Hamuko Hoshi

Hamuko Hoshi (星 ハム子) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working for the Ice Ribbon promotion.

She is also a former two-time ICE×∞ Champion and a four-time International Ribbon Tag Team Champion.

She also makes regular appearances for the World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana promotion.

Trained by Emi Sakura, Hoshi made her professional wrestling debut for her Ice Ribbon promotion on April 12, 2008, wrestling Makoto to a three-minute time limit draw.

Billed as an exhibition match, Hoshi wrestled several more three-minute matches during the next month, before making her "official" debut on May 11, losing to Kazumi Shimouna.

She picked up her first win on July 14, defeating Haruna Akagi.

On December 7, Hoshi first made her debut for NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling, which had a close relationship with Ice Ribbon, and later that same day for JWP Joshi Puroresu.

During the next two years, she would make semi-regular appearances for NEO.

On May 4, 2009, Hoshi received a chance to wrestle her idol, freelancer Yumiko Hotta, at an Ice Ribbon event, losing the match in just four minutes.

During 2009, Hoshi, Haruna Akagi and Kazumi Shimouna formed the Zasso Girls stable.

On November 23, 2009, Hoshi received her first title shot, when she and Kazumi Shimouna unsuccessfully challenged Emi Sakura and Kaori Yoneyama for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship.

On January 4, 2010, Hoshi won the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship, when she and Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Mai Ichii and Nanae Takahashi for the vacant title.

The team, known collectively as the "Meat Monsters", made its first successful title defense on January 23 against Kazumi Shimouna and Tsukasa Fujimoto, with Hoshi pinning Fujimoto for the win.

As a result, she was granted a shot at Fujimoto's ICE×60 Championship, Ice Ribbon's top title, but was unable to dethrone the defending champion on February 6.

On February 20, Hoshi and Matsumoto lost the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship to Passion Red (Kazumi Shimouna and Nanae Takahashi).

On October 10, Hoshi teamed with Sayaka Obihiro to unsuccessfully attempt to regain the title from Emi Sakura and Nanae Takahashi.

On December 11, Hoshi received her first shot at the Triangle Ribbon Championship in a match, where Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Kazumi Shimouna to become the new champion.

The following day, she unsuccessfully challenged Command Bolshoi for the ICE×60 Championship at a JWP event.

On May 3, 2011, Hoshi was defeated by the recently debuted Mochi Miyagi.

Afterwards, the two formed a new tag team named "Team Sexy", making their debut as a team on May 5 at GoldenRibbon 2011 in a losing effort against the team of Maki Narumiya and Miyako Matsumoto.

After being renamed "Lovely Butchers", Hoshi and Miyagi went on a winning streak, which culminated in them defeating Emi Sakura and Ray for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship on June 1.

Lovely Butchers made their first successful title defense just three days later, defeating the all-male team of Keita Yano and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi.

On June 5, Hoshi made her debut for Oz Academy, teaming with Sakura Hirota in a tag team match, where they were defeated by Miyako Morino and Tsukasa Fujimoto.

After a reign of ten days, Hoshi and Miyagi lost the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship to another all-male team, Choun Shiryu and Makoto Oishi.

Hoshi and Miyagi regained the title from Shiryu and Oishi on August 6 to become the first two-time International Ribbon Tag Team Champions.

However, their second reign was even shorter than their first as they lost the title to Emi Sakura and Makoto just seven days later.

Shortly afterwards, Makoto left Ice Ribbon, which led to the promotion vacating the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship and putting together a tournament to crown the new champions.

In the first round of the tournament on September 24, Lovely Butchers defeated the team of Gomu Ningen and Kappa Kozou.

Later that same day, Hoshi and Miyagi were defeated in the semifinals by Dash Chisako and Sendai Sachiko, who went on to become the new champions.

On December 31, Hoshi and Miyagi formed the Mocchiri Family stable with Dorami Nagano and Kurumi, with the four losing to Hikaru Shida, Maki Narumiya, Meari Naito and Tsukushi in an eight-woman elimination tag team match in their first match together.

On January 7, 2012, Hoshi and Miyagi unsuccessfully challenged Hikaru Shida and Maki Narumiya for the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship.

On February 5 at Yokohama Ribbon, Hoshi and Miyagi defeated their stablemates Nagano and Kurumi in a tag team match.

Three days later, Hoshi was defeated in a singles match by JWP wrestler Kayoko Haruyama, who afterwards joined the Mocchiri Family.

On March 20 at Ice Ribbon March 2012, Hoshi and Haruyama defeated Mochi Miyagi and JWP wrestler Nana Kawasa in a tag team match, with Hoshi pinning her longtime tag team partner for the win.

With Miyagi taking a break from professional wrestling due to a knee injury suffered in March, Hoshi was forced to restart her singles career and started off by entering Pro Wrestling Wave's 2012 Catch the Wave tournament on April 30.

Wrestling in the "Power" round-robin block, Hoshi picked up wins over Ryo Mizunami and Aya Yuki, but lost her other two matches against Ayako Hamada and Sawako Shimono, and was, as a result, overtaken in the standings by Mizunami, who advanced to the semifinals of the tournament.

At the conclusion of the tournament, Hoshi was awarded both the Best Performance and the Fighting Spirit Awards.

Back in Ice Ribbon, Hoshi picked up a big singles win over Tsukasa Fujimoto on May 6.

On June 17, Hoshi faced former tag team partner Hiroyo Matsumoto in another big match and, although she lost, she came out after the main event of the show to challenge ICE×60 Champion Hikaru Shida.

Shida accepted the challenge, but in order for the match to be contested for the title, Hoshi was forced to drop 5 kg in order to pass the 60 kg weight limit.