Various: NJPW Announces Stardom Talents & Stephanie Vaquer for Windy City Riot 2024, Giulia on Career Future, Indies

Feb 28, 2024

NJPW Announces Stardom Talent and CMLL’s Stephanie Vaquer for Windy City Riot 2024

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that Stardom talent AZM and Mina Shirakawa will be making an appearance for the company at their Windy City Riot 2024 event on April 12th at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois.

April 12 @wintrustarena

Representing #STARDOM

AZM and Mina Shirakawa have joined the Riot!

TICKETS: https://t.co/UuTuvLOJmn #njriot @azumikan1411 @MinaShirakawa pic.twitter.com/cldBr6QZc6
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) February 28, 2024

Besides AZM and Shirakawa, NJPW also recently announced that Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre talent Stephanie Vaquer will also be making an appearance for the company at this upcoming event.

April 12 @wintrustarena

Representing @CMLL_OFICIAL

Stephanie Vaquer has joined the Riot!

TICKETS: https://t.co/UuTuvLObwP #njriot @Steph_Vaquer pic.twitter.com/jf6L69ATDS
— NJPW Global (@njpwglobal) February 28, 2024

Giulia Comments on Future of Her Wrestling Career

As noted before, Giulia will be leaving Stardom once her current contract expires at the end of this March. WWE has been very interested in potentially signing Giulia while Giulia is currently expected to join Rossy Ogawa’s new women’s promotion in Japan to help with its launch period before heading to WWE.

Tokyo Sports held a recent interview with Giulia. One of the topics discussed included Giulia’s thoughts about the future of her wrestling career.

“In my mind, I have already decided. When the time comes, I will make a proper announcement.”

Besides Giulia, Ogawa was also interviewed in the same article for his thoughts about Giulia potentially joining his new promotion.

“If she (Giulia) hasn’t decided what to do after leaving STARDOM, we would like to make her an offer.”

English translation via PostWrestling.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that they will be holding a new event called Wrestling World on April 14th in New Taipei, Taiwan.

Revolution Pro Wrestling recently announced that Mike Santana will be making an appearance for the company at their Epic Encounter event on April 20th in Stevenage, England.

Tuesday’s NWA Powerrr show featured The King Bees (Charity King & Danni Bee) defeating Pretty Empowered (Ella Envy & Kylie Paige) to become the new NWA Women’s World Tag Team Champions.

Lance Storm, D’Lo Brown, Deaner, Gail Kim. Ace Steel, Rhino, Chris Sabin, RD Evans, and Delirious reportedly worked as the backstage producers for this past Friday’s No Surrender 2024 event and this past Saturday’s Bayou Blast Impact! television tapings in New Orleans, Louisiana, according to PWInsider.

WrestleCon recently announced that Ronda Rousey will be making an appearance for the company at their WrestleCon 2024 on April 4-7, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

WrestleCon recently announced one new match for the card of their 2024 Mark Hitchcock Memorial Supershow on April 4th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

Masato Tanaka vs. Josh Alexander

Matt Cardona announced on Twitter that he recently signed a new contract with Game Changer Wrestling. No other details are currently known regarding Cardona’s new deal with GCW.

Josh Barnett recently announced one new match for the card of GCW’s Josh Barentt’s Bloodsport X event on April 4th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

Josh Barnett vs. Johnny Bloodsport (Johnny TV in AEW)

Major League Wrestling recently announced one new match for the card of their Intimidation Games 2024 event on February 29th in New York City, New York: