Stardom New Year Dream is an upcoming professional wrestling event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom. It will take place on January 3, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan at the Tokyo Garden Theater. It will be the first major event organized by Stardom in 2025, and part a four-day card set around the January 4 Tokyo Dome Show that includes Wrestle Kingdom 19, Wrestle Dynasty, and New Year Dash!! in the next three days after.
| Stardom New Year Dream | |||
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 Promotional poster of the event | |||
| Promotion | World Wonder Ring Stardom | ||
| Date | January 3, 2025 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Tokyo Garden Theater | ||
| Event chronology | |||
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Production
editBackground
editOn July 3, 2024, Stardom's parent company New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) announced that New Year Dream would take place on January 3, 2025.[1][2]
Storylines
editThe show will feature several professional wrestling matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[3]
Matches
edit| No. | Matches* | Stipulations | ||||
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| 1 | Chi Chi (c) vs. Aya Sakura | Singles match for the Sendai Girls Junior Championship | ||||
| 2 | Hai High Mate (Maika and Hanako) vs. Team 200kg (Chihiro Hashimoto and Yuu) | Tag team match | ||||
| 3 | Tam Nakano vs. Unagi Sayaka | Singles match | ||||
| 4 | Vulgar Alliance (Zap and Dump Matsumoto) and Natsuko Tora vs. Cosmic Angels (Saori Anou, Natsupoi and Sayaka Kurara) | Six-woman tag team match | ||||
| 5 | Stars (Mayu Iwatani, Hazuki and Koguma) vs. Neo Genesis (AZM, Mei Seira and Miyu Amasaki) | Six-woman tag team match | ||||
| 6 | Athena and Thekla vs. Mina Shirakawa and Tay Melo | Tag team match | ||||
| 7 | God's Eye (Syuri and Tomoka Inaba) and Kiyoka Kotatsu vs. H.A.T.E. (Momo Watanabe, Fukigen Death and Azusa Inaba) | Six-woman tag team match | ||||
| 8 | Neo Genesis (Suzu Suzuki and Starlight Kid) vs. H.A.T.E. (Saya Kamitani and Momo Watanabe) | Tag team match | ||||
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References
edit- ^ Rose, Bryan (July 2, 2024). "NJPW & Stardom reveal Wrestle Kingdom Week schedule for January 2025". Wrestling Observer. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ Lambert, Jeremy (July 3, 2024). "NJPW Announces Wrestle Kingdom Week Schedule, Includes Two Stardom Events And New Year Dash!". Fightful. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2023.