BITE-SIZE SHOW REPORT: Stardom Dream Queendom 2024 (Sunday, 29th December 2024)

Notes

• Ami Sohrei will be absent from all cards as she begins the process of recovering from ACL and meniscus tears in her knee. She was however present on Japanese commentary.
• Xena has suffered a ligament injury in her knee, and will be out of action for an undisclosed period of time. She did however join Walker Stewart and Thom Fain on English commentary.
• 19th World of Stardom Champion Tam Nakano has been champion for 120 days – in her second reign. This will be the third title defence of her reign.
• Challenger Saya Kamitani has previously challenged for the World of Stardom Championship twice, losing both times (First to Utami Hayashishita in 2021, and secondly in 2024 to Maika).
• In terms of a singles head-to-head record, Saya Kamitani has the edge in their 9 total matches with 6 wins and 3 losses, including 3 of the last 4 and the last two title matches the pair have had. The latest defeat was in their last singles match, which ended via forfeit after Saya broke her wrist in 2023. Saya blames Tam for this injury – claiming that Tam told her prior to the match that she could do whatever moves she wanted to and Tam would catch her and protect her.
• 23rd Wonder of Stardom Champion Natsupoi has been champion for 155 days – in her first reign. This will be the third title defence of her reign.
• Challenger Starlight Kid has previously challenged for the Wonder of Stardom Championship four times, most recently losing to Saori Anou back in February of 2024 (coincidentally on the same show that saw Saya Kamitani lose her last Red Belt match.)
• In terms of singles head-to-head record, Natsupoi holds the advantage over Starlight Kid, winning three of their seven total matches. The record stands at 3-2-2, with Poi also winning their last singles encounter from the 2023 5Star Grand Prix. In terms of title matches, the two sit at 1-1-1 with these three matches over the High-Speed title through 2021 and 2022.
• 34th Goddesses of Stardom Champions H.A.T.E Supreme (Thekla (1) & Momo Watanabe (3)) have been champions for 159 days – in their first reign. This will be the second title defence of their reign.
• H.A.T.E Supreme are currently the longest-reigning Goddesses of Stardom Champions since Alto Livello KABALIWAN back in 2021, and are the twelfth longest-reigning overall.
• Challengers Winggori (Hanan & Saya Iida) – winners of the 2024 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League – have previously only challenged for the titles as a team once before, against fellow STARS members FWC (Hazuki & Koguma) back in June of 2024 at The Conversion.
• Winggori did defeat H.A.T.E Supreme during the Tag League, eliminating the champions from the tournament, and causing Thekla to get suspended due to her violent outburst following the result.
• Maika has never beaten Natsuko Tora one-on-one, with Tora winning both of their previous singles bouts. The last time the two faced off was in July in Sapporo when Tora utilised a Saya Kamitani heel turn to win the World of Stardom Championship from Maika.
• In terms of a singles record, Konami has only beaten her mentor Syuri once in their seven meetings. However, the last match was due to disqualification after Konami beat Syuri with a chair and spray painted her face in July. Syuri and God’s Eye have suffered a significant amount of defeats at the hands of H.A.T.E since Konami‘s turn in Korakuen Hall in July.
• Saori Anou and Mika Iwata have feuded throughout 2024 for both the Wonder of Stardom Championship and the Sendai Girls World Championship. Their record this year stands at 2-1-1 in Iwata’s favour, including defeating Anou for the Wonder of Stardom Championship in a Stardom ring back in June.
• Chi Chi and Aya Sakura will face each other for the former’s Sendai Girls Junior Championship on January 3rd at New Year Dream, with the feud intensifying between the two since the start of January and their meeting in Sendai Girls’ Jaja Uma Tournament. When facing each other, their record sits at 2-2 with Chi Chi coming out on top in their last encounter at Evolution’s Evolution Vol. 29 event that saw her and ZONES defeat Aya and Sayaka Kurura.
• Attendance Notes: The official announced attendance for the show inside Ryogoku Kokugikan was 4,023. This makes it the largest house Stardom have pulled to Sumo Hall (setting aside the highly-disputed number of 5,500 apparently in attendance for Yuzuki Aikawa’s retirement show) and is a 31.3% increase on the last Dream Queendom in the chronology (3068 in 2023), while also being an almost 4% increase on their previous best at the venue (3869 for Dream Queendom 2022). It’s also the second highest sole-promoted attendance in company history behind All-Star Grand Queendom 2023 in Yokohama Arena (5,535). The number also makes it the sixth highest attendance in Sumo Hall this year (with the WWE Supershows not having reported their attendance), beating out Marigold’s Summer Destiny, TJPW’s Grand Princess 2024, NOAH’s Wrestle Magic 2024 and DDT’s Ultimate Party. Aside from New Japan, the only show to reach a higher attendance than this show was DDT’s Wrestle Peter Pan (4.131) that was main-evented by Yuki Ueno vs. MAO back in July.

