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Former MLW champion Janai Kai announces free agency

Posted on by Joseph Currier

A former MLW champion is entering into free agency.

Janai Kai, the longest-reigning Women’s Champion in MLW history, announced yesterday that she is now a free agent. Kai thanked MLW for the nearly two years she spent with the promotion.

“Thank you MLW,” she wrote. “What a time.”

Kai held the MLW Women’s Featherweight Championship for 455 days from October 2023 to January 2025. She won the title from Delmi Exo and later dropped it back to Exo at the end of her reign. Taya Valkyrie, Exo, Kai, and current champion Shoko Nakajima are the only wrestlers to have held the Women’s Featherweight Championship since MLW introduced the title in 2022.

In MLW, Kai was a member of Contra Unit with Mads Krugger, Ikuro Kwon, and Minoru Suzuki. She’s known as “The Kick Demon” because of her skills in martial arts. Kai’s last MLW match before free agency was a victory over HIMAWARI in April.

The 30-year-old Kai competes on the indies and tweeted that she has dates available for bookings:

Featherweight title match announced for MLW Lucha Apocalypto

Posted on by Ian Carey

A new match has been announced for MLW Lucha Apocalypto

Women’s World Featherweight Champion Janai Kai will defend her title in a triple-threat match against CMLL’s Lluvia and Persephone on the show.

MLW announced the news on Tuesday, writing, “The stakes couldn’t be higher as Janai Kai, the reigning MLW Women’s World Featherweight Champion and member of CONTRA, faces the challenge of not one, but two of CMLL’s finest luchadoras, Lluvia and Persephone, in a triple threat, one-fall-to-a-finish title fight.”

The event takes place on Saturday, November 9, at Cicero Stadium in Cicero, Illinois.

Kai defeated Delmi Exo for the title at MLW Slaughterhouse 2023 a little over a year ago. She’s defended it ten times since then, including against Exo in a Taekwondo Rules match at last month’s MLW Pit Fighters show.

MLW TV Taping lineup for November 9, 2024 —

  • MLW World Heavyweight Champion Satoshi Kojima defends against Bobby Fish
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction match: AKIRA vs. Mads Krule Krugger
  • Minoru Suzuki vs. Matt Riddle

MLW x CMLL Lucha Apocalypto lineup for November 9, 2024 —

  • Jesus Rodriguez to serve as the Master of Ceremonies
  • MLW World Middleweight Champion Mistico defends against Titan and Averno in a triple threat
  • Atlantis, Atlantis Jr., and Star Jr. vs. Barbaro Cavernario, Felino & Magnus
  • Esfinge & Kevin Knight vs. Ultimo Guerrero & Hechicero
  • MLW Women’s World Featherweight Champion Janai Kai defends against Lluvia and Persephone in a triple-threat match