AEW Women’s World Champion Hikaru Shida will never forget the immense help her ‘teacher’ Asuka bestowed upon her early in her career.
Speaking with Denise Salcedo, Shida addressed her relationship with Asuka. She said,
“For now, we don’t talk, but I had been freelance after six years, I started wrestling and when I became freelance, Kana-san told me many things, like how I negotiate with the companies and how I wrestle as [a] freelancer.
“She was always like a teacher for me. I don’t know how she feels, but for me, she was kind of a teacher, especially after I became a freelance because she was also freelance. So, she told me a lot of things. And after she came to the U.S., actually we [didn’t] talk, maybe only one or two times. So, we don’t talk and we don’t text each other, but still, I learned so many things.”
“Even [though] we don’t talk, she’s [still] my teacher [on] how I behave as a champion and how we [succeed] in other countries. I absolutely respect her even if we don’t talk. I’m so happy she is here and she’s [succeeded] a lot.”
Shida recently captured the AEW Women’s World Championship for the second time in her career and will defend the gold at AEW All In 2023 later this month.
