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** Sakai and Hiroyo Muto needed two falls count anywhere weapons death matches to get the TWF tag team titles from Fang Suzuki and The Bloody, with the second match being an iron man death match that needed to go to SuddenDeath!
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** Sakai and Hiroyo Muto needed two falls count anywhere weapons death matches to get the TWF tag team titles from Fang Suzuki and The Bloody, with the second match being an iron man death match that needed to go to SuddenDeath![[TiebreakerRound sudden death]]!
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* PowerStable: With Hiromi Yagi, Ariya, Hiroyo Muto, Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru, Chitose Yamamoto, Chiaki Nishi, Haruka Matsuo [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and]] Emi Tomimatsu in 2001 as "Team Jd'", defending the promotion's honor against The Bloody's "Super Terrors" power stable, which for a time even had [[FightingYourFriend Sakai's usual partner]] Yabushita(she'd rejoin Sakai in 2002)!
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* PowerStable: With Hiromi Yagi, Ariya, Hiroyo Muto, Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru, Chitose Yamamoto, Chiaki Nishi, Haruka Matsuo [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and]] and Emi Tomimatsu in 2001 as "Team Jd'", defending the promotion's honor against The Bloody's "Super Terrors" power stable, which for a time even had [[FightingYourFriend Sakai's usual partner]] Yabushita(she'd rejoin Sakai in 2002)!
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* GrievousHarmWithABody: On the receiving end of it at Fighting Spirit Wrestling ''Immortals Holiday IV'' when she performed a rolling pin combination on La Rosa Negra, only to get hit in the back of the head by Wrestling/KimberLee, who had been sent out of the opposite corner by a frankensteiner from Sammy Pickles. She later returned the favor by throwing La Rosa out of the ring on Lee and Pickles.
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As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumie_Sakai The Other Wiki]].
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* HeelFaceTurn: A proxy example in Wrestling/WorldWonderRingSTARDOM, where Sakai was associated with Oedo~tai, but was primarily there to represent Women Of Honor and therefore loyal to Kyoko Kimura rather than the group as such. When Kyoko's daughter Hana turned face, took over the International Army and turned it into Tokyo Cyber Squad, Sumie just defaulted to helping that group when Oedo~tai inevitably attack it.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Megumi Yabushita, a fine pro wrestler, had this in Nanae Takahashi and continued to have this when she recruited Sumie Sakai as her partner as Takahashi partnered with Momoe Nakanishi. Sumie Sakai did win the [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling AJW]] Tag Team Titles...with Yuko Kosugi...after Takahashi and Nakanishi vacated the belts to pursue the more prestigious WWWA Tag Titles, which they won twice. [[DependingOnTheWriter That said]], it was Sakai and Yabushita who were usually treated as the better team in Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling Jd'. Zenjo was simply the bigger company with the bigger audience.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Megumi Yabushita, a fine pro wrestler, had this in Nanae Takahashi and Takahashi. Yabushita continued to have this when she recruited Sumie Sakai as her partner as Takahashi partnered with Momoe Nakanishi. Sumie Sakai did win the [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling AJW]] Tag Team Titles...with Yuko Kosugi...after Takahashi and Nakanishi vacated the belts to pursue the more prestigious WWWA Tag Titles, which they won twice. [[DependingOnTheWriter That said]], it was Sakai and Yabushita who were usually treated as the better team in Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling Jd'. Zenjo was simply the bigger company with the bigger audience.
* DistaffCounterpart: In the US her heel work is an exaggerated take on Wrestling/TripleH, specifically early Wrestling/DGenerationX Trips. It's exaggerated because Sakai usually has to do it all herself without a Wrestling/{{Chyna}} and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels to play off of.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Sakai is fairly nice and very encouraging of Mayu Iwatani, in spite of the fact Sakai associated with Iwatani's sworn enemies Oedo~tai for the purpose of overcoming the alliance Io Shirai and Iwatani had [[RivalsTeamUp made]] with Kairi Hojo.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Sakai is fairly nice to and very encouraging of Mayu Iwatani, in spite of the fact Sakai associated with Iwatani's sworn enemies Oedo~tai for the purpose of overcoming the alliance Io Shirai and Iwatani had [[RivalsTeamUp made]] with Kairi Hojo.
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** The last wrestler eliminated in Jd's 2001 [=LSD2H=](Long Strong Distance 2 Hours, best described as an iron man gauntlet match). Fang Suzuki and Takako Inoue were the last two left after time was up. She also unsuccessfully tried to regain the Queen Of The Ring and AWF title belts from The Bloody in a [=LSD1H=] (a regular iron man match).
** The last wrestler eliminated in Jd's 2001 [=LSD2H=](Long Strong Distance 2 Hours, best described as an iron man gauntlet match). Fang Suzuki and Takako Inoue were the last two left after time was up. She also unsuccessfully tried to regain the Queen Of The Ring and AWF title belts from The Bloody in a [=LSD1H=] (a regular iron man match).
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** Sakai and Hiroyo Muto needed two falls count anywhere weapons death matches to get the TWF tag team titles from Fang Suzuki and The Bloody, with the second match being an iron man death match that needed to go to sudden death!
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** The last wrestler eliminated in Jd's 2001 [=LSD2H=](Long Strong Distance 2Hours, Hours: best described as an iron man gauntlet match). Fang Suzuki and Takako Inoue were the last two left after when time was up. She Sakai also unsuccessfully tried to regain the Queen Of The Ring and AWF title belts from The Bloody in a [=LSD1H=] (a regular iron man match).
** The last wrestler eliminated in Jd's 2001 [=LSD2H=](Long Strong Distance 2
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* GoodCounterpart: To [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] in the Pro Wrestling Syndicate's Bombshells division. Both "[[InsistentTerminology petite]]" turn buckle climbers [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue not too good with English]] who constantly provided fanservice. The difference is how they interacted with top faces The Backseat Girls. Sakai helped them, Annie Social being an old friend. La Rosa, well the commissioner deliberately pitted La Rosa against them so... La Rosa did [[HeelFaceTurn turn face]] when she decided The Backseat Girls were better than '''S'''trength '''I'''n '''N'''umbers, but not before forming a tag team to defeat Social and Sakai with [[Wrestling/NecroButcher Grandma Butcher.]]
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* GoodCounterpart: To [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] in the Pro Wrestling Syndicate's Bombshells division. Both "[[InsistentTerminology petite]]" turn buckle climbers [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue not too good with English]] who constantly provided fanservice. The difference is how they interacted with top faces The Backseat Girls. Sakai helped them, Annie Social being an old friend. La Rosa, well the commissioner deliberately pitted La Rosa against them Missy Sampson so... La Rosa did [[HeelFaceTurn turn face]] when she decided The Backseat Girls were better than '''S'''trength '''I'''n '''N'''umbers, but not before forming a tag team to defeat Social and Sakai with [[Wrestling/NecroButcher Grandma Butcher.]]
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* IdiotFromOsaka: She's resided in Yokkaichi, Suzuka and Kanazawa, but has often been presented as a dimwitted inhabitant of Osaka. This was at its peak during her "Punetang" run in WEW, but after that it was downplayed to Sakai "merely" not knowing English. She was about the only wrestler not to join Amy Lee's uprising against [=SoCal=] Val simply because Sakai didn't know it was happening and just slapped Val around because everyone else was doing it.
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* IdiotFromOsaka: She's resided in Yokkaichi, Suzuka and Kanazawa, but has often been presented as a dimwitted inhabitant of Osaka. This strangely was at its peak during her "Punetang" run in USA WEW, but after that her deportation and return it was downplayed to Sakai "merely" not knowing English. She was about the only wrestler not to join Amy Lee's uprising against [=SoCal=] Val simply because Sakai didn't know it was happening and just slapped Val around because everyone else was doing it.it, still wrestling on Val's behalf when asked.
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* {{Joisey}}: While in the US she tend to stay in Philadelphia, but often has the gimmick of an erratic, violent cannibal from an undisclosed part of New Jersey.
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* {{Joisey}}: While in the US she tend tends to stay in Philadelphia, but often has the gimmick of an erratic, violent cannibal from an undisclosed part of New Jersey.
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* LoserLeavesTown: "Punetang" lost a loser gets ''deported'' match to Wrestling/MercedesMartinez in Women's Etreme. Sumie Sakai came back to the US soon, though didn't return to WEW for a couple of years.
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* LoserLeavesTown: "Punetang" lost a loser gets ''deported'' match to Wrestling/MercedesMartinez in Women's Etreme.Extreme. Sumie Sakai came back to the US soon, though didn't return to WEW for a couple of years.
