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 ...

. It took place on October 3, 2020, in

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, at the Yokohama Budokan, with limited attendance due in part to the ongoing

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at the time.

Storylines

The show featured eight

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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.

Event

The second match presented Mina Shirakawa as the first mystery debutant of the night, coming from

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, who picked up a victory against Hanan. The fourth match had Death Yama-san facing the second mystery opponent of the show, who was later revealed to be a returning

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, who started competing as Natsupoi following her departure from TJPW. After her victory against Yama-san, she joined Giulia's unit of

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. The sixth match featured Tokyo Cyber Squad's disbanding after Jungle Kyona and Konami fell short to

Oedo Tai (Stylized OEDotai, also known as "Oedo Corps" in Japanese) is a villanous professional wrestling stable, currently performing in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom, and formerly in the Professional wrestling ...

's Natsuko Tora and Saki Kashima. Kyona, Rina, Ruaka, and Death Yama-san received invitations to join the

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stable led by

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, which the latter accepted. Only Konami left for Oedo Tai. The disbanding of TCS (''often shortened from Tokyo Cyber Sqyad'') had been done to mourn the late ex-leader of the unit,

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. The main event of the show featured Mayu Iwatani battling Syuri for the

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, a match which ended with Iwatani's victory, marking her fourth successful title defense in a row.

Results

References

External links

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