{"id":95363,"date":"2021-07-04T07:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T11:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=95363"},"modified":"2021-07-30T13:21:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:21:04","slug":"5star-grand-prix-2021-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/04\/5star-grand-prix-2021-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardom Announces 5STAR Grand Prix 2021 Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/01\/yokohama-dream-cinderella-2021-summer\/\" target=\"_self\">Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 In Summer<\/a> Stardom announced the lineup and blocks for the 5STAR Grand Prix 2021.\u00a0 The GP is Stardom&#8217;s biggest tournament of the year splitting its top performers into two blocks for round robin action.\u00a0 The winners of each block will meet in the final which will take place at the Ota Ward Gymnasium this year.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s take a spoiler-free look at the lineup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check our our in-depth preview of the tournament <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/21\/5star-grand-prix-2021-preview\/\" target=\"_self\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>5STAR Grand Prix 2021 Blocks<\/h2>\n<h3>Red Stars<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Giulia<\/li>\n<li>Mayu Iwatani<\/li>\n<li>Momo Watanabe<\/li>\n<li>Fukigen Death (replacing Natsuko Tora)<\/li>\n<li>Saki Kashima<\/li>\n<li>Starlight Kid<\/li>\n<li>Himeka<\/li>\n<li>Natsupoi<\/li>\n<li>Koguma<\/li>\n<li>Mina Shirakawa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Blue Stars<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Utami Hayashishita<\/li>\n<li>Syuri<\/li>\n<li>Tam Nakano<\/li>\n<li>Saya Kamitani<\/li>\n<li>Maika<\/li>\n<li>AZM<\/li>\n<li>Konami<\/li>\n<li>Ruaka<\/li>\n<li>Unagi Sayaka<\/li>\n<li>X (from another promotion)\u00a0<strong>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/03\/30\/joshi-watch-takumi-iroha\/\" target=\"_self\">Takumi Iroha<\/a> has been announced as X<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note: This section contains spoilers for Yokohama Dream Cinderellla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Natsuko Tora suffering an unfortunate injury that ended her match with Utami Hayashishita early her status in this year&#8217;s GP is up in the air as early indications are that she suffered a serious knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>X is likely to be a member of\u00a0<strong>Marvelous\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0<strong>Rin Kadokura\u00a0<\/strong>currently the favorite as she is wrestling Mayu Iwatani on the July 19 Marvelous event and could earn herself a spot in the GP there.\u00a0 Other names that are in contention include\u00a0<strong>Nanae Takahashi<\/strong> of\u00a0<strong>SEAdLINNNG<\/strong>, <strong>Mei Hoshizuki<\/strong>, and the returning\u00a0<strong>Takumi Iroha<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2A0AifActHVj5YA5hCMnIP\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">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. If you want to see more from Stardom, you can check out their subscription service\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardom-world.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stardom World<\/a>\u00a0for all your wonderous Joshi needs.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports?\u00a0Head 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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 In Summer Stardom announced the lineup and blocks for the 5STAR Grand Prix 2021.\u00a0 The GP is Stardom&#8217;s biggest tournament of the year splitting its top performers into two blocks for round robin action.\u00a0 The winners of each block will meet in the final which will take place at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":95365,"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":[6975,5302,12,2192],"tags":[5900,1450,2676,5180,4085,6016,4372],"class_list":["post-95363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-wrestling","category-joshi","category-news","category-wrestling","tag-giulia","tag-mayu-iwatani","tag-momo-watanabe","tag-saki-kashima","tag-starlight-kid","tag-syuri","tag-takumi-iroha"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95363","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=95363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}