Even though the biggest tournament in all of joshi, STARDOM’s 5-Star Grand Prix has now concluded, there’s still one tournament left standing as Marigold’s Dream Star tournament continues to roll on at a snail’s pace. Welcome back to our coverage of the RESURA joshi pro wrestling fantasy league, where this time we’ll cover all of the happenings from the month of August! Not only will you get to see how well these teams did, but you’ll get a good look at which wrestlers had the best month, and which did not.

The total amount of points scored by all of the teams combined this month was 1591, which was good enough for third most in a month so far, meaning that it was quite a busy month of joshi pro wrestling action. There were a lot of singles match wins all around the scene with all of the tournaments still going on during a good portion of the month, and the indies were pretty busy as well, meaning that the top scorers for the month weren’t all just wrestlers from the biggest companies.

During the month of August there were seven wrestlers in total who scored over 30 points for the month, which is quite a high number, in fact, it’s the highest amount of wrestlers up over 30 points that we’ve had thus far. It’s also the first month where we’ve had a single wrestler score over 40 points!

The leader of the pack for the entire league this month was none other than the current IWGP Women’s champion Sareee who put together one hell of a month to say the least with 41 points scored! Her seven singles match wins lead was tied for the lead in the league and her ability to get a few titles defenses under her belt this month also didn’t hurt. Coming in second in the league was the long-time veteran Hiroyo Matsumoto who scored a strong 38 points, which would have been enough to be first place in most other months. Tomoka Inaba, SAKI, and Haruka Umesaki rounded out the top five with the last two being tied at 34 a piece.

For the second month in a row, Dylan Murray’s “Mad Dog Military” finished in first place for the month in terms of team points with a healthy 209, though the second-place team, “Outlet Wolfpack” finished close behind at 207, meaning that Dylan’s team really didn’t make up much ground. With only the last four months of the year to go, the race for first place is definitely heating up!

Unfortunately, there were two teams who were trailing at the back of the pack for the month, which was the perennial last place team “Fart Editing” led by Hart Editing who only scored 114 points, and just above them was “Casa Royale” who scored 116. With both of those teams being back 350-plus points at this point in time, they probably don’t have a shot to get to first place, but they can try to salvage a spot in the middle of the pack.

With all of that said, let’s take a look at the current overall team standings after the month of August…

TEAM STANDINGS

For the first time all year, no teams switched positions during the month of August. Usually, you’d see a couple of teams switch positions, but this time I guess everyone was far enough away from each other, that there wasn’t a lot of points to gain on the next team. The top two teams have now distanced themselves from third place by almost 80 points, which will be hard for “Oedo Tai” to make up, but honestly that team should be more worried about what’s behind them as both fourth and fifth place gained ground on them for having just an average month. A lot of the other teams have a decent amount of distance between themselves and the next, but with a strong month of September it can definitely turn around their fortunes going forward.

As always, I do keep track of which wrestlers score the most singles match wins and tag team match wins, and with tournaments ending it has produced some interesting numbers. Sareee and the 5STAR Grand Prix champion Momo Watanabe both tied at the top with seven singles matches won. AZM was hot on their heels with six, no doubt being helped by her run to the finals of the 5STAR herself. Saori Anou and Tomoka Inaba rounded out the top five with five singles match wins apiece.

Normally there are some pretty high numbers when it comes to tag team matches won for the month, but this month there was one wrestler in particular who lead the pack by a mile. Makoto put together another strong month that has helped her get to second place in the entire league in overall points. Her eight tag team match wins led the rest of the pack by three as there were six wrestlers who trailed behind her at five tag matches won. I didn’t expect to see such a big lead for Makoto, but considering the fact that she wasn’t in tournament play during the month, that probably helped things quite a bit.

With the final four months of the year starting, there’s no doubt that we’ll start to see what each company is planning for their big end of the year shows. It might not be super apparent at the moment, but I’m sure you’ll start to see clues soon. With all of that said though, let’s move onto the team breakdowns.

POSITION: 1st | TOTAL POINTS: 1439 | AUGUST POINTS: 207

Probably to nobody’s surprise at this point, Pedro’s team had another very strong month which has helped them stay at the head of the pack in the league. Their August total of 207 was second only to the team behind them, but luckily for them they only trailed behind by two points, meaning that they still have a decent sized lead. They have to keep the proverbial pedal to the metal though if they wanna stay at the top of the rankings until the end of the year.

