Triangle Derby I
Triangle Derby I is the ongoing first annual round-robin six-woman tag team tournament event promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom under the "Triangle Derby" branch. The event will take place between January 3 and March 4, 2023, with limited attendance due in part to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic at the time. It will also represent the first major event promoted by Stardom in 2023.[1]
| Triangle Derby I | |||
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 Official poster for the January 3 event featuring Mayu Iwatani, Utami Hayashishita, Starlight Kid, Giulia, Tam Nakano, and Syuri. | |||
| Promotion | World Wonder Ring Stardom | ||
| Date | January 3 – March 4, 2023 | ||
| City | Various Finals: Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Finals: Yoyogi National Gymnasium | ||
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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 will feature 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 which might change several times during the event. The tournament will feature 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 are the champions who held their titles at the time of the tournament.
Results
| No. | Results[7] | Stipulations | Times[8] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rina Amikura defeated Waka Tsukiyama | Singles match | 5:40 |
| 2 | Yuu and Yuna Mizumori defeated Maika and Lady C | Tag team match | 9:54 |
| 3 | Classmates (Hazuki, Koguma and Saya Iida) defeated H&M's (Mayu Iwatani, Hanan and Momo Kohgo) | Triangle Derby group stage match | 9:11 |
| 4 | Queen's Quest (AphrOditE (Utami Hayashishita and Saya Kamitani) and 02line (AZM and Miyu Amasaki)) defeated Oedo Tai (Natsuko Tora, Saki Kashima, Rina and Ruaka) | Eight-woman tag team match | 12:01 |
| 5 | Baribari Bombers (Giulia, Thekla and Mai Sakurai) defeated Rebel&Enemy (Ram Kaicho, Maika Ozaki and Maya Yukihi) and Cosmic Angels (Yuko Sakurai, Natsupoi and Saki) | Three-way tag team match | 12:34 |
| 6 | Abarenbo GE (Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei) defeated Club Venus (Mina Shirakawa, Xia Brookside and Mariah May) | Triangle Derby group stage match | 13:36 |
| No. | Results[9] | Stipulations | Times[10] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Super Strong Stardom Machine won by last eliminating AZM[lower-alpha 1] | Nagoya Rumble match | 11:00 |
| 2 | Club Venus (Mina Shirakawa, Xia Brookside and Mariah May) defeated Oedo Tai (Natsuko Tora, Saki Kashima and Rina) | Six-woman tag team match | 11:01 |
| 3 | Baribari Bombers (Giulia, Thekla and Mai Sakurai) defeated Lollipop (Waka Tsukiyama, Yuko Sakurai and Rina Amikura) | Triangle Derby group stage match | 9:05 |
| 4 | Prominence (Suzu Suzuki, Risa Sera and Hiragi Kurumi) defeated Cosmic Angels (meltear (Tam Nakano and Natsupoi) and Saki) | Triangle Derby group stage match | 13:25 |
| 5 | Syuri and Mayu Iwatani vs. Utami Hayashishita and Maika ended in a time-limit draw | Tag team shuffle match | 30:00 |
| 6 | Saya Kamitani (c) defeated Ami Sourei | Singles match for the Wonder of Stardom Championship | 18:06 |
| No. | Results[11][12] | Stipulations | Times[13] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thekla defeated Momo Kohgo | Singles match | 7:20 |
| 2 | Syuri defeated Yuna Mizumori | Singles match | 9:17 |
| 3 | Club Venus (Mina Shirakawa, Xia Brookside and Mariah May) defeated MaiHime with C (Maika, Himeka and Lady C) | Six-woman tag team match | 11:41 |
| 4 | Stars (Mayu Iwatani, Hazuki, Koguma and Saya Iida) defeated Oedo Tai (Natsuko Tora, Saki Kashima, Rina and Ruaka) | Eight-woman tag team match | 13:03 |
| 5 | AphrOditE (Utami Hayashishita and Saya Kamitani) vs. God's Eye (Mirai and Ami Sourei) ended in a time-limit draw | Tag team match | 15:00 |
| 6 | Cosmic Angels (meltear (Tam Nakano and Natsupoi) and Saki) defeated Lollipop (Waka Tsukiyama, Yuko Sakurai and Rina Amikura) | Triangle Derby group stage match | 14:58 |
| No. | Results[24] | Stipulations | Times[25] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Classmates (Hazuki, Saya Iida and Koguma) defeated Unique Glare (Starlight Kid, Karma and Ruaka) | Triangle Derby group stage match | 9:03 |
| No. | Results[28] | Stipulations | Times[29] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cosmic Angels (Natsupoi and Club Venus (Mina Shirakawa and Mariah May) defeated Stars (Koguma, Momo Kohgo and Hanan) | Six-woman tag team match | 8:22 |
