BITE-SIZE SHOW REPORT: Stardom Goddesses of Stardom Tag League 2024 – Night 17 (Sunday, 8th 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.
• Xena has suffered a ligament injury in her knee, and will be out of action for an undisclosed period of time.
• In defeating FWC to progress to the Goddesses of Stardom Tag League finals tomorrow, Maika becomes the first person to make it to back-to-back finals in the 5Star Grand Prix and Goddesses of Stardom Tag League in the same year. For HANAKO it marks a first major tournament final, and puts her at five pinfall victories over the tournament – at the time of the writing, the highest in the tournament so far.
• Maika joins a group of only 6 other women to have reached the finals of the Goddesses of Stardom Tag League, the others being Kairi Hojo, Mayu Iwatani, Io Shirai, Yoko Bito, Momo Watanabe and Bea Priestley.
• In defeating SaoriPoi to progress to the Goddesses of Stardom Tag League finals tomorrow, Saya Iida makes it to the first ever major tournament final of her 5-year Stardom career. Hanan meanwhile becomes the first person since Giulia in 2020 to make it to both the Cinderella Tournament and Goddesses of Stardom Tag League finals in the same year, with her being the first person since Arisa Hoshiki in 2019 to win both tournaments in the same calendar year should Winggori defeat Cup High Mate.
• Attendance Notes: The announced attendance for Act City Hamamatsu was 790, making it the second-highest house the company have ever drawn to the venue, and has been listed as a sellout on Stardom’s official website. It’s a 38% increase from the previous evening in the same venue, and means that the tournament has a total attendance of 9,377 – a tournament record, though it is also the longest tournament at 17 nights – and an average attendance of 552 – second only to the 2022 tournament which sported an average attendance of 691).

Final Standings (Before 8th December 2024)

Quick Results

• Singles Match: Hazuki def. Matoi Hamabe w/ Crossface (8:51) (***3/4)
• Three-Way Match: Koguma def. Ranna Yagami & Waka Tsukiyama w/ Kuma Roll (8:37) (**1/2)
• Singles Match: Natsuko Tora def. Rian w/ Death Valley Bomb (4:46)
• 6-Woman Tag Team Match: H.A.T.E (Momo Watanabe, Ruaka & Fukigen Death) def. God’s Eye (Saki Kashima, Lady C & Hina) w/ O’Connor Roll (7:28)
• 10-Woman Tag Team 2-out-of-3 Falls Match: NEO-GENESIS (Starlight Kid, AZM, Mei Seira, Suzu Suzuki & Miyu Amasaki) def. Cosmic Angels (Natsupoi, Saori Anou, Sayaka Kurura, Aya Sakura & Yuna Mizumori) (2-1) w/ Black Tiger Leg Killer (22:47) (****1/4)
• Singles Match: Mayu Iwatani def. Momo Kohgo w/ Dragon Suplex (11:19) (***3/4)
• Tag Team Match: PsyQueen (Saya Kamitani & Konami) def. Tam Nakano & Syuri w/ Frankensteiner (15:53) (****)
• Goddesses of Stardom Tag League 2024 Final Match: Winggori (Hanan & Saya Iida) def. Cup High Mate (Maika & HANAKO) w/ Be a Master! (15:35) (****)

Show Notes

• After crushing Rian in under five minutes, Tora hit her with another Death Valley Bomb after the bell whilst staring at Maika, who was seconding Rian at ringside. She followed this up by offering up a challenge to Maika for a singles match for Dream Queendom, which Maika accepted before helping Rian backstage.
• Due to pinning Miyu Amasaki for the first fall of the 2-out-of-3 falls match, Sayaka Kurura officially challenged for her Future of Stardom Championship, a challenge which Miyu accepted with the match being announced for the Korakuen Hall show on the 24th December.
• Starlight Kid and Natsupoi made their Wonder of Stardom Championship match for Dream Queendom 2024 official, with Kid submitting Natsupoi for the decisive fall of the match.
• During the post-match comments, Aya Sakura also laid out a challenge for a singles match to AZM after the High-Speed Bomb Girl pinned her with the Diving Double Footstomp. She acknowledged that she had already lost to AZM during Golden Week, but that six-months is a long time to grow and she is eager to test herself once again.
• Despite being the person pinned to lose the final, HANAKO had the most winning pinfalls in the tournament with 5.
• Hanan becomes the first person since Arisa Hoshiki in 2019 to win both the Cinderella Tournament and the Goddesses of Stardom Tag League in the same year, and becomes the fourth overall after Mayu Iwatani (2015) and Momo Watanabe (2018). She also becomes the fifth youngest winner of the tournament, behind AZM (18), Momo Watanabe (18), Yoshiko (19) and Utami Hayashishita (20).

Semi-Final Standings

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

Upcoming Shows

• Saturday 14th December – Stardom in Takasaki 2024, G Messe Gunma, Takasaki (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
• Sunday 15th December – Stardom in Saku 2024, Nagano Prefectural Budokan, Saku City (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
• Friday 20th December – Stardom in Osaka 2024 Dec. – EDION Arena Osaka 2, Osaka (LIVE)
• Saturday 21st December – Stardom in Nagoya 2024 Dec. – Nagoya International Convention Center Event Hall, Aichi (LIVE)
• Sunday 22nd December – Stardom in Hachioji 2024, Tokyo Tama Mirai Messe, Hachioji City (LIVE)
• Tuesday 24th December – Stardom Year-End X’Mas Night 2024, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (LIVE)
• Thursday 26th December – New Blood 17, New Pier Hall, Tokyo (LIVE/YouTube)
• Sunday 29th December – Dream Queendom 2024, Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo (PPV)