Chihiro Hashimoto

[Grimmas]

Kadaveri:

Debuted in 2015, by 2017 had succeeded Meiko Satomura as the top star of Sendai Girls and still holds that position as of 2025. She has an amateur background and incorporates those skills into her pro-wrestling about as well as anyone in her era. She tremendous raw power/strength that makes her suplexes look especially damaging. In 2023-24 she's been out of the main title picture for a while, her tag team with Yuu (Team 200kg) is one of the best tag teams in the scene, and Chihiro is definitely the better of the two.

vs. Meiko Satomura - Sendai Girls 9/24/17

vs. Sareee - Sendai Girls 6/8/19

vs. Mei Hoshizuki - Marvelous 8/20/21

vs. MIRAI - Stardom 2/4/23

w/ Yuu vs. Mio Momono & Yurika Oka - Sendai Girls 2/11/24

[Ma Stump Puller]

Kinda shocking that it's taken this long for her to get nominated, you could go all the way back to her earlier years and still find great showings aplenty.

Kada makes the case for her well enough, my only real complaint is that sometimes she can be a bit too derivative with the boring ahh grappling sequences, especially when she's not someone who has any conclusive submission finishes so it almost always feels like padding. Other than that? Pretty damn great, shockingly effective at getting less than impressive acts over to boot which is always a soft spot for me.

 

 

 

[Luna_Bourke]

Yeah, you are right about the submission thing, am bad about remembering finishers, but she could do with a big submission or two.

 

I do absolutely love a lot of her performances, would need to go back to her older work but she is one of my favourite workers right now, so she deserves a shout.

[Tetsujin]

She's one of those few wrestlers I can say I don't know why she doesn't click for me. I know she's good, I can see that. I can watch a match of her and consider it pretty good, great even. But she leaves me feeling cold. She never resonates with me. I don't know why. Maybe she's too generic. Maybe some guys like Syuri, Meiko, Sareee, Shirai or even current Aja do her stuff much better than her.

[tactician]

She's great and has one of the best powerhouse approaches I've seen of any modern wrestler. Doesn't pull any punches, more often than not leveraging her weight and grappling skill to oppressively control her matches to a riveting degree. Has a patient cadence to when she chooses to sell especially against an underdog. I just don't think she has the body of work for me to rate her on an all-time level and in many of her biggest spots, she defers to a generic 50/50 strike exchange-laden and robotic faux fighting spirit type of match that strips any substance away from her wrestling. It's such a bizarre contrast because when I enjoy her, her matches come across as incredibly cerebral.