Highly decorated STARDOM talent Utami Hayashishita is at tonight’s AEW shows/ROH tapings in Calgary. This is being reported by Fightful Select. Fightful Select has learned that she’s scheduled to work a match at the tapings, but haven’t learned which one. With a lot of Collision and Battle of the Belts already announced, it’s likely Ring … Read more
Giulia, currently one-third of the Artist of Stardom Champions, laid down a challenge for Willow Nightingale. She wants the NJPW STRONG Women’s Championship. At STARDOM Sunshine, Giulia retained the Artist of Stardom Titles along with BariBari Bombers members Thekla and Mai Sakurai. They defeated STARS in a six woman steel cage match to retain the … Read more
Reality of Wrestling (ROW) is about to have a foxy time in July as former WWE Divas Champion Alicia Fox will be present at the event. ROW is the Texas based indie promotion ran by WWE Hall of Famers Sharmell and Booker T. In the Tweet below from Booker, you can see that Fox will … Read more
Tam Nakano is now a double champion and holds the top two championships in STARDOM. Already the World of Stardom Champion, she put the title on the line when she faced Mina Shirakawa for the Wonder of Stardom Championship at Flashing Champions in a Winner Takes All match. Nakano became the World of Stardom Champion … Read more
PrideStyle Pro has their next event, Change of Heart, set for this Saturday May 6. The promotion is an all inclusive promotion based out of Las Vegas, Nevada and first opened their doors in 2021. They have put on shows in 4 cities and 3 different states as they grow. PrideStyle is fully intergender and … Read more
There was a reset of championships as many titles changed hands at STARDOM’s All Star Grand Queendom event. This includes the Wonder of Stardom belt which Saya Kamitani held for nearly 500 days. Mercedes Moné has her first loss since joining the Japan wrestling scene. In a battle against Mayu Iwatani, Moné wasn’t able to … Read more
The IWGP Women’s Champion Mercedes Moné sent a very clear message to her upcoming challenger – Mayu Iwatani. Moné is coming off a huge title defense where she defeated both AZM and Hazuki to retain the gold. Iwatani stepped up after the match to issue the challenge. She is the one who KAIRI defeated to … Read more
Mercedes Moné is still the IWGP Women’s Champion after a big battle at NJPW’s Sakura Genesis. She defeated both AZM and Hakuzi in a Three-way bout. AZM is STARDOM’s High Speed Champion giving Moné and even bigger challenge. The result of the match had Moné hit the Moné Maker on AZM on top of Hazuki … Read more
KAIRI has confirmed that she is a free agent. The talent who has been recently working with STARDOM sat down with Steve Fall from Ten Count for an in-depth interview. KAIRI previously worked in Japan but also was known as Kairi Sane when she had her run with WWE. She is a former NXT Women’s … Read more
AAA Lucha Libre presented its World Cup event on March 19. There was a separate World Cup crowned for the women and the men. For the women, there were four teams – Team Mexico, Team United States, Team Japan, and Team Rest of the World. Team United States which consisted of Deonna Purrazzo, Kamille, and … Read more
One half of the current WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, Lita, was at an indie event over the weekend where she presented their inaugural women’s championship to the winner. The promotion is West Coast Pro in California and the match was between Masha Slamovich and Sandra Moone. Slamovich is currently a Knockout for IMPACT and … Read more
Cheerleader Melissa has been announced as an inductee into the next class of the Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame. This news was confirmed by Game Changer Wrestling and she will be inducted by Dave Prazak (Shimmer founder) on April 2 in a ceremony. Melissa has had a lengthy career in the indies and had also … Read more
Mercedes Monè made her exciting return to the ring for the first time since May over the weekend. She participated in NJPW’s Battle in the Valley where she took on KAIRI for the IWGP Women’s Championship. Monè would go on to be victorious in that bout and win her first gold since leaving WWE. Now, … Read more
STARDOM’s Himeka has announced that she will be retiring in April after just five years in the ring The 25-year-old made this announcement during a press conference on Friday and says it is not something she regrets. She will have a retirement ceremony in May. This announcement comes just after she teamed with Maika to … Read more
KAIRI will be challenged by Mercedes Mone at the upcoming NJPW Battle in the Valley event in February. Mone debuted in NJPW at Wrestle Kingdom 17 and confronted KAIRI. This was after KAIRI successfully defended the IWGP Women’s Championship against Tam Nakano. While speaking in a recent interview with Dark Puroresu Flowsion, KAIRI commented on … Read more
Gail Kim has been a tremendous asset to the behind the scenes production of the IMPACT Knockouts division. In recent years, IMPACT has seen crossover and collaborations with other promotions such as AEW, AAA, and NWA in contribution to the “Forbidden Door” aspect of the wrestling industry. Even in 2022, IMPACT shockingly had an agreement … Read more
Although it is rare for WWE to work with any other wrestling promotion, it has been happening more and more recently. For example, New Japan Pro Wrestling has had recent matches involving WWE talent Karl Anderson as well as Shinsuke Nakamura. NJPW has also started to incorporate STARDOM talent into their shows and even introduced … Read more
Syuri’s reign as the World of Stardom Champion has come to an end at exactly 365 days as Giulia has been crowned the new champion! The two women had a hell of a battle on Dec. 29 in a near 30-minute main event at Dream Queendom 2. Giulia becomes one of only 13 women to … Read more
STARDOM is starting off 2023 big with its first-ever Triangle Derby trios league. The tournament will kick off Jan. 3 and last until March. There are two blocks – Red Triangle and Blue Triangle. The trios were announced today. Red Triangle Blue Triangle In other STARDOM news, its next event will be the Stardom Dream … Read more
Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) has released its 2022 Top Tag Team 100 list. Ranking the top 100 tag teams in wrestling of 2022, Stardom’s FWC (Hazuki & Koguma) is listed at number five beating out 95 other tag teams regardless of gender. Hazuki & Koguma returned to wrestling in 2021 after both retiring. Coming baxk … Read more
Lana Austin has won the PROGRESS Women’s Championship for the first time in her wrestling career. She defeated Kanji at the PROGRESS Chapter 146: They Think It’s All Over event on Nov. 27 at the Electric Ballroom in London, England. Kanji held the title in her second reign for 175 days. Prior champions of this … Read more
On Nov. 20, KAIRI has officially become the inaugural IWGP Women’s Champion at the NJPW x STARDOM Historic X-Over event. This took place in the main event. NJPW started welcoming women’s matches into their shows this year by including STARDOM. From this, a championship was introduced and a tournament took place. It came down to … Read more
Women’s wrestling legend Allison Danger returned to the ring for one night only on October 27. She teamed with her nephew Colby Corino for the first time to take on Brandon and Kasey Kirk at SHP: Colby Corino’s Painted Black event. The match occurred in the semi-main event on the card, now streaming on IWTV. … Read more
STARDOM hosted its latest event, Hiroshima Goddess Festival on Nov. 3. At that event, Mayu Iwatani who held the SWA World Championship for 182-days, decided to relinquish the championship making it vacated. Her reasoning is to focus on the upcoming IWGP Women’s Championship which will decide its inaugural champion on Nov. 20. That match will … Read more
There have been two women’s matches confirmed from the STARDOM promotion to take place at a New Japan Pro Wrestling event. It will be stateside as it takes place in New York, New York and the event is named NJPW Rumble on 44th Street. The event takes place this Friday on Oct. 28. The SWA … Read more
It was announced back in July as the relationship has grown between STARDOM and NJPW that a women’s belt would be introduced. It was confirmed to come in November and it is being created by both promotions for the women to defend in not only Japan but the United States at NJPW events. Now, a … Read more