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* OddFriendship: Sakai was a martial artist social worker recruited by another who needed a tag team partner. Annie Social was a mental patient dubbed criminally insane picked up by another criminally insane woman Shane Hardcore, who used pro wrestling as a means to "legally" wreak havoc and wanted a partner to help maximize the damage. Hell's Bells seemed like YABUSAKA's evil counterpart, but perhaps because Shane and Megumi were absent, Sumie and Annie became good friends in WEW. It seems Sakai was a good influence on Social, who became more social after years with only Shane as a friend, but while it's hard to say Sakai picked any ''new'' bad habits from Social she did learn to more ''effectively'' insult English speakers.
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* OddFriendship: Sakai was a martial artist social worker recruited by another who needed a tag team partner. Annie Social was a mental patient dubbed criminally insane who was picked up by another criminally insane woman Shane Hardcore, who used pro wrestling as a means to "legally" wreak havoc and havoc. Shane wanted a partner to help maximize the damage. Hell's Bells seemed like YABUSAKA's evil counterpart, but perhaps because Shane and Megumi were absent, Sumie and Annie became good friends in WEW. It seems Sakai was a good influence on Social, who became more social after years with only Shane as a friend, but while it's hard to say Sakai picked any ''new'' bad habits from Social she did learn to more ''effectively'' [[IShallTauntYou insult English speakers.speakers]].
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* PowerStable: With Hiromi Yagi, Ariya, Hiroyo Muto, Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru, Chitose Yamamoto, Chiaki Nishi, Haruka Matsuo and Emi Tomimatsu in 2001 as "Team Jd'", defending the promotion's honor against The Bloody's "Super Terrors" power stable, which for a time even had usual partner Yabushita(she'd rejoin Sakai in 2002)!
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* PowerStable: With Hiromi Yagi, Ariya, Hiroyo Muto, Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru, Chitose Yamamoto, Chiaki Nishi, Haruka Matsuo and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and]] Emi Tomimatsu in 2001 as "Team Jd'", defending the promotion's honor against The Bloody's "Super Terrors" power stable, which for a time even had [[FightingYourFriend Sakai's usual partner partner]] Yabushita(she'd rejoin Sakai in 2002)!
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** The Michinoku Rangers as Ranger Yellow alongside Red and Blue in Wrestling/MichinokuProWrestling. They broke up and unmasked following their disappointing performance in the 2003 ''Trios League'' but Wrestling/{{CZW}} inexplicably resurrected the gimmick the next year for her, without her teammates or anyone else in any way associated with Michinoku Pro, for inexplicable matches against Dustin Lee(she apparently won) and Eddie Edwards(she definitely lost) before having Sakai without the mask against her established rival Mercedes Martinez.
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** The Michinoku Rangers as Ranger Yellow alongside Red and Blue in Wrestling/MichinokuProWrestling. They broke up and unmasked following their disappointing performance in the 2003 ''Trios League'' but Wrestling/{{CZW}} inexplicably resurrected the gimmick the next year for her, without her teammates or anyone else in any way associated with Michinoku Pro, for inexplicable matches against Dustin Lee(she apparently had and won) and Eddie Edwards(she definitely lost) before having Sakai without the mask against her established rival Mercedes Martinez.
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* SignatureMove: From a judoka many uranage variations are no surprise. Also the German suplex, especially during her early years, and the saito suplex. Took to a moonsault, missile drop kick and Huracánrana in the lucharesu fed Michinoku Pro and luchadora frequented ARSION. Also, a hair pulling variant of La de a Caballo, ''especially'' if Sakai's not working face.
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* SignatureMove: From a judoka many uranage variations are no surprise. Also the German suplex, especially during her early years, and the saito suplex. Took to a moonsault, missile drop kick and Huracánrana in the lucharesu fed Michinoku Pro and luchadora frequented ARSION. Also, [[ByTheHair a hair pulling pulling]] variant of La de a Caballo, ''especially'' if Sakai's not working face.
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** Jd's first Queen Of The Ring Champion and most famous GarbageWrestler The Bloody is Sakai's prime rival, The Bloody's Shade Breakers tag partner Fang Suzuki a little behind her. Naomi Kato started in Zenjo but got lost in the shuffle, so she descended upon Jd' with a literally [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep bloody]] vengeance, and after four encounters with her YABUSAKA realized she wasn't going away on her own. Of the two of them Sakai had the most to prove against her. After realizing she wasn't leaving at all, Sakai and Yabushita tried tagging with The Bloody instead at the start of 2001 but still found themelves at odds with her more often than not and abandoned the idea of working with her in 2002. Sakai's rivalry with The Bloody in partcular extended into Neo twice.
** As The Bloody's attentioned turned away from the Zenjo legends and gaijin luchadors, Yuki "Drake" Morimatsu, aka Ryuna was her partner when she went after the likes of YABUSAKA. A product of the FMW dojo who had seemingly disappeared five years prior, Morimatsu was also on an unprovoked warpath against Jd'. They also had altercations in Fuyuki Army and inspired Sakai into an EnemyMine alliance with Jaguar Yokota and Cooga as Morimatsu alligned with Lioness Asuka
** Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru was a frequent but relatively unthreatening challenger to Sakai during various title reigns in Jd', until Ranmaru rose in prominence while teaming with Sakai and the rest of Team Jd' against the Super Terrors. After that saga Ranmaru became especially focused on the TWF tag team titles, finally finding a winning combination againt YABUSAKA with AKINO. After failing to win the NECW North American women's title belt from Sakai in Tokyo, followed Sakai to the US and wrestled her all over the country for three years, well after Sakai was no longer involved with NECW, until they teamed up for Chikara's ''Tag World Grand Prix 2006''. Then they split up and went back at each other after losing to Wrestling/TheKingsOfWrestling in the second round.
** As The Bloody's attentioned turned away from the Zenjo legends and gaijin luchadors, Yuki "Drake" Morimatsu, aka Ryuna was her partner when she went after the likes of YABUSAKA. A product of the FMW dojo who had seemingly disappeared five years prior, Morimatsu was also on an unprovoked warpath against Jd'. They also had altercations in Fuyuki Army and inspired Sakai into an EnemyMine alliance with Jaguar Yokota and Cooga as Morimatsu alligned with Lioness Asuka
** Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru was a frequent but relatively unthreatening challenger to Sakai during various title reigns in Jd', until Ranmaru rose in prominence while teaming with Sakai and the rest of Team Jd' against the Super Terrors. After that saga Ranmaru became especially focused on the TWF tag team titles, finally finding a winning combination againt YABUSAKA with AKINO. After failing to win the NECW North American women's title belt from Sakai in Tokyo, followed Sakai to the US and wrestled her all over the country for three years, well after Sakai was no longer involved with NECW, until they teamed up for Chikara's ''Tag World Grand Prix 2006''. Then they split up and went back at each other after losing to Wrestling/TheKingsOfWrestling in the second round.
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** Jd's first Queen Of The Ring Champion and most famous GarbageWrestler The Bloody is Sakai's prime rival, The Bloody's Shade Breakers tag partner Fang Suzuki a little behind her. Naomi Kato started in Zenjo but got lost in the shuffle, so she descended upon Jd' with a literally [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep bloody]] vengeance, and after four encounters with her YABUSAKA realized she wasn't going away on her own. Of the two of them Sakai had the most to prove against her. After realizing she wasn't leaving at all, Sakai and Yabushita tried tagging with The Bloody instead at the start of 2001 but still found themelves themselves at odds with her more often than not and abandoned the idea of working with her in 2002. Sakai's rivalry with The Bloody in partcular extended into Neo NEO Women's Pro-Wrestling twice.
** As The Bloody'sattentioned attention turned away from the Zenjo legends and gaijin luchadors, luchadoras, Yuki "Drake" Morimatsu, aka Ryuna was her partner when she went after the likes of YABUSAKA. A product of the FMW dojo who had seemingly disappeared five years prior, Morimatsu was also on an unprovoked warpath against Jd'. They also had altercations in Fuyuki Army and inspired Sakai into an EnemyMine alliance with Jaguar Yokota and Cooga as Morimatsu alligned with Lioness Asuka
** Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru was a frequent but relativelyunthreatening nonthreatening challenger to Sakai during various title reigns in Jd', until Ranmaru rose in prominence while teaming with Sakai and the rest of Team Jd' against the Super Terrors. After that saga Ranmaru became especially focused on the TWF tag team titles, finally finding a winning combination againt against YABUSAKA with AKINO. After failing to win the NECW North American women's title belt from Sakai in Tokyo, Ranmaru followed Sakai to the US and wrestled her all over the country for three years, well after Sakai was no longer involved with NECW, until they teamed up for Chikara's ''Tag World Grand Prix 2006''. Then they split up and went back at each other after losing to Wrestling/TheKingsOfWrestling in the second round.
