Thekla (wrestler)

Thekla Kaischauri (born April 30, 1993), better known by her ring name Thekla, is an Austrian professional wrestler. She currently works for World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is the current Artist of Stardom Champion (with Giulia and Mai Sakurai) in her first reign and member of Donna Del Mondo.

Thekla
Thekla in March 2022
Born (1993-04-30) April 30, 1993[1]
Vienna, Austria
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)The Toxic Spider
Thekla
Billed height155 cm (5 ft 1 in)[2]
Billed weight52 kg (115 lb)
Trained byMio Shirai
DebutApril 21, 2018

Thekla is a former one-time SWA World Champion. She is also known for her tenure with Ice Ribbon.[3]

Professional wrestling career

Independent circuit (2017–present)

Kaischauri made her professional wrestling debut in 2017, competing in the France WUW.[4]

As a freelancer, Kaischauri is known for competing in multiple promotions of the Japanese independent scene. On July 18, 2021, she competed at a house show promoted by World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana where she teamed up with Shizuku Tsukata in a losing effort against Crysis (Ayako Sato and Jaguar Yokota).[5] On Seadlinnng's 6th Anniversary Show from August 19, 2021, she unsuccessfully faced Leon in a high-speed match.[6] At FMW-E Sky High, an event promoted by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling on October 24, 2021, she fell short to Akane Fujita in the first-round of the Women's Current Blast Princess Tournament.[7] At Gleat G PROWRESTLING Ver. 10 on November 26, 2021, she teamed up with Yappy in a losing effort against Akane Fujita and Michiko Miyagi.[8]

Ice Ribbon (2019–2021)
Kaischauri in March 2021

Kaischauri moved to Japan and began working for Ice Ribbon, promotion where she competed for most of her career. She made her first appearance at New Ice Ribbon #973, an event promoted on July 27, 2019, where she teamed up with Hamuko Hoshi and Suzu Suzuki in a losing effort against Asahi, Matsuya Uno and Tsukasa Fujimoto as a result of a six-woman tag team match.[9] At New Ice Ribbon #1047 on June 20, 2020, she competed in a 14-woman gauntlet match also involving Maika Ozaki, Hamuko Hoshi, Hiragi Kurumi, Matsuya Uno and others.[10] She also moved up to title images. At New Ice Ribbon #1101 on February 23, 2021, she unsuccessfully challenged Tsukushi Haruka for the IW19 Championship.[11] At New Ice Ribbon #1109 on April 21, 2021, she unsuccessfully challenged Risa Sera for the FantastICE Championship.[12]

World Wonder Ring Stardom (2021–present)

Kaischauri and Mirai Maiumi from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling kept attacking various wrestlers from World Wonder Ring Stardom under masks from the beginning of the first event of the Stardom Super Wars trilogy which took place from November 3 to December 18, 2021.[13] Giulia would announce on December 25, 2021, that both of the masked superstars will join her Donna Del Mondo unit at the beginning of 2022. On January 3, 2022, at Stardom Award in Shinjuku, Kaischauri and Mirai were officially presented as the mysterious silhouettes as they teamed up with her to defeat Cosmic Angels' sub-unit of Tam Nakano, Unagi Sayaka and Mai Sakurai.[14]

At Stardom Nagoya Supreme Fight on January 29, 2022, Thekla defeated Mina Shirakawa for the vacant SWA World Championship.[15] Kaischauri took part of the Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2022 where she fell short to stablemate Giulia in the first rounds from April 3.[16] At Stardom Golden Week Fight Tour on May 5, 2022, she dropped the SWA World Championship to Mayu Iwatani.[17] At Stardom Flashing Champions on May 28, 2022, she unsuccessfully challenged AZM for the High Speed Championship.[18] She was also announced as one of the Stardom 5 Star Grand Prix 2022 participants, to compete in the Red Stars Block.[19]

On May 27, 2023, at Flashing Champions, Thekla alongside Giulia and Mai Sakurai, also known as the Baribari Bombers, defeated the Artist of Stardom Champions REStart (Kairi, Natsupoi and Saori Anou) to win the titles[20]

Championships and accomplishments

References
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  2. Kreikenbohm, Philip. "Thekla/Career Data". cagematch.de (in German). Retrieved December 27, 2021.
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  4. "Weekly Pro Wrestling". Wien.Info. Retrieved Jun 2, 2021.
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