{"id":73942,"date":"2020-08-05T10:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=73942"},"modified":"2020-08-05T10:04:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:04:34","slug":"mio-shirai-return-ice-ribbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/08\/05\/mio-shirai-return-ice-ribbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mio Shirai To Make A One-Off Return To The Ring For Ice Ribbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mio Shirai will return to a wrestling ring to compete in a proper match for\u00a0<strong>Ice Ribbon<\/strong> on their big Yokohama Buntai show on August 9th, 2020.\u00a0 This has come about due to recent Ice Ribbon debutant <strong>Nao Ishikawa\u00a0<\/strong>having to go for surgery following the discovery of an ovarian cyst.\u00a0 The match will now be\u00a0<strong>Akane Fujita\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Asahi\u00a0<\/strong>taking on Mio Shirai and\u00a0<strong>Miku Aono\u00a0<\/strong>(Actwres girl&#8217;Z)<\/p>\n<p>Aside from a few exhibition appearances Shirai has not wrestled since her retirement in 2015.\u00a0 Given the name most will already have guessed she is the sister of WWE NXT Women&#8217;s Champion <strong>Io Shirai<\/strong> and the two did team together when they were both active, though never in <strong>Stardom<\/strong>.\u00a0 As well as that they were in a faction known as Triple Tails with <strong>Asuka.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even in retirement, Shirai has been loyal to Ice Ribbon holding a role as a referee and even serving as their trainer.\u00a0 Now she fills in for them at their time of need.\u00a0 While it is only a one time return it will be really great to see Mio Shirai in a wrestling ring again<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. Subscribe to Ice Ribbon on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ch.nicovideo.jp\/iceribbon\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NicoNico<\/a>\u00a0to see this show and more from one of the finest Joshi companies on the scene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mio Shirai will return to a wrestling ring to compete in a proper match for\u00a0Ice Ribbon on their big Yokohama Buntai show on August 9th, 2020.\u00a0 This has come about due to recent Ice Ribbon debutant Nao Ishikawa\u00a0having to go for surgery following the discovery of an ovarian cyst.\u00a0 The match will now be\u00a0Akane Fujita\u00a0and\u00a0Asahi\u00a0taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":66739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5302,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-joshi","category-news"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}