Stardom In Showcase Vol.1
was a professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom. The event took place on July 23, 2022, in Nagoya at the Nagoya Congress Center, with a limited attendance due in part to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic at the time. Background The ''Stardom in Showcase'' is a series of pay-per-views which mainly focuses on a diversity of gimmick matches, only different from the singles match stipulation. Billed as respiro shows, the main tagline of these events is ''"Anything can happen"''. The show featured seven professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. The preshow matches were broadcast live on Stardom's YouTube channel. Event Dubbed as a non-canon event, the show started with the rumble match in which the two mystery competitors were represented by Stardom Supe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Kaori Yoneyama
is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working as a freelancer on the Japanese independent circuit. Yoneyama started her career in 1999, working with the JWP Joshi Puroresu promotion. During the following years, she became a one-time JWP Openweight Champion, a one-time JWP Junior Champion, a five-time JWP Tag Team Champion, a one-time Pure-J Openweight Champion and a three-time Daily Sports Women's Tag Team Champion. Notable titles she has held outside of JWP include All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling's AJW Championship and AJW Tag Team Championship, Ice Ribbon's International Ribbon Tag Team Championship and NEO Japan Ladies Pro Wrestling's High Speed Championship. In July 2011, Yoneyama announced that she would be ending her twelve-year career the following December. After a retirement tour, which took Yoneyama not only across the Japanese independent circuit, but also to the United States, she announced during her retirement ceremony that she had changed her mind ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Goddess Of Stardom Champions
The is a professional wrestling tag team Championship (professional wrestling), championship owned by the World Wonder Ring Stardom professional wrestling promotion, promotion. Title history On August 2, 2011, Stardom held a press conference to announce the first ever Goddesses of Stardom Tag League, which would culminate in the crowning of the first Goddess of Stardom Champions. The finals of the tournament took place on November 27, 2011, and saw BY Hou (Yoko Bito & Yuzuki Aikawa) defeat Kawasaki Katsushika Saikyou Densetsu (Natsuki Taiyo, Natsuki☆Taiyo & Yoshiko (wrestler), Yoshiko) to become the inaugural champions. The title belt was crafted by United States, American company Top Rope Belts. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been 25 reigns shared among 24 different teams consisting of 34 distinctive wrestlers. Cosmic Angels (Tam Nakano & Natsumi Maki, Natsupoi) are the current champions in their ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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High Speed Champion
The is a women's professional wrestling Championship (professional wrestling), championship owned by the World Wonder Ring Stardom professional wrestling promotion, promotion. The title was originally created on May 5, 2009, in the NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling promotion, where Natsuki Taiyo, Natsuki☆Taiyo defeated Ray (wrestler), Ray to become the inaugural champion. As the name of the title suggests, it is meant for fast and Professional wrestling aerial techniques, high-flying wrestlers. On November 19, 2010, Stardom acquired the rights to the High Speed Championship from NEO, which had announced it would be folding after December 31. On July 24, 2011, Natsuki☆Taiyo, now affiliated with Stardom, defeated JWP Joshi Puroresu's Leon (Japanese wrestler), Leon to officially bring the title over to the promotion. Title history Names Reigns Natsuki Taiyo, Natsuki☆Taiyo was the first champion in the title's history. She also holds the records for most reigns, with four, and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Syuri
is a Japanese professional wrestler, shoot boxer, kickboxer and mixed martial artist, better known simply as . Syuri formerly competed in Ultimate Fighting Championship. Syuri is currently working for World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is the current World of Stardom Champion. She is a former SWA World Champion and formerly was one-half of the Goddesses of Stardom Champions with Giulia. Originally trained by Tajiri, she started her professional wrestling career in the Hustle promotion, where she worked under the ring name KG (Karate Girl). She later also worked for Hustle's two follow-up promotions; Smash, where she was the final Smash Diva Champion and Wrestling New Classic (WNC), where she was a two-time WNC Women's Champion. After WNC folded in June 2014, she remained affiliated with its sister promotion Reina Joshi Puroresu until March 2016, becoming a one-time Reina World Women's Champion and a one-time Reina World Tag Team Champion. Through Reina's relationshi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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God's Eye (professional Wrestling)
is a professional wrestling stable, currently performing in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom. The stable currently consists of Syuri, Mirai, Ami Sourei, Konami, Tomoka Inaba and Nanami. History Formation. Under Syuri's leadership (2022–present) After winning the World of Stardom Championship from Utami Hayashishita at '' Stardom Dream Queendom'' on December 29, 2021, Syuri felt underrated as being a normal member of Donna Del Mondo. After several months, she showed her dissatisfaction to the leader Giulia and even broke up their "AliKaba" tag team on March 21, 2022, at ''Stardom in Nagoya'', announcing that she wants her own path so she would hire herself a bodyguard. On the first night of the '' Stardom World Climax'' from March 26, 2022, after successfully defending the World of Stardom Championship against Giulia, Syuri officially resigned from Donna Del Mondo and revealed her new unit's official name as "God's Eye" and also revealin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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World Of Stardom Champion
