Io shirai11/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Though most fans of WWE don't know much about World Wonder Ring Stardom the wrestling promotion – known casually as Stardom – they are certainly familiar with many of the company's former wrestlers, as performers like Asuka, Toni Storm, and yes, Io Shirai all worked for the Japanese company before taking their talents stateside. Io Shirai has a home away from WWE in Stardom. No, according to The Wrestling Observer, Shirai's contract is going to expire later this year and she is leaning towards returning to Japan for the next chapter of her career, presumably to wrestle for her former promotion Stardom. … except that might not be how Shirai reportedly wants to handle things moving forward. Now granted, that is largely out of Shirai's hands, as she was injured back in April and has been held out of action ever since but the general assumption around the wrestling world was once she returned to full strength, the 32-year-old from Japan would be right back in the NXT main event picture, if not elevated to one of the main WWE brands. And yet fast forward to the middle of 2022, and Shirai has largely been an afterthought on the NXT landscape, with Mandy Rose and Toxic Attraction taking over the top of the card and young performers like Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade rising up the ranks to challenge them. On paper, she had it all she had a good look, was a fantastic worker, and could play the role of championing babyface or cocky heel depending on what the story asked of her at the time. There was a time when Io Shirai was not only the top female performer in/on NXT but was considered a favorite to become a fixture of a WWE television too, be that on RAW or SmackDown.
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