2024 Joshi Discussion Thread

[Stefanie Sparkleface]

From minutes ago at Ice Ribbon's Korakuen...

Spoiler

Yuki Mashiro did indeed beat Tsukasa Fujimoto in Tsukka's last match before hiatus, and then Tsukka got on the microphone and said she's going to punch Giulia tomorrow with five years' worth of feelings.

I guess it's happening, everyone!

 

[Stefanie Sparkleface]

This doesn't really need a spoiler.

Manami Katsu is returning from... retirement? Inactivity? Anyway, she's joining Ice Ribbon officially, and her first match back will be in Yokohama on September 23.

[Kevin Wilson]

23 minutes ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:

This doesn't really need a spoiler.

Manami Katsu is returning from... retirement? Inactivity? Anyway, she's joining Ice Ribbon officially, and her first match back will be in Yokohama on September 23.

She had a child two years ago, probably doing similar to what Fujimoto may do as she took a couple years off and maybe is now ready to come back to a full or part time schedule. I know she wrestled in June but not sure if that was her only date the last two years.

[Stefanie Sparkleface]

7 minutes ago, Kevin Wilson said:

She had a child two years ago, probably doing similar to what Fujimoto may do as she took a couple years off and maybe is now ready to come back to a full or part time schedule. I know she wrestled in June but not sure if that was her only date the last two years.

I believe you're right! Ice Ribbon's a good fit for that since it's a roster full of moms. The dojo's gonna need a day care wing.

[Stefanie Sparkleface]

Ice Ribbon's Korakuen just wrapped up.

Spoiler

YuuRI successfully retained the Infinity title in her first defense against Tsukina Umino. Her next defense will take place at Ice Ribbon's next Korakuen show, as Yuki Mashiro will be her challenger. Mashiro (partnered with Maya Yukihi and Totoro Satsuki) preemptively announced her challenge after pinning Tsukasa Fujimoto (partnered with Kirari Wakana and Yoshiko Hasegawa) in a trios match earlier in the card. This eerily lines up with YuuRI's last reign, as YuuRI faced Ibuki Hoshi in her second defense, and Ibuki challenged after beating Tsukka in a trios match in Rifu. That worked out well for Ibuki, and Mashiro is looking to recreate that same magic.

Mukomako (Hamuko Hoshi & Makoto) were able to get their first successful defense in their latest International Ribbon Tag Title Reign, as they beat Unagi Sayaka and Mio Shirai, with Makoto rolling up Mio with a Gannosuke Clutch for the win. Mio has gotten into costume theft, and she was wearing one of Unagi's costumes for this match. No word on the next challenging team for them, although Tsukina Umino and Nanae Furukawa have been a noisy if ineffective team recently.

Nanami's Triangle Ribbon reign ends after a little less than two weeks, when Kyuuri pinned Saran to claim the belt. Saran didn't get her wish for an all high schooler bout, and also didn't fulfill her hopes to be the Triangle Ribbon Champion either. Kyuuri had help from her Cheerbell partner, Mifu Ashida, who gave Kyuuri a cold spray from under the ring. Kyuuri used it to blind Nanami, then pin Saran.

 Lots of new costumes today. Grizzly Fujitaki had a new costume and a bear entrance mask. Mifu Ashida, Yappy, and Tsukina Umino also all had new costumes.

 

[Ace]

Stardom Night 9 Spoilers

Spoiler

Saya Kamitani clinched a spot in the quarterfinals.

 

[Doragon]

Former WWE Superstar Xia Li will wrestle at Wrestle Princess. 

Yoppy will become with TJPW regular, starting in Sept.

[Ace]

Stardom 5* Star Night 10 Spoilers: The End of the Round Robin Tournament

Spoiler

These are the Quarterfinals.

Syuri vs. Winner of Hanan vs. Suzu Suzuki

Saya Kamitani vs Starlight Kid

Maika vs Winner of AZM vs. Tomoka Inaba vs. Mei Seira

Mayu Iwatani vs Natsupoi

Both playoff matches will happen on the show on Wednesday, before the QF matches.

Natsupoi vs Hazuki ended in a draw. Poi seemed to be offering her a title shot afterwards.

Tam Nakano and Natsuko Tora signed their contract for the World of Stardom Championship. Tam attempted to attack Tora with a chair. Tora took the chair and hit Tam instead.

Tam & Yuna Mizumori both finished the tournament at 0-6.
 

