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Stardom runs their monthly NEW BLOOD event today, taking their developmental series to Osaka for a special NEW BLOOD WEST installment. As is normally the case, it will feature a mix of younger & less experienced Stardom wrestlers and similar from other promotions including freelancers. A new wrestler is also slated to debut today, currently named Matoi (ring name TBA at a later date) following an exhibition practice appearance at a recent event. The main event will likely be a New Blood Tag Team Championship match as Rina & Azusa Inaba, who are also in this year’s Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Tournament, defend the titles against Ranna Yagami & Lady C.

Today’s event will be held at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka and can be watched LIVE FOR FREE only on YouTube. It will not be available live on Stardom World. There will be no commentary. These events are on the shorter side and there are only 5 matches planned so the event will probably run a little over 90 minutes but less than 2 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Matoi Debut Match: Matoi vs. Hanan
Mei Seira & Miyu Amasaki vs. Yuna Mizumori & Momoka Hanazono
Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara vs. Sumiko Yanagawa & Misa Kamihime
HANAKO & Rian vs. ZONES & ChiChi
New Blood Tag Team Champions Rina & Azusa Inaba vs. Ranna Yagami & Lady C for the titles

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Updates below will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET.

7:15 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream placeholder on YouTube is now up. It’s scheduled to begin at 7:45 PM PT/10:45 PM ET. You can watch below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovS8hyisBxE

7:45 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream above has begun. Results will be posted below. Updates will begin when the event begins in about 15 minutes.

7:57 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates start now.

We are LIVE from Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. This is a very small venue that typically averages around 200 for wrestling events, the seating I can see looks full or close to it. I’m not too familiar with the capacity but from what I know about the past I’ll guess it’ll be around that 200 figure. (UPDATE: It has not yet been announced but it was a legit advance sellout) (UPDATE 2: The announced paid attendance was 246)

The matches should begin in a few minutes.

The matches begin at 8:03 PM PT/11:03 PM ET.

Match 1: Matoi Hamabe Debut Match: Matoi Hamabe vs. Hanan. 15 minute time limit
Result: Hanan beat Matoi Hamabe by submission. But a very good effort from the newcomer in her debut, showing a lot of potential and nearly pulled the upset on a few occasions. Afterwards, Hanan with microphone. She put Hamabe over and thanked her before letting Hamabe have the microphone for post-debut comments.

Match 2: Mei Seira & Miyu Amasaki vs. Yuna Mizumori & Momoka Hanazono (Independent/Freelancer). And some kind of bubble machine with Hanazono. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mei Seira & Miyu Amasaki beat Yuna Mizumori & Momoka Hanazono. Seira pinned Mizumori after a Hanazono weapon attack backfired and Seira ducked so she hit Mizumori instead.

Match 3: Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara vs. Sumiko Yanagawa & Misa Kamihime (Just Tap Out/JTO). 20 minute time limit. As was the case in match 2 entrance music is muted for the outsiders (copyrights).
Result: Sumiko Yanagawa & Misa Kamihime beat Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. Kamihime pinned Kurara after a diving senton.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 9:15 PM PT/12:15 AM ET.

Match 4: HANAKO & Rian vs. ZONES & ChiChi (Independent/Freelancers). 20 minute time limit
Result: ZONES & ChiChi beat HANAKO & Rian. ChiChi pinned Rian. Post-match promos interrupted by Aya Sakura who rushed in to attack ZONES & ChiChi leading to a Sakura beatdown from ZONES as HANAKO & ChiChi scuffled while others tried to break it up.

Main Event: New Blood Tag Team Champions Rina & Azusa Inaba vs. Ranna Yagami & Lady C for the titles. 20 minute time limit
Result: New Blood Tag Team Champions Rina & Azusa Inaba beat Ranna Yagami & Lady C to retain the titles. Inaba pinned Yagami after a running knee strike. V2 for the champs. Afterwards the usual group photo op with all the participants ended the show.

The next NEW BLOOD event will be on 12/26.

The next event is HISTORIC X-OVER 2, a crossover event with New Japan, Sunday at Osaka Prefectural Gym. Live streaming as a PPV on Stardom World will begin Saturday at 11 PM PT/2 AM ET. It will also be available on New Japan World, for those in the US it’ll be maybe a dollar or two cheaper there. The PPV on demand window is expected to be one week. The Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Tournament resumes Wednesday.

