This is a part of my blog series covering the events in STARDOM (Japanese women's pro-wrestling organization)

STARDOM WEBSITE

STARDOM YOUTUBE

CONTENTS

• CINDERELLA TOURNAMENT 2025 DAY 1 & 2 RESULTS
  • DAY 1 RESULTS
  • DAY 2 RESULTS
• CINDERELLA TOURNAMENT 2025 FINALS
  • HOW TO WATCH
  • FINALS RULES
  • CARD
• OUTSIDE STARDOM
  • Sareee-ISM Chapter VII (March 10)
  • SENDAI GIRLS
  • Barb Sasaki's Crazy Fest (March 10)
  • OZ ACADEMY (March 9)
  • STRONG STYLE PRO-WRESTLING/SSPW (March 13)
  • COLORS
  • JTO

CINDERELLA TOURNAMENT 2025

DAY 1 & 2 RESULTS

2025.03.08 - Yokohama Budokan, Yokohama, Kangawa

• Cinderella Tournament 1st Round
  • Ranna Yagami defeated Akira Kurogane to advance
• Cinderella Tournament 1st Round
  • Rina defeated Yuria Hime to advance
• 5 Way Battle
  • Lluvia defeated Waka Tsukiyama ●, Mei Seira, Koguma, and Fukigen Death
• 3 Way Tag Battle
  • Saya Iida & Hazuki 〇 defeated AZM & Suzu Suzuki ● and Saori Anou & Yuna Mizumori
• Cinderella Tournament 1st Round
  • Azusa Inaba defeated Rian to advance
• Cinderella Tournament 1st Round
  • Tabata defeated Hina to advance
• Tag Match
  • Mayu Iwatani 〇 & Momo Kohgo defeated Syuri & Saki Kashima ●
• Cinderella Tournament 1st Round
  • Sayaka Kurara defeated Ruaka (over the top rope) to advance
• Cinderella Tournament 1st Round
  • Miyu Amasaki defeated Lady C to advance Lady C did not participate in the next show to recover from injuries (on her back).
• Tag Match
  • Maika & Mina Shirakawa defeated Natsuko Tora & Thekla via disqualification. She then attempted to physically assault Taro Okada. Pulling him out of his seat and landing on the floor, but Mina came in to beat Thekla. Mina then proposed a singles match against Thekla during the final day of the Cinderella. If Mina wins, Thekla has to apologize (possibly for the attacks by H.A.T.E. which included her getting injured) and has to pay her unpaid fines (from the suspensions). Otherwise, Thekla can freely choice whoever she wants to face one on one in the roster. From my assumption, her most likely pick would be Maika.
• Cinderella Tournament 1st Round
  • HANAKO and Aya Sakura reached a time limit draw. Both are eliminated.
• Cinderella Tournament 1st Round
  • Hanan defeated Tomoka Inaba to advance
• Special Tag Match
  • Saya Kamitani & Konami 〇 defeated Tam Nakano & Starlight Kid ● Konami finished Starlight Kid after giving her 3 kicks on the head with the last blow being a punt kick to the face. Reminding SLK of that traumatic experience of her face getting smashed by Konami's powerful kick. But also hoping that match still goes as planned despite the damage done again. Kamitani is already sick of Tam, excited to wipe her out of wrestling. SLK wants to have a singles match with Tam before possibly retiring. Tam insists that this will not be the end and she'll win in Yokohama to return.

2025.03.09 - Sangyo Center Aioi Hall, Kariya, Aichi

• 6 Person Tag Match

  • Mayu Iwatani, Saya Iida 〇, and Momo Kohgo defeated Tam Nakano, Yuna Mizumori ●, and Aya Sakura

• Singles Match

  • Azusa Inaba defeated Akira Kurogane

• Singles Match

  • HANAKO defeated Yuria Hime

• 8 Person Tag Match

  • Syuri, Saki Kashima 〇, Hina, and Tomoka Inaba defeated Maika, Mina Shirakawa, Waka Tsukiyama, and Rian ●

• Cinderella Tournament 2nd Round

  • Rina defeated Tabata to advance to the semi-finals

• Cinderella Tournament 2nd Round

  • Hanan defeated Miyu Amasaki to advance to the semi-finals

• Cinderella Tournament 2nd Round

  • Sayaka Kurara defeated Ranna Yagami to advance to the semi-finals

• 8 Person Tag Match

  • Starlight Kid 〇, Mei Seira, AZM, and Suzu Suzuki defeated Saya Kamitani, Natsuko Tora, Konami ●, and Ruaka H.A.T.E. congratulated Starlight Kid by firing party spray cans at her. SLK proposed a special singles match against World Of Stardom champion Saya Kamitani before she possibly has to retire in Yokohama. Kamitani accepted and the match has now officially been booked on Day 1 of STARDOM's first Okinawa tour. It will be a non-title bout between the current red and white belt champions.

CINDERELLA TOURNAMENT 2025

FINALS

2025.03.15 - Ota City General Gymnasium, Ota, Tokyo

HOW TO WATCH

The show will be available live on PPV via Stagecrowd and MYSTARDOM for 4620 JP yen (with tax). The stream will start at 4:30 PM JST, but match 0 on YouTube will be streamed earlier. Samurai TV will also broadcast the show live and do a whole re-run on the 21st. Archive period will end on March 21st (7PM JST) and is expected to be released on STARDOM World by then.

