Queen's Quest
Io Shirai, leading
The Stardom stable she fronted through the back half of her Ace run - the banner under which the record-setting second World of Stardom reign happened.
Japan · Stardom · NXT · WWE · 2007–present
Iyo Sky is the rare wrestler whose Japanese career and American career would each, on their own, justify a page like this. In Stardom she was the promotion's Ace: a two-time World of Stardom Champion whose second reign ran eighteen months with a record fourteen defences, the first wrestler to complete Stardom's Grand Slam, and Tokyo Sports' Joshi Wrestler of the Year three years running, 2015 through 2017. 5.0stars from Dave Meltzer for the WrestleMania 41 triple threat — the first women’s match in WWE to receive the ratingIn WWE she has held world titles on both current lineages — the WWE Women's Championship for 246 days from a SummerSlam 2023 cash-in, and the Women's World Championship for 132 days in 2025 — and her WrestleMania 41 triple threat with Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair became the first women's match in WWE history rated five stars by Dave Meltzer. She is the 2026 Queen of the Ring.
She was born Masami Odate on May 8, 1990, debuted on March 4, 2007 at sixteen while still in high school, trained by Tomohiko Hashimoto, and wrestled Mexico from 2010 under names including Viva Kasai before Stardom made her Io Shirai. 14defences in her second World of Stardom reign, December 2015 to June 2017 — the recordWWE signed her out of the 2018 Mae Young Classic, where she lost the final to Toni Storm at Evolution; as Io Shirai she held the NXT Women's Championship for 304 days from June 7, 2020. The renaming to Iyo Sky came with the July 2022 main-roster call-up and the founding of Damage CTRL with Bayley and Dakota Kai at SummerSlam 2022 — the faction that carried her through two tag title reigns, the 2023 briefcase, and the championship run that made the American half of the career undeniable.
The 2026 shape: RHIYO — the tag team with Rhea Ripley — won the Women's Tag Team Championship on the January 5 Raw and lost it to The Irresistible Forces after 53 days, dissolving when Ripley moved to SmackDown after WrestleMania 42, where Sky helped Ripley win the WWE Women's Championship from Jade Cargill. 2026Queen of the Ring — won June 27 in Riyadh by pinning the Women’s World Champion, Liv MorganShe won the Queen of the Ring final over Liv Morgan at Night of Champions on June 27 and chose Morgan's Women's World Championship for SummerSlam. The challenge failed on August 1 — she hurt her own knee driving Morgan into the ring post, absorbed interference from Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez, and was pinned at 13:35 — and she has answered it by siding with Sol Ruca against The Judgment Day, winning a tag match with Ruca over Perez and Rodriguez on the August 10 Raw. That is where she stands as of August 31, 2026: on Raw, unbelted, and still the division's measuring stick.
Sixteen documented bouts - a highlight subset, not a career count, and deliberately light on the Stardom years: only bouts with verified day-precision dates and opponents are listed, which excludes most of the runs that made her the Ace. No career win-loss total is published because none was verified. Filter by match type, tap any column header to sort, and turn spoilers on to reveal results.
