Tsukushi

Biography: is a Japanese professional wrestler. Trained by Emi Sakura, Tsukushi made her debut for her Ice Ribbon promotion in January 2010 as part of a trial series with Kurumi. After winning the fan voting, Tsukushi was made an official part of Ice Ribbon's roster the following March and she has since wrestled regularly for the promotion. She is a former one-time ICE×60 Champion, record nine-time International Ribbon Tag Team Champion and two-time IW19 Champion. Tsukushi's accomplishments outside of Ice Ribbon include winning DDT Pro-Wrestling's Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, JWP Joshi Puroresu's 2014 Tag League the Best and Reina Joshi Puroresu's Reina World Tag Team Championship. collectively as "This is Ice Ribbon", defeated Arisa Nakajima and Tsukasa Fujimoto for the title. They lost the title to Wave Tag Team Champions Misaki Ohata and Ryo Mizunami in their first defense on October 9.[143] On November 3, Tsukushi challenged Tsukasa Fujimoto for the ICE×∞ Championship. The match ended in a 30-minute time limit draw, which resulted in the title being held up. Tsukushi eventually made it to the semifinals of a tournament to crown the new champion, before losing to Fujimoto on December 31. On March 26, 2017, Tsukushi and Kurumi regained the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship from Ohata and Mizunami. They were stripped of the title on May 28, after their third title defense against Hamuko Hoshi and Mochi Miyagi ended in a twenty-minute time limit draw. Tsukushi and Kurumi regained the vacant title on June 11 by defeating the mother-daughter team of Hamuko Hoshi and Ibuki Hoshi. They were again stripped of the title on September 9 due to Tsukushi's arrest and subsequent inactivity from wrestling. On September 20, Ice Ribbon announced that Tsukushi was going on an indefinite hiatus from wrestling and would work for the company behind the scenes for the time being. Tsukushi had been scheduled to play a large role in Manami Toyota's upcoming retirement event, but was pulled from the show because of the incident. Tsukushi returned to the ring at Ice Ribbon year-end event, RibbonMania 2017, on December 31, 2017, where she was defeated by Tsukasa Fujimoto. 2017 arrest On July 23, 2017, Dave Meltzer reported that Tsukushi had been arrested for allegedly trying to stab fellow wrestler Kagetsu. That same day, Tsukushi was scheduled to wrestle at a Dream Joshi Puroresu event in Tokyo, but was pulled from the event due to "poor physical condition". The following day, Ice Ribbon held a press conference to announce that a 19-year old Ice Ribbon wrestler had been arrested on the night of July 22 in Saitama Prefecture for a fight, where a 25-year old wrestler not belonging to the promotion was injured. The arrested wrestler's name was withheld due to her being "underage", while the victim's name was withheld by their own request The victim was described as a friend and a longtime mentor of the arrested wrestler. Tsukushi was identified as the arrested wrestler at a press conference on September 6, where she apologized for the inciden