In the glittered mausoleum of Japanese pro wrestling, some careers are born under klieg lights, while others rise from the tar pits in boots two sizes too big. Victoria Yuzuki, the artist formerly known as Yuzuki Kokawa, didn’t wait for a spotlight — she kicked the damn bulb out and set the stage on fire.
She began her journey the way all future champions do: by eating pavement.
November 17, 2023. Stardom New Blood West 1. The crowd watched a wide-eyed newcomer — Kokawa, still clinging to her birth name like a schoolgirl’s diary — get folded in half by Momo Watanabe. It was a wrestling debut in the same way a car crash is a parking attempt.
But like any good myth, humiliation only seasoned the steel. Just six weeks later, she was back in the ring with a smile and a death wish, tagging with Mina Shirakawa in a losing effort against Amasaki and Hanako. That Christmas, Yuzuki celebrated by collecting another L — this time in tag action against Haruka Umesaki and the already-familiar Amasaki. Nothing says “future champion” like a losing streak that would make a Cleveland Browns fan wince.
Then came the turning point.
December 29, 2023: Stardom Dream Queendom. Kokawa, alongside Amasaki and Azusa Inaba, got her first taste of victory, toppling a team of rookies in a match that reeked of participation trophies and promotional mercy. But a win’s a win, even if it tastes like week-old ramen and regret.
Ten days later, Kokawa stumbled into the Stardom Rookie of the Year tournament and — by some miracle or mistake — bulldozed through Ranna Yagami and Hanako to win the thing. Cue the confetti. Somewhere, a Stardom executive furiously checked the brackets to make sure this wasn’t a clerical error.
She got her flowers and a new home — joining Stars, Mayu Iwatani’s bubblegum-pink band of misfits, on January 14, 2024. From then on, the name “Yuzuki Kokawa” was starting to feel less like a punchline and more like a problem.
February 4, 2024: She challenged for the Future of Stardom title. She lost. But it was a different kind of loss — the kind where your opponent knows they’ve just wrestled a problem, not a warm-up act. Like sharing a cab ride with a bomb — stylish, silent, and ready to explode.
The explosion came soon after — not in Stardom, but outside it.
By the end of March 2024, she vanished from Stardom like a magician’s rabbit, traded out like an expired coupon. The internet buzzed. Retirement? Injury? Nah.
She re-emerged a week later — reborn, repackaged, and rebranded — as Victoria Yuzuki, the first lady of Dream Star Fighting Marigold. Think Stardom with more glitter and less restraint. She walked into Marigold Fields Forever like Cleopatra into Rome: sure, she lost her debut match, but damn did she look good doing it.
Then came the real meat — January 3, 2025. First Dream. Victoria Yuzuki went full cobra on Natsumi Showzuki and snatched the Marigold Super Fly Championship, the first belt of her career. Finally, after a year of spills, slaps, and sideline glances, she had gold on her shoulder and a knife behind her smile.
No one saw her coming. That’s what makes her dangerous.
She’s not a legacy kid. She’s not a family name. She didn’t rise through dojo royalty or television charisma. She’s a mutt fighter — bred from Stardom’s hand-me-downs and Marigold’s chaos, someone who took the short end of every stick and turned it into a spear.
She’s also got a name like a Bond villain and an entrance theme that sounds like it eats nails for breakfast.
What makes Victoria Yuzuki compelling isn’t her technical prowess — it’s her resilience. Her arc reads like a noir screenplay: battered rookie stumbles into the wrong promotion, finds herself in a basement full of dreamers, then climbs her way out swinging brass knuckles.
In Stardom, she was a rookie with potential. In Marigold, she’s a damn landmine.
Now, with the Super Fly belt around her waist and a fanbase that seems equally confused and captivated, she’s become the queen of the second act. If wrestling is theater, Victoria Yuzuki is its rogue understudy — stepping in last-minute, stealing the show, and setting the stage curtains ablaze just for the hell of it.
Is she a future main eventer? Maybe. Is she someone who’ll leave opponents clutching their ribs and dignity? Absolutely.
Victoria Yuzuki doesn’t just want to win — she wants you to remember who took the win from you. The Stardom dropout. The Marigold darling. The rookie who wouldn’t stay put.
The woman who walks into the ring like it owes her money — and leaves like she collected.
