This week saw WAVE finish their silly trios tournament, Hyuga visit Ice Ribbon, and JWP visit Osaka. During WAVE's weekday show, the team of GAMI and the Shirai sisters ended up winning the 6 man captain's fall tournament. The first semi saw GAMI, Mio, & Io beat KAORU, Cherry, and Bullfight Sora. KAORU pinned Io, then GAMI pinned Captain Cow. Then Shu Shibutani, Kana, & Ayumi Kurihara beat Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, and Ryo Mizunami courtesy of Kana's spinning backfist on Ryo. The finals saw Shu pin GAMI and Ayumi pin Mio, but they were unlucky to not find the captain, then Io pinned Shu to win the event.
Ice Ribbon had three shows over the past week; one in Osaka and two at their usual site. The highlight of the Osaka show was Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura defending the Ice Ribbon tag belts, beating Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi. The two shows in Warabi City saw Emi lose on two straight nights to Azumi Hyuga. Not exactly a good build for her challenge of Kayoko Haruyama for the JWP title. Haruyama showed up to talk shit. Also, Emi decided that Ice Ribbon needed yet another belt and the "Triangle Ribbon Championship" was introduced. The gimmick is that it will always be defended in three-way matches. The 12 year old Riho became the first champion.
JWP's show in Osaka featured Yoneyama & Sakura defending their other tag belts (JWP & Daily Sports), as Kaori was able to pin Passion Hottei (Yumiko Hotta), who was teaming with Natsuki*Taiyo as part of the Passion Red vs JWP story. The main event saw a half-hour draw between Azumi Hyuga and Ran Yu-Yu.
ICE RIBBON November 23, 2009
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
223 Fans
1. Minori Makiba defeated Hikari Minami (8:00) with the Mi No Rich.
2. Chii Tomiya defeated Haruna Akagi (6:42) with the Casadora.
3. Riho defeated Miyako Matsumoto (7:08 with the Northern Lights Suplex Hold.
4. Fuuka & Makoto defeated Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii (13:35) when Makoto used a German Suplex Hold on Ichii.
5. Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Hikaru Shida (13:30) with the Venus Shot.
6. Ice Ribbon International Tag Team Championship: Emi Sakura & Kaori Yoneyama (c) defeated Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi when Sakura used the Nyan Nyan Press on Shimouma. Sakura & Yoneyama are successful in the 1st defense.
7. Battle Royale: Hikaru Shida defeated Nanae Takahashi (12:42) by Over the Top Rope: Others, in order of elimination: Kaori Yoneyama, Makoto & Hikari Minami, Chii Tomiya, Minori Makiba, Fuuka, Haruna Akagi, Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi, Miyako Matsumoto, Tsukasa Fujimoto, Mai Ichii, Emi Sakura, Riho.
WAVE November 25, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
145 Fans
1. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Semifinal: GAMI (captain), Mio Shirai, defeated Io Shirai vs KAORU, Cherry, & Bullfight Sora (captain). KAORU used the Valkyrie Splash on Io (4:58). GAMI pinned Sora (15:33).
2. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Semifinal: Shu Shibutani, Kana, & Ayumi Kurihara (captain) defeated Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, & Ryo Mizunami (captain). Kana used a Spinning Backfist on Mizunami (12:22).
3. Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata defeated Yumi Ohka & Esui (17:30) when Ohata used a Cross Armbreaker on Esui.
4. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Final: GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai (captain) defeated Shu Shibutani (captain), Kana, & Ayumi Kurihara. Shibutani pinned GAMI (6:01). Kurihara pinned Mio (14:18). Io pinned Shibutani (21:55).
ICE RIBBON November 27, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
104 Fans
1. Makoto & Hikaru Shida defeated Mai Ichii & Chii Tomiya (10:02) when Makoto used a Double Arm Suplex Hold on Tomiya.
2. Takashi Sasaki vs Ribbon Takanashi (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. 3WAY Match: Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Nanae Takahashi & Miyako Matsumoto (8:49) with La Magistral on Matsumoto.
4. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga defeated Emi Sakura (16:14A) with a Michinoku Driver II.
ICE RIBBON November 28, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
85 Fans
1. Minori Makiba & Hikaru Shida defeated Mai Ichii & Chii Tomiya (13:40) when Makiba used the Mi No Rich on Tomiya.
2. Kazumi Shimouma defeated Makoto (9:48) with an Avalanche-Style Half Slam Buster.
3. Triangle Ribbon Championship: Riho defeated Nanae Takahashi & Tsukasa Fujimoto (8:18) with an Oklahoma Roll on Fujimoto. Riho becomes the 1st champion.
4. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga defeated Emi Sakura (18:03) with the Gannosuke Clutch.
K-DOJO November 28, 2009
Chiba Blue Field
43 Fans
2. TAKA Michinoku & JOE defeated Yuu Yamagata & Ryuichi Sekine (9:51) when JOE used a Super Pump Kick on Sekine.
JWP November 29, 2009
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
270 Fans
1. Kazumi Shimouma defeated Chisato Kuroki (8:38).
2. Keito & Ranmaru defeated GAMI & Shu Shibutani (14:40) when Keito used a Shining Wizard on Shibutani.
3. Command Bolshoi, Tsubasa Kuragaki, & Sachie Abe defeated Kayoko Haruyama, KAZUKI, & Tojuki Leon (20:50) when Kuragaki used the Metal Wing on Leon.
4. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Championship: Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura (c) defeated Passion Hottei & Natsuki*Taiyo (12:36) when Yoneyama pinned Hottei with a Modified La Magistral. Yoneyama & Sakura are successful in the 1st defense.
5. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga vs Ran Yu-Yu (30:00) went to a time-limit draw.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Schedule, November 23-29
ICE RIBBON November 23, 2009
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
1. Ice Ribbon International Tag Team Championship: Emi Sakura & Kaori Yoneyama (c) vs Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi
LOVE PRO November 23, 2009
Zepp Nagoya
1. Emi Sakura & Kaori Yoneyama vs Mr. 6 & Mr. 8
WAVE November 25, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
1. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Semifinal: GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs KAORU, Cherry, & Bullfight Sora
2. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Semifinal: Shu Shibutani, Kana, & Ayumi Kurihara vs Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, & Ryo Mizunami
3. Yumi Ohka & Esui vs Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata
4. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Final
ICE RIBBON November 27, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
1. Emi Sakura vs Azumi Hyuga
ICE RIBBON November 28, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
NEO November 29, 2009
Yokohama NEO Dojo
JWP November 29, 2009
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
1. Chisato Kuroki vs Kazumi Shimouma
2. Kayoko Haruyama, KAZUKI, & Keito vs Command Bolshoi, Tsubasa Kuragaki, & Sachie Abe
3. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Championship: Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura (c) vs Passion Hottei &
Natsuki*Taiyo
4. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga vs Ran Yu-Yu
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
1. Ice Ribbon International Tag Team Championship: Emi Sakura & Kaori Yoneyama (c) vs Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi
LOVE PRO November 23, 2009
Zepp Nagoya
1. Emi Sakura & Kaori Yoneyama vs Mr. 6 & Mr. 8
WAVE November 25, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
1. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Semifinal: GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs KAORU, Cherry, & Bullfight Sora
2. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Semifinal: Shu Shibutani, Kana, & Ayumi Kurihara vs Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, & Ryo Mizunami
3. Yumi Ohka & Esui vs Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata
4. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Final
ICE RIBBON November 27, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
1. Emi Sakura vs Azumi Hyuga
ICE RIBBON November 28, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
NEO November 29, 2009
Yokohama NEO Dojo
JWP November 29, 2009
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
1. Chisato Kuroki vs Kazumi Shimouma
2. Kayoko Haruyama, KAZUKI, & Keito vs Command Bolshoi, Tsubasa Kuragaki, & Sachie Abe
3. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Championship: Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura (c) vs Passion Hottei &
Natsuki*Taiyo
4. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga vs Ran Yu-Yu
Results, November 20-22
JWP had a couple of shows this week. Friday 11/20 saw the next challengers for the NEO High Speed and JWP/Daily Sports tag belts decided. There was an upset in a three way match, as Ito Dojo's Ayako Sato poached a victory in the High Speed #1 Contender's Match. Tojuki Leon had Command Bolshoi in a jackknife hold, and Sato got on top to steal a win and get a shot at Kaori Yoneyama. Natsuki*Taiyo and "Passion Hottei" beat Tsubasa Kuragaki & Sachie Abe to get the next shot at Yoneyama & Emi Sakura. Sunday was a small dojo show. Kayoko Haruyama isn't just the JWP champion and current ace of the promotion, she's the #1 Food Fighter, beating KAZUKI in a match that involved eating boiled eggs, drinking coca-cola, and competitive eating of rice balls.
NEO had their final "Stronghold in Japan" show of the year. Earlier, they had visited Osaka, Fukuoka, and Sapporo and this time were in Nagoya. They only drew 373 fans. Kyoko Inoue beat Dump Matsumoto and I heard DEAN and Phil Schneider were trying to book a rematch for their Fat Boys show. The main event saw Nanae Takahashi & Kana retain the NEO tag titles over fellow Passion Red stablemates Natsuki*Taiyo & Ray, with Kana using a Mawashi Kick on Taiyo.
JWP November 20, 2009
Itabashi Green Hall
164 Fans
1. KAZUKI defeated Chisato Kuroki (8:52) with a Diving Knee Drop.
2. NEO High Speed Championsihp Next Challenger 3WAY Match: Ayako Sato defeated Command Bolshoi & Tojuki Leon (7:44) by pinning Bolshoi while Leon was using a Jackknife Hold.
3. Kayoko Haruyama & Keito defeated Emi Sakura & Hamuko Hoshi (11:08) when Keito used the Falcon
Arrow on Hoshi.
4. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Championship Next Challenger Match: Passion Hottei & Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki & Sachie Abe (20:19) when Hottei used the Pyramid Driver on Abe.
5. Hyuga Retirement Road: Kaori Yoneyama defeated Azumi Hyuga (24:24) with the U.S.-Zou.
K-DOJO November 21, 2009
Chiba Blue Field
60 Fans
1. Kunio Toshima, PSYCHO & Yuu Yamagata defeated TAKA Michinoku, JOE & Kim Nam Seok (12:35) when PSYCHO used the Sueño on Nam Seok.
ICE RIBBON November 21, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
66 Fans
1. Hikaru Shida defeated Chii Tomiya (6:17) with a Cradle.
2. Makoto defeated Hikari Minami (8:23) with a Diving Somersault Drop.
3. Mr. 6 & Mr. 8 defeated Emi Sakura & Riho (9:59) when Mr. 8 used a Cradle on Riho.
4. Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi defeated Emi Sakura & Mai Ichii (13:32) when Shimouma used a Back Half Slam Buster on Ichii.
ICE RIBBON November 22, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
93 Fans
1. Makoto & Hikari Minami defeated Mai Ichii & Chii Tomiya (12:45) when Minami pinned Tomiya with the Blockbuster.
2. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Haruna Akagi (8:32) with a Diving Body Press.
3. 3WAY Match: Riho defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Miyako Matsumoto (7:08) by pinning Fujimoto with a Cradle Cutback.
4. Emi Sakura defeated Kazumi Shimouma (15:32) with La Magistral.
JWP November 22, 2009
JWP Dojo
79 Fans
1. Azumi Hyuga defeated Chisato Kuroki (7:54) with a Reverse Cradle.
2. #1 Food Fighter Match: Kayoko Haruyama defeated KAZUKI by 2 falls to 1.
2a. Kayoko Haruyama defeated KAZUKI (11:54) by Pinfall. (Wrestler would lose this pinfall by stipulation if they left the ring and could not eat a boiled egg in 10 seconds).
2b. Coca-Cola Confrontation: KAZUKI defeated Kayoko Haruyama (0:51).
2c. Rice Ball Eating Contest: Kayoko Haruyama defeated KAZUKI (3:00,6-4).
3. Tsubasa Kuragaki, Kaori Yoneyama, & Sachie Abe defeated Command Bolshoi, Tojuki Leon, & Keito
(15:29) when Kuragaki used a Lariat on Keito.
NEO "STRONGHOLD IN JAPAN" November 22, 2009
Nagoya Chikusa Sports Center
373 Fans
1. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Yukari Ishino (9:52) with the Tokaido Drop.
