1JoshI

Probably the end...

2010-10-12T10:29:00.000-05:00

If anyone still checks, obviously I lost interest in updating this blog. I still post some at JoshiFans and that is probably the best place to keep up with current joshi. I am doing a weekly digest post in the "I LOVE JOSHI" thread in the Purotopia thread at DVDVR.

Also, I found it harder and harder to find stuff I wanted to talk about, so I'm not doing any more BlogTalkRadio shows. Maybe someone else will pick up the baton?

Oh, and NEO sucks.

Results, July 19-August 1

2010-08-01T10:03:00.002-05:00

ULTIMO DRAGON PRODUCE July 19, 2010
Korakuen Hall

3. Brazo de Platino, Milanito Collection a.t., & A*YU*MI defeated NOSAWA Rongai, Minoru Fujita, & Misaki Ohata (13:42) by Triple Pinfall after a Body Press by Platino.

19 PRO July 20, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
883 Views

1. Chii Tomiya defeated Sayaka Obihiro (9:05).

19 PRO July 22, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM

1. Makoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (12:11).

ICE RIBBON July 24, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
90 Fans

1. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Sayaka Obihiro (9:01) with a Backflip.
2. 3 Way Match: Emi Sakura defeated Riho & Tsukushi (12:48) with a Double Small Package Hold.
3. Makoto vs Mio Shirai (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Hikari Minami & Hikaru Shida (14:47) defeated Miyako Matsumoto & Chii Tomiya when Minami used the Blockbuster Hold on Tomiya.

JWP July 24, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
126 Fans

1. Sachie Abe defeated Moon Mitsuki (?) (9:27) with a Diving Body Press.
2. Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Yuki Miyazaki (11:43) with a Lariat.
3. KAZUKI defeated Hanako Kobayashi (11:32) with Death By Roderick.
4. JWP Summer Tag Tournament 1st Round: Leon & Kagetu defeated Keito & Asami Kawasaki (14:59) when Kagetu used a Cradle on Keito.
5. JWP Summer Tag Tournament 1st Round: Kaori Yoneyama & Command Bolshoi defeated Kayoko Haruyama & Tanny Mouse (12:50) when Bolshoi used a W-Style Hold on Haruyama.

SMASH.5 July 24, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
590 Fans
3. Kana defeated Shura (3:06) with an Armlock.
6. Eugene, Scotty II Hotty, & TAKA Michinoku defeated TAJIRI, KUSHIDA, & Lin Bairon (17:12) when Scotty used the Worm on KUSHIDA.

SMASH.6 July 24, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
600 Fans

3. Akira Shoji & Toshie Uematsu defeated AKIRA & Lin Bairon (11:36) when Uematsu used a Schoolboy on Bairon.
4. Eugune & Shuri defeated Scotty II Hotty & TAKA Michinoku (13:15) when Eugene used a Schoolboy on Scotty.

DDT July 25, 2010
Tokyo Sumo Hall
8800 Fans

2. UWA Trios Title, Jiyugaoka Six Man Tag Team Title & Nihonkai Six Man Tag Team Title, 3 Way Match: Great Kojika, Riho, & Mr #6 defeated Hikaru Sato, Keisuke Ishii, & YOSHIHIKO and KUDO, Yasu Urano, & Antonio Honda (11:05) when Riho used the Kurukuru Ribbon on Honda.

NEO July 25, 2010
Nagoya Chigusa Sports Center
473 Fans

1. Mima Shimoda defeated Hamuko Hoshi (8:34) with a Tiger Suplex Hold.
2. Hailey Hatred defeated Basara (7:52) with the Diva Killer.
3. Manami Toyota defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (12:57) with the Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex Hold.
4. Jaguar Yokota & Tanny Mouse defeated Kayoko Haruyama & Megumi Yabushita (12:39) when Yokota pinned Yabushita.
5. Yuki Miyazaki & Sonoko Kato defeated Aya Yuki & Tsubasa Kuragaki (17:01) when Miyazaki used the Gedo Clutch on Kuragaki.
6. NEO/NWA Pacific Championship: Yoshiko Tamura defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto (20:23) with the Mount Cook. Tamura succeeds in the 4th defense.

SENDAI GIRLS July 25, 2010
Shikamacho Citizen Gymnasium
680 Fans

1. Hiren defeated Hikaru Shida (11:52) with the Ankle Lock.
2. KAORU & Kaori Yoneyama defeated DASH Chisako & Sendai Sachiko (17:32) when KAORU used the Valkyrie Splash on Chisako.
3. Command Bolshoi defeated Kagetu (8:55) with a Bolshoi-Style Hold.
4. Meiko Satomura & Ryo Mizunami defeated Aja Kong & Toshie Uematsu (18:51) when Satomura used the Death Valley Bomb on Uematsu.

WAVE July 25, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
176 Fans
1. Catch the WAVE, Young Persons Block: Misaki Ohata [6] vs Io Shirai [6] (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Shu Shibutani & Moeka Haruhi defeated Kana & Sawako Shimono (14:47) when Haruhi used the Clift on Shimono.
3. Ran Yu-Yu defeated Sakura Hirota (as Toshie Uematsu) (6:31) with an Elbow Smash.
4. Catch the WAVE, Rivals Block: Ayumi Kurihara [2] (11:01) defeated Asami Kawasaki [4] with an Uranage.
5. Catch the WAVE, Visual Technical Block: GAMI [4] vs Yumi Ohka [5] (20:00) went to a time-limit draw.

19 PRO July 27, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
981 Views

1. Hikari Minami & Makoto defeated Emi Sakura & Sayaka Obihiro (13:08) when Minami used the Blockbuster on Obihiro.

ICE RIBBON July 28, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
64 Fans

1. Hikaru Shida defeated Sayaka Obihiro (7:15) with a Brainbuster.
2. Chii Tomiya defeated Miyako Matsumoto (8:18) with a Cradle.
3. Emi Sakura vs Tsukasa Fujimoto (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Hikari Minami & Makoto defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi (12:37) when Minami used the Blockbuster on Hoshi.

19 PRO July 29, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
959 Views

1. Hikari Minami & Hikaru Shida defeated Emi Sakura & Sayaka Obihiro (14:53) when Minami used the Blockbuster on Obihiro.

19 PRO July 30, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
826 Views

1. Emi SSakura & Chii Tomiya defeated Hikari Minami & Sayaka Obihiro (13:59) when Sakura used a Missile Kick on Obihiro.

Shin FMW July 30, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

2. Hailey Hatred defeated Keito (5:58) with a Backdrop.
4. TLW Young Women's Tag Team Championship: Basara & Bambi defeated Aya Yuki & Aki Shizuku (11:11) when Basara used a German Suplex Hold on Shizuku. Basara & Bambi succeed in the 1st defense.

ICE RIBBON July 31, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
Makoto 4th Anniversary
91 Fans

1. Tsukasa Fujimoto, Chii Tomiya, & Sayaka Obihiro defeated Natsuki*Taiyo, Miyako Matsumoto, & Riho (17:50) when Tomiya used a Cradle on Matsumoto.
2. Makoto 4th Anniversary Series: Makoto defeated Kurume (1:31).
2a. Makoto defeated Hamuko Hoshi (2:02) with a Cradle.
2b. Makoto vs Emi Sakura (4:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2c. Makoto defeated Tsukushi (0:09).
2d. Handicap Match: Makoto defeated Emi Sakura, Hamuko Hoshi, Tsukushi, & Kurume (5:57) with a Double Arm Suplex Hold on Tsukushi.
3. Hikari Minami & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Nanae Takahashi & Hikaru Shida (19:32) when Shimouma used The Passion of the Woman on Shida.

WAVE July 31, 2010
Chiba Mitsui Garden Hotel Funabashi
152 Fans

1. Catch the WAVE, Young Person's Block: Ryo Mizunami [6] defeaed Sawako Shimono [2] (8:53) with a Diving Guillotine Drop.
2. Shu Shibutani & Misaki Ohata defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Moeka Haruhi (13:21) when Ohata used the Hanamaru Dokkan on Haruhi.
3. Catch the WAVE, Rivals Block: Ayumi Kurihara [4] defeated Cherry [3] (9:06) with a Small Package Hold.
4. Catch the WAVE, Visual Technical Block: Toshie Uematsu [3] defeated Kana [5] (14:49).
5. Aja Kong, KAORU, & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated GAMI, Yumi Ohka, & Tsubasa Kuragaki (15:53) when Kong used a Diving Elbow Drop on GAMI.

NEO August 1, 2010
Korakuen Hall
987 Fans

1. Ryo Mizunami & Hailey Hatred defeated Aya Yuki & Kagetu (9:55) when Mizunami used a Diving Guillotine Drop on Kagetu.
2. Asami Kawasaki defeated Mio Shirai (7:30) with a Chokeslam.
3. Manami Toyota, Makoto, & Miyako Matsumoto defeated Mima Shimoad, Tsukasa Fujimoto, & Hikaru Shida (17:20) when Toyota used a Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex Hold on Shida.
4. 3 Way Match: Yuki Miyazaki defeated Emi Sakura & Toshie Uematsu (10:28) by using a Gedo Clutch on Uematsu.
5. JWP Openweight Championship: Kaori Yoneyama defeated Tanny Mouse (15:20) with the Yone-Zou. Yoneyama succeeds in the 1st defense.
6. Nozaki Return Match: Shuri defeated Nagisa Nozaki (5:25) with an Armlock.
7. NEO Tag Team Championship: Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Kana & Io Shirai (22:39) when Kurihara used a Modified Uranage on Shirai. Tamura & Kurihara succeed in the 4th defense.

OZ ACADEMY August 1, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
1. Ran Yu-Yu defeated Nao Komatsu with an Armbar.
2. Dynamite Kansai & Carlos Amano defeated AKINO & Tomoka Nakagawa when Kansai used Splash Mountain on Nakagawa.
3. Manami Toyota defeated Toshie Uematsu with a Japanese Ocean Queen Bee Bomb.
4. Aja Kong & KAORU defeated Takako Inoue & Hiren when KAORU used a Moonsault Press on Hiren.
5. OZ Academy Tag Team #1 Contendership Match: Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato defeated Mayumi Ozaki & Yumi Ohka when Kato used Crown's Gate on Ohka.

Results, July 13-19

2010-07-21T06:41:00.000-05:00

19 PRO July 13, 2010
Ice Ribbon DOJO/USTREAM
948 Views

1. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Sayaka Obihiro (12:11) with a Backflip.

WAVE July 13, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
151 Fans

1. Catch the WAVE, Rivals Block: Moeka Haruhi [1] vs Cherry [3] (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Catch the WAVE, Visual Technical Block: Yumi Ohka [4] defeated Mio Shirai [1] (8:54) with a Neck-Hanging Type Facebuster.
3. Catch the WAVE, Visual Technical Block: GAMI [3] vs Toshie Uematsu [1] (20:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Io Shirai defeated Sakura Hirota (as Kana) (9:23) with the Io De Janiero.
5. Kurihara 26th Birthday Match: AKINO & Shu Shibutani defeated Ayumi Kurihara & Misaki Ohata (14:40) when AKINO used a Kick on Ohata.
6. Exhibition: Ayumi Kurihara vs AKINO (5:00) went to a time-limit draw.

ICE RIBBON July 14, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
83 Fans

1. Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (8:48) with a Missile Kick.
2. Natsuki*Taiyo & Miyako Matsumoto defeated Makoto & Hamuko Hoshi (10:43) when Taiyo used La Magistral on Hoshi.
3. Special Rules (Tomiya only needed a 1 count): Chii Tomiya defeated Jun Kasai (7:01) with the Miya Here Clutch.
4. Emi Sakura defeated Hikaru Shida (15:58) with a Tiger Driver.

19 PRO July 15, 2010
Ice Ribbon DOJO/USTREAM
878 Views

1. Makoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (10:47) with the W/W Knee.

19 PRO July 16, 2010
Ice Ribbon DOJO/USTREAM
823 Views

1. Emi Sakura defeated Sayaka Obihiro (8:04) with a Modified Romero Special.

19 PRO July 17, 2010
Ice Ribbon DOJO/USTREAM
1026 Views

1. Hikari Minami & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Emi Sakura & Sayaka Obihiro (21:53) when Minami used the Blockbuster on Obihiro.

ICE RIBBON July 17, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
84 Fans

1. Riho & Kurume defeated Hamuko Hoshi & Tsukushi (10:43) when Riho pinned Hoshi.
2. Chii Tomiya defeated Miyako Matsumoto (6:13) with the Miya Here Clutch.
3. 3 Way Match: Kazumi Shimouma defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Makoto (8:19) by using The Passion of the Woman on Fujimoto.
4. Natsuki*Taiyo & Hikari Minami defeated Emi Sakura & Hikaru Shida (14:01) when Minami used the Blockbuster Hold on Shida.

JWP July 18, 2010
Korakuen Hall
829 Fans

1. Moon Mitsuki Debut: Hikari Minami defeated Moon Mitsuki (5:47) with the Blockbuster.
2. Command Bolshoi defeated Emi Sakura (8:31) with La Magistral.
3. Kaoru Ito, Ayako Sato, Hanako Kobayashi, & Tomoko Morii defeated Kayoko Haruyama, Tsubasa Kuragaki, Keito, & Megumi Yabushita (19:24) when Kobayashi used a Schoolboy on Kuragaki.
4. Aja Kong defeated Leon (12:05) with an Uraken.
5. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Championship: KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu defeated Sachie Abe & Ran Yu-Yu (15:15) when KAZUKI used Death by Roderick on Abe. KAZUKI & Uematsu succeed in the 5th defense.
6. JWP Openweight Championship: Kaori Yoneyama defeated Nanae Takahashi (20:54) with an Avalanche-Type U.S.-Zou. Takahashi fails in the 3rd defense and Yoneyama becomes the 15th champion.

