{"id":51011,"date":"2019-07-24T08:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=51011"},"modified":"2019-07-24T09:59:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T13:59:16","slug":"riho-stardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/07\/24\/riho-stardom\/","title":{"rendered":"Riho To Wrestle For Stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most known for her performances in\u00a0<strong>All Elite Wrestling,\u00a0<\/strong>Riho has been tied to\u00a0<strong>Emi Sakura\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Gatoh Move\u00a0<\/strong>for the last part of her career.\u00a0 In early July, Riho said goodbye to Gatoh Move with the intention to wrestle for AEW and do some freelance work in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Riho&#039;s last speech for Gatoh Move\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ymdCVDXLtg?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>During Stardom&#8217;s <em><strong>Big Summer In Tokyo<\/strong><\/em> show, Riho came out following a match between STARS and Tokyo Cyber Squad to announce she would be making her debut for Stardom at August&#8217;s Korakuen Hall show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Riho announced she will be wrestling in Stardom beginning with the August Korakuen Hall show.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/1153976944569962496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is not uncommon for a wrestler to leave their home promotion announcing their intention to go freelance but instead join other promotions.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Shingo Takagi\u00a0<\/strong>to New Japan is one big example of this, as is\u00a0<strong>Taiji Ishimori<\/strong>. It has not yet been confirmed whether Riho has joined Stardom full time or is freelancing here but with Stardom&#8217;s reluctance to use many freelance talents, it would suggest she has committed to them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Free Match - Riho vs Nyla Rose vs Yuka Sakazaki from AEW&#039;s Fyter Fest\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TSV5FG5313Y?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>The fanbase is split on this news, as some welcome the opportunity to see Riho face fresh opponents and have matches with Stardom&#8217;s best like\u00a0<strong>Hazuki, Kagetsu, Mayu Iwatani\u00a0<\/strong>etc.\u00a0 While others are unhappy to see Stardom&#8217;s already bloated roster poach more talent, after taking <strong>Andras Miyagi\u00a0<\/strong>from\u00a0<strong>Sendai Girls\u00a0<\/strong>earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 And make sure to subscribe to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardom-world.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Stardom World<\/a>\u00a0to see how Riho gets on in her new environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most known for her performances in\u00a0All Elite Wrestling,\u00a0Riho has been tied to\u00a0Emi Sakura\u00a0and\u00a0Gatoh Move\u00a0for the last part of her career.\u00a0 In early July, Riho said goodbye to Gatoh Move with the intention to wrestle for AEW and do some freelance work in Japan. During Stardom&#8217;s Big Summer In Tokyo show, Riho came out following a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":51015,"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":[2,13,5302,12,317,323],"tags":[3911,4173,480],"class_list":["post-51011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-joshi","category-news","category-women","category-world-wonder-ring-stardom","tag-all-elite-wrestling","tag-riho","tag-stardom"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51011","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}