Quick Results

• Tag Team Match: Cosmic Angels (Yuna Mizumori & Aya Sakura) def. Chi Chi & Matoi Hamabe w/ Musha-Gaeshi (10:11)
• Singles Match: Sayaka Kurura vs. Ranna Yagami Ended in a Time Limit Draw (15:00)
• Goddesses of Stardom Championships Match: Winggori (Hanan & Saya Iida) def. H.A.T.E Supreme (Momo Watanabe & Thekla) (c) w/ Back Drop Hold (18:05) (***3/4)
• Three-Way 12-Woman Tag Team Match: EXV (Mina Shirakawa, Rian, HANAKO & Waka Tsukiyama) def. H.A.T.E (Azusa Inaba, Rina, Fukigen Death & Ruaka) & God’s Eye (Saki Kashima, Tomoka Inaba, Hina & Lady C) w/ Glamorous Driver MINA (7:04) (***1/2)
• 8-Woman Tag Team Match: NEO-GENESIS (AZM, Miyu Amasaki, Mei Seira & Suzu Suzuki) def. STARS (Mayu Iwatani, Koguma, Hazuki & Momo Kohgo) w/ Azumi Sushi (10:12) (****)
• Singles Match: Saori Anou def. Mika Iwata w/ Pottering (15:30) (****1/4)
• KO or Submission Only Singles Match: Syuri def. Konami via DQ (0:33) (NR)
• No DQ Singles Match: Natsuko Tora def. Maika w/ Swanton Bomb (18:31) (****)
• Wonder of Stardom Championship Match: Starlight Kid def. Natsupoi (c) w/ Star Suplex (23:15) (****3/4)
• World of Stardom Championship Match: Saya Kamitani def. Tam Nakano (c) w/ Spinning Star Crusher (21:29) (****)

Show Notes

• Winggori did not wait for the pre-match introductions before attacking H.A.T.E Supreme before the bell.
• Saya Iida hit Thekla with the Be a Master! which allowed Hanan to hit her with the Back Body Drop to win the match.
• Winggori become the 35th Goddesses of Stardom Champions – it is both Hanan and Saya Iida’s first reigns with the belt.
• Stardom announced that on April 27th 2025, they would be returning to the Yokohama Arena for All-Star Grand Queendom following their previous outing there in 2023 giving them their highest solo-promoted show attendance of 5,534. They also announced a big show to take place in Utsunomiya on the 24th February, and the start of the 2025 Cinderella Tournament on the 8th March.
• Syuri immediately charged at Konami and kicked her in the head with a Buzzsaw Kick. Just as it looked like she may be about to win, H.A.T.E attacked and the referee threw the match out. As H.A.T.E continued their attack on Syuri and the rest of God’s Eye, a mystery person emerged and helped to clear the ring. It was then confirmed that the mystery person was the former-Maya Fukuda of GLEAT – now going by Kyoko Kotatsu. She then took to the microphone to ask Syuri, whom she said she had always respected, to join God’s Eye. With Syuri shaking her hand, it seems that this has been confirmed.
• Fukuda has wrestled 25 matches in her career thus far, with her latest being against Konami at Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport Bushido on 22nd June.
• Natsuko Tora wrapped herself in barbed wire before hitting the Swanton Bomb for the win. This is Tora’s first win in a No DQ match in the three she has now had in Stardom.
• Starlight Kid came to the ring wearing all-new all-white gear, with Natsupoi also wearing modified white gear.
• Following her loss of the Wonder of Stardom Championship, Natsupoi took the belt from Daichi Muryama and gave it to Starlight Kid as a show of respect. Starlight Kid becomes the 24th Wonder of Stardom Champion, winning the belt at the fourth time of asking.
• Tam Nakano came down the ramp wearing brand-new white, purple and gold gear.
• Saya hung Tam from the balcony in a spot we haven’t seen since the days of Mayu and Kagetsu, before revisiting the spot that broke her wrist on the opening night of the 2023 5Star Grand Prix by diving from the balcony onto Tam with a Crossbody.
• After feigning injury from an Avalanche Suplex, Saya was able to rally and hit Tam with a Violet Screwdriver and a Spinning Star Crusher for the win to become the 20th World of Stardom Champion at her third attempt.
• Post-match, Saya demanded that a sobbing Tam strap the belt around her waist after successfully defeating her in a warped parallel to their Dream Queendom 2021 match for the Wonder of Stardom Championship.

You can check out the Stardom roster win/loss records for 2024 right here; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/103h_Y27csTgcS-CcBwswaj-D7hVazTC_Wn0SPn0BZBM/edit

You can check out a comprehensive run down of the Stardom Championship Histories here; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Dk6T0ukSXm6R8eOTQU96i4rsfoy34wnz0-rKP5mwmQ/edit

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