NEO/MISAE GENKI PRODUCE July 18, 2010
Iruma City Minamimine Seishin Industry Transportation Special Ring
743 Fans

1. Takako Inoue defeated Makoto (10:50) with the Beauty Fist.
2. Tsubo Genjin & Mr. Buddhaman defeated La Malcriada & Pretty Ota (10:50) when Buddhaman pinned Ota.
3. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Eiger (9:50) with a Schoolboy.
4. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki defeated Carlos Amano & Sonoko Kato (19:54) when Tanny used a Cradle on Amano.
5. Ran Yu-Yu defeated Aya Yuki (13:52) with a Diving Knee Drop.
6. Yoshiko Tamura & Mima Shimoda defeated Manami Toyota & Toshie Uematsu (19:35) when Tamura used an Elbow on Uematsu.

ICE RIBBON July 19, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
278 Fans

1. Riho defeated Tsukushi (7:37) with a Northern Lights Suplex Hold.
2. Hikaru Shida, Tsukasa Fujimoto, & Sayaka Obihiro defeated Natsuki*Taiyo, Mai Ichii, & Minori Makiba (18:18) when Shida used the Three Count on Makiba.
3. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Aika Ando (0:16) with a Mathold.
3a. Restart: Hamuko Hoshi defeated Aika Ando (0:17) with a Cradle.
3b. Restart: Haumko Hoshi defeated Aika Ando (5:20) with a Lariat.
4. International Ribbon Tag Team Championship: Miyako Matsumoto & Jun Kasai defeated Command Bolshoi & Chii Tomiya (12:16) when Matsumoto used the Miya Here Clutch on Tomiya. Matsumoto & Kasai succeed in the 1st defense.
5. Traingle Ribbon Championship: Kazumi Shimouma defeated Nanae Takahashi & Makoto (11:53) by using a Jackknife Hold on Makoto. Takahashi fails in the 1st defense and Shimouma becomes the 4th champion.
6. ICEx60 Championship: Hikari Minami defeated Emi Sakura (16:13) with a Blockbuster Hold. Sakura fails in the 3rd defense and Minami becomes the 9th champion.

NEO July 19, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
186 Fans

1. Aya Yuki defeated Hanako Kobayashi (8:14) with a Death Valley Bomb.
2. Yuki Miyazaki defeated Bambi (9:22) with a Moonsault.
3. Tanny Mouse defeated Mima Shimoda (18:37) with an European Clutch.
4. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata defeated Ryo Mizunami & Kagetsu (16:00) when Matsumoto used a Backdrop on Kagetsu.
5. Kana, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai defeated Yoshiko Tamura, Asami Kawasaki, & Hikaru Shida (15:01) when Mio used the Purple Flash on Kawasaki.

DAIJO (OSAKA GIRLS) July 19, 2010
Osaka World Building
184 Fans

1. Kana, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai defeated GAMI, Policewo~man, & Benten-jo (18:40) when Kana used a Sliding Kick on GAMI.
2. Megumi Yabushita defeated Basara (7:36) with a Palm Strike.
3. Sakura Candle defeated Sakura Hirota (as Yumi Ohka) (12:03) with the Candle Twist.
4. Kaoru Ito defeated Shu Shibutani (12:02) with the Diving Footstomp.
5. Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu defeated GAMI & Sawako Shimono (19:30) when Ran used a Forearm Smash on Shimono.

Results, July 6-11

2010-07-12T09:38:00.002-05:00

19 PRO July 6, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
1112 Views

1. Hikaru Shida defeated Sayaka Obihiro (8:44) with a Brainbuster.

ICE RIBBON July 7, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
95 Fans
1. Chii Tomiya defeated Hamuko Hoshi (7:31) with a Cradle.
2. Makoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (9:53).
3. Jun Kasai & Miyako Matsumoto defeated Keita Yano & Mai Ichii (13:39) when Kasai used the Bucks Ride Bomb on Ichii.
4. Iron Man Match: Hikaru Shida vs Tsukasa Fujimoto (20:00) went to a draw.
4a. Fujimoto defeated Shida (13:51) with the Tsukadora.
4b. Shida defeated Fujimoto (18:50) with a Brainbuste.

19 PRO July 8, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
869 Views

1. Chii Tomiya defeated Sayaka Obihiro (9:17) with a Small Package Hold.

SENDAI GIRLS July 9, 2010
Zepp Sendai
600 Fans
4th Anniversary Show

1. JWP Jr. & P.O.P. #1 Contendership Match: Hiren defeated Kagetsu (12:19) with a Diving Neckbreaker.
2. Aja Kong & Nanae Takahashi defeated Ryo Mizunami & Hiroyo Matsumoto (24:12) when Kong used a Vertical Drop Brainbuster on Mizunami.
3. JWP & Daily Sports Tag Team Championship: KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu defeated DASH Chisako & Sendai Sachiko (17:32) when Uematsu used a Dragon Suplex Hold on Sachiko.
4. 2nd Battlefield Tournament Final: Meiko Satomura defeated Yoshiko Tamura (17:21) with Scorpion Rising.

KAZUSHI MIYAMOTO PRODUCE July 10, 2010
Ishinomaki Synthesis Gymnasium
4. Kana & Basara defeated Apple Miyuki & Aya Yuki (12:36) when Kana used an Uraken on Yuki.

ICE RIBBON July 10, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
80 Fans

1. Miyako Matsumoto & Kurume defeated Chii Tomiya & Sayaka Obihiro (10:45) when Matsumoto used the Miya Here Clutch on Tomiya.
2. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Tsukushi (7:44) with a Diving Body Press.
3. Four Way Elimination Match: Hikari Minami defeated Hikaru Shida, Riho, & Tsukasa Fujimoto (14:43).
3a. Minami defeated Riho (7:36) with a Blockbuster Hold.
3b. Minami defeated Fujimoto (11:39) with a Blockbuster Hold.
3c. Minami defeated Shida (14:43) with a Blockbuster Hold.
4. Makoto & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Natsuki*Taiyo & Minori Makiba (19:01) when Makoto used a German Suplex Hold on Makiba.

JWP July 11, 2010
JWP Dojo
105 Fans

1. Exhibiton: Mizuho Moon (?) vs Kayoko Haruyama (5:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Poolside 3WAY Match: Keito defeated Command Bolshoi & Kayoko Haruyama (9:37) by Double Submersion.
3. Poolside Match: Sachie Abe defeated KAZUKI (9:35) by Submersion.
4. Kaori Yoneyama, Tsubasa Kuragaki, & Leon defeated Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki Taiyo, & Kazumi Shimouma (18:59) when Yoneyama used the Diving Kneedrop on Shimouma.

NEO July 11, 2010
Higashikurume-shi West Housing Complex Corner Parking Lot
301 Fans

1. Ayako Sato defeated Tomoko Morii (12:35) with a German Suplex Hold.
2. Makoto defeated Tsukushi (8:58) with a Double Arm Suplex Hold.
3. Mr. Buddhaman defeated Pretty Ota (6:30) with the Saturn Rocket Beam.
4. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Hanako Kobayashi (9:55) with a Patriot Bomb.
5. Tanny Mouse defeated Apple Miyuki (16:25) with a Schoolboy.
6. Jaguar Yokota & Toshie Uematsu defeated Yuki Miyazaki & Aya Yuki (15:19) when Uematsu pinned Yuki.

OZ ACADEMY July 11, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Hiren defeated Nao Komatsu (13:03) with a Missile Kick.
2. Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato defeated Tomoka Nakagawa & Hiroyo Matsumoto (12:13) when Nagashima used a Figure-4 Leglock on Matsumoto.
3. Dynamite Kansai, Manami Toyota, & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Mayumi Ozaki, Takako Inoue, & Yumi Ohka (20:54) when Toyota used a Japanese Ocean Queen Bee Bomb on Inoue.
4. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu defeated Aja Kong & Kaoru Ito (23:15) when AKINO used a Modified La Magistral on Kong. Kong & Ito fail in the 1st defense and AKINO & Yu-Yu become the 10th champions.
5. OZ Academy Openweight Championship: KAORU defeated Carlos Amano (13:11) with a Carlos Ghosn Cutback. Amano fails in the 2nd defense and KAORU becomes the 8th champion.

Results, June 20-July 4

2010-07-04T11:33:00.000-05:00

Thanks to purolove.com for some of these belated results.

WAVE June 20, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
180 Fans

1. Catch the WAVE, Young Person's Block: Misaki Ohata [4] defeated Sawako Shimono [0] (6:18) with the Fairy Lock.
2. Catch the WAVE, Rivals Block: Asami Kawasaki [2] defeated Moeka Haruhi [0] (6:37) with a High Kick.
3. Catch the WAVE, Visual Technical Block: GAMI [2] vs Kana [3] (20:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Senri Kuroki defeated Sakura Hirota (as Command Bolshoi) (7:05).
5. Catch the WAVE, Young Person's Block: Ryo Mizunami [3] vs Io Shirai [3] (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
6. Catch the WAVE, Visual Technical Block: Yumi Ohka [2] defeated Toshie Uematsu [0] (9:09) with a Tiger Suplex Hold.
7. Catch the WAVE, Rivals Block: Shu Shibutani [4] defeated Ayumi Kurihara [0] (11:56) with a Huricanrana.

19 PRO June 22, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
848 Fans

1. Miyako Matsumoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (12:34) with the Mama Mia.

NEO June 23, 2010
Kushiro Sightseeing International Exchange Center
116 Fans

1. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Hikaru Shida (9:59) with the Tokaido Drop.
2. Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Hamuko Hoshi (9:24) with the Triple Taiyo-Chan La Magistral.
3. Manami Toyota defeated Megumi Yabushita (13:04) with the Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex Hold.
4. Toshie Uematsu defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (11:52) with a Dragon Suplex Hold.
5. Yuki Miyazaki & Tanny Mouse defeated Yoshiko Tamura & Aya Yuki (23:01) when Tanny used a Diving Tanny Butt on Yuki.

19 PRO June 23, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM

1. Makoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (9:39) with the W/W Knee.

NEO June 24, 2010
Asahikawa Completion Center Citizen Gymnasium
293 Fans

1. Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Hikaru Shida (7:11) with a Flying Body Press.
2. Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Hamuko Hoshi (10:54) with the Venus Shot.
3. Yuki Miyazaki defeated Aya Yuki (8:54) with a Schoolboy.
4. Manami Toyota defetaed Tanny Mouse (19:09) with a Japanese Ocean Queen Bee Bomb.
5. Yoshiko Tamura & Megumi Yabushita defeated Toshie Uematsu & Hiroyo Matsumoto (17:36) when Tamura used a Cross Armbreaker on Uematsu.

ICE RIBBON June 24, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
68 Fans

1. Io Shirai defeated Chii Tomiya (6:29) with a Moonsault Press.
2. Mio Shirai vs Mai Ichii (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Miyako Matsumoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (9:22) with the Mama Mia.
4. Emi Sakura & Kaori Yoneyama defeated Nanae Takahashi & Makoto (15:49) when Sakura used La Magistral on Makoto.

NEO June 25, 2010
Rausu Town Gymnasium
305 Fans

1. Hikaru Shida defeated Hamuko Hoshi (6:20) with the Three Count.
2. Toshie Uematsu defeated Tanny Mouse (12:18) with an Inside Cradle.
3. Aya Yuki vs Hiroyo Matsumoto (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Megumi Yabushita (12:35) with the Patriot Bomb.
5. Yuki Miyazaki & Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Manami Toyota & Tsukasa Fujimoto (19:06) when Miyazaki used a Tiger Suplex Hold on Fujimoto.
6. Battle Royale: Yoshiko Tamura defeated Tanny Mouse (8:20). Others, in order of elimination: Tsukasa Fujimoto, Manami Toyota, Yuki Miyazaki, Natsuki*Taiyo, Megumi Yabushita, Aya Yuki, Hikaru Shida, Hamuko Hoshi, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Toshie Uematsu.

19 PRO June 25, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
616 Views

1. Emi Sakura defeated Sayaka Obihiro (13:43) by KO after a Missile Kick.

ICE RIBBON June 26, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
65 Fans

1. Mai Ichii defeated Kurume (6:09).
2. Kazumi Shimouma & Miyakao Matsumoto defeated Minori Makiba & Sayaka Obihiro (12:51) when Shimouma used the Passion of the Woman on Makiba.
3. Chii Tomiya defeated Tsukushi (7:03).
4. Emi Sakura & Riho defeated Hikari Minami & Makoto (14:45) when Sakura used La Magistral on Minami.

NEO June 27, 2010
Sapporo Teisen Hall
223 Fans

1. Tanny Mouse defeated Sayaka Obihiro (8:43) with the European Clutch.
2. Emi Sakura & Aya Yuki defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi (14:37) when Yuki used the Death Valley Bomb on Hoshi.
3. Yoshiko Tamura & Hikaru Shida defeated Natsuki*Taiyo & Tsukasa Fujimoto (16:20) when Tamura used a Patriot Buster on Fujimoto.
4. Manami Toyota defeated Makoto (15:09) with a Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex Hold.
5. Battle Royale: Tanny Mouse defeated Hamuko Hoshi (8:25) with a Tanny Butt. Others, in order of elimination: Sayaka Obihiro, Manami Toyota, Makoto, Natsuki*Taiyo, Hikaru Shida, Tsukasa Fujimoto, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Aya Yuki, Emi Sakura, Yoshiko Tamura, Megumi Yabushita.
6. JWP Openweight Championship: Nanae Takahashi defeated Yuki Miyazaki (18:41) with the Nanaracka. Takahashi is successful in the 2nd defense.

