Viva Van continues to pave the way in which.
Because the first-ever Vietnamese-American feminine professional wrestler, “The Hellbent Vixen” Viva Van isn’t any stranger to creating historical past. In December 2023, Van made historical past but once more as she and 27-year veteran Sumie Sakai grew to become the primary girls to important occasion a wrestling present within the nation of Vietnam. This milestone second occurred underneath the banner of VPW’s Immortal Glory occasion, the place AEW’s Chris Jericho additionally inducted Van and Sakai into the VPW Corridor of Fame.
WrestleZone’s Ella Jay just lately spoke with Van about this second, which she described as particular.
“I assumed, after I had deliberate to return to Vietnam, that, I’m going to do a present, I’m simply lastly going to have the ability to get booked for VPW. The primary time I hit them up, I used to be like, ‘Hey, I might like to get booked.’ They usually’re like, ‘Oh, we might like to have you ever, however we simply don’t have the funds to fly you in. We don’t actually have a ring.’ So it went from that to love okay, I’m lastly right here,” Van recalled.
“I had no concept that they have been going to shock me with inducting me into the Corridor of Fame with Sumie Sakai. She’s somebody that has at all times been so useful to me since early on in my profession, and I’ll always remember that. And so I knew that I wished to share this very particular second together with her. It’s loopy.”
Wanting forward, Van hopes to return to Vietnam Professional Wrestling someday, particularly with the intention of difficult Yuki Kamifuku for the VPW Girls’s Championship.
“I positively wish to come again and possibly problem [Yuki] for the VPW girls’s belt, however we’ll see,” Van stated.
Watch our full interview with Viva Van under:
