Arisa Hoshiki (星輝ありさ, Hoshiki Arisa) (born October 13, 1995) is a Japanese singer, songwriter, retired professional wrestler, and former shoot boxer. In professional wrestling, she worked in the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion, where she was Wonder of Stardom Champion, the promotion's secondary title.[1][4] She vacated the championship on May 20, 2020 after she retired due to injury. Since 2018, Hoshiki had performed in the band Unlimited Dream Navigator, under the name Udon Sato (うどん佐藤), as part of which she performed her wrestling theme song.[5][6] The band disbanded in 2021, and she has stopped using the Udon Sato name ever since.
Arisa Hoshiki | |
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![]() Hoshiki in 2019 | |
Born | (1995-10-13) October 13, 1995 (age 26)[1] Funabashi, Chiba, Japan[1] |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Arisa Hoshiki[1] |
Billed height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)[1] |
Billed weight | 52 kg (115 lb)[1] |
Billed from | Funabashi, Chiba, Japan[1] |
Trained by | Fuka[2] |
Debut | January 23, 2011[1] |
Retired | May 20, 2020[3] |
Hoshiki made her in-ring debut at World Wonder Ring Stardom on January 23, 2011, where she defeated Mayu Iwatani.[7] Hoshiki and Iwatani would later team together and wrestle under the name AMA.[5] During her time in Stardom, Hoshiki made it to the finals of Rookie of the Year in 2011 where she lost to Yoshiko, and unsuccessfully challenged Yuzuki Aikawa for the Wonder of Stardom Championship in her first title match.[5] Hoshiki wrestled her last match on May 20, 2012 against Yuhi which ended on time limit draw, before leaving Stardom and Wrestling.[5]
Hoshiki made her return to wrestling, where she returned to Stardom on November 23, 2018 teaming with Iwatani against AZM, and Konami of Queen's Quest in a winning effort, scoring the pin on AZM. Hoshiki was then invited into Iwatani's STARS unit that same day.
On February 17th 2019, AMA unsuccessfully challenged Momo Watanabe and Utami Hayashishita for the Goddesses Of Stardom Championships.
On April 29, 2019, Hoshiki won the Cinderella Tournament, and challenged Momo Watanabe for the Wonder of Stardom Championship, also announcing that she signed with Stardom on a full time basis. On May 16, she defeated Watanabe to win the first ever championship in her professional wrestling career.[4] Her first defense came a month after on June 16th 2019 at Stardom's Shining Destiny event, defeating her rival & eventual partner, Tam Nakano. Her second defense came later that month, in London, England at Pro Wrestling: EVE's Wrestle Queendom 2 event, defeating Roxxy. Afterwards, she went on to defeat Hazuki, Jungle Kyona, Avary, Kagetsu, Jamie Hayter and Konami before having to vacate the championship.
On November 15th 2019, Nakano and Hoshiki, also known as DREAM☆SHiNE, defeated Bea Priestley and Jamie Hayter in the final of Stardom's Goddesses of Stardom Tag League, winning the tournament. Afterwards, on November 24th 2019, they unsuccessfully challenged Konami and Jungle Kyona for the Goddesses Of Stardom Championships.
On May 20th 2020, Arisa announced her retirement from professional wrestling due to injury, therefore vacating the Wonder of Stardom Championship ending her reign at 370 days with 10 defenses. This makes her the 2nd longest reigning Wonder Of Stardom champion in history, behind first ever champion Yuzuki Aikawa who held it for 618 days from 2011 to 2013 in the early days of Stardom, and is tied at #2 for most defenses of the title with Io Shirai, only having Momo Watanabe above them with 13 defenses.
Arisa made a brief return to the ring in 2021, although citing herself that she doesn't consider it a return to professional wrestling, to the Action Ring Girl'Z division of Actwres girl'Z. She featured on a few shows, before unfortunately having to withdraw due to poor physical condition. Afterwards, Arisa announced on Twitter that she would take an indefinite hiatus to focus on healing herself.
Arisa also had her own band, in which she performed under the name Udon Sato. The band released two albums and also produced her wrestling theme song, "SHiNiNG STAR". She also frequently uploaded vocal covers of several artists, including one of her favorite singers LiSA. The band disbanded in 2021, with Arisa going solo, reverting to the Arisa Hoshiki name, although due to her ongoing hiatus, she has not uploaded any solo music as of now.
1 win, 1 loss | ||||||||
Date | Result | Opponent | Event | Location | Method | Round | Time | |
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2014-11-30 | Loss | ![]() | Shoot Boxing S-Cup World Tournament 2014[13] | Tokyo, Japan | Decision (unanimous) | 3 | 3:00 | |
2014-08-02 | Win | ![]() | Shoot Boxing Girls S-Cup 2014[14] | Tokyo, Japan | TKO (Punch consecutive hits) | 2 | 0:53 | |
Legend: Win Loss |
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