JWP June 27, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
106 Fans

1. JWP Openweight Championship #1 Contender's Tournament: Kaori Yoneyama defeated Senri Kuroki (10:53) with a Jumping Knee Attack.
2. JWP Openweight Championship #1 Contender's Tournament: Leon defeated Keito by forfeit.
3. Command Bolshoi & Sachie Abe defeated KAZUKI & Hanako Kobayashi (15:11) when Abe pinned KAZUKI.
4. JWP Openweight Championship #1 Contender's Semifinal: Kaori Yoneyama defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki (14:35) with the U.S.A.-ZOU.
5. JWP Openweight Championship #1 Contender's Semifinal: Kayoko Haruyama defeated Leon (20:16) with a Lariat.

WAVE June 27, 2010
Osaka Matsushita IMP Hall
512 Fans

1. Catch the WAVE, Young Person's Block: Misaki Ohata [5] vs Ryo Mizunami [4] (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Kanjuro Matsuyama & Cherry defeated Kuishinbo Kamen & Sakura Hirota (13:21) when Matsuyama used the Jindaiko on Hirota.
3. Tomoka Nakagawa & Moeka Haruhi vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Carlos Amano, Chikayo Nagashima, & Sonoko Kato defeated Kana, Ayumi Kurihara, & Shu Shibutani (13:59) when Kato used the Crown's Gate on Shibutani.
5. Tigers Mask & Black Buffalo defeated Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu (8:20) when Buffalo used a Backdrop on Uematsu.
6. Aja Kong defeated Yumi Ohka (15:25) with an Uraken.
7. Meiko Satomura & Kagetsu defeated GAMI & Sawako Shimono (23:03) when Satomura used Scorpion Rising on GAMI.

19 PRO June 29, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
705 Views

1. Hikaru Shida defeated Chii Tomiya (10:04) with the Shidaxa.

ICE RIBBON June 30, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
83 Fans

1. Makoto defeated Mai Ichii (10:17) with a Cradle.
2. Kayoko Haruyama & Kaori Yoneyama defeated Hikaru Shida & Tsukasa Fujimoto (17:31) when Yoneyama used a Diving Senton on Shida.
3. Command Bolshoi & Chii Tomiya defeated Emi Sakura & Miyako Matsumoto (13:36) when Tomiya used a Cradle on Matsumoto.

19 PRO July 1, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
629 Views

1. Makoto defeated Hikaru Shida (12:26).

19 PRO July 2, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
2690 Views

1. Nanae Takahashi defeated Emi Sakura (33:36) with the Refrigerator Bomb.

ICE RIBBON July 3, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
72 Fans

1. Minori Makiba defeated Sayaka Obihiro (6:16).
2. Hikaru Shida & Tsukushi defeated Makoto & Kurume (13:41) when Shida used the Shidaxa on Makoto.
3. 3 Way Match: Kazumi Shimouma defeated Miyako Matsumoto & Chii Tomiya (8:34) with a Half Slam Buster on Matsumoto & Tomiya.
4. Emi Sakura & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Hikari Minami & Riho (15:10) when Fujimoto pinned Minami.

NEO July 4, 2010
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
228 Fans

1. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Hanako Kobayashi (9:25) with a Backdrop.
2. Tanny Mouse & Emi Sakura defeated Makoto & Sayaka Obihiro (13:22) when Tanny pinned Obihiro.
3. Kaoru Ito defeated Aya Yuki (14:51) with a Diving Foot Stomp.
4. Kana defeated Mai Ichii (11:59) with an Ankle Lock.
5. Black Buffalo defeated Yuki Miyazaki (0:30).
5a. Restart: Black Buffalo defeated Yuki Miyazaki (9:35) with a Lariat.
6. NEO Tag Team Championship: Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (17:18) when Tamura used a Patriot Bomb on Mio. Tamura & Kurihara are successful in the 3rd defense.

JWP July 4, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club
151 Fans

1. Exhibition: Keito vs 塩田瑞月 (5:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki & Shu Shibutani (17:44) when Yabushita used a Reverse Cross Armbreaker on Shibutani.
3. Nanae Takahashi & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Leon & Misaki Ohata (16:32) when Takahashi used the Albatross on Ohata.
4. KAZUKI, Toshie Uematsu, & Ran Yu-Yu defeated Sachie Abe, Ayako Sato, & Tomoko Morii (13:25) when KAZUKI pinned Abe.
5. JWP Openweight Championship #1 Contender's Match: Kaori Yoneyama defeated Kayoko Haruyama (29:09) with the U.S.-ZOU.

WAVE July 4, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club
214 Fans

1. Young People vs NO Young People: Cherry, Tomoka Nakagawa, & Io Shirai defeated GAMI, Toshie Uematsu, & Yumi Ohka (13:43) when Cherry used the Fantasy Illusion on GAMI.
2. Catch the WAVE, Visual Technical Block: Kana [3] defeated Mio Shirai [1] (9:22) with a Chickenwing Face Lock.
3. Comical WAVE: Sakura Hirota (as GAMI) defeated Sawako Shimono (9:58).
4. TLW World Young Person's Tag Team Championship: Bambi & Basara defeated Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata (13:36) when Basara used a German Suplex Hold on Haruhi. Haruhi & Ohata fail in the 2nd defense and Bambi & Basara become the 3rd champions.
5. Catch the WAVE, Rivals Block: Asami Kawasaki [4] defeated Shu Shibutani [4] (12:26) with a Chokeslam.

Schedule, June 2010

2010-06-30T07:18:00.003-05:00

19 PRO June 1, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM

1. Sayaka Obihiro vs Makoto

ICE RIBBON June 2, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Tanny Mouse vs Miyako Matsumoto
2. Makoto & Hikaru Shida vs Chii Tomiya & Hamuko Hoshi
3. 3 Way Match: Emi Sakura vs Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Mai Ichii
4. Nanae Takahashi vs Sayaka Obihiro

19 PRO June 3, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM

1. Sayaka Obihiro vs Chii Tomiya

19 PRO June 4, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM

1. Sayaka Obihiro vs Hamuko Hoshi

ICE RIBBON June 5, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Mai Ichii vs Kurumi
2. Hikaru Shida vs Sayaka Obihiro
3. Makoto, Hikari Minami, & Aika Ando vs Miyako Matsumoto, Hamuko Hoshi, & Chii Tomiya
4. International Ice Ribbon Tag Team #1 Contender's Match: Mickey Oji & Natsuki*Taiyo vs Chou-un Shiryu & Hiroyo Matsumoto
5. ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura (c) vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
6. Kazumi Shimouma vs Minori Makiba
7. ICEx60 Championship: Sakura/Fujimoto (c) vs Tsukushi

NEO June 5, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Basara
2. Misaki Ohata vs Io Shirai
3. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki vs Nanae Takahashi & Sakura Hirota
4. 3 Way Match: Toshie Uematsu vs Natsuki*Taiyo vs Lingerie Muto
5. NEO/NWA Pacific Championship: Yoshiko Tamura (c) vs Aya Yuki

SENDAI GIRLS June 5, 2010
Miyagi Osawa Izumi Shop

1. Hiren vs Sendai Sachiko
2. Ryo Mizunami vs Kagetsu
3. Ryo Mizunami & Kagetsu vs DASH Chisako & Sendai Sachiko

ITO DOJO June 6, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Ayako Sato vs Hanako Kobayashi
2. Takako Inoue & Aki Kambayashi vs Shu Shibutani & Asami Kawasaki
3. Manami Toyota vs Aya Yuki
4. Aja Kong vs Tomoko Morii
5. Kaoru Ito & Yoshiko Tamura vs Cherry & Winner of #1

JWP June 6, 2010
JWP Dojo

1. Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Keito
2. Kayoko Haruyama & KAZUKI vs Kaori Yoneyama & Leon
3. 88th Dojo Match Battle Royale

19 PRO June 8, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM

ICE RIBBON June 9, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

TENRYU PROJECT June 9, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

2. Kintaro Kanemura & Kyoko Inoue vs Yutaka Yoshie & Toshie Uematsu

WAVE June 9, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Yumi Ohka & Bambi vs Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata
2. Catch the WAVE League, Visual Technical Block: GAMI vs Mio Shirai
3. Catch the WAVE League, Rival Block: Shu Shibutani vs Cherry
4. Catch the WAVE League, Young Persons Block: Ryo Mizunami vs Senri Kuroki

19 PRO June 10, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM

19 PRO June 11, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM

JWP June 11, 2010
Strait Messe Shimonoseki

1. KAZUKI vs Eiger
2. Command Bolshoi & Keito vs Kaori Yoneyama & Jaguar Yokota
3. Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Megumi Yabushita
4. Kayoko Haruyama & Aja Kong vs Sachie Abe & Leon

ICE RIBBON June 12, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

JWP June 13, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Catch the WAVE League, Young Persons Block: Senri Kuroki vs Misaki Ohata

2. Leon & Kaori Yoneyama vs Aja Kong & AKINO
3. Kayoko Haruyama, Keito, & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Sachie Abe, Yoshiko Tamura, & Ran Yu-Yu
4. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Championship: KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu (c) vs Ryo Mizunami & Kagetsu
5. JWP Openweight Championship: Nanae Takahashi (c) vs Command Bolshoi

OZ ACADEMY June 13, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. KAORU vs Takako Inoue
2. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: Carlos Amano & Manami Toyota (c) vs Aja Kong & Kaoru Ito

19 PRO June 15, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM

19 PRO June 16, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
ICE RIBBON June 17, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

19 PRO June 18, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
FUKUMEN MANIA June 18, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Kana & Io Shirai vs Basara & Mio Shirai

Vancouver Cat, Apple Miyuki, Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru,

NEO June 18, 2010
Ibaraki Nishibe Movement Park Gymnasium

Takako Inoue, Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, Tsubo Genjin, Mr. Buddhaman

ICE RIBBON June 19, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

NEO June 19, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

NORTHERN CITY PRO June 19, 2010
Akkeschicho Living Center

1. La Malcriada vs Hanako Kobayashi

NORTHERN CITY PRO June 20, 2010
Tsuruimura Synethesis Center Coliseum

1. La Malcriada vs Hanako Kobayashi

WAVE June 20, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

19 PRO June 22, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM

19 PRO June 23, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
NEO June 23, 2010
Kushiro Sightseeing International Exchange Center

NEO June 24, 2010
Asahikawa Civic Center Gymnasium

ICE RIBBON June 24, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

19 PRO June 25, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
NEO June 25, 2010
Rausucho Gymnasium

ICE RIBBON June 26, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

FMW June 26, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

2. Basara vs "Drop Autumn"

NEO June 27, 2010
Sapporo Teisen Hall

JWP June 27, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

WAVE June 27, 2010
Osaka Matsushita IMP Hall
1. Shu Shibutani, Kana, & Ayumi Kurihara vs Carlos Amano, Chikayo Nagashima, & Sonoko Kato
2. GAMI & Sawako Shimono vs Meiko Satomura & Kagetsu

Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, Sakura Hirota, Misaki Ohata, Ryo Mizunami

19 PRO June 29, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
ICE RIBBON June 30, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

Results, June 1-20

2010-06-19T12:21:00.000-05:00

Sorry these are late.

19 PRO June 1, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
1850 Views

1. Makoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (8:24) with the W/W Knee.

ICE RIBBON June 2, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
74 Fans

1. Tanny Mouse defeated Miyako Matsumoto (7:32) with a Cradle.
2. Makoto & Hikaru Shida defeated Hamuko Hoshi & Chii Tomiya (11:01) when Makoto used a Double Arm Suplex Hold on Tomiya.
3. 3 Way Match: Emi Sakura defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Mai Ichii (7:59) with La Magistral on Ichii.
4. Nanae Takahashi defeated Sayaka Obihiro (8:26) with the Albatross.

19 PRO June 3, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
831 Views

1. Chii Tomiya defeated Sayaka Obihiro (5:48) with a Reverse Cradle.

19 PRO June 4, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
818 Views

1. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Sayaka Obihiro (11:54) with a Diving Body Press.

ICE RIBBON June 5, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
242 Fans

1. Exhibition: Mai Ichii defeated Kurumi (3:00) by 1 fall to 0.
2. Hikaru Shida defeated Sayaka Obihiro (8:56) with a Brainbuster.
3. Makoto, Hikari Minami, & Aika Ando defeated Miyako Matsumoto, Hamuko Hoshi, & Chii Tomiya (11:05) when Minami used the Kamikaze on Tomiya.
4. International Ice Ribbon Tag Team #1 Contender's Match: Mickey Oji & Natsuki*Taiyo vs Chou-un Shiryu & Hiroyo Matsumoto (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4a. Restart: Mickey Oji & Natsuki*Taiyo vs Chou-un Shiryu & Hiroyo Matsumoto (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
5. ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (14:01) with the Ice Driver. Sakura is successful in the 1st defense.
6. Minori Makiba defeated Kazumi Shimouma (12:00) with the Deep Minoricchi.
7. ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura defeated Tsukushi (3:03) with the Ice Driver II. Sakura is successful in the 2nd defense.

NEO June 5, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
152 Fans

1. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Basara (9:31).
2. Misaki Ohata vs Io Shirai (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki defeated Nanae Takahashi & Sakura Hirota (17:14) when Miyazaki used a Lariat on Hirota.
4. 3 Way Match: Toshie Uematsu defeated Natsuki*Taiyo & Lingerie Muto (8:20) with a Cradle on Muto.
5. NEO/NWA Pacific Championship: Yoshiko Tamura defeated Aya Yuki (21:32) with a Running Elbow Smash. Tamura is successful in the 3rd defense.

SENDAI GIRLS June 5, 2010
Miyagi Osawa Izumi Shop

1. Hiren defeated Sendai Sachiko (8:54) with an Ankle Hold.
2. Ryo Mizunami defeated Kagetsu (10:33) with a Diving Guillotine Drop.
3. DASH Chisako & Sendai Sachiko defeated Ryo Mizunami & Hiren (13:49) when Sachiko used a Moonsault Press on Hiren.