This past month, Pedro had two wrestlers who scored over 30 points for the month, which is not a normal occurrence for most teams in the league. Tomoka Inaba, the older of the Inaba sisters led the way with a very strong 36 points scored. Her strong 5STAR Grand Prix, on top of getting regular work in her home promotion of JTO really helped her rack up the points. Coming in second on the team was the winner of the aforementioned 5STAR Grand Prix Momo Watanabe who scored 31 points, which was no doubt boosted by the extra 10 points that a wrestler gets for winning a non-one-day tournament. While Pedro didn’t have any wrestlers score in the 20’s for the month, he did have three wrestlers score over 15 points, which is still pretty good all things considered.

The good thing for Pedro is that he only had five wrestlers who scored under 10 points for the month, which is a really good number when you compare it to a lot of other months. One of Pedro’s biggest standouts this year unfortunately found herself at the bottom of the proverbial totem pole as Suzume only scored two points this month. After losing her International Princess Championship and losing in the first round of the Tokyo Princess Cup, it seems as if things have been a bit rough for everyone’s favorite little bee. One would think that she’ll turn it around next month, though. Pedro also had Mizuki, HANAKO, and Miku Aono down there as well, which is a bit of a surprise considering how good of a year all three of them has had thus far.

Pedro’s team continues to be one of consistency as his highest point scorer is at 122 and his lowest is at 61. There are a lot of other teams in the league who have a much bigger point discrepancy between first and last, which leads me to believe that this is one of the big reasons why Pedro has found himself in first place since the early months of the year. As long as he continues to get good point production throughout the line-up, I believe that his team will be hard to beat when it’s all said and done.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 2nd | TOTAL POINTS: 1407 | AUGUST POINTS: 209

Dylan’s team seems to be on fire as they were once again able to take the top spot in the league when it comes to the monthly overall points. The team’s good mixture of talents who were in tournament play, along with having a few great indie workers who scored quite a few points really helped them gain at least two points on the team in front of them in the standings. The fact that they had such a good month, but still only gained two points has to be a bit annoying, but as long as this team continues to score well, they will be able to chip away little by little into first place’s lead.

Surprisingly, this month the team wasn’t led by the overall league leader in points, Kaori Yoneyama. While she did have a good month, scoring 20 points respectively, she was quite a distance behind the wrestler who finished first which was none other than Hiroyo Matsumoto who scored 38 points. The long-time veteran won two different titles during the month of August which in itself gave her 20 points, which shows how she obtained such a high value for the month. Coming in second place was Saori Anou who made it all the way to the semi-finals of the 5STAR Grand Prix which helped her score 27 points. Dylan had three other wrestlers score over 15 points in the month, with AZM being the bottom of those five with 19 points.

Dylan had five wrestlers score under 10 points for the month, which is a pretty good number all things considered. The biggest name down there in that bottom group of five was probably Mei Seira who only scored four points in the month of August. Even though the writing is on the wall for her to lose her high-speed title pretty soon, I think that STARDOM sees much bigger things in her future as she’s one of the most athletic and talented wrestlers in all of joshi. Dylan also has Maya Yukihi still on injured reserve even though she has made her return, though she hasn’t really worked too many matches yet to really hurt his team by missing the points.

The ageless wonder Kaori Yoneyama still sits at the top of the overall standings for the year and considering her constant output each week in various companies, I don’t see her slowing down anytime soon. The STARDOM trio of Starlight Kid, AZM and Saori Anou find themselves in positions two through four on the team as all have had good years thus far scoring over 130 points each. As long as the top end wrestlers continue to put up the points, this team will continue to cruise their way even closer to the top position.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 3rd | TOTAL POINTS: 1328 | AUGUST POINTS: 160

The month of August wasn’t a bad month by any stretch of the imagination, but it also wasn’t a great month either because my team lost quite a bit of ground on the two teams that are leading the pack. You don’t get into first place by being average, and this month, my team was definitely very average. Hopefully, they can get back into the swing of things quickly because I like the mix of wrestlers I have on the team, I just need them to be used effectively, especially Hazuki who barely did anything last month since she wasn’t in the 5STAR Grand Prix.

