Azumi Goto

Azumi Goto-Sakazaki (born November 10, 1992) is a Japanese female wrestler currently signed to Elite Answers Wrestling under their Empire brand.

Early Life
Azumi comes from a well off, respected family in Okinawa. Her family is known for running the largest fishing business in South Japan, her father Daisuke runs the business along side her mother Aika. Azumi’s younger sister Sakuya is an ex-pro wrestler that retired due to multiple injuries that she was unable to heal up from. Goto was a tennis player through most of her life, winning multiple junior championships in the Okinawa area, she was also said to be a volleyball player when she was younger and would go on to represent her prefecture alongside her school team at the 2010 High School Nationals but gave up both sports to pursue her wrestling training. Goto’s love for wrestling apparently began when she was around 5 watching a Joshi Match with her father. It was also her father, Daisuke that introduced her to her first mentor Shinjiro Yoshida, who is considered the biggest sports legend to come out of Okinawa. Her training would begin at the age of 16 and she would officially turn pro at the age of 18.

Beginning as Magical Princess Ayumi
Goto would have her first official match in a pre show dark match under the name of Ayumi. Azumi would continue to wrestle under that name for 4 months before being repackaged as “Magic Princess” Ayumi, a gimmick that Goto came up with because of her love for Anime and more importantly the Magic Girl genre. With her “Magic Princess” persona, Goto would be pick up her first notable wins in OPW and she would soon challenge Joshi Champion MAYA, only to face her in losing effort. Because she had lost but the ref didn’t see her foot on the rope, Ayumi was given another shot at MAYA’s Joshi Championship, and once again suffer defeat via submission. During the match Goto would injure her left knee but push on till her defeat, she was not seen at OPW Events until June when she was repackaged again.

Return From Injury
Goto would officially return to injury and under her real name, she would start to pick up wins. On November 15, five days after her 19th Birthday. Azumi would capture her first title and end the year long reign of former rival MAYA, the reign didn’t last long as she would drop it back to MAYA on December 5th after the match, Goto would take to the microphone and say that she’s officially heading to JET as her contract expired the night before. This would be the last appearance of Azumi Goto in OPW.

Young Lioness
Goto would join the JET Roster under the mentorship of Kira Sakazaki (Coincedently the older brother of her spouse, Haruna Sakazaki) and Miss Manami. She spent up to two months working as a young lioness, which meant her jobs including cleaning the Dojos, cleaning the showers, make food for the veterans and much more. Azumi would make her officially debut for JET in April under her real name but in a losing effort, she would continue to lose multiple matches. This would continue till July where she would pick up her first win via Roll-up.

Team Up with Mei Hatsukyo
Starting in August, Azumi and fellow rookie Mei Hatsukyo would team up for the annual JET “Rise Together” Tag Tournament. During this time Azumi and Mei would place first in their block only to lose in the finals, through this tournament Azumi and Mei would form a friendship and Mei would call Azumi, “Onee-Chan” meaning older sister as a sign of respect. The team would continue their run of form, even facing the JET Duo Championship, Yuzuki Ishikawa and Meiko at JET’s annual Korakuen Hall Show in October and the pair would win the match to capture their first titles in JET. Goto and Hatsukyo would hold the title until December 20th where they would drop the titles. The team would be off-screen for a while until late January

The Outsiders
During a JET Event in February, a trio consisting of heel Joshi, Yuzuki Ishikawa, Meiko and Mio would start calling themselves Stardom Trio and would hold all the championships that JET had. With Yuzuki and Meiko holding the tag titles and Mio holding the JET Championship. They would dare any three girls to come out and try to challenge them, a new theme music would play as Azumi, Mei and a debuting 19-year-old Sakuya Goto would accept the challenge and soon a brawl between the two groups with Goto’s group winning the brawl. The three would pull out a flag that read “Outsiders”, the trio would declare war on the Stardom Trio. The name itself comes from the fact that all three girls didn’t start their careers in JET. A feud between the two groups ensued for over a year but the Stardom Trio would win the last and final battle in June’s Japan Wrestle Festival featuring all the major promotions around the country in a big supercard like show. The match itself would be bad in the long run for The Outsiders as Sakuya would tear her ACL and Mei was wrestling her last match before heading to EAW’s Developmental Territory.

