dragonzombie Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Just now, DEAN said: What and what? The next Stardom PPV in Osaka. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Chihiro Hashimoto's German Suplex! And ANOTHER bigger one! Okay, Takumi Iroha is also awesome. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 23 hours ago, D.Z said: Could it be? Oh my! Nah, it's actually Steve Disalvo James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Stardom Press conference in 3 hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofuture Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Oddly gimmick heavy card for the 12/18 Osaka show: Syuri vs Waka Tsukiyama, Lady C and Mai Sakurai, Gauntlet match, 1/15. Syuri will have 3 singles matches regardless of the result. 10 Million Yen Unit Tournament: * STARS (Mayu Iwatani, Hazuki and Koguma) * CA (Tam Nakano, Mina Shirakawa and Unagi Sayaka) * DDM (Maika, Himeka and Natsupoi) * Marvelous (Takumi Iroha, Rin Kadokura and Maria) * DDM vs Marvelous, Artist of STARDOM Championship * STARS vs CA * Elimination Ladder match between the winners of the previous two matches, Artist of STARDOM Championship, 30 minute time limit QQ (Momo Watanabe, AZM, Saya Kamitani and Utami Hayashishita) vs OT (Starlight Kid, Ruaka, Saki Kashima and Konami), Captain's Fall match, 30 minute time limit. QQ captain - Momo, OT captain - SLK, the one captain that gets pinned goes to the other one's faction. If QQ wins, SLK has to unmask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Looks interesting. Spoiler Imagine no mask SLK. Imagine evil MOMO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) Honestly the stips killed much of my interest. They make it obvious Oedo Tai is winning. Kid won't wear the mask her entire career, but she also won't lose it in a quickly put together feud and non singles match. Edited November 30, 2021 by Eivion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Yuu is all about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dragonzombie Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Fixed tooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) These 3 women are leaving Ice Ribbon at the end of the year. Risa Sera, Maya Yukihi, Suzu Suzuki. Edited November 30, 2021 by D.Z 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 For some reason I thought Risa Sera was retiring. Any of them drop hints to where they are heading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) Deathmatches for Risa Sera and Suzu Suzuki as a unit. Freelance for Maya Yukihi. Suzu was supposed to be the next ace of IR. In other news, Honori Hana will retire after contracting the coronavirus. Edited November 30, 2021 by D.Z 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 19 minutes ago, D.Z said: In other news, Honori Hana will retire after contracting the coronavirus. Saw this on reddit. Its a shame to hear though I'm kind of surprised it took this long for there to be a retirement due to covid's long term damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofuture Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 I don't know if there's really that many opportunities out there for deathmatches for Sera and Suzuki, not enough to justify leaving Ice Ribbon. Suzu is way too talented to go that route. Also in other news, Mio Momono from Marvelous is having back surgery and will be out for a while. It really has been an unlucky year for Marvelous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 God, what a batch of bad news for joshi promotions. @Stefanie the Human, thoughts on those huge losses for Ice Ribbon? Maya is really good and has the air of a star. Suzu is incredible for her age and experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 That reminds me that I saw on the Stardom reddit that Hibiki is either retiring or going hiatus. 47 minutes ago, nofuture said: I don't know if there's really that many opportunities out there for deathmatches for Sera and Suzuki, not enough to justify leaving Ice Ribbon. Suzu is way too talented to go that route. I recall Takagi mentioning wanting to start a deathmatch promotion and more traditional joshi promotion. Maybe they head towards the Cyber Agent sphere and work TJPW until one of those promotions occur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefanie Without Stefanie Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 All three are fairly big losses. Both Risa and Suzu are big into death matches, though, so I'm not terribly surprised to see them go that route if that's their plans. I absolutely would not be surprised if Maya Yukihi gets recruited heavily by Stardom or Tokyo Joshi Pro. Risa had planned on retiring when she turned 30 (which was just a couple of weeks ago), so she walked that back. Ice Ribbon is really freelancer-friendly, so this could easily just be a change in contract status to where they're not on regular shows anymore, like at the dojo. It's a blow for regular watching, but if they come back for bigger shows then I can live with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofuture Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Apparently Ice Ribbon is going to be making an announcement later today and the 3 named so far aren't the only ones leaving the promotion. Attendance has been pretty bad for them lately (their big show at Ota Ward only drew 500 people) so hopefully this isn't something worse going on with Ice Ribbon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefanie Without Stefanie Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 (edited) Attendance has been bad industry-wide thanks to the pandemic, so I don't think that would be a metric to base anything on. You'd have to factor in things like Nicopro subscriptions and per-event streaming revenue, and nobody really knows what anyone's making there. My best guess is that this is a company restructure, and that rather than keep wrestlers under contract and book them out to other companies (which if I'm not mistaken is the current Ice Ribbon model), they're letting those who want to handle their own bookings out to go freelance. That would certainly make sense for Risa and Suzu, who enjoy the deathmatch route. If I had to guess another potential move to freelance, I'd say Akane Fujita might be one that would consider such a move, considering how frequently she freelances. That said, it's a downer for sure, but unless they outright announce a closure, I'm willing to give them some leeway to see what comes next. After all, Suzu Suzuki may be pretty dang good, but it's not like Ibuki Hoshi, Nao Ishikawa, or Yuki Mashiro are chopped liver. Suzu leaving/going freelance will give all three of them a chance to shine, if they can stay healthy. Edited December 1, 2021 by Stefanie the Human Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dragonzombie Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Press conference soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 (edited) More names Kurumi, Mochi Miyagi, Akane Fujita are also leaving the company, Thekla has cancelled her contract, Kyuuri has retired. Maya Yukihi will be under free contract next year. Edited December 1, 2021 by D.Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Risa Sera, Suzu Suzuki, Kurumi Hiiragi, Mochi Miyagi, Akane Fujita forming new promotion... "Prominence" . Deathmatch & Hardcore promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 1 minute ago, D.Z said: Risa Sera, Suzu Suzuki, Kurumi Hiiragi, Mochi Miyagi, Akane Fujita forming new promotion... "Prominence" . Deathmatch & Hardcore promotion. Man, that's just weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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