Unfortunately, my team didn’t have anyone up in the range of 30 points, and instead my top point-getter was Nanami Hatano who scored a very decent 20 points. While that’s not a terrible amount, it was tied for 16th best in the league, which is not where you want your top performer to be. Coming in one point behind was the talented freelancer Kaho Kobayashi who scored a strong 19 points that was no doubt helped by her Daily Sports Tag Team title win in the middle of the month. Her output overall for the year hasn’t stood out way above the pack, but she’s been a wrestler I could count on to get around 10 points each month, which is all I can really ask for. Natsu Sumire is the only other wrestler I had who scored 15 or more points which was helped by her own tag team title win.

I only had six wrestlers score less than 10 points, which is honestly not too bad, but with me not having any wrestlers score a ton of points to make up for it, it is what helped lead to the very average overall score. Two of my top three overall scorers for the year were in that bottom six, Rina Yamashita and Hazuki, who both struggled during the month, but I do feel confident that they will be able to turn it around. I also really haven’t gotten a lot out of my comedy duo of Ram Kaicho and Momoka Hanazono this year, so I’m hoping they will be able to turn it around soon by winning a title or two.

Saya Kamitani not only is a frontrunner for the Tokyo Sports Women’s MVP award, but she’s also the front runner for my team in overall points for the year with 158. While she doesn’t have the ability to continue to pad her point totals by defending the Regina Di Wave championship, she is still at the top of STARDOM, and hopefully that will lead her to continue scoring a lot of points for my team as the year goes on. At this point in the season, I have quite a few wrestlers who have eclipsed the 90-point mark but I’m still looking for a few more wrestlers to take a big step forward to help the team gain some ground.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 4th | TOTAL POINTS: 1278 | AUGUST POINTS: 178

While the team may not have moved up a position this month, they did get themselves that much closer to the team ahead of them, meaning that with another good month they could find themselves in third place. “TCS 4 Life” was slow to get started this year with the roster they had put together, but over the past few months they’ve really turned it on, and it will be interesting to see if they can keep it up.

The biggest point-producer for the team this month was none other than their first-round pick Giulia, who gained a lot of points during WWE’s European tour where she got to defend her WWE Women’s United States title time after time. Sure, it’s a house show, but it still counts, and it helps make up for the lack of matches most wrestlers have when they are locked down to one of the big companies in America. Her 32 points were good enough for fifth place in the league for the month, and it was 10 better than the wrestler who came in second place on the team, Azusa Inaba. Azusa has been a great performer all year for the team, and August was no different. Much like her sister she’s been getting a lot of reps in the ring between both STARDOM and her home promotion of JTO. Unagi Sayaka also had a really good month, picking up 21 points which was good enough for third place on the team.

Dave had six wrestlers score under 10 points during the month which included two wrestlers who scored zero points because of injuries: Mina Shirakawa and Honoka. While having only six wrestlers down there isn’t too bad, having one or two of those wrestlers at least score 10 points would have made a pretty great difference when it comes to tracking down the team in front of them. It was unfortunate to see both VENY and Marino Saihara down in that group of six as well, as both of them have had a pretty good year thus far in their own right.

Azusa Inaba is still leading the team in overall points by almost 30, but Dave recently had two more wrestlers cross the 100-point line which is a good step in the right direction. If Giulia can continue to get more house show title defenses, and if Rina can continue riding the rocket towards the top of STARDOM, there’s a good chance that both of them can cross that 100-point line by the time we’re back to cover the action from September.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 5th | TOTAL POINTS: 1267 | AUGUST POINTS: 175

Xavi’s team has seemed to hit a bit of a sweet spot when it comes to their monthly points gained as they once again find themselves scoring around 170 points. While it wasn’t good enough for them to gain ground on the team directly above them in the standings, they were able to gain some ground on third place.

The two-headed monster of freelancers Makoto and SAKI lead the way for the team this month, both scoring enough to be in the top eight overall in the entire league. SAKI scored the most on the team with a whopping 34, powered by defending her COLORS title successfully three times in one night against her fellow COLORS member Yuko Sakurai. That leaves Makoto as the second-place finisher on the team with a very impressive 29 points scored which came in large part to her having more tag team match wins than anyone else in the month of August. Xavi’s team only had one other wrestler score above 15 points, and that was Mai Sakurai at 16, who is enjoying a strong showing in the Marigold Dream Star league.

There were seven wrestlers who scored under 10 points this month for Xavi’s team which includes some wrestlers who had been quite consistent for him thus far this year in AKARI and Yuna Mizumori, just to name two. Riara has been pretty stagnant this year for the team, only scoring 11 points overall, and generating zero this month, which is something that Xavi has to be disappointed with. Also, with Mio Momono just coming back, I think it was expected that she’d generate quite a few points right away, but instead she’s gotten off to a slow start after returning from injury. Hopefully, she’ll get into form quickly to help the team push forward.

“Rebel X Run” has been a team all season who has been both top-heavy and bottom-heavy. They have four wrestlers who have scored over 130 points this year, which is one hell of a number, but they also have five wrestlers who have scored under 55 points if you don’t count Tsukina Umino who has been injured most of the year. The team has been pushed forward by the strong freelance talent of Makoto, SAKI, and Misa Kagura, while also getting a lot of points out of one of the strongest pushed Marigold wrestler’s Mai Sakurai. If he can get some of the wrestlers towards the bottom or middle to start putting some strong months together, this team definitely has a chance to really make some noise.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 6th | TOTAL POINTS: 1198 | AUGUST POINTS: 132

Once again, it was a troublesome month for Scott and his team of great professional wrestlers as he found himself as the eighth best team in monthly points, which only made the lead bigger by the teams ahead of him in the standings. While Scott’s team has a lot of talent throughout the line up, they simply haven’t had the results to really make a big difference, and at this point in the season, they might be just about out of the running for first place unless they have one hell of a finish.

Much like the team Oedo Tai, “The Icon & Friends” top scorer was only able to muster up 20 points, which is not enough when so many wrestlers scored above that from other teams. One would have thought that the 20-point scorer would be the “ace” of the team Mayu Iwatani, but this time it was her protégé, the young, talented future “ace” of Marigold Victoria Yuzuki. With her having a very strong Dream Star tournament, she’s been able to rack up quite a few points from her singles wins in the month of August, and it will be interesting to see if she’s able to keep it up in the months going forward. Tied for second with two other wrestlers was the aforementioned Mayu Iwatani who scored 16 points, which was matched by both Seri Yamaoka and Suzu Suzuki.

Where things really fell off for the team was the fact that they had nine wrestlers score under 10 points in the month, which is quite a few more than what would normally be accepted. That included three wrestlers who scored zero points in the month which was Natsumi Showzuki who has been out with injury, Erina Yamanaka who has been somewhat inactive, and super rookie Senka Akatsuki who battled her own illness, but also didn’t come away with wins when she had the chance. When you add other names like Maki Itoh, Miyu Amasaki, and Sayaka Kurara who have all had good years up until this point to the list of wrestlers down at the bottom for the month, it’s easy to see why their point total was so low in August.

Mayu Iwatani is still leading the way in overall points for the team at this point in time with 139 which is a far cry from how she started the year. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Miyu Amasaki had another rough month after getting off to a strong start to the year but still finds herself in second place overall on the team, nonetheless. Scott’s team does have six wrestlers who have moved past the 100-point mark, which is a good number, but none of them have scored above 150, which puts them a bit behind the eight-ball compared to some of the other teams.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 7th | TOTAL POINTS: 1159 | AUGUST POINTS: 164

This month was quite a good one for God’s Sigh, a team that has struggled with bad luck most of the year thus far. They scored the fifth best points in August, which helped them narrow the lead that sixth place had on them, which is really all you can ask for as a team in the middle of the pack. They also had a good enough month to help distance themselves from the teams behind them in the standings. At this point in time, they have about a 50-point lead on the eighth place, and with only four months to go, there’s a good chance that they will be able to keep that lead, especially with their first-round pick Sareee now firing on all cylinders.

For the second month in a row, the highest point scorer for the month came from the team “God’s Sigh” in the form of their first overall pick in the draft Sareee. Not only did Sareee wrestle more than she had up until this point this year, but she picked up wins in most of those matches, with quite a few of them having championship implications. Her point total of 41 was the first time all season that a wrestler had gotten over the 40-point mark, and it’s quite possible that, that record will hold up until the end of the season. Ryan also owed a lot of how good his team did to Haruka Umesaki who battled injuries early in the year but is now showing why she’s DIANA’s “ace”, putting up big points with a score of 34.

Unfortunately, that’s where the good news stops for the team, because Ryan had no other wrestlers score 15 points or above in the month of August, and 10 of those wrestlers scored under 10 points, which is quite a few more than he’d want in a standard month. Obviously, it doesn’t help that Syuri scored zero points, though that was excused by the fact that she’s basically been injured for most of that time. He also didn’t get a lot out of his usual heavy hitters of Ryo Mizunami, Rika Tatsumi, Shoko Nakajima, and Chi Chi to name a few. Hopefully those four in particular will get things going better during the month of September.

Ryan now has three wrestlers who have eclipsed the 100 point mark, and if Sareee keeps putting on performances like this, she’ll probably cross the 150 point mark before long. Shoko Nakajima and Natsuko Tora are the other two who have passed that point, and while they had a quieter month, there’s no doubt that they can get it going back in the right direction over this next month. Also keep an eye on Ami Sourei who has a low overall point total, but has gained quite a few points since coming back two months ago right before the 5-Star Grand Prix. I’m guessing she’ll get quite a push throughout the end of the year.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 8th | TOTAL POINTS: 1104 | AUGUST POINTS: 136

While Alex’s team wasn’t the worst this month in points, it wasn’t too far from it, only scoring 136 which is quite a bit off of the pace from the top half of the league. With each month passing by, it’s becoming a lot less likely that they will be able to move up too many positions before the end of the year, though Alex’s team has been known to have a strong month or two here and there during the season, so anything is possible.

When ZONES was on Ryan’s team to start the year, she wasn’t really scoring many points because she was on the losing end more time than not, but ever since joining Alex’s team, she’s been on fire. This month, she led the way on the team with a great score of 27, helped by the fact that she’s picked up two belts over the past two months and has had an opportunity to defend those said titles successfully. It’s always hard to predict when a wrestler will go from a “rookie” who will lose most matches, to a regular wrestler who will get more wins, but it seems that the joshi scene chose the mid-way point of this year as the time to start pushing ZONES. The tandem of Hina and Mari finished in the next two spots on the team scoring 16-plus points, which is quite good for the two of them.

Unfortunately, there was a pretty steep drop off after those top wrestlers as Alex had 10 wrestlers finish with under 10 points this month. One of those wrestlers who finished down there was Yoshiko Hasegawa who scored zero points because she retired last month. Hopefully, Alex will realize this soon, so that he can at least get some points from another wrestler in that spot. Alex also needs more from the likes of Leon, Ayame Sasamura, and DASH Chisako, who all found themselves not scoring too many points this past month.

Manami Katsu is still leading the pack for the team with 110 points scored, but she hasn’t been putting up the points in the same way that she was earlier in the year, so it’s possible that another member of the roster will pass her before long. Hina comes in right behind Katsu with 105 points and has been on a constant upward trajectory ever since joining this team early in the year. Her Future of Stardom title reign has been quite good already, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to slow down anytime soon. Leon has also eclipsed the 100-point mark on the team, just barely crossing the line at 101.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 9th | TOTAL POINTS: 1081 | AUGUST POINTS: 116

To say that this was a bad month for “Casa Royale” is an understatement. Sure, they weren’t the “worst” team in terms of scoring, but they were very close to it by only racking up 116 points, which cleared the last place team by only two points. While I did believe in the make-up of the team after the draft, the year simply hasn’t gone well since then. A good month for the team has been scoring in the middle of the pack, and unfortunately it doesn’t look like they have the horses to really make a big jump in the standings at this point in time, so the most they can likely hope for is to get to the middle of the table by the end of the year.

The leader of the pack for Fernando’s team this month was Natsupoi, who had a pretty strong 5STAR tournament until she was knocked out in the quarterfinals by Rina. Her 19 points is the lowest top score of any of the other teams in the league, though it was only lower than two other teams by one point. While Tae Honma, and Mei Suruga were able to finish in the next two spots, neither of them were able to score even 15 points, which is definitely not what you want to see in a month packed with so many joshi pro wrestling events.

Fernando had nine wrestlers score under 10 points this past month, which is pretty much to be expected with such a low total point count. The fact that Saki Kashima didn’t participate in the 5STAR Grand Prix led to her scoring zero points during the month, which is different from the likes of Hazuki and Koguma who at least got to wrestle a little bit outside of the promotion. Unfortunately, two of the highest overall point scorers on the team Miyu Yamashita and Koguma, both only scored two points apiece this month which is a far cry from what they had produced during the first half of the season. If the team “Ober Eats” are able to capture the TJPW Princess Tag Team Championships from Shoko Nakajima and Hyper Misao, Fernando would cash in pretty well since he has both members of that team, but I’m not sure I’d say they are the favorite going into that match.

This team still only has one wrestler who has made their way past the 100-point mark, though there are two or three other wrestlers who might be able to pass it by the next edition of this coverage. Mei Suruga has not only performed strongly this year as the “ace” of ChocoPro but also as their champion, which has helped her score quite a few points. Miyu Yamashita, Tae Honma, and Koguma have all also been good, but not as great as Fernando would have wanted for his team to be competitive in this league.

CURRENT POINTS

POSITION: 10th | TOTAL POINTS: 1009 | AUGUST POINTS: 114

The struggle continues for Hart and his team as once again they found themselves scoring the least amount of points in a month, and it just pushes their overall score backwards to where the best they can hope for is probably only going up one or two spots by the end of the year. If they do make some changes, anything is possible, but they’d have to find some real diamonds in the rough for things to turn around at this point.

For the second month in a row, YUU was the star of the show for Hart and his team scoring 25 points, which is quite a good output for the wrestler who recently joined Sendai Girls, but will be retiring at the end of the year. There was only one other wrestler on the team who scored over 15 points this month, and that was Miu Watanabe who went on to win the Tokyo Princess Cup which will give her a shot at regaining her Princess of Princess championship. Her 19 points all came within tournament play and it will be interesting to see if she can follow up a good month of August with another strong month in September.

Once again, Hart had 11 wrestlers score under 10 points which included two wrestlers who scored zero points in Flying Penguin and HIMAWARI. The talented Riko Kawahata also only scored one point this past month, which is quite a bit less than expected from a wrestler like her. Even though Raku has had a pretty strong year overall in the league this year, this month was not a strong one for her unfortunately.

At this point in time YUU has now taken the top position from Risa Sera in terms of overall points beating her out 112 to 110. Even though Hart didn’t really want to pick YUU in the draft when it came time, she’s really worked out as a great pick for the team. Considering the fact that this team also drafted Meiko Satomura and Nanae Takahashi, it’s kind of funny to see how many members of this team’s roster is already retired or will be retiring within the next six months. We might have to jokingly rename the team to the joshi wrestling retirement home.

CURRENT POINTS

FREE AGENTS

It was another strong month for free agent talents, as we had three wrestlers score over 15 points in the month of August, and one of those wrestlers even ended up on the top 20 overall. The big winner was rhythm who scored 25 points with the help of winning the JTO Girls Tag Team championship with her partner Tomoka Inaba. She had, had a pretty quiet year up until this month, but with a title around her waist, maybe she’ll continue to score quite a few points going forward. YUNA from Sendai Girls finished in second with a very strong 19 points scored that was helped by her finally picking up the Sendai Girls Junior championship off Aya Sakura. The other wrestler who was a part of that top three was Sae from Yanagase Pro Wrestling who scored 17 points. She’s had a couple of months that have been pretty strong but then has followed those months up with barely scoring any points at all which is why she hasn’t been on a roster for too long this year.

TOP 5 IN OVERALL POINTS (FREE AGENTS)

As you can see, there’s still some pretty great talents out on the free agents list, so it will be interesting to see if anyone picks up any of these girls going forward to try to give their team a bit of a boost in points. Sometimes even picking up one wrestler who can give you around 10 points a month can make a big difference to your overall point total.

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