Final Run in JET
It was said that Sakuya would be out for at least a year and that meant Azumi would be without her stable. She would continue to feud with the Stardom Trio, alone but would continue to face defeat from them. In September, JET announced a 16 Joshi tournament called “Rise To The Occasion”. Azumi would win the tournament, giving her a final shot at Mio’s JET Championship that she had won due to Cloud Matsuda’s signing to Elite Answers Wrestling. The final match between the long Azumi/Outsiders vs Mio/Stardom Trio feud happened at JET's largest show till date. Taking place at Nippon Budokan with 10,000 live. Azumi and Mio would face off in a 45 Minute Ironman Match which Azumi would win with the final score of 3-2. Goto would take a mic and say that she won’t be able to defend this title with honor as she had accepted a contract offer from EAW, she would thank the people around her that made her what she is in JET and said that even in her heart, she was a Joshi no matter what they would say. This was Azumi’s last appearance in JET as she would head to Elite Answers Wrestling and she was vacating her title on the same night she had won it.

Time in Developmental
Goto would join EAW on December 1st and would spend the whole month in Developmental, learning the English language which she had minor knowledge of. With the help of a few people there, she would get a good grasp of the language and was moved up to the Main Roster on New Years 2016.

Shinsei Domei
Goto would make her debut for EAW under a new persona called “The Queen Of Submission” Azumi Goto. Hyping up her excellent skills as a submission specialist and an effective Strong Style Wrestler. Goto would, unfortunately, lose her debut match to Vanessa Holiday on Battleground, followed by another couple of losses to Aria Jaxon on Voltage, to Silence on Showdown in a Fatal Four-way and another loss to Vanessa Holiday on Battleground, this time by DQ. Her first win would come in a Tag Match on Dynasty alongside Erica Ford against Veena Adams and Silence. Post Match, both Goto and Ford would be attacked by Adams and Silence.

This would trigger a feud between the two teams as Goto and Ford would start calling themselves as Shinsei Domei (Translation: Holy Alliance). The name itself doesn’t mean what the translation say, both were saying that the team name comes from their drive for Pure Spirit, Pure Competition. Shinsei Domei would continue to get the better of Adams and Silence with Azumi picking up her first singles win against Veena Adams, along with Six Vixens Tag match win alongside the likes of Aria Jaxon and Sheridan Muller. At the first EAW Vixens Cup, Azumi would face Silence and beat her rival by count-out but after the Erica Ford vs Veena Adams, Silence would attack Azumi with a steel pipe and bust her open. This would be a major reason in Azumi’s round two loss to Rey Shamez. Goto would continue to team with Erica Ford after the Vixens Cup and pair would continue to win matches together. Two weeks after Reckless Wiring 8, Azumi Goto would receive her first title match against Carson Ramsay for his Pure Title in a losing effort.

Azumi would move away from that loss and look towards being in the First Specialist Rampage Match entering in at #5 and eliminating Veena Adams, Brody Sparks, Silence and Grace Izumi with help from Erica Ford. Azumi would be eliminated at 6th position thanks to outside interference by Eris LeCava. Post-GR was a struggling run for Azumi, with a few wins against the likes of Hatsukyo Gin (Her old Outsider stablemate, Mei Hatsukyo), Piff Fumador, Venom and couple of loss against Haruna Sakazaki, Madison Kaline and others. This would lead to Azumi being apart of Team Vixens at Pain For Pride 9 in the first Divide & Conquer Match against Team New Breed, Azumi would get the first elimination of Piff Fumador but would be eliminated third from her team.

Post-PFP/Shinsei Domei and Start Of Arrogance Personified.
Weeks post-Pain For Pride 9, Azumi would lose more matches, even ending her team with Erica and leave her in the middle of a match in a Six Person Tag with her then boyfriend Nasir Moore and would say her reasons for it were because she was tired of carrying Erica through all the success they had.

Azumi would enter the second annual Empress Of Elite, where she was placed in Block D with Cameron Ella Ava, Haruna Sakazaki, Sophia Rose, Hatsukyo Gin, & Nicole Fyre. She would lead the block in the first week with a submission win over Hatsukyo, giving Azumi three points but she would soon lose two matches straight against Haruna and Sophia respectively. Goto would bounce back to beat Nicole but unfortunately she didn’t have enough to take back her lead, Azumi would suffer one more loss to Cameron Ella Ava in the final week of Block Matches. Ending her run in the tournament.

Empire/Control In The Vault Holder
On the debut episode of Empire, Azumi would team up with Erica Ford again to face Cailin Dillon and Tarah Nova in a tag match but because of Erica and Azumi arguments they would both lose the match, next week Azumi would cost Erica her match against Stephanie Matsuda and would even kidnap her with the help of mysterious men. The following week, she would beat Veena Adams and revealed that she placed Erica in a Glass/Steel Cage, this would result in Azumi and Erica having a match inside a steel cage with both women destroying each other, Azumi would push her former tag partner down from the top of the cage down to the floor giving Erica the win and some serious injuries. After her feud with Erica, she would have a couple of great matches against Heart Break Gal, BB Vita and Brianna Taylor.

At the Shock Value FPV, it would be a night of firsts for Azumi. Her first major accomplishment and her first FPV win as she would be involved in the Control In The Vault Battle Royal which she won and receive a contract/briefcase that she could cash in to gain complete control of Empire for 24hrs. Post Shock Value, Azumi would team up with fellow JET Alumni Stephanie Matsuda for the second Tag Team Grand Prix, they would lose in the first round against Eclipse and Alexis Diemos. Azumi would soon be called out by EAW Hall Of Famer and Empire GM Cleopatra for a match at RTR10 which Azumi would win and retain her Control In The Vault Briefcase. After Road To Redemption X another series of losses would be added to Azumi’s overall record, but she would bounce back by competing in the Empire Cup Grand Rampage match at Empire’s first supershow, Malicious Intentions and finishing in the top four alongside April Song, Cameron Ella Ava, and Sophia Rose.

In-Wrestling:

 * Finishing Moves:
 * Hizageri (Busaiku Knee to either a kneeling or standing opponent)
 * Imperial Regalia (Emerald Flowsion) - Adopted from Shinjiro Yoshida
 * Red Heart (Bloody Sunday)
 * Shoryu Kekkai (Muta Lock/Inverted STF)
 * Signature Moves:
 * Backstabber
 * Fujiwara Armbar
 * Juji-Gatame
 * Multiple Strike variations
 * Corner Dropkick
 * Discus Elbow Smash
 * Headbutt
 * Knee Strikes
 * Knife Edge Chop
 * Ko-Oh (Bicycle Knee Lift/V-Trigger)
 * Lariat
 * Machine Gun Chops to a cornered opponent
 * Muramasa (Spinning Heel Kick to an opponent in the corner; sometimes followed up with a Saito Suplex)
 * Palm strikes
 * Penalty kick
 * Shoot kicks
 * Switchblade Kick
 * Uraken (Spinning Backfist)
 * Yakuza Kick
 * Multiple Suplex Variations:
 * Dragon
 * Falcon Arrow (Sitout)
 * German
 * Japanese Ocean Suplex (Double Hammerlock German) – Adopted from Miss Manam
 * Saito Suplex
 * Snap
 * Tiger
 * Vertical
 * Running Senton
 * Sata-Otoshi (Judo Flip into a sleeper hold)
 * Suicide Dive
 * Uranage

Championships and Other Accomplishments:

 * Elite Answers Wrestling:
 * Control In the Vault Briefcase Holder
 * Most Valuable Elitist Awards:
 * Vixen/Woman Of The Week (Two times)
 * Promoer Of The Week (Three times)
 * Beef Of The Week (Two times)