Stardom continued the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League tournament yesterday in Tokyo.

Yesterday’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on Stardom World.

The announced paid attendance was 1026.

Before the event began, a 5-minute exhibition practice was held with former wrestler & current New Japan World commentator Milano Collection A.T. and a current trainee, who will debut Saturday against Hanan.

Match 1: Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Red Block: Konami & Saya Kamitani beat Tam Nakano & Sayaka Kurara. Kamitani pinned Nakano after Star Crusher. Afterwards, Kamitani issued a World Of Stardom Championship challenge to Nakano. That match will happen at STARDOM GRAND QUEENDOM on 12/29 at Ryogoku Kokugikan

Match 2: Hazuki, Koguma, AZM & Miyu Amasaki beat Hina, Lady C, Tomoka Inaba & Ranna Yagami. Amasaki pinned Yagami after Amanohashidate.

Goddess Of Stardom Tag League:
Match 3: Blue Block: Starlight Kid & Suzu Suzuki beat Waka Tsukiyama & Rian. Kid beat Rian with Black Tiger Leg Murder.
Match 4: Blue Block: Rina & Azusa Inaba beat Mei Seira & Kohaku. Rina pinned Seira after Pink Devil.
Match 5: Red Block: Syuri & Saki Kashima beat Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo. Kashima pinned Kohgo after a double arm kneebuster.
Match 6: Blue Block: Hanan & Saya Iida beat Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura. Hanan pinned Sakura with a backdrop hold.
Match 7: Red Block: Maika & HANAKO beat Natsuko Tora & Ruaka. Maika pinned Tora after Michinoku Driver 2.
Main Event: Blue Block: Momo Watanabe & Thekla beat Natsupoi & Saori Anou. Thekla pinned Natsupoi after Poisonous Spider Drop.

Standings:
Red Block:
1-Maika/HANAKO, 4-0, 8 pts
2-Hazuki/Koguma, 4-1, 8 pts
3-Syuri/Kashima, 3-2, 6 pts
4-Tora/Ruaka, 3-3, 6 pts
5-Kamitani/Konami, 2-2, 4 pts
6-Iwatani, Kohgo, 2-4, 4 pts
7-Nakano/Kurara, 1-3, 2 pts
8-Yagami/Inaba, 1-3, 2 pts
9-AZM/Amasaki, 1-3, 2 pts

Blue Block:
1-Natsupoi/Anou, 4-1-1, 9 pts
2-Watanabe/Thekla, 3-0, 6 pts
3-Rina/Inaba, 3-3, 6 pts
4-Kid/Suzuki, 2-1-1, 5 pts
5-Seira/Kohaku, 2-2-1, 5 pts
6-Tsukiyama/Rian, 2-1, 4 pts
7-Hanan/Iida, 1-3-1, 3 pts
8-Hina/C, 1-4, 2 pts
9-Mizumori/Sakura, 1-4, 2 pts

The top 3 in each block advance with the winners of each block going to the Semifinals and the other 2 teams in each block facing each other with the winner advancing.

The next event is NEW BLOOD WEST 2 Saturday at Osaka Azalea Taishi in Osaka which also has a New Blood Tag Team Championship match scheduled as Rina & Azusa Inaba defend the titles against Ranna Yagami & Lady C. Live streaming FOR FREE only on YouTube will begin Friday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET. There will be no live broadcast on Stardom World.

Stardom continued the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League today in Miyazaki.

Today’s event was held at UMK Sports Studio in Miyazaki and can be watched on demand on Stardom World.

The announced paid attendance was 420, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Mei Seira, Starlight Kid, Miyu Amasaki, Syuri, Hina & Lady C beat Maika, Mina Shirakawa, HANAKO, Rian, Tam Nakano & Sayaka Kurara. Hina beat Rian with Gedo Clutch.

Goddess Of Stardom Tag League:
Match 2: Blue Block: Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura beat Rina & Azusa Inaba. Sakura pinned Inaba after a right high kick.
Match 3: Red Block: Natsuko Tora & Ruaka beat Tomoka Inaba & Ranna Yagami. Ruaka pinned Yagami after a lariat.
Match 4: Blue Block: Natsupoi & Saori Anou vs. Hanan & Saya Iida went to a 20 minute time limit draw. 1 point for each.
Match 5: Red Block: Hazuki & Koguma beat Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo. Koguma beat Kohgo with a sleeper hold.

