and honor, she took to the hard streets and beat and earned her way through being naughty – street fights, armed robbery, muggings, you name it!

After returning on the March 7th edition of Exile, she went up against Trish Newborn. And Makaze's new philosophy got her beginning career turned around with a straight win. Providing Makaze an open door in the land of opportunity.

It soon paid off for Makaze, once being set as one of 4 no.1 contenders for the Rockford State Championship at the PPV Nuclear Pussy V, facing off against the champion Moira Storm, Suzie Woods and Digitz. After a hard fought contest from all 4, Makaze was the one to successfully take the winning pinfall and take home her first title in DU.

But with every title that any wrestler wins, along with prestige comes a bullseye on their back. And by the January 9th Exile in Charlotte, NC it had been brought to the attention of Makaze that another DU superstar, Katie Kooper had proven herself in a previous match to be the no.1 contender for the title. On that day the two met each other in a tag match, with Katie teamed with Trish Newborn, and Makaze teamed with Tracee Nguyen. During and even after the match, Makaze unleashed her frustrations about Kooper out at her personally, and Katie did so right back at Makaze. This initial scuffle would soon turn into what the fans describe as a feud for the ages.

More of this emerged at the next Exile in D.C. in the "Colonial" theme Tag Team Match, were Katie and Makaze were put together against Veronica Valiant and Henshin, and Tracee Nguyen and Trish Newborn. As part of the match stipulation each team had to dress up as certain occupants of America (American Pilgrims, British Colonists and Native Americans) and Katie and Makaze represented the Brits. Makaze was utterly humiliated at going out there dressed in an oversized dress and white wig, unlike Katie. During the match when Katie came to tag Makaze in, Makaze abandoned her teammate and instead hit her with an iron pole hidden in a parasol. This effectively cost her team the match, but Makaze didn't give a rats ass, as long as she got an edge on Kooper. To add salt to the wound, Makaze went to perform her KaMakaze finisher on Katie after the match was over.

Their next match was a real turning point for the both of them. At Control of the Knife in Miami, Florida, Makaze went to defend her Rockford State title in a singles match against Katie Kooper, whose fury was well beginning to flourish after some degrading remarks from Makaze towards Katie's family. This match turned to be a huge success with a victory possibly going either way, but in a surprise reversal out of a hurricarana into a powerbomb, Makaze ended up losing the match and her title.

On February 20th, Divas Unleashed began its first tour of Asia in five years, with the first Exile opening up in Nagasaki, Japan. Obviously something that Makaze was deeply proud of, fighting in her homeland. On this night, Makaze opened this Exile with a singles contest against one half of the DU Tag Team champs Colleen Rhodes. With the anger after losing her title to Kooper still fresh in her mind, Makaze went all out to achieve a victory over Colleen. After the match Makaze took the time to send a warning to Katie.

On the next stop in Singapore, with Makaze scouting the area even before her scheduled match that night, she let her frustrations boil over. This was during a tag team contest between the new Rockford champ Katie Kooper and Luna, going up against Mercedes Vargas and Henshin Belleza. Mercedes was about to be pinned by Katie when Makaze disrupted the match and started beating up on her recent rival. Luna eventually came to Katie's aid, grabbing Makaze and lifting her up into the air, but this was prevented from growing worse as Mercedes Vargas executed her "Coup de Grâce" to the back of Luna's head. Katie's brother Travis Kooper then got involved to defend his sister from Makaze, but Makaze didn't stop at just Katie. Soon the Japanese Spitfire went to grab Travis' balls and twisting them hard enough to send him to the mat.

Later that same night, Makaze was scheduled to face Veronica Valiant. Thanks to Krysta Taylor the stipulation was changed to a Singapore Cane Match.

to be continued.....

Finishing Moves
KaMakaze (Corkscrew shooting star press)

Signature Moves

 * Deathly Divinity (Dragonrana)
 * O-ba-kiru (Overkill) (Spinning Impaler)
 * Satsujinki (Devilish Homicide) (Reverse Lightning Spiral)
 * Meikyou (Shades of the Dead) (Figure Four Deathlock)
 * Kyouchou (Evil Omen) (Shiranui (springboard backflip three-quarter facelock falling reverse DDT))

Regular Moves

 * Roundhouse Kick
 * Thrust Kick
 * Asai Moonsault
 * Leg hook suplex
 * Scissors kick
 * Complete Shot STO
 * Swanton Bomb
 * Frog Splash
 * Openhand chop
 * Over Castle
 * Bicycle Kick
 * Top Rope Twisting Elbow Drop
 * Rolling Thunder
 * Enziguri
 * Dragon Screw
 * La casita
 * Snap swinging neckbreaker
 * Corkscrew Moonsault
 * Octopus stretch
 * Rope hung Boston crab
 * Rolling Wheel Kick
 * 450 Splash

Theme Music
"A World Without Logos" - Yasushi Ishii