{"id":110201,"date":"2022-02-18T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=110201"},"modified":"2022-02-19T14:08:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:08:20","slug":"kairi-sane-returns-to-stardom-now-goes-by-kairi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/02\/18\/kairi-sane-returns-to-stardom-now-goes-by-kairi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kairi Sane Returns to Stardom, Now Goes by KAIRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stardom held a press conference on February 18 as part of the lead-up to their double-header at Sumo Hall in March.\u00a0 They promised to pay off their recent storyline involving a mystery woman in negotiations with Rossy Ogawa to take part in the shows.\u00a0 It was revealed that the former Kairi Hojo\/Kairi Sane would be returning to the company, now going by just KAIRI.<\/p>\n<h2>KAIRI Returns to Stardom<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">She is officially KAIRI (all caps, no last name).<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/1494601779354664966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Stardom did not wait around to set things up for KAIRI as she was confronted by Cosmic Angels members<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/06\/05\/unagi-sayaka-journey-to-becoming-best-underdog\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> Unagi Sayaka<\/a> and Tam Nakano. After some back-and-forth the two challenged KAIRI to a tag match, KAIRI suggested that Stardom icon <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/23\/star-gazing-the-icon-of-stardom-mayu-iwatani\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Mayu Iwatani<\/a> be her partner for the match. No date was given for that match but it is likely to be on Stardom World Climax Day 1, as Iwatani is challenging for the World of Stardom Championship on day 2.<\/p>\n<p>KAIRI did not get a moment of peace as she was attacked by Stardom&#8217;s renegade group Oedo Tai, specifically Natsuko Tora, Starlight Kid, and Momo Watanabe.\u00a0 This will likely lead to a match on Day 2 of Stardom World Climax, although nothing was made official nor did KAIRI tease any potential partners for this match.\u00a0 Oedo Tai have been in the crosshairs of Queen&#8217;s Quest lately, specifically former world champion Utami Hayashishita who may team up with the former Hojo to get revenge on Oedo Tai.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/0BX0pBct2GDtNPX86JTmO0?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\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> for all your wonderous Joshi needs.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stardom held a press conference on February 18 as part of the lead-up to their double-header at Sumo Hall in March.\u00a0 They promised to pay off their recent storyline involving a mystery woman in negotiations with Rossy Ogawa to take part in the shows.\u00a0 It was revealed that the former Kairi Hojo\/Kairi Sane would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":11211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[6975,5302,12,2192,317,323,4,3],"tags":[7180,481,1428,7479],"class_list":["post-110201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-wrestling","category-joshi","category-news","category-wrestling","category-women","category-world-wonder-ring-stardom","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-joshi-news","tag-kairi-hojo","tag-kairi-sane","tag-stardom-news"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110201","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=110201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}