 

Edited August 25, 2024 by Ace

[Ace]

Stardom Night 11 Spoilers: The Quarterfinals

Spoiler

Tiebreaker Match #1: AZM defeated Tomoko Inaba & Mei Seira in a gauntlet match where the winner was required to win 2 falls in a row.

Tiebreaker Match #2: Hanan defeated Suzu Suzuki

Tam Nakano finally got a win this month when she and Hina defeated Natsuko Tora & Rina.

Quartefinal Match #1: Saya Kamitani defeated Starlight Kid.

Quarterfinal Match #2: Hanan defeated Syuri. This is the first time Hanan has pinned a former World of Stardom champ in a singles match.

Quarterfinal Match #3: Mayu Iwatani defeated Natsupoi.

Quarterfinal Match: #4: Maika defeated AZM

 

So far, these are the booked matches for the Finals on the 31st

Rina (C) vs. Hina for the Future of Stardom Championship. If Rina wins, she breaks Hanan's defense record.

Spoiler

Semi Final match: Hanan vs Saya Kamitani

Semi Final match: Maika vs Mayu Iwatani

Finals Match: Winner of Hanan/Kamitani vs Winner of Maika/Mayu

Natsuko Tora (C) vs. Tam Nakano for the World of Stardom Championship

[Ace]

Stardom Night 12 Spoilers: The Finals

Spoiler

Rina retained the Future of Stardom Championship against Hina. As a result, she breaks Hanan's record for most defenses. (She already has the longest reign.)

Tam Nakano defeated Natsuko Tora to win the World of Stardom Championship.

Maika defeated Mayu Iwatani

Saya Kamitani defeated Hanan.

Maika defeated Saya Kamitani to win the 5 Star Tournament. She will be challenging Tam Nakano for the World of Stardom Championship. Maika is the first wrestler to go through the entire tournament undefeated.

 

[Doragon]

Spoiler

Happy Tam won the Red belt.

Heel Saya K is very entertaining.

I couldn't care less about Maika winning the 5SGP.

 

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Spoiler

Hate that Tam won, personally (pun slightly intended) - feels egregious, not quite CenaWinsLOL but getting up there. To go 0-6 and then miraculously able to go nearly 30 minutes and beat the supposed top heel in the company is just...ugh.

Tora is dead in the water. Whatever you think of her, any credibility she had or could have had is evaporated and they will have a hell of a job getting anyone to take her seriously again.

On top of which, Maika is basically in a no-win situation now. Either she beats a 1-legged Tam Nakano, which carries much less weight than it should, or she just steamrollered the 5* (including Mayu) to end up with nothing.

It really feels like they flubbed the landing, to me anyway. I saw someone on twitter say this is 1 giant exercise to give Maika the 5* win she should've had last year without her holding the belt at the same time, and I can see it.

Whole thing feels rushed, Tora and Hate are basically DOA, really disappointing. Shame because the tournament had a lot of bright spots and some of the midcarders took big steps forward.

 

[Doragon]

Unagi revealed her real age, she is 38. And she bleed facially on her birthday show.

[Ace]

Mayu Iwatani has announced that she will not participate in the 2025 5 Star Tournament. She has also nominated Maika, AZM, Chihiro Hashimoto, VENY, and Sareee as those she wants to defend the IWGP Title against.

 

[Doragon]

Tam is one of the only 3 who ever won the World of Stardom Championship twice. The others were Iyo Sky and Mayu Iwatani.

 

[The Natural]

Stardom spoiler:

Spoiler

https://twitter.com/we_are_stardom/status/1834878173122904331

Toni Storm has challenged Mayu Iwatani for the IWGP Women's Championship at Stardom Nagoya Golden Fight on 5th October at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Japan.

 

[Ace]

Walker Stewart will now also be doing English commentary for Stardom, starting with the PPV in Nagoya.

Other spoiler notes from Stardom Namba Grand Fight

Spoiler

Aya Sakura pinned Rina during the match between Cosmic Angels and H.A.T.E., so expect a title match at one of the next New Blood shows.

Syuri seems to have challenged both Thekla and Momo Watanabe to face her and Saki Kashima, while also saying she was going to go after Konami as well.

After Natsupoi defeated Hazuki, Thekla came out. She whispered something in Poi's ear, raised her arm, and gave her a H.A.T.E. towel.

After Tam Nakano defeated Maika, Tam challenged Suzu Suzuki.

