Nagoya Supreme Fight 2022: WrestleFile Historical Verdict

STARDOM's January 29, 2022 original report says this was originally advertised as a seven-person pre-show battle royal, but Mai Sakurai and Waka Tsukiyama were withdrawn, reducing the field to five. Momo Kohgo, the lone STARS entrant against four Oedo Tai wrestlers, requested over-the-top-rope elimination rules before the bell. She escaped by sending Ruaka and Rina out after 6:37, a meaningful win in her first weeks with the unit.

The result also had a documented storyline follow-through: after Hanan retained the Future of Stardom Championship against Lady C later in the show, Kohgo entered the ring, cited her five-way victory and challenged Hanan for that title. Hanan welcomed the challenge. The opener is still a selective-replay SKIP because the larger championship matches provide stronger complete-bout viewing, but that postmatch connection makes the result more than an emergency-card formality.

Hanan's first Future of Stardom title defense lasts 5:56 and ends with a backdrop hold on Lady C. She had won the championship at Dream Queendom the month before, so this match establishes the beginning of her defenses rather than another title change. The aftermath also created an immediate next challenger: following her opening five-way win, new STARS member Momo Kohgo entered the ring and challenged Hanan for the Future belt. Hanan welcomed Kohgo to STARS, accepted the prospect of facing eligible challengers, and the two shook hands. The short defense and direct post-match challenge make this worthwhile developmental-title continuity, while the event's longer major championship matches offer more complete viewing.

This 9:43 Queen's Quest-Oedo Tai tag was itself a late card change. STARDOM had originally scheduled Utami Hayashishita against Momo Watanabe after Watanabe's December faction betrayal; when AZM returned from the nose injury sustained in her January 8 match with Watanabe, the promotion remade it as Hayashishita and AZM against Watanabe and Starlight Kid. Oedo Tai interfered during a referee disruption, and Kid pinned AZM after a Spanish Fly. The official card report records Kid calling the finishing maneuver her new AZM-targeted weapon in the postmatch comments. AZM's return was therefore part of the match's central grievance, not just a roster detail. The original A-minus grade recognizes the pace and personal feud while keeping the much larger championship defenses ahead of it in the viewing order.

Thekla and Mina Shirakawa receive 9:58 to determine a new SWA World champion after Syuri moved out of the title picture. Thekla's victory is immediately useful because it gives one of Stardom's newest international additions a championship identity and keeps the SWA belt attached to its original international concept. Shirakawa is established enough to make the win meaningful without needing a much longer match. The bout is not the card's deepest championship contest, but the clean title change gives it a clear place in Stardom's early-2022 hierarchy.

The 13:27 Goddesses title match gives Hazuki and Koguma their first defense against a Donna del Mondo pairing with obvious size and power advantages. Himeka and Maika had spent much of 2021 near the top of Stardom's tag and unit structure, so they are credible challengers for a newly crowned team. Koguma's small-package finish on Himeka gives the champions a resourceful victory rather than asking them to dominate physically. The match strengthens the STARS team and keeps the tag division connected to wrestlers who are also active in Stardom's singles hierarchy.

Saya Kamitani's 18:47 defense against Unagi Sayaka is the first major test of the Wonder reign that began at Dream Queendom. Unagi has enough history around Tam Nakano and Cosmic Angels to make the challenge feel connected to the belt's previous era, while Kamitani needs to show that the Ryogoku win was the start of a reign rather than a single breakthrough. The Phoenix Splash finish records a clean first defense and gives Kamitani a meaningful result outside the opponent who defined her title chase. The match helps establish the new champion's rhythm before the division broadens further in 2022.

The thirty-minute draw between Mayu Iwatani and Giulia is the card's strongest match because it turns an emergency lineup change into a major-event centerpiece. Tam Nakano's absence removes the planned three-way structure, leaving two former top champions to wrestle for a future World-title opportunity. Neither woman can put the other away before the limit, which protects both and creates a logical case for keeping each in Syuri's orbit. The match also gains extra context from the Prominence confrontation earlier in the show, because Giulia is simultaneously being pulled toward a personal feud while still chasing Stardom's top championship.

The stipulation made the stalemate more pointed than a draw on an ordinary tour date: neither Iwatani nor Giulia secured sole priority for Syuri's World championship. With Giulia also confronting Prominence's challenge to Donna del Mondo, the unresolved result created competing demands on her attention. Nagoya consequently ended with two established names still in the title conversation rather than one newly crowned contender.

Syuri's 26:47 first World-title defense against MIRAI is deliberately different from the Utami Hayashishita rivalry that defined the end of 2021. MIRAI is a new arrival being elevated quickly, so the match tests whether she can belong in Stardom's major-event main event while also giving Syuri a fresh opponent. The champion wins decisively and leaves Nagoya with her first successful red-belt defense recorded, an important step after the emotional title victory at Ryogoku. The match does not need to surpass Dream Queendom to succeed; its role is to stabilize Syuri's reign and establish MIRAI as a serious future piece.

The unusual opponent selection also clarified what the promotion wanted from MIRAI's early appearances: a newcomer could be tested in a featured championship match without immediately unseating the wrestler who had just conquered Hayashishita. Syuri's win allowed the company to pursue both projects. She could start accumulating red-belt defenses, while MIRAI left with experience of an extended main event against the top champion.