Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2025
The 2025 Stardom Cinderella Tournament was the eleventh annual professional wrestling single-elimination tournament promoted by World Wonder Ring Stardom. The event took place between March 8 and 15, 2025.
Storylines
The show featured professional wrestling matches with scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. The matches can be won by pinfall, submission or elimination over the top rope. A time-limit draw or a double elimination means a loss for each competitor.Event
Night 1 (March 8)
The first day of the event which took place on March 8, 2025, portraited the first-round tournament matches. All eight of the first round matches were disputed in the first day, where Ranna Yagai picked up a victory over Akira Kurogane, Rina over Yuria Hime, Azusa Inaba over Rian, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre 's Tabata over Hina, Sayaka Kurara over Ruaka, Miyu Amasaki over Lady C, and Hanan over Tomoka Inaba, while Hanako time-limit drew against Aya Sakura, granting Azusa Inaba a walkover victory through the semifinals. Four routine matches were also contested into the first day where Lluvia defeated Fukigen Death, Koguma, Mei Seira and Waka Tsukiyama in a five-way bout, Hazuki and Saya Iida defeated the teams of Saori Anou and Yuna Mizumori, and AZM and Suzu Suzuki in three-way tag team competition, Mayu Iwatani and Momo Kohgo outmatched Natsuko Tora and Thekla via disqualification, and Maika and Mina Shirakawa picked up a victory over Starlight Kid and Tam Nakano.Night 2 (March 9)
The second day of the event which took place on March 9, 2025 portraited the second-round tournament matches where Rina defeated Tabata, Hanan picked up a victory over Miyu Amasaki and Sayaka Kurara defeated Ranna Yagami. Besides the tournament matches, five other bouts were also contested. Mayu Iwatani, Momo Kohgo and Saya Iida outmatched Aya Sakura, Tam Nakano and Yuna Mizumori in six-woman tag team competition, Azusa Inaba defeated Akira Kurogane, and Hanako defeated Yuria Hime in singles competitions, Hina, Saki Kashima, Syuri and Tomoka Inaba picked up a victory over Maika, Mina Shirakawa, Rian and Waka Tsukiyama in eight-woman tag team action, and AZM, Mei Seira, Starlight Kid and Suzu Suzuki defeated Konami, Natsuko Tora, Ruaka and Saya Kamitani in the main event.Night 3 - Finals (March 15)
The third day of the tournament took place on March 15, 2025 and started with two preshow confrontations. In the first one Fukigen Death defeated Rian in singles competition, and in the second one, Maika, Hanako and Waka Tsukiyama picked up a victory over Tabata, Akira Kurogane and Yuria Hime in six-woman tag team competition.In the first main card bout, Sayaka Kurara defeated Azusa Inaba in the semifinals of the Cinderella Tournament. Next up, Rina outmatched Hanan in the second semifinal. Next up, Saya Kamitani, Natsuko Tora, Momo Watanabe and Ruaka defeated AZM, Suzu Suzuki, Mei Seira and Miyu Amasaki in eight-woman tag team action. The sixth bout saw Syuri, Saki Kashima, Lady C, Tomoka Inaba and Ranna Yagami outmatching Mayu Iwatani, Hazuki, Koguma, Saya Iida and Momo Kohgo in ten-woman tag team competition. After the bout concluded, Syuri challenged Iwatani for the latter's IWGP Women's Championship in a bout set to take place at All Star Grand Queendom on April 27, 2025. Next up, Tam Nakano and Saori Anou defeated Yuna Mizumori and Aya Sakura in tag team competition. After the bout concluded, Unagi Sayaka showed up to invite Anou to tag up with her in a match hosted in the independent scene. The eighth bout saw Thekla defeat Mina Shirakawa in singles competition. In the semi main event, Sayaka Kurara defeated Rina in the finals of the Cinderella Tournament.
In the main event, Starlight Kid defeated Konami to secure the second consecutive defense of the Wonder of Stardom Championship in that respective reign.
Participants
The tournament consisted of 16 participants, including several champions.*Noted underneath are the champions who held their titles at the time of the tournament.