was a

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event promoted by

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 took place on November 19, 2022, in

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at the

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with limited attendance due in part to the ongoing

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at the time.

Background

The show featured nine

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that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed

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, 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

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channel on November 8, 2022.

Event

The two preshow matches were broadcast live on Stardom's YouTube channel. In the first one,

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& Ruaka picked up a victory over Lady C &

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and

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. In the second one, AZM successfully defended the

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for the eighth consecutive time against Momoka Hanazono. The first main card match saw Giulia, Thekla &

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picking up a victory over

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, Natsupoi &

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in the first rounds of a "Moneyball Tournament". The other first-round match presented

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 ...

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also advancing over Mirai, Future of Stardom Champion

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. In the fifth match, two-thirds of the

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defeated other third of the artist champions

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& Fukigen Death to secure two points in the 2022 edition of the Tag League. Maika &

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also scored additional two points in the tag league by defeating

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& Yuu. The seventh match saw

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successfully defending the

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for the eleventh consecutive time after going into a time-limit draw against Kairi, concluding a rescheduled match which Kairi was initially meant to have at Stardom x Stardom: Nagoya Midsummer Encounter on August 21, 2022 but needed to pull out due to COVID issues. The semi-main event saw

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defending the

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for the tenth time in a row against

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. After the match, Giulia came down to the ring to remind Syuri about their match at ''Dream Queendom'' on December 29. The main event portrayed the confrontation between

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(Mayu Iwatani, Hazuki & Koguma) and

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(Giulia, Thekla & Mai Sakurai) in a Tables, ladders & chairs match in which a plastic ball full of money was suspended over the ring. Hazuki & Iwatani succeeded in grabbing the money and winning the match.

Matches

References

External links

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