ITO DOJO June 6, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Hanako Kobayashi defeated Ayako Sato (13:03).
2. Takako Inoue & Aki Kambayashi defeated Shu Shibutani & Asami Kawasaki (18:23) when Inoue used the Beauty Fist on Shibutani.
3. Manami Toyota defeated Aya Yuki (15:46) with the Japanese Ocean Queen Bee Bomb.
4. Aja Kong defeated Tomoko Morii (10:47) with a Backdrop.
5. Kaoru Ito & Yoshiko Tamura defeated Cherry & Hanako Kobayashi (25:33) when Ito used a Diving Foot Stomp on Cherry.

JWP June 6, 2010
JWP Dojo
105 Fans

1. Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Keito (5:31) with the Wing Clutch Hold.
2. Kayoko Haruyama & KAZUKI vs Kaori Yoneyama & Leon (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. 88th Dojo Match Costume Changing Battle Royale: Command Bolshoi defeated Ring Post (18:04) with a Huricanrana. Others, in order of elimination: Kaori Yoneyama & Senri Kuroki, Kayoko Haruyama, Tsubasa Kuragaki & KAZUKI, Keito,
Sarubobo, Nurse, Kumabobo, Electric Wave Mask Woman, Hawaiian Bolshoi, Kangaroo, Leon, Mini-Skirt Policewoman, Medium, Dog, Western Bolshoi.

19 PRO June 8, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
784 Views

1. Emi Sakura defeated Sayaka Obihiro (13:35) with a Backbreaker.

ICE RIBBON June 9, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
62 Fans

1. Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (9:27) with a Missile Kick.
2. Miyako Matsumoto defeated Chii Tomiya (8:30) with the Miya Here Clutch.
3. Emi Sakura defeated Hamuko Hoshi (6:48) with a Tiger Driver.
4. Natsuki*Taiyo & Mai Ichii defeated Makoto & Hikaru Shida (18:13) when Ichii used a Kick to the Back of the Head on Shida.

TENRYU PROJECT June 9, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
400 Fans

2. Kintaro Kanemura & Kyoko Inoue defeated Yutaka Yoshie & Toshie Uematsu (12:30) when Inoue used a Powerbomb on Uematsu.

WAVE June 9, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
81 Fans

1. Catch the WAVE, Young Person's Block: Ryo Mizunami [2] defeated Senri Kuroki [0] (7:11).
2. Catch the WAVE, Shu's Rivals Block: Cherry [2] defeated Shu Shibutani [2] (3:07) with the Fantasy Illusion.
3. Catch the WAVE, Visual Technical Block: GAMI [1] vs Mio Shirai [1] (20:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Yumi Ohka & Bambi defeated Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata (14:08) when Bambi used the Standing Shining Wizard on Haruhi.

19 PRO June 10, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
804 Views

1. Makoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (10:40) with the W/W Knee.

19 PRO June 11, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
741 Views

1. Chii Tomiya defeated Sayaka Obihiro (11:01) with a Missile Kick.

JWP June 11, 2010
Strait Messe Shimonoseki
987 Fans

1. Mizuki Endo defeated Senri Kuroki (7:48) with a Diving Body Press.
2. Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Megumi Yabushita (11:03) with a Lariat.
3. Command Bolshoi & Keito defeated Kaori Yoneyama & Jaguar Yokoto (9:50) when Bolshoi used a Bolshoi-Style Hold on Yoneyama.
4. Sachie Abe defeated Eiger (13:14) with La Magistral.
5. Kayoko Haruyama & Aja Kong defeated KAZUKI & Leon (19:49) when Kong used a Diving Elbow Drop on KAZUKI.

ICE RIBBON June 12, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
97 Fans

1. Kazumi Shimouma defeated Sayaka Obihiro (9:08) with the Amazon Clutch.
2. Riho & Chii Tomiya defeated Miyako Matsumoto & Kurumi (8:55) when Riho used a Cradle on Kurumi.
3. Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Tsukushi (5:55) with a Rolling Tsukasadora.
4. Hikari Minami, Makoto, & Hikaru Shida defeated Emi Sakura, Mai Ichii, & Hamuko HOshi (22:23) by 2 falls to 1.
4a. Hikari Minami defeated Hamuko Hoshi (14:20) with a Blockbuster Hold.
4b. Mai Ichii defeated Hikaru Shida (5:06) with a Chokeslam.
4c. Hikaru Shida defeated Mai Ichii (2:57) with the Three Count.

JWP June 13, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
329 Fans

1. Catch the WAVE, Young Person's Block: Misaki Ohata [2] defeated Senri Kuroki [0] (5:47) with the Fairy Rock.
2. Leon & Kaori Yoneyama defeated Aja Kong & AKINO (18:46) when Leon used a Jackknife Hold on Kong.
3. Sachie Abe, Yoshiko Tamura, & Ran Yu-Yu defeated Kayoko Haruyama, Keito, & Tsubasa Kuragaki (18:28) when Yu-Yu used a Forearm Smash on Kuragaki.
4. JWP & Daily Sports Tag Team Championships: KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu defeated Ryo Mizunami & Kagetsu (19:48) when Uematsu used a Dragon Suplex Hold on Mizunami. KAZUKI & Uematsu are successful in the 3rd defense.
5. JWP Openweight Championship: Nanae Takahashi defeated Command Bolshoi (20:24) with the Nanaracka. Takahashi is successful in the 1st defense.

OZ ACADEMY June 13, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
436 Fans

1. Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Hiren (8:52) with the CRB.
2. Mayumi Ozaki & Yumi Ohka defeated Chikayo Nagashima & Nao Komatsu (15:39) when Ohka used the Big Boot on Komatsu.
3. Ran Yu-Yu, AKINO, & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Dynamite Kansai, Sonoko Kato, & Ayumi Kurihara (18:55) when AKINO used a Knee Kick on Kansai.
4. KAORU defeated Takako Inoue (8:55) with a Cradle.
2. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: Aja Kong & Kaoru Ito defeated Carlos Amano & Manami Toyota (22:41) when Kong used a Diving Elbow Drop on Amano. Amano & Toyota fail in the 1st defense and Kong & Ito become the 9th champions.

19 PRO June 15, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
766 Fans

1. Tanny Mouse defeated Sayaka Obihiro (12:11).

19 PRO June 16, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
812 Fans

1. Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (9:12) with a Missile Kick.

ICE RIBBON June 17, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
52 Fans

1. Makoto defeated Hamuko Hoshi (8:33) with a German Suplex Hold.
2. 3 Way Match: Miyako Matsumoto defeated Chii Tomiya & Tsukasa Fujimoto (8:49) by pinning Tomiya.
3. Emi Sakura defeated Sayaka Obihiro (9:59) with a Triangle Choke.
4. Natsuki*Taiyo & Mai Ichii defeated Nanae Takahashi & Hikaru Shida (17:58) when Ichii defeated Shida.

19 PRO June 18, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
714 Views
1. Emi Sakura defeated Sayaka Obihiro (14:13) with the Trouble Clutch.

FUKUMEN MANIA June 18, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
300 Fans
1. Basara & Mio Shirai defeated Kana & Io Shirai (9:25) when Basara used a German Suplex Hold on Io.
2. Vancouver Cat, Mineo Fujita, & Apple Miyuki defeated Mystery Rococo, Kikutaro, & Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru (17:37) when Vancouver Cat used a Swanton Bomb on Rococo.
Vancouver Cat, Apple Miyuki, Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru,

NEO June 18, 2010
Ibaraki Nishibe Movement Park Gymnasium
202 Fans

1. Tanny Mouse defeated Hamumo Hoshi (11:26) with the Diving Tanny Butt.
2. 3 Way Match: Tsubo Genjin defeated Mr. Buddhaman & Police-Woman (6:38) with a Bamiyan Stomp on Buddhaman.
3. Ran Yu-Yu defeated Kagetsu (11:35) with a Diving Knee Drop.
4. Takako Inoue defeated Cherry (8:44) with the Destiny Hammer.
5. Yoshiko Tamura & Yuki Miyazaki defeated Toshie Uematsu & Aya Yuki (13:08) when Miyazaki used a Moonsault Press on Uematsu.

ICE RIBBON June 19, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
88 Fans

1. Riho & Chii Tomiya defeated Tsukushi & Kurumi (9:34) when Tomiya used a Cradle on Tsukushi.
2. Miyako Matsumoto & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Hamuko Hoshi & Sayaka Obihiro (14:36) when Matsumoto used the Mama Mia on Obihiro.
3. Hikari Minami & Mai Ichii defeated Makoto & Hikaru Shida (12:43) when Minami used the Blockbuster Hold on Shida.
4. Emi Sakura & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Nanae Takahashi & Minori Makiba (19:48) when Shimouma used the Passion of the Woman on Makiba.

Schedule, May 2010

2010-05-31T19:52:00.012-05:00

CHERRY PRODUCE "FANTASY ILLUSION 3" May 1, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Bullfight Sora & Holstein Futoshi Miwa vs Toru Owashi & Tanomasaku Toba
2. Aja Kong & Takeshi Oya vs Makoto & Kota Ibushi
3. Masa-ko Takanashi vs Toshie Uematsu
4. Kazuyo Tamura & Riho vs Lingerie Muto Daughter & Akira Sato Tomeko
5. Cherry & Shu Shibutani vs Jai Ishikawa & Shigeko Deluxe

NEO May 1, 2010
Yokohama NEO Dojo

1. Yuki Miyazaki vs Hamuko Hoshi
2. Yoshiko Tamura vs Tanny Mouse
3. Kyoko Inoue & Aya Yuki vs Atsuko Emoto & Vanessa the Mountain
4. Spectator Bring the Weapons Battle Royale

SENDAI GIRLS May 1, 2010
Kawasaki Michinoku Park Northern Ward Eco Camp Michinoku

1. Ryo Mizunami vs Sendai Sachiko
2. Hiren vs Kagetsu
3. Meiko Satomura & Ryo Mizunami vs DASH Chisako & Sendai Sachiko

OZ ACADEMY May 2, 2010
Osaka Azalea Taisho Hall

1. Ayumi Kurihara vs Nao Komatsu
2. KAORU & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Takako Inoue & Yumi Ohka
3. Aja Kong & Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Dynamite Kansai & Sonoko Kato
4. Mayumi Ozaki vs Chikayo Nagashima
5. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu (c) vs Carlos Amano & Manami Toyota

JWP May 2, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Senri Kuroki vs Makoto
2. Toshie Uematsu vs Sachie Abe
3. KAZUKI vs Vanessa the Mountain
4. Command Bolshoi & Ayako Sato vs Kaori Yoneyama & Marcela
5. Kayoko Haruyama & Keito vs Tsubasa Kuragaki & Leon

ICE RIBBON "GOLDEN RIBBON" May 3, 2010
Korakuen Hall

1. "Walnut" Debut: Hikari Minami, "Walnut", & Sayaka Obihiro vs Minori Makiba, Hikaru Shida, & Tsukushi
2. Kiyoko Ichiki & Hamuko Hoshi vs Masako Takanashi & Chii Tomiya
3. Modified MMA, 2 3-minute rounds: Mai Ichii vs Emi Fujino
4. Makoto & Kota Ibushi vs Bambi & Munenori Sawa
5. NEO High Speed Championship: Natsuki*Taiyo (c) vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
6. International Ice Ribbon Championship, 3 Way Match: Nanae Takahashi & Kazumi Shimouma (c) vs GENTARO & Keita Yano vs Miyako Matsumoto & Jun Kasai
7. ICEx60 Championship: Riho (c) vs Emi Sakura

LLPW/Ito Dojo/WAVE "BATTLE FUSION" May 4, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Shu Shibutani vs Tomoko Morii
2. 3 WAY Match: Eiger vs Aki Kambayashi vs Sakura Hirota
3. Kaoru Ito vs Toshie Uematsu
4. Yumiko Hotta & X vs GAMI & Bullfight Sora
5. Takako Inoue vs Moeka Haruhi
6. Noriyo Tateno, Harley Saito, & Mima Shimoda vs Yumi Ohka, Ayako Sato, & Hanako Kobayashi

BJW "15TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW ~DEATH & CRAZY THAT´S THE WAY OF THE BJ-WORLD~" May 4, 2010
Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium

2. Manami Toyota, Marcela & Ariya vs Aja Kong , GAMI & Bullfight Sora

NEO "10th ANNIVERSARY VOL. 2" May 5, 2010
Korakuen Hall

0. Nagisa Nozaki Sings
1. Aya Yuki vs Senri Kuroki
2. Natsuki*Taiyo & Ikuto Hidaka vs Shuri & Hajime Ohara
3. Tag Match: Kyoko Inoue, Nanae Takahashi, Amazing Kong, Vanessa the Mountain
4. Shimoda or Emoto Leaves NEO: Mima Shimoda, Tanny Mouse, & Yuki Miyazaki vs Atsuko Emoto, Kyoko Kimura, & Tomoka Nakagawa
5. NEO Tag Team Championship: Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara (c) vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata
6. NEO 10th Anniversary 30 Man Royal Rumble: Kyoko Inoue, Yoshiko Tamura, Tanny Mouse, Yuki Miyazaki, Aya Yuki, Tsubasa Kuragaki, Kaori Yoneyama, Toshie Uematsu, Cherry, Chou-un Shiryu,
Emi Sakura, Riho, Makoto, Miyako Matsumoto, Small Giant Baba, Sakura Hirota, Yuiga, Lingerie Muta, Michael Jusco, Metal Thief II, Jai Ishikawa, Eiger, Policeman, Policewoman, Woman Goro, Tsurumi, Nagisa Nozaki, Hamuko Hoshi, 2 others

FMW "ATSUSHI ONITA RETIREMENT" May 5, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Miss Mongol & Apple Miyuki vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai

