Yuki Kamifuku Opens Up About Decision To Retire, Says She’s Scared Of Life After Wrestling

Yuki Kamifuku is ready to discover the next version of herself.

Over the summer, Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling hosted a press conference to break the news that Yuki Kamifuku would be retiring from in-ring competition.

She is currently on her retirement tour, and her final match is taking place on December 26th at Korakuen Hall.

Kamifuku spoke to ENCOUNT about the decision to step away from the ring and said she’s been thinking about it since May 2026. As of the interview, she had no regrets about her choice.

“I started thinking about retirement around the beginning or middle of May this year, around the same time as deciding to challenge (Yuki) Arai. The peak was… just a hunch. It’s just like playing slot machines. If I keep going, I might win, or everything might fall apart… So right now, I’m going all in. I guess I’ll find out if this decision was the right one on the day I retire,” she laughed. “Not just today or yesterday, but for a long time now, I’ve been giving it my all against Tokyo Joshi, ready to quit at any moment… so that even if I’m told tomorrow, ‘You’re fired,’ I’d be prepared. I think deciding when it’s a good time to stop or how long I can keep going is based on my own intuition, so personally, I feel like this is about right. I have absolutely no regrets. I’m going to quit someday anyway, so I truly believe that if I’m going to quit, now is the best time to do it. I think I had a desire to have someone say, ‘That was a cool way for her to quit…’ That’s why I’m quitting at my peak, so the timing just happened to be right now.”

As for her final match, she dove into why she doesn’t want to have a singles bout. She added that she does want to choose who’s involved in her final match.

“Since it’s a farewell to Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling, I’d like it to be really simple—just Tokyo Joshi as usual. If I were to be picky, I don’t want to have a singles match (laughs), but I would like to decide the match myself. Just like always, I won’t compromise my principles or tell lies—I’ll remain a member of the team working hard alongside everyone else. So, I hope to help spread the word about Tokyo Joshi right up until the very end, and I truly want people to think, ‘I’m glad you were here,’ and I want to be that kind of person.”

To close out the chat, Kamifuku was asked to give some early departing words. She said she’s scared of life after wrestling, but she can’t discover the next version of herself unless she steps away from the ring.

“(Right now) I’m scared, of course—I mean, what about my income? I’ll lose the identity I’ve built as a pro wrestler, and I’ll no longer have that steady paycheck. I won’t be able to see my friends, or rely on the people I’ve depended on—there are plenty of things like that. But if I don’t quit, I’ll never discover the next version of myself. I’m the kind of person who can only do one thing at a time, so with Tokyo Joshi, I have to draw a line under it before I can move on to the next thing. Even if my life starts over with part-time jobs, I think I’ll be able to pull through as long as I have the courage to quit. No, seriously, I have no plan at all,” she laughed.

Kamifuku is 33 years old and has been with TJPW since the beginning of her in-ring career in 2017. She is a former International Princess Champion and Princess Tag Team Champion in the promotion.