She is a professional wrestler who is best known for being signed with WWE Network and appears under the SmackDown brand in her ring name “Asuka.” At present, she is the SmackDown Women’s Champion. Apart from that, she also is a businesswoman, model, video game journalist, and graphic designer.
Asuka is best known by the stage name “Asuka” as the titleholder of the first Women’s Royal Rumble match and was able to earn the name of “Longest undefeated streak in WWE history.”
Asuka is Japanese by nationality who was born as Kanako Urai in 1981 and her place of birth is in Osaka, Osaka, Japan. Asuka is believed to have been grown up in her home country with her parents. Information regarding her parents is still not revealed yet. Her religion is not known yet and her zodiac sign is Libra. She was an active child with a deep interest in wrestling and sports from an early age. She was a student at the Osaka University of Arts Junior College from where she completed her graduation. She has a sports background in figure skating as well as badminton before entering into the world of wrestling.
Asuka initially worked as a contributor for XBOX magazine and also used to work for Nintendo DS as a graphic designer. On June 16, 2004, Asuka made her debut in the professional wrestling world appearing in AtoZ under the ring name Kana. Asuka wrestled there for a couple of years but has to get retired because of a chronic nephritis injury on March 19, 2006. She made her comeback as a freelance wrestler on September 22, 2007, playing for various promotions including NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling, Ice Ribbon, Pro Wrestling Zero1, JWP Joshi Puroresu, and Pro Wrestling Wave.
On October 10, 2009, she turned as the winner of the NEO Tag Team Championship sharing with Takahashi. After that, Asuka went for fighting on various promotions like Toryumon Mexico’s DragonMania VII, DDT Pro-Wrestling promotion, Smash promotion, Pro Wrestling Noah and much more. On September 23, 2015, she made her debut appearance and got the win from her debut match on October 7 at NXT TakeOver: Respect against Dana. She continued to earn victories in her account and also turned as the main roster performer Cameron. Asuka in 2016, earned the NXT Women’s Championship which she had to relinquish at the August 24 NXT tapings due to the breaking of her right collarbone.
Asuka made her return to WWE to the RAW brand. Her signing with the brand was revealed on September 11, 2017, She became the winner of the SmackDown Women’s Championship in a match against Lynch and Flair who were pushed off a ladder by Ronda Rousey. In January 2019. Asuka and Becky were set for a title match at the Royal Rumble on which she retained her title through submission making her women's champion.
Asuka has achieved a huge collection of honors and awards so far some of them are: Asuka was named as one of the greatest champions in WWE history as she held the NXT women's championship for 523 days in 2016. She is champion of several titles: Smash Diva Championship (2 times), Smash Diva Championship Tournament (2011), Ranked No. 5 in the Top 10 Women's Wrestlers of the year in 2018[315][316] WWE, WWE SmackDown Women's Championship (1 time), Mixed Match Challenge (Season 1) – with The Miz, Women's Royal Rumble (2018), NXT Year-End Award (3 times), Female Competitor of the Year (2016, 2017), Overall Competitor of the Year (2017) and many more.
WWE wrestler Asuka has an estimated net worth of 1 million USD. Her international earning is net $169.8 million. She mainly earns from her wrestling career. Apart from that, she has worked as a graphic designer and a writer for Xbox Magazine. Also, shed to own a hair salon which was called “Another Heaven in Yokohama.” she has also done an endorsement for Microsoft.
Asuka currently resides in Orlando, Florida, the United States of America far from her native land and family. She isn’t married yet and Asuka has never let the media to know about her affairs and relationship history. When Asuka would open the details of her love life, we would let you know.
Asuka has a height of 5 feet and 3 inches (1.6 m). Her weight is 62 kilograms. She has brown eyes and dark color hair but she usually dyes her hair with blue. Her body measurement is 36-32-36 inches. She has a straight sexual orientation.
The WWE star, Asuka is available on Instagram with profile id @wwe_asuka and on Twitter, @WWEAsuka where she has retained more than 1.3 million and 423k followers respectively. Her official Facebook page has id @AsukaLock where she is active with more than 288k followers.