Mone attacked Kairi and challenged her for the championship at NJPW’s Battle in the Valley event in San Jose, Calif. on Feb. 18. Naomi and WWE star Bayley were both in Japan to support Banks.

Now going by the name Mercedes Moné, Banks confronted IWGP women’s champion Kairi to set up a future title match between the two. That match will happen at NJPW’s Battle in the Valley event ...

Mercedes Moné has landed. The wrestler formerly known as Sasha Banks has officially made her NJPW debut after months of speculation. Following former WWE star KAIRI's successful defense of the ...

At Wrestle Kingdom 17, Moné made her NJPW debut after Kairi's successful title defense against Tam Nakano. After going by the name Sasha Banks during her decade in WWE, Mercedes not only changed ...

NJPW sold out tickets to Battle in the Valley after Kairi vs. Mercedes Moné was announced and it showed as the crowd erupted as it began. It was the loudest the audience in attendance got all night.

At today's NJPW x STARDOM Historical X-Over event, KAIRI beat Mayu Iwatani to become the inaugural IWGP Women's Champion. KAIRI secured the victory after hitting a spinning back fist followed by ...

Since then, however, Mercedes Mone arrived on the scene, defeating KAIRI for the IWGP Women's Title in the Yamaguchi native's second defense of the title at NJPW Battle in the Valley in San Jose ...

Her Battle at the Valley match against Kairi—who worked in WWE as Kairi Sane—is for the IWGP women’s championship, a title first established last summer. “Japanese women’s wrestling is ...

NJPW Titles Won Number Of Reigns IWGP Junior ... When leaving WWE and heading back over to Japan, Kairi Sane felt like a much bigger star. Under the name of just â KAIRIâ , she was handed ...

performing under the ring name Kairi in World Wonder Ring Stardom and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where she became the inaugural IWGP Women's Champion. After becoming a free agent in 2023 ...

Kairi defeated Mayu Iwatani in the main match of Historic X-Over, a professional wrestling event co-promoted by Stardom and its sister organization, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), in November 2022.

Throughout her wrestling tenure, Kairi Sane has gone by various names ... the "People's Champ" and "Onnu Kiazoku" during her time in NJPW, but nothing has ever entirely caught on the way the ...