Makoto (wrestler)
| Makoto | |
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Makoto in August 2013
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| Born |
September 26, 1989 Kobe, Hyōgo |
| Residence | Akihabara, Tokyo |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Angela Mako Kei Murakami Lady Face Mako-san Makoto Makoto-hime Ma!ko?to |
| Billed height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) |
| Billed weight | 60 kg (130 lb) |
| Trained by |
Emi Sakura Yoshihiro Tajiri |
| Debut | July 25, 2006 |
Makoto (真琴 Makoto?, born September 26, 1989) is a Japanese professional wrestler. Trained by Emi Sakura, Makoto made her debut for her Ice Ribbon promotion in July 2006. During the next five years, Makoto went on to win Ice Ribbon's top title, the ICE×60 Championship, once and the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship twice, before transferring over to the Smash promotion in August 2011. She remained with Smash until March 2012, when the promotion folded. The following month, Makoto was announced as part of the roster of the new Wrestling New Classic (WNC) promotion. In March 2013, Makoto became the second WNC Women's Champion. In January 2014, Makoto made Reina Joshi Puroresu her second home promotion in addition to WNC. Reina became her primary home promotion after WNC shut down in June 2014. She is currently in her first reign as the Reina World Women's Champion, while also being a former two-time Reina World Tag Team Champion.
In February 2006, Makoto began training under Gatokunyan wrestler Emi Sakura. Two months later Sakura left Gatokunyan to form her own promotion, Ice Ribbon, taking, among others, Makoto with her. Makoto would make her wrestling debut on July 25, 2006, at Ice Ribbon's third ever show, losing to then nine-year-old Riho in a minute. Makoto's early wrestling character was based on her real-life social phobia and growing up as a hikikomori child. As is customary in Japanese professional wrestling, Makoto's first year in the business consisted of short matches and losses. Early on, Makoto also began working regularly for NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling, where she represented the Sakura Ribbon-gun ("Sakura Ribbon Army"). She scored the first win of her career in NEO on February 18, 2007, pinning Tanny Mouse in a fourteen-person tag team match between the Sakura Ribbon-gun and the NEO Machine Guns-gun. She would go on to win her first title on February 1, 2008, when she teamed with her idol Etsuko Mita to defeat Tanny Mouse and Yuki Miyazaki for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship. They would hold the title for five months, before losing it to the team of Chounko and Masako Takanashi. On December 23, Makoto made it to the finals of a tournament to crown the first ever ICE×60 Champion, before being defeated by Seina. After two unsuccessful title challenges against Kiyoko Ichiki, she would finally win the ICE×60 Championship on August 23, 2009, by defeating Ichiki in their third title match against each other. She would go on to lose the title to Emi Sakura on October 12, 2009.
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