LLPW May 8, 2010
Zepp Nagoya

1. Mira vs ???
2. Eiger vs Sakura Hirota
3. Yumiko Hotta vs Tomoko Morii
4. Sonoko Kato vs Ayako Sato
5. Shinobu Kandori & Jaguar Yokota vs Harley Saito & Hanako Kobayashi
6. Manami Toyota & Mima Shimoda vs Yumiko Hotta & Takako Inoue

ICE RIBBON May 8, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Hikaru Shida vs Sayaka Obihiro
2. Hamuko Hoshi vs Kurumi
3. 3 Way Match: Riho vs Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Chii Tomiya
4. Elimination Match: Emi Sakura, Kazumi Shimouma, & Makoto vs Hikari Minami, Minori Makiba, & Tsukushi

T-1 FESTIVAL May 8, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. UGP Mask vs Kira*Ann
2. Megumi Yabushita vs Ranmaru
3. President Futami, Aky, & T-2 Mask (Io Shirai) vs Shark Tsuchiya, Yuu Yamagata, & Apple Miyuki

SENDAI GIRLS May 9, 2010
Zepp Sendai

1. DASH Chisako & Sendai Sachiko vs Kaori Yoneyama & Hiroyo Matsumoto
2. Aja Kong & Kagetu vs Toshie Uematsu & Hiren
3. Battlefield Tournament Semifinal: Ryo Mizunami vs Yoshiko Tamura
4. Battlefield Tournament Semifinal: Meiko Satomura vs Nanae Takahashi

BEGINNING May 9, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Mizuki Endo vs Basara
2. Ayumi Kurihara vs Ranmaru
3. Yumiko Hotta vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
4. Yumi Ohka vs Hanako Kobayashi
5. Mima Shimoda & Takako Inoue vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai
6. Asami Kawasaki & Cherry vs Yuu Yamagata & Kana

WAVE May 11, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Moeka Haruhi & Ryo Mizunami vs Ayumi Kurihara & Misaki Ohata
2. Toshie Uematsu vs Io Shirai
3. Yumi Okhka & Asami Kawasaki vs Shu Shibutani & Cherry
4. GAMI & Bullfight Sora vs Aja Kong & Sakura Hirota

ICE RIBBON May 12, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Emi Sakura vs Sayaka Obihiro
2. Hamuko Hoshi vs Chii Tomiya
3. Chou-un Shiryu vs Keita Yano
4. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Makoto & Hikaru Shida

ICE RIBBON May 15, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Tsukushi vs Kurumi
2. Makoto & Minori Makiba vs Riho & Chii Tomiya
3. Hamuko Hoshi vs Sayaka Obihiro
4. Emi Sakura & Kazumi Shimouma vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikaru Shida

NEO May 15, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Sawako Shimono
2. Nanae Takahashi & Natsuki*Taiyo vs Toshie Uematsu & Sakura Hirota
3. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki vs Mima Shimoda & Cherry
4. Aya Yuki vs Vanessa the Mountain
5. Yoshiko Tamura & Hikaru Shida vs Ryo Mizunami & Kagetsu

KURUME PRO May 15, 2010
Fukuoka Kurume Hexagon Temple Open Space

1. Kyoko Kimura & Mio Shirai vs Misaki Ohata & Io Shirai

OZ ACADEMY "WILD GENERATION" May 16, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
15th Anniversary (Nagashima/Kato/Amano/Yu-Yu/Uematsu/Satomura)

1. Nao Komatsu vs Kagetsu
2. Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Tomoka Nakagawa
3. Aja Kong & AKINO vs Dynamite Kansai & Manami Toyota
4. KAORU vs Yumi Ohka
5. 15th Anniversary Special Tag Match: Carlos Amano, Chikayo Nagashima, & Sonoko Kato vs Ran Yu-Yu, Meiko Satomura, & Toshie Uematsu

JWP May 16, 2010 (afternoon)
Tokyo Cinema Club

1. Senri Kuroki vs Sawako Shimono
2. Sachie Abe vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
3. Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Mima Shimoda
4. Kayoko Haruyama, Command Bolshoi, & Kaori Yoneyama vs Passion Red Selection
5. JWP/Daily Sport Tag Team Championship: KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu (c) vs Keito & Leon

JWP May 16, 2010 (evening)
Tokyo Cinema Club
Leon 10th Anniversary

1. Kaori Yoneyama vs Bullfight Sora
2. Command Bolshoi & Senri Kuroki vs GAMI & Sawako Shimono
3. Battle Royale: Keito, Sachie Abe, Tsubasa Kuragaki, KAZUKI, Mima Shimoda, others
4. Leon Series: Leon vs Kayoko Haruyama, Leon vs Yuu Yamagata, Leon vs Ayumi Kurihara

ICE RIBBON May 19, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Makoto vs Sayaka Obihiro
2. Chou-un Shiryu & Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Kaori YOneyama & Hamuko Hoshi
3. Emi Sakura & Chii Tomiya vs Hikaru Shida & Tsukasa Fujimoto

WAVE May 19, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. GAMI & Io Shirai vs Yumi Ohka & Kana
2. Moeka Haruhi vs Senri Kuroki
3. Bullfight Sora, Leon, & Ayumi Kurihara vs Shu Shibutani, Cherry, & Misaki Ohata
4. Toshie Uematsu vs Mio Shirai

ZERO1 May 20, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
1. Mr. X & XX vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai

NEO May 21, 2010
Niigata Kashiwazaki-shi Synthesis Gymnasium

1. Tanny Mouse vs Chii Tomiya
2. Hamuko Hoshi vs Tsubo Genjin vs Mister Buddhaman
3. Yuki Miyazaki vs Aya Yuki
4. Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Sucking Blood Mouse Witch
5. Yoshiko Tamura & Toshie Uematsu vs Manami Toyota & Misaki Ohata

REVOLUCION AMANDOLA May 21, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Okinawa Pro Offer Match: Golden Pine vs Mensooree Oyaji
2. Kyoko Kimura & Munenori Sawa vs Aja Kong & Magnitude Kishiwada
3. Tomoka Nakagawa vs TAJIRI
4. NEO High Speed Championship: Natsuki*Taiyo (c) vs Atsuko Emoto
5. Atsuko Emoto, Kyoko Kimura, & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Ayumi Kurihara

ICE RIBBON May 22, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Chii Tomiya vs Sayaka Obihiro
2. Makoto & Kurumi vs Hikari Minami & Riho
3. Emi Sakura vs Tsukushi
4. Kazumi Shimouma, Hamuko Hoshi, & Minori Makiba vs Hikaru Shida, Tsukasa Fujimoto, & Miyako Matsumoto

OZ ACADEMY May 23, 2010
Sapporo Teisen Hall

1. Mayumi Ozaki vs AKINO
2. Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato vs Dynamite Kansai & Nao Komatsu
3. Aja Kong & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Manami Toyota & Ayumi Kurihara
4. Special Tag Match: Five Winners vs. Five Losers
5. OZ Openweight Championship: Carlos Amano (c) vs Ran Yu-Yu

JWP May 23, 2010
JWP Dojo

1. Kayoko Haruyama vs Senri Kuroki
2. Kaori Yoneyama vs Leon
3. Command Bolshoi, Sachie Abe, & Jaguar Yokota vs Keito, Tsubasa Kuragaki, & KAZUKI

NEO May 23, 2010
Yokohama NEO Dojo

BIG JAPAN/OZ ACADEMY May 24, 2010
Asahikawa Local Industry Promotion Center

2. Ryuji Yamakawa, Yuichi Taniguchi, & Mayumi Ozaki vs Abdullah Kobayashi, Daikokubo Benkei, & Dynamite Kansai
3. Sonoko Kato & Nao Komatsu vs Ran Yu-Yu & Tomoka Nakagawa
5. MEN's Teioh & Carlos Amano vs Mototsugu Shimuzu & Chikayo Nagashima
6. Aja Kong & AKINO vs Manami Toyota & Ayumi Kurihara

ICE RIBBON May 26, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Mai Ichii vs Sayaka Obihiro
2. Prince Mickey & Natsuki*Taiyo vs Chou-un Shiryu & Chii Tomiya
3. Emi Sakura & Miyako Matsumoto vs Makoto & Tsukasa Fujimoto

ICE RIBBON May 29, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Miyako Matsumoto vs Kurumi
2. Nanae Takahashi, Kazumi Shimouma, & Minori Makiba vs Mai Ichii, Makoto, & Sayaka Obihiro
3. Hikari Minami vs Riho
4. Emi Sakura & Tsukushi vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikaru Shida

19 PRO May 29, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
1. Sayaka Obihiro vs Kazumi Shimouma

WRESTLING DREAMERS May 29, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Ayako Sato vs Hanako Kobayashi

WAVE May 30, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
Bullfight Sora Retirement

1. Catch the WAVE, Visual Technical Block: Yumi Ohka vs Kana
2. Catch the WAVE, Shu's Rivals Block: Shu Shibutani vs Moeka Haruhi
3. Catch the WAVE, Young Person's Block: Io Shirai vs Sawako Shimono
4. Sakura Hirota & Ryo Mizunami vs Cherry & Misaki Ohata
5. Bullfight Sora vs Tomoka Nakagawa
6. Bullfight Sora vs Kyoko Kimura
7. Bullfight Sora vs Toshie Uematsu
8. Bullfight Sora vs AKINO
9. Bullfight Sora vs GAMI

Results, May 24-30

2010-05-30T06:54:00.002-05:00

The two biggest stories of the week involved a retirement and a new "promotion", but let's start with the tail end of OZ Academy's mini-expedition to Hokkaido. Last weekend, they ran Sapporo in a show featuring Carlos Amano breaking her nose while defending the OZ championship. This injury forced her to miss Monday's joint show with Big Japan in Asahikawa. In addition to some undercard mixed tags, we saw Tomoka Nakagawa get a win in her hometown, pinning Nao Komatsu in a tag. The semi-main event was changed due to Amano's injury and became a three way match between Manami Toyota, Aja Kong, and Ayumi Kurihara, with Toyota getting a jackknife pin on Aja.

Ice Ribbon had their usual small shows. The 12-year old Tsukushi got a pin on Tsukasa Fujimoto. Fujimoto is Emi Sakura's next challenger for the ICEx60 title and this is a strange way to build to a title match. Well, lots about Ice Ribbon is strange. They unveiled "19 Pro", which is going to be an internet-only subpromotion with matches streamed live on USTREAM. The name comes from the fact that the match will start at 19:00 Tokyo time (that's 6 AM Eastern in case you need to establish your cred as a big-time joshi creep). Sayaka Obihiro, the new adult rookie, seems to be a primary focus of this, as she talked about how since she can't wrestle in her hometown of Sapporo, that she'll still give them a chance to see her live. The first 19 Pro match (no, I didn't see it, but results are posted) saw Obihiro lose to Kazumi Shimouma. June 2nd will see Obihiro vs Makoto. Set your alarms!

Bullfight Sora (aka Atsuko Emoto) is leaving puroresu. The recent Revolucion Amandola show saw her final appearance as Emoto, and she also had her last MMA fight. The retirement show was a WAVE event at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring, attracting 326 fans which is strong by WAVE standards. The undercard saw the first three matches of WAVE's summer league with Io Shirai, Shu Shibutani, and Kana all picking up victories over Sawako Shimono, Moeka Haruhi, and Yumi Ohka, respectively. The main event was a series of five matches with people strongly associated with Sora/Emoto. Sora first lost to Kyoko Kimura's Big Boot, then got pinned by her other R.A. associate Tomoka Nakagawa. Two more losses followed, to Toshie Uematsu's Dragon Suplex and AKINO's Frankensteiner. The finale was against GAMI and just about everyone got involved during the match. The retired Michiko Ohmukai was there to help with the ring post spot. Ryo Mizunami interfered, wearing a cow mask, with GAMI threatening to give her a one-way ticket home to Sendai. Sora did get to go out a winner, as GAMI did the job.

BIG JAPAN/OZ ACADEMY May 24, 2010
Asahikawa Local Industry Promotion Center

2. Abdullah Kobayashi, Daikokubo Benkei, & Dynamite Kansai defeated Ryuji Yamakawa, Yuichi Taniguchi, & Mayumi Ozaki (8:20) when Kobayashi used a Elbow Drop on Taniguchi.
3. Ran Yu-Yu & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Sonoko Kato & Nao Komatsu (12:46) when Nakagawa used a German Suplex Hold on Komatsu.
5. Mototsugu Shimuzu & Chikayo Nagashima defeated MEN'S Teioh & AKINO (9:38) when Shimuzu used the Miracle Ecstasy on Teioh.
6. 3 Way Match: Manami Toyota defeated Aja Kong & Ayumi Kurihara (9:06) with a Jackknife Hold on Kong.

ICE RIBBON May 26, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
73 Fans

1. Mai Ichii defeated Sayaka Obihiro (6:50) with a Body Slam.
2. Mickey Oji & Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Chou-un Shiryu & Chii Tomiya (15:37) when Taiyo used a Moonsault Press on Tomiya.
3. Emi Sakura & Miyako Matsumoto defeated Makoto & Tsukasa Fujimoto (18:39) when Matsumoto used the Miya Here Clutch on Fujimoto.

ICE RIBBON May 29, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
115 Fans

1. Miyako Matsumoto defeated Kurumi (6:09) with a Diving Body Press.
2. Nanae Takahashi, Kazumi Shimouma, & Minori Makiba defeated Mai Ichii, Makoto, & Sayaka Obihiro (15:20) when Makiba used the Mi No Rich On Ichii.
3. Hikari Minami defeated Riho (7:24) with the Blockbuster.
4. Emi Sakura & Tsukushi defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikaru Shida (11:44) when Tsukushi pinned Fujimoto.