Main Event: Suzu Suzuki beat AZM. This was the first hometown match for Suzuki in her career.

Standings-wise, the Blue Block is still led by Natsupoi & Anou at 4-0-1, 9 points while the Red Block is led by Hazuki & Koguma at 4-1, 8 points.

The next event is Saturday at New Pier Hall Takeshiba in Tokyo. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin Friday at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET. I will try to do live results but it will depend on schedule conflicts.

Stardom continued the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League today in Fukuoka.

Today’s event was held at Munakata Yurix Event Hall in Fukuoka and can be watched on demand on Stardom World.

The announced paid attendance was 764.

Match 1: Momo Kohgo beat Rian, Syuri, Mina Shirakawa, Hanan & Saya Kamitani in a 6-way by pinning Rian.

Goddess Of Stardom Tag League:
Match 2: Blue Block: Natsupoi & Saori Anou beat Hina & Lady C. Anou pinned Hina after Special Pottering.
Match 3: Red Block: Natsuko Tora & Ruaka beat AZM & Miyu Amasaki. Ruaka pinned AZM after countering Azumi Sushi.
Match 4: Blue Block: Mei Seira & Cohaku beat Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura. Cohako pinned Sakura after Pakete.
Match 5: Red Block: Tam Nakano & Sayaka Kurara beat Tomoka Inaba & Ranna Yagami. Nakano pinned Inaba after Violet Screwdriver.
Match 6: Blue Block: Rina & Azusa Inaba beat Starlight Kid & Suzu Suzuki. Rina pinned Kid.

Main Event: Maika, Hazuki & Koguma beat Mayu Iwatani, Saya Iida & HANAKO. Maika pinned HANAKO after Michinoku Driver 2.

The next event is tomorrow at Ozu Cycle Shop Kodama Ozu Arena Sub Arena in Oita. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin TONIGHT at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. (Update: I planned to try and do live results but there are 3 other major events at the same time so this one will be the odd event out. I can easily simulcast 3 events live at the same time in my setup because one is a New Japan event and that has an Apple TV app, but to do 3 others on my laptop and tablet at the same time is too much)

Stardom continues the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League tournament today in Oita, their first visit there, with 5 total tournament matches scheduled. It’s a more even split today than in prior events so far with 3 Blue Block and 2 Red Block matches. Going into today all the Red Block teams will finally have had their first match while in the Blue Block there will be just one team left that hasn’t started their tournament yet (one more week before Momo Watanabe & Thekla finally join in).

Today’s event will be held at Oita Cycle Shop Kodama Ozu Arena Sub Arena in Oita and can be watched LIVE on Stardom World. There will be no commentary. There are 7 total matches planned so how long the event will run depends partly on if there’s an intermission, but I would anticipate about 2 1/4 hours.

IMPORTANT: If you’re watching live in the eastern US, remember to set your clocks back an hour at 2 AM!

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Syuri vs. HANAKO & Rian in a 3-way
Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo vs. Maika & Mina Shirakawa, Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura and Natsuko Tora & Ruaka in a 4-way
Goddess Of Stardom Tag League:
Red Block:
Hazuki & Koguma vs. Tomoka Inaba & Ranna Yagami
Tam Nakano & Sayaka Kurara vs. AZM & Miyu Amasaki
Blue Block:
Mei Seira & Cohaku vs. Hina & Lady C
Natsupoi & Saori Anou vs. Rina & Azusa Inaba
Starlight Kid & Suzu Suzuki vs. Hanan & Saya Iida

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Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

8:55 PM PT UPDATE: You will also be able to watch the first match FOR FREE on YouTube.

9 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Oita Cycle Shop Kodama Ozu Arena Sub Arena in Oita, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. For the first time visiting Oita it looks like a legit sellout or very close to it, (it’s a gym-style venue with upper level seating that is not being used) I only see a couple empty seats. The configuration being used looks like 300-400. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 346)

The card rundown and match order opens the event. Starlight Kid/Suzu Suzuki vs. Hanan/Saya Iida is today’s main event.

The matches begin at 9:03 PM PT/12:03 AM ET.

