sometimes stylized as the 5★Star Grand Prix is an annual

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promoted by the

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ese

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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 i ...

. The event has been held since 2012 and aired domestically on

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, Fighting TV Samurai and

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, and later as an internet

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on Stardom's streaming service Stardom World. It is considered to be the main annual competition promoted by Stardom, being preceded by the

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which is the secondary competition.

Tournament history

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held each summer by

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. Similar to

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-owned male counterpart

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with the

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tournament, it is currently held as a round-robin tournament with wrestlers split into two pools. The winner of each pool will compete in the final to decide the winner. As is the case with G1 Climax, a win is two points and a draw is one point for each wrestler. There have been a total of ten editions that gave ten different champions. Seven of the title challenges were unsuccessful while only three were successful.

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successfully defended the

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against three different tournament winners while

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scored the only two defeats, dropping the same title. In 2021, Stardom introduced the World of Stardom challenge rights certificate, in which the winner of 5 Star Grand Prix receives a contract for a future World of Stardom Championship match. Like NJPW's

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, the contract is kept in a briefcase and can be defended until the title match.

List of winners

Record

Events

There have been a total of ten distinctive events. They usually spread across one or two months.

Notes

References

External links

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