2. Atsuko Emoto defeated Aya Yuki (11:37) with the M Clutch.
3. Toshie Uematsu defeated Tanny Mouse (9:47) with the Kin Meat Buster Cutback (???).
4. Yuki Miyazaki & Sonoko Kato defeated Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa (16:21) when Miyazaki used the Gedo Clutch on Kimura.
5. Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Fuuka & Shu Shibutani (17:50) when Tamura used the Patriot Buster on Shibutani.
6. Kyoko Inoue defeated Dump Matsumoto (9:11) by Count Out.
7. NEO Tag Team Championship: Nanae Takahashi & Kana (c) defeated Natsuki*Taiyo & Passion Ray (20:30) when Kana used a Back Mawashi Kick on Taiyo. Takahashi & Kana are successful in the 1st Defense.
K-DOJO November 21, 2009
Chiba Blue Field
60 Fans
1. Kunio Toshima, PSYCHO & Yuu Yamagata defeated TAKA Michinoku, JOE & Kim Nam Seok (12:35) when PSYCHO used the Sueño on Nam Seok.
ICE RIBBON November 21, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
66 Fans
1. Hikaru Shida defeated Chii Tomiya (6:17) with a Cradle.
2. Makoto defeated Hikari Minami (8:23) with a Diving Somersault Drop.
3. Mr. 6 & Mr. 8 defeated Emi Sakura & Riho (9:59) when Mr. 8 used a Cradle on Riho.
4. Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi defeated Emi Sakura & Mai Ichii (13:32) when Shimouma used a Back Half Slam Buster on Ichii.
ICE RIBBON November 22, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
93 Fans
1. Makoto & Hikari Minami defeated Mai Ichii & Chii Tomiya (12:45) when Minami pinned Tomiya with the Blockbuster.
2. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Haruna Akagi (8:32) with a Diving Body Press.
3. 3WAY Match: Riho defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Miyako Matsumoto (7:08) by pinning Fujimoto with a Cradle Cutback.
4. Emi Sakura defeated Kazumi Shimouma (15:32) with La Magistral.
JWP November 22, 2009
JWP Dojo
79 Fans
1. Azumi Hyuga defeated Chisato Kuroki (7:54) with a Reverse Cradle.
2. #1 Food Fighter Match: Kayoko Haruyama defeated KAZUKI by 2 falls to 1.
2a. Kayoko Haruyama defeated KAZUKI (11:54) by Pinfall. (Wrestler would lose this pinfall by stipulation if they left the ring and could not eat a boiled egg in 10 seconds).
2b. Coca-Cola Confrontation: KAZUKI defeated Kayoko Haruyama (0:51).
2c. Rice Ball Eating Contest: Kayoko Haruyama defeated KAZUKI (3:00,6-4).
3. Tsubasa Kuragaki, Kaori Yoneyama, & Sachie Abe defeated Command Bolshoi, Tojuki Leon, & Keito
(15:29) when Kuragaki used a Lariat on Keito.
NEO "STRONGHOLD IN JAPAN" November 22, 2009
Nagoya Chikusa Sports Center
373 Fans
1. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Yukari Ishino (9:52) with the Tokaido Drop.
2. Atsuko Emoto defeated Aya Yuki (11:37) with the M Clutch.
3. Toshie Uematsu defeated Tanny Mouse (9:47) with the Kin Meat Buster Cutback (???).
4. Yuki Miyazaki & Sonoko Kato defeated Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa (16:21) when Miyazaki used the Gedo Clutch on Kimura.
5. Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Fuuka & Shu Shibutani (17:50) when Tamura used the Patriot Buster on Shibutani.
6. Kyoko Inoue defeated Dump Matsumoto (9:11) by Count Out.
7. NEO Tag Team Championship: Nanae Takahashi & Kana (c) defeated Natsuki*Taiyo & Passion Ray (20:30) when Kana used a Back Mawashi Kick on Taiyo. Takahashi & Kana are successful in the 1st Defense.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Joshi Digest: November 8-20, 2009
This is probably Ibuki's final big show, as it appears they will be closing. There will be a pair of shows next February at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring and maybe or maybe not a restart in May and Yoshida may or may not come back or stay a part of the industry.
Ryo Mizunami, Hiren, & Yukari Ishino vs Esui, Makoto, & Kazumi Shimouma: The Miz is challenging Misaki Ohata for the junior singles belts soon, so it appears likely that she shall pin someone today. Apparently the big Mongolian girl Esui is a singer now. She also comes off the top rope and does some Mongolian chops on Miz, followed by a chokeslam. Ishino hits a Samoan Backdrop on Esui, and either Esui's selling has improved or it hurt. A top rope guillotine from Ryo on Esui scores the win.
Nanae Takahashi vs Shu Shibutani: Shu dodges and weaves and avoids lariats and elbows and assorted hurty big girl moves. A Huricanrana gets Shu a near fall, but a missed top rope senton is the turning point. A shining wizard and the NANARACKA means the obvious winner.
Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara vs Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa: Tamura and Ayumi show some nice coordination as they doubleteam the bad women, fresh from an expedition to spread hatred and score weed in Mexico & IWRG. The rudas have some effective double team moves as well, as technica Kurihara learns. How do I know Ayumi is a technica and Tomoka is a ruda? Easy, Ayumi wears sexy short shorts and Nakagawa has frumpy long pants. An ubiquitious missile dropkick from Ayumi gets a nearfall on Tomoka, but it's a twenty minute time-limit draw.
Emi Sakura vs Misaki Ohata: Man, Ms. Motokawa is everywhere these days. Oh, and this is for Emi's Ice Ribbon title, for those girls who avoid the Shin-Kiba McDonalds and KFC and stay under 60 kg. Ohata is looking quite good in this match, including a big suplex off the top rope and a nearfall on a bodypress. Emi has dispatched several straight challengers with La Magistral, but Misaki is prepared and has a counter that Emi never taught her girls. Of course she does, Mariko told her to look for that. Hell, I knew to look for that. Eventually Emi uses the Powerbomb that put Nanae to sleep on Ohata, and then the "Nyan Nyan Press" (a front somersaulting splash off the corner) for the win.
Passion Ray & Natsuki*Taiyo vs Tojuki Leon & Kaori Yoneyama: This promises to be a HIGH SPEED kind of match. Taiyo and Ray show each other up with moves to the floor, followed by stereo moonsaults. Passion Ray goes all ASARI on us and hits the Sky Twister Press (about as well as Chapparita) on Yoneyama. But no pin and then Natsuki accidentally dropkicks Ray. Kaori takes advantage and a nearfall with the roll-through German Suplex and later does pin Ray.
Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Atsuko Emoto, Best 2 of 3 Falls: We get extensive clips of this 29 minute match on the 2nd video. Emoto and the rest of Revolucion Amandola come out in masks, then Emoto unmasks to show her nifty haircut she got in IWRG. Uh, that's not a good look either. Emoto comes with the Tope Suicida and launches the next Bison Kimura into the 3rd row. Some solid power moves, then Emoto hits an elbow drop from the corner. Then Atsuko breaks out a split-legged footstomp and scores the first fall Not quite as sweet as Hikari Fukuoka's classic, but still an impressive ~MOVE~. The second fall starts well for Atsuko, but then Hiroyo catches her leaping from the ropes and gets her in the Argentine Backbreaker. They trade big hitting moves such as Hiroyo's Backdrop and Emoto's Brainbustah. Emoto gets carried away and tries a Shining Wizard, but she screws it up and Matsumoto turns the mistake into the equalizing pinfall. Now things are desperate as they are tired and have thrown everything including the kitchen sink at each other. Hiroyo still has the Liger Bomb in her arsenal, but Emoto avoids her first attempts. A backdrop softens Atsuko up enough so Hiroyo can finally hit the Liger Bomb and win the match. Based on the five minutes from this clip, this is JMOTY material (admittedly a weak year) and I hope the full match will become available eventually.
WAVE "WEEKDAY WAVE" 11/12/2009 Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
This show features the opening round of a trios tag tournament. But since it's WAVE, it can't be that simple. It's Captain's Fall. But, wait a minute, the captain is SECRET. Plus you aren't eliminated if you get pinned and you aren't the captain. Oh, and there are 5 teams in the tournament (KAORU, Cherry, and Bullfight Sora get a bye today) and the two losing teams in the first round get a repechage round to try to get in the semis. Oh, vey. I'm putting GAMI on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION for booking this mess. I think her booking ideas are based on a Babelfish translation of "Booking Pro-Wres for Dummies" by V. Russo.
GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, & Ryo Mizunami: GAMI is partnered with the sisters, who are TLW junior tag champs, while the Toshie-Ran team adds Sendai's Miz to the mix. Toshie pins Mio with a Dragon Suplex. Everyone has a dopey look on their face as they wait for Tommy Ran to tell us, NOPE NOT HER TRY AGAIN. GAMI pins the Miz with a German Suplex. SHE'S NOT THE SECRET SHOPPER EITHER. Toshie hits a missile drop kick, Ran a brainbustah, and then Miz uses the running guillotine leg drop to pin GAMI. BINGO SHE'S THE CAPTAIN PLEASE ADVANCE TO THE NEXT ROUND. A nice win for the youngster.
Shu Shibutani, Kana, & Ayumi Kurihara vs Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, & Misaki Ohata: Before the match, they play up the cattiness between Moeka and Misaki, as Moeka sprints to make sure she gets in the ring first. Moeka tries a bodypress into all three opponents, they catch her, but Misaki is helpful and kicks Haruhi so that she falls on top of them. Ohata, she's just trying to help the team! Ayumi uses an Uranage on Moeka for the pin. Ayumi sits around with her mouth agape until the bell rings. HAHAHAHA the wimpie was the captain!
GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, & Misaki Ohata: Ah, the loser's bracket. Yumi Ohka takes the bull by the horns-oh, Bullfight Sora isn't in this match and she's not a bull. Well, Ohka tries to act like an ace and she quickly gets pins on Io and GAMI. OOPS NOT CAPTAIN NOT CAPTAIN. Actually, that wasn't shown on the S-Arena clip. All they showed was LA GAMISTRAL for the win over Ohka. The funny thing is, that after the first four minutes, it was revealed that Mio was the secret captain and thus should have never been in the ring.
JWP "AUTUMN STAR" 11/20/2009 Itabashi Green Hall
Tojuki Leon vs Command Bolshoi vs Ayako Sato: This three-way match is for the #1 Contender's spot for Kaori Yoneyama's NEO High Speed title. I guess they invited the Ito Dojo girl to do the job. Oh shit, Sato poaches the win by laying on top of Leon while she has Bolshoi in a jackknife hold. I'm sure she's winning the title now ;-)
Kayoko Haruyama & Keito vs Emi Sakura & Hamuko Hoshi: Kayoko and Emi are meeting in a few weeks for the JWP Championship. Midcarder Keito is keeping busy by terrorizing the Ice Ribbon scrubs. No different today, as Hoshi bites the dust to Keito's Falcon Arrow. Emi and Kayoko chat after the match. Emi "Hey, let's make this a double titles match, I'll put up the Ice Ribbon singles. Oh wait, we have a weight limit and you haven't weighed 60 kilos since you were 13. Nevermind." Kayoko "I have no respect for you, Emi. I'm not only bigger than you, but I'm better than you, at wrestling and love. I can find a significant other more attractive than Mr. Gannosuke and I'm sure you'll be back to being a fat-ass in a few years." Oh, and Emi challenged Azumi Hyuga as well and that will happen at an Ice Ribbon show, of all places.
Tsubasa Kuragaki & Sachie Abe vs Passion Hottei & Natsuki*Taiyo: Passion Hottei is Yumiko Hotta trying to be a happy spunky perky babyface in Nanae Takahashi's office. But it's hard to teach an old bitch new tricks, and "Hottei" can't resist any opportunity to use a weapon in a match, as she grabs for an empty chair to smash Tsubasa or Sachie over the head. This is VERBOTEN in Nanae's world of Passion Red, so Nanae yells at "Hottei" and Taiyo grabs the chair away and gives her a few kicks for good measure. It is sort of funny watching Nanae and Natsuki treat Hotta like she's a disobedient rookie. Abe tries to roll up Hotta in La Magistral, but Hotta evades and uses the Pyramid Driver for the win. Oh, and they win a shot at the JWP & Daily Sports tag belts, held by Yoneyama and Sakura, who hold all current non-important joshi titles. Well, except for the junior tag belts that WAVE created. Oh, and the thing WAVE gave to Moeka Haruhi. And OZ Academy has titles. I stand corrected.
