Wrestling pics and takes from a Tam Nakano Superfan

Sayaka Kurara vs Saya Kamitani

Photo provided by Karami

Sayaka Kurara vs Saya Kamitani

All Star Grand Queendom for the World of Stardom Championship

Sayaka Kurara and I share a suffering. A gaping hole left in our hearts. The emotional wound left by the retirement of Tam Nakano is not one that easily heals.

Unlike me, Kurara can grieve in the ring. Even leading up to this match, she grieved. Obsessed by her inspiration, obsessed with the woman who banished her. Obsessed with the conditions that lead up to her retirement. Kurara couldn't over her career -- that is of no value to Saya -- so in her desperation she offers what isn't even hers. It's impulsive, foolish, and short sighted, much like Tam. Even at the Tam Exhibition, was a hidden room. Within it, an alter, laid out like a wake, in memory of Tam. It has been exactly one year, and the wound is no closer to opening. Instead, it's wider, clawed at, bleeding and raw.