INTRODUCTION Nanae Takahashi, Io Shirai, Kairi Hojo, Toni Storm, Mayu Iwatani, Utami Hayashishita and Syuri. What do these seven women have in common? They have all held the World of Stardom Championship and all count a victory in the Stardom Five Star Grand Prix as an important part in their journey both with, and towards getting, that famous Red Belt. With only three previous Five Star GP winners not going on to win the big one, this underlines how important a tournament it

Introduction to Cinderella Everyone loves a tournament. Everyone loves Stardom (may not actually be true...but it should be). Therefore a Stardom tournament is a thing of joy and beauty, and April sees the first of the promotion's big competitions The Cinderella Tournament. So it's time to ramp up the excitement and do a bit of a preview. For those who don't know The Cinderella Tournament is a straight knock-out tournament similar to the New Japan Cup, with the winner 'grante

There is more than one Royal (family) Rumble and I will pick thru the family tree of all things numbers and rankings as we prepare for the most unique and my personal favorite event of the wrestling year. While we know most stats that Michael Cole and or JBL have regurgitated into our ears the last few decades, I will still go over and thru the 34 previous yearly editions and the special 50man Greatest Rumble encounter to give my updated consensus on what is really intriguing

...And both use a lot of knockdown strikes, they just achieve them in different ways: Hobbs with power, and Dante with momentum....

Hangman's momentum, focus, and confidence are just too great for him to be knocked off the mountain he just climbed anytime soon...

...In Page's case "mind games" refers primarily to involving the audience: firing them up, and taking a boost from their cheers...

As a person, I fervently hope that Kingston backfists Danielson into the fifth dimension. But as an analyst...

This match should be an absolutely fascinating clash of styles. Deeb has one of the most focused offense styles you'll see...

I previewed the top singles matches on the big Arthur Ashe stadium show. One of those was the most anticipated debut match in AEW history...

The Final Countdown Nearly two months after it's beginning, and with 81 results already in the books, the Stardom 5 Star Grand Prix culminates this Saturday at the Ota Ward Gym. As with everything during this god-forsaken pandemic era, there have been issues along the way. Everyone's least favourite global virus caused havoc with the scheduling, as did the fact that a few participants had to get over injuries before they could start their campaign. Worse still, Giulia, arguab

AEW Grand Slam is the biggest event AEW has held in their brief history... At the top of that card is Kenny Omega vs. Bryan Danielson!

While it is true that Hirsch hasn't succeeded in her past mountain climbing attempts...She will certainly take Cargill to deeper waters...

Welcome to the Pro Wrestling Musings Preview Roundtable for tonight's AEW All Out! This preview is built around our revolutionary(!) In-ring Performance Statistics. We collect statistics from every televised, traditional rules 1v1 and 2v2 AEW match. You can find those statistics for 2021 here. For a full explanation of these statistics and the language used check out this guide. This article provides a preview for each match from All Out based on each wrestler's average stat

You have no idea how psyched I am for this match. Normally here at SMF, we don't preview a debut match, but we will make an exception

I have come to a conclusion: the story is that of a rookie who is very effective on offense when she is confident, but extremely ineffect...

The interesting thing, to me, about "Legit" Leyla Hirsch is that even though she uses every type of offense (except for fouls)....

In my judgment, Britt didn't have the confidence or momentum to suppress the attack of the Native Beast in their first encounter, but ....

Yes my Stardom friends it's that time of year again. All global pandemic caveats aside, the Stardom 5 Star Grand Prix is due to start on 31st July 2021, running through until the end of September (see Stardom 5STAR Grand Prix 2021 | Blocks and Full Schedule | English. (prowrestlingmusings.com) for the full schedule of matches). It will be a gruelling battle between 10 wrestlers in each block (Blue and Red stars, for the uninitiated) aiming to win their group, go on to the fin

The STARDOM 5STAR Grand Prix is Stardom's version of the famous New Japan G1, most Japanese wrestling company has their own version and this is Stardom's. This year it is expanded to a 20 woman field, split into two groups of 10; the Red Stars and the Blue Stars. This year's Red Stars are: - Giulia - Mayu Iwatani - Momo Watanabe - Fukigen Death - Saki Kashima - Starlight Kid - Himeka - Natsupoi - Koguma - Mina Shirakawa This year's Blue Star's are: ~ Utami Hayashishita ~ Syur

On Wednesday night we will see the reprise of a rivalry that's gone back over 20 years. Matt Hardy and Christian Cage first faced each...