Io Shirai Wants Matches With Top WWE Stars, Interested In Main Roster Move

[Buffy]

WWE NXT Superstar Io Shirai says she’s interested in moving to the main roster, and also wants a rematch with Sasha Banks, and is interested in facing Bayley as well.

Shirai recently spoke with Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated and was asked about possibly moving to RAW or SmackDown, and if there’s someone she would really like to work with on the main roster.


“Of course, I would be open to a move to SmackDown or Raw,” Shirai said. “The opportunity would present new goals and encounters different from what I have achieved and experienced in NXT.


“I would like a rematch with Sasha Banks as soon as possible. I also heard Bayley say she wanted to have a match with me, and I would definitely relish my first confrontation with her. If it is a title match, even better.”

Shirai, then the NXT Women’s Champion, defeated Banks in a singles match at the NXT Great American Bash Night 1 event on July 1, 2020. They also locked up at the 2019 Survivor Series pay-per-view as Team NXT (Shirai, Bianca Belair, Candice LeRae, Rhea Ripley, Toni Storm) defeated Team RAW (Charlotte Flair, Asuka, Natalya, Kairi Sane, Sarah Logan) and Team SmackDown (Banks, Carmella, Dana Brooke, Lacey Evans, Nikki A.S.H.) in a 5-on-5-on-5 Traditional Elimination Match. Shirai, LeRae and Ripley were the Survivors for Team NXT that night.

Banks, Bayley and other main roster Superstars have expressed the desire to one day do battle with Shirai in the squared circle.

Shirai was also asked what she’s learned most so far about her WWE experience.

“I learned with my own eyes that the world’s top performers within sports entertainment are created on a scale much larger than I expected,” she responded.

Shirai will be in action at Sunday’s NXT WarGames event, teaming up with Cora Jade, Raquel Gonzalez and Kay Lee Ray to face Dakota Kai, NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions Jacy Jayne and Gigi Dolin, and NXT Women’s Champion Mandy Rose in the Women’s WarGames Match.

Stay tuned for more.

Source: https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2...top-wwe-stars-interested-in-main-roster-move/

I would love to see a rematch with Sasha Banks and her. I also would love to see her tear it up with Asuka, Bianca, Becky and Bayley.

 

[Chris]

I want them too

 

[Hoss]

Well she's better than... shit... damn near every female talent they have as it is She should be on the main roster, and as one of the biggest parts of the devision at that.

 

[Dale]

Crazy how many great options there are for her, i'm all for it.

 

[Marty McFourth]

Io is awesome, definitely be interested to see what she could cook up with some main roster talent. A lot of good match-ups.

 

[Barry Poppins]

 

[Kairi HoHo]

Past due for Io to be on the Main Roster by now WWE stop pussy footing around. As much as I love to see some of those future Matches in the back of my mind I'm fearing they are going to treat her like they did with Kairi and Asuka over time and that is the last thing I wanna see in her future. If so let her go now and don't make me go through that again so she can have bangers with so many ladies in Joshi right now. Utami vs Io

 

[Messiah]

Shirai is too good for the man roster honestly. There's nobody there that deserves to wrestle her. She would probably be completely wasted to or released within a month.. Although I would LOVE to see Io Shirai wrestle elsewhere, I want her to do it on her own terms and not fired due to "budget cuts".

 

[Hoss]

Shirai is too good for the man roster honestly. There's nobody there that deserves to wrestle her. She would probably be completely wasted to or released within a month.. Although I would LOVE to see Io Shirai wrestle elsewhere, I want her to do it on her own terms and not fired due to "budget cuts".

With the direction NXT 2.0 is taking I don't see many people there that "deserve" to wrestle her over the likes of Charlotte, Asuka, Sasha, Bayley, Rhea, Nikki, Shotzi, etc.

 

[Messiah]

With the direction NXT 2.0 is taking I don't see many people there that "deserve" to wrestle her over the likes of Charlotte, Asuka, Sasha, Bayley, Rhea, Nikki, Shotzi, etc.

No, this company is not for her anymore. She's way too talented for this.. but it's her choice what to do.

 

[Y2Jayne]

She has her own following in NXT but she will be dead in the water on the main roster; she just doesn't have the mic skills to get everyone behind her.

 

[Comrade Khan]

I'd rather her go elsewhere than rot in the main roster if I'm being 100. No guarantee she even gets any of those matches and if Asuka is the best they've ever booked an Asian female I very much doubt she's booked better, which worries the fuck out of me. She's better off going back to stardom or else where , she's never ever ever getting a real push on main roster w Bruce n co back I charge. Sorry to sound negative but it's kind of the truth

 

[Comrade Khan]

Just to add to my point: try to remember her bring called up means 1 of 2 things:
Have to sit through RAW
Or
Hope somehow they slide her in the barely 20 minutes of wrestling on SDL between Roman's entrance and promos that take half the entire show. Ask Toni storm etc how often they get tv time.

Not to mention if they were interested in shirai she'd have been called up. The called up fucking Alliya before her. Vince doesn't give a fuck about Io .

These are not what I personally would want from a performer I love

 

[TigerDriver91]

She's got no business being in the current NXT and unfortunately I doubt good things will happen to her on Raw or SD. Financially it would probably be better for her but from the fan perspective I want to see her out of WWE (I think her current deal is up soon). I would love to see her as a freelancer or sign with a promotion that allows her to take other bookings too. She is good enough to demand the top spot in any women's division in the world.

 

[OMB]

Io & Asuka will be tag champs by end of 2023