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| Res | Date | Promo | Event | Opponent(s) | Stipulation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | 2016-07-24 | STARDOM | Stardom, Korakuen Hall | Toni Storm | Singles - ends her run as inaugural champion after three defences | SWA World Championship |
| L | 2018-10-28 | WWE | Evolution | Toni Storm | Mae Young Classic 2018 final, as Io Shirai | — |
| W | 2020-06-07 | WWE | NXT TakeOver: In Your House | Charlotte Flair & Rhea Ripley | Triple threat - wins the title from Flair | NXT Women's Championship |
| L | 2021-04-07 | WWE | NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver | Raquel Gonzalez | Singles - the 304-day reign ends | NXT Women's Championship |
| W | 2022-09-12 | WWE | Raw | Raquel Rodriguez & Aliyah | With Dakota Kai - Damage CTRL's first gold | WWE Women's Tag Team Championship |
| W | 2023-07-01 | WWE | Money in the Bank - London | The 2023 women's ladder match field | Wins the briefcase | — |
| W | 2023-08-05 | WWE | SummerSlam - Detroit | Bianca Belair | Money in the Bank cash-in - first main-roster world title | WWE Women's Championship |
| L | 2024-04-07 | WWE | WrestleMania XL Night 2 | Bayley | Singles - the 246-day reign ends | WWE Women's Championship |
| W | 2025-03-03 | WWE | Raw | Rhea Ripley | Singles - second main-roster world title | Women's World Championship |
| W | 2025-04-20 | WWE | WrestleMania 41 Night 2 | Rhea Ripley & Bianca Belair | Triple threat - the first women's match in WWE rated five stars by Dave Meltzer | Women's World Championship |
| L | 2025-07-13 | WWE | Evolution | Naomi | Money in the Bank cash-in - the 132-day reign ends | Women's World Championship |
| W | 2026-01-05 | WWE | Raw - New York | The Kabuki Warriors | With Rhea Ripley, as RHIYO | WWE Women's Tag Team Championship |
| L | 2026-02-27 | WWE | SmackDown - Louisville | The Irresistible Forces | With Rhea Ripley - the 53-day reign ends | WWE Women's Tag Team Championship |
| W | 2026-06-27 | WWE | Night of Champions - Riyadh | Liv Morgan | Queen of the Ring final - Spanish Fly and Over the Moonsault | — |
| L | 2026-08-01 | WWE | SummerSlam Night 1 - Minneapolis | Liv Morgan | Singles - challenge; hurt her knee mid-match, pinned at 13:35 | Women's World Championship |
| W | 2026-08-10 | WWE | Raw | Raquel Rodriguez & Roxanne Perez | With Sol Ruca, against The Judgment Day | — |
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11 of 16 matches shown
Curated ledger · documented highlights · some bouts are not listed
The one verified rating, and two bouts chosen for weight rather than stars - no unverified ratings are printed.
vs Rhea Ripley & Bianca Belair
Women's World Championship triple threat — the first five-star women's match in WWE
vs Liv Morgan
Women's World Championship — fought through her own knee injury; Forbes called it an instant classic
vs Toni Storm
Mae Young Classic final — the match that closed her signing
A championship record split across two continents - the first wrestler to complete a Grand Slam in both Japan and the United States. Stardom reign counts are Wikipedia's; individual Stardom reign dates beyond those shown were not re-verified in this pass.
August 5, 2023 – April 7, 2024 · won by Money in the Bank cash-in on Bianca Belair at SummerSlam, lost to Bayley at WrestleMania XL · 246 days, with defences against Zelina Vega, Asuka, Charlotte Flair and Belair
March 3 – July 13, 2025 · won from Rhea Ripley on Raw, retained in the five-star WrestleMania 41 triple threat, lost at Evolution when Naomi cashed in Money in the Bank · 132 days
June 7, 2020 – April 7, 2021, as Io Shirai · 304 days · won from Charlotte Flair in a triple threat also involving Rhea Ripley, lost to Raquel Gonzalez
Twice with Dakota Kai in 2022–23 (48 and 114 days) · once with Rhea Ripley as RHIYO, January 5 – February 27, 2026, 53 days
With Zoey Stark, July 6 – October 26, 2021 · 111 days
2013–14 (468 days, 10 defences) and December 23, 2015 – June 21, 2017 — an eighteen-month reign with a record 14 defences
Including a 2017–18 reign with a record 12 defences · part of the first Stardom Grand Slam ever completed
Stardom’s trios title · individual reign dates not verified in this pass
Inaugural SWA World Champion (lost to Toni Storm, July 24, 2016, after three defences) · Goddesses of Stardom and High Speed Championships, one reign each
The Stardom unit she led, the WWE faction that defined her call-up, and the tag team that did not survive a brand split.
Io Shirai, leading
The Stardom stable she fronted through the back half of her Ace run - the banner under which the record-setting second World of Stardom reign happened.
