Earlier today, the official English account for Stardom, the most renowned Joshi pro wrestling in Japan, confirmed that Toyko News had reported that Bushiroad, the company that owns New Japan, had purchased Stardom.
For those unaware, Bushiroad produces collectible card games and trading cards, and publish games. Their purchase of New Japan led to the rejuvenation of the company so is exciting fans of the woman’s promotion.
1: As reported today on the front cover of Tokyo Sports newspaper, Stardom is now a part of Bushiroad.
Stardom is no longer a corporation and becomes part of the Bushiroad group “Kix Road”. Kickboxing promotion “Knock Out” is also a part of Kix Road.
— We Are Stardom (@we_are_stardom) October 17, 2019
It should be noted that this is not New Japan buying Stardom, not the companies merging. At present, the companies will remain separate, and their streaming services will not combine.
Hiroshi “Rossy” Ogawa will remain CEO of the women’s wrestling promotion and is excellent news for the Stardom wrestlers; they will shortly be signed to full-time contracts. This, though, won’t be the case with AEW contracted talents like Riho and Bea Priestley, due to the New Japan connection.
In an interesting tidbit, WWE also made an offer for Stardom as they hoped for it to be the backbone of their NXT Japan project but obviously missed out. They were also recently rejected by Pro Wrestling Noah who had they had attempted to buy.
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