After issuing an Eliminator Challenge, the AEW Women’s World Champion “Timeless” Toni Storm faces TJPW’s Miyu Yamashita as she steps up to the plate tonight on AEW Dynamite! But first, Renee Paquette catches up with the Global Champion herself, Mercedes Moné, after over a year of being in AEW. She goes on to face Jamie … Read more
An AEW Women’s Word Title Eliminator match is set for this week’s Dynamite. On April 27, Champion Toni Storm issued the challenge at the TCM Film Festival. “This is Timeless Toni Storm, coming to you from the TCM Film Festival. Now I could be here threatening Michelle Pfeiffer or on my knees begging for an … Read more
WWE’s Natalya (Nattie Neidhart) made her Bloodsport debut during GCW’s Josh Barnett Bloodsport XIII event on Thursday. Her opponent was Miyu Yamashita. Nattie headed to the ring already utilizing her middle finger to a remix of her WWE theme and Rage Against the Machine’s – Killing in the Name of. Yamashita is signed to Tokyo … Read more
Josh Barnett is starting to put together the matches for his Bloodsport XIII event that will take place on April 17. He has so far announced six women who will participate in the event. Those are: Natalya, Karmen Petrovic, Miyu Yamashita, Maikia, Konami, and Leyla Hirsch. It has been confirmed after an exchange on social … Read more
On Sunday, Shayna Baszler returned to GCW’s Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport in the main event to take on Miyu Yamashita. This was Yamashita’s first appearance but Baszler’s second as she defeated TNA’s Masha Slamovich in April. The match ended in TKO with the final moments involving Yamashita connected with a question mark kick and went for … Read more
It had been previously announced that WWE’s Shayna Baszler would be returning to Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport. Last time, Baszler faced TNA’s Masha Slamovich in April and came out with the victory. This time, she has a much different opponent, Miyu Yamashita. The two have never met in the ring before. Per Barnett’s post – Two … Read more
TNA Knockouts gold was on the line on this episode of TNA Impact, just 24 hours before Under Siege. We first take our focus toward the Knockouts Tag Team division as Alisha Edwards, along with the newly recruited Masha Slamovich, takes on one-half of the tag team champions, Dani Luna. After Spitfire’s successful defense at … Read more
After a chaotic weekend at TNA Rebellion, this week on TNA Impact! features the fallout of that pay-per-view and we continue some grudges that were left over from last week. We start off the night, with a replay from Rebellion and the mayhem that occurred during the Knockouts title match. Knockouts World Champion Jordynne Grace … Read more
It was confirmed recently that Miyu Yamashita was coming back to TNA to participate in its next set of tapings. Now, it was confirmed that the current TNA Knockouts World Champion Jordynne Grace will be her opponent. Yamashita was last seen on a TNA show over a year ago in a win against Killer Kelly. … Read more
TNA has announced some breaking news. Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling’s (TJPW) Miyu Yamashita will be returning to the promotion at their April 21 tapings. This will be the day after the Rebellion pay-per-view event. Yamashita is a four-time Princess of Princess Champion for TJPW as well as a former tag champion with Maki Itoh. The … Read more
Janai Kai was crowned the new MLW Women’s Featherweight Champion at their Slaughterhouse event on Oct. 14. She dethroned Delmi Exo who held the gold since April 6. Exo tapped out to Kai. Prior to the event, Exo’s opponent was simply known as the Phantom Opponent. Kai was confirmed as the challenger right before the … Read more
IMPACT Wrestling had a double header on Thursday with a special edition of their weekly show, plus the co-promoted Multiverse United event alongside NJPW. First on IMPACT, Miyu Yamashita made her debut for the company and managed to defeat Killer Kelly in a physical contest that was filmed at the recent tapings in Windsor. Additionally, … Read more
Mercedes Moné kicked off the next chapter in her life once she debuted at NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom earlier this year. Since then, she has become the IWGP Women’s Champion after defeating KAIRI at Battle in the Valley stateside in February. Since breaking out into the Japanese wrestling scene, Moné has commented on many name she … Read more
Mickie James will be defending the IMPACT Knockouts World Championship on March 30 at a joint event between IMPACT and NJPW. The event is titled Multiverse United and she will be facing three women. She will battle IMPACT’s Deonna Purrazzo and Gisele Shaw as well as TJPW’s Miyu Yamashita. This has been the only women’s … Read more
Thunder Rosa is still the AEW Women’s World Champion. AEW’s Fight For The Fallen edition of Dynamite featured Miyu Yamashita challenging Thunder Rosa for the top prize in the women’s division after Yamashita earned the opportunity by defeating Rosa in Japan earlier this month. Their rematch on Dynamite came in the usual 9:30 ET time … Read more
Jade Cargill continues to stay victorious even in tag team action. AEW’s TBS Champion and Kiera Hogan were originally booked to team with Leila Grey against Athena, Kris Statlander, and Willow Nightingale on the July 20 edition of AEW Dynamite. However, AEW announced prior to the show that Grey was not cleared to compete, thus … Read more
Thunder Rosa visited Japan to participate in TJPW’s Summer Sun Princess event on July 9. The AEW Women’s World Champion took on Miyu Yamashita and the two would battle in singles competition. Before the match went underway, Rosa stated that if Yamashita wins, she would give her a title opportunity when Yamashita comes to the … Read more
On March 19, Shoko Nakajima became a two-time TJPW Princess of Princess Champion when she defeated Miyu Yamashita. The two battled in the main event of the TJPW Grand Princess ’22 event. This ended the reign of Yamashita at 319-days. Nakajima’s previous reign was in 2019 when she held the title for 184-days before dropping … Read more
Monday, Allysin Kay continued her red-hot run as she reclaimed the SHINE Championship at a Tokyo Joshi Pro show in Sapporo, Japan. Kay defeated Miyu Yamashita for the belt, capturing her SHINE title for the second time in the process. Yamashita held the belt for 31 days. Kay’s first reign began back at SHINE 53 … Read more
Update: Allysin Kay loses her Shine Championship to Miyu Yamashita in a Winner Takes All match. With both women having their titles on the line the stakes were at an all-time high. The match highlighted submission holds from both competitors. The conclusion of the match involved the referee calling for the bell after Kay was … Read more
Tokyo Joshi Pro’s High Score show included a recent debut’s first win, more development for the Up Up Girls, and the return of the Muscle Strikers in the main event.
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling’s first show of 2019 was a good one, with Miyu Yamashita vs. Maki Itoh for the Tokyo Princess of Princess Championship in the main event, Reika Saiki vs. Meiko Satomura, and more. You can watch this show on DDT Universe, where it also streamed live at 12 PM JST on Jan. 4. … Read more
Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, the all-female wing of DDT and home of some of joshi’s rising stars, had their holiday special “Ready, set… Merry Christmas!” at 12 p.m. on Dec. 22, in Itabashi. The card included two tag team matches and six special singles matches chosen via drawing at a fan event, one of which … Read more