Azumi Hyuga vs Kaori Yoneyama: Hyuga's been pretty unselfish on her retirement road, putting over Haruyama as the new company ace and also dropping singles matches to Carlos Amano, Bolshoi, Kuragaki, and Leon. Is it Yoneyama's turn? Kaori hits some big moves like the Yoshi Tonic and a Superplex, but she figures out that you have to steal from the opponent's playbook to take down a legend. So Yoneyama uses Hyuga's KNEE O' DEATH from the top rope to the back of the head, and the U.S.-Zou (aka Yoshi Tonic) for the victory.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Results, November 12-15
OZ Academy's latest show, on 11/15, was mainly to set up the next series of feuds. After some of the old ladies beat up the kids, we then had Chikayo Nagashima (w/Toshie Uematsu) and Sonoko Kato (w/Tsubasa Kuragaki) back on opposite teams. Nagashima pinned Kato and now they will meet in singles at the next OZ show at Shinjuku FACE on 12/6. I'm wondering if this feud, the highlight of OZ 2007 for me, will start again?
Carlos Amano beat Manami Toyota in a non-title match and naturally demanded a title shot. No date given yet, but I'm expecting this to be part of OZ's year-end show at Korakuen Hall on 12/23. The main event saw AKINO and Ran Yu-Yu retain the tag belts over KAORU & Takako Inoue, with Ran pinning KAORU. On the tag title front, AKINO challenged Aja Kong, and there will be an all-Jungle Jack battle. I'm guessing Aja and Hiroyo Matsumoto will challenge at the year end show.
Of course, KAORU's loss is supposed to mean the end of the Ozaki Army Corps. Mayumi flipped out, of course, "exiled" KAORU, and those two are meeting in singles at the Korakuen Hall show. It's going to probably be a hardcore match and possibly a deathmatch. I don't know the status of Takako or Hiren or Mika Nishio & Police, as far as to whether they will remain loyal to Ozaki or not.
WAVE started a six-man Captain's fall tournament. The rules are silly, as the captain is "secret" and getting pinned does not eliminate a competitor. You keep going until you are lucky enough to pin the right person. Plus the tournament has FIVE teams, so they had a first round today, with a repechage round for the first round losers. Uematsu, Ran, and Ryo Mizunami beat GAMI & the Shirai Sisters, with Miz getting a nice winner over the veteran GAMI. Shu Shibutani, Kana, and Ayumi Kurihara also won in the first round. The repechage saw GAMI and the Shirais beat Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, & Misaki Ohata. It was stupid, as Ohka pinned both GAMI & Io in the first 4 minutes, but OOPS Mio is the captain. So it would make no sense for Mio to ever tag in. I don't know if she tagged in or not, but eventually GAMI pinned Yumi. So those three teams and the comedy mish-mosh team of Bullfight Sora, KAORU, and Cherry will decide this on 11/25.
Team MAKEHEN is folding. The final show is at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on 12/13. This means that Basara (aka Tyrannosaurus Okuda) will be a free agent. She's still recovering from her neck & shoulder injuries, originally suffered in 2008 while she was in Sendai Girls and re-injured this year shortly after her comeback, so her participation will only be photos & autographs. I don't think she's going to win 2009's Junior of the Year in joshi puroresu, as it's been a disaster of a year for her. Hopefully 2010 will go better for Basara and the industry as a whole.
WAVE November 12, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
115 Fans
1. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Round 1: Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu (captain), & Ryo Mizunami defeated GAMI (captain), Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai. Uematsu used a Dragon Suplex on Mio (3:50). GAMI used a German Suplex Hold on Mizunami (6:25). Mizunami used a Running Guillotine on GAMI (19:19).
2. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Round 1: Shu Shibutani, Kana (captain), & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi (captain), & Misaki Ohata. Kurihara used a Back Arm Throw on Haruhi (13:42).
3. Comical 3WAY Match: KAORU defeated Bullfight Sora & Cherry (13:22) with an Arm Lock on Sora.
4. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Consolation Match: GAMI, Mio Shirai (captain), & Io Shirai defeated Yumi Ohka (captain), Moeka Haruhi, & Misaki Ohata. Ohka used a Tiger Suplex on GAMI (2:18). Ohka used the Big Boot on Io (3:40). Io used the Rio de Janiero on Haruhi (8:56). GAMI used a Small Package after an Eye Poke on Ohka (11:13).
NEW AJW November 13, 2009
Shizuoka Fuji San Messe
400 Fans
1. GAMI defeated Chisato Kuroki (11:45) with the Eye Poke.
2. Yumiko Hotta defeated Hanako Kobayashi (12:24) with the Tiger Driver.
3. Ran Yu-Yu & Shu Shibutani defeated Command Bolshoi & KAZUKI (14:57) when Yu-Yu used a Rolling Elbow on KAZUKI.
4. Takako Inoue defeated Sachie Abe (11:56) with the Destiny Hammer.
5. Kaoru Ito & Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Manami Toyota & Yumi Ohka (24:37) when Kuragaki used the Metal Wing on Ohka.
ICE RIBBON November 13, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
49 Fans
1. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Chii Tomiya (8:48) with a Diving Body Press.
2. Ribbon Takanashi defeated Daisuke Masaoka (8:59) with the Bacchus.
3. Makoto vs Io Shirai (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Mio Shirai & Hikaru Shida defeated Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii (14:02) when Shida used the Shidaxa on Ichii.
ICE RIBBON November 14, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
75 Fans
1. Riho & Chii Tomiya defeated Mai Ichii & Hikari Minami (8:29) when Riho used a Northern Lights Suplex Hold on Minami.
2. Daisuke Masaoka vs Satoshi Kajiwara (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. 3WAY Match: Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Nanae Takahashi & Tsukasa Fujimoto (10:28) with a Moonsault Press on Fujimoto.
4. Hamuko Hoshi & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Makoto & Minori Makiba (17:01) when Shimouma used the Passion of the Woman on Makoto.
K-DOJO "CLUB-K SUPER joke" November 14, 2009
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
691 Fans
1. YOSHIYA, Yuu Yamagata & Ryuichi Sekine defeated Kunio Toshima, Hardcore Kid Kojiro & Kim Nam Seok (9:01) when Sekine used the Combine on Nam Seok.
2. Boso Boy Raito & Kaji Tomato defeated Saburo Inematsu & Bambi (6:59) when Tomato used the Red Eye on Inematsu.
OZ ACADEMY "BELIEVE AGAIN" November 15, 2009
Shinjuku FACE
1. Dynamite Kansai defeated Ayumi Kurihara (7:31) with a Diving Footstomp.
2. Aja Kong defeated Tomoka Nakagawa (8:23) with a Vertical Drop Brainbuster.
3. Mayumi Ozaki defeated Hiren (14:42) with an Armlock.
4. Chikayo Nagashima & Toshie Uematsu defeated Sonoko Kato & Tsubasa Kuragaki (18:25) when Nagashima used a Fisherman's Buster on Kato.
5. Carlos Amano defeated Manami Toyota (4:14) with a Cradle after a Feinted Carlos Ghosn.
6. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu (c) defeated KAORU & Takako Inoue (20:53) when Yu-Yu used a Forearm Smash on KAORU. AKINO & Yu-Yu are successful in the 2nd defense.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
My First Podcast
Since Burning Hammer is taking the week off, I've dipped my toe into the podcasting world. I've schedule the first and possibly last episode of 1JoshI radio.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/1JoshI/2009/11/13/1JoshI-Radio-Free-Hiren-Volume-One
It's 10 PM Central on Thursday 11/12. My agenda includes talking about who won the "best of" award in joshi in 2008 (something I did on the joshifans board), who deserves it in 2009, and to speculate about the awesomeness that will be the 80s Joshi set once that comes out (months or years from now). Anything else joshi, semi-joshi, or interesting can be discussed as well.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/1JoshI/2009/11/13/1JoshI-Radio-Free-Hiren-Volume-One
It's 10 PM Central on Thursday 11/12. My agenda includes talking about who won the "best of" award in joshi in 2008 (something I did on the joshifans board), who deserves it in 2009, and to speculate about the awesomeness that will be the 80s Joshi set once that comes out (months or years from now). Anything else joshi, semi-joshi, or interesting can be discussed as well.
Schedule, November 12-22
WAVE November 12, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
1. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Round 1: Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, & Misaki Ohata vs Shu Shibutani, Kana, & Ayumi Kurihara
2. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Round 1: GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, & Ryo Mizunami
3. Comical 3WAY Match: Bullfight Sora vs Cherry vs X
4. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Consolation Match: Losers of #1 and #2
NEW AJW November 13, 2009
Shizuoka Fuji San Messe
1. GAMI vs Chisato Kuroki
2. Yumiko Hotta vs Hanako Kobayashi
3. Command Bolshoi & KAZUKI vs Ran Yu-Yu & Shu Shibutani
4. Takako Inoue vs Sachie Abe
5. Kaoru Ito & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Manami Toyota & Yumi Ohka
ICE RIBBON November 13, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
ICE RIBBON November 14, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
OZ ACADEMY "BELIEVE AGAIN" November 15, 2009
Shinjuku FACE
1. Dynamite Kansai vs Ayumi Kurihara
2. Aja Kong vs Tomoka Nakagawa
3. Mayumi Ozaki vs Hiren
4. Sonoko Kato & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Chikayo Nagashima & Toshie Uematsu
5. Manami Toyota vs Carlos Amano
6. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu (c) vs KAORU & Takako Inoue
JWP November 20, 2009
Itabashi Green Hall
1. KAZUKI vs Chisato Kuroki
2. NEO High Speed Championsihp Next Challenger 3WAY Match: Command Bolshoi vs Tojuki Leon vs Ayako Sato
3. Kayoko Haruyama & Keito vs Emi Sakura & Hamuko Hoshi
4. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Championship Next Challenger Match: Tsubasa Kuragaki & Sachie Abe vs Passion Hottei & Natsuki*Taiyo
5. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga vs Kaori Yoneyama
ICE RIBBON November 21, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
ICE RIBBON November 22, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
JWP November 22, 2009
JWP Dojo
1. Azumi Hyuga vs Chisato Kuroki
2. Kayoko Haruyama vs KAZUKI
3. Command Bolshoi, Tojuki Leon, & Keito vs Tsubasa Kuragaki, Kaori Yoneyama, & Sachie Abe
NEO "STRONGHOLD IN JAPAN" November 22, 2009
Nagoya Chigusa Sports Center
1. Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Yukari Ishino
2. Aya Yuki vs Atsuko Emoto
3. Tanny Mouse vs Toshie Uematsu
4. Yuki Miyazaki & Sonoko Kato vs Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa
5. Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara vs Fuuka & Shu Shibutani
6. Kyoko Inoue vs Dump Matsumoto
7. NEO Tag Team Championship: Nanae Takahashi & Kana (c) vs Natsuki*Taiyo & Passion Ray
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
1. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Round 1: Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, & Misaki Ohata vs Shu Shibutani, Kana, & Ayumi Kurihara
2. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Round 1: GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, & Ryo Mizunami
3. Comical 3WAY Match: Bullfight Sora vs Cherry vs X
4. Captain's Fall 6 Man Tag Tournament Consolation Match: Losers of #1 and #2
NEW AJW November 13, 2009
Shizuoka Fuji San Messe
1. GAMI vs Chisato Kuroki
2. Yumiko Hotta vs Hanako Kobayashi
3. Command Bolshoi & KAZUKI vs Ran Yu-Yu & Shu Shibutani
4. Takako Inoue vs Sachie Abe
5. Kaoru Ito & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Manami Toyota & Yumi Ohka
ICE RIBBON November 13, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
ICE RIBBON November 14, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
OZ ACADEMY "BELIEVE AGAIN" November 15, 2009
Shinjuku FACE
1. Dynamite Kansai vs Ayumi Kurihara
2. Aja Kong vs Tomoka Nakagawa
3. Mayumi Ozaki vs Hiren
4. Sonoko Kato & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Chikayo Nagashima & Toshie Uematsu
5. Manami Toyota vs Carlos Amano
6. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu (c) vs KAORU & Takako Inoue
JWP November 20, 2009
Itabashi Green Hall
1. KAZUKI vs Chisato Kuroki
2. NEO High Speed Championsihp Next Challenger 3WAY Match: Command Bolshoi vs Tojuki Leon vs Ayako Sato
3. Kayoko Haruyama & Keito vs Emi Sakura & Hamuko Hoshi
4. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Championship Next Challenger Match: Tsubasa Kuragaki & Sachie Abe vs Passion Hottei & Natsuki*Taiyo
5. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga vs Kaori Yoneyama
ICE RIBBON November 21, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
ICE RIBBON November 22, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
JWP November 22, 2009
JWP Dojo
1. Azumi Hyuga vs Chisato Kuroki
2. Kayoko Haruyama vs KAZUKI
3. Command Bolshoi, Tojuki Leon, & Keito vs Tsubasa Kuragaki, Kaori Yoneyama, & Sachie Abe
NEO "STRONGHOLD IN JAPAN" November 22, 2009
Nagoya Chigusa Sports Center
1. Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Yukari Ishino
2. Aya Yuki vs Atsuko Emoto
3. Tanny Mouse vs Toshie Uematsu
4. Yuki Miyazaki & Sonoko Kato vs Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa
5. Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara vs Fuuka & Shu Shibutani
6. Kyoko Inoue vs Dump Matsumoto
7. NEO Tag Team Championship: Nanae Takahashi & Kana (c) vs Natsuki*Taiyo & Passion Ray
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Joshi Digest: September 23-October 18, 2009
I've caught up on the joshi S-Arena reports from Samurai TV that http://www.youtube.com/user/passione2002R has been posting. Hopefully he'll keep it up. He has also posted some complete shows (current and ones from a few years back) that I'll try to review. Eventually I'll post the S-Arena reports from earlier this year that another Youtuber did for a while before he stopped, and maybe some of my other joshi Youtube reviews from the Driverettes at DVDVR.
