{"id":16267,"date":"2018-03-29T13:16:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T17:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=16267"},"modified":"2018-03-29T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T17:17:33","slug":"andnew-viper-wins-stardom-swa-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/03\/29\/andnew-viper-wins-stardom-swa-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Viper Wins Stardom SWA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at Night 1 of <strong>Stardom<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><strong>Dream Slam 2018<\/strong><\/em>, ICW Women&#8217;s Champion <strong>Viper<\/strong>\u00a0defeated Stardom SWA Champion <strong>Toni Storm<\/strong> in a title vs. title match. This marks Viper&#8217;s second title win in Stardom since joining the Japanese company in 2016 and first major singles title. Alongside the SWA Championship, Viper is currently a co-champion with <strong>Io Shirai<\/strong> and <strong>HZK<\/strong> in <strong>Queen&#8217;s Quest<\/strong> of the Artist of Stardom Championship (their trios title).<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/missviper91\/status\/978979830048919553<\/p>\n<p>The SWA\u00a0Championship was created by Stardom as the international World Championship to represent Stardom\u2019s World Alliance, which includes the UK\u2019s <strong>British Empire Wrestling (BEW)<\/strong>, <strong>Association Biterroise de Catch (ABC)<\/strong> out of France, Mexico\u2019s <strong>Women Wrestling Stars (WWS)<\/strong> and <strong>Revolution Championship Wrestling (RCW)<\/strong> in Spain, debuting in 2016. Io Shirai defeated Toni Storm in the title tournament finals in May of 2016 at a show in Spain to capture the inaugural SWA Championship, before Storm defeated her later that year in July to claim the title for herself. Toni Storm then went on to hold the title for 612 straight days until losing it to Viper last night.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/979028393764143104<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">March 28 Korakuen Hall<br \/>Dream Slam in Tokyo<br \/>\u25c6Viper defeated Toni Storm to win the SWA championship. The ICW Women&#39;s title was also on the line. Part 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i9vECVZJCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/i9vECVZJCE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/979028960498470912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for Viper to get\u00a0a challenger for her new title. Directly after winning the SWA Championship, Viper was confronted by <strong>Jungle Kyona<\/strong>, setting up Viper&#8217;s first title defense this coming Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oovGISBXYD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/oovGISBXYD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/979351697297321984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at Night 1 of Stardom&#8216;s Dream Slam 2018, ICW Women&#8217;s Champion Viper\u00a0defeated Stardom SWA Champion Toni Storm in a title vs. title match. This marks Viper&#8217;s second title win in Stardom since joining the Japanese company in 2016 and first major singles title. Alongside the SWA Championship, Viper is currently a co-champion with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":16272,"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":[2,13,317,323],"tags":[480,2428,598,1573],"class_list":["post-16267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-women","category-world-wonder-ring-stardom","tag-stardom","tag-swa-championship","tag-toni-storm","tag-viper"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267","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=16267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}