Michael Majalahti

Wrestling New Classic After Smash closed, in 2012 StarBuck became part of the Smash's follow-up promotion Wrestling New Classic (WNC). and Syuri under the name of "Synapse", feuding with Hajime Ohara. On July 16, StarBuck main evented his first WNC event, defeating Ohara. After several trios victories, StarBuck returned to singles action on August 6, losing to Tajiri in the main event. StarBuck also participated in the WNC Championship tournament, but was defeated in his first round match by Hajime Ohara, following interference from his Kabushiki gaisha DQN stablemates Jiro Kuroshio and Nagisa Nozaki.

StarBuck returned to WNC on March 31, 2013, when he teamed with Akira and Syuri in a six-person tag team main event during an afternoon show, where they were defeated by Ekaterina Bonnie, Emil Sitoci and Ivan Markov. Later that same day, during an evening show, StarBuck defeated Koji Doi in a singles match. After two months away from Japan, StarBuck returned to WNC on May 24 in a six-person tag team main event, where he, Akira and Syuri defeated WNC Champion Osamu Nishimura, WNC Women's Champion Lin Byron and Tajiri. StarBuck then went inactive from in-ring action to rehabilitate two herniated discs in his neck. Post-match, Akira announced that the Synapse stable had decided to disband.

Wrestle-1 After WNC went out of business and its male wrestlers moved over to the Wrestle-1 promotion, StarBuck made his return to Japan on October 10, 2014, working at an Akira produced Wrestle-1 event. In the main event of the show, StarBuck defeated Akira and Masakatsu Funaki in a three-way match.

Asuka Project and Tokyo Championship Wrestling After a four-year hiatus, StarBuck returned to ring action in Japan on September 24, 2018, for Asuka Project, a small promotion in Tokyo featuring former WNC wrestlers trained by Tajiri. It was there that StarBuck tagged up with Utamaro against Shinose Mitoshichi and Shota Nakagawa, proving victorious as StarBuck pinned Shinose after his famed jumping spike piledriver. On September 27 at Shinjuku Face Arena in Tokyo, StarBuck and Utamaro lost a tag team match against Yoshihiro Tajiri and Yusuke Kodama when Tajiri pinned Utamaro in the main event of the show for Tokyo Championship Wrestling.

SLAM! Wrestling Finland

In the summer of 2018, Majalahti started up SLAM! Wrestling Finland, which became a limited company at the end of 2019, operating and running, as well as selling, events in Finland and Estonia.

Other endeavors

Majalahti has coached several Finnish rock and metal vocalists and bands in better English, both in regards to lyrics and pronunciation/enunciation. Known acts that Majalahti has worked with in some capacity are Sonata Arctica (Unia album), Stratovarius (Stratovarius album), Lordi (The Arockalypse and The Monsterican Dream albums), Celesty (Vendetta album), The Souls (The Grand Confusion), Widescreen Mode (The Hanging Man album), Godsplague (Evilution and Triumph albums), Thunderstone (Tools of Destruction album), Timo Kotipelto (Coldness and Serenity albums), in addition to others. Majalahti has also created the characters of children's heavy metal band Hevisaurus, and has illustrated the band's album covers.

Majalahti is a licensed FAF gym instructor, serving as a freelance personal trainer and coach in Finland. He also works as a freelance graphic artist and illustrator and has been known to do perform translation work from Finnish to English for several companies, in addition to being one of the most utilized voice-over speakers in Finland in the corporate, B2B and export sector.

In 2014, it was reported that Yle and the Finnish Film Foundation were working on a feature film on Majalahti called Spandex Sapiens, filmed over the past five years. The full-length documentary Spandex Sapiens movie was released throughout Finnish movie theaters on June 17, 2016 and in September of the same year it was featured prominently on YLE television in Finland. The movie won the Audience Favorite Award at the Night Visions Festival in Helsinki as well as the Critic's Choice award at the Helsinki International Documentary Film Festival.

In 2016, news was released that Majalahti was signed to and would be playing a key acting role in Finland's first-ever superhero action movie, Rendel, slated for a September 22, 2017 theater release.

Majalahti's autobiography about his life in professional wrestling was released through Crowbar Press on May 22, 2017, entitled Battleground Valhalla.

In 2017, a movie version of 1980s hit video game It Came From The Desert was released and licensed throughout the world. In the movie, Michael plays the role of The Eradicator, the big idol the main characters in the film.

In 2019, Majalahti and his southern rock band, Crossfyre, released a notable remake cover song and video of professional wrestler "Freebird" Michael Hayes' 1983 song, Badstreet USA. This noted the first time in history that a rock musician/pro wrestler tributed and covered this classic song, which was the first original theme music ever written in the annals of professional wrestling.

Discography with Hallowed 2000: End of the Age (EP) 2002: Fear and Pain (EP)

with Stoner Kings 2002: Brimstone Blues 2006: Fuck the World 2019: Alpha Male 2025: Hive Mind

with Klaatuu 2008: Altars of Doom (EP)

with Angel of Sodom 2015: Divine Retribution

with Crossfyre 2010: Southbound 2014: Iron Horse 2016: No Limits

with Overnight Sensation 2013: Life's a Bitch

Personal life Michael Majalahti was married to a Romanian girl, Diana (born April 27, 1987). She has worked for FCF as his valet, under the name of Miss D, between February 2013 and February 2014. Their engagement made headlines in the Romanian media.

The couple divorced in May 2020 and do not have any children together.

At the moment Michael Majalahti is engaged to Susanna Sihlman and the couple will have their big wedding on the 9th of September 2023, in Finland.

Championships and accomplishments British Wrestling Alliance BWA World Catchweight Championship (1 time) Deutsch Wrestling Allianz DWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) EuroStars EuroStars European Heavyweight Championship (2 times) FCF Finnish Heavyweight Championship (5 times) I Mitti Del Wrestling I Mitti Del Wrestling UE Championship (1 time) Italian Wrestling Superstars IWS Heavyweight Championship (1 time) IWS Intercontinental Championship (1 time) Slam Wrestling Finland Slam Wrestling Championship (1 time, current) Pro Wrestling Finlandia Finnish Heavyweight Championship (1 time) Smash Smash Championship (1 time) Smash Championship Tournament (2011) STHLM Wrestling Valhalla Nordic Wrestling Championship (1 time) TopCatch TopCatch Europameisterschaft Championship (1 time) Wrestling New Classic WNC Championship (2 times)