Current Joshi Talk

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Playoffs are set for the 5*GP. First round and quarters are on August 20th with the semis and finals on the 23rd.

Block winners who get a bye to the quarter-finals: Saroi Anou, Sareee, Saya Kamitani, and Natsupoi.

First round match-ups:

* Suzu Suzuki vs. Bozilla > winner faces Anou

* Ami Sohrei vs. Momo Watanabe > winner faces Sareee

* AZM vs. Hanan > winner faces Kamitani

* Bea Priestley vs. Rina > winner faces Natsupoi

 

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Whole show streaming for free on YouTube:

 

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To preview their Wonder of Stardom title match on Saturday, Stardom up loaded the Starlight Kid vs. Tomoka Inaba match from opening night of the 5 Star Grand Prix. One of the better matches from the whole tournament.

 

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Stardom has temporarily uploaded some of Saya Kamitani's biggest matches from this year. They even put them into a handy playlist. If you haven't already checked out her work this year now is the time.

 

 

[El-P]

I'm just so behind on whatever joshi I wanna watch. That Unagi Sayaka vs Minoru Suzuki match was a ride though. (see what I did ?). Heel surely is a one kind of a character. She certainly found a way to make her post-Stardom career interesting, to say the least.

[Blehschmidt]

2 hours ago, El-P said:

I'm just so behind on whatever joshi I wanna watch. That Unagi Sayaka vs Minoru Suzuki match was a ride though. (see what I did ?). Heel surely is a one kind of a character. She certainly found a way to make her post-Stardom career interesting, to say the least.

Is there somewhere to catch that match?

[El-P]

On 10/22/2025 at 12:44 AM, Blehschmidt said:

Is there somewhere to catch that match?

Sorry, I didn't notice this before. Yup there is: 

Still catching up on stuff, just watched that AZM vs Saya Kamitani from Korakuen Hall last month. Damn, if I did not know the results, there's two occasions where I would have actually believed AZM was winning that one. Crazy good match.

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This was more pretty good than great. While they didn't outright blow any spots they definitely looked out of sync with each other, certainly more than they expect to be. A bit more surprising was how they both were running on fumes for the last few minutes. Worth the watch if your curious but don't go in with big expectations.

 

[El-P]

A pretty good match bewteen Iyo and Mayu can only been considered as a major disappointment. Meltzer mentionned the match was basically a showcase for Iyo, and Mayu came looking secondary (which is pretty much textbook WWE style "collaboration"). 

I saw that Mirai already left the promotion too. Well, so much for the forced push she received in Stardom when Rossy was still booking.

That show had the daughter of Yumi Fukawa vs the daughter of Michiko Ohmukai, which makes me feel old af. I wonder if "daughter of Chama" just no-sold a bunch of shit before winning (like her mother would, ya know, old ARSION ref here).