19 PRO May 29, 2010
Ice Ribbon Dojo/USTREAM
505 Views

1. Kazumi Shimouma defeated Sayaka Obihiro (7:59) with a Missile Kick.

WRESTLING DREAMERS May 29, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Ayako Sato vs Hanako Kobayashi

WAVE May 30, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
Bullfight Sora Retirement
326 Fans

1. Catch the WAVE, Young Person's Block: Io Shirai [2] defeated Sawako Shimono [0] (8:41) with a Moonsault Press.
2. Catch the WAVE, Shu's Rivals Block: Shu Shibutani [2] defeated Moeka Haruhi [0] (13:07) with a Diving Senton.
3. Catch the WAVE, Visual Technical Block: Kana [2] defeated Yumi Ohka [0] (3:36) with an Ankle Hold.
4. Cherry & Misaki Ohata defeated Sakura Hirota & Ryo Mizunami (12:35) when Cherry pinned Hirota.
5. Bullfight Sora Retirement Series: Singles Matches vs Kyoko Kimura, Tomoka Nakagawa, Toshie Uematsu, AKINO, & GAMI
5a. Final Rival WAVE: Kimura defeated Sora (7:21) with the Big Boot.
5b. Final Natives of Hokkaido WAVE: Nakagawa defeated Sora (7:20) with an Australian Arm.
5c. Final Technical WAVE: Uematsu defeated Sora (5:06) with a Dragon Suplex Hold.
5d. Final Challenge WAVE: AKINO defeated Sora (6:30) with a Frankensteiner.
5e. Slow Motion Comical Deathmatch: Sora defeated GAMI (16:32) with a Small Package Hold.

Results, May 19-24

2010-05-24T07:01:00.001-05:00

Let's start the weekly digest with news from oop north, as OZ Academy accompanied Big Japan for a pair of shows in Hokkaido. Sunday the 23rd featured OZ at Sapporo Teisen Hall. The semi-main event saw the five losers of the preliminary matches in a tag against the five winners. The losers got revenge, with Hokkaido native Tomoka Nakagawa getting a pin on Mayumi Ozaki. In the main event, Carlos Amano defended the OZ title with a win over Ran Yu-Yu by headbutt, but at the expense of a broken nose presumably suffered from a Ran elbow smash. Monday's show in Asahikawa was joint with Big Japan. Nakagawa got a win in her hometown, pinning Nao Komatsu in a tag match. The main event here was turned into a three way due to Amano's absence, with Manami Toyota pinning Aja Kong in a match that also featured Ayumi Kurihara.

Revolucion Amandola had their special show on Friday the 21st. As was announced last week, Atsuko Emoto/Bullfight Sora is retiring at the end of the month and I think this is the last appearance without the cow mask. Kimura will be taking a hiatus to heal up some injuries. R.A. did a lot of jobbing, with Kimura losing to Aja in a tag match, Nakagawa losing a mixed match to TAJIRI, and Emoto losing both a NEO High Speed Championship match to Natsuki*Taiyo and the main event tag, with the three members of R.A. losing to Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki, and Ayumi via Nanae's Nanaracak to Emoto. Atsuko did get a pinfall on Kimura in a special bonus match.

A few other minor shows were held, with the usual two small Ice Ribbon events with the alarming result of 12 year old rookie Tsukushi pinning Emi Sakura in five seconds (wtf?), a NEO house show in Niigata that saw Manami Toyota and Misaki Ohata beat Yoshiko Tamura and Toshie Uematsu via Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex on Toshie, a weekday WAVE show with Ohka pinning GAMI and Ayumi beating both Shu Shibutani in the main event best 2 of 3 falls and Bullfight Sora in a special bonus match, and a JWP dojo show with Leon beating Kaori Yoneyama in a Bullrope Pool match.

Oh, and it appears that Kana is going to have her own faction/promotion with the Shirai sisters. I'm not sure of the official name, but the otaku better stock up on handcream.

ICE RIBBON May 19, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
47 Fans

1. Makoto defeated Sayaka Obihiro (7:53) with the W/W Knee.
2. Chou-un Shiryu & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Kaori YOneyama & Hamuko Hoshi (11:04) when Matsumoto pinned Hoshi.
3. Hikaru Shida & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Emi Sakura & Chii Tomiya (16:41) when Shida used the Three Count on Tomiya.

WAVE May 19, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
145 Fans

1. Yumi Ohka & Kana defeated GAMI & Io Shirai (16:28) when Ohka used the Big Boot on GAMI.
2. Moeka Haruhi defeated Senri Kuroki (11:19) with the Diving Young Lady Drop.
3. Toshie Uematsu defeated Mio Shirai (12:41) with a Dragon Suplex Hold.
4. Best 2 of 3 Falls: Bullfight Sora, Leon, & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Shu Shibutani, Cherry, & Misaki Ohata (24:43) by 2 falls to 1.
4a. Shu Shibutani defeated Bullfight Sora (4:30) with a Diving Senton.
4b. Bullfight Sora defeated Cherry (15:13) with a Milk Jet Assisted Huricanrana Cutback.
4c. Ayumi Kurihara defeated Shu Shibutani (24:43) with a Schoolboy.
5. Ayumi Kurihara defeated Bullfight Sora (4:58) with a Uranage.

ZERO1 May 20, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Mr. X & XX defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (15:20) when Mio was disqualified for ripping at Mr. XX's mask.

NEO May 21, 2010
Niigata Kashiwazaki-shi Synthesis Gymnasium
136 Fans

1. Tanny Mouse defeated Chii Tomiya (9:38) with a Diving Tani Butt.
2. 3 Way Match: Hamuko Hoshi defeated Tsubo Genjin & Mister Buddhaman (9:06) with a Schoolboy on Genjin.
3. Yuki Miyazaki vs Aya Yuki (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Sucking Blood Mouse Witch (10:05) with an Argentine Backbreaker.
5. Manami Toyota & Misaki Ohata defeated Yoshiko Tamura & Toshie Uematsu (19:49) when Toyota used a Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex Hold on Uematsu.

REVOLUCION AMANDOLA May 21, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
350 Fans

1. Okinawa Pro Offer Match: Mensooree Oyaji defeated Golden Pine (8:06).
2. Aja Kong & Magnitude Kishiwada defeated Kyoko Kimura & Munenori Sawa (14:46) when Kong used an Uraken on Kimura.
3. TAJIRI defeated Tomoka Nakagawa (11:03) with a Buzzsaw Kick.
4. NEO High Speed Championship: Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Atsuko Emoto (11:19) with the Peach*Latch. Taiyo is successful in the 3rd defense.
5. Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Atsuko Emoto, Kyoko Kimura, & Tomoka Nakagawa (25:56) when Takahashi used the Nanaracka on Emoto.
6. Atsuko Emoto defeated Kyoko Kimura (4:10) with a Shining Wizard.

ICE RIBBON May 22, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
89 Fans

1. Chii Tomiya defeated Sayaka Obihiro (5:09) with a Reverse Cradle.
2. Hikari Minami & Riho defeated Makoto & Kurumi (14:16) when Minami used a Blockbuster Hold on Kurumi.
3. Tsukushi defeated Emi Sakura (0:05).
4. Kazumi Shimouma, Hamuko Hoshi, & Minori Makiba defeated Hikaru Shida, Tsukasa Fujimoto, & Miyako Matsumoto (13:20) when Shimouma used a Half Slam Buster on Shida.

OZ ACADEMY May 23, 2010
Sapporo Teisen Hall
490 Fans

1. Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato defeated Dynamite Kansai & Nao Komatsu (13:26) when Kato used a German Suplex Hold on Komatsu.
2. Mayumi Ozaki defeated AKINO (14:15) with an Ozakick.
3. Manami Toyota & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Aja Kong & Tomoka Nakagawa (15:21) when Toyota used a Japanese Ocean Queen Bee Bomb on Nakagawa.
4. Dynamite Kansai, Aja Kong, AKINO, Tomoka Nakagawa, & Nao Komatsu defeated Mayumi Ozaki, Manami Toyota, Chikayo Nagashima, Sonoko Kato, & Ayumi Kurihara (11:43) when Nakagawa used the Australian Arm on Ozaki.
5. OZ Academy Championship: Carlos Amano defeated Ran Yu-Yu (19:30) with the Carlos Ghosn. Amano is successful in the 1st defense.

Amano suffers broken nose.

JWP May 23, 2010
JWP Dojo
98 Fans

1. Kayoko Haruyama defeated Senri Kuroki (8:49) with a Diving Guillotine Drop.
2. Bulldog Rope Pool Match: Leon defeated Kaori Yoneyama (7:11) by submergence.
3. Mother/Father Cosplay Weapons Match: Command Bolshoi, Sachie Abe, & Jaguar Yokota defeated Keito, Tsubasa Kuragaki, & KAZUKI (16:33) when Bolshoi used the Pikobatorosu on Keito.

NEO May 23, 2010
Yokohama NEO Dojo

BIG JAPAN/OZ ACADEMY May 24, 2010
Asahikawa Local Industry Promotion Center

2. Ryuji Yamakawa, Yuichi Taniguchi, & Mayumi Ozaki vs Abdullah Kobayashi, Daikokubo Benkei, & Dynamite Kansai
3. Sonoko Kato & Nao Komatsu vs Ran Yu-Yu & Tomoka Nakagawa
5. MEN's Teioh & Carlos Amano vs Mototsugu Shimuzu & Chikayo Nagashima
6. Aja Kong & AKINO vs Manami Toyota & Ayumi Kurihara

Results, May 11-16

2010-05-16T17:41:00.004-05:00

First, another retirment to report. Tuesday's WAVE show featured GAMI & Bullfight Sora beating Aja Kong & Sakura Hirota when the cow pinned Sakura. Then the cow mentioned that she, along with her "friend" Atsuko Emoto, is retiring after the May 30th WAVE show. Bullfight Sora will have a series of five singles matches against GAMI, AKINO, Toshie Uematsu, Kyoko Kimura, and Tomoka Nakagawa. Kimura herself will be taking a hiatus to recover from various injuries after this show and the special Revolucion Amandola show next week, which features Emoto vs Natsuki*Taiyo for the NEO High Speed title and the three members of R.A. against Nanae Takahashi, Taiyo, and Ayumi Kurihara.

NEO's first show since the shocking departure of Kyoko Inoue and the impending retirements of Yoshiko Tamura, Tanny Mouse, and Yuki Miyazaki saw Aya Yuki adopt a new finisher which might signal a push for the only non-injured, non-retiring NEO worker left. Aya used the Death Valley Bomb, presumably learned from now-retired Etsuko MIta, to beat the gigantic gaijin Vanessa "The Mountain" Kraven in the semi-main event. The Sendai Girls duo of Ryo Mizunami and Kagetsu scored a nice win in the main event, beating the Three Count master-and-pupil team of Tamura and Hikaru Shida, with Miz using a guillotine drop on Shida. Tamura then announced her intention to defend both the NEO/NWA Pacific singles titles and the NEO tag titles (held with Ayumi Kurihara) against all comers until her retirement on December 31st, when she plans to still hold all three crowns.

Anniversaries are a bit happier than retirements, and we had some of those this week as well. OZ Academy featured the 15th anniversary of the original GAEA girls, along with Carlos Amano and Ran Yu-Yu from that great JWP class. Before the anniversary girls took the ring, we had Kagetsu defeat rookie Nao Komatsu, Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue over Hiroyo Matsumoto & Tomoka Nakagawa,KAORU over Yumi Ohka, and Aja Kong & AKINO over Dynamite Kansai & Manami Toyota. The KAORU vs Ozaki Army feud will continue, as she wants Takako next. Aja decided to reform some old-school Jungle Jack, as she'll team with Kaoru Ito to challenge Amano & Toyota for the
tag titles in JUne. Nothing like injecting some fresh young fighters into the title mix! Ito could add OZ gold to a resume that includes tag championships in AJW, JWP, and NEO.

The main event saw OZ Academy regulars Amano, Chikayo Nagashima, and Sonoko Kato be defeated by Ran Yu-Yu, Toshie Uematsu, and Meiko Satomura, with Ran pinning Carlos. This led to an immediate challenge for the OZ Openweight title, and this will happen next week in Sapporo at the Big Japan/OZ Academy joint show.

JWP ran a pair of shows as well, with the nightcap being Leon's 10th anniversary. In the matinee, Senri Kuroki got her first singles win over Daijo/WAVE rookie Sawako Shimono, who is the only one to debut from GAMI's try at an Osaka promotion. JWP working on killing the passion, as Command Bolshoi, Kayoko Haruyama, and Kaori Yoneyama defeated Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, and Kazumi Shimouma, with Bolshoi defeating Shimouma in preps for the Nanae-Bolshoi title match next month. The afternoon main event saw KAZUKI and Toshie Uematsu keep the JWP tag titles, beating Leon and Keito. Sachie Abe continued the jealous jilted lover routine.

The nightcap started with Bullfight Sora's last appearance in JWP, as the cow lost to both Yoneyama and Leon. Shimono got revenge on Kuroki with a pin in a sensei-and-student tag, also involving GAMI and Bolshoi. Here's your 2012 JWP Junior title feud, once every Sendai Girl and S-Ovation girl is too experienced for that belt. Mima Shimoda won a battle royale, won 30 kilos of black pork, and showed off her bitchin' recipe for carnitas! The main saw a series of singles matches against Leon. We had draws with Leon against Yuu Yamagata and Ayumi, then traded pinfalls against Haruyama before finishing with another draw against Yoneyama.

WAVE May 11, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
132 Fans

1. Ayumi Kurihara & Misaki Ohata defeated Moeka Haruhi & Ryo Mizunami (13:29) when Kurihara used a Back Arm Throw on Haruhi.
2. Toshie Uematsu defeated Io Shirai (11:05) with the Solarina.
3. GAMI & Bullfight Sora defeated Aja Kong & Sakura Hirota when Sora pinned Hirota.
4. Shu Shibutani & Cherry defeated Yumi Ohka & Asami Kawasaki (17:04) when Shibutani used a Diving Senton on Kawasaki.