 

[Doragon]

Spoiler

Yay Tam won. Maikaetty lost.

 

[Stefanie Sparkleface]

Mifu Ashida's partnership with Kyuuri has led to some bad influences, like an increase in cheating during her matches. The two were in a Triangle match with Mio Shirai today, and Mifu kept deferring to Kyuuri about how to cheat more. Mio managed to overcome it and knock Kyuuri out, but Mifu shoved Mio out of the way and stole the pin for herself. Mifu said she was excited to get her first triangle win, and challenged Kyuuri for the Triangle Ribbon title.

Yuki Mashiro has suffered an injury of some kind to her right leg (I've seen both muscle tear and dislocation used as the reason). She was scheduled to team with Saran against YuuRI and Hamuko Hoshi in the main event on Monday's Ice Ribbon show, but she'll be replaced by Yumi Ohka. Ice Ribbon did not say if her Infinity title challenge against YuuRI is being cancelled, and she wrestled today (albeit a ten second surprise win against Tsukina Umino), so it may just be a move to rest her. Ice Ribbon is notoriously careful when it comes to injuries, so we'll have to wait and see what comes of this.

The rest of Monday's lineup looks really solid. Yappy and Ancham, who have taken to calling their team BAD BUTTS, go against Tsukina Umino and Grizzly Fujitaki in the opener, followed by Mifu Ashida against Yuko Sakurai. Manami Katsu's return match is on third, teaming with Makoto against Mio Shirai and Totoro Satsuki. The semifinal sees Kirari Wakana and Arisa Shinose have a rematch from Kirari's debut. Ever since losing to the rookie, Arisa has been more motivated than ever, even taking to teaming occasionally with her rival Saran and bullying Banako and Yuzuki from Hot Shushu. She's also been taken under Misa Kagura's wing, as the two regularly team now.

[Ace]

Meiko Satomura's retirement tour is passing through TJPW next month. She and Shoko Nakajima will be facing Miyu Yamashita & Miu Watanabe on 10/6

 

TJPW Wrestle Princess V Spoilers

Spoiler

Xia Shao (fka Xia Li)  looked dominant in her tag match with Mizuki against Yuki Kamifuku & VENY. After the match, Shao challenged Kamiyu for her titles.

Yuki Arai retained her title against Moko Miyamoto

12000000 (Maki Itoh & Miyu Yamashita) defeated Daisy Monkey (Arisu Endo & Suzume) for the Tag Team Championship. Maki wrestled with a broken hand. Maki has also said that if they do not have 10 successful defenses, the team will disband.

Miu Watanabe retained the Princess of Princess championship by defeating Ryo Mizunami.

Shoko Nakajima vs. Emi Sakura and the main event are must-see matches.

[Greggulator]

AJW 80s question. Was there any explanation given why Dump in her matches can just do anything she wants, along with her minions? I am not complaining because Dump is just the greatest. But just wondering why she never took a DQ in what I have seen even if she’s blasting someone with a kendo stick as the ref watches.

[Stefanie Sparkleface]

1 hour ago, Greggulator said:

AJW 80s question. Was there any explanation given why Dump in her matches can just do anything she wants, along with her minions? I am not complaining because Dump is just the greatest. But just wondering why she never took a DQ in what I have seen even if she’s blasting someone with a kendo stick as the ref watches.

Shiro Abe was a heel ref, and he had most of Dump's matches.

[Ace]

Sendai Girls 9/27 Spoilers

Spoiler

Momo Watanabe got her win back, pinning DASH Chisako in a tag match.

Team 200KG defeated bob bob momo banana to win the Sendai Girls tag team championship. BMI2000 (Natsuko Tora & Ruaka) immediately challenged them after.

 

[Elsalvajeloco]

 

Okay...

1. Maika is having too much fun with this Toni stuff. This is like the Japanese version of Footloose. Also, what is this dance she's doing? It's like someone's drunk aunt dancing at a cookout. Ok, since it's some unknown hoochie mama dance, I am going dub it the "The Hoochie Maika". It's going take the world by storm!

2. Question: Did Maika dislocate her elbow or tear a bicep and never tell Stardom? She's being wearing that arm wrap for over two years now. She might as get the giant Psycho Sid body glove elbow pad at this point.

[J.H.]

There was already a Japanese version. Kawada was Kevin Bacon to Fuyuki's Chris Penn

James