Stardom runs their monthly NEW BLOOD event today, the 15th installment of their developmental series for younger and less-experienced wrestlers. The feature match is another Future Of Stardom Championship match-having broken big sister Hanan’s successful defense record last time out by beating twin sister Hina, champion Rina looks to keep her unbeaten record reign going against Aya Sakura. Several other rookies and young talent will be featured as well.
Today’s event will be held at Tokorozawa Sakura Town Japan Pavilion Hall A in Saitama and can be watched LIVE on Stardom World. There likely will be no commentary. Only the main event will likely have longer than a 20 minute time limit if it does so with 6 matches the event probably will run a maximum of 2 hours.
Today’s lineup:
Rian vs. Tomoka Inaba
Sayaka Kurara vs. Soi
Lady C & Ranna Yagami vs. Azusa Inaba & Ruaka
HANAKO vs. Echika Miyabi
Hina vs. Miyu Amasaki
Future Of Stardom Champion Rina vs. Aya Sakura for the title
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8:30 PM PT UPDATE; You can also watch the entire event live FOR FREE on YouTube or below.
9 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from Tokorozawa Sakura Town Japan Pavilion Hall A in Saitama. There is no commentary.
The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The venue looks small but the lighting is dark enough that I can’t get a good look at the seating. From what I can see I’m guessing it’ll be around 200. I will be watching on YouTube because this stream has 1080p60fps video quality (at least on the hard cameras) available and livestreams have DVR functionality (not readily available on Stardom World). (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 326)
Match 1: Rian vs. Tomoka Inaba. 15 minute time limit
Result: Tomoka Inaba beat Rian by submission
Match 2: Sayaka Kurara vs. Soi. 15 minute time limit
Result: Sayaka Kurara beat Soi
Match 3: Lady C & Ranna Yagami vs. Azusa Inaba & Ruaka. 15 minute time limit
Result: Lady C & Ranna Yaganmi beat Azusa Inaba & Ruaka. C pinned Inaba.
Match 4: HANAKO vs. Echika Miyabi. 15 minute time limit
Result: HANAKO beat Echika Miyabi by submission
Intermission. 10-15 minute break.
The matches resume at 10:05 PM PT/1:05 AM ET.
Match 5: Hina vs. Miyu Amasaki. 15 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Amasaki beat Hina
Main Event: Future Of Stardom Champion Rina vs. Aya Sakura for the title. 15 minute time limit
Result: Future Of Stardom Champion Rina beat Aya Sakura to retain the title. V12(!) for Rina. The record run continues. Came close to going the distance, in which case Rina would have retained. Next up: Looks like Amasaki. Rina hinted at it happening Saturday in Nagoya at STARDOM NAGOYA GOLDEN FIGHT 2024 (which will be a PPV). We should know if it will happen then in a day or two.
The next event is Wednesday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA but it likely will be a live Stardom World broadcast.
UPDATE: It’s now official. Rina-Amasaki will happen Saturday. The legendary Dump Matsumoto, perhaps Japan’s greatest female heel wrestler ever and subject of the new Netflix series “The Queen Of Villians”, has also been added to Saturday along with ZAP and will team with Natsuko Tora, Konami, Momo Watanabe & Ruaka to face Maika, Mina Shirakawa, Gina, HANAKO, Waka Tsukiyama & Rian. Expect forks and lots of blood. (Side note: I binge-watched The Queen Of Villians last week. Overblown and overdoes it on the violence but it’s an entertaining look at women’s pro wrestling in Japan in the 1970s-1980s and is based on actual events despite being fiction. It’s worth 5-6 hours of your time. The English dubbed version features the voices of current WWE wrestler Alexa Bliss and former WWE wrestler Nikki Bella. Content warning-there are scenes depicting domestic violence against women & children)