Match 1: Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Blue Block: Mei Seira & Cohaku vs. Hina & Lady C. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mei Seira & Cohaku beat Hina & Lady C. Cohaku pinned C after a double arm DDT.
Seira & Cohaku are 2-1, 4 points. Hina & C are 0-3, 0 points.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 2: Syuri vs. HANAKO & Rian in a 3-way. 15 minute time limit
Result: HANAKO beat Syuri & Rian in a 3-way by beating Rian.

Match 3: Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Blue Block: Natsupoi & Saori Anou vs. Rina & Azusa Inaba. 20 minute time limit
Result: Natsupoi & Saori Anou beat Rina & Azusa Inaba. Natsupoi pinned Rina.
Natsupoi & Anou are 4-0, 8 points. Rina & Inaba are 1-2, 2 points.

Match 4: Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo vs. Maika & Mina Shirakawa, Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura and Natsuko Tora & Ruaka in a 4-way. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo beat Maika & Mina Shirakawa, Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura and Natsuko Tora & Ruaka in a 4-way when Iwatani pinned Sakura.

Match 5: Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Red Block: Hazuki & Koguma vs. Tomoka Inaba & Ranna Yagami. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hazuki & Koguma beat Tomoka Inaba & Ranna Yagami. Hazuki pinned Yagami after a diving senton.
Hazuki & Koguma are 3-1, 6 points. Inama & Yagami are 0-2, 0 points.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 10:40 PM PT.

Match 6: Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Red Block: Tam Nakano & Sayaka Kurara vs. AZM & Miyu Amasaki. 20 minute time limit
Result: AZM & Miyu Amasaki beat Tam Nakano & Sayaka Kurara. Amasaki pinned Kurara.
AZM & Amasaki are 1-3, 2 points. Nakano & Kurara are 1-2, 2 points.

Main Event: Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Blue Block: Starlight Kid & Suzu Suzuki vs. Hanan & Saya Iida. 20 minute time limit
Result: Starlight Kid & Suzu Suzuki beat Hanan & Saya Iida. Suzuki pinned Iida with a German suplex hold.
Kid & Suzuki are 1-1, 2 points. Hanan & Iida are 0-1, 0 points.

A side note I forgot to add: The real stars of the event were two young infants seated with their parents near the entrance area. Many wrestlers including Mei Seira, Maika and others stopped and took the time to interact with them before and after their matches. A couple of the wrestlers even teased taking the babies home with them.

The next event is tomorrow at UMK Sports Studio In Miyazaki. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin at 8 PM PT/11 PM ET. I am hoping to do live results although there will be another live event at the same time I plan to cover.

Stardom continued the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League tournament today in Kagawa.

Today’s event was held at Takamatsu Symbol Tower Exhibition Hall in Kagawa and will be available on demand on Stardom World at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 384, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Syuri & Suzu Suzuki beat Mina Shirakawa & Rian. Syuri beat Rian with a scorpion deathlock.

Match 2: Saya Iida & AZM beat Lady C & Ranna Yagami. Iida pinned Yagami after a lariat. Despite being a team here, afterwards Iida & AZM began to fight each other and continued to do so through the backstage comment area.

Match 3: Natsuko Tora, Saya Kamitani & Ruaka beat Mei Seira, Starlight Kid & Miyu Amasaki. Kamitani pinned Amasaki after Star Crusher.

Goddess Of Stardom Tag League:
Match 4: Red Block: Hazuki & Koguma beat Tam Nakano & Sayaka Kurara. Koguma pinned Kurara after a diving body press.
Match 5: Red Block: Maika & HANAKO beat Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo. Maika pinned Kohgo after Flame Drop.
Main Event: Blue Block: Natsupoi & Saori Anou beat Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura. Natsupoi pinned Sakura after Fairy Real Gift.
Standings-wise, Red Block has 3 teams tied at 4 points but one team hasn’t even had their first official match yet. Syuri/Saki Kashima and Maika/HANAKO are 2-0, Hazuki & Koguma are 2-1. Blue Block has Natsupoi/Anou and Waka Tsukiyama/Rian at 2-0, 4 points, but 3 teams have yet to have their first match. In fact, Momo Watanabe & Thekla won’t even begin their tournament for another week-plus.

