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Stardom Dream Queendom 2022
was a professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom. It was the second annual Stardom Dream Queendom and took place on December 29, 2022, in Tokyo at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan with limited attendance due in part to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic at the time. It was also the last major pay-per-view hosted by Stardom in 2022. Production Background The show featured ten professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. The event's press conference took place on December 6, 2022, and was broadcast live on Stardom's YouTube channel. Event The preshow match was broadcast live on Stardom's YouTube channel. AZM retained the High Speed Championship against Hikari Shimizu, securing the ninth defense in a row and equalling the previous consecutive defenses record establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syuri
, better known simply as , is a Japanese professional wrestler, shoot boxer, kickboxer and mixed martial artist. She is signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is the leader of God's Eye as well as the current IWGP Women's Champion in her first reign. Syuri started her professional wrestling career in Hustle, where she performed under the ring name KG (Karate Girl). Syuri later worked for Hustle's two follow-up promotions; Smash, where she was the final Smash Diva Champion, and Wrestling New Classic (WNC), where she was a two-time WNC Women's Champion. After WNC folded in June 2014, Syuri remained affiliated with its sister promotion Reina Joshi Puroresu until March 2016, becoming a one-time Reina World Women's Champion and a one-time Reina World Tag Team Champion. Syuri also worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) through their working relationship with Reina, where she is a former CMLL World Women's Champion and CMLL-Reina International Champion. Syur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heel (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a ''rudo'' in ''lucha libre'') is a wrestler who portrays a villain, "bad guy", "baddie", "evil-doer", or "rulebreaker", and acts as an antagonist to the Face (professional wrestling), faces, who are the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters. Not everything a heel wrestler does must be villainous: heels need only to be booed or jeered by the audience to be effective characters, although most truly successful heels embrace other aspects of their devious personalities, such as cheating to win or using Glossary of professional wrestling terms#foreign object, foreign objects. "The role of a heel is to get 'heat,' which means spurring the crowd to obstreperous hatred, and generally involves cheating and any other manner of socially unacceptable behavior." To gain Heat (professional wrestling), heat (with boos and jeers from the audience), heels are often portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner by breaking rules or otherwise ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goddesses Of Stardom Championship
The is a women's professional wrestling tag team Championship (professional wrestling), championship created and promoted by the World Wonder Ring Stardom professional wrestling promotion, promotion. Title history On August 2, 2011, Stardom held a press conference to announce the first ever Goddesses of Stardom Tag League, which would culminate in the crowning of the first Goddesses of Stardom Champions. The finals of the tournament took place on November 27, 2011, and saw BY Hou (Yoko Bito and Yuzuki Aikawa) defeat Kawasaki Katsushika Saikyou Densetsu (Natsuki☆Taiyo and Yoshiko (wrestler), Yoshiko) to become the inaugural champions. The title belt was crafted by American company Top Rope Belts. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been a total of 35 reigns shared among 32 different teams consisting of 45 distinctive wrestlers. The current champions are Oedo Tai (Momo Watanabe and Thekla (wrestler), Thekla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Sports
is a Japanese daily sports newspaper founded in 1960. See also * Tokyo Sports Film Award * Tokyo Sports Puroresu Awards References External links * http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp Official website 1960 establishments in Japan Daily newspapers published in Japan Newspapers established in 1960 Sports newspapers published in Japan Newspapers published in Tokyo Japanese-language newspapers {{japan-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Venus
(often stylized as ExV), formerly known as , is a Japanese professional wrestling stable currently performing in World Wonder Ring Stardom. The stable is led by Maika, and features Hanako, Xena, Waka Tsukiyama and Rian. History Cosmic Angels sub-unit (2022–2023) At Dream Queendom 2, the returning Xia Brookside and the debutant Mariah May accompanied Mina Shirakawa to the ring for her match. Shirakawa and her Cosmic Angels stablemate Unagi Sayaka went on to defeat Donna Del Mondo (Mai Sakurai and Thekla) in tag team competition. Following the match, Shirakawa slapped Sayaka and announced the formation of Club Venus, a trio featuring herself, Brookside and May. Shirakawa later confirmed that Club Venus was a sub-unit of Cosmic Angels. Club Venus announced themselves as the mystery team that would compete in the Triangle Derby I. They participated in the Red Triangle Block of the tournament and scored a total of eight points, which was not enough to reach the finals. At N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmic Angels
is a professional wrestling stable, currently performing in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom. The stable primarily consists of the assumed defacto leader(s), Natsupoi and Saori Anou, along with Yuna Mizumori, Sayaka Kurara, and Aya Sakura who mainly compete in Stardom, and Saki (wrestler), Saki who competes in the Japanese independent scene as an associate. They are often known by their catchphrase . History Formation The stable initially debuted as a sub-group of the Stars (professional wrestling), Stars stable led by Mayu Iwatani on November 14, 2020, after Tam Nakano brought Mina Shirakawa from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, teaming up with her to defeat Iwatani and Starlight Kid, subsequently convincing Iwatani to accept Shirakawa in the stable. Shortly after Shirakawa joining the Stardom, Nakano recruited Unagi Sayaka into the sub-group who also came from TJPW. At Stardom Sendai Cinderella 2020 on November 15, Nakano, Sayaka and Shirakawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariah May
Mariah May Mead (born 4 August 1998) is an English professional wrestler. , she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Blake Monroe. Mead first started as a professional wrestling ring announcer in 2018 before debuting as a wrestler under the ring name Mariah May in 2019, after which, she performed in independent promotions such as Revolution Pro Wrestling. She made her World Wonder Ring Stardom debut in 2022 and became a Goddesses of Stardom Champion with her Club Venus teammate, Mina Shirakawa. She then joined All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2023 to 2025, where she was a one-time AEW Women's World Champion. Early and personal life Mariah May Mead was born in London on 4 August 1998 and grew up in the Islington area. Mead's original ring name, Mariah May, is a tribute to her grandmother, who gave Mead's middle name and died before she started professional wrestling. Her other ring name, Blake Monroe, is a tribute to her niece and a reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xia Brookside
Xia-Louise Brooks (born 16 October 1998), better known by the ring name Xia Brookside, is an English professional wrestler and valet. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). She previously worked for World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she was a member of Club Venus, and WWE, where she performed on the NXT UK brand. Early life Xia-Louise Brooks was born in Leicester on 16 October 1998, the daughter of fellow professional wrestler Robbie Brookside. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2014–2017) Brooks was trained by her father, as well as Dean Allmark and Robbie Dynamite. Under the ring name Xia Brookside, she made her in-ring debut for All Star Wrestling in her father's native Liverpool on 2 August 2015, teaming with El Ligero to defeat Kay Lee Ray and Sammy D. In February 2016, she lost a three-way match for the ICW Women's Championship against Kay Lee Ray and Carmel Jacob. In May 2016, she took part in the Empress Pro Invitational, def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stardom Gold Rush
was a professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom. The event took place on November 19, 2022, in Osaka at the Edion Arena Osaka with limited attendance due in part to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic at the time. Production Background The show featured nine professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. The event's press conference was broadcast live on Stardom's YouTube channel on November 8, 2022. Event The two preshow matches were broadcast live on Stardom's YouTube channel. In the first one, Natsuko Tora & Ruaka picked up a victory over Lady C & Miyu Amasaki and Saya Iida & Momo Kohgo. In the second one, AZM successfully defended the High Speed Championship for the eighth consecutive time against Momoka Hanazono. The first main card match saw Giulia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Speed Championship
The is a women's professional wrestling Championship (professional wrestling), championship owned by the World Wonder Ring Stardom professional wrestling promotion, promotion. The title was originally created on May 5, 2009, in the NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling promotion, where Natsuki☆Taiyo defeated Ray (wrestler), Ray to become the inaugural champion. As the name of the title suggests, it is meant for fast and Professional wrestling aerial techniques, high-flying wrestlers. On November 19, 2010, Stardom acquired the rights to the High Speed Championship from NEO, which had announced it would be folding after December 31. On July 24, 2011, Natsuki☆Taiyo, now affiliated with Stardom, defeated JWP Joshi Puroresu's Leon (Japanese wrestler), Leon to officially bring the title over to the promotion. Title history Originated in NEO Japan Ladies Pro-Wrestling, Natsuki☆Taiyo became the inaugural champion on May 5, 2009, after defeating Ray (wrestler), Ray. Tetsuya Koda, NEO pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery Communications
Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City. Established in 1982, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as the namesake Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and TLC. In 2018, the company acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, adding networks such as Food Network, HGTV, and Travel Channel to its portfolio. Since the purchase, Discovery described itself as serving members of "passionate" audiences, and also placed a focus on streaming services built around its properties. Discovery owned or had interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, in addition to its other major regional operations such as Eurosport (a pan-European group of sports channels, most prominently the rightsholder of the Olympic Games throughout most of Europe), GolfTV (an international golf-focused streaming service, which is the international digital rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