ICE RIBBON May 12, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
62 Fans

1. Emi Sakura defeated Sayaka Obihiro (7:26) with a Double Arm Suplex.
2. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Chii Tomiya (7:13) with a Diving Body Press.
3. Keita Yano defeated Chou-un Shiryu (8:35) with the Kay Chan Bonn Bar.
4. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Makoto & Hikaru Shida (13:21) when Matsumoto used a Chokeslam on Shida.

ICE RIBBON May 15, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
86 Fans

1. Tsukushi defeated Kurumi (4:36).
2. Riho & Chii Tomiya defeated Makoto & Minori Makiba (14:32) when Tomiya used a Huricanrana on Makiba.
3. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Sayaka Obihiro (7:52) with a Diving Body Press.
4. Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikaru Shida defeated Emi Sakura & Kazumi Shimouma (13:20) when Shida used the Three Count on Shimouma.

NEO May 15, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
138 Fans

1. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Sawako Shimono (9:17) with a Chokeslam.
2. Nanae Takahashi & Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Toshie Uematsu & Sakura Hirota (14:39) when Taiyo pinned Hirota.
3. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki defeated Mima Shimoda & Cherry (17:14) when Tanny used a Facebuster into a Birthday Cake on cherry.
4. Aya Yuki defeated Vanessa the Mountain (10:41) with a Death Valley Bomb.
5. Ryo Mizunami & Kagetsu defeated Yoshiko Tamura & Hikaru Shida (17:01) when Mizunami used a Diving Guillotine Drop on Shida.

FURUSATO PRO May 15, 2010
Fukuoka Kurume Rokkadudou Plaza

4. Kyoko Kimura & Mio Shirai defeated Misaki Ohata & Io Shirai.

OZ ACADEMY May 16, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
15th Anniversary (Nagashima/Kato/Amano/Yu-Yu/Uematsu/Satomura)

1. Kagetsu defeated Nao Komatsu (10:11) with a Spear.
2. Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Tomoka Nakagawa (14:46) when Ozaki used an Ozakick on Nakagawa.
3. KAORU defeated Yumi Ohka (8:39) with an Ozakick.
4. Aja Kong & AKINO defeated Dynamite Kansai & Manami Toyota (11:03) when Kong used La Magistral on Toyota.
5. 15th Anniversary Special Tag Match: Ran Yu-Yu, Meiko Satomura, & Toshie Uematsu defeated Carlos Amano, Chikayo Nagashima, & Sonoko Kato (19:41) when Ran used a Huricanrana on Amano.

JWP May 16, 2010 (afternoon)
Tokyo Cinema Club
148 Fans

1. Senri Kuroki defeated Sawako Shimono (7:12) with a Cradle Cutback.
2. Sachie Abe defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (12:13) with La Magistral.
3. Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Mima Shimoda (15:57) with a Lariat.
4. Kayoko Haruyama, Command Bolshoi, & Kaori Yoneyama defeated Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Kazumi Shimouma (14:18) when Bolshoi used the Pikobatorosu on Shimouma.
5. JWP/Daily Sport Tag Team Championship: KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu (c) defeated Keito & Leon (16:39) when KAZUKI pinned Leon. KAZUKI & Uematsu are successful in the 2nd defense.

JWP May 16, 2010 (evening)
Tokyo Cinema Club
Leon 10th Anniversary
162 Fans

1. Kaori Yoneyama defeated Bullfight Sora (9:46) with a Rear Cradle.
2. Leon defeated Bullfight Sora (1:28).
3. GAMI & Sawako Shimono defeated Command Bolshoi & Senri Kuroki (16:43) when Shimono pinned Kuroki.
4. Battle Royale: Mima Shimoda defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki (11:52). Others, in order of elimination: Kaori Yoneyama, Senri Kuroki & Sawako Shimono, Command Bolshoi, GAMI, Bullfight Sora, Keito, KAZUKI, Sachie Abe, Cherry.
5. Leon vs Yuu Yamagata (6:00) went to a time-limit draw.
6. Leon vs Ayumi Kurihara (8:00) went to a time-limit draw.
7. Kayoko Haruyama vs Tojuki Leon (10:00) tied by 1 fall to 1. Haruyama defeated Leon (3:50) with the Keene Hammer. Leon defeated Haruyama (9:28) with the Four Character Jackknife Hold.
8. Leon vs Kaori Yoneyama (5:00) went to a time-limit draw.

UNION PRO May 16, 2010
Kitasenju Theater 1010

1. Miyako Matsumoto & GENTARO vs Seiya Morohashi & Cherry
2. Emi Sakura & Masa Takanashi vs Ricky Fuji & Hirosi

Results, May 3-May 9

2010-05-09T09:55:00.000-05:00

Of course, the massive news story from joshi puroresu this week was more bad news. At NEO's 10th anniversary show at Korakuen Hall on May 5th, it was revealed that NEO will be folding after the New Year's Eve Day show this year. Kyoko Inoue further announced (probably due to frustration with the retirements, lack of progress in developing new wrestlers, and differences with President Koda) that she has left NEO, effective immediately. Yoshiko Tamura, Tanny Mouse, and Yuki Miyazaki all announced they are retiring together on December 31st. Aya Yuki and Nagisa Nozaki will apparently follow Inoue in whatever comes next.

At the actual show, Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara defended the tag titles, beating Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata. Amazing Kong won her match, her first in Japan in over a year, by pinning Vanessa the Mountain. Mima Shimoda got payback on Revolucion Amandola, beating Atsuko Emoto in the Loser Leaves NEO match. That stip sure lost its sting. Oh, and Tanny Mouse beat her NEO Machine Gunz partner Yuki Miyazaki in the big battle royale.

In non-NEO news, Ice Ribbon's second Korakuen Hall show was unable to top the 1000 attendance barrier, coming in at 895 fans. Natsuki*Taiyo defended her NEO High Speed championship by beating Tsukasa Fujimoto. Miyako Matsumoto went hardcore, doing the stairwell dive (while crying her eyes out in fear) and really working the crowd during her match. She was teaming with Jun Kasai in a three way match for the International Ice Ribbon tag team championship. Miyako ended up winning the titles, pinning Kazumi Shimouma (teaming with Passion Red mentor Nanae Takahashi), then if her tears while doing the dives weren't bad enough, then Kasai tried to kiss her.

LLPW had two shows. Yes, that LLPW. The first show was a joint effort with WAVE and Ito Dojo at Shinjuku FACE on Tuesday May 4. Shinobu Kandori made a cow submit (eh, Bullfight Sora). Suprisingly, Hanako Kobayashi of all people won the main event, pinning Noriyo Tateno in a six-woman tag. It turns out Tateno was injured and missed the weekend show on Saturday in Nagoya. Hanako teamed with Harley Saito against Kandori & Jaguar Yokota. Could young Ms. Kobayashi beat another legend? HAHAHAHAHA. Kandori put her to sleep. Yumiko Hotta and Takako Inoue won the main event, beating Manami Toyota and Mima Shimoda when Inoue used the Destiny Hammer on Shimoda. Actually, that might be a match report from a 1989 AJW show; I'm not quite sure.

Sendai Girls had the semifinals of the Battlefield Tournament at Zepp Sendai. The openers saw some tag action, with Kaori Yoneyama and Hiroyo Matsumoto handling the sister team of DASH Chisako and Sendai Sachiko. Then Kagetsu teamed with Aja Kong but took care of business on her own, defeating Toshie Uematsu and Hiren with the Blockbuster on her Sendai colleague. Kagetsu then challenged Ryo Mizunami for the JWP Junior/P.O.P. titles, but only got a #1 Contender's match against Hiren instead. That will happen July 9th.

Also on July 9th we will have the expected Meiko Satomura vs Yoshiko Tamura final. Tamura beat Miz in 17 minutes, while Meiko had her second straight 20:00 draw, this time with Nanae Takahashi. Satomura advances for the second straight time on the lighter weight stipulation (Aja Kong in the first round). I'm disappointed but not suprised in the lack of a clean job from Nanae.

ICE RIBBON "GOLDEN RIBBON" May 3, 2010
Korakuen Hall
895 Fans

1. Kurumi Debut: Hikari Minami, Tsukushi, & Sayaka Obihiro vs Minori Makiba, Hikaru Shida, & Kurumi (9:00) when Minami used the Blockbuster on Kurumi.
2. Kiyoko Ichiki & Hamuko Hoshi defeated Masako Takanashi & Chii Tomiya (10:09) when Ichiki used a Top Rope Jumping Knee on Tomiya.
3. Modified MMA, 2 3-minute rounds: Mai Ichii vs Emi Fujino (3:00-R2) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Bambi & Munenori Sawa defeated Makoto & Kota Ibushi (11:18) when Bambi used a Standing Shining Wizard on Makoto.
5. NEO High Speed Championship: Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (16:44) with a Taiyo-Chan Spanish Fly. Taiyo is successful in the 2nd defense.
6. International Ice Ribbon Championship, 3 Way Match: Jun Kasai & Miyako Matsumoto defeated Nanae Takahashi & Kazumi Shimouma and GENTARO & Keita Yano (19:53) when Matsumoto used the Mama Mia on Shimouma. Takahashi & Shimouma fail in the 1st defense and Kasai & Matsumoto become the 10th champions.
7. ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura defeated Riho (15:49) with La Magistral. Riho fails in the 1st defense and Sakura becomes the 8th champion.

LLPW/Ito Dojo/WAVE "BATTLE FUSION" May 4, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
480 Fans

1. Shu Shibutani defeated Tomoko Morii (7:18).
2. 3 WAY Match: Sakura Hirota defeated Eiger & Aki Kambayashi (7:30) by pinning Eiger after mistaken Poison Mist from Sayuri Okino.
3. Yumiko Hotta & Shinobu Kandori defeated GAMI & Bullfight Sora (10:50) when Kandori used a Reverse Cross Armbreaker on Sora.
4. Kaoru Ito vs Toshie Uematsu (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
5. Takako Inoue defeatd Moeka Haruhi (14:57) with the Beauty Fist.
6. Yumi Ohka, Ayako Sato, & Hanako Kobayashi defeated Noriyo Tateno, Harley Saito, & Mima Shimoda (15:19) when Kobayashi pinned Tateno after a mistaken Chokeslam from Shimoda.

BJW "15TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW ~DEATH & CRAZY THAT´S THE WAY OF THE BJ-WORLD~" May 4, 2010
Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium
3354 Fans

2. Manami Toyota, Marcela & Ariya defeated Aja Kong , GAMI & Bullfight Sora (13:45) when Marcela used the Marcela Special on Sora.

NEO "10th ANNIVERSARY VOL. 2" May 5, 2010
Korakuen Hall
976 Fans

0. Nagisa Nozaki Sings
1. Aya Yuki defeated Senri Kuroki (5:37) with a Diving Elbow Drop.
2. Natsuki*Taiyo & Ikuto Hidaka vs Shuri & Hajime Ohara (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Amazing Kong & Nanae Takahashi defeated Kyoko Inoue & Vanessa the Mountain (15:05) after Kong used the Amazing Press on Vanessa.
4. Shimoda or Emoto Leaves NEO: Mima Shimoda, Tanny Mouse, & Yuki Miyazaki defeated Atsuko Emoto, Kyoko Kimura, & Tomoka Nakagawa (22:22) when Shimoda pinned Emoto after Poison Mist.
5. NEO Tag Team Championship: Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata (20:51) when Kurihara used an Uranage on Ohata. Tamura & Kurihara are successful in the 2nd defense.
6. NEO 10th Anniversary 30 Man Royal Rumble: Tanny Mouse defeated Yuki Miyazaki (43:38) with the Mission Possible. Ohters: Kyoko Inoue, Yoshiko Tamura, Aya Yuki, Tsubasa Kuragaki, Kaori Yoneyama, Toshie Uematsu, Cherry, Chou-un Shiryu,
Emi Sakura, Riho, Makoto, Miyako Matsumoto, Small Giant Baba, Sakura Hirota, Yuiga, Lingerie Muta, Michael Jusco, Metal Thief II,
Jai Ishikawa, Eiger, Policeman, Policewoman, Woman Goro, Tsurumi, Nagisa Nozaki, Hamuko Hoshi, 2 others

FMW "ATSUSHI ONITA RETIREMENT" May 5, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
327 Fans

2. Miss Mongol & Apple Miyuki defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (9:50) when Miyuki used the Final Cut on Io.

LLPW May 8, 2010
Zepp Nagoya
770 Fans

1. Eiger defeated Sakura Hirota (11:03) with a Curse.
2. Yumiko Hotta defeated Tomoko Morii (9:12) with a Palm Strike.
3. ??? defeated Mira (6:38) with a Lariat.
4. Shinobu Kandori & Jaguar Yokota defeated Harley Saito & Hanako Kobayashi (10:33) when Kandori used a Sleeper Hold on Kobayashi.
5. Sonoko Kato defeated Ayako Sato (14:44) with the Crown's Gate.
6. Yumiko Hotta & Takako Inoue defeated Manami Toyota & Mima Shimoda (16:04) when Inoue used the Destiny Hammer on Shimoda.

ICE RIBBON May 8, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
82 Fans

1. Hikaru Shida defeated Sayaka Obihiro (6:35) with a Reverse Cradle.
2. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Kurumi (7:27) with a Diving Body Press.
3. 3 Way Match: Riho defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Chii Tomiya (6:56) by pinning Tomiya.
4. Elimination Match: Hikari Minami, Minori Makiba, & Tsukushi defeated Emi Sakura, Makoto, & Kazumi Shimouma (16:34)
4a. Tsukushi defeated Emi Sakura (10:40) by Over the Top Rope.
4b. Tsukushi defeated Kazumi Shimouma (13:05).
4c. Makoto defeated Tsukushi (13:30).
4d. Hikari Minami defeated Makoto (16:34) with the Blockbuster.

