Eimi Gloria Matsudo[6][7][8] was born in London[9] on 21 February 1994,[1] the daughter of a Japanese mother and Italian father. When she was one year old, the family moved to Japan, where she was raised in Chiba Prefecture. She worked in her parents' Italian restaurant[10] before training as a professional wrestler with Ice Ribbon in 2017.[9] She was bullied as a child from elementary school to junior high due to her mixed race background, prompting her parents to put her in a private high school.[11][12]
Matsudo debuted under the ring nameGiulia in a tag team match at New Ice Ribbon #845, an event promoted by Ice Ribbon on 29 October 2017, teaming with Takako Inoue in a loss to Nao Date and Satsuki Totoro.[13] In November, she entered the Young Ice Tournament where she was eliminated by Totoro in the first round.[14] In April 2018, she wrestled Ice Ribbon's ace, Tsukasa Fujimoto, for the first time, losing in 39 seconds.[15] On 24 September, Giulia got her first singles victory when she defeated Asahi.[16] In the latter part of the year, Giulia began a feud with Tequila Saya, which eventually bought in male wrestlers Shinya Aoki and Hideki Suzuki, who acted as mentors for the female wrestlers and taught them new moves throughout their feud.[citation needed] After a match on 31 December where Tequila Saya and Hideki Suzuki were defeated by Giulia and Shinya Aoki, Giulia and Saya reconciled and formed a tag team known as Burning Raw.[17] At the end of the year, she was presented with Ice Ribbon's New Face award, the equivalent of winning rookie of the year.[citation needed] On 27 January 2019, Burning Raw unsuccessfully challenged Kyuri and Maika Ozaki for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship.[18] After 17 February, Giulia announced she would be taking a month off from wrestling due to nerve damage in her hip.[citation needed] After returning, she began a feud with Maya Yukihi, which culminated in Giulia unsuccessfully challenging for the ICE Cross Infinity Championship on 25 May.[19] In July, Burning Raw defeated Maya Yukihi and Risa Sera to win the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship.[20] After 3 months as champions, Burning Raw lost the titles back to Yukihi and Sera on 23 September.[21] On 13 October, Giulia announced she would be leaving Ice Ribbon.[22][23]
On 14 October 2019, Giulia announced that she had signed with World Wonder Ring Stardom.[9] On 8 December, she made her in-ring debut on Stardom where she defeated Hazuki.[29]
On 3 March 2021, at All Star Dream Cinderella, Giulia was defeated by Tam Nakano in a hair vs. hair match for the Wonder of Stardom Championship, ending her reign at 220 days. Post-match, she had her head partially shaved in the ring, with the rest cut off backstage.[41] At Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 on 4 April, Giulia teamed up with Syuri to win the Goddesses of Stardom Championship from fellow Donna Del Mondo members Maika and Himeka after an inter-stable clash. Giulia and Syuri would later name their tag team Alto Livello Kabaliwan, often shortened to ALK, meaning High Level Madness.[42] Giulia made it to the second round of the 2021 Cinderella Tournament on 14 May, where she lost to Maika.[43] At Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 in Summer on 4 July, ALK successfully defended their Goddesses of Stardom Championship against Stars (Mayu Iwatani and Koguma).[44] Giulia took part in the 2021 5 Star Grand Prix, competing in the Red Stars block, but pulled out of the tournament after three matches due to dealing with several injuries.[45] She made her in-ring return on 29 December at Dream Queendom where she successfully picked up a victory against Konami, who was departing from Stardom.[46][47]
On 3 January 2022, Giulia revealed Thekla from Ice Ribbon and Mirai from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling as the two masked superstars who kept attacking various other wrestlers at the end of 2021. All three of them teamed up to defeat Cosmic Angels (Tam Nakano, Mai Sakurai and Unagi Sayaka) in a six-woman tag team match.[48] At Nagoya Golden Fight on 29 January, Giulia battled Mayu Iwatani into a time-limit draw in a number one contendership match for the World of Stardom Championship, which awarded both of them an opportunity to challenge for the championship at World Climax 2022.[49] On the first night of the World Climax 2022 from March 26, Giulia unsuccessfully challenged Syuri for the World of Stardom Championship. After their match, Syuri announced she will leave Donna Del Mondo to walk on her path and form another stable, later revealed to be God's Eye.