Stardom 5Star Grand Prix Tournament

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Stardom 5Star Grand Prix Tournament
Promotion(s)World Wonder Ring Stardom
First event2012
Signature match typesTime-limited singles matches

Stardom 5Star Grand Prix Tournament (スターダム5スターグランプリトーナメント, Sutādamu 5 sutāguranpuritōnamento) sometimes stylized as the 5★Star Grand Prix is an annual single-elimination tournament promoted by the Japanese professional wrestling promotion World Wonder Ring Stardom. The event has been held since 2012 and aired domestically on Tokyo MX, Fighting TV Samurai and Nippon TV, and later as an internet pay-per-view on Stardom's streaming service Stardom World. It is considered to be the main annual competition promoted by Stardom, being preceded by the Stardom Cinderella Tournament which is the secondary competition.[1]

Tournament history[]

The Stardom 5 Star Grand Prix is a professional wrestling tournament held each summer by Stardom. Similar to Bushiroad-owned male counterpart New Japan Pro-Wrestling with the G1 Climax tournament, it is currently held as a round-robin tournament with wrestlers split into two pools. The winner of each pool will compete in the final to decide the winner.

As is the case with G1 Climax, a win is two points and a draw is one point for each wrestler.

There have been a total of ten editions that gave ten different champions. Seven of the title challenges were unsuccessful while only three were successful. Io Shirai successfully defended the World of Stardom Championship against three different tournament winners while Mayu Iwatani scored the only two defeats, dropping the same title.

In 2021, Stardom introduced the World of Stardom challenge rights certificate, in which the winner of 5 Star Grand Prix receives a contract for a future World of Stardom Championship match. Like NJPW's Tokyo Dome IWGP Heavyweight Championship challenge rights certificate, the contract is kept in a briefcase and can be defended until the title match.

List of winners[]

Winner of the first-ever edition of the tournament from 2012, Yuzuki Aikawa.
Year Tournament Aftermath
Winner[2] Runner-up Times
won 		No. of
entrants 		Challenged for Match Result Ref
2012 Yuzuki Aikawa Kyoko Kimura 1 12 World of Stardom Championship vs. Nanae Takahashi at Stardom Year-End Climax 2012 Lost [3]
2013 Nanae Takahashi Alpha Female vs. Io Shirai at Stardom Season 14 Goddesses In Stars 2013 Lost [4]
2014 Io Shirai Yoshiko Goddess of Stardom Championship[a] with Mayu Iwatani vs. Kairi Hojo & Nanae Takahashi at Stardom Queen Tradition 2014 Lost [5]
2015 Kairi Hojo Hudson Envy World of Stardom Championship vs. Io Shirai at Stardom 5th Anniversary Lost [6]
2016 Yoko Bito Tessa Blanchard 14 vs. Io Shirai at Stardom October Showdown 2016 Lost [7]
2017 Toni Storm Yoko Bito 16 vs. Mayu Iwatani at 5☆Star GP 2017 Champions in Nagoya Won[b] [8]
2018 Mayu Iwatani Utami Hayashishita Wonder of Stardom Championship vs. Momo Watanabe at Stardom True Fight 2018 Lost [9]
2019 Hana Kimura Konami 18 World of Stardom Championship vs. Bea Priestley at Stardom World Champion Wars 2019 Lost [10]
2020 Utami Hayashishita Himeka 16 vs. Mayu Iwatani at Sendai Cinderella 2020 Won [11]
2021 Syuri Momo Watanabe 20 vs. Utami Hayashishita at Stardom Dream Queendom Won [12]
2022 Giulia Tam Nakano 26 vs. Syuri at Stardom Dream Queendom TBD

Record[]

Championship Successful
challenges 		Attempts Success
rate
World of Stardom Championship 3 8 .273
Wonder of Stardom Championship 0 1 .000
Goddess of Stardom Championship 0 1 .000

Events[]

There have been a total of ten distinctive events. They usually spread across one or two months.

No. Event Date Finals Ref
1 5Star Grand Prix 2012 August 19 – September 30, 2012 Tokyo, Japan
2 5Star Grand Prix 2013 August 25 – September 13, 2012
3 5Star Grand Prix 2014 August 24 – September 23, 2014
4 5Star Grand Prix 2015 August 23 – September 23, 2015 [13]
5 5Star Grand Prix 2016 August 21 – September 22, 2016 Osaka, Japan
6 5Star Grand Prix 2017 August 19 – September 8, 2017 Nagoya, Japan [14]
7 5Star Grand Prix 2018 August 18 – September 24, 2018 [15]
8 5Star Grand Prix 2019 August 17 – September 22, 2019 [16]
9 5Star Grand Prix 2020 August 8 – September 29, 2020 Tokyo, Japan [17]
10 5Star Grand Prix 2021 July 31 – September 25, 2021 [18]
11 5Star Grand Prix 2022 July 30 – October 1, 2022 [19]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Until the 2014 edition of the tournament the winner could choose the title for which they would compete. Io Shirai chose the Goddess of Stardom Championship since she and Mayu Iwatani shared a feud with Kairi Hojo & Nanae Takahashi.
  2. ^ This title change was unplanned as Iwatani legitimately dislocated her elbow, prompting the referee to stop the match and award the championship to Storm.

References[]

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