Momo Watanabe has her eyes set on Mayu Iwatani and the IWGP Ladies’s Championship after an intense confrontation.
STARDOM kicked off their 14th annual Goddess of Stardom Tag League this previous October 26 in Tokyo. On the present, Mayu Iwatani and Momo Kohgo efficiently defeated AZM and Miyu Amasaki below the Purple Goddesses block, incomes themselves two factors.
As Mayu seemed to have fun her victory, Momo Watanabe entered the ring to confront the IWGP Ladies’s Champion. She initially known as out Mayu for defeating her within the latest 5 Star Grand Prix by utilizing her bat towards her. Nevertheless, what began off as a verbal change rapidly escalated right into a vicious assault as she attacked Mayu with that very same bat. She then made her intentions clear by issuing a problem for the IWGP Ladies’s Championship on the upcoming NJPW x STARDOM Historic X-Over II present in November.
As of the time of writing, Mayu Iwatani holds a record-setting seven profitable defenses of the championship. Momo Watanabe, however, has by no means competed for the IWGP Ladies’s Championship in a singles match in her profession. Each girls share fairly a historical past, nonetheless, with Mayu defeating Momo within the first spherical of the inaugural IWGP Ladies’s Championship match in 2022. Mayu went on to compete within the finals earlier than developing quick to eventual inaugural champion KAIRI (generally known as Kairi Sane in WWE).
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