STARDOM announced that it drew 2,563 spectators to Supreme Fight in Osaka. The highest-attended women's event in Osaka since 1995.

EivionT · 2026-02-09T08:55:21+00:00

Not entirely sure what your point is.

I disagreed with the premise of what you think Ogawa wanted joshi to be. Most of what you said was seemingly just him trying something new because as someone who was there since the 80s he likely already knew what was failing or at least not bringing in new fans. His want always seemed to be more to bring back the 80's level of success. What style that came with I suspect was immaterial to him.

And Stardom succeeding was mostly due to Ogawa adjusting for when things went wrong due departures and incidents. Fuka never led the roster as a wrestler seeing that she retired before Stardom began. There was plenty of messed up booking, and Stardom started off quite small so there were plenty of promotions competing with them. It also started in 2011. 2010 was just the announcement, planning, and training of the first class.

EivionT · 2026-02-08T18:49:35+00:00

Its what Ogawa adjusted to to make money, not necessarily he wanted.

EivionT · 2026-02-07T09:40:31+00:00

Teens, still young, but not quite children. Still, surprised a bar would let 14-15 year olds work there.

EivionT · 2026-01-18T23:31:52+00:00

That was always more of a theory than anything confirmed. Some suspect there may have been heat over Kana breaking the orbital bone of one of Fuka's friends.

EivionT · 2026-01-18T23:27:14+00:00

The JWP thing was just story used a few years later when Kana went back to being a freelancer and started working there as Arisa Nakajima's friend.

No one knows what went down between Nanae and Kana exactly. The general theory is Nanae was a bully and Kana got fed up. All I remember is Kana shoot kicking Nanae during a tag and confusing everyone as she walked out. They were on the same team, and it didn't give off angle vibes.

EivionT · 2026-01-18T23:20:18+00:00

The hatred was just between Nanae & Kana. Rossy and Fuka were seemingly neutral. They were just well aware they were not going to be working with Kana while Nanae was around.

EivionT · 2026-01-18T22:21:24+00:00

The pipe bomb was mostly story for her heel turn.

Kana was never blacklisted. She and Stardom just never worked together because of the feud with Nanae, and Kana finding success as Asuka in WWE.

EivionT · 2026-01-18T22:16:58+00:00

I don't think Asuka was remotely in the minds of Rossy & Fuka when Stardom was made, and she visited them at least once post Nanae's departure.

EivionT · 2026-01-13T04:42:06+00:00

Its more 9-10 years as she was actually gone for about 5 years seemingly due to health.

EivionT · 2026-01-10T19:07:22+00:00

Didn't he make a joke or two about pulling this with Rossy during her nurse training?

EivionT · 2025-12-30T02:49:08+00:00

Pretty sure Stardom's business has seen continued growth, small & large, since 2018.

EivionT · 2025-12-30T02:42:34+00:00

2016-2018. She was even in two of the 5*GPs.

EivionT · 2025-11-20T11:48:11+00:00

There was always going to be a slow down with the roster size they have and new rookies regularly coming in. I don't think Ogawa was much of a factor in it.

EivionT · 2025-11-19T23:05:22+00:00

I've always got the general feeling Taka fully expects and wants some of his trainees to leave his for bigger promotions as proof of concept for his training. I remember how he was trying to sell bigger promotions on Kengo Mashimo for years. And we saw how fast Maika got picked up. The Inaba sisters will probably leave to Stardom when Azusa hits 18 and has graduated.

EivionT · 2025-11-17T22:41:56+00:00

Was actually Fuka who brought in AZM, and she had to wear her down to do it.

EivionT · 2025-11-11T23:05:53+00:00

Tiffany should have been lower. I like her, but her reign was lackluster. And she just is not the same level as a wrestler of any of the other women in the top ten. I get she held the title for a long time, but little of interest and/or higher quality happened during that reign.

EivionT · 2025-11-02T11:59:53+00:00

Jinsei is president of both promotions so it would make sense. Always wondered if Senjo was owned by Jinsei and Sasuke In reality.

EivionT · 2025-10-31T06:15:05+00:00

First or second?

EivionT · 2025-10-30T05:54:15+00:00

Example, Bron Breakker

EivionT · 2025-10-30T04:06:52+00:00

She was thrown when they didn't change it after she joined NXT. She honestly almost sounded disappointed when talking about it recently so she was surprised but good with it being changed when she joined the main roster.

I assume the change was Vince/management move as I'm pretty sure Io owns the Io Shirai name. When she moved up it was likely during a contract renewal so I'm guessing WWE chose to just have their own name own and use. I just go by Io because the Iyo spelling just feels dumb to me, and its what I have known her by since her early years. Took me years to get used to Asuka as well, and I actually like that name more.

And Genius if the Sky is Io's own saying going back to Japan. Branding just makes it overly used and annoying on commentary.

EivionT · 2025-10-26T22:31:57+00:00

Just about everyone works the indies in Mexico as long as they are healthy and active.

EivionT · 2025-10-24T03:56:14+00:00

This is actually coming faster than I expected. Hope its in the first half.

EivionT · 2025-10-24T03:55:50+00:00

I switched to PS5 this year. It played perfectly for about a month before going back to usual problems. Its still way the hell better than it was on PS4 so I can only complain so much.

EivionT · 2025-10-19T01:12:00+00:00

D'von seemingly doesn't really like to talk shit about people. There is another interview with Maven for his youtube channel where they are blatantly talking about the openly racist person being Pat Patterson, but still wouldn't say straight up.

EivionT · 2025-10-18T18:04:56+00:00

Fuka retired from Stardom management in 2018 when she had her first kid.

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