Stardom Flashing Champions 2022 took place at the iconic Ota Ward venue in Japan. The card was one of the most stacked in Stardom’s history and delivered on its hype with great matches and a lot of news. Let’s dig into all of the news coming from the show.
Stardom Flashing Champions 2022: New Brand, New Champions & More
Stardom Launches Stardom in Showcase
2022年夏「より多くの話題性と興奮を追求した、今までにない大会」をテーマに、新たなブランドが始動‼️
その名も
『STARDOM in SHOWCASE』✨🪩記念すべき第1回大会は
2022年7月23日(土)
愛知・名古屋国際会議場に決定‼️「STARDOM in SHOWCASE vol.1」
詳細は後日発表、ご期待下さい‼️ pic.twitter.com/1Ud93pp4oI
— スターダム✪STARDOM (@wwr_stardom) May 28, 2022
Via a video, Stardom hyped up the launch of their new brand Stardom In Showcase. The first event under this brand will take place on July 24, 2022 in Nagoya. There’s no clear details as to what this brand is about but Stardom used footage of their New Blood shows to hype it up leading to speculation that these could be cross-promotional events. This event will be followed up the next day by another show in Nagoya that will presumably be a PPV-tier show.
New Challengers
With every title being defended on the show we were always going to have some challenges made for future events. Stardom Flashing Champions 2022 did not disappoint as a number of title matches were set up for future events. First, Tomoka Inaba of JUST TAP OUT challenged Hanan for the Future of Stardom Championship, AZM was challenged by Momo Kohgo for the High Speed Championship, and KAIRI challenged Utami Hayashishita to a singles match. To close out we had two members of Oedo Tai challenge for titles as Starlight Kid challenged for the Wonder of Stardom Championship, while Momo Watanabe challenged Syuri for the World of Stardom Championship.
#AndNEW
As well as new challengers we also got #AndNEW Champions. The Oedo Tai team of Saki Kashima, Starlight Kid, and Momo Watanabe defeated MaiHimePoi for the Artist of Stardom Championship.
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