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2019 World Wonder Ring Stardom event
Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2018
Promotional poster of the event featuring various Stardom wrestlers
The show featured fourteen Cinderella Tournament matches and a dark match 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.
Shirai and Iwatani went into a time-limit draw, therefore both getting disqualified from the tournament.
Watanabe and Priestley were scheduled to face in the semifinals but since Shirai and Iwatani were out of the tournament, the match was moved directly to the finals.