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** Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru was a frequent but relatively
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Megumi Yabushita, a fine pro wrestler, had this in Nanae Takahashi and continued to have this when she recruited Sumie Sakai as her partner as Takahashi partnered with Momoe Nakanishi. Sumie Sakai did win the AJW TagTeam Titles...with Yuko Kosugi...after Takahashi and Nakanishi vacated the belts to pursue the more prestigious WWWA Tag Titles, which they won twice. [[DependingOnTheWriter That said]], it was Sakai and Yabushita who were usually treated as the better team in Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling Jd'. Zenjo was simply the bigger company with the bigger audience.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Megumi Yabushita, a fine pro wrestler, had this in Nanae Takahashi and continued to have this when she recruited Sumie Sakai as her partner as Takahashi partnered with Momoe Nakanishi. Sumie Sakai did win the AJW TagTeam [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling AJW]] Tag Team Titles...with Yuko Kosugi...after Takahashi and Nakanishi vacated the belts to pursue the more prestigious WWWA Tag Titles, which they won twice. [[DependingOnTheWriter That said]], it was Sakai and Yabushita who were usually treated as the better team in Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling Jd'. Zenjo was simply the bigger company with the bigger audience.
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* CoolMask: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Whether or not you thought the mask was cool, becoming the "Tokyo Terror" did not make Sakai any more effective in the Pro Wrestling Syndicate.
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** The last wrestler elimated in Jd's 2001 LSD2H(Long Strong Distance 2 Hours, best described as an ironman gauntlet match). Fang Suzuki and Takako Inoue were the last two left after time was up. She also unsuccessfully tried to regain the Queen Of The Ring and AWF title belts from The Bloody in a LSD1H (a regular ironman match).
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** The last wrestler elimated eliminated in Jd's 2001 LSD2H(Long [=LSD2H=](Long Strong Distance 2 Hours, best described as an ironman iron man gauntlet match). Fang Suzuki and Takako Inoue were the last two left after time was up. She also unsuccessfully tried to regain the Queen Of The Ring and AWF title belts from The Bloody in a LSD1H [=LSD1H=] (a regular ironman iron man match).
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** Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru was a frequent but relatively unthreatening challenger to Sakai during various title reigns in Jd', until Ranmaru rose in prominence while teaming with Sakai and the rest of Team Jd' against the Super Terrors. After that saga Ranmaru became especially focused on the TWF tag team titles, finally finding a winning combination againt YABUSAKA with AKINO. After failing to win the NECW North American women's title belt from Sakai in Tokyo, followed Sakai to the US and wrestled her all over the country for three years, well after Sakai was no longer involved with NECW, until they teamed up for Chikara's ''Tag World Grand Prix 2006''. The they split up and went back at each other after losing to Wrestling/TheKingsOfWrestling in the second round.
** The NECW North American Women's Title was Wrestling/MercedesMartinez's first championship belt in pro wrestling, and Sakai taking it to Japan after winning it from her was an offense Martinez never really forgave. The two were also set up to compete in Kiryoku Pro but worked together when representing it in Chikara. In NECW they did briefly form an alliance against Nikki Roxx and Violet Flame, but after they were defeated Roxx and Flame instead joined Sakai against Martinez. They fought over the women's title belt of Pro Wrestling Unplugged for nearly and Martinez had to turn back a challenge from Sakai in NYCW. After Martinez declared EVOLVE wasn't just for men, Sakai took it as an invitation.
** The NECW North American Women's Title was Wrestling/MercedesMartinez's first championship belt in pro wrestling, and Sakai taking it to Japan after winning it from her was an offense Martinez never really forgave. The two were also set up to compete in Kiryoku Pro but worked together when representing it in Chikara. In NECW they did briefly form an alliance against Nikki Roxx and Violet Flame, but after they were defeated Roxx and Flame instead joined Sakai against Martinez. They fought over the women's title belt of Pro Wrestling Unplugged for nearly and Martinez had to turn back a challenge from Sakai in NYCW. After Martinez declared EVOLVE wasn't just for men, Sakai took it as an invitation.
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** Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru was a frequent but relatively unthreatening challenger to Sakai during various title reigns in Jd', until Ranmaru rose in prominence while teaming with Sakai and the rest of Team Jd' against the Super Terrors. After that saga Ranmaru became especially focused on the TWF tag team titles, finally finding a winning combination againt YABUSAKA with AKINO. After failing to win the NECW North American women's title belt from Sakai in Tokyo, followed Sakai to the US and wrestled her all over the country for three years, well after Sakai was no longer involved with NECW, until they teamed up for Chikara's ''Tag World Grand Prix 2006''. The Then they split up and went back at each other after losing to Wrestling/TheKingsOfWrestling in the second round.
** The NECW North American Women's Title was Wrestling/MercedesMartinez's first championship belt in pro wrestling, and Sakai taking it to Japan after winning it from her was an offense Martinez never really forgave. The two were also set up to compete in Kiryoku Pro but worked together when representing it in Chikara. In NECW they did briefly form an alliance against Nikki Roxx and Violet Flame, but afterthey were defeated Roxx and Flame instead were defeated they joined Sakai against Martinez. They fought over the women's title belt of Pro Wrestling Unplugged for nearly with each holding the belt once and Martinez had to turn back a challenge from Sakai in NYCW. After Martinez declared EVOLVE wasn't just for men, Sakai took it as an invitation.
** The NECW North American Women's Title was Wrestling/MercedesMartinez's first championship belt in pro wrestling, and Sakai taking it to Japan after winning it from her was an offense Martinez never really forgave. The two were also set up to compete in Kiryoku Pro but worked together when representing it in Chikara. In NECW they did briefly form an alliance against Nikki Roxx and Violet Flame, but after
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* ADayInTheLimeLight: A day and a night. YABUSAKA promoted two shows named after themselves in 2004.
* GimmickMatches
** Closed out 2000 with a no rope chain, ladder, chair and table death match loss to Fang Suzuki.
** Sakai and Hiroyo Muto needed two falls count anywhere weapons death matches to get the TWF tag team titles from Fang Suzuki and The Bloody, with the second match being an iron man death match that needed to go to sudden death!
** The last wrestler elimated in Jd's 2001 LSD2H(Long Strong Distance 2 Hours, best described as an ironman gauntlet match). Fang Suzuki and Takako Inoue were the last two left after time was up. She also unsuccessfully tried to regain the Queen Of The Ring and AWF title belts from The Bloody in a LSD1H (a regular ironman match).
** In 2002 Sakai and Fang Suzuki ''tied'' in a four woman cage match also involving KAZUKI and Sachie Abe where both the Queen Of The Ring and AWF title belts were on the line.
** Closed out 2000 with a no rope chain, ladder, chair and table death match loss to Fang Suzuki.
** Sakai and Hiroyo Muto needed two falls count anywhere weapons death matches to get the TWF tag team titles from Fang Suzuki and The Bloody, with the second match being an iron man death match that needed to go to sudden death!
** The last wrestler elimated in Jd's 2001 LSD2H(Long Strong Distance 2 Hours, best described as an ironman gauntlet match). Fang Suzuki and Takako Inoue were the last two left after time was up. She also unsuccessfully tried to regain the Queen Of The Ring and AWF title belts from The Bloody in a LSD1H (a regular ironman match).
** In 2002 Sakai and Fang Suzuki ''tied'' in a four woman cage match also involving KAZUKI and Sachie Abe where both the Queen Of The Ring and AWF title belts were on the line.
* LoserLeavesTown: "Punetang" lost a loser gets ''deported'' match to Wrestling/MercedesMartinez in Women's Etreme. Sumie Sakai came back to the US soon, though didn't return to WEW for a couple of years.
* PowerStable: With Hiromi Yagi, Ariya, Hiroyo Muto, Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru, Chitose Yamamoto, Chiaki Nishi, Haruka Matsuo and Emi Tomimatsu in 2001 as "Team Jd'", defending the promotion's honor against The Bloody's "Super Terrors" power stable, which for a time even had usual partner Yabushita(she'd rejoin Sakai in 2002)!
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* TheRival
** Jd's first Queen Of The Ring Champion and most famous GarbageWrestler The Bloody is Sakai's prime rival, The Bloody's Shade Breakers tag partner Fang Suzuki a little behind her. Naomi Kato started in Zenjo but got lost in the shuffle, so she descended upon Jd' with a literally [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep bloody]] vengeance, and after four encounters with her YABUSAKA realized she wasn't going away on her own. Of the two of them Sakai had the most to prove against her. After realizing she wasn't leaving at all, Sakai and Yabushita tried tagging with The Bloody instead at the start of 2001 but still found themelves at odds with her more often than not and abandoned the idea of working with her in 2002. Sakai's rivalry with The Bloody in partcular extended into Neo twice.
** As The Bloody's attentioned turned away from the Zenjo legends and gaijin luchadors, Yuki "Drake" Morimatsu, aka Ryuna was her partner when she went after the likes of YABUSAKA. A product of the FMW dojo who had seemingly disappeared five years prior, Morimatsu was also on an unprovoked warpath against Jd'. They also had altercations in Fuyuki Army and inspired Sakai into an EnemyMine alliance with Jaguar Yokota and Cooga as Morimatsu alligned with Lioness Asuka
** Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru was a frequent but relatively unthreatening challenger to Sakai during various title reigns in Jd', until Ranmaru rose in prominence while teaming with Sakai and the rest of Team Jd' against the Super Terrors. After that saga Ranmaru became especially focused on the TWF tag team titles, finally finding a winning combination againt YABUSAKA with AKINO. After failing to win the NECW North American women's title belt from Sakai in Tokyo, followed Sakai to the US and wrestled her all over the country for three years, well after Sakai was no longer involved with NECW, until they teamed up for Chikara's ''Tag World Grand Prix 2006''. The they split up and went back at each other after losing to Wrestling/TheKingsOfWrestling in the second round.
** The NECW North American Women's Title was Wrestling/MercedesMartinez's first championship belt in pro wrestling, and Sakai taking it to Japan after winning it from her was an offense Martinez never really forgave. The two were also set up to compete in Kiryoku Pro but worked together when representing it in Chikara. In NECW they did briefly form an alliance against Nikki Roxx and Violet Flame, but after they were defeated Roxx and Flame instead joined Sakai against Martinez. They fought over the women's title belt of Pro Wrestling Unplugged for nearly and Martinez had to turn back a challenge from Sakai in NYCW. After Martinez declared EVOLVE wasn't just for men, Sakai took it as an invitation.
** Jd's first Queen Of The Ring Champion and most famous GarbageWrestler The Bloody is Sakai's prime rival, The Bloody's Shade Breakers tag partner Fang Suzuki a little behind her. Naomi Kato started in Zenjo but got lost in the shuffle, so she descended upon Jd' with a literally [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep bloody]] vengeance, and after four encounters with her YABUSAKA realized she wasn't going away on her own. Of the two of them Sakai had the most to prove against her. After realizing she wasn't leaving at all, Sakai and Yabushita tried tagging with The Bloody instead at the start of 2001 but still found themelves at odds with her more often than not and abandoned the idea of working with her in 2002. Sakai's rivalry with The Bloody in partcular extended into Neo twice.
** As The Bloody's attentioned turned away from the Zenjo legends and gaijin luchadors, Yuki "Drake" Morimatsu, aka Ryuna was her partner when she went after the likes of YABUSAKA. A product of the FMW dojo who had seemingly disappeared five years prior, Morimatsu was also on an unprovoked warpath against Jd'. They also had altercations in Fuyuki Army and inspired Sakai into an EnemyMine alliance with Jaguar Yokota and Cooga as Morimatsu alligned with Lioness Asuka
** Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru was a frequent but relatively unthreatening challenger to Sakai during various title reigns in Jd', until Ranmaru rose in prominence while teaming with Sakai and the rest of Team Jd' against the Super Terrors. After that saga Ranmaru became especially focused on the TWF tag team titles, finally finding a winning combination againt YABUSAKA with AKINO. After failing to win the NECW North American women's title belt from Sakai in Tokyo, followed Sakai to the US and wrestled her all over the country for three years, well after Sakai was no longer involved with NECW, until they teamed up for Chikara's ''Tag World Grand Prix 2006''. The they split up and went back at each other after losing to Wrestling/TheKingsOfWrestling in the second round.
** The NECW North American Women's Title was Wrestling/MercedesMartinez's first championship belt in pro wrestling, and Sakai taking it to Japan after winning it from her was an offense Martinez never really forgave. The two were also set up to compete in Kiryoku Pro but worked together when representing it in Chikara. In NECW they did briefly form an alliance against Nikki Roxx and Violet Flame, but after they were defeated Roxx and Flame instead joined Sakai against Martinez. They fought over the women's title belt of Pro Wrestling Unplugged for nearly and Martinez had to turn back a challenge from Sakai in NYCW. After Martinez declared EVOLVE wasn't just for men, Sakai took it as an invitation.
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* IdiotFromOsaka: She's resided in Yokkaichi, Suzuka and Kanazawa, but has often been presented as a dimwitted inhabitant of Osaka. This was at its peak during her "Punetang" run in WEW, but after that it was downplayed to Sakai "merely" not knowing English.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She sought entry to the USA because she liked what she saw from Sabu and Wrestling/KurtAngle. Learning pro wrestling in the US was nowhere near as respected as it was in Japan, she dedicated her career to ''making'' USA pro wrestling more respected, starting with teaching the wrestlers to respect themselves. Also, she's prone to [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wearing the flag on her...everything.]]
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She sought entry to the USA because she liked what she saw from Sabu and Wrestling/KurtAngle. Learning pro wrestling in the US was nowhere near as respected as it was in Japan, she dedicated her career to ''making'' USA pro wrestling more respected, starting with teaching the wrestlers to respect themselves. Also, she's prone to [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wearing the flag on her...everything.]]
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* IdiotFromOsaka: She's resided in Yokkaichi, Suzuka and Kanazawa, but has often been presented as a dimwitted inhabitant of Osaka. This was at its peak during her "Punetang" run in WEW, but after that it was downplayed to Sakai "merely" not knowing English.
English. She was about the only wrestler not to join Amy Lee's uprising against [=SoCal=] Val simply because Sakai didn't know it was happening and just slapped Val around because everyone else was doing it.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She sought entry to the USA because she liked what she saw from Sabu and Wrestling/KurtAngle. Learning pro wrestling in the US was nowhere near as respected as it was in Japan, she dedicated her career to ''making'' USA pro wrestling more respected, starting with teaching the wrestlers to respect themselves. Also, she's prone to [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wearing the flag on her...everything.]]]] Even when she doesn't she often has red-white-blue variant of any gear she wears.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She sought entry to the USA because she liked what she saw from Sabu and Wrestling/KurtAngle. Learning pro wrestling in the US was nowhere near as respected as it was in Japan, she dedicated her career to ''making'' USA pro wrestling more respected, starting with teaching the wrestlers to respect themselves. Also, she's prone to [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wearing the flag on her...everything.
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* OddFriendship: Sakai was a martial artist social worker recruited by another who needed a tag team partner. Annie Social was a mental patient dubbed criminally insane picked up by another criminally insane woman Shane Hardcore, who used pro wrestling as a means to "legally" wreak havoc and wanted a partner to help maximize the damage. Hell's Bells seemed like YABUSAKA's evil counterpart, but perhaps because Shane and Megumi were absent, Sumie and Annie became good friends in WEW. It seems Sakai was a good influence on Social, who became more social after years with only Shane as a friend, but while it's hard to say Sakai picked any ''new'' bad habits from Social she did learn to more ''effectively'' insult English speakers.
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* AsianRudeness: Usually when Sakai is in the 50 States she strives to be [[JapanesePoliteness humble, kind, gracious, dutiful, clean and charitable]]. But sometimes she just can't help pulling [[TheGadfly a few practical jokes]], and sometimes she's just drinking, spitting, scratching, hair pulling, offensive gesturing pain in the ass who loudly proclaims herself "[[ImmediateSelfContradiction nice]]".
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* AsianRudeness: Usually when Sakai is in the 50 States she strives to be [[JapanesePoliteness humble, kind, gracious, dutiful, clean and charitable]]. But sometimes she just can't help pulling [[TheGadfly a few practical jokes]], and sometimes she's just a drinking, spitting, scratching, hair pulling, offensive gesturing pain in the ass who loudly proclaims herself "[[ImmediateSelfContradiction nice]]".
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* SheFu: Sakai tends to have a very acrobatic offense and even mere approach, especially outside of garbage matches and especially when working face.
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* GarbageWrestler: She's a Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} FanGirl whose favorite style is death match wrestling and was very comfortable in IWA Japan while it was still a garbage promotion.
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* GarbageWrestler: She's a Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} FanGirl whose favorite style is death match wrestling and was very comfortable in IWA Japan while it was still a garbage promotion. She also did many Fuyuki Army dates while it was cross promoting with the TropeNamer Wrestling/{{FMW}}.
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* FaceHeelDoubleTurn: At ''[=ChickFight=] V'' Sakai started the tradition of fans turning on previous champion Wrestling/MsChif, as they found her response to Sakai's tactics to be {{disproportionate|retribution}}.
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* FaceHeelDoubleTurn: EloquentInMyNativeTongue: During a 2018 interview Sakai was asked to look back on her US career from the previous decade, and described her English as a "two year old's".
