Mariah May has taken STARDOM by storm over the past month after debuting alongside Mina Shirakawa and Xia Brookside as a member of the Club Venus trio. She's adapted quickly to the roster and has shown real potential every time she's stepped in the ring. The trio made their debut in the inaugural Triangle Derby trios tournament and finished with eight points, good enough to keep them in the running as the tournament continues.
May, who had never been to Japan prior to this tour with STARDOM, is the first new gaijin talent that STARDOM has had on their roster since the beginning of 2020.
Speaking to Fightful's Scott Edwards, May explained how honored she is to be the first new talent over and how she's been wanting to joining STARDOM for a while now.
"It’s a big honor," May said. "Like I said, I wanted to do STARDOM for a really long time. When I started wrestling, I started trying to watch more and more different wrestling and I remember thinking when I found STARDOM, I was like, ‘This is where I need to be. This is how I need to wrestle.’ You’re watching it and you’re trying to learn that style, but obviously, it’s different, trying to do in UK and Europe. I’m like, ‘Okay, I need to go there. I need to train there. I need to wrestle these people.’ They’re the best wrestlers in the world.
"I wanted it for so long and then the pandemic happened. I’m still really, really new when the pandemic happened. I was so far away from it. Then after the pandemic that was my number one thing, ‘I need to go to STARDOM.’ I just asked everyone, ‘How, how, how?’ Obviously, I was tag partners with Zoe, who’s been to STARDOM quite a bit, and asking so many people I know, ‘How can I get to Japan? How can I get to STARDOM?’ Everyone’s like, ‘I’m not sure because of the pandemic.’ I’ve had conversations that are like, ‘We want to bring you over, but we can’t because of the lockdowns and all the different rules.’"
The fears of joining a new promotion are obvious but doing so in a country you've never been to can be an extra level of terror. After all the limitations Japan had and STARDOM not having many international talents over except for a select few, it is certainly understandable from the Club Venus member's point of view.
May explained how she didn't feel like it was going to be real until she actually got there.
"It felt so far away, but I just held onto it," May said. "I was like, ‘I’m gonna get there. I’m gonna get there.’ I get there and it kind of unexpectedly happened. They offered a tour and it happened, I think, at a perfect time when I needed it. I was really looking for that thing in wrestling and then it happened. I didn’t want to believe it until I literally stepped off the plane was how uncertain I felt about everything ‘cause of how the whole pandemic threw everything off. The rules always change and every country is so different. So I was like, ‘Until my VISAs in my hand, I step off that plane, I’m not gonna get excited.’ I just felt like it wasn’t real."
Make sure to check out the full interview with Mariah May here.
You can see May and the rest of the STARDOM roster in action on Stardom World.
You can follow STARDOM on Twitter at their official account (@wwr_stardom) and their official English account (@we_are_stardom) to stay up-to-date with the promotion.
