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Triangle Derby I

Triangle Derby I

2023 World Wonder Ring Stardom event

Triangle Derby I was the first annual round-robin six-woman tag team tournament event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom under the "Triangle Derby" branch. The event took place between January 3 and March 4, 2023, with limited attendance due in part to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic at the time (until January 30). It also represented the first major event promoted by Stardom in 2023.[1]

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Tournament history

The Triangle Derby is a professional wrestling tournament held annually by Stardom. It is currently disputed as a round-robin tournament with teams of three wrestlers split into two pools. Contrary to most round-robin style tournaments, teams from the same pool don't face each other. Instead, each team faces all teams from the opposite pool. Matches are fought with a 15-minute time limit. A win is worth two points and a draw is worth one point. The top two teams from each pool will advance to a final single-elimination bracket, consisting of semifinals and finals.[1]

Storylines

The tournament featured professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[2] The event's official press conference took place on December 16, 2022, and was broadcast live on Stardom's YouTube channel.[3]

Participants

This is a list of participants including the champions during the event. The tournament featured fourteen teams formed by a total of forty-two wrestlers, divided into two distinctive blocks with the two highest placed teams of their respective blocks moving on to the semifinals.[4]

*Noted underneath were the champions who held their titles at the time of the tournament.

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Finals

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The finals night took place on March 4, 2023. First three pre-show bouts were broadcast live on Stardom's YouTube channel. In the first of them, Rina picked up a victory over Queen's Quest's stablemates Miyu Amasaki and Hina in a three-way match. Next up, Utami Hayashishita and Lady C defeated Ram Kaicho and Maika Ozaki in tag team action. Next up, Maika, Thekla and Mai Sakurai picked up a victory over Mina Shirakawa, Mariah May and Waka Tsukiyama.[32] The first main card bout saw Oedo Tai's Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe, Saki Kashima, Ruaka and Fukigen Death outmatching Stars members Mayu Iwatani, Koguma, Momo Kohgo, Hanan and Saya Iida in a Ten-woman tag team match. The fifth match of the night saw Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei outlasting Tam Nakano and Natsupoi and Saki in the Triangle Derby's first semifinal. Next up, Prominence (Suzu Suzuki, Risa Sera and Hiragi Kurumi) defeated Neo Stardom Army's Nanae Takahashi, Yuu and Yuna Mizumori in the other semifinal. After the bout concluded, Suzuki announced they put their Artist of Stardom Championship on the line against Syuri, Mirai and Sourei in the Triangle finals. In the seventh bout, Chihiro Hashimoto defeated Himeka by submission in one of the latter's last matches before retirement. After the bout concluded, Hashimoto finally challenged Syuri to a match at All Star Grand Queendom on April 23, 2023. In the eighth bout, Saya Kamitani secured the fifteenth consecutive defense of the Wonder of Stardom Championship against Hazuki. She nominated Mina Shirakawa as her next opponent for All Star Dream Queendom on April 23. Next up, AZM defeated Starlight Kid to secure the tenth consecutive defense of the High Speed Championship, setting a record at the time. In the semi main event, Giulia drew with Maya Yukihi for the World of Stardom Championship as a result of a double count-out after they brought the fight outside the ring. After the bout concluded, Giulia received a title challenge from Tam Nakano for All Star Grand Queendom on April 23, 2023.[33][34]

In the main event, Suzu Suzuki, Risa Sera and Hiragi Kurumi defeated Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei to win the first edition of the Triangle Derby as well as retaining the Artist of Stardom Championship for the first time in that respective reign.[35][36]

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Blocks

Stardom announced the official participants of the two blocks "Triangle Red" and "Triangle Blue" on December 16, 2022.[39]

Final standings
Triangle Red Triangle Blue
Neo Stardom Army
(7Upp (Nanae Takahashi and Yuu) and Yuna Mizumori)		11Abarenbo GE
(Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei)		10
Cosmic Angels
(Tam Nakano, Natsupoi and Saki)		10Prominence
(Suzu Suzuki, Risa Sera and Hiragi Kurumi)		10
Queen's Quest
(AphrOditE (Utami Hayashishita and Saya Kamitani) and AZM)		9Gold Ship
(Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe and Saki Kashima)		8
Club Venus
(Mina Shirakawa, Xia Brookside and Mariah May)[lower-alpha 4]		8Rebel&Enemy
(Ram Kaicho, Maika Ozaki and Maya Yukihi)		8
Unique Glare
(Starlight Kid, Haruka Umesaki and Ruaka)		6MaiHime with C
(Maika, Himeka and Lady C)		4
Baribari Bombers
(Giulia, Thekla and Mai Sakurai)		6Classmates
(Hazuki, Koguma and Saya Iida)		6
H&M's
(Mayu Iwatani, Hanan and Momo Kohgo)		2Lollipop
(Waka Tsukiyama, Yuko Sakurai and Rina Amikura)		0
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(March 4, 2023) 		Finals
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R1 Neo Stardom Army (Nanae Takahashi, Yuu and Yuna Mizumori) 10:31[31]
B2 Prominence (Suzu Suzuki, Risa Sera and Hiragi Kurumi) Pin
Prominence (Suzu Suzuki, Risa Sera and Hiragi Kurumi) Pin
Abarenbo GE (Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei) 14:47[31]
B1 Abarenbo GE (Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei) Pin
R2 Cosmic Angels (Tam Nakano, Natsupoi and Saki) 11:30[31]

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Notes

  1. The other participants were Hazuki, Koguma, Momo Kohgo, Lady C, Miyu Amasaki, Ruaka, Mirai and Yuna Mizumori.
  2. Giulia went into three minute time-limit draws against each competitor.
  3. Himeka announced her retirement from professional wrestling on February 10, 2023. She expressed her wish of facing Hashimoto in singles competition as one of her last bouts before retiring.
  4. Shirakawa, Brookside and May were announced as the mystery trio following the events from Stardom Dream Queendom 2 of December 29, 2022.

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