All Star Grand Queendom 2023 - WrestleFile Historical Verdict

The Yokohama Rumble functions as a broad roster introduction and a way to connect the promotion's present with its past through Momoe Nakanishi's appearance. Mai Sakurai survives the 26:38 field and eliminates the final masked-machine entrants to win. The match is crowded by design and carries little consequence beyond Sakurai's victory, but it gives the arena crowd a celebratory opening and puts a wide range of wrestlers on the largest card of the year.

Momo Watanabe, Ruaka, Saki Kashima and Natsuko Tora defeated Thekla and Club Venus representatives Jessie, Xena and Mariah May in the opening eight-woman tag at All Star Grand Queendom on April 23, 2023. Kashima scored the winning fall over Jessie with Kishikaisei after 9:54, giving Oedo Tai a result against a lineup still finding its feet around a growing Club Venus identity. The match was not a championship bout or a four-way singles elimination contest. It offered a preview of the faction conflicts that would carry into later STARDOM events, while the principal title attractions still lay ahead on the Yokohama Arena card. The recorded fall belonged to Jessie rather than Thekla, Xena or May.

Mei Seira and Starlight Kid won the special Super High Speed tag at STARDOM All Star Grand Queendom 2023, defeating AZM and Mei Suruga in 9:49. The official result credits Seira with a fall on AZM using the Nagareboshi, introducing a crucial turning point in the High Speed Championship picture. The contest was a rapid technical showcase rather than a defense of the singles High Speed title itself, so no belt changed hands as a consequence of this tag result. All four wrestlers had the speed and submission ability to exchange tight reversals, but the decisive pin established Seira's claim against the reigning champion. The specific loser was AZM, not Suruga, adding context for their later singles meeting.

Utami Hayashishita and Miyu Amasaki defeated Hazuki and celebrity guest Fuwa-chan in a featured tag bout at All Star Grand Queendom on April 23, 2023. The Japanese official results credit Hayashishita with a German suplex hold on Fuwa-chan at 14:19. The match was Fuwa-chan's second official wrestling contest, lending the pairing crossover appeal on a card otherwise dominated by championship matches. Hazuki provided experienced assistance, while the Queen's Quest duo supplied a challenging benchmark for the guest's developing technique. The result didn't involve a tournament advancement or a tag-title transfer. Both participants on Hayashishita's side won, but Hayashishita alone recorded the pin on the visiting entertainer.

Maika defeated Himeka at All Star Grand Queendom 2023 in what was announced as Himeka's final STARDOM match. The official time was 14:17, with Maika securing a pin following the Michinoku Driver II. Their shared Donna del Mondo background made the farewell unusually personal: the duo had succeeded together in STARDOM's tag division before Himeka chose to retire. This was an emotional singles farewell, not a conventional match determining a new champion, and the match's consequence lay in honoring that relationship on Yokohama Arena's major stage. Himeka's retirement context is necessary to understand why a decisive loss could still close an important career positively. Maika was the recorded winner, not a replacement or surprise opponent.

The farewell placement was deliberate: Maika and Himeka had built one of Donna del Mondo's most recognizable tag combinations, so their singles meeting invited the Yokohama audience to recall a partnership rather than simply compare two opponents. Maika's victory did not erase Himeka's earlier championship contributions. It gave her final Stardom appearance a decisive competitive ending on the promotion's biggest stage and allowed the remaining partner to carry the emotional aftermath forward.

MIRAI and Ami Sohrei became the twenty-seventh Goddesses of Stardom champions at All Star Grand Queendom on April 23, 2023 by defeating Nanae Takahashi and Yuu. The unusual official finish was a ring-out at 12:25, not a pin or submission against either reigning champion. That detail defines the result: the twenty-sixth champion team failed on its third defense attempt, and the God's Eye challengers captured the belts under the match rules. MIRAI and Sohrei's prior chemistry gave them the ability to exploit the situation, but the title switch shouldn't be written as an imaginary finishing move landing in the ring. The championship change made this one of multiple major belt shifts on the Yokohama Arena card.

KAIRI, Natsupoi and Saori Anou won the Artist of Stardom Championship in a six-woman tag at Yokohama Arena on April 23, 2023. The defending PROMINENCE trio of Risa Sera, Suzu Suzuki and Kurumi Hiiragi had already made two successful defenses, but Anou pinned Suzuki with the Special Potering at 16:55. That crowned the new twenty-ninth champion team and ended PROMINENCE's twenty-eighth reign. The pairing mixed Anou's relationship with Natsupoi and KAIRI's international star profile against opponents associated with more aggressive hardcore wrestling. Each of the three new champions won a shared trios belt, yet Anou was the sole wrestler who completed the fall. This was an actual championship transfer, not an Artist title qualifier.

The result also tied a guest star's return to the Artist division's actual championship lineage. KAIRI brought attention, but the match was decided by Anou, whose fall on Suzuki made her an active protagonist rather than decorative support for a famous partner. PROMINENCE's defending trio had already established a credible reign, so the change was not just a showcase win. It altered the next set of challengers the new trio would have to face.

Mina Shirakawa ended Saya Kamitani's historic Wonder of Stardom Championship reign at All Star Grand Queendom on April 23, 2023. The official result lists Shirakawa winning in 17:56 with Figure Four Driver MINA, ending Kamitani's reign as the sixteenth Wonder of Stardom champion after fifteen successful defenses and making Shirakawa the seventeenth champion. This was more than a conventional new challenger meeting a titleholder: Shirakawa had already endured a prior serious injury during a confrontation with Kamitani, giving the rematch a personal stakes beyond the white belt. The clean pin made the title change unambiguous rather than a draw or count-out. The victory represented the first major singles championship peak of Shirakawa's Club Venus phase.

Shirakawa's injury history made the outcome unusually consequential. She wasn't simply collecting a championship from a wrestler who had run out of challengers; she was defeating the person against whom she had suffered a painful interruption to her earlier rise. Kamitani's fifteen successful defenses had made the title a centerpiece of the promotion, increasing the significance of finally ending that run. The new champion's Club Venus identity now had a tangible singles achievement behind it.

Syuri defeated Chihiro Hashimoto in the heavily promoted Strongest Women's Wrestling contest at STARDOM All Star Grand Queendom on April 23, 2023. Its unusual rules allowed a result by submission or knockout rather than a typical three-count, a stipulation chosen to emphasize their physical and martial-arts backgrounds. The official finish records Syuri winning by knockout following a kick to the face at 16:07. Hashimoto came from Sendai Girls and carried an imposing reputation, giving Syuri a meaningful outside-promotion opponent. No SWA or World of Stardom championship was defended in the match, despite Syuri's title experience. This wasn't a drawn-out tournament round, and the knockout finish shouldn't be mislabeled as a standard pinfall.

The special rules are important to the record because a standard wrestling victory condition could not decide the match. Syuri's knockout settled the contest under the announced submission-or-knockout framework, while Hashimoto's reputation from Sendai Girls gave the challenge credibility without a championship stake. Unlike the title transfers elsewhere at Yokohama Arena, the consequence here was a cross-promotional competitive result. The finish reinforced Syuri's combat-sports identity at a moment when the card offered several very different forms of high-profile women's wrestling.

Mayu Iwatani defeated Mercedes Moné to become the third IWGP Women's Champion at Yokohama Arena on April 23, 2023. The official STARDOM account lists a double-stage dragon suplex hold at 12:56, ending Moné's second championship reign on her first defense attempt. This pairing gave STARDOM's most enduring homegrown star a major title win over an internationally renowned guest, highlighting the IWGP women's lineage established under NJPW's banner. The decisive pin separated the result from the other championships contested that evening: this was the IWGP Women's belt, not the red World of Stardom or white Wonder belt. Moné's experience and notoriety contributed to the occasion, but Iwatani was the official winner.

The timing made this an especially visible win for Iwatani. Moné's title had introduced the IWGP women's championship to a broader international audience, and Iwatani's victory brought that belt to a wrestler whose Stardom tenure long predated the division. The match was shorter than the evening's red-belt main event, but it established a separate, clearly documented championship transfer. The IWGP lineage belongs in its own history rather than being merged into the World of Stardom records.

Tam Nakano defeated Giulia for the World of Stardom Championship in the final major title contest at All Star Grand Queendom on April 23, 2023. Their long-running personal rivalry returned to the center of STARDOM's red-belt picture after years of shifting faction relationships and earlier championship clashes. This time the title changed hands, ending Giulia's fifteenth reign and establishing Nakano as the next champion. The official Yokohama Arena result places the bout at 23:40, distinguishing the main event from Shirakawa's Wonder title win and Iwatani's IWGP title win earlier on the card. Nakano's success completed an extraordinary evening of multiple different championship transfers without collapsing the three separate singles-title histories into one.

Nakano's victory mattered not only as another red-belt title change but as the final chapter of one of Stardom's most personal rivalries. Giulia had previously defeated Nakano in other important encounters, including a different title program, but Yokohama turned that shared history into a World championship decision. With the Wonder and IWGP women's belts already changing hands, the main event completed a rare three-title narrative across distinct singles divisions. Nakano was the winner of this match and the new red-belt champion.