Rin Kadokura isn’t a name that gets shouted from rooftops or scrawled on overpriced t-shirts at Tokyo Dome merch tables. Not yet. But she’s the kind of fire that starts slow—quiet and steady—and then burns the whole goddamn house down before anyone realizes the kitchen’s on fire.
Born Kazumi Sugiura, Rin took her husband’s name privately and the world’s punishment publicly. A graduate of the Marvelous dojo, she was molded not in satin-lined training rings but in the sweat-stained echo chamber of Chigusa Nagayo’s iron will. And that explains a lot. Because Rin doesn’t wrestle matches—she fights memories. She fights the ghosts of the women who built this business before her, and most nights, she wins.
She debuted in Seadlinnng back in 2016, a rookie in a losing tag effort alongside Takumi Iroha. That set the tone—Rin’s always been in the ring with giants. Meiko Satomura. Command Bolshoi. Jordynne Grace. Nyla Rose. Sareee. You don’t learn wrestling from books. You learn it by bleeding with legends.
Sendai Girls gave her a crash course in violence. Marvelous sharpened her to a fine edge. But it was Pro Wrestling WAVE that really got to know her. There she became a tag team ace, tearing through the promotion with Takumi Iroha as NEW-TRA, winning Dual Shock Wave like they’d done it a hundred times before. There was elegance to it—two women moving like switchblades through butter—but also violence. Rin hits like she’s pissed off at the canvas.
And she’s more than just tag success. Catch the Wave, WAVE’s signature single-elimination tournament, saw her square off against everyone from Sareee to Rina Yamashita. She didn’t always win, but like a boxer who never goes down, she made damn sure you remembered her.
She made it to All Elite Wrestling in 2021, tossed into the fire of the AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator Tournament. First round draw: Aja Kong. Good luck, rookie. Rin didn’t win that night. But she stood her ground, took Aja’s bricks to the face, and smiled through the blood. She came back two weeks later and helped Hikaru Shida and Mei Suruga lay waste to a trio that included Maki Itoh and Veny. She didn’t just belong—she enhanced the entire room.
And Stardom? She may not have made her name there, but every time she stepped through their ropes, she left footprints. Victories over Jungle Kyona, matches with AZM and Utami Hayashishita, and the surreal nostalgia of the All-Star Rumble at Dream Cinderella—Kadokura stood shoulder to shoulder with icons like Kyoko Inoue and Yoko Bito, like a bridge between generations.
Rin’s not flashy. She doesn’t need cosplay or catchphrases. What she’s got is timing, footwork, grit—and a lariat like a baseball bat made of regret. She doesn’t just sell hits—she makes you feel them in your ribcage two days later. She’s stiff, technical, and unafraid to get ugly if it means pulling out a win. She’s Joshi’s middle finger to your expectations.
Then, the bombshell: Rin married into royalty. Kensuke Sasaki and Akira Hokuto’s son, Kennosuke, put a ring on her. The world blinked, shocked. Joshi royalty married into pro wrestling royalty. And she didn’t miss a beat. No retirement. No graceful fade-out. No “wrestling wife” role. She kept the name Rin Kadokura, because it was hers, goddammit. And she kept punching people in the face while she was carrying a baby, metaphorically and maybe literally.
In 2023, she gave birth to their daughter in Canada. And in true Kadokura fashion, she didn’t make a big deal of it. No media tour. No talk shows. Just a simple in-ring statement confirming it all, and a vow to keep doing what she loves—wrestling.
That’s Rin in a nutshell. Understated. Over-delivering. You think she’s a supporting act until she stiff-kicks your spine out of alignment. She’s a mother, a wife, and a war machine with a sidekick lariat.
As of 2025, she’s still going. Still grinding on the indies. Still taking bookings from Stardom to Marvelous to wherever will pay her to hurt people with a smile. She may never be a global star. She may never headline Wrestle Kingdom or get a Funko Pop. But she doesn’t need that. Rin Kadokura is the soul of joshi puroresu.
She’s the flicker in the dark. The flame in the forge. The bruised, bleeding heartbeat of the ring.
And she’s just getting started.
