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Stardom Gold Rush
was a professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom. The event took place on November 19, 2022, in Osaka at the Edion Arena Osaka with limited attendance due in part to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic at the time. Background The show featured nine 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 event's press conference was broadcast live on Stardom's YouTube channel on November 8, 2022. Event The two preshow matches were broadcast live on Stardom's YouTube channel. In the first one, Natsuko Tora & Ruaka picked up a victory over Lady C & Miyu Amasaki and Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo. In the second one, AZM successfully defended the High Speed Championship for the eighth consecutive time against Momoka Hanazono. The first main card match saw Giulia, Thekla & ... [...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] |
Ruaka (wrestler)
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese promotions World Wonder Ring Stardom where she is a former one-time Future of Stardom Champion Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2017-present) She competed for one time in Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling in a dark exhibition match which took place at a house show from April 6, 2017 where she fell short to Manami. World Wonder Ring Stardom (2016-present) Ruaka made her professional wrestling debut at the early age of 12, at ''Goddesses Of Stars'', an event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom on November 20, 2016 where she teamed up with Arisu Nanase in a losing effort to AZM and Natsuko Tora. She is known for competing in various of the promotion's signature events such as the Stardom All Star Dream Cinderella from March 3, 2021 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 Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayu Iwatani
(born February 19, 1993) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom. Since making her debut in January 2011, she became a two-time World of Stardom Champion, two-time Wonder of Stardom Champion, one-time High Speed Champion, one-time SWA World Champion, two-time Goddess of Stardom Champion, and a five-time Artist of Stardom Champion, while also having won the Cinderella Tournament back to back in 2015 and 2016, and the 2018 5*Grand Prix. She also made appearances for Stardom's American partner Ring of Honor (ROH), where she is a former one-time Women of Honor World Champion. Dave Meltzer of the ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' has called Iwatani and fellow Japanese workers Io Shirai and Kairi Hojo "three of the best wrestlers in the world". Early life Iwatani grew up in the countryside of Mine, Yamaguchi with her family, which includes two older brothers. In primary school, she practiced judo and high jump, but in high school, she began ... [...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] |
Natsumi Maki
, better known by her ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler. She is currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2015–present) Maki wrestled a couple of matches for Reina, one of them at ''REINA Year End Battle In Korakuen 2015'' on December 26, where she teamed up with Tae Honma in a losing effort to Saori Anou and her trainer Yuna Manase. She participated at ''Kyoko Kimura Retirement Produce Last Afro'' on January 22, 2017, where she competed in a 20-man battle royal also involving other popular superstars such as Takashi Sasaki, Munenori Sawa, Yuki Miyazaki, Yuko Miyamoto, Hercules Senga and others. While competing in All Japan Pro Wrestling, she participated at the ''AJPW Jun Akiyama & Takao Omori 25th Anniversary'' event from October 21, 2017, where she teamed up with Saori Anou, picking up a victory against Haruka Kato and Saki. At Oz Academy's ''AKINO Produce 20th Anniversary'', an event from on July 8, 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tam Nakano
, is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she competes under the ring name , and is the leader of the Cosmic Angels stable. Nakano is a former three-time Artist of Stardom Champion, as well as a former Wonder of Stardom Champion Nakano began her career in the Actwres girl'Z promotion as an idol in 2015 before training under Yuna Manase and making her debut as a professional wrestler in July 2016. Nakano left the promotion in 2017, and began working for Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW) and World Wonder Ring Stardom as a freelancer before officially signing with Stardom in November 2017. Professional wrestling career Actwres Girl’z and freelancing (2016–2017) Tauchi began dancing at the age of 3 and eventually became a dance instructor in 2012. She joined the underground idol group known as Katamomi Joshi, and was active with them until April 2015. In interviews since she has stated that she struggled a lot in the group, and would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mai Sakurai
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese promotions World Wonder Ring Stardom. Professional wrestling career Actwres girl'Z (2020-2021) Sakurai made her professional wrestling debut at ''AWG Act 46'', an event promoted by Actwres girl'Z on February 11, 2020, where she fell short to Miku Aono. At ''Ice Ribbon/AWG Ice Ribbon & Actwres girl'Z Joint Show '' on November 16, 2020, she teamed up with Maya Yukihi to defeat Miku Aono and Nao Ishikawa. World Wonder Ring Stardom (2021-present) Sakurai made her debut in World Wonder Ring Stardom in the sixth night of the Stardom 5 Star Grand Prix 2021 from August 13 where she unsuccessfully challenged 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 ... for the Future of Stardom Championship. After th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thekla (wrestler)
Thekla Kaischauri mononymously known by her ring name Thekla is an Austrian professional wrestler currently working for World Wonder Ring Stardom. She is also known known for her tenure with the Japanese promotion Ice Ribbon. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2018–present) Kaischauri made her professional wrestling debut in the Austrian underground scene, which was sited by the pro wrestler on Cathy Cat’s YouTube channel where she was interviewed recently. She also mentioned this in a vienna.info ten question interview (cited). As part freelancer, Kaischauri is known for competing in multiple promotions of the Japanese independent scene. On July 18, 2021, she competed at a house show promoted by World Woman Pro-Wrestling Diana where she teamed up with Shizuku Tsukata in a losing effort against Crysis (Ayako Sato and Jaguar Yokota). On Seadlinnng's 6th Anniversary Show from August 19, 2021, she unsuccessfully faced Leon in a high-speed match. At ''FMW-E Sky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulia (wrestler)
is an English-born Italian-Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is the current World of Stardom Champion in her first reign. She is also a former Wonder of Stardom Champion, Goddess of Stardom Champion and Artist of Stardom Champion. She is also the current and founding leader of the Donna Del Mondo stable. She formerly competed in Ice Ribbon, from her debut in 2017 up until October 2019. In Stardom, she is a one-time Wonder of Stardom Champion and a one-time Artist of Stardom Champion. Giulia was the recipient of the 2020 ''Tokyo Sports'' Women's Wrestling Grand Prize. Early life Giulia was born in London, England, to an Italian father and a Japanese mother, and was raised in Japan's Chiba Prefecture. She worked as a manager in an Italian restaurant before applying to train as a professional wrestler with Ice Ribbon in 2017. In an interview for ''Shūkan Bunshun'' in 2022, Giulia stated that she was a victim of bullying beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Speed Championship
The is a women's professional wrestling championship owned by the World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion. The title was originally created on May 5, 2009, in the NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling promotion, where Natsuki☆Taiyo defeated Ray to become the inaugural champion. As the name of the title suggests, it is meant for fast and 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 to officially bring the title over to the promotion. Title history Names Reigns Natsuki☆Taiyo was the first champion in the title's history. She also holds the records for most reigns, with four, and the longest reign in the title's history at 679 days, achieved on her third reign. Koguma's only reign of 84 days is the shortest in the title's history. Overall, there have been 22 r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AZM (wrestler)
AZM, shortened from is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to the Japanese professional wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2013-present) Besides Stardom, Azumi is known for her appearances in the independent circuit, working for different independent promotions. At the August 8, 2017 house show of the Marvelous That's Women Pro Wrestling promotion, Azumi teamed up with HZK to defeat New-Tra (Rin Kadokura and Takumi Iroha). She competed at ''Kagetsu Retirement Show ~ Many Face'', a freelance event which portraited the last match of Kagetsu from February 24, 2020, where she defeated Kaho Kobayashi and Mei Suruga in a three-way match. At ''Estrella Executive Committee/Stardom/Tokyo Gurentai '', a cross-over event produced by World Wonder Ring Stardom in partnership with Tokyo Gurentai on March 14, 2019, Azumi competed in a four-way elimination tag team match, where she teamed up with Momo Watanabe and Ut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Momo Kohgo
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom. She is also known for her time in Ice Ribbon and Actwres girl'Z. Professional wrestling career Japanese independent circuit (2019–2021) Beginning as a freelancer, Kohgo is known for competing in multiple promotions of the Japanese independent scene. She competed in one of Pro Wrestling Wave's signature events, the 2021 Young Block Oh! Oh! division of the Catch the Wave tournament where she competed in the "Block A", scoring a total of two points after going against Tomoka Inaba, Ami Miura and Shizuku Tsukata. At ''New Ice Ribbon #1013 ~ RibbonMania 2019'', an event promoted by Ice Ribbon on December 30, 2019, Kohgo competed in Tequila Saya's retirement 44-person gauntlet match which ended in a time-limit draw and also involved notable opponents such as Ken Ohka, Munenori Sawa, Manami Toyota, Ram Kaicho, Rina Shingaki, Matsuya Uno and many others. She is also known fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