* FaceHeelDoubleTurn
** At ''[=ChickFight=] V'' Sakai started the tradition of fans turning on previous champion Wrestling/MsChif, as they found her response to Sakai's tactics to be{{disproportionate|retribution}}.{{disproportionate|retribution}}.
** A one night example in ROH, when Cherry Bomb's injury resulted in Wrestling/VedaScott, whom Sakai defeated when returning to the promotion, getting a rematch with Sakai. Scott was much more respectful and a much better sport the second time around, and actually got cheered when Sakai wasn't...Sakai went back to being a {{face}} later and treated Scott, who otherwise went back to a {{heel}}, as a WorthyOpponent.
* FaceHeelDoubleTurn
** At ''[=ChickFight=] V'' Sakai started the tradition of fans turning on previous champion Wrestling/MsChif, as they found her response to Sakai's tactics to be
** A one night example in ROH, when Cherry Bomb's injury resulted in Wrestling/VedaScott, whom Sakai defeated when returning to the promotion, getting a rematch with Sakai. Scott was much more respectful and a much better sport the second time around, and actually got cheered when Sakai wasn't...Sakai went back to being a {{face}} later and treated Scott, who otherwise went back to a {{heel}}, as a WorthyOpponent.
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* IdiotFromOsaka: She's resided in Yokkaichi, Suzuka and Kanazawa, but has often presented as a dimwitted inhabitant of Osaka. This was at its peak during her "Punetang" run in WEW, but after that it was downplayed to Sakai "merely" not knowing English.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She sought entry to the USA because she liked what she saw from Sabu and Wrestling/KurtAngle. Learning pro wrestling in the US was nowhere near as respected as it was in Japan, she dedicated her career to ''making'' USA pro wrestling more respected, starting with teaching the wrestlers to respect themselves.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She sought entry to the USA because she liked what she saw from Sabu and Wrestling/KurtAngle. Learning pro wrestling in the US was nowhere near as respected as it was in Japan, she dedicated her career to ''making'' USA pro wrestling more respected, starting with teaching the wrestlers to respect themselves.
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* IdiotFromOsaka: She's resided in Yokkaichi, Suzuka and Kanazawa, but has often been presented as a dimwitted inhabitant of Osaka. This was at its peak during her "Punetang" run in WEW, but after that it was downplayed to Sakai "merely" not knowing English.
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She sought entry to the USA because she liked what she saw from Sabu and Wrestling/KurtAngle. Learning pro wrestling in the US was nowhere near as respected as it was in Japan, she dedicated her career to ''making'' USA pro wrestling more respected, starting with teaching the wrestlers to respect themselves. Also, she's prone to [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wearing the flag on her...everything.]]
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She sought entry to the USA because she liked what she saw from Sabu and Wrestling/KurtAngle. Learning pro wrestling in the US was nowhere near as respected as it was in Japan, she dedicated her career to ''making'' USA pro wrestling more respected, starting with teaching the wrestlers to respect themselves. Also, she's prone to [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wearing the flag on her...everything.]]
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* TeethClenchedTeamWork: No one did very well in ''Jd' NGK Heel and Babyface Tag Wonder League''. No team scored enough points to win the round robin, but Sakai and Fang Suzuki were one of the most functional, for what it's worth.
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** She was part of the two day ''Jaguar League'' in February of 2000 for a shot at the TWF World Women's Title held by Wrestling/LionessAsuka, but despite winning Sakai was out of the ring for four months with a broken leg.
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** She was part of the two day ''Jaguar League'' in February of 2000 for a shot at the TWF World Women's Title held by Wrestling/LionessAsuka, but despite winning Sakai was out of the ring for four months with a broken leg.leg in tag team match with Yabushita against her other partners Hiroyo Muto and Yuko Kosugi.
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* FaceHeelDoubleTurn: At ''[=ChickFight=] V'' Sakai started the tradition of fans turning on previous champion Wrestling/MsChif, as they found her response to Sakai's tactics to be {{disproportionate|retribution}}.
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** She was part of a two day singles tournament in 2000 for a shot at the TWF World Women's Title held by Wrestling/LionessAsuka, but despite winning Sakai was out of the ring for four months with a broken leg.
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** She was part of a the two day singles tournament ''Jaguar League'' in February of 2000 for a shot at the TWF World Women's Title held by Wrestling/LionessAsuka, but despite winning Sakai was out of the ring for four months with a broken leg.
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* MasterApprenticeChain: Received training from Bison Kimura, who received training from Jaguar Yokota. And given Sakai was prominent in Jd'\[=JDStar=], which existed to promote Yokota, it would have been stranger not to bring anything up.
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* StalkerWithoutACrush: She pursued Wrestling/LunaVachon to IWA Puerto Rico because it would give her the first chance to wrestle in what was technically the USA.
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* StalkerWithoutACrush: She pursued Wrestling/LunaVachon to IWA Puerto Rico because it would give her the first chance to wrestle in what was technically the USA. This was ''before'' she thought to ask if professional wrestling was done in the fifty states, so she stopped there.
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* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: After training with Bison Kimura and Wrestling/LionessAsuka in the Jd' Dojo, Sakai sought out further training with Jaguar Yokota, Killer Kowalski, Slyck Wagner Brown, Steve Bradley and Daniel Gracie.
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** She was part of a two day singles tournament in 2000 for a shot at the TWF World Women's Title held by Wrestling/LionessAsuka, but despite winning Sakai was out of the ring for four months with a broken leg.
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* DivergentCharacterEvolution: She and Megumi Yabushita started out fairly similar, but where Yabushita doubled down on her shooter roots all the way to Shooto itself, Sakai picked up on tumbling, high flying, no rope barbed wire and suggestive humiliating tactics. While Sakai did eventually take up MMA, Yabushita did so before hand and also took up shoot boxing and competitive submission grappling. They remained a fairly formidable team in spite of the differing approaches and both enjoyed fairly long careers.
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* DivergentCharacterEvolution: She and Megumi Yabushita started out fairly similar, but where Yabushita doubled down on her shooter roots all the way to Shooto itself, Sakai picked up on tumbling, high flying, no rope barbed wire death match and suggestive humiliating tactics. While Sakai did eventually take up MMA, Yabushita did so before hand and also took up shoot boxing and competitive submission grappling. They remained a fairly formidable team in spite of the differing approaches and both enjoyed fairly long careers.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Sakai is fairly nice and very encouraging of Mayu Iwatani, in spite of the fact Sakai associated with Iwatani's sworn enemies Oedo~tai for the purpose of defeating Iwatani's ally Kairi Hojo.
* GarbageWrestler: She's a Wrestling/YoshihiroTaijiri and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} FanGirl whose favorite style is death match wrestling and was very comfortable in IWA Japan while it was still a garbage promotion.
* GarbageWrestler: She's a Wrestling/YoshihiroTaijiri and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} FanGirl whose favorite style is death match wrestling and was very comfortable in IWA Japan while it was still a garbage promotion.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Sakai is fairly nice and very encouraging of Mayu Iwatani, in spite of the fact Sakai associated with Iwatani's sworn enemies Oedo~tai for the purpose of defeating Iwatani's ally overcoming the alliance Io Shirai and Iwatani had [[RivalsTeamUp made]] with Kairi Hojo.
* GarbageWrestler: She's aWrestling/YoshihiroTaijiri Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} FanGirl whose favorite style is death match wrestling and was very comfortable in IWA Japan while it was still a garbage promotion.
* GarbageWrestler: She's a
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* LovelyAngels: Sakai as the springing happy go lucky rookie with the powerful Jungle Jack veteran Cooga. "[[InsistentTerminology Petite]]" Sakai with BiFauxen BigEater Hiroyo Muto. The distinctly but still practical dresser Sakai with the glamorous Yuko Kosugi(Sakai did spiff up her entrance gear while with her though). The overly friendly Sakai with the overly hostile Annie Social.
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* LovelyAngels: Sakai as the springing happy go lucky rookie with the powerful Jungle Jack veteran Cooga. "[[InsistentTerminology Petite]]" Sakai with BiFauxen TomBoy BigEater Hiroyo Muto. The distinctly but still practical dresser Sakai with the glamorous Yuko Kosugi(Sakai did spiff up her entrance gear while with her though). The overly friendly Sakai with the overly hostile Annie Social.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: During the match where she defeated Kelly Klein to become the inaugural Women of Honor Champion, she hit a move that commentators Ian Riccaboni and Wrestling/ColtCabana called a "Schoolgirl Powerbomb," since they'd never seen anyone do that before.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: During the match where she defeated Kelly Klein Wrestling/KellyKlein to become the inaugural Women of Honor Champion, she hit a move that commentators Ian Riccaboni and Wrestling/ColtCabana called a "Schoolgirl Powerbomb," since they'd never seen anyone do that before.
