CMLL has revealed the participants announced so far for the 2026 Women’s Grand Prix, bringing together a notable international collection of talent from Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom and Mexico.

The lineup was presented during the September 23 edition of CMLL Informa. Ten wrestlers were named in the field, including current CMLL World Women’s Champion Persephone, who enters as Mexico’s representative and the reigning winner of the Women’s Grand Prix.

The announced competitors reflect the international identity of the event. Japan will be represented by AZM and Miyu Amasaki. The United States contingent includes Shotzi and Lady Frost. Emersyn Jayne will represent the United Kingdom. Mexico’s announced group consists of Skadi, Persephone, Keyra, Lluvia and Kira.

2026 CMLL Women’s Grand Prix participants announced

  • AZM — Japan
  • Miyu Amasaki — Japan
  • Shotzi — United States
  • Lady Frost — United States
  • Emersyn Jayne — United Kingdom
  • Skadi — Mexico
  • Persephone — Mexico
  • Keyra — Mexico
  • Lluvia — Mexico
  • Kira — Mexico

The list gives the tournament a broad range of styles and backgrounds before the competition has even begun. Five of the ten announced names represent Mexico, while the other five provide an international side that spans three countries. CMLL has established a clear global scope for the Women’s Grand Prix field with wrestlers from four nations included in the reveal.

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At the center of the Mexican representation is Persephone. She carries two major pieces of recent history into the 2026 edition: she is the current CMLL World Women’s Champion, and she won the 2025 Women’s Grand Prix. Her inclusion means the woman who emerged victorious last year will return with the championship around her waist and a target attached to her name.

Persephone enters as champion and 2025 winner

Persephone’s place in Team Mexico gives the home side an especially important standard-bearer. A reigning tournament winner returning the following year is automatically one of the central stories of the field, particularly when that same wrestler is also the promotion’s current women’s world champion.

The 2026 Grand Prix will therefore place Persephone in a position where her recent success is impossible to separate from the event itself. She is not simply one of Mexico’s announced entrants; she is the previous Women’s Grand Prix winner and the current CMLL World Women’s Champion. Every opponent named for the tournament enters a field that includes the wrestler who has recently set the benchmark in both the Grand Prix and the division’s championship picture.

That also adds significance to the announced Mexican group around her. Skadi, Keyra, Lluvia and Kira join Persephone as the five Mexico-based representatives currently listed. Their presence supplies Team Mexico with a substantial core while also ensuring that the champion will not be the only prominent figure carrying expectations for the home contingent.

No match order, tournament structure, event date, venue or additional participant announcements were included with the September 23 lineup reveal. The announced names nonetheless establish the essential competitive landscape: a Mexican side led by the reigning winner and champion, alongside international representatives from Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Japan, United States and United Kingdom represented

AZM and Miyu Amasaki make up the announced Japanese representation. Their addition gives the international side two competitors from Japan, matching the two wrestlers listed from the United States. Japan’s presence is particularly significant in a field built around a cross-border showcase, as AZM and Amasaki will bring distinct identities into a tournament that also features established Mexican names and American entrants.

The United States will be represented by Shotzi and Lady Frost. Both are among the five non-Mexican competitors currently announced, and their inclusion provides the Grand Prix with a pair of U.S. representatives rather than a single entrant carrying that country’s banner alone. With two names each from Japan and the United States, the international group has multiple wrestlers from its largest announced national contingents.

Emersyn Jayne rounds out the overseas lineup as the sole announced representative from the United Kingdom. Her inclusion expands the tournament’s reach to a fourth country and ensures that the 2026 field is not limited to a Mexico-versus-one-nation concept. Instead, the announced roster presents a wider international mix, with each representative bringing their own country into the event.

That composition is one of the defining features of the reveal. The field is evenly split numerically between Mexican and non-Mexican talent among the names announced so far, even though the international half is spread across Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom. It creates a roster in which Mexico has depth in numbers while the visiting group covers a wider geographical range.

A varied Mexican contingent takes shape

Mexico’s five announced representatives are Skadi, Persephone, Keyra, Lluvia and Kira. The group includes the CMLL World Women’s Champion in Persephone, but the full contingent is larger than one titleholder’s tournament story. Each name will be part of the effort to keep the Women’s Grand Prix in Mexico after Persephone’s 2025 victory.

The fact that Persephone won the previous edition adds continuity between the two tournaments. The 2026 field is not starting with a blank slate. It begins with the memory of a Mexican winner from 2025, and with that same wrestler now returning as world champion. The other Mexican representatives will share the responsibility of facing an international field that has been assembled with competitors from three different countries.

For Skadi, Keyra, Lluvia and Kira, the Grand Prix announcement places them in a lineup that features a mixture of familiar domestic competition and opponents representing other parts of the wrestling world. The roster’s international balance means the event can offer varied matchups without changing the central importance of Mexico’s representation.

With five Mexican names announced, CMLL has also made certain that the host promotion’s women’s roster remains strongly visible in the event. The Women’s Grand Prix is framed by international participation, but its current champion, its 2025 winner and half of the revealed field all come from Mexico.

What is known about the current field

The September 23 CMLL Informa announcement confirmed ten competitors and their listed countries. It confirmed AZM and Miyu Amasaki for Japan, Shotzi and Lady Frost for the United States, Emersyn Jayne for the United Kingdom, and Skadi, Persephone, Keyra, Lluvia and Kira for Mexico.

It also confirmed the most important returning accolade in the field: Persephone is the current CMLL World Women’s Champion and the winner of the 2025 Women’s Grand Prix. She will represent Team Mexico in the 2026 competition.

Those details provide a strong foundation for the event even as further information remains to be revealed. The current participant list already offers an international slate, a defending winner, a reigning champion and a sizable Mexican contingent. As CMLL continues to build toward the 2026 Women’s Grand Prix, Persephone’s attempt to follow last year’s victory while holding the CMLL World Women’s Championship will stand as one of the clearest stories surrounding the announced field.

For now, the announced roster positions the 2026 Women’s Grand Prix as a meeting point for talent from Mexico, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom. The names revealed on CMLL Informa ensure that the tournament will feature both championship prestige and an international competitive element from the outset.

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