Giulia

Eimi Gloria Matsudo, better known by her ring name Giulia (ジュリア) is an English-born Italian-Japanese professional wrestler.

She is currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom.

She also makes appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where she is a former Strong Women's Champion.

Giulia previously competed in Ice Ribbon, from her debut in 2017 up until October 2019, where she once held the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship alongside Tequila Saya.

She worked as a manager in an Italian restaurant before applying to train as a professional wrestler with Ice Ribbon in 2017.

In an interview for Shūkan Bunshun in 2022, Matsudo disclosed that she suffered bullying as a child due to her mixed race background, which was the reasoning for her attending a private high school.

Matsudo, going by the ring name Giulia, made her professional wrestling debut at New Ice Ribbon #845, an event promoted by Ice Ribbon on October 29, 2017, teaming with the legendary Takako Inoue in a loss to Nao Date and Satsuki Totoro.

In November, she entered the Young Ice Tournament where she was eliminated by Totoro in the first round.

On October 1, 2017, Giulia was invited by the legendary Toshiaki Kawada to compete on one of his Holy War shows, where she was defeated by veteran Command Bolshoi.

Days later, Giulia was defeated by Aja Kong in a singles match for the Oz Academy promotion.

Giulia made several appearances for Big Japan Pro Wrestling in events where joshi puroresu was also promoted.

In April 2018, she wrestled Ice Ribbon's ace, Tsukasa Fujimoto, for the first time, losing in 39 seconds.

On September 24, Giulia got her first singles victory when she defeated Asahi.

In the latter part of the year, Giulia began a feud with Tequila Saya, which eventually bought in male wrestlers Shinya Aoki and Hideki Suzuki, who acted as mentors for the female wrestlers and taught them new moves throughout their feud.

After a match on December 31 where Tequila Saya and Hideki Suzuki were defeated by Giulia and Shinya Aoki, Giulia and Saya reconciled and formed a tag team known as Burning Raw.

At the end of the year, she was presented with Ice Ribbon's New Face award, the equivalent of winning rookie of the year.

The first one was a house show from June 9, 2018, where Giulia lost to Tequila Saya.

At Pro Wrestling Zero1's Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament 2018 on November 18, she picked up a victory against Mochi Miyagi.

Since debuting in Stardom in 2019, Giulia has been a one-time World of Stardom Champion, one-time Wonder of Stardom Champion, one-time Goddess of Stardom Champion and two-time Artist of Stardom Champion.

On January 27, 2019, Burning Raw unsuccessfully challenged Kyuri and Maika Ozaki for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship.

After February 17, Giulia announced she would be taking a month off from pro wrestling due to nerve damage in her hip.

After returning, she began a feud with Maya Yukihi, which culminated in Giulia unsuccessfully challenging for the ICE Cross Infinity Championship on May 25.

In July, Burning Raw defeated Maya Yukihi and Risa Sera to win the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship.

After 3 months as champions, Burning Raw lost the titles back to Yukihi and Sera on September 23.

On October 13, Giulia announced she would be leaving Ice Ribbon.

At AWG Act In Osaka, an event promoted by Actwres girl'Z on July 21, 2019, Giulia unsuccessfully challenged Saori Anou for the AgZ Championship.

On October 14, 2019, Giulia announced that she had signed with World Wonder Ring Stardom.

On December 8, Giulia made her in-ring debut on Stardom where she defeated Hazuki.

Giulia is also the winner of the Cinderella Tournament 2020 and the 5Star Grand Prix 2022 and was the founder and leader of Donna Del Mondo.

Giulia was the recipient of the 2020 Tokyo Sports Women's Wrestling Grand Prize.

Eimi Gloria Matsudo was born in London, England, to an Italian father and a Japanese mother, who was studying there.

One year after her birth, they moved back and she was raised in Japan's Chiba Prefecture.

During January 2020, Giulia formed a new unit named Donna Del Mondo, recruiting Maika and Syuri to the stable in the process.

On February 8, Donna del Mondo defeated Queen's Quest (AZM, Momo Watanabe and Utami Hayashishita) to win the Artist of Stardom Championship.

On March 24, Giulia defeated Jungle Kyona, Momo Watanabe, fellow Donna del Mondo stablemate Syuri, and finally Natsuko Tora to be crowned the 2020 Cinderella Tournament winner.

In July, a feud began between Giulia and Tam Nakano, initially for the Wonder of Stardom Championship, that would continue intermittently for several years.

On July 26 at Cinderella Summer in Tokyo, Giulia defeated Tam Nakano in the finals of a four-woman tournament to win the vacant Wonder of Stardom Championship.

On October 3, Giulia had her first successful title defense where she defeated Nakano in a rematch.

In October and November, Giulia and Maika competed in the Red Goddesses block of the 2020 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League under the team name Crazy Bloom.

They reached the finals of the tournament, in which they lost to MOMOAZ.