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** Her usual partner Megumi Yabushita was not involved with that one and no TagTeam Title belts were (immediately) on the line. In an October tournament for the TWF belts however, Sakai teamed with Cooga, defeating Yabushita and Hiromi Yagi before the finals where they went on to beat The Bloody and Ryuna for the belts.
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* AsianRudeness: Usually when Sakai is in the 50 States she strives to be [[JapanesePoliteness humble, kind, gracious, dutiful, clean and charitable]]. But sometimes she just can't help pulling [[TheGadfly a few practical jokes]], and sometimes she's just drinking, spitting, scratching, hair pulling, offensive gesturing pain in the ass who loudly proclaims herself "[[ImmediateSelfContradiction nice]]".
* CastSpeciation: InUniverse she tones back her exotica and garbage tendencies in ROH out of respect for [[Wrestling/MickieJames Alexis Laree]]. Beyond that ROH already had a more daring exotico PowerStable in the Christopher Street Connection and a garbage wrestler TagTeam turned PowerTrio turn PowerStable in the Carnage Crew.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: She and Megumi Yabushita started out fairly similar, but where Yabushita doubled down on her shooter roots all the way to Shooto itself, Sakai picked up on tumbling, high flying, no rope barbed wire and suggestive humiliating tactics. While Sakai did eventually take up MMA, Yabushita did so before hand and also took up shoot boxing and competitive submission grappling. They remained a fairly formidable team in spite of the differing approaches and both enjoyed fairly long careers.
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* GarbageWrestler: She's a Wrestling/{{Sabu}} FanGirl whose favorite style is death match wrestling and was very comfortable in IWA Japan while it was still a garbage promotion.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Sakai is fairly nice and very encouraging of Mayu Iwatani, in spite of the fact Sakai associated with Iwatani's sworn enemies Oedo~tai for the purpose of defeating Iwatani's ally Kairi Hojo.
* GarbageWrestler: She's a Wrestling/YoshihiroTaijiri and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} FanGirl whose favorite style is death match wrestling and was very comfortable in IWA Japan while it was still a garbage promotion.
* GarbageWrestler: She's a Wrestling/YoshihiroTaijiri and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} FanGirl whose favorite style is death match wrestling and was very comfortable in IWA Japan while it was still a garbage promotion.
* GoodCounterpart: To [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] in the Pro Wrestling Syndicate's Bombshells division. Both "[[InsistentTerminology petite]]" turn buckle climbers [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue not too good with English]] who constantly provided fanservice. The difference is how they interacted with top faces The Backseat Girls. Sakai helped them, Annie Social being an old friend. La Rosa, well the commissioner deliberately pitted La Rosa against them so... La Rosa did [[HeelFaceTurn turn face]] when she decided The Backseat Girls were better than '''S'''trength '''I'''n '''N'''umbers, but not before forming a tag team to defeat Social and Sakai with [[Wrestling/NecroButcher Grandma Butcher.]]
* ImmigrantPatriotism: She sought entry to the USA because she liked what she saw from Sabu and Wrestling/KurtAngle. Learning pro wrestling in the US was nowhere near as respected as it was in Japan, she dedicated her career to ''making'' USA pro wrestling more respected, starting with teaching the wrestlers to respect themselves.
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* LovelyAngels: Sakai as the springing happy go lucky rookie with the powerful Jungle Jack veteran Cooga. "[[InsistentTerminology Petite]]" Sakai with BiFauxen BigEater Hiroyo Muto. The distinctly but still practical dresser Sakai with the glamorous Yuko Kosugi. The overly friendly Sakai with the overly hostile Annie Social.
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* LovelyAngels: Sakai as the springing happy go lucky rookie with the powerful Jungle Jack veteran Cooga. "[[InsistentTerminology Petite]]" Sakai with BiFauxen BigEater Hiroyo Muto. The distinctly but still practical dresser Sakai with the glamorous Yuko Kosugi.Kosugi(Sakai did spiff up her entrance gear while with her though). The overly friendly Sakai with the overly hostile Annie Social.
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** The Michinoku Rangers as Yellow with Red and Blue in Wrestling/MichinokuProWrestling. They broke up and unmasked following their disappointing performance in the 2003 ''Trios League'' but Wrestling/{{CZW}} inexplicably resurrected the gimmick the next year for her, without her teammates or anyone else in anyway associated with Michinoku Pro, for inexplicable matches against Dustin Lee(she apparently wn) and Eddie Edwards(she definitely lost) before having Sakai without the mask against her established rival Mercedes Martinez.
* SignatureMove: From a judoka many uranage variations are no surprise. Also the German suplex, especially during her early years, and the saito suplex. Took to a moonsault and missile drop kick in the Lucharesu fed Michinoku Pro and luchadora frequented ARSION.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: She pursued Wrestling/LunaVachon to IWA Puerto Rico because it would give her a chance to wrestle in what was technically the USA.
* SignatureMove: From a judoka many uranage variations are no surprise. Also the German suplex, especially during her early years, and the saito suplex. Took to a moonsault and missile drop kick in the Lucharesu fed Michinoku Pro and luchadora frequented ARSION.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: She pursued Wrestling/LunaVachon to IWA Puerto Rico because it would give her a chance to wrestle in what was technically the USA.
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** The Michinoku Rangers as Ranger Yellow with alongside Red and Blue in Wrestling/MichinokuProWrestling. They broke up and unmasked following their disappointing performance in the 2003 ''Trios League'' but Wrestling/{{CZW}} inexplicably resurrected the gimmick the next year for her, without her teammates or anyone else in anyway any way associated with Michinoku Pro, for inexplicable matches against Dustin Lee(she apparently wn) won) and Eddie Edwards(she definitely lost) before having Sakai without the mask against her established rival Mercedes Martinez.
* SignatureMove: From a judoka many uranage variations are no surprise. Also the German suplex, especially during her early years, and the saito suplex. Took to amoonsault and moonsault, missile drop kick and Huracánrana in the Lucharesu lucharesu fed Michinoku Pro and luchadora frequented ARSION.
ARSION. Also, a hair pulling variant of La de a Caballo, ''especially'' if Sakai's not working face.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: She pursued Wrestling/LunaVachon to IWA Puerto Rico because it would give hera the first chance to wrestle in what was technically the USA.
* SignatureMove: From a judoka many uranage variations are no surprise. Also the German suplex, especially during her early years, and the saito suplex. Took to a
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Sumie Sakai (born November 24, 1971) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/{{Mixed Martial Art|s}}ist known in the U.S. for her work in Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}. She debuted in 1997 for Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling and has worked all over the world.
Along with being the inaugural ROH Women of Honor Champion, she is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/jd-j.html Jd' Junior Champion]], a former 4x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/twf-t.html TWF World Women's Tag Team Champion]], a former and the first-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/world1/world1-wm.html WORLD-1 Women's Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/world1/world1-t.html WORLD-1 Tag Team Champion]] with Roxie Cotton, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/pwu/pwu-wm.html PWU Unified Women's Champion]], a former [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=2574 WEW Tag Team Champion]][[note]]Women's Extreme (or Erotic) Wrestling, an adult-oriented promotion[[/note]] and is the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=3718 PCW ULTRA Women's Champion]].
Along with being the inaugural ROH Women of Honor Champion, she is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/jd-j.html Jd' Junior Champion]], a former 4x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/twf-t.html TWF World Women's Tag Team Champion]], a former and the first-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/world1/world1-wm.html WORLD-1 Women's Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/world1/world1-t.html WORLD-1 Tag Team Champion]] with Roxie Cotton, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/pwu/pwu-wm.html PWU Unified Women's Champion]], a former [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=2574 WEW Tag Team Champion]][[note]]Women's Extreme (or Erotic) Wrestling, an adult-oriented promotion[[/note]] and is the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=3718 PCW ULTRA Women's Champion]].
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Sumie Sakai (born November 24, 1971) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese judoka, {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/{{Mixed Martial Art|s}}ist known in the U.S. for her work in Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}. She debuted in 1997 for Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling and has worked all over the world.
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Along with being the inaugural ROH Women of Honor Champion, she is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/jd-j.html Jd' Junior Champion]], a JD Queen Of The Ring, a former 4x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/twf-t.html TWF World Women's Tag TeamChampion]], a former Champion]][[note]]with Cooga, Megumi Yabushita, Hiroyo Muto and Sachie Abe[[/note]], the first-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/world1/world1-wm.html WORLD-1 Women's Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/world1/world1-t.html WORLD-1 Tag Team Champion]] with Roxie Cotton, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/pwu/pwu-wm.html PWU Unified Women's Champion]], a former [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=2574 WEW Tag Team Champion]][[note]]Women's Extreme (or Erotic) Wrestling, an adult-oriented promotion[[/note]] and is the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=3718 PCW ULTRA Women's Champion]]. \n\n
Along with being the inaugural ROH Women of Honor Champion, she is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/jd-j.html Jd' Junior Champion]], a JD Queen Of The Ring, a former 4x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/twf-t.html TWF World Women's Tag Team
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* ActionGirl: She's a professional wrestler and occasional mixed martial artist, and in wrestling almost always works as a face.
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* ActionGirl: She's a professional wrestler and occasional mixed martial artist, and in wrestling almost always works as a face.{{face}}.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Megumi Yabushita, a fine pro wrestler, had this in Nanae Takahashi and continued to have this when she recruited Sumie Sakai as her partner as Takahashi partnered with Momoe Nakanishi. Sumie Sakai did win the AJW TagTeam Titles...with Yuko Kosugi...after Takahashi and Nakanishi vacated the belts to pursue the more prestigious WWWA Tag Titles, which they won twice. [[DependingOnTheWriter That said]], it was Sakai and Yabushita who were usually treated as the better team in Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling Jd'. Zenjo was simply the bigger company with the bigger audience.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Megumi Yabushita, a fine pro wrestler, had this in Nanae Takahashi and continued to have this when she recruited Sumie Sakai as her partner as Takahashi partnered with Momoe Nakanishi. Sumie Sakai did win the AJW TagTeam Titles...with Yuko Kosugi...after Takahashi and Nakanishi vacated the belts to pursue the more prestigious WWWA Tag Titles, which they won twice. [[DependingOnTheWriter That said]], it was Sakai and Yabushita who were usually treated as the better team in Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling Jd'. Zenjo was simply the bigger company with the bigger audience.
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* TheBusCameBack: After being rejected at ''Do Or Die 5'' she wouldn't show up again for nine years at the 2014 ''Summer Heat'' Tour. In 2015 she'd find her second foothold in when WOH was rebranded as its own division and fan support when live crowd of West Warwick Rhode Island gave Wrestling/TaelerHendrix a hero's welcome but then [[SympathyForTheHero turned against her in favor Sakai]].
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* TheBusCameBack: After being rejected at ''Do Or Die 5'' she wouldn't show up in ROH again for nine years at until the 2014 ''Summer Heat'' Tour. In 2015 she'd find her second foothold in when WOH was rebranded as its own division and fan support when live crowd of West Warwick Rhode Island gave Wrestling/TaelerHendrix a hero's welcome but then [[SympathyForTheHero turned against her in favor Sakai]].
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* FinishingMove: The SmashmouthSmashmouth(a rolling cutter). She used a splash while competing in the Super lightweight and Sky High divisions of Neo and ARSION. A Banzai drop in Women's Extreme Wrestling. Sometimes a fisherman's buster(a [[ContinuityNod finisher of former]] partner Yuko Kosugi) or fisherman's neck breaker.
* GarbageWrestler: She's a Wrestling/{{Sabu}} FanGirl whose favorite style is death match wrestling and was very comfortable in IWA Japan while it was still a garbage promotion.
* GarbageWrestler: She's a Wrestling/{{Sabu}} FanGirl whose favorite style is death match wrestling and was very comfortable in IWA Japan while it was still a garbage promotion.
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* IKnowKarate: In between her ROH stints she achieved her dream of becoming a mixed martial artist and brought what she learned from the experience back with her.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: During her match with Alere Little Feather at WORLD-1's August 6, 2005, event, she got pushed out of the ring and grabbed an unattended drink at the bar.
* KissOfDistraction: At ''Son of the International Invasion of International Invaders- First Stage,'' September 16, 2005, she defeated Allison Danger by kissing her and rolling her up for the pin.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: During her match with Alere Little Feather at WORLD-1's August 6, 2005, event, she got pushed out of the ring and grabbed an unattended drink at the bar.
* KissOfDistraction: At ''Son of the International Invasion of International Invaders- First Stage,'' September 16, 2005, she defeated Allison Danger by kissing her and rolling her up for the pin.
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* IKnowKarate: IKnowKarate
** Prior to pro wrestling Sakai was a judoka, and initially she tagged with fellow former judoka Megumi Yabushita, who had convinced Sakai to switch sports. So when Sakai ''wasn't'' touching people inappropriately or hitting them with foreign objects she'd usually be using momentum throws and grounded chokes.
** In between her ROH stints she achieved her dream of becoming a mixed martial artist and brought what she learned from the experience back with her.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: During her match with Alere Little Feather at WORLD-1's August 6,2005, 2005 event, she got pushed out of the ring and grabbed an unattended drink at the bar.
* IdiotFromOsaka: She's resided in Yokkaichi, Suzuka and Kanazawa, but has often presented as a dimwitted inhabitant of Osaka. This was at its peak during her "Punetang" run in WEW, but after that it was downplayed to Sakai "merely" not knowing English.
* {{Joisey}}: While in the US she tend to stay in Philadelphia, but often has the gimmick of an erratic, violent cannibal from an undisclosed part of New Jersey.
* KissOfDistraction: At ''Son of the International Invasion of International Invaders- First Stage,'' September 16, 2005, she defeated AllisonDanger Danger, who was an exotica herself once, by kissing her and rolling her up for the pin.pin. Unlike Danger, Sakai is immune to such exotica tactics, as Taeler Hendrix learned the hard way in ROH.
* LovelyAngels: Sakai as the springing happy go lucky rookie with the powerful Jungle Jack veteran Cooga. "[[InsistentTerminology Petite]]" Sakai with BiFauxen BigEater Hiroyo Muto. The distinctly but still practical dresser Sakai with the glamorous Yuko Kosugi. The overly friendly Sakai with the overly hostile Annie Social.
** Prior to pro wrestling Sakai was a judoka, and initially she tagged with fellow former judoka Megumi Yabushita, who had convinced Sakai to switch sports. So when Sakai ''wasn't'' touching people inappropriately or hitting them with foreign objects she'd usually be using momentum throws and grounded chokes.
** In between her ROH stints she achieved her dream of becoming a mixed martial artist and brought what she learned from the experience back with her.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: During her match with Alere Little Feather at WORLD-1's August 6,
* IdiotFromOsaka: She's resided in Yokkaichi, Suzuka and Kanazawa, but has often presented as a dimwitted inhabitant of Osaka. This was at its peak during her "Punetang" run in WEW, but after that it was downplayed to Sakai "merely" not knowing English.
* {{Joisey}}: While in the US she tend to stay in Philadelphia, but often has the gimmick of an erratic, violent cannibal from an undisclosed part of New Jersey.
* KissOfDistraction: At ''Son of the International Invasion of International Invaders- First Stage,'' September 16, 2005, she defeated Allison
* LovelyAngels: Sakai as the springing happy go lucky rookie with the powerful Jungle Jack veteran Cooga. "[[InsistentTerminology Petite]]" Sakai with BiFauxen BigEater Hiroyo Muto. The distinctly but still practical dresser Sakai with the glamorous Yuko Kosugi. The overly friendly Sakai with the overly hostile Annie Social.
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** Sachie Abe defended the TWF Tag belts alongside Sakai and Megumi Yabushita in February of 2002, although they dismissed Abe after defeating her and her chosen partner KAZUKI before the month was over.
** The Michinoku Rangers as Yellow with Red and Blue in Wrestling/MichinokuProWrestling. They broke up and unmasked following their disappointing performance in the 2003 ''Trios League'' but Wrestling/{{CZW}} inexplicably resurrected the gimmick the next year for her, without her teammates or anyone else in anyway associated with Michinoku Pro, for inexplicable matches against Dustin Lee(she apparently wn) and Eddie Edwards(she definitely lost) before having Sakai without the mask against her established rival Mercedes Martinez.
* SignatureMove: From a judoka many uranage variations are no surprise. Also the German suplex, especially during her early years, and the saito suplex. Took to a moonsault and missile drop kick in the Lucharesu fed Michinoku Pro and luchadora frequented ARSION.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: She pursued Wrestling/LunaVachon to IWA Puerto Rico because it would give her a chance to wrestle in what was technically the USA.
** Sachie Abe defended the TWF Tag belts alongside Sakai and Megumi Yabushita in February of 2002, although they dismissed Abe after defeating her and her chosen partner KAZUKI before the month was over.
** The Michinoku Rangers as Yellow with Red and Blue in Wrestling/MichinokuProWrestling. They broke up and unmasked following their disappointing performance in the 2003 ''Trios League'' but Wrestling/{{CZW}} inexplicably resurrected the gimmick the next year for her, without her teammates or anyone else in anyway associated with Michinoku Pro, for inexplicable matches against Dustin Lee(she apparently wn) and Eddie Edwards(she definitely lost) before having Sakai without the mask against her established rival Mercedes Martinez.