[50] On the second night from March 27, Giulia teamed up with Maika, Himeka and Thekla to take out Prominence's Risa Sera, Suzu Suzuki, Akane Fujita and Mochi Miyagi, with whom all the Donna Del Mondo members had been in a feud. However, Suzu Suzuki stated that she was not finished with Giulia despite her unit's loss, which meant that the feud was still standing.[51] At the 2022 Cinderella Tournament, Giulia reached the second rounds on 10 April, where she lost to Koguma.[52] At Flashing Champions on 28 May, Giulia teamed up with Mai Sakurai to unsuccessfully face FWC for the Goddesses of Stardom Championship.[53] At Fight in the Top on 26 June, Giulia, Maika, and Mai Sakurai unsuccessfully challenged Oedo Tai (Saki Kashima, Momo Watanabe and Starlight Kid), and God's Eye (Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei) in a three-way match for the Artist of Stardom Championship.[54] Giulia was announced compete in the 2022 5 Star Grand Prix on 30 July.[55] She won the whole competition on the last day of the tournament from October 1 by defeating Tam Nakano in the finals.[56] On 29 December at Dream Queendom 2, Giulia defeated Syuri to win the World of Stardom Championship for the first time in her career.[57]
On 4 February 2023, at Stardom Supreme Fight, Giulia had her first successful title defense of the World of Stardom Championship by defeating Suzu Suzuki.[58][59] On 4 March, Giulia's second title defense, against Maya Yukihi, ended in a double countout.[60] It was later reported that the reason for the match ending in a double countout was due to real-life heat between the two.[61] On 23 April at All Star Grand Queendom, Giulia lost the title to Tam Nakano, ending her reign at 115 days.[62] On 27 May, at Flashing Champions, Giulia, Mai Sakurai and Thekla, together known as the Baribari Bombers, defeated the Artist of Stardom Champions REStart (Kairi, Natsupoi and Saori Anou) to win the titles.[63]
At New Years Stars 2024 on 3 January 2024, Baribari Bombers participated in the 2024 Triangle Derby. After reaching the finals and deciding to defend the Artist of Stardom Championship, they lost the match and titles to Abarenbo GE.[64]
On 5 April 2024, Giulia was spotted taking photos with fans at the WWE World convention. The next day, it was rumored that Giulia had signed with WWE and would start in their developmental brandNXT once she was done with all of her planned appearances in Japan.[74] At NXT Stand & Deliver she was shown in the crowd sitting with Vice President of Global Talent Development William Regal and Rossy Ogawa. On 11 April, in an interview with Tokyo Sport, Giulia said she could not confirm any reports but would make an announcement "in the not too distant future".[75] On 1 September, Giulia made her official debut at NXT No Mercy, confronting NXT Women's ChampionRoxanne Perez after Perez's successful defense of the title.[76] She made her WWE in-ring debut on the 10 September episode of NXT, where she defeated Chelsea Green.[77][78] At NXT's CW premier on October 1, Giulia failed to win the title from Perez after interference from the returning Cora Jade.[79] At Week 2 of NXT's CW premiere on October 8, Giulia aligned herself with former rival Stephanie Vaquer to take out Perez and Jade.[80] On the 15 October episode of NXT, Giulia saved Vaquer from a beatdown by Perez and Jade after Vaquer's in-ring debut, and it was later announced that the four will take on each other in a tag team match at Halloween Havoc, which they won.[81][82]
On 15 April 2024, Rossy Ogawa held a press conference to announce his new promotion Dream Star Fighting Marigold, with Giulia being one of the initial members of the roster.[83][84][85][86] On 20 May, she participated in the main event of Marigold's debut production, Marigold Fields Forever, tag-teaming with Utami Hayashishita in a losing effort against Sareee and Bozilla. At the end of the event, Giulia and Sareee were scheduled for a singles match at Marigold Summer Destiny on 13 July 2024.[87] However, the next day, it was announced by Marigold that Giulia had suffered a wrist fracture, with her near-term matches cancelled, and putting her Marigold Summer Destiny match against Sareee for the inaugural Marigold World Championship in doubt. In the end, the bout took place, with Giulia coming unsuccessful.[88] Giulia then announced that her final match for Marigold before moving to WWE would be on 19 August against Mai Sakurai at Marigold Summer Gold Shine 2024.[89]
During her time in Stardom, Giulia was nicknamed "Beautiful Madness".[90] One of her signature wrestling maneuvers is a variation of the scissored armbar crossface, which she calls simply Bianca.[90]
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