The is a women's professional wrestling, women's world professional wrestling Championship (professional wrestling), championship owned by the World Wonder Ring Stardom professional wrestling promotion, promotion. The title, which is situated at the top of Stardom's championship hierarchy, was introduced on June 26, 2011, and the inaugural champion was crowned on July 24, 2011, when Nanae Takahashi defeated Yoko Bito in the finals of a four-woman tournament. History On July 24, 2011, Nanae Takahashi defeated Yoko Bito in the finals of a four-woman tournament to become the inaugural champion. On February 22, 2015, during a title match between the current champion Yoshiko (wrestler), Yoshiko and Act Yasukawa, the two began Shoot (professional wrestling), shooting on each other with Yoshiko getting the advantage, legitimately injuring Yasukawa, as the match had to be ended prematurely. Yasukawa was diagnosed with fractured cheek, nasal and orbital bones, which would require surg ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Saki (wrestler)
, mononymously known by her ring name Saki (often stylized in capital letters as SAKI) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working as a freelancer and is best known for her tenure with the Japanese promotions Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Wave. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2012-present) Watanabe made her professional wrestling debut at ''LLPW-X'', an event promoted by Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling on December 29, 2012, where she teamed up with Mizuki in a losing effort to Shinobu Kandori and Takako Inoue in a tag team match. As a freelancer, she is known for working with various promotions. At ''Ice Ribbon New Ice Ribbon #700 Neko Nitta Retirement'', an event promoted by Ice Ribbon on December 31, 2015, Watanabe teamed up with Mizuki in a losing effort to Azure Revolution (Maya Yukihi and Risa Sera). At ''JWP Fly High In The 25th Anniversary'', an event promoted by JWP Joshi Puroresu on May 22, 2016, she teamed up with Mizuki in a los ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mina Shirakawa
is a Japanese professional wrestler and idol, currently signed to the Japanese professional wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is the leader of Club Venus. She is a former Artist of Stardom and Future of Stardom Champion. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2018–2020) Shirakawa made her professional wrestling debut at ''BBJ Muscle Ring'' on August 5, 2018, the first-ever event of the Best Body Japan Pro-Wrestling promotion, where she teamed up with Shoko Nakajima in a losing effort against Reika Saiki and Hoshimi Muramatsu. She wrestled at several other events of the promotion such as the ''BBJ Muscle Ring 2'' from October 18, 2018, where she lost against Cherry, and ''BBJ Muscle Ring 3'' from December 26, 2018 where she lost to Misaki Ohata. She worked a match for DDT Pro-Wrestling, at Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2018 from October 21, where she teamed up with Miyu Yamashita and Yuki Kamifuku and lost to Yuka Sakazaki, Mizuki and Shoko Nakajima in a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Unagi Sayaka
, better known by her ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom and briefly working as a freelancer. She is best known for her time with Stardom, where she is a former Artist of Stardom Champion and Future of Stardom Champion. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2019–present) Sayaka wrestled for DDT Pro-Wrestling in the DDT Peter Pan series of events, making her first appearance at Wrestle Peter Pan 2019 on July 15, where she teamed up with Natsumi Maki and Yuna Manase in a losing effort to Rika Tatsumi and The Bakuretsu Sisters (Nodoka Tenma and Yuki Aino). Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (2019–2020) Sayaka made her professional wrestling debut under the name Himawari Unagi on January 4 at the TJP Tokyo Joshi Pro '19 show by teaming up with Saki Akai to face the team of Yumi and Yuki Kamifuku. During her tenure with Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling she fought as a singles wrestler and competed against other infamous wrest ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cosmic Angels (professional Wrestling)
is a professional wrestling stable, currently performing in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom. The stable currently consists of Tam Nakano, Unagi Sayaka, Mina Shirakawa, Waka Tsukiyama, Saki, Hikari Shimizu, Yuko Sakurai and Natsupoi. They are often known by their catchphrase '. History Formation The stable initially debuted as a sub-group of the Stars stable led by Mayu Iwatani on November 14, 2020 after Tam Nakano brought Mina Shirakawa from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, teaming up with her to defeat Iwatani and Starlight Kid, subsequently convincing Iwatani to accept Shirakawa in the stable. Shortly after Shirakawa joining the Stardom, Nakano recruited Unagi Sayaka into the sub-group who also came from TJPW. At Stardom Sendai Cinderella 2020 on November 15, Nakano, Sayaka and Shirakawa defeated Natsuko Tora, Rina and Saki Kashima. 2020 Split from Stars; under Nakano's leadership Tam Nakano, Mina Shirakawa and Unagi Sayaka teamed up on D ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |