{"id":102150,"date":"2021-10-09T05:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T09:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=102150"},"modified":"2021-10-09T05:55:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T09:55:24","slug":"ruaka-wins-future-stardom-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/09\/ruaka-wins-future-stardom-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Ruaka Wins Future of Stardom Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening match of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/04\/10th-anniversary-grand-final-osaka-dream-cinderella\/\" target=\"_self\">Stardom 10th Anniversary Grand Final Osaka Dream Cinderella<\/a> at the famous Osaka-Jo Hall we saw the future of Stardom take centre stage as Ruaka challenged <strong>Unagi Sayaka\u00a0<\/strong>for the Future of Stardom Championship.\u00a0 It was Oedo Tai&#8217;s Ruaka who came away with the win to claim the first championship of her 5-year career.\u00a0 Ruaka already had a challenger come forward as\u00a0<strong>Lady C<\/strong> came out after the match and requested a title shot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Champion!!!! Ruaka pinned Unagi with the Freezer Bomb!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/1446691099003604992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Unagi Sayaka&#8217;s run as Future of Stardom Champion comes to an end at its fourth hurdle.\u00a0 She only held the belt for 84 days after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/17\/andnew-unagi-sayaka-wins-future-of-stardom-championship\/\" target=\"_self\">winning it from her stablemate<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Mina Shirakawa\u00a0<\/strong>but has not been shy about taking on all comers when it came to title defenses which is how she managed to squeeze in four defenses in less than 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>This was the only noteworthy result of the show as no other championship changed hands.\u00a0 Stardom did announce their return to the Edion Osaka Arena on December 18 but Stardom&#8217;s trip to Osaka-Jo Hall was otherwise a very unnewsworthy affair. That won&#8217;t matter to Oedo Tai who now have their hands on some gold as Ruaka can anchor the Future of Stardom division for the time being, although we expect\u00a0<strong>Hanan\u00a0<\/strong>to be in the hunt for the title soon to bring the belt back to STARS.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. If you want to see more from Stardom, you can check out their subscription service\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardom-world.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stardom World<\/a>\u00a0for all your wonderous Joshi needs.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening match of Stardom 10th Anniversary Grand Final Osaka Dream Cinderella at the famous Osaka-Jo Hall we saw the future of Stardom take centre stage as Ruaka challenged Unagi Sayaka\u00a0for the Future of Stardom Championship.\u00a0 It was Oedo Tai&#8217;s Ruaka who came away with the win to claim the first championship of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":102151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6975,5302,12,2192],"tags":[2629,7479],"class_list":["post-102150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-wrestling","category-joshi","category-news","category-wrestling","tag-andnew","tag-stardom-news"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}