The former AEW Women’s World Champion revealed the news during a YouTube livestream on Friday. She said fans had been asking if she was retiring after she played the role of a retiring pro wrestler in a stage play last month in Japan. “It was the hardest stage play for me, whole ten years but it was really great.”Shida, under the name Tsuruhime, has performed in MAKAI productions since 2014. The title was ‘Retirement’ and this is the story of the wrestler (who) just announced her retirement, and that’s me. Her most recent AEW match, a loss to Kris Statlander, took place on the November 20, 2024 edition of AEW Dynamite.