Tokyo Sports interviewed Meiko Satomura today, revealing that she would be one of the 32 participants in WWE’s Mae Young Classic II tournament which is set to take place next month.

Regarding her participation in this year’s Mae Young Classic Meiko Satomura told Tokyo Sports that she was first contacted by WWE by e-mail on 2011 around the time of the big Tokyo earthquake, but nothing came to fruition because she was struggling with her promotion Sendai Girls

This year during her excursion to England she got to wrestle WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne and also won the Fight Club Pro Title and WWE officials were overwhelmed with her performance which led to Satomura being brought in for the tournament this year.

A living legend in the Far East, Satomura began training for the ring in 1994 at age 14. She made her professional debut the following year and stands as one of the few active competitors whose origin dates to Japan’s thunderous women’s wrestling boom in the 1990s. Viewed as a top prospect from day one, Satomura even competed in WCW early in her career. Mentored by Chigusa Nagayo (one-half of the famous Crush Girls tag team), she also trained under catch-wrestling icon Billy Robinson.

Known for her debilitating Death Valley Bomb and explosive Scorpion Rising axe kick, Satomura is a master of Joshi Strong Style (the hard-hitting in-ring style associated with Japanese female wrestlers). As the founder of Sendai Girls Pro Wrestling, she has been a formidable advocate for women’s wrestling.