{"id":95415,"date":"2021-07-05T06:39:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T10:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=95415"},"modified":"2021-07-05T15:17:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T19:17:45","slug":"natsuko-tora-torn-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/05\/natsuko-tora-torn-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardom Confirms Natsuko Tora has Torn ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stardom today confirmed that Natsuko Tora has suffered a torn ACL in her left knee.\u00a0 Most current projections are that the leader of Oedo Tai will be missing for some time.\u00a0 Tora&#8217;s knee injury occurred during <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/01\/yokohama-dream-cinderella-2021-summer\/\" target=\"_self\">Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 in Summer<\/a> in her main event match with\u00a0<strong>Utami Hayashishita<\/strong>.\u00a0 Tora hurt her knee 10 minutes into the match leading to the match being called off and Tora getting stretchered out.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">July 4 Yokohama Budokan<br \/>\u25c6World of Stardom Title Match<br \/>Utami Hayashishita retained the title due to a doctor stop, after Tora injured her knee.<br \/>Part 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bHloj5up1g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/bHloj5up1g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/we_are_stardom\/status\/1411863676936626177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fans were initially hopeful that Tora&#8217;s injury would be on the lighter side but Stardom&#8217;s confirmation that she suffered a torn ACL means that Oedo Tai will be without its leader for the foreseeable future and that Tora will miss the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/04\/5star-grand-prix-2021-lineup\/\" target=\"_self\"> 5STAR Grand Prix<\/a> which she was announced for earlier in the show.<\/p>\n<p>Tora&#8217;s injury came at the worst time as Oedo Tai was on the receiving end of a renewed push with Tora herself leading the charge in their feuds with STARS, Donna Del Mondo, and Utami Hayashishita.\u00a0 Stardom has learned over the past year to go with the flow following a string of unfortunate injuries like this one so here&#8217;s hoping that they can pick up where they left off and keep Oedo Tai on the right path going forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"WOxb5Wa7RstvUMUpFdp6nQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ie\/detail\/1322834010\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'WOxb5Wa7RstvUMUpFdp6nQ',sig:'4cf6YMamHo8GTix_Qb3aXYZm3MZu7D7KA4fV0J0xGss=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1322834010',caption: true ,tld:'ie',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/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>Stardom today confirmed that Natsuko Tora has suffered a torn ACL in her left knee.\u00a0 Most current projections are that the leader of Oedo Tai will be missing for some time.\u00a0 Tora&#8217;s knee injury occurred during Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 in Summer in her main event match with\u00a0Utami Hayashishita.\u00a0 Tora hurt her knee 10 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":95416,"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":[7180,6152],"class_list":["post-95415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-wrestling","category-joshi","category-news","category-wrestling","tag-joshi-news","tag-natsuko-tora"],"modified_by":"Marilee Gallagher, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95415","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=95415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}