The next event is Saturday at Munakata Yurix Event Hall in Fukuoka. Broadcast plans TBA. (UPDATE: Live streaming on Stardom World will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET. For November, all events from this one through 11/17 will be LIVE. 11/16 is a NEW BLOOD event and will be live FOR FREE on YouTube. 11/17 is HISTORIC X-OVER 2 which is a PPV for about $36 outside Japan on Stardom World or $34.99 on New Japan World, with on demand for all paying subscribers available about a week later. For 11/20-11/24, which has 4 events in that time, no live broadcasts with on demand available hopefully within a day or two, and the final event of the month in 11/29 will be available live)

Stardom continues the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League today with a second event in Tokyo. Today’s event mostly focuses on the Red Block which will have 3 of the 4 scheduled tournament matches with only one Blue Block match. The non-tournament portion of highlighted by a special appearance from legendary villain Dump Matsumoto, who has experienced a recent resurgence thanks to a Netflix series based loosely on her life and career and has been more in demand as a result. She’ll be an a 10-woman tag match with longtime partner ZAP and H.A.T.E. against the Cosmic Angels faction. There also will be a title match today as Mei Seira defends the High Speed Championship against Yuna Mizumori.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on Stardom World. There likely will be no commentary. With 8 matches today and based partly on how yesterday went I anticipate today’s event having a running time of about 2 1/4 hours, the longest it could go is a little over 2 1/2 hours, again that partly depends on if there’s an intermission and how long it is (yesterday’s break was just 5 minutes).

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Tam Nakano, Natsupoi, Saori Anou, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara vs. Dump Matsumoto, ZAP, Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe & Ruaka
Mina Shirakawa vs. Saya Iida & Lady C in a 3-way
Starlight Kid & Suzu Suzuki vs. Hina & Ranna Yagami
Goddess Of Stardom Tag League:
Red Block:
Hazuki & Koguma vs. Syuri & Saki Kashima
Momo Kohgo & Mayu Iwatani vs. Konami & Saya Kamitani
Maika & HANAKO vs. AZM & Miyu Amasaki
Blue Block:
Waka Tsukiyama & Rian vs. Rina & Azusa Inaba
High Speed Champion Mei Seira vs. Yuna Mizumori for the title

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Updates below will begin at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

6:30 PM PT UPDATE: You will also be able to watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube. The YouTube broadcast is scheduled to begin at 7:15 PM PT/10:15 PM ET. The YT thumbnail suggests one of those first 2 matches will be Hazuki & Koguma vs. Syuri & Saki Kashima in the tournament.

7:10 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream should begin shortly. Stardom World is setting it up now.

7:15 PM PT UPDATE: Apparent technical issues. Live stream links are not working yet on Stardom World and YouTube start is delayed.

7:20 PM PT UPDATE: Suzu Suzuki has just been pulled off the event. The always-vague poor health/physical condition. The tag team match she was in is now off and the 3-way is now Mina Shirakawa, Saya Iida & Starlight Kid vs. Hina, Lady C & Ranna Yagami.

Both Stardom World and YouTube broadcasts have now started.

7:26 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Crowd still filing in but it’s a close to full capacity setup and it’s mostly full already from what we can see and filling up even more. Looks like it’s going to be around 1000 if not more. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1292)

The matches should begin in about 10 minutes. At the start of the event the changes to the card are announced. Good news for the YouTube crowd-the 10-woman tag is up first then the first tournament tag match. The High Speed Championship match will be today’s main event.

The matches begin at 7:33 PM PT/10:33 PM ET.

Match 1: Tam Nakano, Natsupoi, Saori Anou, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara vs. Dump Matsumoto, ZAP, Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe & Ruaka. 30 minute time limit
Result: Dump Matsumoto, ZAP, Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe & Ruaka beat Tam Nakano, Natsupoi, Saori Anou, Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. Matsumoto pinned Kurara after red mist spraying and a cross body splash. A wacky, fun, all over the place brawl that was mostly about the heels beating down Kurara and Matsumoto beating down everyone including the ring announcer and referee. Afterwards, Matsumoto with microphone. Hard to understand what she was saying because of Japanese but at one point it seems her attention turned to Stardom President Taro Okada, who was at ringside. Okada with microphone then, he has no love for H.A.T.E. Matsumoto put Tora over then handed the microphone over. Naturally huge reactions for the legendary heel.

Quick break for ring cleaning.

