{"id":54675,"date":"2019-09-22T06:34:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=54675"},"modified":"2021-03-15T15:48:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T19:48:56","slug":"winner-2019-5star-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/09\/22\/winner-2019-5star-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"(Spoiler) Winner of Stardom&#8217;s 2019 5STAR Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a gruelling tournament which featured <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/09\/07\/utami-hayashishita-5star\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not one<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/09\/14\/jungle-kyona-out-5star\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two injuries<\/a>, as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/08\/10\/kasey-owens-stardom-azm\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">late change in participants<\/a>, <strong>Hana Kimura\u00a0<\/strong>has emerged as the winner of the 2019 5STAR Grand Prix after defeating <strong>Konami\u00a0<\/strong>to win the GP for the first time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">5\u2606Star Grand Prix 2019 winner Hana Kimura! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O4P8r7rtXa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/O4P8r7rtXa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/1175680092434923521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kimura emerged as the winner of the stacked Red Stars block which featured talents like\u00a0<strong>Mayu Iwatani<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Momo Watanabe<\/strong> after a tense final day.\u00a0 Kimura&#8217;s opponent, fellow Tokyo Cyber Squad member, Konami emerged as winner of the Blue Stars block which lost two participants to injury leaving Konami without a block match on the final day but needing\u00a0<strong>Jamie Hayter\u00a0<\/strong>to slip up.\u00a0 Hayter drew with Priestley which crowned Konami winner of the Blue Stars block.<\/p>\n<p>Since their formation at the annual Stardom draft Tokyo Cyber Squad has shaken up the company giving Kimura, Konami and Kyona the opportunity to step up, and step up they have, Konami reached the final of both Cinderella Tournament and 5STAR, while also capturing two titles, Kimura is now the 5STAR holder and captured the Artist Of Stardom title, Kyona managed to finally get a win over\u00a0<strong>Utami Hayashishita\u00a0<\/strong>while winning the Goddesses Of Stardom championships.\u00a0 Without doubt TCS have been successful in the ring and are popular outside of the ring with success now coming to it&#8217;s main three in spades.<\/p>\n<p>Kimura is always someone that was seen as a potential star, she is a second-generation performer and was a key part of Oedo Tai when it was at it&#8217;s most popular but the fact that she was signed to\u00a0<strong>Wrestle-1\u00a0<\/strong>put a ceiling on her push.\u00a0 Ever since committing full time to Stardom we have seen Kimura get the push she deserved as the leader of TCS and now as the winner of the 2019 5STAR Grand Prix.<\/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 all the action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a gruelling tournament which featured not one, but two injuries, as well as a late change in participants, Hana Kimura\u00a0has emerged as the winner of the 2019 5STAR Grand Prix after defeating Konami\u00a0to win the GP for the first time. 5\u2606Star Grand Prix 2019 winner Hana Kimura! pic.twitter.com\/O4P8r7rtXa &mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":54680,"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":[13,5302,12],"tags":[3874],"class_list":["post-54675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-joshi","category-news","tag-hana-kimura"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54675","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=54675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}