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Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2023
The was the ninth annual professional wrestling single-elimination tournament promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom. The event took place between March 26 and April 15, 2023. Storylines The show featured professional wrestling matches with scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. The matches can be won by pinfall, submission or elimination over the top rope. A time-limit draw or a double elimination means a loss for each competitor. Event Night 1 (March 26) The first day of the event which took place on March 26, 2023, portraited the first-round tournament matches. The first two bouts were broadcast on Stardom's YouTube channel. In the first one, Waka Tsukiyama, who was announced as one of the two mystery competitors of the edition, picked up a victory over Lady C as she began a winning spree following the events from St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Wonder Ring Stardom
World Wonder Ring Stardom (スターダム 女子プロレス), often referred to simply as Stardom (stylized as ST★RDOM), is a Japanese '' joshi puroresu'' or women's professional wrestling promotion based in Tokyo, Japan. Stardom was founded in September 2010 by former All Japan Women co-producer Rossy Ogawa, retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist Fuka Kakimoto, and All Japan Women veteran professional wrestler Nanae Takahashi. Stardom is currently owned by Japanese card game company Bushiroad, making it the sister promotion of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Stardom quickly became one of the top ''joshi puroresu'' promotions, largely thanks to gravure idol Yuzuki Aikawa becoming the promotion's public face. Much like JDStar, Stardom also places heavy emphasis on the physical attractiveness of its workers, and publishes several modeling photobooks and calendars of its workers per year. Stardom's in-ring style takes influence from mixed martial arts with many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a face (babyface) is a heroic, "good guy" or "fan favorite" wrestler, booked (scripted) by the promotion with the aim of being cheered by fans, and acts as a protagonist to the heels, who are the villainous antagonist or "bad guy" characters. Traditionally, they wrestle within the rules and avoid cheating (in contrast to the villains who use illegal moves and call in additional wrestlers to do their work for them) while behaving positively towards the referee and the audience. Such characters are also referred to as blue-eyes in British wrestling and ''técnicos'' in ''lucha libre''. The face character is portrayed as a hero relative to the heel wrestlers, who are analogous to villains. Not everything a face wrestler does must be heroic: faces need only to be clapped or cheered by the audience to be effective characters. When the magazine ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' went into circulation in the late 1970s, the magazine referred to face wrestlers as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artist Of Stardom Championship
The is a professional wrestling six-woman tag team championship owned by the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion. The title was first announced during Stardom's year-end event on December 24, 2012, and two days later its name was revealed as the "Artist of Stardom Championship", with a four-team one night single-elimination tournament announced to determine the inaugural champions. Title history On January 14, 2013, Kawasaki Katsushika Saikyou Densetsu (Act Yasukawa, Natsuki☆Taiyo & Saki Kashima) defeated Team Shimmer (Kellie Skater, Portia Perez & Tomoka Nakagawa) in the finals of the tournament to become the inaugural champions. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been twenty-seven reigns shared among twenty-five teams and forty-three wrestlers. Oedo Tai (Saki Kashima, Momo Watanabe & Starlight Kid) are the current champions in their first reign, while it's the fifth reign individually for Kashima, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiragi Kurumi
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Ice Ribbon where she is one half of the International Ribbon Tag Team Champions. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2010–present) Kurumi is known for her activity in various professional wrestling promotions other than Ice Ribbon. At the ''WAVE Summer Fiesta '16'' of Pro Wrestling Wave, she teamed up with Tsukushi, falling short to Ryo Mizunami and Misaki Ohata. At a house show hosted by JWP Joshi Puroresu on January 29, 2017, Kurumi teamed up with Megumi Yabushita and defeated Kazuki and Rydeen Hagane in a judo rules tag team match. While working in Seadlinnng, she participated at ''SEAdLINNNG Fortissimo'' from May 24, 2017, where she teamed up with Sareee to defeat Rin Kadokura and Takumi Iroha. Kurumi also worked for Oz Academy, and at ''OZ Academy Autumn Festival'' on October 4, 2020, she teamed up with Tsubasa Kuragaki and unsuccessfully faced MISSI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzu Suzuki
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer and is best known for her time in Ice Ribbon and Pure-J, two Japanese professional wrestling promotions. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2018–present) As a freelancer, Suzuki is known for competing in various promotions. At ''Now Was The First Of Osaka This Year'', an event promoted by Oz Academy on February 17, 2019, she fell short to Hiroyo Matsumoto. At ''AWG Beginning'', an event promoted by Actwres girl'Z on May 19, 2019, Suzuki teamed up with Hikari Shimizu in a losing effort to Saori Anou and Noa Igarashi. Pro At a house show promoted by Big Japan Pro Wrestling on November 10, 2019, Suzuki teamed up with Tsukasa Fujimoto in a losing effort to Risa Sera and Maika Ozaki. At ''Seadlinnng's 6th Anniversary'' from August 19, 2021, she teamed up with Ayame Sasamura and Rina Yamashita in a losing effort to Hiroyo Matsumoto, Nanae Takahashi and Tsukushi Haruka. At ''FMW-E Battle Royal'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risa Sera
, better known by her ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler and actress. She is currently a freelancer working in the deathmatch unit Prominence, who is best known for wrestling in Ice Ribbon. She is a four-time International Ribbon Tag Team Champion, while also being a former two-time ICE×∞ Champion. Early life Sera was born in Sera, Hiroshima. After graduating high school, she moved to Tokyo and studied voice acting at Amusement Media Academy (AMG). In 2012, Sera took part in the audition for "Taiyo kara Plancha" (), a movie collaboration with Ice Ribbon, and she won the main role on the condition that she had to actually make her wrestling debut with other winners of the audition, which made Ice Ribbon's recruiting project likewise in "Muscle Venus." Until then, she used her real name Risa Okuda. Professional wrestling career Ice Ribbon (2012–2020) Sera was trained by Tsukasa Fujimoto and made her debut on November 10, 2012, at the Ice Ribbon dojo under the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prominence (professional Wrestling)