* SignatureMove: From a judoka many uranage variations are no surprise. Also the German suplex, especially during her early years, and the saito suplex. Took to a moonsault and missile drop kick in the Lucharesu fed Michinoku Pro and luchadora frequented ARSION.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: She pursued Wrestling/LunaVachon to IWA Puerto Rico because it would give her a chance to wrestle in what was technically the USA.
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* [[DavidVersusGoliath Davita Versus Goliath]]: Inverted in her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMHJbkwkn8 match]] with [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]] at ''[[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance PWF]] Beach Street Bash'', August 22, 2009.
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* TheBusCameBack: After being rejected at ''Do Or Die 5'' she wouldn't show up again for nine years at the 2014 ''Summer Heat'' Tour. In 2015 she'd find her second foothold in when WOH was rebranded as its own division and fan support when live crowd of West Warwick Rhode Island gave Wrestling/TaelerHendrix [[AHeroToHisHometown a hero's welcome]] but then [[SympathyForTheHero turned against her in favor Sakai]].
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: During the match where she defeated Kelly Klein to become the inaugural Women of Honor Champion, she hit a move that commentators Ian Ricabboni and Colt Cabana called a "Schoolgirl Powerbomb," since they'd never seen anyone do that before.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: During the match where she defeated Kelly Klein to become the inaugural Women of Honor Champion, she hit a move that commentators Ian Ricabboni Riccaboni and Colt Cabana Wrestling/ColtCabana called a "Schoolgirl Powerbomb," since they'd never seen anyone do that before.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: During her match with Alere Little Feather at WORLD-1's August 6, 2005, event, she got pushed out of the ring and grabbed an unattended drink at the bar.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: She's 47 and still wrestling all over the world.
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* TheBusCameBack: After being rejected at ''Do Or Die 5'' she wouldn't show up again for nine years at the 2014 ''Summer Heat'' Tour. In 2015 she'd find her second foothold in when WOH was rebranded as its own division and fan support when live crowd of West Warwick Rhode Island gave Taeler Hendrix [[RootingForTheEmpire Wrestling/TaelerHendrix [[AHeroToHisHometown a heroes hero's welcome]] but then [[SympathyForTheHero turned against her in favor Sakai]].
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* TagTeam: [[{{Portmanteau}} YABUSAKA]], with Megumi Yabashita
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* TournamentArc: Other than the won for the Women of Honor Championship
** On March 8, 1998, she and Momoe Nakanishi defeated Kanako Motoya & Yuko Kosugi to win a one-night tag tournament in Jd'.
** On May 24, 2014, she defeated [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] to win ''Valkyrie I: International Joshi Grand Prix''.
* TournamentArc: Other than the won for the Women of Honor Championship
** On March 8, 1998, she and Momoe Nakanishi defeated Kanako Motoya & Yuko Kosugi to win a one-night tag tournament in Jd'.
** On May 24, 2014, she defeated [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] to win ''Valkyrie I: International Joshi Grand Prix''.
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[[caption-width-right:288:After defeating Wrestling/KellyKlein to become the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-wm.html ROH Women of Honor Champion]], ''ROH [=Supercard=] of Honor, Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA, April 7, 2018]]
Sumie Sakai (born November 24, 1971) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/{{Mixed Martial Art|s}}ist known in the U.S. for her work in Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}. She debuted in 1997 for Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling and has worked all over the world.
Along with being the inaugural ROH Women of Honor Champion, she is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/jd-j.html Jd' Junior Champion]], a former 4x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/twf-t.html TWF World Women's Tag Team Champion]], a former and the first-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/world1/world1-wm.html WORLD-1 Women's Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/world1/world1-t.html WORLD-1 Tag Team Champion]] with Roxie Cotton, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/pwu/pwu-wm.html PWU Unified Women's Champion]], a former [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=2574 WEW Tag Team Champion]][[note]]Women's Extreme (or Erotic) Wrestling, an adult-oriented promotion[[/note]] and is the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=3718 PCW ULTRA Women's Champion]].
As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumie_Sakai The Other Wiki]].
!!! "Smashmouth Tropes":
* ActionGirl: She's a professional wrestler and occasional mixed martial artist, and in wrestling almost always works as a face.
* BadassAdorable: She doesn't bring her exotica and {{garbage wrestl|er}}ing to ROH, leaving only this. There is still very little she cannot do and her enthusiasm makes her so cute. Just how much her act is cleaned up [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor varies]], though, as she's also been known to engage in [[CombatPragmatist very not adorable small joint manipulation and even chomp on them]].
* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: She and Roxie Cotton were the only women to ever hold the WORLD-1 Tag Team Titles.
* TheBusCameBack: After being rejected at ''Do Or Die 5'' she wouldn't show up again for nine years at the 2014 ''Summer Heat'' Tour. In 2015 she'd find her second foothold in when WOH was rebranded as its own division and fan support when live crowd of West Warwick Rhode Island gave Taeler Hendrix [[RootingForTheEmpire a heroes welcome]] but then [[SympathyForTheHero turned against her in favor Sakai]].
* FinishingMove: The Smashmouth
* GenkiGirl: Very energetic in the ring, even more in her promos.
* IKnowKarate: In between her ROH stints she achieved her dream of becoming a mixed martial artist and brought what she learned from the experience back with her.
* KissOfDistraction: At ''Son of the International Invasion of International Invaders- First Stage,'' September 16, 2005, she defeated Allison Danger by kissing her and rolling her up for the pin.
* PartsUnknown: She wrestles out of Jersey, Shore, Japan!
* SureLetsGoWithThat: During the match where she defeated Kelly Klein to become the inaugural Women of Honor Champion, she hit a move that commentators Ian Ricabboni and Colt Cabana called a "Schoolgirl Powerbomb," since they'd never seen anyone do that before.
* TagTeam: [[{{Portmanteau}} YABUSAKA]], with Megumi Yabashita
[[caption-width-right:288:After defeating Wrestling/KellyKlein to become the inaugural [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-wm.html ROH Women of Honor Champion]], ''ROH [=Supercard=] of Honor, Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA, April 7, 2018]]
Sumie Sakai (born November 24, 1971) is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er and UsefulNotes/{{Mixed Martial Art|s}}ist known in the U.S. for her work in Wrestling/RingOfHonor and Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}. She debuted in 1997 for Yoshimoto Ladies Pro Wrestling and has worked all over the world.
Along with being the inaugural ROH Women of Honor Champion, she is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/jd-j.html Jd' Junior Champion]], a former 4x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/jd/twf-t.html TWF World Women's Tag Team Champion]], a former and the first-ever [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/world1/world1-wm.html WORLD-1 Women's Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/world1/world1-t.html WORLD-1 Tag Team Champion]] with Roxie Cotton, a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/pwu/pwu-wm.html PWU Unified Women's Champion]], a former [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=2574 WEW Tag Team Champion]][[note]]Women's Extreme (or Erotic) Wrestling, an adult-oriented promotion[[/note]] and is the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=3718 PCW ULTRA Women's Champion]].
As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumie_Sakai The Other Wiki]].
!!! "Smashmouth Tropes":
* ActionGirl: She's a professional wrestler and occasional mixed martial artist, and in wrestling almost always works as a face.
* BadassAdorable: She doesn't bring her exotica and {{garbage wrestl|er}}ing to ROH, leaving only this. There is still very little she cannot do and her enthusiasm makes her so cute. Just how much her act is cleaned up [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor varies]], though, as she's also been known to engage in [[CombatPragmatist very not adorable small joint manipulation and even chomp on them]].
* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: She and Roxie Cotton were the only women to ever hold the WORLD-1 Tag Team Titles.
* TheBusCameBack: After being rejected at ''Do Or Die 5'' she wouldn't show up again for nine years at the 2014 ''Summer Heat'' Tour. In 2015 she'd find her second foothold in when WOH was rebranded as its own division and fan support when live crowd of West Warwick Rhode Island gave Taeler Hendrix [[RootingForTheEmpire a heroes welcome]] but then [[SympathyForTheHero turned against her in favor Sakai]].
* FinishingMove: The Smashmouth
* GenkiGirl: Very energetic in the ring, even more in her promos.
* IKnowKarate: In between her ROH stints she achieved her dream of becoming a mixed martial artist and brought what she learned from the experience back with her.
* KissOfDistraction: At ''Son of the International Invasion of International Invaders- First Stage,'' September 16, 2005, she defeated Allison Danger by kissing her and rolling her up for the pin.
* PartsUnknown: She wrestles out of Jersey, Shore, Japan!
* SureLetsGoWithThat: During the match where she defeated Kelly Klein to become the inaugural Women of Honor Champion, she hit a move that commentators Ian Ricabboni and Colt Cabana called a "Schoolgirl Powerbomb," since they'd never seen anyone do that before.
* TagTeam: [[{{Portmanteau}} YABUSAKA]], with Megumi Yabashita