Match 2: Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Red Block: Hazuki & Koguma vs. Syuri & Saki Kashima. 20 minute time limit
Result: Syuri & Saki Kashime beat Hazuki & Koguma. Kashima pinned Hazuki. Over in just seconds. Flash win out of nowhere. The Low Speed Genius Trickster Strikes Again.
Syuri & Kashima are 2-0, 4 points. Hazuki & Koguma are 1-1, 2 points

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 3: Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Blue Block: Waka Tsukiyama & Rian vs. Rina & Azusa Inaba. 20 minute time limit
Result: Waka Tsukiyama & Rian ebat Rina & Azusa Inaba. Tsukiyama pinned Inaba with Osui Suplex.
Tsukiyama & Rian are 2-0, 4 points. Rina & Inaba are 0-1, 0 points. Bracket busters?

Match 4: Mina Shirakawa, Saya Iida & Starlight Kid vs. Hina, Lady C & Ranna Yagami.. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mina Shirakawa, Saya Iida & Starlight Kid beat Hina, Lady C & Ranna Yagami. Iida pinned C.

Quick break for ring cleaning.

Match 5: Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Red Block: Momo Kohgo & Mayu Iwatani vs. Konami & Saya Kamitani. 20 minute time limit
Result: Konami & Saya Kamitani beat Momo Kohgo & Mayu Iwatani. Kamitani pinned Iwatani after a Konami spray can attack.
Both teams are 1-1, 2 points.

Match 6: Goddess Of Stardom Tournament Red Block: Maika & HANAKO vs. AZM & Miyu Amasaki. 20 minute time limit
Result: Maika & HANAKO beat AZM & Miyu Amasaki. HANAKO beat Amasaki with a standing arm & neck choke.
Maika & HANAKO are 1-0, 2 points. AZM & Amasaki are 0-2, 0 points.

Main Event: High Speed Champion Mei Seira vs. Yuna Mizumori for the title. 15 minute time limit
Result: High Speed Champion Mei Seira beat Yuna Mizumori to retain the title. V2 for Seira. Just before the 5 minute mark there was a spot where Mizumori may have injured her foot or lower leg when trying to dive through the ropes to the outside and her feet/ankles caught the bottom rope, causing Mizumori to land awkwardly. She appeared to be okay and finished the match with seemingly little to no issue though.

The next event is Thursday at Takamatsu Symbol Tower in Kagawa. There will be no live broadcast.

Stardom kicks off the 14th Goddess Of Stardom Tag League today, their annual tag team tournament that features the entire roster, or as close to it as reasonably possible. This year that’s 18 teams split into 2 blocks with a standard round-robin format. The top 3 teams in each block will advance but only the winner of each block goes to the Semifinals. The 2nd & 3rd place teams face each other for that second Semifinals spot. The tournament will run most of the rest of the year until just before the promotion’s year-end blowout events in December. Today the tournament begins with 5 matches, 2 from the Blue Block and 3 from the Red Block.

Today’s event will be held at Shinjuku Sumitomo Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on Stardom World. There likely will be no commentary. I’m not yet sure what the time limits for tournament matches will be (could be the 30 minutes standard but it’s Stardom so I’m thinking 20 minutes) and there are 2 non-tournament matches that may be shorter, regardless I expect the running time to be just over 2 hours, close to 2 1/2 hours if there’s an intermission.

Today’s lineup (match order TBA):
Mina Shirakawa, Maika & HANAKO vs. Suzu Suzuki, Saya Iida & Ranna Yagami
Starlight Kid & Haruka Umesaki vs. Momo Watanabe & Rina
Goddess Of Stardom Tournament:
Red Block:
Syuri & Saki Kashima vs. Konami & Saya Kamitani
Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo vs. AZM & Miyu Amasaki
Hazuki & Koguma vs. Natsuko Tora & Ruaka
Blue Block:
Natsupoi & Saori Anou vs. Mei Seira & Cohaku
Hina & Lady C vs. Waka Tsukiyama & Rian

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Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

7:30 PM PT UPDATE You will also be able to watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube.

8:55 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Shinjuku Sumitomo Hall in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced later today or tomorrow. While it appears the venue’s max listed capacity is around 2000, the setup is for much smaller. The crowd is still filing in but the setup looks like for around 500, right now I’ll predict an actual number of around 400. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 499, a full house/near sellout)

The matches should begin in about 10 minutes. Tournament matches will be 20 minute time limit, today’s main event will be Hazuki & Koguma vs. Natsuko Tora & Ruaka.

