WWE Superstar Announces Retirement Match
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A longtime WWE Superstar who has influenced countless wrestlers behind the scenes is retiring and calling it a career.
After a remarkable 25-year career in professional wrestling, former NXT UK Women's Champion Meiko Satomura is preparing for her official retirement match, scheduled for April 29th in Tokyo, Japan, under the banner of her co-founded promotion, Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling. The announced bout will be a tag team encounter.
YUNA and Senka being part of Meiko Satomura's retirement road makes me all kinds of happy. pic.twitter.com/ijJl1PI0W2 — RESURA (@resuramag) April 23, 2025
It will see Satomura alongside her trainee, the 20-year-old Manami, against the duo of Aja Kong and Sendai Girls Champion Chihiro Hashimoto. This final match has a background as Satomura shares a storied history with both Kong, a rivalry spanning decades, and Hashimoto, against whom she has clashed in previous years.
Despite this impending farewell match in Japan, Satomura remains listed on WWE's active roster and appears to still be involved in a coaching capacity for NXT. She maintained an in-ring presence for WWE in 2024 during the company's tour of Japan, with her last WWE match being a singles contest for the WWE Women's Championship against Bayley.
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Her final televised match under the WWE banner was against Roxanne Perez at NXT Roadblock in March 2023. Satomura's extensive career began in the mid-1990s, when she competed in WCW during its attempt to establish a women's division. She also won numerous championship victories across various promotions in Japan.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - OCTOBER 11: WWE logos are shown on screens before a WWE news conference at T-Mobile Arena on October 11, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - OCTOBER 11: WWE logos are shown on screens before a WWE news conference at T-Mobile Arena on October 11, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.She participated in WWE's Mae Young Classic tournament in 2018, reaching the semifinals, and in mid-2019, she served as a guest coach at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando. That same year, Satomura also had the opportunity to train with then-SmackDown Women's Champion Sasha Banks at the Sendai Girls' dojo in Japan.
While she has been officially signed with WWE since 2020, her in-ring appearances have become less frequent. She has since focused on her role with NXT and occasional appearances in Japan, including events like Fortune Dream 9 and DDT Pro Wrestling's unique Toden Train Match, before this final, career-culminating bout in her home promotion.
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