{"id":76430,"date":"2020-09-19T05:51:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T09:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=76430"},"modified":"2021-03-15T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T19:47:02","slug":"wins-5star-grand-prix-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/09\/19\/wins-5star-grand-prix-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"(Spoiler) Wins Stardom 5STAR Grand Prix 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few weeks Stardom has been running the 5STAR Grand Prix 2020.\u00a0 The round-robin tournament was unpredictable until the very last day as at least seven performers went into the final day with a chance to win their blocks.\u00a0 In the end, Utami Hayashishita emerged as the winner of not only her block but the tournament as a whole.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">The 5\u2605STAR GP 2020 winner, Utami Hayashishita! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nXtiOvPqhL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/nXtiOvPqhL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/1307244005491499009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hayashishita wrestled\u00a0<strong>Syuri<\/strong> to a gruelling 20-minute draw in the penultimate match of the night which allowed Hayashishita to squeak through as the block winner by a single point, her draw with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/18\/star-gazing-the-new-ace-momo-watanabe\/\" target=\"_self\">Momo Watanabe<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>coming in very helpful.\u00a0 Hayashishita then had to immediately wrestle\u00a0<strong>Himeka<\/strong>, the red stars block winner, and in a herculean effort pulled out the victory over the &#8220;jumbo princess&#8221; and won the 5STAR Grand Prix 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"in\" dir=\"ltr\">Utami 4 belts &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Seth 2 Belts <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fCD3W4bdVk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/fCD3W4bdVk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jos\u00e9 (@JoseM_84) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoseM_84\/status\/1163655574749364225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was always only a matter of time before we saw Utami Hayashishita wear this crown, ever since her debut in 2018 she has been pushed as a wrestling prodigy.\u00a0 Just months after her debut she went to the finals of her debut GP before going on to win a number of championships in her rookie year, at one point holding 4 at one time. In 2020 we have seen her emerge as a legitimate top star in the company as she left the Future Of Stardom division behind and debuted a new look signifying her graduation from being seen as a newcomer.\u00a0 With her eyes set on <strong>Mayu Iwatani\u00a0<\/strong>and the World Of Stardom Championship we may see Utami Hayashishita win the top title in Stardom sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" 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 from Stardom.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\">LWOS Boards<\/a>\u00a0to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few weeks Stardom has been running the 5STAR Grand Prix 2020.\u00a0 The round-robin tournament was unpredictable until the very last day as at least seven performers went into the final day with a chance to win their blocks.\u00a0 In the end, Utami Hayashishita emerged as the winner of not only her block [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":76196,"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":[13,5302,12,2192,317,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-joshi","category-news","category-wrestling","category-women","category-world-wonder-ring-stardom"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76430","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=76430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}