Shuu Shibutani
Shibutani in February 2014
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| Birth name | Kana Shibutani |
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| Born |
October 9, 1979 Yokkaichi, Mie |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | 2nd Generation Barikata Cotterine Echisera Keiko Saito Shuu Shibutani |
| Billed height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) |
| Billed weight | 53 kg (117 lb) |
| Trained by | Mariko Yoshida |
| Debut | September 19, 2004 |
| Retired | May 3, 2015 |
Kana Shibutani (渋谷 佳奈 Shibutani Kana?, born October 9, 1979) is a retired Japanese professional wrestler better known by the ring name Shuu Shibutani (渋谷 シュウ Shibutani Shū?). Having started her career in the JDStar promotion in September 2004, Shibutani remained with the promotion until it folded in July 2007, after which she affiliated herself with Pro Wrestling Wave. After becoming a one-time Wave Tag Team Champion, she retired from professional wrestling in May 2015.
Shibutani received her training in professional wrestling at the dojo of the JDStar promotion, being part of the last batch of women to go through the promotion's "Athtress" program, which aimed at building physically attractive women into not only professional wrestlers, but also mainstream celebrities. Originally, Shibutani had unsuccessfully applied for a traineeship at the dojo of the Major Girl's Fighting AtoZ promotion. She made her in-ring debut under the ring name Shuu Shibutani on September 19, 2004, facing Akino at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring in Tokyo. Shibutani won her first title before the end of the year, when she and Athtress training partner Fuka defeated Gami and Drake Morimatsu for the TWF World Tag Team Championship on December 5. They, however, lost the title back to Gami and Morimatsu later that same day. Early on in her career, Shibutani earned praise for her talent and was put in a high-profile role, effectively replacing the injured Yumi Ohka. While working regularly for JDStar, she also made several appearances for the Ibuki promotion. From April to June 2006, Shibutani took part in the first ever League Princess tournament, but was eliminated from her round-robin, following a loss to Fuka in her final match on June 18. She was however recognized as having the best match of the tournament with Ayumi Kurihara. By late 2006, Shibutani had established herself as one of JDStar's top wrestlers, starting a storyline rivalry with the villainous Caribbean Gundan stable of Caribbean Kim, Caribbean Moon and Caribbean Rum. The rivalry culminated on March 21, 2007, in a six-woman elimination tag team match, where "Team Shin-Kiba" of Shibutani, Cherry and Yuri Urai defeated Caribbean Gundan with Shibutani scoring the last elimination over Kim. Two months later, JDStar announced that the promotion would be folding after the July 16 event. At the final event, Shibutani first teamed with Misaki Ohata in a tag team match, where they were defeated by Fuka and Jaguar Yokota. Later in the event, she won a multi-person battle royal, the last match ever put together by JDStar.
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