{"id":15872,"date":"2018-03-20T23:19:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T03:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=15872"},"modified":"2018-03-20T23:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T03:19:32","slug":"match-point-title-vs-title-viper-vs-toni-storm-3-28-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/03\/20\/match-point-title-vs-title-viper-vs-toni-storm-3-28-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Point: Title vs. Title: Viper vs Toni Storm (3\/28\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Match Point is an\u00a0ongoing\u00a0series at Last Word on Pro Wrestling, where we look at intriguing\u00a0matchups in indie wrestling and beyond. They may be dream matches, first-time\u00a0matchups,\u00a0or hotly anticipated rematches.\u00a0<\/em><em>Today\u2019s edition focuses on an upcoming Stardom event, the 3-day Stardom Dream Slam 2018, and one of it&#8217;s matches from Night 1 at\u00a0Korakuen\u00a0Hall, a title vs. title match between Toni Storm vs Viper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/missviper91\/status\/970994237650161666<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s <strong>Stardom<\/strong>, arguably the top women&#8217;s promotion in the world (original home of NXT Superstar <strong>Kairi Sane<\/strong>), recently announced a three day event called <em><strong>Stardom Dream Slam 2018<\/strong><\/em>, which would have Night 1 on Wednesday March 28 at the legendary Korakuen Hall, Night 2 on Saturday March 31 at the Osaka Edion Arena 2, and Night 3 on Sunday April 1 at Nagoya International Conference Hall. While all three nights feature stellar women&#8217;s wrestling, one match stands out as an intriguing one. A double title, title vs. title match between UK indie stars <strong>Toni Storm<\/strong> vs <strong>Viper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New World of Stardom champion, Toni Storm. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GXE5s9lzjd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/GXE5s9lzjd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/911830138928513024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Toni Storm, originally from Auckland, New Zealand, Toni Storm has taken the UK &#8211; and international &#8211; women&#8217;s wrestling scene in full force the past year. Apart from taking place in the <em><strong>WWE Mae Young Classic<\/strong><\/em> (where she faced Viper in the second round), she&#8217;s won the World of Stardom, <strong>PROGRESS<\/strong> and <strong>wXw<\/strong> Women&#8217;s Championships and dominated Europe and Asia. Scotland&#8217;s Viper is a UK treasure who, like Storm, has taken her skills to Japan with regularity &#8211; she also holds Stardom gold as 1\/3 of the Artist of Stardom (trios) Championship <strong>Queen&#8217;s Quest<\/strong> team with <strong>Io Shirai<\/strong> and <strong>HZK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Piper Niven vs. Toni Storm- Quarterfinal Match: Mae Young Classic, Sept. 6, 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwFDjxT8Lf4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Viper (known as Piper Niven in the WWE&#8217;s Mae Young Classic) is the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/02\/13\/andnew-viper-becomes-2x-icw-womens-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current ICW Women&#8217;s Champion<\/a> in Scotland, a title she&#8217;s holding for the second time after being the inaugural champion back in 2015. Meanwhile, Toni Storm is the reigning SWA Undisputed World Women&#8217;s Champion, a title she&#8217;s held for over 600 days since defeating Io Shirai at <em><strong>Stardom X Stardom: Osaka Summer Solstice Celebration<\/strong><\/em> in the summer of 2016. The SWA title was created by Stardom as the international World Championship to represent Stardom&#8217;s European alliance, which includes the UK&#8217;s <strong>British Empire Wrestling (BEW)<\/strong>, <strong>Association Biterroise de Catch (ABC)<\/strong> out of France, Mexico&#8217;s <strong>Women Wrestling Stars (WWS)<\/strong> and <strong>Revolution Championship Wrestling (RCW)<\/strong> in Spain.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/InsaneChampWres\/status\/963526739577262080<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15882\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15882\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/maxresdefault-2-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The result of this is a huge accomplishment for either woman. If Viper wins the SWA Undisputed World Championship, she&#8217;ll be booked all over Europe, as well as take on elite level challengers in Stardom. If Toni Storm wins, it&#8217;ll be another European championship in a new land conquered, to add to her current PROGRESS Women&#8217;s title (England) and wXw Women&#8217;s Championship (wXw) and two Japanese titles in Stardom. Adding Scotland&#8217;s top women&#8217;s championship <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/01\/20\/toni-storm-wxw-womens-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">almost seems par for the course for Storm at this point<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/wXwGermany\/status\/954780991675097089<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time these two UK indie superstars have collided &#8211; they first met up in <strong>Preston City Wrestling (PCW)<\/strong> in 2015 and have fought it out multiple times in <strong>SWE<\/strong>, wXw, Stardom and others before &#8211; but somehow this one feels like it&#8217;s going to be their best one yet. Both are fighting to be the pride of Europe and the Queen of Scotland, in front of an audience that appreciates women&#8217;s wrestling like no other. This will be one for the ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match Point is an\u00a0ongoing\u00a0series at Last Word on Pro Wrestling, where we look at intriguing\u00a0matchups in indie wrestling and beyond. They may be dream matches, first-time\u00a0matchups,\u00a0or hotly anticipated rematches.\u00a0Today\u2019s edition focuses on an upcoming Stardom event, the 3-day Stardom Dream Slam 2018, and one of it&#8217;s matches from Night 1 at\u00a0Korakuen\u00a0Hall, a title vs. title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":15882,"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":[2,21,13],"tags":[454,1574,480,2366,1573],"class_list":["post-15872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-icw","category-international","tag-icw","tag-piper-niven","tag-stardom","tag-toni-rose","tag-viper"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}