5★STAR GP 2022 Finals: WrestleFile Historical Verdict

MIRAI closes her Blue Stars schedule by beating Saya Iida in 6:57 with a modified backbreaker and reaching fifteen points. She cannot win the block from there, but the total confirms how successful her first 5 STAR GP has been. Iida is already eliminated and functions as a final spoiler threat after earlier upsetting Hazuki. MIRAI avoids that trap and leaves the tournament positioned immediately behind the eventual block winner rather than fading during the final round.

Mina Shirakawa submits Natsupoi with the figure-four in 7:50 and finishes on ten Blue Stars points. Neither wrestler can reach the final, but the result gives Shirakawa another submission-based win over a higher-placed opponent and reinforces the leg-focused approach she had been developing during September. Natsupoi ends at twelve after spending much of the tournament in contention. The match is compact, useful closure for both campaigns rather than a decisive part of the block winner equation.

Momo Watanabe beats Hazuki in 10:34 with Peach Thunder and formally ends the run of the wrestler who dominated Blue Stars for much of the summer. Hazuki entered the late tournament with fourteen points after a 7-1 start, but repeated September losses turned her lead into vulnerability. Momo reaches twelve and delivers the final blow. The match matters because it completes one of the tournament's central reversals: the early frontrunner does not merely get caught; she is eliminated on the last day.

Saya Kamitani and Ami Sourei fight to a double count-out in 8:21, leaving Kamitani on fourteen and Sourei on eleven. Kamitani needs a win to keep a realistic path alive, so the draw becomes a costly final-day result rather than a neutral split. Sourei finishes a strong debut tournament by denying the Wonder champion full points. The count-out itself is less satisfying than a clean result, but the standings consequence is immediate and helps narrow the Blue Stars possibilities before the final two matches.

Mayu Iwatani beats Starlight Kid in 13:09 with a dragon suplex hold, denying Kid the singles breakthrough she had been chasing over her former STARS leader. Kid enters with fourteen Blue Stars points while Mayu begins with twelve. Iwatani's 13:09 win adds two points and leaves both wrestlers on fourteen, exactly as STARDOM's October 1 final-day results record. Neither advances: Giulia later wins Blue Stars on sixteen after drawing with Suzu Suzuki. The rivalry carries stakes because Kid's route to the final closes when she loses to her former mentor, even though Mayu herself also falls short. Kid's loss ends her final path, but the deeper value is the rivalry: even after Kid's transformation in Oedo Tai, Mayu remains a wall she cannot clear on this stage.

Giulia and Suzu Suzuki fight to the full 15-minute limit, the exact result Giulia needs to win Blue Stars on sixteen points. The match carries months of history from their Ice Ribbon past and Prominence's 2022 invasion, so the clock becomes more than a tournament device. Suzuki must beat Giulia to pass her; Giulia can survive. Their urgency, emotion and refusal to disengage after the bell make the draw feel like a chapter rather than an escape, while preserving an obvious reason for them to meet again.

Unagi Sayaka beats Momo Kohgo in 5:24 with Taigi de Atta, giving both wrestlers a final Red Stars total of four points. The match has no block-winning implications, but it gives Unagi a positive exit from a difficult tournament and keeps Kohgo from ending on a late surge. Its placement also works as a reset after the emotionally heavy Blue Stars finish. The value is mainly roster and standings closure, so it is easy to condense on a rewatch focused on the championship race.

Saki Kashima eliminates AZM in only 44 seconds with Kishikaisei, one of the most efficient examples of Kashima's spoiler identity. AZM enters needing a win to preserve her path to the Red Stars final and instead loses almost immediately. The finish is not a shortcut around the story; it is the story. Kashima's entire tournament threat is that one counter can erase a favorite's plans. The shock also tells the audience that no contender is protected from the final-day arithmetic.

Koguma beats Utami Hayashishita in 6:01 with the Koguma-style Yoshi Tonic and reaches fourteen Red Stars points. Utami also finishes on fourteen, but the loss eliminates another former World champion from the final. The short match continues the day's theme that reputations cannot slow the standings clock. Koguma does not advance herself, yet beating Utami gives her tournament a major closing achievement and clears another route for Tam Nakano before the final Red Stars results arrive.

Tam Nakano beats SAKI in 7:36 with the Violet Screwdriver and reaches sixteen Red Stars points, doing everything she can control before the rest of the block decides her fate. The match is shorter than their ability might suggest, but that economy becomes part of the story because Tam may need to wrestle again later that night. She exits the ring as the provisional leader and then has to wait through Maika-Himeka and Risa Sera-Syuri to learn whether sixteen is enough.

Maika and Himeka fight to a double knockout in 9:57, leaving both DDM powerhouses on fifteen points and eliminating them from the final. The result is painful by design: neither can afford to settle for one point, and their familiarity turns the closing exchange into mutual destruction. A decisive winner might have simplified the table, but the double knockout fits two wrestlers whose tournament identities were built around force and refusal to yield. It also confirms that Tam's sixteen cannot be caught by either woman.

Risa Sera beats World of Stardom champion Syuri in 12:11 by countering Ground Suzaku into a cradle, ending Syuri's attempt to repeat as 5 STAR GP winner. Sera reaches fifteen points and earns a clean tournament result over the promotion's top champion, creating immediate future title logic. More importantly for the night, Syuri's loss confirms Tam Nakano as Red Stars winner on sixteen. The match combines a meaningful individual upset with the final piece of the block puzzle, giving the tournament a strong last league result.

Giulia defeats Tam Nakano in 17:28 with the Northern Lights Bomb to win the 2022 5 STAR GP, completing the tournament's strongest long-term story. Both women arrive after wrestling earlier in the card, and the match deliberately revisits their rivalry through signature moves, damaged limbs and counters drawn from previous meetings. Tam uses Giulia's Glorious Driver; Giulia answers with the Violet Screwdriver before returning to the Northern Lights Bomb that symbolizes her rebuilt offense. Winning through Tam connects Giulia's recovery from 2021 injury directly to the rivalry that had defined her previous fall from the top.