was a

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event promoted by

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. The event took place on May 13, 2022, in

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at the Tokyo New Pier Hall, with a limited attendance due in part to the ongoing

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at the time.

Event

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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 press conference for the event was held on April 20, 2022 and was broadcast on Stardom's

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channel. The entire event was broadcast on Stardom's

channel.

Storylines

In the preshow,

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's Yuna Mizumori picked up a victory against

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's Lady C. The next match saw

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member Hanan teaming up with Queen's Quest's Hina and going into a time-limit draw against JTO's Tomoka Inaba & Aoi. After the match, Aoi issued a challenge for Hanan's

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. After Rina Amikura & Yuko Sakurai picked up a victory over Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo,

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rushed into the ring to confront Amikura, Sakurai &

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who accompanied the latter ringside. On June 5, 2022, Cosmic Angels were set to collide with Color's, with the loser unit being forced to join the enemy unit. After Suzu Suzuki defeated Mai Sakurai, she aimed for an attack upon

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's leader Giulia with whom she has been in a distant feud.

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of Prominence joined Suzuki to attack Giulia. Shortly after that,

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rushed to the ring to confront Sera ahead of their

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match from

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on May 28, 2022. During Giulia and Suzuki's confrontation, Waka Tsukiyama stepped up to challenge

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to a

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on May 28. A short backstage segment portrayed

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handing

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a portrait of Kairi. It was revealed that Amasaki would team up with

Utami Hayashishita (born September 14, 1998) is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom promotion, Since making her debut on August 12, 2018, she became a one-time World of Stardom Champion, two-time Goddesses of Stardom Ch ...

against Tam Nakano & Kairi at Flashing Champions.

Results

References

External links

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