GET IN THE RING: Right wrestling waifu, wrong knee.
A quickie update to the other day’s post about Asuka.
Kanako “Asuka” Urai posted a few updates, mostly uncaptioned, to her social media over the weekend following her knee surgery.
The first one was a self portrait on her Twitter account:
Kanako looks a little loopy from whatever painkillers she was given at the hospital, or at least tired and just waking up from the surgery - but is still lucid enough to give a traditional Japanese idol pose in her selfie.
The next pic, also on Twitter, sees her more alert and with a bouquet of get-well flowers sent by Nia Jax, with the caption “Thank you @LenaFanene”1. A nice gesture that reflects the general backstage camaraderie in the WWE women’s locker room.
And the next pic was of Kanako taking some post-surgery steps by way of using a walker:
The next post was on her Instagram and sees her on a wheelchair on a shuttle at whatever airport she was at, presumably to go back to her home in Las Vegas - which would suggest that the two previous videos she had posted were of her leaving the airport to head to whatever sports hospital she had gone to.
And it was the last two shots that made me have to go back to my previous entry and correct something I said - I thought the pic was of her right knee at first, only to realize that the pic had been taken from a different angle.
Notice that, save for in the introductory paragraph, I didn’t refer to Kanako by her ring name once. Right now, she has to concentrate on being Kanako Urai for awhile and get her knee back to 100% and be Asuka, The Empress of Tomorrow, again.
Hopefully, the social media posts will continue, because I’m going to miss seeing mai wrestling waifu otherwise.
Nia had changed her Twitter handle to her real name after she was first fired by the WWE (under Vince McMahon) a few years back.