{"id":114335,"date":"2022-06-30T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=114335"},"modified":"2022-06-30T14:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T18:41:17","slug":"starlight-kid-light-in-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/06\/30\/starlight-kid-light-in-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Gazing: Starlight Kid – Finding Light In Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Gazing<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0is our series which will add to our expansive coverage of\u00a0<\/i>World Wonder Ring Stardom\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/a>(Also known simply as Stardom) and the Joshi scene where we will get you up to speed with members of the Stardom roster. Today we will be focusing on the future of Stardom and Joshi wrestling as a whole, Starlight Kid<\/i><\/p>\n

The Beginning of Starlight Kid\u2019s Career<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Starlight Kid has been one of STARDOM\u2019s biggest stars since her debut in 2015. Starting from a young age under Fuka Kakimoto like her career counterpart AZM, her talent within the ring shows no boundaries and it’s clear that she started to slowly become a major player in the company’s roster.<\/span><\/p>\n

How did she get to where she is now, from the beacon of hope that STARDOM once held onto in times of great despair into the multifaceted complicated side of chasing a long, devious journey to surpass her mentor, and how did that develop into being one of the most interesting and well-developed characters in the company\u2019s recent history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, let\u2019s begin right from the start.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her debut, she was drafted to Mayu Iwatani’s faction, Stardom Army aka STARS, where she would have varying degrees of success until 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

She entered her first and second Goddess of Stardom Tag League in 2015 and 2017, finishing as a semi-finalist in both years, teaming with Hiormi Mimura in her first attempt and with AZM in her second. Sporadically, she would win matches at different shows. Still young, she had a lot to prove in the world wonder ring and it wouldn\u2019t be long until her very first championship victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cSky Tiger\u201d became the inaugural \u201cFuture of Stardom\u201d champion in the spring of 2018, winning a five-woman tournament where she beat Shiki Shibusawa in the finals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While champion, she would defend the championship against AZM twice – once in a decisive victory and another to a time-limit draw. Alongside those two defences, she would also defend the championship another three times against Natsumi, Ruaka and Hanan respectively. After 281 days, she would lose the championship to future World of Stardom champion Utami Hayashishita. Not bad for her first ever championship run, huh?<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the loss of her championship, her frequency in participating in STARDOM\u2019s yearly tournaments began to increase. With Alex Garcia and Natsumi, she would once again become a tournament semi-finalist, a result that continuously crop-ups in her career, as part of the trios tag team tournament in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

That same year, she would enter her first ever Cinderella Tournament, defeating Natsu Sumire and Hazuki before being eliminated by Konami in the semi-finals (again). In the 2019 Goddess of Stardom tag league she reached the semi-finals yet again, this time teaming with All Elite Wrestling\u2019s Riho.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 2020 5 STAR Grand Prix, SLK didn’t exactly have a great tournament, only collecting two points by defeating Death Yama-san while losing to everyone else in her block.<\/span><\/p>\n

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