The matches begin at 9:05 PM PT/12:05 AM ST.

Match 1: Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Tournament Blue Block: Natsupoi & Saori Anou vs. Mei Seira & Cohaku (WAVE). 20 minute time limit
Result: Natsupoi & Saori Anou beat Mei Seira & Cohaku. Anou pinned Cohaku.
Natsupoi/Anou are 1-0, 2 points. Seira/Cohaku are 0-1, 0 points.

Match 2: Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Tournament Blue Block: Hina & Lady C vs. Waka Tsukiyama & Rian. 20 minute time limit
Result: Waka Tsukiyama & Rian beat Hina & Lady C. Tsukiyama pinned Hina with a German suplex hold. I’d say that qualifies as UPSET ALERT!!! Afterwards, C beat down Tsukiyama for a few seconds.
Tsukiyama & Rian are 1-0, 2 points. Hina & C are 0-1, 2 points.

The YouTube broadcast ends here.

Match 3: Mina Shirakawa, Maika & HANAKO vs. Suzu Suzuki, Saya Iida & Ranna Yagami. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mina Shirakawa, Maika & HANAKO beat Suzu Suzuki, Saya Iida & Ranna Yagami. Shirakawa pinned Yagami after Glamorous Driver Mina. Iida & HANAKO continued to fight after the bell with Iida trying to maintain a hold of HANAKO’s leg.

Match 4: Starlight Kid & Haruka Umesaki (Diana) vs. Momo Watanabe & Rina. 20 minute time limit
Result: Double Countout. Quickly spilled outside the ring and became a brawl all over the place.

Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Tournament Red Block:
Match 5: Syuri & Saki Kashima vs. Konami & Saya Kamitani. 20 minute time limit
Result: Syuri & Saki Kashima beat Konami & Saya Kamitani. Syuri beat Konami.
Syuri & Kashima are 1-0, 2 points. Konami & Kamitani are 0-1, 0 points.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 10:40 PM PT. Only a 5 minute break.

Match 6: Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo vs. AZM & Miyu Amasaki. 20 minute time limit
Result: Mayu Iwatani & Momo Kohgo beat AZM & Miyu Amasaki. Iwatani pinned AZM.
Iwatani & Kohgo are 1-0, 2 points. AZM & Amasaki are 0-1, 0 points.
Afterwards, as Iwatani & AZM stared, Momo Watanabe came out. With microphone. IWGP Women’s Championship challenge. Iwatani comments got laughs from the crowd and a Watanabe beatdown. Watanabe then posed with the belt while choking Iwatani with her foot. I guess we’ll see where this goes in the coming days, I could see a match happening at HISTORIC X-OVER 2 in a couple weeks or at the year-end events.

Main Event: Hazuki & Koguma vs. Natsuko Tora & Ruaka. 20 minute time limit
Result: Hazuki & Koguma beat Natsuko Tora & Ruaka. Hazuki pinned Ruaka.
Hazuki & Koguma are 1-0, 2 points. Tora & Ruaka are 0-1, 0 points.

The next event is tomorrow at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET. Live results are tentatively planned (other events happening around that time though).

Stardom continued their October house show tour today in Shizuoka.

Today’;s event was held at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka and will be available on demand on Starfom World at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 483.

There were several last-minute changes to the card due to Mayu Iwatani being removed last-minute. The always vague poor health/ill health.

Match 1: Sayaka Kurara beat Rian & Hina in a 3-way by pinning Rian.

Match 2: Syuri & Ranna Yagami beat Natsuko Tora & Rina and Maika & Waka Tsukiyama in a 3-way when Yagami pinned Rina.

Match 3: Momo Watanabe & Saya Kamitani beat Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo. Kamitani pinned Kohgo after Star Crusher.

Match 4: In an 8 woman battle royal, the last 2 left, and thus the winners, were Hazuki & Koguma. As a result, Hazuki & Koguma will be in a 4-way against Anna Jay & TBA at the New Japan “Fighting Spirit Unleashed” event on 11/8 in the US for the next shot at STRONG Women’s Champion Mercedes Mone. Order of elimination: Saori Anou & Starlight Kid, Lady C, HANAKO, Ruaka, Konami.

