STARDOM Dream Tag Festival 2023 - WrestleFile Historical Verdict

The September 10, 2023 Dream Tag Festival started with a five-team gauntlet that brought together combinations rarely used on a conventional STARDOM card. Syuri and Ami Sourei first defeated Waka Tsukiyama and Yuna Mizumori in 3:06, then eliminated Koguma and Saya Iida after a 3:39 submission. Megan Bayne and Mei Seira entered next, with Bayne pinning Sourei following an F5 at 2:27. Seira secured the final fall over Miyu Amasaki of the Lady C-Amasaki pairing in 2:58. STARDOM's official match-by-match report identifies all ten competitors and the succession of matches, rather than ten simultaneous opponents. Bayne and Seira are the overall survivors, but each earlier team deserves a distinct participant group so the result can be found without inventing permanent factions.

Tam Nakano and Mina Shirakawa teaming again is one of the event's clearest emotional hooks. Shirakawa had left Cosmic Angels to lead Club Venus, so the match is built around whether old chemistry still exists when she stands beside Nakano again. Across the ring are Natsupoi and Saori Anou, the reigning Goddesses champions, which raises the quality of the test even though the belts are not at stake. Nakano pins Natsupoi with Andromeda at 10:32. The result lets the reunion team beat an established championship pairing and gives Shirakawa and Nakano's post-match interaction real weight without disrupting the title lineage.

MIRAI and Mai Sakurai briefly reunite after their shared Donna del Mondo history, while Hina and Rina bring natural sister chemistry to the opposite corner. The match works because the temporary pairing is not treated as random. MIRAI and Sakurai have a documented past, and their post-match conversation turns the reunion into a possible future team when they discuss the upcoming tag league. MIRAI submits Hina with Miramare at 11:50, giving the Wonder champion a decisive result without putting her title at stake. The wrestling result is solid, but the greater historical value comes from the pairing being used to create a concrete next-step direction.

Hanan and Mariah May are another deliberately unusual partnership, while the opposing team creates the night's easiest name-based visual with Momo Kohgo and Momo Watanabe. The match runs 8:19 before Watanabe's weapon use causes the disqualification. That finish prevents the temporary teams from needing a conventional hierarchy statement and keeps Watanabe aligned with her Oedo Tai behavior rather than forcing the dream-team concept to overwrite established character. Hanan and May get the official victory, but the bout functions more as a compact personality piece than as a major in-ring destination. Its value is mostly in seeing the combinations assembled for this specific event.

Hazuki and Natsuko Tora sharing a corner is instantly striking because their normal faction identities place them on opposite sides, while Nanae Takahashi and Ruaka create a different veteran-younger-wrestler contrast. The match receives 14:56, enough time for the temporary teams to work as actual units rather than as entrances attached to a finish. Hazuki pins Ruaka after a diving senton, keeping the decisive fall among active roster members and allowing Takahashi's veteran presence to remain protected. The result gives Hazuki and Tora a meaningful one-night win and demonstrates why the event works best when the pairings are allowed enough time for the novelty to turn into a real tag match.

The 20-minute draw is the card's deepest in-ring match and arguably the strongest expression of the fan-voted premise. Giulia and Suzu Suzuki form a volatile pairing opposite Maika and Utami Hayashishita, putting four major singles wrestlers into combinations that would be difficult to justify on a normal tour date. The time-limit draw protects everyone while still giving the match a complete competitive arc. More importantly, the story continues after the bell when Risa Sera and Kurumi Hiiragi attack Giulia and Suzuki. That post-match attack carried an immediate competitive declaration: Sera explicitly declared that she and Hiiragi would enter the upcoming Stardom tag league, as the official September 10 post-match comments recorded. It was a direct tournament challenge, not merely a loose future grudge.

AZM and Starlight Kid close the show against Mayu Iwatani and Saki Kashima in a match built from deeply familiar Stardom relationships rearranged into special teams. AZM and Kid have years of rivalry and High Speed history, while Iwatani and Kashima bring their own long-running connections to the roster. The match runs 15:24, giving the main-event pairing enough room to feel substantial. AZM pins Kashima with Azumi Sushi, so the younger dream team earns a decisive closing victory without requiring Iwatani to take the fall. It is an effective final image because the result rewards the special pairing rather than merely presenting it as a one-night novelty.