STARDOM STARDOM announced the line-up of the annual Cinderella Tournament and the tournament looks to be very different this year with many of the big names noticeably missing including Maika, Saori Anou, Giulia, Utami Hayashishita, Mayu Iwatani, Syuri, Saya Kamitani, and Momo Watanabe. President Okada stated that they reconsidered the concept and decided it was […]
STARDOM STARDOM held two Korakuen Hall shows this past week with the second one airing live on Pay-Per-View. The first show had an attendance of 690 fans, while the second had an attendance of 956 fans, which is the best-attended Korakuen for Stardom since November, which featured the comeback of AphroditE. The Valentine’s Day Korakuen
In October, Bryan Danielson and Zack Sabre Jr. brought their much anticipated dream match to life, producing one of 2023’s finest bouts. The all-star grappling clash was a rematch well over a decade in the making, as the pairing had wrestled twice in the late 2000s. That time apart certainly didn’t show inside the ropes
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STARDOM The first week after the departure of founder Rossy Ogawa, who got fired from the company after the 13th Anniversary show, was quit for STARDOM. They held one show in Fuji in front of over 500 fans in a sold-out venue. The show featured the return match of Xena in the semi-main event of
There are very few feuds in AEW’s brief but eventful history that compare to the war between Hangman Adam Page and Swerve Strickland. At Full Gear, their rivalry produced an instant classic, cementing Strickland as a headline act while rejuvenating Page in defeat. In distinctly un-AEW fashion, they’ve remain linked since then too, seemingly embroiled
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STARDOM STARDOM continues its 2024 with a PPV in Osaka EDION #1 with nine matches in front of 1377 fans. The undercard featured a Future of Stardom Championship match, where Rina defeated Yuzuki with the Pink Devil in the best Future Title match in a while. Yuzuki is just 3 months into her career and
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Last August, Ilja Dragunov clobbered Trick Williams towards his first hit singles match. That was notable, as while his personality and presence had always jumped off the page, Williams was a visibly raw prospect inside the ropes. Even since then, his limitations were on display against Dominik Mysterio, not quite wrestling to the level of
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STARDOM continues its 2024 with a PPV in Osaka EDION #1 on February 4th with nine matches. The show features four Championship matches including both the World and Wonder of Stardom Championship being on the line in the final two matches of the shows. In the undercard, Tam Nakano returns from the knee injury she
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To be frank, it’s been the kind of week that leaves you questioning your own investment in this medium. That’s not the story obviously, there are far bigger concerns than my or anyone else’s distaste for it all. With that being said, the in-ring highs and lows feel even more secondary than usual with such