NEO "High Touch" Itabashi Green Hall, 9/23/2009
Yoshiko Tamura vs Tsukasa Fujimoto: Fujimoto is a pretty young woman who was in "Three Count", a Japanese movie that took idol girls and trained them in puroresu. The trainers were Kyoko Inoue, Sakura Emi, and Tamura. Fujimoto stayed in wrestling with Ice Ribbon, and this is sort of a master vs student match. [\sarcasm] Tamura, of course, is known for her patience in carrying inexperienced young wresters through matches and selling for them. [\end sarcasm] Fujimoto sort of does an enzuigiri, and Tamura sort of sells for it. I think Tamura's gladiator skirt is paying homage to Hector "Macho" Camacho, or maybe Vinny Pazienza. A rolling senton from the top rope secures the obvious Tamura victory.
Referee Megumi Grace Asano's Last Match: The main event is in homage to NEO & DDT ref Asano, who is retiring. We have Etsuko Mita, Tanny Mouse, and Yuki Miyazaki vs Kyoko Inoue, Toshie Uematsu, and Sachie Abe. I think Mita's gonna be more NEO Machine Gunz than LCO today. Big Momma Inoue in garish tight fringed spandex better never come to America and shop at Walmart, or she'll be the next Walmartian immortalized at http://www.peopleofwalmart.com. This is very standard NEO comedy stuff. Etsu does a blazing chop to Big Momma's ample chest, while Tanny pokes her fingers up Sachie's butt. Oh, then Tanny does it to Mita too. Hahahaha. Try doing that to Akira Hokuto, Tanny. Oh, you are scared of Hokuto, almost as much as KenSKEE is. I understand. They decide to involve Asano as a wrestler, not just a ref. Asano does a diving crossbody from the top rope to the outside, and a halfway decent one at that. Maybe she should be the next NEO rookie. Miyazaki makes Toshie tap out. Everyone cries and claps for Grace.
Passion Red "3 PASSION" Itabashi Green Hall, 9/23/2009
Natsuki*Taiyo & Super Shisa vs Emi Sakura & Ikuto Hidaka: Some nice spot-fest inter-gender tag action. Oops, Hidaka superkicks Emi in the face. That sets up Natsuki for the Taiyo*Chan bomb and that is that.
Passion Red Audition Match: Nanae is bringing 2 more wrestlers into the fold, and we have four contenders: Io Shirai, Toshie Uemastu (who hated Passion Red at the last show, but we all forgot that), Ray (with a new bodysuit and mask that covers her entire head that I'm not digging), and Yumiko Hotta. Hotta seems to be suffering from hot flashes or a mid-life crisis or something. Her new gimmick seems to be the old person trying way too hard to be cool with the youngsters. A Tiger Driver from Hotta leads to a Moonsault from Ray and that's all for Io. She likes purple better, anyway. Then Hotta has Toshie in position for a Superplex, Ray kicks them, and Toshie falls off the top rope, and over the top rope seems to be valid here for a fall, so Nanae presents "Passion Ray" and "Passion Hottei". Lovely.
Kana vs Takako Inoue: Kana is one of the best and one of the stiffest young workers in joshi. Takako doesn't seem too interested in working at Kana's preferred level of stiffness, so these clips seem to indicate a pretty disappointing match. Then Takako wins, because she's way way way too big a star to possibly lose a match. The "Beauty Fist" is the finisher; it's a really lame uraken. Takako is very cougarish in her daisy dukes, though.
Chairman Matsunaga Mourning Talk Show: This is a chance for Nanae and her old friends from the "Kiss No Sekai" days (Momoe Nakanishi, Kayo Noumi, Miho Wakizawa) to be all nostalgic. Hell, they even invited Kumiko Maekawa. Momoe's impossibly cute older daughter is there and watches Mom do a Momoracci. I hope she understands she shouldn't try this on her baby sister, but the pictures of Momoe and girls from the photo thread seem to show that Momoe has a different standard for what is safe for toddlers than most of us.
Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Kana vs Azumi Hyuga, Tsubasa Kuragaki, & Sachie Abe: Passion Red seems to be shifting focus from NEO to a feud with JWP for the time being. You may remember a decent little feud between Nanae and JWP during the SUN days. Hyuga gives the knee of death to the back of Nanae's head. Meiko Satomura wishes she could have taken that to the back of the head, as well. Kana saves Nanae from the Michinoku Driver II. Nanae catches Hyuga on an aerial manuever and gets her own driver for a near fall. Sachie Abe tries her luck. She meets Kana's ass. It turns into chaos, with everyone in the ring hitting MOVEZ. Abe thinks she has a pin after a headscissors, but ends up eating the Nanaracka and Passion Red wins. Nanae and Hyuga at first shake hands, then slap each other. JWP, and Sachie in particular, seem to dislike Passion Red. It's way too much like that sickeningly sweet "Kiss No Sekai" crap for their taste. Plus these bitches hang out with Yumiko Hotta!
Press Conference for JWP "SUPER PREMIUM", upcoming on 10/04/09, Korakuen Hall
Yoshiko Tamura vs Azumi Hyuga: These two met in a broadway in late 2006 that would have created a joshi triple crown of singles titles. They will finally have a rematch before Hyuga's retirement, with nothing but pride on the line.
Passion Red vs JWP: Nanae has a silly little lottery to decide which 3 members of Passion Red will face Sachie Abe, KAZUKI, and Tojuki Leon. The winners are Nanae, Kana, and "Passion Hottei". Command Bolshoi blows a gasket, as this is obviously Hotta, who lost to Bolshoi earlier this year and was banished from JWP. But Bolshoi, this isn't the nasty evil Yumiko Hotta who kicks clowns really hard and tried to steal your promotion from you. This is the cool fun-loving "Passion Hottei", who is the president of the Passion Red fan club and is a perky little girl! It seems "Hottei" will be allowed to compete.
Kayoko Haruyama vs Kaori Yoneyama: They are competing for Kayoko's JWP Openweight championship that she's held since April 2008. Yoneyama shows up with FOUR title belts (JWP tag, Daily Sports tag, Ice Ribbon tag, NEO High Speed) wrapped around her and is all SPAZZY and stuff. Haruyama laughs at the jobber belts.
JWP "SUPER PREMIUM" Korakuen Hall 10/4/2009
Azumi Hyuga vs Yoshiko Tamura: This is Hyuga's 15th Anniversary match and a rematch of their great broadway match from 2006 that would have created a joshi triple crown. Tamura seems to have faux-fur all over her outfit. At least, I hope it's faux-fur or the Japanese PETA will get her! They aren't going 60 minutes today, so Hyuga gets in a series of suplexes and Tamura does her facewash with her knees. A crazy suplex on the ring apron. This is gonna turn into a true joshi action junkie finisher duel match. Tamura uses a Michinoku Driver II on Hyuga, who is usually on the other end. Finally Tamura lands her new Mount Cook maneuver, which starts off in the Alabama Slam position that turns into a twisting piledrive thing and no one kicks out of this.
Command Bolshoi & GAMI vs Jaguar Yokota & Tsubasa Kuragaki: This is Bolshoi's 20th anniversary and is sort of the light match between Tamura/Hyuga and Haruyama/Yoneyama. Oh lookie, GAMI is walking the ropes. Bolshoi walks the ropes backwards. GAMI hits Jags with her megaphone. How disrespectful! Bolshoi gets a happy anniversary, hitting the twisting huricanrana "Limelight" on Kuragaki for the win.
JWP Openweight Championship, Kayoko Haruyama © vs Kaori Yoneyama: This is Yoneyama's 10th anniversary and she's rocking the PocaHAWTness outfit and FOUR title belts. Kayoko is a big beatiful wrestler in orange and black with just one important title. Kaori is full of fire and fury, while Haruyama is poised. No idiocy from the balcony tonight, but lots of athletic moves in and out of the ring, as Yone is EN FUEGO. Yone survives several moves, including an avalanche-style guillotine drop, before a low-level lariat and the KEENE HAMMUH gives Haruyama a record 7th straight defense of the JWP crown. Yoneyama is bawling her eyes out and screaming uncontrollably "BARI BARI BARI BARI BARI BARI" at Haruyama after the match as she cannot seem to accept her jobber fate. I thought J.H. was the only one who blubbered this much after joshi matches. This could be the joshi show of the year, as the clips seem to indicate 2 JMOTY candidates.
WAVE "HAPPY BIRTHDAY +1"/ATROCIOUS ALLIANCE Shinjuku FACE 10/4/2009
Shu Shibutani & Kana vs Moeka Haruhi & Fuuka: Yeah, Shu is 30 and Moeka is 25! I'd card them if I still waited tables and they ordered a white zinfandel or a shot of tequila from me. Moeka is wearing ridiculous furry gloves and rabbit ear-like things. I don't pretend to understand Japanese haute couture. Shu likes sentons. Kana uses her usual butt and kick based offense on Moeka. Moeka gets her ass kicked, as usual. Kana and Fuuka do about a minute's worth of a Queen Bee match. A diving senton from Shu onto Moeka ends it. Then
the usual shove the cake in the face routine.
Dump Matsumoto & "Hydra" vs Jaguar Yokota & Noriyo Tateno: Someone at Samurai thought it would be funny to clip out all the good stuff and just leave in the bad parts of this match. Oh wait, this was the good stuff? Go get Scott Keith's negative snowflake hot pokers and insert in anus. Since Dump's partner-in-crime Sasori (i.e. AJW jobber Miyuki Fujii) retired, she has some random indy dude in a monster mask to do her bumping. Dump is getting ever-closer to Abby the Butcher status, although she can still get in the ring. Dump uses the trash bin on Yokota. Noriyo uses it on Dump. Since Tateno isn't quite suffering from dementia yet, she knows that Dump intends to beat her elderly Jumping not very high Bomb Angel ass with her kendo stick. Noriyo gets a bodyslam on Dump; well, sort of like Hogan's bodyslam of Andre the Giant. Hydra does the worst mist job I've ever seen on Noriyo. Finally, Jags gets a roll-up on Dump to end this shit .NO ONE, I mean NO ONE gets to pin Cougar Yokota. Then Yumiko Hotta shows up to call out Dump, and it's not even semi-funny Passion Red goofus Hotta, it's tired old mean bitch Hotta. Yawn. I think Hotta called Dump an old woman. That's like joshi fans calling each other perverted creeps in an online forum flame war.