| 2 | Tam Nakano vs. Saya Kamitani vs. Yuna Mizumori ended in a time-limit draw | Three-way match | 15:00 |
| 3 | Oedo Tai (Natsuko Tora, Saki Kashima and Momo Watanabe) defeated Stars (Mayu Iwatani, Hazuki and Saya Iida) | Six-woman tag team match | 10:10 |
| 4 | Abarenbo GE (Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei) defeated Queen's Quest (Utami Hayashishita, AZM and Miyu Amasaki) | Six-woman tag team match | 14:00 |
| 5 | Unique Glare (Starlight Kid, Haruka Umesaki and Ruaka) defeated Lollipop (Waka Tsukiyama, Yuko Sakurai and Rina Amikura) | Triangle Derby group stage match | 12:36 |
| 6 | Baribari Bombers (Giulia, Thekla and Mai Sakurai) defeated MaiHime with C (Maika, Himeka and Lady C) | Triangle Derby group stage match | 11:50 |
Blocks
Stardom announced the official participants of the two blocks "Triangle Red" and "Triangle Blue" on December 16, 2022.[30]
| Triangle Red | Triangle Blue | ||
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| Neo Stardom Army (7Upp (Nanae Takahashi and Yuu) and Yuna Mizumori) | 11 | Abarenbo GE (Syuri, Mirai and Ami Sourei) | 10 |
| Queen's Quest (AphrOditE (Utami Hayashishita and Saya Kamitani) and AZM) | 9 | Gold Ship (Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe and Saki Kashima) | 10 |
| Club Venus (Mina Shirakawa, Xia Brookside and Mariah May)[lower-alpha 3] | 8 | Prominence (Suzu Suzuki, Risa Sera and Hiragi Kurumi) | 10 |
| Cosmic Angels (Tam Nakano, Natsupoi and Saki) | 8 | Rebel&Enemy (Ram Kaicho, Maika Ozaki and Maya Yukihi) | 8 |
| Unique Glare (Starlight Kid, Haruka Umesaki and Ruaka) | 6 | MaiHime with C (Maika, Himeka and Lady C) | 4 |
| Baribari Bombers (Giulia, Thekla and Mai Sakurai) | 6 | Classmates (Hazuki, Koguma and Saya Iida) | 6 |
| H&M's (Mayu Iwatani, Hanan and Momo Kohgo) | 2 | Lollipop (Waka Tsukiyama, Yuko Sakurai and Rina Amikura) | 0 |
Blue Red |
Kaicho Ozaki Yukihi | Tsukiyama Sakurai Amikura | Hazuki Koguma Iida | Maika Himeka Lady C | Syuri Mirai Sourei | Suzuki Sera Kurumi | Tora Watanabe Kashima |
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| Iwatani Hanan Kohgo |
Kaicho Ozaki Yukihi (10:50) |
Iwatani Hanan Kohgo (11:15)[27] |
Hazuki Koguma Iida (9:11)[8] |
Maika Himeka Lady C (11:34)[17] |
Syuri Mirai Sourei (11:17)[23] |
Suzuki Sera Kurumi (12:24)[19] |
Tora Watanabe Kashima (9:29)[6] |
| Kid Umesaki Ruaka |
Kid Umesaki Ruaka (10:55)[17] |
Kid Umesaki Ruaka (12:36)[29] |
Hazuki Koguma Iida (9:03)[25] |
Kid Umesaki Ruaka (9:12)[15] |
Syuri Mirai Sourei (12:06)[21] |
Suzuki Sera Kurumi (6:06)[6] |
Tora Watanabe Kashima (9:41) |
| Giulia Thekla Sakurai |
Kaicho Ozaki Yukihi (14:38)[6] |
Giulia Thekla Sakurai (9:05)[10] |
Giulia Thekla Sakurai (12:37)[21] |
Giulia Thekla Sakurai (11:50)[29] |
Syuri Mirai Sourei (13:47)[15] |
Suzuki Sera Kurumi (13:48) |
Tora Watanabe Kashima (12:25)[17] |
| Hayashishita Kamitani AZM |
Hayashishita Kamitani AZM (13:41)[27] |
Hayashishita Kamitani AZM (11:39)[17] |
Hazuki Koguma Iida (10:17) |
Hayashishita Kamitani AZM (12:10)[19] |
Draw (15:00)[6] |
Hayashishita Kamitani AZM (13:18)[21] |
Tora Watanabe Kashima (11:06)[15] |
| Nakano Natsupoi Saki |
Nakano Natsupoi Saki (11:55)[15] |
Nakano Natsupoi Saki (14:58)[13] |
Nakano Natsupoi Saki (11:42)[23] |
Maika Himeka Lady C (11:20)[6] |
Nakano Natsupoi Saki (12:44) |
Suzuki Sera Kurumi (13:25)[10] |
Nakano Natsupoi Saki (9:29)[27] |
| Takahashi Yuu Mizumori |
Kaicho Ozaki Yukihi (13:11)[23] |
Takahashi Yuu Mizumori (13:01) |
Takahashi Yuu Mizumori (8:50)[6] |
Takahashi Yuu Mizumori (11:56)[21] |
Draw (15:00)[27] |
Takahashi Yuu Mizumori (13:21)[15] |
Takahashi Yuu Mizumori (12:10)[19] |
| Shirakawa Brookside May |
Kaicho Ozaki Yukihi (13:39)[19] |
Shirakawa Brookside May (9:02)[6] |
Shirakawa Brookside May (10:03)[15] |
Shirakawa Brookside May (12:33)[23] |
Syuri Mirai Sourei (13:36)[8] |
Suzuki Sera Kurumi (11:47)[17] |
Shirakawa Brookside May (11:30)[21] |
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Notes
- The other participants were Hazuki, Koguma, Momo Kohgo, Lady C, Miyu Amasaki, Ruaka, Mirai and Yuna Mizumori.
- Giulia went into three minute time-limit draws against each competitor.
- 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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