{"id":60936,"date":"2020-01-14T09:53:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=60936"},"modified":"2020-01-14T09:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:53:43","slug":"maika-joins-giulias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/01\/14\/maika-joins-giulias\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST TAP OUT&#8217;s Maika Joins Giulia&#8217;s Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the most recent\u00a0<strong>JUST TAP OUT\u00a0<\/strong>show at Korakuen Hall Maika faced\u00a0<strong>Stardom<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Utami Hayashishita\u00a0<\/strong>in a Future Of Stardom title match.\u00a0 The match was meant to happen back in September but Hayashishita <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/09\/07\/utami-hayashishita-5star\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">got injured during the 5STAR GP<\/a> and was replaced by\u00a0<strong>Sareee<\/strong>.\u00a0 The match finally took place and Hayashishita came away with the win.\u00a0 The big story was to come after the match as Giulia appeared and recruited Maika to join her unit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Utami pinned Maika after the Torture Rack Bomb to retain the title.<\/p>\n<p>After the match Giulia came to the ring and invited Maika to be in her unit. Giulia and Maika left together.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/1217038147562823680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Giulia has been something of a lone wolf since joining Stardom.\u00a0 She briefly teamed with\u00a0<strong>Andras Miyagi\u00a0<\/strong>but following a recent defeat said &#8220;arrivederci&#8221; to Miyagi and threw her aside.\u00a0 This left Giulia needing to fill two spots on her team in an upcoming battle with <strong>Tokyo Cyber Squad <\/strong>at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/01\/02\/stardom-9th-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stardom&#8217;s 9th Anniversary<\/a> show.\u00a0 With Maika aligning with Giulia we are seeing the formation of another faction in Stardom, one that is seemingly open to working with outsiders.<\/p>\n<p>Maika is a trainee of\u00a0<strong>Taka Michinoku <\/strong>and only debuted in May 2019.\u00a0 Despite her inexperience, she has proven to be a solid talent that can put on good matches with the right opponent.\u00a0 In a promotion like Stardom, she can get more experience while being hidden away in multi-person tags until she&#8217;s ready to step up.\u00a0 She adds a fresh face to Giulia&#8217;s group which could be an exciting shot in the arm for Stardom.<\/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> to see who else joins Giulia&#8217;s new unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the most recent\u00a0JUST TAP OUT\u00a0show at Korakuen Hall Maika faced\u00a0Stardom&#8216;s\u00a0Utami Hayashishita\u00a0in a Future Of Stardom title match.\u00a0 The match was meant to happen back in September but Hayashishita got injured during the 5STAR GP and was replaced by\u00a0Sareee.\u00a0 The match finally took place and Hayashishita came away with the win.\u00a0 The big story was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":60938,"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":[6010,6009,480,3918],"class_list":["post-60936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-joshi","category-news","tag-just-tap-out","tag-maika","tag-stardom","tag-utami-hayashishita"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60936","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=60936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}