Bayley, Iyo Sky, Dakota Kai; later Asuka and Kairi Sane
Formed at SummerSlam on July 30, 2022 - the vehicle for her entire first main-roster act. It produced two tag title reigns with Kai, covered the 2023 briefcase win and the 246-day WWE Women's Championship reign, turned face in July 2024, and dissolved in May 2025 after Dakota Kai's release.
Iyo Sky, Rhea Ripley
Formed October 11, 2025 out of a rivalry that kept resolving into respect. Women's Tag Team Champions from January 5 to February 27, 2026 - 53 days - and finished when Ripley moved to SmackDown after WrestleMania 42, where Sky helped her win the WWE Women's Championship from Jade Cargill.
Iyo Sky, Sol Ruca
Not a named unit - an alliance formed after SummerSlam 2026, answering the Judgment Day interference that shaped her title loss. She and Ruca beat Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez on the August 10 Raw, and she was in Ruca's corner again on August 24.
Half a dozen masks and names on the way up, and two that mattered: Io Shirai (Stardom and NXT) → Iyo Sky (WWE, 2022–present).
The lucha apprenticeship, worked under several names including Viva Kasai and Oyuki, with a hair-vs-mask apuestas win in November 2011. It is where the high-wire style was finished.
The Ace of Stardom and, from 2018, NXT's self-styled Evil Genius. Two World of Stardom reigns, three straight Tokyo Sports awards, a 304-day NXT Women's Championship reign, and a heel turn in June 2019 that gave the character its edge.
The renaming came with the July 2022 call-up and Damage CTRL. The Genius of the Sky is the same wrestler with the villainy made optional - since the 2024 face turn she has been booked as the division's purest in-ring standard, the one five-star matches and Queen of the Ring crowns get measured against.
Sixteen-year-old trainee to the first Grand Slam on two continents.
Debuts March 4, 2007 while still in high school, trained by Tomohiko Hashimoto. Her sister Mio Shirai also wrestled.
Wins Stardom's top title on April 29, 2013 and holds it 468 days with ten defences.
Starts the second World of Stardom reign on December 23, 2015 - eighteen months and a record fourteen defences - and opens a run of three straight Tokyo Sports Joshi Wrestler of the Year awards.
Signs with WWE, reaches the Mae Young Classic final and loses it to Toni Storm at Evolution on October 28. Debuts for NXT that November as Io Shirai.
Wins the title from Charlotte Flair in a triple threat with Rhea Ripley at TakeOver: In Your House on June 7 and holds it 304 days.
Renamed on the main-roster call-up; founds Damage CTRL with Bayley and Dakota Kai at SummerSlam on July 30, and wins tag gold with Kai that September.
Wins Money in the Bank in London on July 1 and cashes in on Bianca Belair at SummerSlam on August 5 for the WWE Women's Championship.
Loses the title to Bayley at WrestleMania XL on April 7 after 246 days.
Beats Rhea Ripley for the Women's World Championship on the March 3 Raw, retains in the WrestleMania 41 triple threat Meltzer rated five stars - a first for women's wrestling in WWE - and loses the title at Evolution on July 13 to Naomi's cash-in. Forms RHIYO with Ripley on October 11.
Wins the tag titles with Ripley on January 5 and loses them February 27; helps Ripley win the WWE Women's Championship at WrestleMania 42; wins Queen of the Ring over Liv Morgan on June 27 in Riyadh; loses the SummerSlam title match to Morgan on August 1 after hurting her knee; sides with Sol Ruca against The Judgment Day in August.
Who she went to war with.
The defining relationship of her 2024-26: title matches in March 2025, a double-DQ, the five-star WrestleMania 41 triple threat, and then a tag team - RHIYO - built out of mutual respect that won gold in January 2026. She repaid the account at WrestleMania 42 by helping Ripley beat Jade Cargill for the WWE Women's Championship.
The 2026 rivalry: Sky pinned the champion clean in the Queen of the Ring final on June 27 in Riyadh, then lost the SummerSlam title match on August 1 with a hurt knee and The Judgment Day working the margins - Morgan had also cracked her in the head with the belt on the July Raw that set the match up. The clean tournament pin is the fact Sky's next challenge will be built on.
Faction leader, then the loss that mattered most: Bayley turned on Damage CTRL and took the WWE Women's Championship from her at WrestleMania XL on April 7, 2024, ending the 246-day reign - the only time Sky has dropped a world title by pinfall in a straight singles match.
The recurring early rival on two continents: Storm ended her inaugural SWA World Championship reign in July 2016 and beat her in the Mae Young Classic final at Evolution in October 2018 - the match WWE signed her off the back of.
The cash-in. Naomi took the Women's World Championship at Evolution on July 13, 2025 with the same briefcase mechanism Sky had used on Bianca Belair two years earlier - a loss with no rematch, because the title picture moved on without either of them.
Thin by design - the verified list is short, and nothing is added to pad it.
A playable fixture of the current WWE 2K series. Her exact debut entry - and whether early appearances were billed as Io Shirai - was not verified in this pass, so no year is claimed.
Her WWE introduction was itself a television product: the 2018 tournament run ended in the final at Evolution, WWE's first all-women pay-per-view.
Three consecutive Joshi Wrestler of the Year awards - the Japanese sports-press record of the Ace years. No memoir, documentary or scripted role could be verified, so none is listed.
The records, stated the way the sources state them - with the shared milestones marked as shared.
The WrestleMania 41 Night 2 triple threat with Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair, April 20, 2025, per Dave Meltzer's rating as reported by Wikipedia. She won it as champion. The milestone belongs to all three women; the victory is hers.
Stardom's first-ever Grand Slam, completed across its four championships, plus WWE's - Wikipedia lists her as the seventh WWE Women's Grand Slam and tenth Women's Triple Crown champion.
WWE Women's Championship, 246 days (August 5, 2023 - April 7, 2024); Women's World Championship, 132 days (March 3 - July 13, 2025). One won by cash-in, one lost to a cash-in.
Second reign, December 23, 2015 to June 21, 2017 - roughly eighteen months as the Ace of Stardom, after a first reign of 468 days.
Won June 27, 2026 at Night of Champions in Riyadh by pinning Women's World Champion Liv Morgan - a champion pinned clean in a non-title final, which is why the SummerSlam challenge followed automatically.
Entered No. 1 and lasted 1:06:45, breaking the women's longevity record - which was itself surpassed later the same night, per Wikipedia. Stated here with the caveat most retellings drop.
2015, 2016 and 2017 - the run no other wrestler of her generation matched.
No career win-loss total is published - none was verified. Her billed height and weight (5'1", 119 lb) are long-standing billing figures; WWE.com's profile was not harvested for vitals in this pass. Sources give her birthplace only as Japan, so nothing more precise appears here.
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WWE renamed her on the main-roster call-up in July 2022, when she debuted at SummerSlam as a founding member of Damage CTRL. “Io Shirai” was the Stardom ring name she had carried since 2011 and kept through four years of NXT — the new spelling kept the sound of her name while giving WWE a mark it owned. She was born Masami Odate; neither name is her legal one.
Yes — and she won it, as champion. The WrestleMania 41 Night 2 triple threat on April 20, 2025, against Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair for the Women's World Championship, was the first women's match in WWE rated five stars by Dave Meltzer, per Wikipedia. The milestone is shared by all three women; the result is not.
No. As of August 31, 2026 she holds no title. She earned a Women's World Championship match by pinning champion Liv Morgan in the Queen of the Ring final on June 27, but lost the SummerSlam Night 1 match on August 1 at 13:35 — she hurt her own knee driving Morgan into the ring post with a meteora, took interference from Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez, and was pinned after a Codebreaker and Ob-Liv-ion. Since then she has allied with Sol Ruca against The Judgment Day on Raw.
She was the Ace of Stardom: two World of Stardom Championship reigns — 468 days with ten defences, then eighteen months from December 2015 with a record fourteen — two Wonder of Stardom reigns including one with a record twelve defences, six Artist of Stardom trios titles, the inaugural SWA World Championship, the 2014 5STAR Grand Prix, the first Stardom Grand Slam ever completed, and Tokyo Sports’ Joshi Wrestler of the Year in 2015, 2016 and 2017.