Stardom - Anybody Watching?

[Skullgore]

This one hurts a lot. Maybe the less I say right now, the better. I did get to see Hana live at the NYC show last year and she was just so radiant. I could feel her energy even sitting in the audience. She had “it” and there is no doubt she was going to become a big star. This is all a waking nightmare and still feels surreal to me. I am incensed by the circumstances; this did not have to happen! This is having a huge ripple affect in the wrestling community. Hana’s mom was a wrestler herself and raised her as a single mother. There is a whole crop of joshi wrestlers who have known her since she was just a little kid. Hana’s mom also was the go-to for a lot of the non-native wrestlers who passed through Stardom. This directly affects people in almost every major wrestling promotion around the world. You are witnessing a star that burned so bright going supernova. Please live with kindness towards all human beings. Lift people up rather than tear them down. We can keep Hana alive in this world if we all live with just a tiny bit of the light that she radiated.

[Duke Mongoose]

As Excalibur put it last night, "Social Media was designed to bring us closer together, but often times it does the exact opposite".

There was a time when if you were interested in what people were saying about you, you would have to search the internet for message boards and newsgroups to find it. Thanks to social media, every Tom, Dick, and Harry have a direct line to the person that they are talking about. And thanks to the anonymity of the internet, people say and do things that they would NEVER do in real life. There's no accountability. If any of the people who were harassing this poor girl are happy that this happened, well, I'm not a religious person, but I'd imagine there's a special place in hell for people like that.

[Pierre The Enormous]

Let's just say even The Bad Place won't take them

[Slashmaster]

I honestly don't get those people. What do they hope to accomplish by being so toxic? You are not getting paid to give your opinion. The booking won't change because of you. People won't respect you or think you are cool for having something "edgy" to say. They are just being obnoxious for the sake of being obnoxious.

I wasn't really familiar with Hana. I heard the name before, but I hadn't seen any of her work. Still the news of her death got me thinking about how much hate some public figures have to endure on a daily basis. I'm not the type that lets things get to me, but if I got as much hate online as someone like Nyla Rose for example it would probably wear me down over time.


I watched the clip of the reality show that Kimura got so much hate over and it is baffling that people would think to send someone a death threat over it. She was just upset, justifiably so, that her gear got ruined.

[Duke Mongoose]

I watched the "Stardom is Again!" show this weekend which took place last weekend (it usually takes about a week for the full show with subtitles to get uploaded to Stardom World). They did a 10 bell salute to Hana at the opening and Jungle Kyona said a few words. It was for all intents and purposes a standard Stardom show, just with a limited crowd all wearing masks. The most emotional moment I think was when Rina, who is a rookie and her gimmick was that she was basically Hana's "Mini-Me", won her match using Hana's submission finisher. The poor girl was in tears while she was locking the hold on and even as they raised her hand in victory and walked to the back.

Hopefully, because people follow the rules in Japan, this is a sign that Stardom will start running more regularly again.