Su Tanaka

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**Su Tanaka** (田中巣, *Tanaka Sū*, March 4, 1995) is a Japanese professional wrestler working for AWA. She's one part of Pastel Sky alongside Yuri Hana, one of the longest lasting tag teams in joshi puroresu.

Tanaka is AWA's first ever champion, being the first AWA All-Star Champion and being the first and only to capture it twice.

## Personal life

She practiced Aikido since she was 6 years old, reaching the 1st *kyū*. She states she couldn't make it to 1st-dan because of age restrictions. She had to drop Aikido to start practising wrestling, as she was allowed to practice only one after-school activity. On her early days, she wanted to be an idol, but had to choose between fighting and singing for the same activity restrictions.

She's a great fan of Megumi Kudo, saying "it's a shame she retired when she was 3", and stated that she wants to compete in one of the brutal matches like the ones she had. She's a close friend to Yuri Hana, Ai Tan, and Larissa Smooth.

Tanaka mentioned she wanted to change her name spelling to hiragana at some point, but then her name become so recognizable that she decided to keep her name in the katakana system.

## Professional wrestling career

Tanaka was recruited by fellow wrestler SACHI, who is Rei Kitozon's daughter and was  Su's schoolmate, saw her practising *ukemi* in the school's gym. She began her training at the JPW Dojo and, due to her Aikido abilities, was able to debut months later. She's one of Yuri Tansai's first trainees.

She made her debut on February 20, 2010 in a tag team match in wich she teamed with Yuri Tansai against SACHI and Yumi Nakamura. Tanaka stated that she had several attending problems, and even couldn't make it to two matches because of school pressure and couldn't have an stable wrestling career until graduating from school 3 years later.

Thanks to her flashiness, she became a recognizable name in the Japanese wrestling scene. She traveled arround the whole island of Japan, woking for different promotions such as JPW's parent company PWW, 5SJP, and even Amori's AEP. She held 6 World Championships, 2 Joshi Championships, and 4 Tag Team Championships, 3 of them alongside Tansai, in only 8 years.

Her most notable matches were against Yuri Tansai, Marissa Smooth, and Natsu Rio.

### AWA

In 2017, she toured to USA for one month, taking part in AWA: Blue Blood in a match against Marissa Smooth, wich she won.

In 2018, Tanaka became one of the first signees of AWA, and had her debut in the semifinals of the AWA Allstar Championship tournament against Frankie Jenkins. She advanced to the finals, going trough Jordan Danger to become the first AWA Allstar Champion, and the first champion in the company.

In AWA's first Big Event, Golden Stars, she successfully defended the championship in a Fatal-4-Way against the whole tournament bracket.

In AWA: The Third she defended the title in a Battle Royal.

She opened the first AWA: Weekly Report celebrating her championship reign until Frankie Jenkins, Jordan Danger, and Rubie Rose spoiled the party, claiming to be rady to take the chapionship out of her hands. She finally chose Rose as her challenger and successfully beat her in AWA: New Years Eve to retain the championship. She also had appeared at the start of the show, when Eve appeared to present herself, wich infuriated Jordan Danger, Eve's cousin.

Danger earned her shot for the Allstar Championship and finally managed to capture it in AWA: Kallisti. Su didn't had her rematch and had to win her chance at the championship in AWA: Ring Heroines. She successfully defended her title shot against a recently recovered Juni D'Mage at AWA: Eight Woman Mayhem and she defeated Jordan Danger at the first AWA: Wrestlepalooza to become the first Allstar to hold the Allstar Championship once.