{"id":38113,"date":"2019-02-12T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=38113"},"modified":"2019-06-08T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T20:33:13","slug":"preview-stardom-queens-festival-2-17-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/02\/12\/preview-stardom-queens-festival-2-17-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Stardom Queen&#8217;s Festival (2\/17\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stardom runs <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/02\/10\/weekly-wonder-world-of-stardom-2-4-19-2-10-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Korakuen Hall<\/a> with an exciting tag team championship match and\u00a0<strong>Oedo Tai\u00a0<\/strong>debuting a new member and having\u00a0<strong>Hazuki\u00a0<\/strong>defend her\u00a0<strong>High Speed Championship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Stardom Queen&#8217;s Festival Preview<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Match 1: STARS (Starlight Kid &amp; Hanan) vs JAN (Ruaka &amp; Saya Iida) vs Rina &amp; Hina<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38192\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/02\/DzMhq-HUYAESE6J-e1549993793155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\"><\/p>\n<p>A three way\u00a0tag team match featuring the young contingent of STARS and JAN.\u00a0 Kid, Hanan and Ruaka will be tasked with carrying the three rookies to a decent match.\u00a0 Expect Kid or Ruaka to get the win over either Rina or Hina in what will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/stardom-world.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decent opener<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Match 2: STARS (Saki Kashima &amp; Alex Gracia) vs Multinational Army (Hana Kimura &amp; Bobbi Tyler)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38195\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38195\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/02\/DzMMpIiU8AAEF36-e1549993825671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stardom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two of Stardom&#8217;s regular performers teaming with newer talents on their first tour.\u00a0 Gracia has spent most of the tour getting pinned but Kashima is currently an\u00a0<strong>Artist Of Stardom\u00a0<\/strong>champion and a former\u00a0<strong>Goddesses Of Stardom\u00a0<\/strong>champion and would be more protected than Kimura.\u00a0 Kimura is very hot and cold and since\u00a0<strong>Sadie Gibbs\u00a0<\/strong>left her group she has mostly been losing matches with Tyler.\u00a0 Gracia or Tyler will take the pin here.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Match 3: Konami vs Jamie Hayter<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38197\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38197\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/02\/DzMMwzUU8AAJUrv-e1549993857589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stardom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Queen&#8217;s Quest vs Oedo Tai matchup.\u00a0 Konami is a protege of\u00a0<strong>Kana\u00a0<\/strong>(now\u00a0<strong>Asuka<\/strong> in the WWE) and thus follows the Kana method of kicking the daylights out of her opponents and wrestling barefoot.\u00a0 Hayter is a natural to Joshi and a real heel, she fought hard against\u00a0<strong>Momo Watanabe\u00a0<\/strong>in a Wonder Of Stardom championship match recently and will feel confident of beating a younger talent.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Match 4: High Speed Championship: Hazuki (c) vs AZM<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38193\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38193\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/02\/DzMM2lZUYAARNER-e1549993877474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stardom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Queen&#8217;s Quest vs Oedo Tai matchup.\u00a0 Hazuki is making the second defense of her recently\u00a0won High Speed championship.\u00a0 As the name suggests the title is made for athletic wrestlers to have fast paced matches that excite the crowd.\u00a0 AZM has been improving these sequences in the buildup to this match in multi man tags and even shocked everyone and got a win over Hazuki in the build to this match.\u00a0 Hazuki won&#8217;t want to lose to someone as young as AZM but wouldn&#8217;t care as she doesn&#8217;t even want the High Speed Championship.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Match 5: Oedo Tai (Kagetsu &amp; X) vs JAN (Natsuko Tora &amp; Jungle Kyona)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38194\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38194 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/02\/DzMM7SwV4AAbXpF-e1549993896312.jpg\" alt=\"Stardom\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stardom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This match will mostly be built around the new Oedo Tai member.\u00a0 Whoever it is they have a tough task in their debut match as they face JAN&#8217;s best team of Tora and Kyona.\u00a0 It would make sense for &#8220;X&#8221; to get the win in her debut and claim a big win over a former Goddesses Of Stardom winning team.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Match 6: Goddesses Of Stardom: Queen&#8217;s Quest (Momo Watanabe &amp; Utami Hayashishita) (c) vs AMA (Mayu Iwatani &amp; Arisa Hoshiki)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38198\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38198 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/02\/DzMNAhCV4AAEz5o-e1549993938341.jpg\" alt=\"Stardom\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Stardom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The superteam of Watanabe and Hayashishita have taken Stardom\u00a0by storm.\u00a0 For newer fans think\u00a0<strong>Two Man Power Trip\u00a0<\/strong>done very well.\u00a0 The big rookie Hayashishita holds four titles right now and is yet to suffer defeat in her career, her and new Ace of Stardom and double title holder Momo Watanabe have former an unstoppable dream team that has collected belts for Queen&#8217;s Quest.\u00a0 The champions face a tag team that formed in Stardom&#8217;e early days.\u00a0 Hoshiki and Iwatani were a team during Hoshiki&#8217;s short run in Stardom, since then Iwatani has won every title there is and become the Stardom icon while Hoshiki hasn&#8217;t lost a step and still has some of the most lethal kicks in Joshi.\u00a0 Hoshiki and Watanabe is a battle of two kickers which could lead to a future Wonder Of Stardom title match.\u00a0 As for who wins, it&#8217;s a mystery, the super team could continue their winning ways or the veterans could claim a win and start taking apart Queen&#8217;s Quest dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stardom runs Korakuen Hall with an exciting tag team championship match and\u00a0Oedo Tai\u00a0debuting a new member and having\u00a0Hazuki\u00a0defend her\u00a0High Speed Championship. 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