AKIRA Opens Up About Masha Slamovich Domestic Abuse Situation

AKIRA spoke at length about the situation.

There’s an extensive interview with pro wrestler AKIRA that was conducted by Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling. He opened up about the situation involving his ex-significant other and fellow wrestler, Masha Slamovich.

In the fall of 2025, a friend of AKIRA’s posted screenshots and images of conversations between AKIRA and Slamovich. The individual included photos showing alleged domestic abuse by Slamovich towards AKIRA. Slamovich was subsequently pulled from independent bookings and appearances, in addition to being removed from the TNA Wrestling roster. Slamovich issued a statement about the abuse allegations.

During the interview, AKIRA said the public thinks he used his friend to filter out the information about Slamovich. He said he would never do something like that. AKIRA claims he did not know what happened until three hours after his friend went public with the information.

AKIRA went on to state that when one is the ex of someone popular, you’re going to be kept out to an extent. He said he was not looking for Slamovich to have a ‘come to Jesus moment,’ but wanted her to grow from what occurred between them.

AKIRA stated that he’s loyal to a fault and should have left the relationship a long time ago, but he felt cornered. He said his friend spoke up for him, although he was not looking for her to do that. He admitted that he still holds that against her, but he understands why she did what she did.

“It all goes towards that time in September when all that news came out, and I’ve spoken to wrestlers, who again, they come up to me and I guess maybe they’re projecting onto me, where they say, ‘Well, everyone thinks that you’re the one that put out that information, that you had a f*cking vendetta’ against my ex-partner, and I said, ‘No. Maybe that’s something you would do. But all I ever did was love that person,’ and I was going to just work through it. Now, mind you, was it my friend who — she rubbed people the wrong way because she’s very outspoken but she’s also a fan on Twitter. She’s my friend. I’m not a wrestler who’s gonna be like, I’m never gonna have friends outside of wrestling. I don’t f*cking like wrestlers because wrestlers are crazy, egotistical people. They really conflate themselves as being more popular than they actually are when wrestling is a niche of a niche. That was my friend who has been my friend for six years before then, and had been in my apartment, had helped take care of the dogs at the time when I also had the other dog with my ex-partner… People just think it was me, and I’m like, ‘No. I’m not an evil, spiteful dick.’ It broke my heart every time people would mention her, or I would see her. But I was gonna work through that sh*t. I was in Colorado teaching a seminar, and I woke up to it three hours after the fact, and it broke my world. I was having a panic attack. When I wrote that stuff on Twitter, I was sitting in front of my mom because I didn’t know what to say. I flew back and my mom was like, ‘Hey, do you wanna go out somewhere?’ I was like, ‘Yeah,’ and she sat and we spoke, and my mom and I, who we have never agreed really a day in my life. I’ve always been the first crazy child that has never wanted to fall in line. But we sat there and we spoke and I was like, ‘How do I say this?’ And I was telling her what I was saying and she helped me get my feelings in a way that was as empathic to the situation as possible, even though someone did wrong. But my friend, again, is very — she’s from Coney Island. I tell her she’s crazy and I tell her she’s dumb all the time and I tell her off all the time. People did not like her to begin with. They didn’t like her because she’s outspoken. She’s one of those outspoken people, has things to say and isn’t gonna say no with social media. Wrestlers love to run their mouths and parrot social campaigns to make themselves look good but can they actually look good without — can they look good when they get nothing to gain from it? She had nothing to gain from it. I was just sitting there f*cking miserable… Even then, I was trying to get more bookings, and you can imagine why. People love to talk. If you’re the ex of someone, who is also very popular, you’re gonna get kicked out. You’re gonna become a f*cking pariah, and when all that stuff happened, of course, it made me a pariah. Because these people don’t f*cking like her, and even though I’ve not done anything wrong to these people — I’m always very nice and very courteous. But apparently, people think it’s because I’m fake and I’m like, ‘I’m genuinely a nice and kind person.’ I love wrestling, I love the art form. But at the end of the day, I treat people the way I wanna be treated. I don’t treat people to try to get something out of them. As I’ve discussed this with people around because of her saying stuff and her demanding accountability, and her demanding and demanding and demanding, and which I told her, ‘Let’s just stop.’ I wanted to move on. I just wanted to get back to work. I wanted my ex-partner to… I don’t wanna say have a come to Jesus moment but I wanted my ex-partner to look at themselves and maybe grow from it. Even if you give a fake apology, and get back to work but, something where it’s accountability. I gave that person an out. I shouldn’t have because, again, my first partner, who has been going through her own mental health crisis for the longest time, I was very courteous to her. Maybe I shouldn’t have been as courteous but that’s just how I am. If I have loved you, I’m willing to give you that love that I would want from you. It’s a character role. Maybe that’s my Achilles’ heel. Maybe I should have been burned the bridges, f*ck everyone but I’m just not like that. I wasn’t raised like that. Just like people that can come at me and tweet at me and be like, ‘’You got beat by a woman.’ I’m like, ‘Do you want me to hit her back? Is that what you’re asking of me?’ I’m not afraid to talk about this because I’m like, I just don’t f*cking care anymore. I have nothing to hide about it.

You think I wanna hit someone like that that I’m supposed to be in love with? No. I don’t. So again, you can come at me and say — and you can harass me, call me gay, whatever the hell. You can say I’m a pussy because I let a woman hit me. Yeah, sorry, I was raised not to hit a woman. Even if I become a transwoman, I was raised not to hit a woman. I don’t care. I won’t hit someone else even if I’m in an argument with them because I am — I’m someone who I would rather speak things and talk things out… I was too loyal for my own f*cking good, where I will love you no matter what, and that was my own fault. I probably should have left a long time ago but I also felt cornered. I mean, all those things are out there and I don’t need to go over it. But, because of all that and because people don’t like her, my roommate, who is a friend, who stuck up for me when I didn’t want it and I still maybe hold it against her a little bit. But I understand why she did it because she saw her friend f*cking going through it, f*cking questioning why I wasn’t being booked more. I did all this cool sh*t in Japan that everyone was aware of. They were putting me in P.W.I. and all these things. Everyone’s talking about it. When I come back to America, zip, silent. Why do you think that is? The dots are there. It’s there if you wanna connect them but if you wanna ignore them like a lot of people do, when it’s convenient, that’s up to you.”

Slamovich is back in wrestling. The 27-year-old has been competing in Japan. She’s done four independent shows in the USA since returning.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.