YUUKA’S BACK!!!

What awesome news to wake up to.

At today’s Ice Ribbon event in Yokohama retired wrestler Yuuka announced her return to the ring at Ribbonmania 2025.

Yuuka wrestled for Ice Ribbon with from 2013 to 2016 with a number of outside appearances for Pro Wrestling Wave and BJW and a handful for other promotions. She officially announced her retirement  in 2019, so this return is after 6 official years away from wrestling and 9 years since her last match.

Yuuka’s a personal favorite of mine and was always a blast to watch. A few months ago I randomly decided to spotlight a decade old match of hers against the incredible Kana (now WWE’s Asuka). In an amusing coincidence less than a half hour after I posted that blog it was announced that Yuuka would be making a special appearance at Ice Ribbon that day as a second for Kyuri in Kyuri’s anniversary match.

Since then Yuuka has worked as support staff for Ice Ribbon’s parent company NeoPlus and started participating in the theatrical wrestling project Pro Wrestling Venus.

Yuuka’s return to wrestling will be 10 years to the day of when I had the privilege of seeing her wrestle Sareee live in a special teens spotlight match at Ribbonmania 2015 during my first trip to Japan.

Really happy for Yuuka that she has this opportunity to come back to wrestling and that she wanted to do so. Excited to see what this new part of her career will bring.

Welcome back, Ice Ribbon’s White Angel.

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