NEO "TAKE ACTION" Shin-Kiba 1st Ring 10/10/2009
NEO Tag Team Championship, Kyoko Inoue & Hiroyo Matsumoto © vs Nanae Takahashi & Kana: Hiroyo and Kyoko had Kana & Nanae in Argentine backbreakers. Hiroyo did her usual drop to a stomach buster on Kana. Then Kyoko tried to thr0w Nanae down on Kana, but Big Momma launched her too far and Nanae came down on Hiroyo's ankle. She immediately cried up and grabbed her leg. She rolled to the outside and they taped her up, as she came back later to finish the match. Eventually Big Momma had to eat a lariat from Nanae and Passion Red win the titles! I'm hopeful it's not too serious of an injury to Hiroyo.
Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda vs Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki: Las Cachorrus Orientales vs NEO Machine Gunz had some fun spots, as it was part hardcore, part comedy. Tanny had defeated Etsu in a house show match a few nights prior, so Mita insisted on a hardcore match. Tanny and Yuki were trying to act like they were the LCO, which led to Etsuko & Mima mocking the NEO Machine Gunz "hug each other" spot. They also paid homage to the Tupelo Concession Stand brawls, as they ended up in the lobby of Shin-Kiba 1st Ring throwing rubberized trash cans at each other. Too bad there wasn't a big jar of wasabi to pour down Tanny's throat. Tanny set up Etsuko on one of those special unbreakable Japanese tables and then did a spot off the top of a vending machine that's sure to live in joshi lore like past spots from the tops of cages or from the balcony of Korakuen. They eventually got back to the ring, Tanny & Yuki did a cut-rate version of the guardrail spot, Tanny bled a lot, did her moves, and then ate Death Valley Bombs.
RINGSTARS SPECIAL Shinjuku FACE 10/11/2009
This special show is put on by RINGSTARS magazine (sort of the current version of Ladies Gong) and features mostly younger workers. Sonoko Kato & Mio Shirai vs Chikayo Nagashima & Io Shirai: Holy mixed up tag teams! Look, Robin, those kinda trashy kinda hot Shirai sisters are fighting each other! Hey, the Shirai girls are good enough to do a GAEA midcard tag now! Lots of Mio & Io working out childhood issues in the middle of Shinjuku FACE. Sonoko and Mio like to kick girls in the face! Mio uses the Purple Flash (a Shining Wizard variant) to beat her more hyped little sis Io.
Azumi Hyuga vs Ayumi Kurihara: Now we are getting somewhere, a main event with an awesome vet and one of the most promising young wrestlers on the scene. Ayumi gets Hyuga in a Romero Special, but then Hyuga falls on her for a near fall. Hyuga then teaches Ayumi how to do the surfboard right, followed by unleashing the arsenal on Ayumi, with lariats, knees, suplexes, etc. Ayumi's crazy enough to do the fall-away missile kick from the top rope to the floor. Ayumi has some O to show, with her Uranage. Finally Hyuga kills Ayumi with a fierce Michinoku Driver II. Good stuff. I hope a full version of this show becomes available, as this could be one of the top joshi matches of the year.
LLPW "TYPHOON RELIEF CHARITY SHOW" Korakuen Hall 10/12/2009
Mayumi Ozaki vs Mizuki Endo: Endo visited Kandori & Harley's barber. Either she's not gonna do Eiger anymore or we have gonna have a butchier undead ghost witch. This match was total crap. Ozaki does a half-assed routine with her chain and some lame chairshots. Endo does nothing worth mentioning before Ozaki wins with a cradle. Really?
Senator Shinobu Kandori & Toshie Uematsu vs Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda: Mita can see the light at the end of the tunnel, so she's going as LCO as her body will allow for three more weeks. There's a reason Mima isn't as broken down as Etsu; it has a lot to do with treating these B.S. midcard tags as B.S. midcard tags. Mima and Kandori do faux garbage wrestling. Etsu gives Kandori's bosoms a Blazing Chop. Mima mocks Kandori's palm striking hand jive routine, then gets struck. ohtani's jacket says that Kandori is a joke of a politician, but he's wrong. She uses Uematsu to do most of the work while she takes all of the credit. That sounds like a real politician to me. Oh, since the LCO need to win tonight, Scooter Libby Uematsu takes the Death Lake Driver for Dick Cheney Kandori.
Harley Saito & Dynamite Kansai vs Noriyo Tateno & Azumi Hyuga: Another retirement road match, so one of these old fat broads is finally retiring! Oh shit, it's HYUGA that's retiring. She's still under 40 and good. Dammit! This match isn't as rotten as Ozaki/Endo, but it's pretty pedestrian stuff. Some broken up finishers before Harley gets a Schoolboy on Tateno. I haven't seen so many lame finishers since the 1984 AJW Rookie Tournament! At least Dynamite is having better luck with NutriSystem or Jenny Craig then Chigusa Nagayo ever had.Senator Kandori then saves all of the typhoon victims and accepts the Nobel Peace Prize. Oh, there's a Sayuri Okino sighting during the final ceremony. I'm still waiting for SUCCUBUS (Okino w/the new butch Eiger) vs SPUNKY SPAZZY SENDAI SISTERS PART DEUX!
ICE RIBBON Kitazawa Town Hall 10/12/2009
Kaori Yoneyama vs Kazumi Shimouma: Shimouma is one of Ice Ribbon's oldest and relatively capable wrestlers, but Kaori's not going to be losing today. Shimouma gets in a bit of offense before a diving senton secures Yone-hawt-ness a victory.
ICEx60 Championship: Makoto © vs Emi Sakura: The Ice Ribbon singles championship has a 60 kg weight limit and was won recently by Makoto over veteran Kiyoko Ichiki, as the tall gangly one has come a long way from being too scared to go in the ring. If the last Emi Sakura match you watched was a year or two ago, you wouldn't think she would qualify, but after intensive dieting, Emi has weighed in at 59.6 kg and wishes to tie Yoneyama with 4 relatively meaningless title belts. Makoto has a robe and Etsuko Mita in her corner. Makoto should feel insulted, as Emi doesn't do her "I scared to death, I want to puke" routine that she does against Nanae Takahashi or Yoshiko Tamura. Makoto does a bunch of splashes, but those don't hurt when you weigh 82 pounds. Makoto gets some near falls with a German suplex and her feeble kicks. Makoto tries a backslide, but gets rolled up into a La Magistral for the title shot. Emi is happy that her diet worked and Makoto is devastated. Mita looks pretty fucking annoyed with Emi's little ego trip.
NEO "CHECK MATE" Kitazawa Town Hall 10/12/2009
Etsuko Mita vs Kayoko Haruyama: They finish the business from Korakuen Hall, when the match was stopped after Mita's suicide dive resulted in a clash of heads, a bad cut, and a concussion for Mita. Mita does a piledriver on the walkway and takes a chair to do some business on Haruyama. Mita reprises her suicide dive through the ropes, but decides to not lead with her head and crack melons this time. DASH Chisako is a dedicated little ring girl and gets knocked over. Meiko's little runts like to make sure the fans don't get hurt. Various lariats lead to the KEENE HAMMUH and Kayoko wins, then bawls like a baby as they share a post-match hug.
Makoto confronts Mita as she is leaving the ring and asks to be the opponent for Mita's last singles match. Mita refuses. Makoto gets on her knees and bows and begs. Mita is unmoved. Makoto figures out that this submissive wimpy behavior isn't the ticket, and gets up and smacks Etsuko in the face. Mita grabs Makoto by the shirt and I fear for the skinny awkward girl's life, but Makoto smacks Mita again. Mita likes this and grants Makoto the honor of her final singles match on November 1.
Azumi Hyuga & Yoshiko Tamura vs Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki: Tanny and Yuki decide that Azumi would enjoy participating in the usual stupid NEO Machine Gunz slapstick routine. Yuki makes fun of Hyuga's mole. We get the "Super Shy" or "Sexy Tank Stretch", which if I explained further might get the thread closed due to creepiness. Things are really strange today, as Tanny ends up pinning Tamura for a rare win. Everyone seems to have enjoyed the comedy main event.
JWP "AUTUMN STAR" Kitasenju Theater 1010 10/18/2009
Highlights from a set of two shows from the same day.
Kaori Yoneyama & Misaki Ohata vs Command Bolshoi & Ryo Mizunami: Ibuki's Misaki Ohata is your JWP Junior/P.O.P. champion and this match is mainly about setting up a future title defense with Sendai's Ryo Mizunami. Miz does a so-so spear on Ohata, which leads to a Bolshoi-style 619, an Uranage from Miz, and a near fall. Yoneyama's dropkick leads to an Ohata bodypress & scream, a near fall, and then Ohata uses the "Hanamaru Dokkan", learned from Saki Maemura and is a Fisherman's Buster variant for the win. Strangely, the Sendai Girls like to ask for title shots after losing matches and it is granted, for Sendai's December show that will also have Satomura vs Hyuga.
Kayoko Haruyama, Tojuki Leon & Sachie Abe vs Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, and "Passion Hottei": Another installment of JWP vs Passion Red. Hotta has a red outfit now. Sachie Abe thinks Passion Red is ridiculous and gets to serve as Nanae's punching bag for a while. After some help from the JWP crew, Sachie gets a head-scissors takedown and a nearfall on Nanae. Nanae and "Hottei" aid Natsuki in a diving body press on Leon. Natsuki follows up with a Moonsault and then tries to set up Leon for the Taiyo-Chan Bomb, but Leon gets out. Hotta tries to help out, but accidentally gives a palm strike to Natsuki and then hilariously yells out and grabs her head, saying "I'm so stupid" or similar. Leon takes advantage and gets the win over Taiyo with a captured buster. Sachie is PMSing out on Passion Red and gets in Nanae's grill. I think Sachie thinks she should get a title shot instead of Nanae, but instead I think we are getting Abe vs "Hottei" in the future.
Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda vs KAZUKI & Sachie Abe: Abe is back in WANTED? mode, as the LCO pay JWP a visit on Mita's retirement road. Some watered-down LCO offense before Mima pins Sachie with the Death Lake Driver.
Azumi Hyuga & Ran Yu-Yu vs Kayoko Haruyama & Tsubasa Kuragaki: Hyuga teams with the other golden girl of JWP's class of 1995 to take on BARI BARI SAIKYO #1. Kayoko's in tag team blue rather than looking like a giant pumpkin in orange & black. Azumi & Ran doubleteam the big beautiful wrestling champion of JWP. Hyuga misses with the eye-socket crushing knee but Kayoko doesn't miss the guillotine drop. Kuragaki's turn to get double teamed by Hyuga and Yu-Yu. Kayoko saves Tsubasa after a Michinoku Driver II from Hyuga. Tsubasa crushes Hyuga with a lariat, gets a near fall, and finally gets the big win over Azumi with the Metal Wing. Hyuga's doing a decent job putting over JWP's talent on her way out.
NEO "High Touch" Itabashi Green Hall, 9/23/2009
Yoshiko Tamura vs Tsukasa Fujimoto: Fujimoto is a pretty young woman who was in "Three Count", a Japanese movie that took idol girls and trained them in puroresu. The trainers were Kyoko Inoue, Sakura Emi, and Tamura. Fujimoto stayed in wrestling with Ice Ribbon, and this is sort of a master vs student match. [\sarcasm] Tamura, of course, is known for her patience in carrying inexperienced young wresters through matches and selling for them. [\end sarcasm] Fujimoto sort of does an enzuigiri, and Tamura sort of sells for it. I think Tamura's gladiator skirt is paying homage to Hector "Macho" Camacho, or maybe Vinny Pazienza. A rolling senton from the top rope secures the obvious Tamura victory.
