Momo Watanabe And Persephone Join The International Women's Cup Match At WRESTLE DYNASTY

The International Women’s Cup match has been finalized. 

For the past month, women on the AEW, ROH, and CMLL roster have been competing for a four-way match inside the Tokyo Dome on January 5th. Athena successfully cashed her ticket in first by beating Billie Starkz, Red Velvet, and Layla Hirsch. 

Then Jamie Hayter and Willow Nightingale met for the first time ever and the former TBS Champion continued her strong momentum by getting a pinfall victory over the former AEW Women’s World Champion. 

The final two participants were finalized over the past week. CMLL’s Persephone successfully won a four-way elimination against Zeuxis, Sanely, and Reyna Isis. Momo Watanabe won her respective qualifying match by beating Hanan, Saki Kashima, and Yuna Mizumori this past Sunday.

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It was about as hard-hitting of a Fatal Four Way that you'll find in the sport of pro wrestling.

At the end of it, Momo Watanabe emerged as our entrant into the International Women's Cup w/ #AEW, #CMLL, #ROH at WRESTLE DYNASTY in the Dome 1/5 pic.twitter.com/7VbhxxcXS2

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Athena vs. Willow Nightingale vs. Momo Watanabe vs. Persephone is officially set unless something changes. It should be interesting to see how this match plays out especially since Athena is currently on a historic title run. 

Check out the updated line-up for Wrestle Dynasty:

• Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Ricochet (will be for the IWGP World Heavyweight championship if Sabre retains vs. Shota Umino at Wrestle Kingdom)
• Shota Umino vs. Claudio Castagnoli (will be for the IWGP World Heavyweight championship if Umino wins the title at Wrestle Kingdom)
• David Finlay vs. Brody King (will be for the IWGP Global championship if Finlay retains against Yota Tsuji at Wrestle Kingdom)
• Yota Tsuji vs. Jack Perry (will be for the IWGP Global championship match if Tsuji wins the title at Wrestle Kingdom)
• Kenny Omega vs. Gabe Kidd
• Mercedes Moné vs. Mina Shirakawa for Moné’s NJPW Strong Women’s title and (if she retains it at RevPro’s Uprising show this weekend) Shirakawa’s British Women’s championship
• Great-O-Khan & TBA vs. The Young Bucks for the vacant IWGP Tag Team titles
• Athena vs. Persephone vs. Willow Nightingale vs. Momo Watanbe for the International Women’s Cup
• Tomohiro Ishii vs. Konosuke Takeshita or Shingo Takagi for New Japan’s NEVER Openweight title (will also be for the AEW International title if Takeshita’s still champion after he fights Takagi at Wrestle Kingdom)
• Sons of Texas (Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara) (c) vs. House of Torture (SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) for the Ring of Honor Tag titles
• Eight-man Lucha Gauntlet (all participants TBA)