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Masami Odate is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Iyo Sky. She is a member of Damage CTRL.

By Niranjan Shivalkar | Jun 15, 2023 | 3 Min Read

Masami Odate is a Japanese professional wrestler. Odate is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Iyo Sky. She is a member of Damage CTRL and former two-time WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions with fellow stablemate Dakota Kai. She previously wrestled in WWE’s developmental brand NXT under the ring name Io Shirai, where she was a former NXT Women’s Champion and NXT Women’s Tag Team Champion. Sky is also known for her time in World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom), where she was a former two-time Wonder of Stardom Champion, six-time Artist of Stardom Champion, two-time World of Stardom Champion, the inaugural SWA World Champion, one-time Goddess of Stardom Champion.

Early Career

Shirai and Mio made their debuts for one of Japan’s largest professional wrestling promotions, All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), wrestling in a match, where they defeated the team of Kyoko Kimura and Mikado. The Shirais also made several appearances for another large promotion not usually known for female wrestling, Pro Wrestling Zero1. The Shirai sisters won their first championship in a tournament final to become the first Totally Lethal Wrestling World Young Women’s Tag Team Champions. In 2010, Shirai traveled to Mexico, where she entered a local wrestling school to undergo further training. Shirai, working under the ring name Biba Kasai, made her debut for International Wrestling Revolution Group.

After leaving Triple Tails, Shirai, though still billed as a freelancer, effectively made World Wonder Ring Stardom her new home promotion, making her debut in 2011. Shirai defeated Meiko Satomura to become the first two-time World of Stardom Champion. Stardom announced Shirai’s departure after her last match on June 10. Shirai wrestled her final matches for Stardom on June 10 taking part of a ten-match one-minute time limit series against members of the Stardom roster that ended in one win and one loss.

NXT

Shirai made her debut match on the December 19 episode of NXT, where she teamed with Kai and they defeated Duke and Shafir in a tag team match, and because of her win, a week later, Shirai competed in a fatal four-way match to determine the number one contender for the NXT Women’s Championship. Shortly after, with Kai sidelined with an injury, Shirai continued to team with Sane, forming a tag team known as “The Sky Pirates”. Following Sane’s move to the main roster, and the disbanding of The Sky Pirates.

Shirai continued her feud with Baszler, Duke and Shafir as the three continuously attacked her. She entered a storyline with both Flair and Ripley (whom Flair defeated to win the title at WrestleMania 36), which led to a triple threat match at TakeOver: In Your House. At the event, on June 7, Shirai defeated both Flair and Ripley to win the NXT Women’s Championship, marking her first title win in WWE. Shirai made her return from injury at SummerSlam alongside Bayley and Dakota Kai, with the three being allies and confronting Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair. Shirai was presented under the new ring name Iyo Sky and joined the Raw brand as a heel.

Who is IYO Sky dating?

Masami Odate, also known as Iyo Sky, has had relationships with fellow professional wrestlers in the past. She once shared a home in Koto, Tokyo, with Kazushige Nosawa, with whom she had been in a relationship. But after a few months, their romance came to an end. Iyo Sky started dating NJPW wrestler Takaaki Watanabe aka Evil after her romance with Nosawa ended. Currently, they are engaged. Evil formerly held the title of heavyweight in the IWGP. It’s important to note that Iyo Sky previously dated Nosawa Rongai, another professional wrestler, before beginning her relationship with Kazushige Nosawa. The wrestler is not, however, married.