Stardom 8/3/2025 5★STAR Grand Prix 2025 Day 5 Afternoon Show

Stardom 8/3/2025 5★STAR Grand Prix 2025 Day 5 Afternoon Show

Day 4 is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/stardom-822025-5star-grand-prix-2025.html

Hanan and I think the Stardom head talk before the show starts.

5STAR Grand Prix 2025 Block A Match - Aya Sakura vs. Yuria Hime

Hime misses a high kick and takes a leg kick. Aya dropkicks her. Hime hits chest forearms. Aya yanks on her arm and wristlocksher. Aya stomps on her. Aya kicks her in the shoulder then Hime hits chest forearms. Aya high kicks her in the face and Hime facekicks her. Aya leg kicks her and drops her to a knee.

Hime facekicks her then Aya chest kicks her down. Hime facekicks her then legdrops her. Hime then headscissors her. Hime running facekicks her on the ropes. Hime leg lariats her and headscissors her. Hime then does the devil's kicks on her.

Hime boots her then Aya rolling triangles her. Hime rope breaks. Aya misses a high kick and Hime rolls her up for 2. Hime facekicks her then Aya superkicks her. Aya high kicks her and spinning high kicks her. Aya then kicks her in the head and wins.

Thoughts: It was a surprisingly decent match here. Aya did a bunch of kicks on Hime and stiffed her quite a few times and Hime stuck with the facekicks. I liked it and was surprised at some of the shots Aya dished out here. 

5STAR Grand Prix 2025 Block B Match - Momo Kohgo vs. HANAKO

Momo running dropkicks Hana to start. Hana stomps on her then stands on her back. Hana slams her twice. Hana crabs her. Hana hits corner spears on Momo. Hana corner splashes her and slams her.

Hana chest forearms Momo down. Momo is caught off the 2nd rope and backbreakered. Hana crabs her. Hana misses a corner charge and her throat is pulled down over the top. Momo springbaord dropkicks her.

Hana ducks a 619 then Momo 2nd rope twisting crossbodies her. Hana boots her in the gut then Momo dropkicks her. Hana splashes her on the ropes and Momo flips out of the gutwrench and drops her with it. Momo crucifix bombs her.

Hana blocks a tornado ddt then suplexes her. Hana lariats her. Momo hurricanrana's her for 2. Hana does a spinning head and arm choke drop on Momo. She then does a hanging head an arm choke and wins.

Thoughts: I liked it. They had the general idea down of Hana overpowering Momo and Momo doing her flying to try and get offense in before Hana put her down. This was what it needed to be.

5STAR Grand Prix 2025 Block A Match - Ruaka vs. Saya Iida

Saya runs in and splashes Ru in the corner before intros. She splashes her several times and running back elbows her. Saya elbow drops her. They trade chops for forearms. Saya hits a flurry of chops.

Ru forearms her then they shoulder battle. Saya is pulled over the top. Saya chops her outside then Ru slams her on the floor. Saya is sent into the seats. Ru suplexes her inside for 2. Ru crossfaces her and Saya rope breaks.

Saya legsweeps her and sliding lariats her for 2. Ru does double arm chokeslams her. Saya rolls through the legs then does a nice pin with a bridge to win.

Thoughts: It was short and fun from the start with Saya running in and going after Ru. It did slow down a little as expected but I enjoyed it and thought they had a good hoss type of match here.  

5STAR Grand Prix 2025 Block B Match - Konami vs. Ranna Yagami

They check each others leg kicks. Kon takes her down. Kon snapmares her and kicks her in the back. Ran tries to do the same but Kon eye rakes her. Kon kicks her in the back. Kon armbars her and Ran ropebreaks.

Ran hits chest forearms. Kon forearms her down. Ran is thrown down backwards then thrown into the corner. Kon foot chokes Ran on the ropes. Ran facekicks her in the corner then dropkicks her.

Kon forearms her down. Kon armbars her and Ran ropebreaks. Kon fisherman suplexes her. Ran high kicks her then leg lariats her. Kon germans her for 2. Kon goes for the triangle lancer and Ran rolls her up.

Ran hits a chest forearm flurry then Kon high kicks her. Kon PK's her for 2. Ran does a surprise pin attempt and wins.

Thoughts: The two work a similar style so it had a lot of potential. I liked what we got but it could have been even better with more time. We got a lot of kicks here as expected and Kon went for arm subissions as expected. 

Kon beats up on her after and it gets broken up.

5STAR Grand Prix 2025 Block A Match - Miyu Amasaki vs. Bozilla

Miyu hits Boz from behind before it starts. Boz is thrown out. Miyu gets caught on a crossbody off the apron then Boz pulls her out. Miyu is sent into the seats and the post. Boz hair throws her in the ring. Boz half-nelson backbreakers her for 2. Miyu hits chest forearms then Boz chest forearms her down. Miyu hits forearms. Boz goes for a powerbomb but is ddt'd. Miyu pendulum ddt's her for 2.

Miyu does a scholar collar. Boz blocks a tornado ddt then corner splashes her. Boz suplexes her then sentons her for 2. Miyu tornado ddt's her then tries a bridge pin for 2. Boz spinebusters her then hits a lariat. Boz powerbombs Miyu then does a styles clash for the win.

Thoughts: It was a short squash as expected. Miyu had no chance here and was dominated by the bigger Boz.

5STAR Grand Prix 2025 Block B Match - Momo Watanabe vs. Suzu Suzuki

Momo won here with a wrist-clutch half-nelson suplex. It got off to a slower start. Momo took an awful looking piledriver on the apron edge. They did the usual outside fighting with people going into the post and seats. Suzu took a b-driver on the floor. We had weapons involved with both girls using Momo's bat. Suzu also took a 2nd rope uranage here. I thought they did a bit much as the apron piledriver really should have ended it. I didn't like this one much.  

5STAR Grand Prix 2025 Block A Match - Saori Anou vs. Ami Sourei

They lock up and clean break. Ami armdrags her. Anou snapmares her and headscissors her. Anou misses a running facekick. Ami double chops her back then chops her while she's tied up in the ropes. Ami splashes Anou on the ropes for 2. Ami half crabs her and Anou rope breaks. 

Ami chops her. Anou step up enzugiri's her then facekicks her between the ropes. Ami racks her on the apron then lets her go, making her fall to the floor. Ami chops her outside. Ami slams her on the floor.

Ami racks her inside and puts her in reverse tree of woe. Ami corner splashes her then Anou basement dropkicks her. They trade chest forearms. Ami hits chops and Anou chops back. Anou step up enzugiri's her.

They go up top and Ami 2nd rope superplexes her down. Anou fisherman suplexes her but Ami holds on and suplexes her. Anou release fisherman suplexes her. Ami blocks a hurricanrana and does a high crab. Anou release germans her then hits another for 2. Anou hits boots to the face. Ami slaps her then Anou slaps back. Ami lariats her then blue thunders her for 2. Anou backslides her into a bridge for 2. Ami blue thunders her for 2. Ami hits a landslide and pins her.

Thoughts: Anou usually leads her matches and she didn't here. This was an Ami lead match and it showed. It wasn't that good and it was as average as it gets. I was surprised to see Anou do the job here.

Both talk on the mic after. 

5STAR Grand Prix 2025 Block B Match - Sareee vs. Hina

Hina slaps away Sare's hand then is dropped with a forearm. Hina tries a pin for 2. Sare dropkicks her against the ropes then dropkicks her through the ropes. Sare fisherman suplexes her for 2. Sare hair throws her twice. Sare stands on her chest on the bottom rope.

Sare slams her. Hina hits mounted chest forearms then Sare does it back to her. Sare does a half-crab and Hina ropebreaks. Sare walks on Hina's back then double stomps it.

Sare dropkicks her and facekicks her. Hina hip throws her. Hina running neckbreakers her for 2. They trade chest forearms. Sare chest forearms her down. Sare goes up top and dropkicks Hina. Sare top rope dropkicks Hina again for 2. Hina STO's her. Hina half-crabs her. Hina then switches to an STF and Sare rope breaks.

Sare superplexes her for 2. Hina wrist-clutch half-nelson suplexes her then Hina jackhammers her for 2. Hina goes for a top rope splash but Sare gets her feet up. Sare double stomps her for 2. Sare headbutts Hina.

Hina trips her into a pin attempt for 2. Sare germans Hina then backdrops her for 2. Sare 2nd rope double stomps her for 2. Sare hits a top rope double stomp and wins.

Thoughts: It wasn't good and oddly, it was all due to Sareee. This crowd hated her and loved Hina. Instead of working with that, she insisted on being the face here. No one wanted any of that and it made her look like a fool. I don't know why Sareee did what she did here but I was left very disappointed in Sareee here and there's no way I can put this over. Hina was naturally the underdog here and got put down.

Sareee tries to get over on the mic after and gets booed. Sare talks to Hina and Hina eventually gets up and talks to her. Hina then closes the show on the mic.

Overall thoughts: The undercard beat out the lower card here. The opener was maybe the best thing on here. I also liked Momo/Hanako and Ruaka/Iida. Konami/Ranna was alright. Bozilla squashed Miyu as expected. I didn't care for Momo/Suzu. Ami lead the match with Anou and the quality suffered because of it. The main was a tone deaf bout with Sareee desperately trying to act like a face against Hina when the crowd wanted to no part of it. I'd give it a slight 6 out of 10 solely due to the undercard being so strong, but the top half of this one really brought this down.