Kimikura Setzu

Kimikura Bellatrix Setzu  Kim-e-koo-ra Set-tzoo (born February 27, 1983), sometimes known by her nickname "The Blue Haired British Babe,", is a British professional female wrestler that made her claim to fame in wrestling through the Hardcore Wrestling Entertainment franchise. She has also been modelling for the small design company: Black Butterfly Design. Currently, she is signed to WWH's InnerCircle Brand.

During her time in British Youth Wrestling (BYW) Kimikura was reconised as a very capable wrestler, who didn't have a problem with getting in the ring with opponents clearly larger in stature than herself.

Setzu's fighting style has often been compared to Muhammad Ali's famous fighting technique of "Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee." Kimikura loved this description, so much so that she named her finishing move "The Black Butterfly" in its honor.

= Early Life =

Born in London, England to a Japanese Mother and English Father, Kimikura's father brought her up as a tom boy teaching her martial arts and evoking a passion for the military and archeology. Kimikura always wanted to be like Lara Croft or an action super hero. She enrolled at army cadets where she got into climbing, rappelling and amateur wrestling. At school Kimikura was a high achiever despite being bullied.

At age 9 Kimikura set her heart on becoming a wrestler. In her early teens Kimikura trained and competed in Athletics and Trampolining and in her later teens started weight training and submission wrestling. Throughout her Teenage years Kimikura continued to model and study media at college. It was quite a stressful time being pulled in so many directions.

At age 15 she debuted in British Youth Wrestling (BYW) where she went on and became the BYW Under 21's Female Champion.

= Career =

British Youth Wrestling (1998 - 2002)
Kimikura started out as a storyline plant in the business

Hardcore Wrestling Entertainment (2002 - 2004)


Before changing her name in 2003, Kimikura was known simply as Kimberlee in HWE where she made a massive impact on the face of professional wrestling. Kimberlee at such a young age achieved what many female wrestlers much older than herself could only dream of, she was described by one of the HWE's annouce team as "The Most Exciting Diva in Sports Entertainment" an obvious play on WWE's tagline for The Rock's People's Elbow: The Most Electrifying Move In Sports Entertainment. By the end of her HWE career Kimikura had won the HWE Women's Championship seven times and the HWE Women's Tag-Team Championship twice with her sister Chisuka Setzu.

The Women's Championship Dispute
There were many issues surrounding Kimikura's first two reigns as HWE Women's Champion and during her short career in HWE she was always in the spotlight for the Women's Championship.

First Victory
Kimikura won the HWE Women's Championship for the first time on HWE Agony on February 27th 2002, her 19th Birthday. Her reign, however was cut incredibly short, she was stripped of the title on the same night by the HWE Board of Directors who claimed that she was "too young" to be a champion. Outraged, Kimikura threatened to take HWE to court for their actions, however it was later highlighted that had Kimikura been wrestling in a British federation - she would have been able to keep the title - however because HWE was an American federation, the lowest age she could possibly be was 20.

Second Victory
Despite her previous championship problems, Kimikura continued to wrestle in the HWE, but she was unable to contend for the Women's Championship. HWE started to bill Kimikura sparingly in matches in an attempt to avoid another upset - billing her usually once every two to three weeks in an attempt to lengthen the time between her matches and thus lengthen her chances at another shot at the championship which she would have been given contractually. Despite this - Kimikura continuously won her matches until HWE had no choice but to give her another title shot against Revelle Addams at HWE Nemesis in December 2002.

Kimikura emerged victorious and HWE was once again skeptical about having a teenager as their Women's Champion and after much deliberation, The Board of Directors decided to let Kimikura keep the Championship, making her one of the youngest women to win a professional wrestling championship.

Third Victory
After an ambush backstage at a HWE House show by Revelle Addams, Kimikura was hospitalised with a broken arm in March 2003, however Kimikura turned up at HWE's Friday Night Agony as a member of the audience and during a match involving Revelle, she jumped the barrier and smashed her in the forehead with her arm cast.

Winner Takes the Gold - Final Victory
When HWE announced it's closure in early March 2004 - HWE Co-Owner Samuel Underwood announced the "Winner Takes the Gold" stipulation, meaning that all the matches of the final HWE would be championship matches and the winners would take the championship belts home with them as a memento of HWE. Cadbury was set to defend her championship against Kimikura in a Falls Count Anywhere Match. It was a brutal match between the two girls, being the last female matchup in HWE's history, they wanted to go out with a bang and the pair did literally when Kimikura suplexed Cadbury from the stage into the electrical equipment below. Sparks flew in every direction but Kimikura didn't show any fear and launched herself from the stage, crashing down on Cadbury and quickly followed up with a pin for the victory and the right to take the championship home with her.

