{"id":19986,"date":"2018-06-09T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T15:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=19986"},"modified":"2018-06-09T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T15:34:04","slug":"andnew-kagetsu-wins-world-of-stardom-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/06\/09\/andnew-kagetsu-wins-world-of-stardom-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"#AndNEW: Kagetsu Wins World of Stardom Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a night of shocks and surprises in Japan today, but NJPW didn&#8217;t have all the fun. In Yokohama, <strong>Oedo Tai<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Kagetsu<\/strong> won her first <strong>Stardom<\/strong>\u00a0singles title and made it a big one, by defeating World of Stardom Champion <strong>Toni Storm<\/strong> for the top title in the promotion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">June 9 Yokohama<br \/>\u25c6World of Stardom Title<br \/>Kagetsu pinned Toni Storm to become the 10th World of Stardom champion.<br \/>part 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zESBkhwVJo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/zESBkhwVJo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/1005418347159142401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trained by joshi legend <strong>Meiko Satomura<\/strong>, Kagetsu began with Meiko&#8217;s <strong>Sendai Girls<\/strong> promotion in 2008 as a teenager under the name <strong>Yukari Ishino<\/strong>, working as a regular until 2014. As her experience grew, she also began working with all the other top promotions in Japan, including <strong>Japanese Women Pro-Wrestling (JWP)<\/strong>, <strong>OZ Academy<\/strong>, <strong>Pro Wrestling WAVE<\/strong>, <strong>Ice Ribbon<\/strong>, and more. She worked some sporadic matches with Stardom off and on throughout her years, but it was in 2016 that she became a Stardom regular and joining <strong>Oedo Tai<\/strong>. Considered a tag team specialist (she was a 2x OZ Academy Tag Team Champion with\u00a0<strong>Kaho Kobayashi<\/strong> in <strong>MISSION K4<\/strong>), going into today&#8217;s World of Stardom Championship match, she was a 2x Goddess of Stardom Champion (once with <strong>Kyoko Kimura<\/strong> and once with <strong>Hana Kimura<\/strong>), as well as an Artist of Stardom Champion (with both Kimura sisters). It marks Kagetsu&#8217;s first singles title in Stardom and her first since winning the JWP Junior Championship in 2011.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19990\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19990\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/06\/DfP19UwU8AArVMk-e1528558266621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stardom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For Toni Storm, her 258 day reign as World of Stardom Champion has ended, but she&#8217;ll most likely be moving on to new ventures. She&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/05\/25\/huge-uk-indie-womens-fatal-4-way-announced-for-wwe-uk-special\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slated to compete at the WWE United Kingdom Championship<\/a> event in London, England next week and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/06\/07\/wwe-uk-news-uk-brand-gm-new-signings-plus-update-on-revpro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with all signs pointing towards<\/a> the start of a new UK show, Storm will play a heavy part in the UK brand, not to mention probably inclusion in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/05\/29\/mae-young-classic-ii-a-look-at-who-could-be-in-this-years-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mae Young Classic II<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a night of shocks and surprises in Japan today, but NJPW didn&#8217;t have all the fun. In Yokohama, Oedo Tai&#8216;s Kagetsu won her first Stardom\u00a0singles title and made it a big one, by defeating World of Stardom Champion Toni Storm for the top title in the promotion. 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