Stardom Year-End Climax 2020 12/26/2020

Stardom Year-End Climax 2020 12/26/2020

I skipped the opener.

Singles Match - Momo Watanabe vs. Saya Iida

Iida misses a dropkick and gets stomped for it. Iida hits some nice dropkicks and Momo gives her back one. Momo hit a couple of hard slams.

Saya caught Momo on a crossbody and did a real mice slam on her. Then she hit a bunch of chops in the corner. They had a forearm battle which Momo won. Iida put Momo in a crab but she got to the ropes. Momo hit like a spinning rock bottom which looked like it sucked to take. Iida hit a bad diamond dust and a northern lights suplex for 2.

Momo hit two head kicks for 2 then won with a Peach Sunrise. It wasn't bad, but seeing Momo go even with Iida is weird and I thought it did go too long at 11:01.

Queen's Quest (AZM & Riho) vs. STARS (Mayu Iwatani & Starlight Kid)

The finish

 During the interviews, AZM gave Riho a QQ mask so she is officially part of QQ. Mayu said her and Kid are aiming for the tag belts. Kid and AZM did a high speed counter sequence then Mayu and Riho followed. Mayu got beaten up for a bit. Kid did a cartwheel into a flying headscissors. The nshe got caught on a springboard and really hit AZM with a ddt.

Kid ran up the ropes and armdragged Riho, then dropkicked her. AZM got in and did the same thing to Kid only put her in a rings of saturn at the end. Kid did an unusual perfectplex. QQ tried for a top rope double stomp from both on Mayu, but she moved and they hit her with double knees instead. QQ then hit a 2 person double footstomp from the top on Mayu.

AZM hit a weird move on Mayu's shoulders from the top which you will have to see the gif to see. Then Kid came in and armdragged her off the top. Stars hit double 619's and Mayu hit a crucifix bomb for 2. Kid stood on Mayu's shoulders while she was on the 2nd rope, then dove on AZM and Mayu finished AZM off with like a reverse standing dragon sleeper clutch.

I liked this at first, but it went on a really long time and the match just didn't flow. People came in and out without any real story being followed and they did too much.

Oedo Tai (Natsuko Tora & Saki Kashima) vs. Donna del Mondo (Himeka & Natsupoi)

 

DDM gets attacked during their entrance. Tora facewashes Poi and sentons her. Point gets caught doinga crossbody and Himeka knocks them both over. Himeka gets irish whipped in the corner and knocks over both OT members with shoulders. Saki gets in and running hurricanrana's Himeka. Himeka double torture racks both opponents and Poi dives on them. Poi turns Saki over with a dropkick then another hard dropkick on the ropes.

On the outside, Tora chains Himeka to the rail. She gets herself undone but Tora and Saki drop on Poi from the top. Poi won with a german on Saki at 11:42. It went a little too long and I just wasn't super into this.

The Cosmic Angels said it was Mina's birthday and they wanted to win for her. The cuteness is off the charts.

Donna del Mundo did a promo. Unagi is in Cosmic Angels and Unagi means eel in Japanese. They said they want to eat eel and Syuri said they want to finish out the year with a win.

Donna del Mondo (Giulia, Maika & Syuri) vs. Cosmic Angels (Mina Shirakawa, Tam Nakano & Unagi Sayaka)

The Angels hit a triple team dropkick on Maika, then DDM did double dropkicks to Unagi. Unagi gets beat up for a while. Mina came in and got some offense in Syuri and put a surfboard on her. Giulia whips Mina by her hair then drags her face across the top rope. She says Happy Birthday and asks how old Mina is, which Mina gets mad at. Mina gets a boot to the face.

Giulia and Tam trade boots for kicks at 10 minutes. Then they trade some nice forearms. Tam hits a great spin kick to Giulia's face but Giulia comes back with a backdrop. Unagi eats a couple of judo throws and ends up hitting a frog splash from the top for 2 on Maika. DDM double german suplexes Mina and Tam Maika gets the win over Unagi with a running turn over slam. This had some good sequences but I didn't really see any big story here and the match didn't flow that great.

DDM said they wanted to challenge for The Angels' trios titles after.

Goddesses Of Stardom Title Match - Queen's Quest (Saya Kamitani & Utami Hayashishita) (c) vs. Oedo Tai (Bea Priestley & Konami)

Konami got the win over Saya with a hammerlock. I didn't really like this one. Konami and Bea are not exactly Team Charisma and with the crowd not being allowed to cheer this wasn't that good. The first half was dull with the heels having control, then Saya slipped on the ropes on her dive and near the finish, they did a really weak chair shot on Utami.

Konami said Oedo Tai will rule next year. Bea said Queen's Quest sucks and Momo Watanabe sucks the most. 

Yoshiko and Nanae Takahashi returned. Yoshiko laughed at Mayu being the idol of joshi wrestling and challenged her. Iid got in her way and Yoshiko said "Who the hell are you?". Iida got up in Yoshiko's face and Yoshiko pushed her out of the way.

Yoshiko said there is nobody here to challenge her. Giulia tried to but Kid took the mic and said her and Iida would. Nanae called them children. Momo came out and said she would face Nanae. 

Most of the Stardom roster then did the "We are Stardom" bit to close the show.

Overall thoughts: No commentary and fans not being allowed to cheer is really rough, especially when the matches are all over 10 minutes long. I liked the Momo and Stars Tag, but I'm really not loving New Stardom.