For some time afterward, Kimikura concidered breaking out of the wrestling business but she soon felt the urge to get back in the ring and joined up with a smaller federation: LSCW.

LoneStar Championship Wrestling (2008)
During Kimikura's short time in LSCW - she rose up through the ranks very quickly - in her first month she went from being LSCW's most popular "Goddess" to Acting General Manager of the federation. Soon after she was appointed as the firm General Manager choice where she made a big impact, introducing new match types, titles and an entire new brand, "Tuesday Night Underground".

LSCW Chairman and Co-Owner, Larry Fields became abscent for a long length of time leaving LSCW Co-Owner Adam Cage handicaped in running the federation. Kimikura was then promoted to LSCW Chairwoman where she ran the fed for a few weeks until Larry Fields created MCW making LSCW obsolete.

Since it's closure in Early 2008, LSCW has been bought out by Kimikura's last federation World Wrestling Headquarters.

World Wrestling Headquarters (2008 - Present)
Kimikura made her claim in WWH in June 2008 - since then she has been in the shows previous brands Demolition and DWA: Divas With Attitude.

Rivals, Titles & Friends
She has had one title shot for the now non existant WWH Women's Intercontinental Championship against Aolina Sanchez where she performed infront of her home fans in London, England. Although loosing against Aolina for a third time in a row - Kimikura and Aolina still remain friends.

Temporary Disappearance - WWH Vs. UCWF
Soon after this Kimikura was kicked down to lower carding in DWA. Kimikura's attendance dwindled - she didn't really perform well and in some cases didn't attend when she was scheduled to fight. Behind the scenes, there was tension between a number of WWH Superstars and Management. A new federation was opened - UCWF and all the WWH Superstars who had issues with the WWH Board of Directors joined up and during broadcasts - made a number of hurtful remarks towards WWH. Kimikura was against the management for seemingly dropping her - saying that WWH had put a cap on her talent and refused to let her show them what she was capable of. Seeing these remarks with all the other superstars - WWH dropped a large number of their talent, including Kimikura.

After a few weeks - WWH Management & many UCWF Superstars apologised for their actions and since then UCWF has closed until further notice. Kimikura was one of the superstars that was re-hired in October 2008.

Fathers Death, Emotional Breakdown & Rivalry with Angelina Love
On 10th October 2008 - soon after she was re-hired into WWH - Kimikura's father, Brayden Semmonds - died in a car accident in Japan. Being very close to her father - this naturally occupied Kimikura's mind for quite some time and her constant defeats proved this - when interviewed before her matches - WWH backstage annoucers such as Todd Grisham noted how "...vauge and lost..." Kimikura seemed.

Deciding that the best course of action would be to give her leave - WWH Chairman Adrian Hart offered Kimikura a few weeks leave to gather her thoughts. Kimkura turned the offer down and decided to battle on. One month later - Kimikura was back and "in control" when she noticed that another WWH Diva had risen through the ranks much faster than she had - feeling outraged - Kimikura challenged Angelina Love for the WWH Queens Championship. Angelina accepted but not before knocking Kimikura off the top turnbuckle causing Kimikura to fall and land badly - seriously damaging her already injured left arm. This forced Kimikura to a Leave of Abscence where her return was concidered "highly unlikely".

Retribution and Queens Championship


Kimikura made her return at WWH's Survivor Series '08 when she became the surprise partner for Team Showdown in the "Champions Vs Champions" Main Event, giving her plenty of opportunity to get some pay back on Angelina. Angelina Love then left the WWH - vacating the title. The title was up for grabs when Kimikura was scheduled to go up against Brooklyn Glamorous but for reasons that were not made public knowledge - Kimikura failed to turn up, making Brooklyn the new champion by default.

Break from Wrestling, Demolition General Manager
Kimikura then chose to bow out of wrestling for a conciderable amount of time. Although wanting to stay in the business one way or another, she began lending her skills as a WWH Creative/Promotional Artist, working backstage and occasionally making in ring apperances. Kimikura was then hired as the new Demolition General Manager where in an interview, she said that she was going to "...give the viewers something they'll never forget." Unfortunatly, many WWH superstars were dropped because of their lack of attendance and Demolition is now closed until further notice.

Kicking It With Kimi N Bella
For a short time, Kimikura spent her Thursday Nights Co-Hosting a WWH Chat Show titled "Kicking It With Kimi N Bella" in which her and fellow WWH Diva Isabella Luna talked about anything that came to mind. The show also had three special guests each week. However, recently Kimikura felt she was taking on too much in the WWH and because of her return coming up soon, she felt it was best to resign from a number of positions in the WWH. The show has recently been taken over by Lilly Marie and Jessica Rose and the show is now known as: Kicking It With Lilly and Jessica.

Return to the Ring

November 1, 2009 marked the return of Kimikura Setzu to the World Wrestling Headquarters. She was signed to her previous brand: InnerCircle. Kimikura had taken time from wrestling to focus more on her modelling work with Black Butterfly Design; now that she has completed her work with the modelling company - she wants to return to the ring.

= Moves, Managers & Themes =


 * Finishing Moves


 * Goodnight Sweetheart (Suplex and Stunner Landing)
 * Black Abyss (Jack Hammer Slam)
 * The Black ButterflyTM (Spinning Vertabreaker) - Innovated


 * Signature Moves
 * Multiple DDT variations:
 * Snap
 * Implant
 * Tornado
 * Running
 * Sharpshooter
 * Release German suplex
 * Rocking-horse submission
 * Jack Hammer Slam
 * Leap of Faith
 * Suicide Dive
 * Book End
 * Springboard Suplex
 * Diving Clothesline
 * Celtic Cross
 * Post to Post
 * Moonsault


 * Managers
 * Samuel Underwood
 * Chisuka Setzu


 * Signature Weapons/Foreign Objects
 * Steel Chair
 * Ladder (Usually 16 foot +)


 * Catchphrase
 * "Everyone's/Everybody's Favourite Blue Haired Diva"


 * Nicknames
 * "The Blue Haired British Babe"
 * "The Most Exciting Diva in Sports Entertainment"
 * "Blue Haired Bombshell"
 * "Kimi"
 * "Kimmers"
 * "Kay-Kay" (Amy Roucka-Hart)


 * Entrance Music
 * "Lacrimosa" - Mozart
 * "Yankee Rose" - Rumble Roses Promo
 * "Through the Fire and Flames" - DragonForce
 * "Survival of the Sickest" - Saliva
 * "Perfect Insanity" - Disturbed

= Championships and Accomplishments =



British Youth Wrestling
 * BYW Under 21's Female Champion (1 time)

Hardcore Wrestling Entertainment


 * HWE Women's Champion (7 time)
 * HWE Women's Tag-Team Champion (w/ Chisuka Setzu) (2 time)

LoneStar Championship Wresling


 * LSCW Chairwoman
 * LSCW General Manager
 * LSCW Underground General Manager
 * Creator of the "Water Torture" Match
 * Creator of the "Glass Prison" Match

World Wresling Headquarters


 * WWH Chairwoman
 * WWH Demolition General Manager

Miscellaneous
 * Playboy Cover Girl - LSCW Special (July 2008)
 * Playboy Cover Girl w/Aolina Sanchez - WWH Special (October 2008)

= Personal Life =

Kimikura doesn't tend to brag about her social life, which seems to have made her very desirable. Wrestlers such as Adam Cage, Javier Ramirez, Rick Flair Jr., Zane Strident & Chris Frenzy have all shown and interest in Kimikura, however she is known for enjoying single life.

= Trivia =


 * Kimikura is Ambidextrous.
 * Her Mother, Fumiko Setzukara, and her Father, Brayden Semmonds first met inside the London Underground station in Oxford Circus, London.
 * Although her original name had been Kimikura Semmonds - at the age of eighteen she changed her last name to Setzu in honor of her Japanese roots.
 * Kimikura's mother resided in Okinawa, Japan before Brayden's Death in October 2008, Fumiko now lives in London, England. Kimikura, however now lives in Denver, Colorado - making occasional trips to London, England where she was born and bred.
 * Kimikura has never been to Japan.

= Character Origins =

The character "Kimikura Setzu" was created by Samuel Tasker - a amatuer graphics and web designer and is used as a mascot for his design website. She was created for a number of different interactive media in order to gain awareness for the website and herself as a character. Unrelated to wrestling, she will also be making an apperance in a Web Comic set for release sometime in Summer 2009.