Referee Megumi Grace Asano's Last Match: The main event is in homage to NEO & DDT ref Asano, who is retiring. We have Etsuko Mita, Tanny Mouse, and Yuki Miyazaki vs Kyoko Inoue, Toshie Uematsu, and Sachie Abe. I think Mita's gonna be more NEO Machine Gunz than LCO today. Big Momma Inoue in garish tight fringed spandex better never come to America and shop at Walmart, or she'll be the next Walmartian immortalized at http://www.peopleofwalmart.com. This is very standard NEO comedy stuff. Etsu does a blazing chop to Big Momma's ample chest, while Tanny pokes her fingers up Sachie's butt. Oh, then Tanny does it to Mita too. Hahahaha. Try doing that to Akira Hokuto, Tanny. Oh, you are scared of Hokuto, almost as much as KenSKEE is. I understand. They decide to involve Asano as a wrestler, not just a ref. Asano does a diving crossbody from the top rope to the outside, and a halfway decent one at that. Maybe she should be the next NEO rookie. Miyazaki makes Toshie tap out. Everyone cries and claps for Grace.
Passion Red "3 PASSION" Itabashi Green Hall, 9/23/2009
Natsuki*Taiyo & Super Shisa vs Emi Sakura & Ikuto Hidaka: Some nice spot-fest inter-gender tag action. Oops, Hidaka superkicks Emi in the face. That sets up Natsuki for the Taiyo*Chan bomb and that is that.
Passion Red Audition Match: Nanae is bringing 2 more wrestlers into the fold, and we have four contenders: Io Shirai, Toshie Uemastu (who hated Passion Red at the last show, but we all forgot that), Ray (with a new bodysuit and mask that covers her entire head that I'm not digging), and Yumiko Hotta. Hotta seems to be suffering from hot flashes or a mid-life crisis or something. Her new gimmick seems to be the old person trying way too hard to be cool with the youngsters. A Tiger Driver from Hotta leads to a Moonsault from Ray and that's all for Io. She likes purple better, anyway. Then Hotta has Toshie in position for a Superplex, Ray kicks them, and Toshie falls off the top rope, and over the top rope seems to be valid here for a fall, so Nanae presents "Passion Ray" and "Passion Hottei". Lovely.
Kana vs Takako Inoue: Kana is one of the best and one of the stiffest young workers in joshi. Takako doesn't seem too interested in working at Kana's preferred level of stiffness, so these clips seem to indicate a pretty disappointing match. Then Takako wins, because she's way way way too big a star to possibly lose a match. The "Beauty Fist" is the finisher; it's a really lame uraken. Takako is very cougarish in her daisy dukes, though.
Chairman Matsunaga Mourning Talk Show: This is a chance for Nanae and her old friends from the "Kiss No Sekai" days (Momoe Nakanishi, Kayo Noumi, Miho Wakizawa) to be all nostalgic. Hell, they even invited Kumiko Maekawa. Momoe's impossibly cute older daughter is there and watches Mom do a Momoracci. I hope she understands she shouldn't try this on her baby sister, but the pictures of Momoe and girls from the photo thread seem to show that Momoe has a different standard for what is safe for toddlers than most of us.
Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Kana vs Azumi Hyuga, Tsubasa Kuragaki, & Sachie Abe: Passion Red seems to be shifting focus from NEO to a feud with JWP for the time being. You may remember a decent little feud between Nanae and JWP during the SUN days. Hyuga gives the knee of death to the back of Nanae's head. Meiko Satomura wishes she could have taken that to the back of the head, as well. Kana saves Nanae from the Michinoku Driver II. Nanae catches Hyuga on an aerial manuever and gets her own driver for a near fall. Sachie Abe tries her luck. She meets Kana's ass. It turns into chaos, with everyone in the ring hitting MOVEZ. Abe thinks she has a pin after a headscissors, but ends up eating the Nanaracka and Passion Red wins. Nanae and Hyuga at first shake hands, then slap each other. JWP, and Sachie in particular, seem to dislike Passion Red. It's way too much like that sickeningly sweet "Kiss No Sekai" crap for their taste. Plus these bitches hang out with Yumiko Hotta!
Press Conference for JWP "SUPER PREMIUM", upcoming on 10/04/09, Korakuen Hall
Yoshiko Tamura vs Azumi Hyuga: These two met in a broadway in late 2006 that would have created a joshi triple crown of singles titles. They will finally have a rematch before Hyuga's retirement, with nothing but pride on the line.
Passion Red vs JWP: Nanae has a silly little lottery to decide which 3 members of Passion Red will face Sachie Abe, KAZUKI, and Tojuki Leon. The winners are Nanae, Kana, and "Passion Hottei". Command Bolshoi blows a gasket, as this is obviously Hotta, who lost to Bolshoi earlier this year and was banished from JWP. But Bolshoi, this isn't the nasty evil Yumiko Hotta who kicks clowns really hard and tried to steal your promotion from you. This is the cool fun-loving "Passion Hottei", who is the president of the Passion Red fan club and is a perky little girl! It seems "Hottei" will be allowed to compete.
Kayoko Haruyama vs Kaori Yoneyama: They are competing for Kayoko's JWP Openweight championship that she's held since April 2008. Yoneyama shows up with FOUR title belts (JWP tag, Daily Sports tag, Ice Ribbon tag, NEO High Speed) wrapped around her and is all SPAZZY and stuff. Haruyama laughs at the jobber belts.
JWP "SUPER PREMIUM" Korakuen Hall 10/4/2009
Azumi Hyuga vs Yoshiko Tamura: This is Hyuga's 15th Anniversary match and a rematch of their great broadway match from 2006 that would have created a joshi triple crown. Tamura seems to have faux-fur all over her outfit. At least, I hope it's faux-fur or the Japanese PETA will get her! They aren't going 60 minutes today, so Hyuga gets in a series of suplexes and Tamura does her facewash with her knees. A crazy suplex on the ring apron. This is gonna turn into a true joshi action junkie finisher duel match. Tamura uses a Michinoku Driver II on Hyuga, who is usually on the other end. Finally Tamura lands her new Mount Cook maneuver, which starts off in the Alabama Slam position that turns into a twisting piledrive thing and no one kicks out of this.
Command Bolshoi & GAMI vs Jaguar Yokota & Tsubasa Kuragaki: This is Bolshoi's 20th anniversary and is sort of the light match between Tamura/Hyuga and Haruyama/Yoneyama. Oh lookie, GAMI is walking the ropes. Bolshoi walks the ropes backwards. GAMI hits Jags with her megaphone. How disrespectful! Bolshoi gets a happy anniversary, hitting the twisting huricanrana "Limelight" on Kuragaki for the win.
JWP Openweight Championship, Kayoko Haruyama © vs Kaori Yoneyama: This is Yoneyama's 10th anniversary and she's rocking the PocaHAWTness outfit and FOUR title belts. Kayoko is a big beatiful wrestler in orange and black with just one important title. Kaori is full of fire and fury, while Haruyama is poised. No idiocy from the balcony tonight, but lots of athletic moves in and out of the ring, as Yone is EN FUEGO. Yone survives several moves, including an avalanche-style guillotine drop, before a low-level lariat and the KEENE HAMMUH gives Haruyama a record 7th straight defense of the JWP crown. Yoneyama is bawling her eyes out and screaming uncontrollably "BARI BARI BARI BARI BARI BARI" at Haruyama after the match as she cannot seem to accept her jobber fate. I thought J.H. was the only one who blubbered this much after joshi matches. This could be the joshi show of the year, as the clips seem to indicate 2 JMOTY candidates.
WAVE "HAPPY BIRTHDAY +1"/ATROCIOUS ALLIANCE Shinjuku FACE 10/4/2009
Shu Shibutani & Kana vs Moeka Haruhi & Fuuka: Yeah, Shu is 30 and Moeka is 25! I'd card them if I still waited tables and they ordered a white zinfandel or a shot of tequila from me. Moeka is wearing ridiculous furry gloves and rabbit ear-like things. I don't pretend to understand Japanese haute couture. Shu likes sentons. Kana uses her usual butt and kick based offense on Moeka. Moeka gets her ass kicked, as usual. Kana and Fuuka do about a minute's worth of a Queen Bee match. A diving senton from Shu onto Moeka ends it. Then
the usual shove the cake in the face routine.
Dump Matsumoto & "Hydra" vs Jaguar Yokota & Noriyo Tateno: Someone at Samurai thought it would be funny to clip out all the good stuff and just leave in the bad parts of this match. Oh wait, this was the good stuff? Go get Scott Keith's negative snowflake hot pokers and insert in anus. Since Dump's partner-in-crime Sasori (i.e. AJW jobber Miyuki Fujii) retired, she has some random indy dude in a monster mask to do her bumping. Dump is getting ever-closer to Abby the Butcher status, although she can still get in the ring. Dump uses the trash bin on Yokota. Noriyo uses it on Dump. Since Tateno isn't quite suffering from dementia yet, she knows that Dump intends to beat her elderly Jumping not very high Bomb Angel ass with her kendo stick. Noriyo gets a bodyslam on Dump; well, sort of like Hogan's bodyslam of Andre the Giant. Hydra does the worst mist job I've ever seen on Noriyo. Finally, Jags gets a roll-up on Dump to end this shit .NO ONE, I mean NO ONE gets to pin Cougar Yokota. Then Yumiko Hotta shows up to call out Dump, and it's not even semi-funny Passion Red goofus Hotta, it's tired old mean bitch Hotta. Yawn. I think Hotta called Dump an old woman. That's like joshi fans calling each other perverted creeps in an online forum flame war.
NEO "TAKE ACTION" Shin-Kiba 1st Ring 10/10/2009
NEO Tag Team Championship, Kyoko Inoue & Hiroyo Matsumoto © vs Nanae Takahashi & Kana: Hiroyo and Kyoko had Kana & Nanae in Argentine backbreakers. Hiroyo did her usual drop to a stomach buster on Kana. Then Kyoko tried to thr0w Nanae down on Kana, but Big Momma launched her too far and Nanae came down on Hiroyo's ankle. She immediately cried up and grabbed her leg. She rolled to the outside and they taped her up, as she came back later to finish the match. Eventually Big Momma had to eat a lariat from Nanae and Passion Red win the titles! I'm hopeful it's not too serious of an injury to Hiroyo.
Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda vs Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki: Las Cachorrus Orientales vs NEO Machine Gunz had some fun spots, as it was part hardcore, part comedy. Tanny had defeated Etsu in a house show match a few nights prior, so Mita insisted on a hardcore match. Tanny and Yuki were trying to act like they were the LCO, which led to Etsuko & Mima mocking the NEO Machine Gunz "hug each other" spot. They also paid homage to the Tupelo Concession Stand brawls, as they ended up in the lobby of Shin-Kiba 1st Ring throwing rubberized trash cans at each other. Too bad there wasn't a big jar of wasabi to pour down Tanny's throat. Tanny set up Etsuko on one of those special unbreakable Japanese tables and then did a spot off the top of a vending machine that's sure to live in joshi lore like past spots from the tops of cages or from the balcony of Korakuen. They eventually got back to the ring, Tanny & Yuki did a cut-rate version of the guardrail spot, Tanny bled a lot, did her moves, and then ate Death Valley Bombs.
RINGSTARS SPECIAL Shinjuku FACE 10/11/2009
This special show is put on by RINGSTARS magazine (sort of the current version of Ladies Gong) and features mostly younger workers. Sonoko Kato & Mio Shirai vs Chikayo Nagashima & Io Shirai: Holy mixed up tag teams! Look, Robin, those kinda trashy kinda hot Shirai sisters are fighting each other! Hey, the Shirai girls are good enough to do a GAEA midcard tag now! Lots of Mio & Io working out childhood issues in the middle of Shinjuku FACE. Sonoko and Mio like to kick girls in the face! Mio uses the Purple Flash (a Shining Wizard variant) to beat her more hyped little sis Io.
Azumi Hyuga vs Ayumi Kurihara: Now we are getting somewhere, a main event with an awesome vet and one of the most promising young wrestlers on the scene. Ayumi gets Hyuga in a Romero Special, but then Hyuga falls on her for a near fall. Hyuga then teaches Ayumi how to do the surfboard right, followed by unleashing the arsenal on Ayumi, with lariats, knees, suplexes, etc. Ayumi's crazy enough to do the fall-away missile kick from the top rope to the floor. Ayumi has some O to show, with her Uranage. Finally Hyuga kills Ayumi with a fierce Michinoku Driver II. Good stuff. I hope a full version of this show becomes available, as this could be one of the top joshi matches of the year.
