This past Saturday night during COLLISION: HOMECOMING 2025, “The Magical Girl” Yuka Sakazaki earned a TBS Championship match via Four-Way victory over Queen Aminata, Serena Deeb, and “The Virtuosa” Deonna Purrazzo. It was Purrazzo who ended up on the wrong end of Yuka’s pin in Jacksonville, but for the multi-time Tokyo Joshi Pro Princess of Princesses champion that meant the right path to a TBS Championship match!
Luckily for Yuka she does not have to wait long for her opportunity because tonight in Huntsville she will square off with “Four Belts” Moné with that TBS Title on the line! Reigning as champion since DOUBLE OR NOTHING 2024 when she defeated Willow Nightingale, Mercedes has successfully retained this title on 12 occasions, as well as acquired the NJPW STRONG Women’s Title and the RevPro Undisputed British Women’s Championship (consisting of RevPro’s British Women’s Championship belt and Southside Wrestling Entertainment’s Queen of Southside belt) along the way. As if that wasn’t impressive enough, Mercedes remains undefeated in AEW at 14-0 and she’s 16-0 since returning to action at DON ’24 following her near career-ending injury. It’s hard to say if any another competitor has had as impressive an eight-month run as “The CEO”, but Yuka Sakazaki aims to bring it to an end tonight on DYNAMITE to bring some celebration to her frustrating last eight.
An injury last April knocked “The Magical Girl” out of competition for five months, however when she returned to action, Yuka earned her way into an unsuccessful Women’s World Championship challenge against Mariah May at DYNAMITE: GRAND SLAM 2024. She fought one more match in 2024 for Ring of Honor as part of HONOR CLUB #86, but was once again out of action between that October 17th bout and her return to Tokyo Joshi Pro on January 4th. Yuka returned strong though, scoring victory in that TJPW tag team bout, as well as in a trios match at NJPW’s BATTLE IN THE VALLEY 2025, followed by last Saturday night’s Four-Way win on COLLISION.
Suffice to say Yuka is ready to get right back in the fight tonight in Huntsville and bring the reign of Mercedes Moné to an end while she’s seemingly got her thoughts fixed on what GRAND SLAM: AUSTRALIA has on tap for her in two weeks time
Will the champion celebrate her 33rd birthday with a 13th successful title defense, or will that prove to be The CEO’s unlucky number?