Mariah May On Her Reaction To Joining STARDOM Roster: ‘It’s a Big Honor’

Mariah May is the first foreign-born member of the STARDOM roster in a few years, and she recently reflected on getting the spot and more. May spoke with Fightful for a new interview, and you can check out some highlights below:

On being the first new gaijin talent in the company since 2020: “It’s a big honor. Like I said, I wanted to do STARDOM for a really long time. When I started wrestling, I started trying to watch more and more different wrestling and I remember thinking when I found STARDOM, I was like, ‘This is where I need to be. This is how I need to wrestle.’ You’re watching it and you’re trying to learn that style, but obviously, it’s different, trying to do in UK and Europe. I’m like, ‘Okay, I need to go there. I need to train there. I need to wrestle these people.’ They’re the best wrestlers in the world.

“I wanted it for so long and then the pandemic happened. I’m still really, really new when the pandemic happened. I was so far away from it. Then after the pandemic that was my number one thing, ‘I need to go to STARDOM.’ I just asked everyone, ‘How, how, how?’ Obviously, I was tag partners with Zoe, who’s been to STARDOM quite a bit, and asking so many people I know, ‘How can I get to Japan? How can I get to STARDOM?’ Everyone’s like, ‘I’m not sure because of the pandemic.’ I’ve had conversations that are like, ‘We want to bring you over, but we can’t because of the lockdowns and all the different rules.’”

On her reaction to getting a spot in the company: “It felt so far away, but I just held onto it. I was like, ‘I’m gonna get there. I’m gonna get there.’ I get there and it kind of unexpectedly happened. They offered a tour and it happened, I think, at a perfect time when I needed it. I was really looking for that thing in wrestling and then it happened. I didn’t want to believe it until I literally stepped off the plane was how uncertain I felt about everything ‘cause of how the whole pandemic threw everything off. The rules always change and every country is so different. So I was like, ‘Until my VISAs in my hand, I step off that plane, I’m not gonna get excited.’ I just felt like it wasn’t real.”