LLPW "TYPHOON RELIEF CHARITY SHOW" Korakuen Hall 10/12/2009
Mayumi Ozaki vs Mizuki Endo: Endo visited Kandori & Harley's barber. Either she's not gonna do Eiger anymore or we have gonna have a butchier undead ghost witch. This match was total crap. Ozaki does a half-assed routine with her chain and some lame chairshots. Endo does nothing worth mentioning before Ozaki wins with a cradle. Really?
Senator Shinobu Kandori & Toshie Uematsu vs Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda: Mita can see the light at the end of the tunnel, so she's going as LCO as her body will allow for three more weeks. There's a reason Mima isn't as broken down as Etsu; it has a lot to do with treating these B.S. midcard tags as B.S. midcard tags. Mima and Kandori do faux garbage wrestling. Etsu gives Kandori's bosoms a Blazing Chop. Mima mocks Kandori's palm striking hand jive routine, then gets struck. ohtani's jacket says that Kandori is a joke of a politician, but he's wrong. She uses Uematsu to do most of the work while she takes all of the credit. That sounds like a real politician to me. Oh, since the LCO need to win tonight, Scooter Libby Uematsu takes the Death Lake Driver for Dick Cheney Kandori.
Harley Saito & Dynamite Kansai vs Noriyo Tateno & Azumi Hyuga: Another retirement road match, so one of these old fat broads is finally retiring! Oh shit, it's HYUGA that's retiring. She's still under 40 and good. Dammit! This match isn't as rotten as Ozaki/Endo, but it's pretty pedestrian stuff. Some broken up finishers before Harley gets a Schoolboy on Tateno. I haven't seen so many lame finishers since the 1984 AJW Rookie Tournament! At least Dynamite is having better luck with NutriSystem or Jenny Craig then Chigusa Nagayo ever had.Senator Kandori then saves all of the typhoon victims and accepts the Nobel Peace Prize. Oh, there's a Sayuri Okino sighting during the final ceremony. I'm still waiting for SUCCUBUS (Okino w/the new butch Eiger) vs SPUNKY SPAZZY SENDAI SISTERS PART DEUX!
ICE RIBBON Kitazawa Town Hall 10/12/2009
Kaori Yoneyama vs Kazumi Shimouma: Shimouma is one of Ice Ribbon's oldest and relatively capable wrestlers, but Kaori's not going to be losing today. Shimouma gets in a bit of offense before a diving senton secures Yone-hawt-ness a victory.
ICEx60 Championship: Makoto © vs Emi Sakura: The Ice Ribbon singles championship has a 60 kg weight limit and was won recently by Makoto over veteran Kiyoko Ichiki, as the tall gangly one has come a long way from being too scared to go in the ring. If the last Emi Sakura match you watched was a year or two ago, you wouldn't think she would qualify, but after intensive dieting, Emi has weighed in at 59.6 kg and wishes to tie Yoneyama with 4 relatively meaningless title belts. Makoto has a robe and Etsuko Mita in her corner. Makoto should feel insulted, as Emi doesn't do her "I scared to death, I want to puke" routine that she does against Nanae Takahashi or Yoshiko Tamura. Makoto does a bunch of splashes, but those don't hurt when you weigh 82 pounds. Makoto gets some near falls with a German suplex and her feeble kicks. Makoto tries a backslide, but gets rolled up into a La Magistral for the title shot. Emi is happy that her diet worked and Makoto is devastated. Mita looks pretty fucking annoyed with Emi's little ego trip.
NEO "CHECK MATE" Kitazawa Town Hall 10/12/2009
Etsuko Mita vs Kayoko Haruyama: They finish the business from Korakuen Hall, when the match was stopped after Mita's suicide dive resulted in a clash of heads, a bad cut, and a concussion for Mita. Mita does a piledriver on the walkway and takes a chair to do some business on Haruyama. Mita reprises her suicide dive through the ropes, but decides to not lead with her head and crack melons this time. DASH Chisako is a dedicated little ring girl and gets knocked over. Meiko's little runts like to make sure the fans don't get hurt. Various lariats lead to the KEENE HAMMUH and Kayoko wins, then bawls like a baby as they share a post-match hug.
Makoto confronts Mita as she is leaving the ring and asks to be the opponent for Mita's last singles match. Mita refuses. Makoto gets on her knees and bows and begs. Mita is unmoved. Makoto figures out that this submissive wimpy behavior isn't the ticket, and gets up and smacks Etsuko in the face. Mita grabs Makoto by the shirt and I fear for the skinny awkward girl's life, but Makoto smacks Mita again. Mita likes this and grants Makoto the honor of her final singles match on November 1.
Azumi Hyuga & Yoshiko Tamura vs Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki: Tanny and Yuki decide that Azumi would enjoy participating in the usual stupid NEO Machine Gunz slapstick routine. Yuki makes fun of Hyuga's mole. We get the "Super Shy" or "Sexy Tank Stretch", which if I explained further might get the thread closed due to creepiness. Things are really strange today, as Tanny ends up pinning Tamura for a rare win. Everyone seems to have enjoyed the comedy main event.
JWP "AUTUMN STAR" Kitasenju Theater 1010 10/18/2009
Highlights from a set of two shows from the same day.
Kaori Yoneyama & Misaki Ohata vs Command Bolshoi & Ryo Mizunami: Ibuki's Misaki Ohata is your JWP Junior/P.O.P. champion and this match is mainly about setting up a future title defense with Sendai's Ryo Mizunami. Miz does a so-so spear on Ohata, which leads to a Bolshoi-style 619, an Uranage from Miz, and a near fall. Yoneyama's dropkick leads to an Ohata bodypress & scream, a near fall, and then Ohata uses the "Hanamaru Dokkan", learned from Saki Maemura and is a Fisherman's Buster variant for the win. Strangely, the Sendai Girls like to ask for title shots after losing matches and it is granted, for Sendai's December show that will also have Satomura vs Hyuga.
Kayoko Haruyama, Tojuki Leon & Sachie Abe vs Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, and "Passion Hottei": Another installment of JWP vs Passion Red. Hotta has a red outfit now. Sachie Abe thinks Passion Red is ridiculous and gets to serve as Nanae's punching bag for a while. After some help from the JWP crew, Sachie gets a head-scissors takedown and a nearfall on Nanae. Nanae and "Hottei" aid Natsuki in a diving body press on Leon. Natsuki follows up with a Moonsault and then tries to set up Leon for the Taiyo-Chan Bomb, but Leon gets out. Hotta tries to help out, but accidentally gives a palm strike to Natsuki and then hilariously yells out and grabs her head, saying "I'm so stupid" or similar. Leon takes advantage and gets the win over Taiyo with a captured buster. Sachie is PMSing out on Passion Red and gets in Nanae's grill. I think Sachie thinks she should get a title shot instead of Nanae, but instead I think we are getting Abe vs "Hottei" in the future.
Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda vs KAZUKI & Sachie Abe: Abe is back in WANTED? mode, as the LCO pay JWP a visit on Mita's retirement road. Some watered-down LCO offense before Mima pins Sachie with the Death Lake Driver.
Azumi Hyuga & Ran Yu-Yu vs Kayoko Haruyama & Tsubasa Kuragaki: Hyuga teams with the other golden girl of JWP's class of 1995 to take on BARI BARI SAIKYO #1. Kayoko's in tag team blue rather than looking like a giant pumpkin in orange & black. Azumi & Ran doubleteam the big beautiful wrestling champion of JWP. Hyuga misses with the eye-socket crushing knee but Kayoko doesn't miss the guillotine drop. Kuragaki's turn to get double teamed by Hyuga and Yu-Yu. Kayoko saves Tsubasa after a Michinoku Driver II from Hyuga. Tsubasa crushes Hyuga with a lariat, gets a near fall, and finally gets the big win over Azumi with the Metal Wing. Hyuga's doing a decent job putting over JWP's talent on her way out.
Results, November 3-8
At the JWP midweek show, Tojuki Leon scored a nice singles victory over Azumi Hyuga, who seems to be putting much of the JWP roster over on her road to retirement. Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura then got a victory over Kayoko Haruyama & Command Bolshoi, with Bolshoi taking the fall. Kayoko then showed up at an Ice Ribbon show, replacing Mai Ichii in a tag match and predictably squashing her Ice Ribbon opponents. Emi defended the Ice Ribbon title for the 7th time, beating JWP mid-carder Sachie Abe, and then challenged Kayoko for the JWP title. This match will happen at a Shinjuku FACE show on December 6.
Emi was back at it at Ibuki's final Korakuen Hall show, as she defended for the 8th time over JWP Jr./POP title holer Misaki Ohata. Ohata at least was able to force Emi to use a finisher other than La Magistral, as the Nyan Nyan Press was needed. Other Ibuki action included the Sendai Girls trio of Ryo Mizunami, Hiren, and Yukari Ishino beating Esui, Makoto, and Kazumi Shimouma, with Miz using a Guillotine Drop on Esui. Mizunami is Ohata's next challenger for the junior titles, at Sendai Girls' show on December 20. Other action included Nanae Takahashi beating Shu Shibutani, a draw between Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara versus Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakkagawa, Yoneyama & Leon beating Ray & Natsuki*Taiyo, and Hiroyo Matsumoto scoring a big 29-minute best 2 of 3 falls win over Atsuko Emoto. Emoto scored the first fall with a Modified Moonsault Footstomp (was someone watching Hikari Fukuoka?), but Hiroyo got the next two, including the Liger Bomb for the final fall. Mariko Yoshida appeared to speak, but didn't seem to say anything new about Ibuki's future, which is they are on hiatus and ...?
JWP November 3, 2009
Tokyo Cinema Club
197 Fans
1. Keito defeated Hamuko Hoshi (5:27) with the Heel Drop.
1a. Keito defeated Chii Tomiya (3:17) with the Falcon Arrow.
2. KAZUKI & Misaki Ohata defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki & Chisato Kuroki (15:41) when Ohata used a Diving Body Press on Kuroki.
3. JWP vs Passion Red: Passion Hottei defeated Sachie Abe (15:59) with La Magistral.
4. Hyuga Retirement Road: Tojuki Leon defeated Azumi Hyuga (24:50) with the Captured Buster.
5. Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura defeated Kayoko Haruyama & Command Bolshoi (16:12) when Sakura used La Magistral on Bolshoi.
ICE RIBBON November 3, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
80 Fans
1. Hikari Minami defeated Chii Tomiya (6:39) with the Blockbuster.
2. Makoto defeated Minori Makiba (9:10).
3. Kayoko Haruyama & Io Shirai defeated Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi (10:45) when Haruyama used a Lariat on Shimouma.
4. ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura defeated Sachie Abe (15:02) with La Magistral. Sakura is successful in the 7th defense.
ZERO1 November 3, 2009
Masuda Citizen Gymnasium
5. Manami Toyota Hometown Return Match: Nanae Takahashi & Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Manami Toyota & Tsukasa Fujimoto (21:55) when Takahashi used an Iku Bomb on Fujimoto.
ZERO1 November 4, 2009
Biki Messe Shimane
2. 3WAY Match: Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Nanae Takahashi & Tsukasa Fujimoto (10:53) with a Modified Rolling Cradle on Fujimoto.
UNION November 6, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
3. Cherry vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
ICE RIBBON November 7, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
76 Fans
1. Minori Makiba defeated Chii Tomiya (7:06) with a Reverse Cross Armbreaker.
2. Emi Sakura & Makoto defeated Misaki Ohata & Hikari Minami (13:14) when Makoto used a Cradle on Minami.
3. 3WAY Match: Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Kaori Yoneyama & Riho (6:28) with a Cradle Cutback on Riho.
4. Kazumi Shimouma defeated Hamuko Hoshi (14:37) with the Passion of the Woman.
NEO November 7, 2009
Kooriyama City Gymnasium
384 Fans
1. Aya Yuki defeated DASH Chisako (8:33) with a German Suplex Hold.
2. 3WAY Match: Apple Miyuki defeated Tsubo Genjin & Mr. Buddhaman (8:40) with a Schoolboy on Genjin.
3. Megumi Yabushita defeated Small Antonio Inoki (9:21) with a Diving Body Press.
4. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Yuki Miyazaki (14:09) with the Tomore Clutch.
5. Kyoko Inoue & Cherry defeated Dump Matsumoto & Sucking Blood Mouse Witch (13:08) when Matsumoto was disqualified for violence against the referee.