is a villanous professional wrestling stable, currently performing in the Japanese independent scene. Leaded by Risa Sera, the stable also consists of Suzu Suzuki, Akane Fujita, Mochi Natsumi and Hiragi Kurumi. History Formation. Departure from Ice Ribbon (December 2021) On December 1, 2021, it was announced that the current five members of the stable would be leaving Ice Ribbon after they could not agree on the establishment of a new sub-brand with a focus on hardcore matches in contract talks with the officials of the promotion. In a press conference held at short notice by Ice Ribbon on the same day, the five announced not only their exodus but also the founding of their group, under whose banner they also want to organize shows with a focus on death and hardcore wrestling in the future. Despite her contract with Ice Ribbon expiring and after announcing her departure from the company, Akane Fujita defeated Rina Yamashita on December 31, 2021, in a falls count anywhere mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Venus
is a Japanese stable currently performing in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom. Led by Mina Shirakawa, the stable also consists of Xia Brookside, Mariah May, Xena, Jessie and Waka Tsukiyama. Club Venus was formerly a sub-unit of Cosmic Angels before proclaiming itself an independent stable. History Formation (2022–2023) At Stardom's Dream Queendom 2, the returning Xia Brookside and the debutant Mariah May made their appearances by accompanying Mina Shirakawa to the ring. Shirakawa and Unagi Sayaka who represented Cosmic Angels went on defeating Donna Del Mondo's Mai Sakurai and Thekla in a tag team match. Following the bout, Shirakawa slapped Unagi, and announced the formation of her own trio featuring herself, May, and Brookside with the three to be known as Club Venus. The newly formed announced themselves as the mystery team to compete in the Triangle Derby I tournament as part of the "Red Triangle Block" where they scored a total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miyu Amasaki
is a Japanese professional wrestler. She is currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom under the ring name . Professional wrestling career World Wonder Ring Stardom (2022-present) She revealed Dragon Gate as being her first ever wrestling encounter, promotion which she used to watch since elementary school. Matsuda made her professional wrestling debut on March 11, 2022 at the World Wonder Ring Stardom's New Blood 1 event, dedicated to rookies, where she was defeated by Utami Hayashishita. Despite her loss, Hayashishita was impressed by the latter's performance, therefore inviting the debutant to join the Queen's Quest unit which Matsuda immediately accepted. On the first night of the '' Stardom World Climax 2022'' from March 26, she teamed up with her new unit stablemates, Lady C and AZM, to compete in a six-woman tag team gauntlet match, won by Donna Del Mondo ( Himeka, Natsupoi, and Mai Sakurai) and also involving Cosmic Angels (Waka Tsukiyama, Mina Shirakawa and Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saya Iida
(born May 19, 1997) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion. She is a former one-time Future of Stardom Champion. Professional wrestling career World Wonder Ring Stardom (2019–present) Iida made her debut at World Wonder Ring Stardom on January 14, 2019, at Stardom's 8th anniversary show where she faced Natsuko Tora in a losing effort. After the match, Iida joined "J.A.N." (Jungle Assault Nation), a unit consists of Jungle Kyona, Kaori Yoneyama and Tora. On March 10, Iida received her first title match when she challenged Utami Hayashishita for the Future of Stardom Championship, but was unsuccessful. On April 14, during the annual draft, Kyona lost to a five-way against four other faction leaders where the loser of the match must disband their own unit, therefore, J.A.N. was forced to disband. Mayu Iwatani, the leader of "Stars", chose Iida to join her unit. On February 24, 2020, Iida faced her trained and former World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady C (wrestler)
, better known by her ring name Lady C, is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom. Professional wrestling career World Wonder Ring Stardom (2020–present) Nagatani made her professional wrestling debut in World Wonder Ring Stardom at ''Stardom Korakuen New Landscape'' on November 14, 2020, where she lost to Saya Iida. She took part of a Future of Stardom Championship tournament on May 15, 2021 ''Stardom Nagoya Two Days'' where she fell short to Unagi Sayaka in a first-round match. She is known for competing in various of the promotion's signature events such as the Stardom All Star Dream Cinderella from March 3 where she competed in a 24-women Stardom All Star Rumble featuring superstars from the company's past such as Yuzuki Aikawa, Kyoko Inoue, Miho Wakizawa, Chigusa Nagayo, from the present Bea Priestley, Koguma and others. At Stardom Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 on April 4, she competed in a three-way mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waka Tsukiyama
is an American-born Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese promotions World Wonder Ring Stardom. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2020-present) Due to being a freelancer, Tsukiyama known for competing in multiple promotions of the Japanese independent scene. She competed in the 2021 edition of Pro Wrestling Wave's Catch the Wave tournament where she fought in the Block B, scoring a total of three points after going against Chie Ozora, Sumika Yanagawa and Yappy. At ''Gatoh Move ChocoPro #114'', an event promoted by Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling on May 5, 2021, Tsukiyama unsuccessfully competed against Emi Sakura. At a house show promoted by Pure-J on July 4, 2021, she fell short to Crea. Actwres girl'Z (2020-2021) Tsukiyama made her professional wrestling debut at ''AWG Color's'', an event promoted by Actwres girl'Z on September 6, 2020, where she teamed up with Ayumi Hayashi in a losing effort against Saki and Sakuran Bonita. World Wond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