Main Event: Mei Seira, Suzu Suzuki & Miyu Amasaki beat Tam Nakano, Natsupoi & Yuna Mizumori. Seira pinned Mizumori after Shooting Star.

The next event is the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League Tournament starting Saturday at Shinjuku Sumitomo Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on Stardom World will begin Friday at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. Live results are tentatively scheduled.

Stardom runs their latest NEW BLOOD event today, the 16th installment of the promotion’s developmental series focused on younger and less-experienced wrestlers. As has been the case recently, a lot of outside participation is scheduled as other promotions send their younger and inexperienced wrestlers to gain experience and exposure against the same in Stardom. There is also a title match scheduled-after recently seeing her year-plus record-setting Future Of Stardom Championship reign stunningly halted, Rina will try to hold on to the New Blood Tag Team Championship when she & Azusa Inaba defend against Waka Tsukiyama & HANAKO. HANAKO has been on a hot streak since returning from a month-long excursion to the US, and with the Goddess Of Stardom Tag League fast approaching both the titles and potentially momentum going in are on the line.

Today’s event will be held at Bellesalle Grand Shinjuku in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on Stardom World. There will be no commentary. No word yet on if the event will also be live on YouTube. This will be a shorter event with only 5 matches including the title match so the running time should be a little over 90 minutes.
UPDATE (Pre-show): You can also watch the entire event FOR FREE on YouTube. The live stream won’t be set up until right before it begins.
UPDATE 2: They changed broadcast plans last-minute-this event IS NOT live on Stardom World. Only on YouTube.

Today’s lineup:
Manami (Sendai Girls) vs. Rian
Lady C & Ranna Yagami vs. Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara
Starlight Kid & Miyu Amasaki vs. YUNA (Sendai Girls) & Spike Nishimura (Independent/Freelancer)
Hina & Tomoka Inaba vs. Cohaku & HONOKA (WAVE)
New Blood Tag Team Champions Rina & Azusa Inaba vs. Waka Tsukiyama & HANAKO for the titles

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

8:30 PM PT UPDATE: Stardom has set up the YouTube live stream. I will be watching on YouTube tonight for ease of use and also to be able to watch on my TV.

8:54 PM PT UPDATE: The YouTube stream has begun. It will be in up to 1080p60 format. We should be going to the venue in about 5 minutes.

8:57 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Bellesalle Grand Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will be announced later today or tomorrow. While the venue’s maximum capacity is 1400 the setup is for much smaller and the seating areas I can see initially are mostly full. What they’re showing us so far suggests a crowd of around 250. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 236)

The matches will begin shortly.

The matches begin at 9:02 PM PT/12:02 AM ET.

Match 1: Manami (Sendai Girls) vs. Rian. 15 minute time limit (Manami’s entrance music is muted, darn copyrights)
Result: Manami beat Rian

Match 2: Lady C & Ranna Yagami vs. Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. 15 minute time limit
Result: Lady C & Ranna Yagami beat Aya Sakura & Sayaka Kurara. Yagami pinned Kurara. Afterwards, Yagami with microphone. She quickly handed off to C for a few words then it was passed to Kurara.

Match 3: Starlight Kid & Miyu Amasaki vs. YUNA (Sendai Girls) & Spike Nishimura (Independent/Freelancer). 20 minute time limit. Muted entrance music for the outsiders
Result: Starlight Kid & Miyu Amasaki beat YUNA & Spike Nishimura. Kid beat YUNA with Black Tiger Leg Murder. Afterwards, Kid with microphone. Sounded like basic putting over.

Intermission.

The matches resume at 10:10 PM PT/1:10 AM ET.

Match 4: Hina & Tomoka Inaba vs. Cohaku & HONOKA (WAVE). 20 minute time limit
Result: Hina & Tomoka Inaba beat Cohaku & HONOKA. Inaba pinned HONOKA.

Main Event: New Blood Tag Team Champions Rina & Azusa Inaba vs. Waka Tsukiyama & HANAKO for the titles. 20 minute time limit
Result: New Blood Tag Team Champions Rina & Azusa Inaba beat Waka Tsukiyama & HANAKO to retian the titles. Rina beat HANAKO an octopus stretch hold. V1 for the champs. Next up: Possibly Lady C & Ranna Yagami. Challenge issued.

The next event is tomorrow at Fujisan Messe in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast.