NEO announced a couple of weeks ago the plan to do a Joshi Puroresu Summit on New Year's Eve afternoon at Korakuen Hall. There will be an Indy Summit in the evening and the reasoning is joshi should have their own spotlight and have representation from all joshi companies. It was announced today that the bulk of this show will consist of the 4th Junior All Star War. Why the 4th? They're saying that there were three all star junior tournaments in the 90s and this is in the spirit of those tournaments. It's a bit of a stretch. There have obviously been other junior tournaments including POP Princess earlier this year.
Also, NEO veteran Yuka Shiina (pictured) will have her retirement match on this show. It will be the opening match. Shiina says she wants the spotlight on the young generation. Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto & Ayumi Kurihara have already been announced for this tournament. Companies participating in this tournament include JWP, JD Star, Ibuki, NEO, Gktn, K-DOJO, Union, Gutsworld and the new Ice Ribbon fed. Ice Ribbon doesn't actually have any rookies but Sakura Emi has agreed to merge with Ice Ribbon so Gktn will have been absorbed by Ice Ribbon by then.
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