FINALS RULES

• No time limit
• Normal rules with an additional option for over the top rope elimination

CARD

Order of matches may not be accurate in the actual show

• Singles Match (Match 0 / Pre-show)
  • Rian (E neXus V) vs. Fukigen Death (H.A.T.E.)
• 6 Person Tag Match
  • Maika, Waka Tsukiyama, HANAKO (E neXus V)
    vs.
    Tabata (CMLL), Yuria Hime, Akira Kurogane
• 8 Person Tag Match
  • Mei Seira, AZM, Miyu Amasaki, Suzu Suzuki (NEO GENESIS)
    vs.
    Saya Kamitani, Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe, Ruaka (H.A.T.E.)
• 10 Person Tag Match
  • Mayu Iwatani, Hazuki, Koguma, Saya Iida, Momo Kohgo (STARS)
    vs.
    Syuri, Saki Kashima, Lady C, Tomoka Inaba, Ranna Yagami (God's Eye)
• Tag Match
  • Tam Nakano & Saori Anou (COSMIC ANGELS)
    vs.
    Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura (COSMIC ANGELS)
• Cinderella Tournament 2025 Semi-Finals
  • Sayaka Kurara (COSMIC ANGELS) vs. Azusa Inaba (H.A.T.E.)
• Cinderella Tournament 2025 Semi-Finals
  • Hanan (STARS) vs. Rina (H.A.T.E.)
• Cinderella Tournament 2025 Grand Final
  • Winner of Sayaka Kurara x Azusa Inaba vs. Winner of Hanan x Rina
    • Winner gets a wish and gets to wear a dress in the end
• Special Singles Match
  • Mina Shirakawa (E neXus V) vs. Thekla (H.A.T.E.)
    • If Mina wins, Thekla has to "apologize" and pay the fines
    • If Thekla wins, she gets to choose anyone in the roster to have a singles match with
• Wonder Of Stardom Title
  • 👑 Starlight Kid (NEO GENESIS) vs. Konami (H.A.T.E.)

OUTSDIDE STARDOM

Sareee-ISM Chapter VII (March 10)

Saori Anou defeated Miku Kanae (T-HEARTS) in the semi-final of Sareee-ISM Chapter VII.

Miku actually looked up to Anou as a wrestler in which she was happy to hear about and looks forward to meeting her again in the ring. She also dropped from what I've heard was a Shohei Ohtani quote about telling her to "stop aspiring to be her" as a form of advice.

Natsupoi came out before to address the crowd about not being able to compete, then did the ring announcing duties for the match.

In the main event, Syuri and Sareee had an intense singles match that resulted in a time limit draw (30 minutes). It was a match that was promoted as the battle between the strongest with both competitors aiming for the IWGP Women's Championship currently being held by Mayu Iwatani.

Both do not want to lose to one another as they race to get their hands on Mayu. Even willing to meet again 1-on-1 with one of them as the challenger and the other as IWGP Women's champion. Sareee specifically has set her goal to win the belt before 2025 comes to a close. Going as far as to say that she will have the gold on her waist by the time she returns back to her ring.

The archived VOD for the PPV is still available on Sareee's website until the 24th (11:59PM JST). Expecting the Syuri x Sareee match to be released on Sareee's YouTube channel or on STARDOM World in a month (along with Saori x Miku).

SENDAI GIRLS

On the 10th, SENDAI GIRLS held a press conference in preparation for "The Top Of Joshi Wrestling" event happening in March 19. Aya Sakura will be challenging Chi Chi for the SENDAI GIRLS Junior Championship. Chi Chi previously defended the title against Aya back in January during STARDOM's New Year Dream, then beat Ranna Yagami weeks later for her third defense.

Hai High Mate (Maika & HANAKO) will also be challenging Red Energy (Mika Iwata & Miyuki Takase) for the SENDAI GIRLS Tag Team Championship.

Both teams trash talked about how dull their wrestling is. It eventually exploded after Maika and HANAKO had drinks then Maika poured one on Iwata's face.

You can watch the March 19 show live on WRESTLE UNIVERSE (6:30PM JST).

Barb Sasaki's Crazy Fest (March 10)

STARDOM had a fall count anywhere trios match between STARS (Mayu Iwatani, Hazuki, and Saya Iida) and NEO GENESIS (Starlight Kid, AZM, and Mei Seira) where they could bring in any item to use as a weapon. Unfortunately, Saya Iida did not show up, but instead we got Captain Stardom who brought in a giant sword.

It was no match to Mei Seira's giant knife.

Some sillies.

STARS in the end had the upper hand over NEO GENESIS.

Rina Yamashita defeated Suzu Suzuki in a brutal TLC match.

The full archived PPV is available for purchase in NJPW World.

OZ ACADEMY

FWC (Hazuki & Koguma) successfully defended the OZ Academy Tag team titles against OWC (Momoka Hanazono & Itsuki Aoki) on the 9th. Their 3rd defense match has been set for OZ Academy's Korakuen hall show on April 13th against Tsubasa Kuragaki & Kohaku. Kohaku's 2nd attempt of overthrowing this FWC reign.

Saori Anou will also be going against Ryo Mizunami for the OZ Academy Openweigth title on that same show.

The March 9 show can be seen on the Nicopro channel in Nicovideo.

STRONG STYLE PRO-WRESTLING (SSPW)

AZM & Jaguar Yokota defeated Tiger Queen & Nagisa Nozaki.

Starlight Kid decided to opt-out and get replaced by AZM due to an injury sustained from the Crazy Fest show.

She showed up to address the crowd at the opening of the show.

At the end of the match, Tiger Queen announced her end from competition. Tiger Queen revealed herself to be pro-wrestler VENY who is currently the reigning Beyond The Sea champion for SEAdLINNNG.

The full match can be viewed in the Tamagawa YouTube channel via their membership. Digest for the entire show is also available for free.

COLORS

Saori Anou will be teaming up with Tae Honma against Rina Amikura & Yuhko Sakurai on the 16th for COLORS' "YES, MY WAY!vol.14" show.

JTO

Azusa Inaba will be taking on STARDOM rookie Yuria Hime in the main event of her own JTO produce show.