IBUKI November 8, 2009
Korakuen Hall
956 Fans
1. Ryo Mizunami, Hiren, & Yukari Ishino defeated Esui, Makoto, & Kazumi Shimouma (13:35) when Mizunami used a Diving Guillotine Drop on Esui.
2. Nanae Takahashi defeated Shu Shibutani (7:15) with an Iguchi Bomb.
3. Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara vs Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa (20:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura defeated Misaki Ohata (15:25) with the Nyan Nyan Press. Sakura is successful in the 8th defense.
5. Tojuki Leon & Kaori Yoneyama defeated Ray & Natsuki*Taiyo (15:45) when Yoneyama defeated Ray.
6. Best 2 of 3 Falls: Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Atsuko Emoto (29:28) by 2 falls to 1. Emoto used a Modified Moonsault Footstomp (15:25). Matsumoto used a Shining Wizard Cutback (20:53). Matsumoto used a Liger Bomb (29:28).
JOSHI ALL STARS November 8, 2009
Okinawa Naha Civic Center
1. Ranmaru defeated Ayako Sato
2. Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Command Bolshoi
3. KAORU & Drake Morimatsu defeated Tomoko Watanabe & Yumi Ohka when KAORU pinned Ohka.
4. Manami Toyota defeated GAMI
5. Jaguar Yokota, Azumi Hyuga, & Dynamite Kansai defeated Aja Kong, Kyoko Inoue, & Toshie Uematsu when Yokota pinned Uematsu
Monday, November 2, 2009
Joshi Digest: November 1, 2009
NEO “STAND OUT” 11/1/2009 Korakuen Hall
This is Etsuko Mita’s retirement show after her 22 year career.
Etsuko Mita vs Makoto: Mita’s last singles is against her skinny young follower from Ice Ribbon. Mita’s been pulling Makoto from being a cowardly comedy joke to one of the more surprisingly decent wrestlers on the scene. Etsu’s in blue and white and just gets buried in streamers. Makoto’s kicks aren’t as feeble as they used to be and she gets a suplex on the big woman. Then Makoto gives Mita some of her trademark Blazing Chops. Bad move, dear, as Mita chops the shit out of Makoto’s bosomly region to the point that her boobies are probably as purple as her outfit. Mita about kills the poor thing with a Brainbuster and then it’s Original Death Valley Bomb time for the win.
Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda vs Kyoko Inoue & Nanae Takahashi. Mita’s final match is with Mima, as the Los Cachorrus Orientales face NEO’s Big Momma and Passion Nanae. Mita stiffs Nanae with the yellow chair. Nanae blades and the LCO rough her up. One last Tope Suicida. Mita DVB’s Kyoko and Nanae barely breaks up the pin, leading to Mita busting the pink chair on Nanae’s head. Mita sets up Inoue for the final DVB, but Kyoko gets in a meaty LARIAT-O and the Niagara Driver.
Retirement Ceremony: A who’s who of the industry past and present. Mima’s bawling her eyes out. Makoto gives Mita a giant pinky fuzzy heart. What a weirdo! Nanae, Momoe, and Momoe’s impossibly cute girl give flowers. Shimoda comes with flowers and then “Oro De Lay” comes on. It’s AKIRA FUCKING HOKUTO. She's hasn't made a joshi appearance since her retirement in 2002. Mita and Shimoda might be worried that Akira has come to slap the shit out of them again, but Hokuto’s in a good mood today. Mita chokes back the tears while thanking Shimoda and the fans, then the final ten count.
WAVE “GAMI LIBRE 5” 11/1/2009 Shinjuku FACE
This show was GAMI’s 20th anniversary, and featured a card that started with WAVE and went through The Woman, AtoZ, ARSION, LLPW, to a JWP Class of 1989 main event.
GAMI, Yasha Kurenai, & Mizuki Endo vs Command Bolshoi, Hikari Fukuoka, & Sumiko Saito: Bolshoi beats GAMI in like a minute. GAMI gets pissed off with Bolshoi, as Yasha, Hikari, and Sumiko all came out of retirement and didn’t even get to wrestle. They restart. Hikari looks amazing for being away for 10 years. She’s thinner and has short light brown hair now, so she looks more like Momoe Nakanishi than Manami Toyota now. It must be the Japanese soccer mom look. Hikari hits a nice handspring elbow, and tries a freaking moonsault, but GAMI puts up her legs. Bolshoi grabs GAMI by the ear and says “WTF is wrong with you?”, and then Hikari hits a FUCKING MOONSAULT FOOTSTOMP-O on GAMI for the fall. Yasha shamelessly celebrates with Fukuoka despite being on the other team. Now GAMI’s really hacked off, as she’s now dropped a fall at her memorial show to some housewife who hasn’t worked since 1999. GAMI gets one last restart and saves some face with La GAMIstral on Bolshoi. Then GAMI drinks beer backstage to help keep her girlish figure. Hikari, Yasha, and Sumiko pretend to drink theirs, but they are all on the MILF Nakano diet, not the Inoue/Ito diet.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Results, October 28-November 1
We had three big stories in joshi puroresu this week. The first is potential bad news. It was announced that Ibuki will be going on hiatus. They will have their Korakuen Hall show next weekend and then one more show next year, but the future after that is murky. Mariko Yoshida hasn't wrestled since the end of 2008, and there is a strong possibility that she could be retiring and withdrawing completely from the joshi business. It would be a huge loss to not have her as a trainer and a booker giving the talented younger workers the chance that others can't or won't give them. It is possible that S-Ovation may continue in the joshi business without Yoshida. I think we'll know more next week if Yoshida appears and gives a statement.Etsuko Mita's retirement road finally concluded with a big show at Korakuen Hall. Apparently, NEO used the full seating configuration and had their biggest crowd since their debut show. Too bad joshi can't get big crowds when someone from the glory days isn't retiring. Makoto was Mita's final victim, then Mita & Shimoda fell to Kyoko & Nanae, as Inoue ended Etsu's career with a Niagara Driver. Tons of current and former wrestlers came to the ceremony. Attendees, besides those on the card, included everyone from Ice Ribbon, JWP, OZ Academy, Kaoru Ito and the rest of Ito Dojo, Yoshida and the rest of Ibuki, Shinobu Kandori, Mizuki Endo, Megumi Yabushita, Ran Yu-Yu, all of the NEO OGs (Misae Genki, Haruka Matsuo, Yuka Shiina, Yuka Nakamura), and tons from AJW, like Manami Toyota, Toshiyo Yamada, Michiko Nagashima, Rie Tamada, Yumi Fukawa, Kumiko Maekawa, Momoe Nakanishi, Chapparita ASARI, and AKIRA FUCKING HOKUTO.
GAMI's 20th annivesary show had kind of a cool format. Each match represented one of the SIX promotions she has worked in her career, starting in the current day with WAVE and working back in time through The Woman, AtoZ, ARSION, LLWP, to the main event, which was a reunion of the JWP class of 1989. Hikari Fukuoka, Sumiko Saito, and Yasha Kurenai were making special returns from retirement. The main was LLPW (GAMI, Yasha, Endo) vs JWP (Bolshoi, Hikari, Sumiko). Bolshoi beat GAMI, then in a restart Fukuoka hit her trademark Moonsault Footstomp on GAMI (or should I saw Michiko Futagami). GAMI finally one after another restart, pinning Bolshoi. I don't know if Kurenai or Saito did much, but Hikari was said to be in great shape and form.
WAVE October 28, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
142 Fans
1. Tojuki Leon defeated Ryo Mizunami (12:17) with the Mad Splash.
2. 4 Way Champions Match: Moeka Haruhi (Asian Pan-Pacific Girl's Champion) vs Misaki Ohata (JWP Junior & POP) vs Mio Shirai (TLW Junior Tag) vs Kaori Yoneyama (JWP Tag, Daily Sports Tag, Ice Ribbon Tag, NEO High Speed) (15:00) ended in a time-limit draw.
3. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga defeated Cherry (13:38) with the Michinoku Driver II.
4. Mita Retirement Road: Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda defeated GAMI & Yumi Ohka (24:35) when Mita used the Death Valley Bomb on Ohka.
ICE RIBBON October 30, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
73 Fans
1. Kaori Yoneyama defeated Chii Tomiya (6:33) with a Double Wrist Armsault.
2. Sachie Abe vs Makoto (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Mio Shirai & Io Shirai defeated Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii (11:35) when Io used the Rio de Janiero on Ichii.
4. ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (14:26) with La Magistral. Sakura is successful in the 5th defense.
ICE RIBBON October 31, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
83 Fans
1. Riho defeated Chii Tomiya (4:53) with a Northern Lights Suplex.
2. 3WAY Match: Miyako Matsumoto defeated Hikaru Shida & Cherry (7:39) with a Schoolboy on Shida.
3. Mio Shirai & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Mai Ichii & Minori Makiba (11:34) when Shimouma used The Passion of the Woman on Makiba.
4. ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura defeated Makoto (17:19) with La Magistral. Sakura is successful in the 6th defense.
SENDAI GIRLS October 31, 2009
Sendai Izumi Osawa Shopping Center
1. DASH Chisako defeated Yukari Ishino (9:02) with a Frogsplash.
2. Ryo Mizunami defeated Hiren (6:34) with a Diving Guillotine Drop.
3. DASH Chisako & Hiren defeated Ryo Mizunami & Yukari Ishino (12:18) when Hiren used a Diving Neckbreaker on Ishino.
NEO "STAND OUT" November 1, 2009
Korakuen Hall
Etsuko Mita Retirement Show
1700 Fans
1. Aya Yuki defeated Kazumi Shimouma (6:11) with a Fireman's Carry.
2. Tanny Mouse & Emi Sakura defeated Mio Shirai & Hikaru Shida (8:31) when Sakura used La Magistral on Shida.
3. Natsuki*Taiyo & Passion Ray defeated Io Shirai & Tsukasa Fujimoto (9:59) when Taiyo used a Moonsault Press on Fujimoto.
4. Yoshiko Tamura vs Kana (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
5. Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Yuki Miyazaki, Fuuka, & Ayumi Kurihara (14:45) when Kimura used the Big Boot on Miyazaki.
6. Etsuko Mita Last Singles Match: Etsuko Mita defeated Makoto (13:34) with the Death Valley Bomb.
7. Etsuko Mita Retirement Match: Kyoko Inoue & Nanae Takahashi defeated Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda (22:05) when Inoue used the Niagara Driver on Mita.
GAMI LIBRE 5 "GAMI 20TH ANNIVERSARY" November 1, 2009
Shinjuku FACE
490 Fans
1. WAVE TIME: GAMI & Yumi Ohka defeated Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata (8:21) when Ohka used the Neck Hanging Bomb on Haruhi.
2. The Woman TIME Royal Rumble: Yuki Miyazaki (#1) defeated Azumi Hyuga (#12) (22:06) by Over the Top Rope. Others, in order of elimiantion: GAMI (#2), Kyoko Kimura (#7), Electric Wave Mask Woman (#13), Dynamite Kansai (#14), Mayumi Ozaki (#11), Takako Inoue (#4), Keito (#6), Cherry (#5), Reika (#9), Bachiko (#10), Ayumi Kurihara (#3), Ran Yu-Yu (#8).
3. AtoZ TIME: Yumiko Hotta & Kana defeated Sachie Abe & Bullfight Sora when Hotta used a Pyramid Driver on Sora.
4. ARSION TIME: Aja Kong & AKINO defeated GAMI & Tojuki Leon (8:54) when Kong used a Uraken on GAMI.
5. LLPW TIME: Noriyo Tateno defeated Harley Saito (6:12) with a Small Package.
6. JWP TIME-GAMI 20th Anniversary Match: Command Bolshoi, Hikari Fukuoka, & Sumiko Saito defeated GAMI, Yasha Kurenai, & Mizuki Endo (1:26) when Bolshoi used a Kido Clutch on GAMI.
6a. Restart: Command Bolshoi, Hikari Fukuoka, & Sumiko Saito defeated GAMI, Yasha Kurenai, & Mizuki Endo (6:11) when Fukuoka used a Moonsault Footstomp on GAMI.
6b. Restart: GAMI, Yasha Kurenai, & Mizuki Endo defeated Command Bolshoi, Hikari Fukuoka, & Sumiko Saito (9:05) when GAMI used La GAMIstral on Bolshoi.
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