Toni Storm will problem for the IWGP Girls’s Championship. Athena makes Ring of Honor historical past. WWE kicks off its inaugural WWE Pace Girls’s Championship match. Jordan Blade chats with WrestleZone and extra! Let’s break it down on this week’s version of Girls’s Wrestling Wrap-Up!
WWE Girls’s Pace Championship Event Kicks Off
Within the upcoming weeks, WWE will crown its first-ever Girls’s Pace Champion. Like its male counterparts, this champion shall be decided by an eight-person match that includes three-to-five-minute matches. To this point, three ladies have superior within the match: IYO SKY, Naomi, and Kairi Sane.
The inaugural WWE Pace Girls’s Championship match kicked off on September 4 with a gap spherical matchup between SKY and Lyra Valkyria. Valkyria and SKY fought forwards and backwards all through the bout, however a shock pinfall in the end sealed the win for SKY.
The next week, Naomi defeated Blair together with her Really feel the Glow submission to advance to a semi-finals matchup towards SKY.
Most lately. Kairi Sane defeated Elektra Lopez with an Insane Elbow. She too now seems forward to the semi-finals, the place she’s going to tackle both Candice LeRae or Piper Niven.
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Toni Storm To Problem Mayu Iwatani For IWGP Girls’s Championship
Toni Storm could also be down, however her combating spirit just isn’t out.
At AEW All In, Mariah Might defeated “Timeless” Toni Storm to say the AEW Girls’s World Championship. Coming off that loss, many anticipated Storm to request a rematch for the AEW Girls’s World Championship. In a flip of occasions, Storm has now shifted her gaze to a different title, over within the land of STARDOM and NJPW.
Final weekend, Storm issued a problem to IWGP Girls’s Champion Mayu Iwatani in a brand new vignette, set by a hearth.
“Did you overlook about me? STARDOM. Do you bear in mind who I’m? As a result of I’ve by no means forgotten you,” Storm stated. “I’ve carried out rather a lot in your land. And I’ll all the time respect Japanese professional wrestling, however there may be one factor that I need to do. In 2017, I grew to become the World of Stardom Champion. Some say it was a mistake. I need to show that it wasn’t. October fifth. Nagoya. I problem you, Mayu Iwatani for the IWGP Girls’s Championship. Mayu-san, you’re the icon of stardom. You’re the icon of Joshi Professional wrestling, however you couldn’t even wash my diaphragm. I’ll change into IWGP Girls’s Champion and I’ll break your life.”
Two days after Storm’s problem, Iwatani formally accepted it. As such, she is now slated to defend the IWGP Girls’s Championship at STARDOM’s Nagoya Grand Combat occasion on October 5. For Iwatani, it will mark her first title protection since June, when she defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto in Ice Ribbon by referee’s resolution. For Storm, it will mark first STARDOM match since July 2019, when she, Iwatani, and Arisa Hoshiki beat Andras Miyagi, Kagetsu, and Natsuko Tora in six-woman tag motion.
Athena Makes Ring of Honor Historical past
Earlier this week, Athena cemented herself because the longest-reigning champion in Ring of Honor. This feat comes after Athena, the present ROH Girls’s Champion, surpassed Samoa Joe’s earlier 645-day reign as ROH World Champion.
The long-time ladies’s champion has commented on her spectacular accomplishment by a put up on Twitter. She wrote:
“I’ve tried to put in writing this a billion occasions and determine the correct phrases to say and that i nonetheless dont assume i do know what to say… Nevertheless it boils all the way down to this I’m grateful for my minions which have supported me. I’m grateful for all of the trolls that give me the motivation to show them improper. I’m grateful to each hussy I’ve crushed alongside the way in which to point out everybody that I’m the THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!! With love and anger, Athena”
Athena’s reign as ROH Girls’s Champion started with a win over Mercedes Martinez in December 2022. Since then, Athena has defended the title on 22 events, with the most recent taking type towards Queen Aminata at ROH Dying Earlier than Dishonor. Wanting forward, Athena is now slated to defend the title towards Gisele Shaw at Maple Leap Professional Wrestling’s Cast In Excellence occasion on October 20.
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INTERVIEWS
“The Submission Sniper” Jordan Blade spoke with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay about her current return to Jiu Jitsu, profitable a gold medal at her first Worldwide Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation competitors, the surreal expertise of wrestling towards Aja Kong final month, her friendship with Riley Shepard, the expansion she’s seen in her 7 years in skilled wrestling, wanting a match towards Miyu Yamashita, and extra.
WWE Girls’s Tag Crew Champion Jade Cargill sat down with WrestleZone Managing Editor Invoice Pritchard to speak about who she leans on for recommendation in WWE and AEW, the success of teaming with Bianca Belair (and Naomi), if she’s open to a run in NXT, why she’s wanting ahead to the 2025 Royal Rumble, and extra.
Former NXT Girls’s Champion Lyra Valkyria joined Denise Salcedo to debate her WWE 2K24 debut, her sudden Queen of the Ring journey, teaming up with Becky Lynch, her purpose of wrestling in an Iron Lady match with IYO SKY, and extra.
WWE Girls’s Champion Nia Jax appeared on Unlikely With Adrian Hernandez to debate her Final Girls Standing match towards Becky Lynch, profitable her title at Summerslam, followers making comparisons to her and Jennifer Lopez comparisons, what she considered her Smackdown Celebration, her Viral ‘Stink Face’ second with Rhea Ripley, and extra.
Former WWE Girls’s World Champion Rhea Ripley joined Informal Conversations with The Basic to speak about her dream Struggle Video games staff, Soiled Dominik Mysterio, the Terror Twins, feeling snug in her personal pores and skin, Judgement Day, tattoos and extra.
Former WWE Divas Champion Kelly Kelly chatted with Straight Discuss Wrestling about balancing household and work, doubtlessly coming again to WWE so her youngsters can see her wrestle, favourite moments of her in-ring profession, and extra.