T-1 FESTIVAL May 8, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. UGP Mask vs Kira*Ann
2. Megumi Yabushita vs Ranmaru
3. President Futami, Aky, & T-2 Mask (Io Shirai) vs Shark Tsuchiya, Yuu Yamagata, & Apple Miyuki

SENDAI GIRLS May 9, 2010
Zepp Sendai

1. Kaori Yoneyama & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated DASH Chisako & Sendai Sachiko (13:35) when Matsumoto used a Backdrop on Sachiko.
2. Aja Kong & Kagetsu defeated Toshie Uematsu & Hiren (14:36) when Kagetsu used the Blockbuster on Hiren.
3. Battlefield Tournament Semifinal: Yoshiko Tamura defeated Ryo Mizunami (17:08) with a Running Elbow.
4. Battlefield Tournament Semifinal: Meiko Satomura vs Nanae Takahashi (20:00) went to a time-limit draw. Satomura advances on the lighter weight rule.

BEGINNING May 9, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Mizuki Endo defeated Basara (8:12) with a Kenka Kick.
2. Yumiko Hotta defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (6:12) with a Palm Strike.
3. Ayumi Kurihara defeated Ranmaru (8:27) with a Missile Kick.
4. Yumi Ohka defeated Hanako Kobayashi (11:18) with the Neck Hanging Bomb.
5. Mima Shimoda & Takako Inoue defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (17:01) when Inoue used the Beauty Fist on Mio.
6. Yuu Yamagata & Kana defeated Asami Kawasaki & Cherry (14:00) when Yamagata used the Celebration on Kawasaki.

OSAKA PRO May 9, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
360 Fans

2. 3 Way Match: Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru defeated Miracle Man & Ebessan III (9:49) by pinning Ebessan.

Results, April 28-May 2

2010-05-02T12:39:00.003-05:00

With Golden Week coming up next week, we had a fair amount of action this week. Thursday saw Ice Ribbon in their last show before next week's Golden Ribbon from Korakuen Hall. Sayaka Obihiro, a 23 year old, made her debut and another 12 year old is debuting on next Monday's show. The main event saw HARASHIMA & Riho defeat Masa Takahashi & Emi Sakura. Emi & Riho weren't involved in the pinfall, but Riho does put the ICEx60 Championship on the line against her mentor. Emi apparently has read the Ricky Hatton Yo-Yo Diet training book, as she has reportedly lost 9 kg in one week to make the 60 kg weight limit. Sure, I believe that.

Also on Thursday was a double shot at Shinjuku FACE, with an awful lot of tsukune at our joshi shows. Kana's vanity show started with Kana and Ayumi Kurihara defeating Toshie Uematsu and Osaka Joshi's rookie Shimono Sawako, as the stout rookie took a good ole' ass-whupping from The Kurihara's dropkick. After several courses of tsukune (and GAMI), the main event was joshi's homage to the UWF vs New Japan feud, as Kana and Meiko Satomura kicked the poo out of each other. Meiko won and then yelled at Kana and made Kana cry. I don't understand Japanese, but I saw the Youtube clip of the show and I'd like to know what Satomura said. Oh, and Kana's wearing her fancy fuck-me purple panties over really tiny shiny gold short shorts now.

The Vader show followed. The Shirai sisters faced each other in their 3rd anniversary match, with older sis Mio getting the win. Basara made new friends in Big Van Vader, Vader Junior, and 2 Cold Scorpio, then returned to the ring. Hopefully she didn't run into Satomura in the Shinjuku FACE locker room. Basara and Bambi teamed up and whipped Asami Kawasaki and Apple Miyuki. I literally mean that they whipped them. With whips. Basara then used a German Suplex on Apple since she's apparently exempt from the "job when returning from a long injury break" rule of puroresu and then looked for creeps to buy her photobook or get whipped. For yen.

Cherry had her yearly vanity show on Saturday, which featured a lot of DDT-flavored tsukune. Futoshi Sawa painted his fat body like a cow and teamed with Bullfight Sora. I think this was the kind of stuff that made PUNQ throw in the towel on the "watch everything from Japan" crusade. The fat cows lost. Then Makoto and Kota Ibushi dressed up like Mario and Luigi and beat Aja Kong and her tsukune partner. Yes, Aja 2010 is on the losing side in matches involving Makoto cosplaying video game characters. At least the loss was because Aja "accidentally" urakened her tsukune. Cherry and Shu Shibutani won the main event over some indy sleaze tsukune.

At least there was no leftover tsukune on Sunday. OZ Academy ran Osaka. The Ozaki-KAORU feud will not die, as KAORU's interference in the Chikayo Nagashima vs Mayumi Ozaki match resulted in a Chikayo win. Expect a big stipulation match between the old cheating broads later this summer. The OZ tag belts changed hands, as Carlos Amano & Manami Toyota, after finishing their long series of matches tied, teamed up and defeated AKINO and Ran Yu-Yu, who failed in their 6th defense.

JWP's first show since MANIA-X, where Nanae Takahashi ended Kayoko Haruyama's near two-year reign, set up some new angles. Rookie Senri Kuroki is now wearing a purple skirt from the Mio Shirai consignment shop, and lost to Makoto in the first of a five match series. She gets Shimono Sawako next in the battle to see who is at the absolute bottom of the joshi hierarchy. KAZUKI and Toshie Uematsu are now a team and tag champs, and Sachie Abe isn't taking this well. She's a jilted lover and can't stand that KAZUKI left The WANTED?! for some Uelove. Abe's trying to find a new partner to exact revenge, but I'm not sure she's found a taker. KAZUKI did get her ass kicked by gigantic gaijin Vanessa "The Mountain" Kraven and Uematsu lost to Abe. Command Bolshoi teamed with Ayako Sato and beat Kaori Yoneyama and Marcela with what I take is a rip-off of Nanae's finisher, called the "Pikoracka". Lulz. After Haruyama got a pin over Tsubasa Kuragaki in the main event tag, then Bolshoi told Nanae, present only as a spectator today, that her next challenge is from Bolshoi herself. That defense is next month at Shinjuku FACE and I can't imagine that's anything but a throwaway defense for Takahashi.

BIG JAPAN April 28, 2010
Korakuen Hall

2. Yoshiko Tamura & Kaori Yoneyama defeated Marcela & Tanny Mouse (3:13) when Tamura used a Running Elbow on Tanny.

OSAKA PRO April 29, 2010
Matsushita IMP Hall
858 Fans

3. Kanjuro Matsuyama & Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru defeated Ebessan III & Takoyakida (10:05) when Ranmaru pinned Takoyakida.

ICE RIBBON April 29, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
140 Fans
1. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Sayaka Obihiro Debut Match: Kazumi Shimouma defeated Sayaka Obihiro (8:05) with a Running Elbow.
3. Mai Ichii & Tsukushi defeated Hamuko Hoshi & Chii Tomiya (8:57) when Tsukushi pinned Tomiya.
4. Miyako Matsumoto defeated Minori Makiba (6:35) with the Miya Here Clutch.
5. Makoto & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Natsuki*Taiyo & Hikari Minami (14:44) when Fujimoto used the Tsukadora on Minami.
6. HARASHIMA & Riho defeated Emi Sakura & Masa Takanashi (14:53) when HARASHIMA pinned Sakura.

KANA PRODUCE April 29, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
509 Fans

1. Kana & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Toshie Uematsu & Sawako Shimono (12:09) when Kurihara used a Missile Kick on Shimono.
3. GENTARO, Yuji Hino, & Kota Ibushi defeated MEN'S Teoih, Munenori Sawa, & GAMI (19:09) when Ibushi used a Dragon Suplex Hold on GAMI.
5. Meiko Satomura defeated Kana (16:49) with the Scissors Sleeper Hold.

VADER TIME April 29, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

3. Shirai Sisters 3rd Anniversary Match: Mio Shirai defeated Io Shirai with a Cradle.
6. Basara Return: Basara & Bambi defeated Asami Kawasaki & Apple Miyuki when Basara used a German Suplex Hold on Miyuki.

CHERRY PRODUCE "FANTASY ILLUSION 3" May 1, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
369 Fans

1. Kazuyo Tamura & Riho defeated Lingerie Muto Daughter & Akira Sato Tomeko (8:47) when Riho pinned Lingerie.
2. Toru Owashi & Tanomasaku Toba defeated Bullfight Sora & Holstein Futoshi Miwa (10:11) when Toba pinned Miwa after a Mistaken Milk Mist.
3. Mario (Makoto) & Liugi (Kota Ibushi) defeated Aja Kong & Takeshi Oya (11:28) when Mario pinned Oya after a Mistaken Uraken from Kong.
4. Toshie Uematsu defeated Masa-ko Takanashi (15:44) with the Solarina.
5. Cherry & Shu Shibutani defeated Jai Ishikawa & Shigeko Deluxe (14:11) when Cherry used the Fantasy Illusion on Shigeko.

NEO May 1, 2010
Yokohama NEO Dojo

1. Yuki Miyazaki vs Hamuko Hoshi
2. Yoshiko Tamura vs Tanny Mouse
3. Kyoko Inoue & Aya Yuki vs Atsuko Emoto & Vanessa the Mountain
4. Spectator Bring the Weapons Battle Royale

SENDAI GIRLS May 1, 2010
Kawasaki Michinoku Park Northern Ward Eco Camp Michinoku

1. Ryo Mizunami defeated Sendai Sachiko (6:40) with a Diving Guillotine Drop.
2. Hiren defeated Kagetsu (11:52) with a Corner Neckbreaker.
3. Meiko Satomura & Ryo Mizunami defeated DASH Chisako & Sendai Sachiko (15:53) when Satomura used a Knee Kick on Chisako.

OZ ACADEMY May 2, 2010
Osaka Azalea Taisho Hall
430 Fans

1. Ayumi Kurihara defeated Nao Komatsu with a Missile Kick.
2. Takako Inoue & Yumi Ohka defeated KAORU & Tomoka Nakagawa when Ohka used a Tiger Suplex Hold on Nakagawa.
3. Dynamite Kansai & Sonoko Kato defeated Aja Kong & Hiroyo Matsumoto when Kato used the Crown's Gate on Matsumoto.
4. Chikayo Nagashima defeated Mayumi Ozaki with a Jackknife Hold after KAORU hit Ozaki with a board.
5. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: Carlos Amano & Manami Toyota defeated AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu when Amano used the Carlos Ghosn on Ran. AKINO & Ran fail in the 6th defense and Amano & Toyota become the 8th champions.

JWP May 2, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
156 Fans

1. Makoto defeated Senri Kuroki (8:45) with a Diving Rolling Senton.
2. Sachie Abe defeated Toshie Uematsu (9:58) with a Modified La Magistral.
3. Vanessa the Mountain defeated KAZUKI (8:40) with a Liger Bomb.
4. Command Bolshoi & Ayako Sato defeated Kaori Yoneyama & Marcela (10:33) when Bolshoi used the Picoracka on Yoneyama.
5. Kayoko Haruyama & Keito defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki & Leon (19:01) when Haruyama used a Rolling Lariat on Kuragaki.

Schedule, April 2010

2010-04-30T09:09:00.011-05:00

WAVE April 2, 2010
Yokohama Nigiwaiza

1. WAVE vs NEO Singles matches (drawn by lottery): WAVE (GAMI, Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, Sawako Shimono) vs NEO (Yoshiko Tamura, Tanny Mouse, Yuki Miyazaki, Aya Yuki)
2. Bullfight Sora vs X
3. Winners vs Losers Tag Match

ICE RIBBON April 3, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Tsukushi vs ?
2. Kazumi Shimouma & Hikari Minami vs Hikaru Shida & Chii Tomiya
3. Handicap Match: Ribbon Takanashi vs Emi Sakura & Makoto
4. ICEx60 Championship: Miyako Matsumoto (c) vs Riho

ESTRELLA LUCHA 2010 April 3, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. FUKA Kid Final: Fuka Kid vs Bolshoi Kid
2. Passion Seven & Passion Nakki vs Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto
3. HIROKA & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Toshie Uematsu & Leon
4. Best Two of Three Falls: Dark Angel vs Princess Sugei
5. Lucha Battle Royale

OZ ACADEMY April 4, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Nao Komatsu vs Aya Yuki
2. Single Series, Match #5: Carlos Amano [1] vs Manami Toyota [2]
3. Chikayo Nagashima vs Ayumi Kurihara
4. Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue vs Dynamite Kansai & Sonoko Kato
5. Aja Kong, KAORU, & Tomoka Nakagawa vs AKINO, Ran Yu-Yu, & Hiroyo Matsumoto

JWP April 4, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club

1. Senri Kuroki vs Yumi Ohka
2. Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita vs Misaki Ohata & Hanako Kobayashi
3. Kaori Yoneyama & Keito vs Sachie Abe & Leon
4. Kayoko Haruyama & HIROKA vs KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu
5. JWP OCC League Final: Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Nanae Takahashi

WAVE April 4, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club

1. GAMI vs Leon
2. Bullfight Sora & Sakura Hirota vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai
3. Uematsu WAVE: Toshie Uematsu, Jaguar Yokota, others
4. TLW Young Women's Tag Team Championship: Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata (c) vs Ryo Mizunami & Kagetsu
5. Yumi Ohka vs Asami Kawasaki

ICE RIBBON April 7, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Emi Sakura vs Hikaru Shida
2. Munenori Sawa & Keita Yano vs GENTARO & Miyako Matsumoto
3. Kaori Yoneyama & Makoto vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Chii Tomiya

SENDAI GIRLS April 9, 2010
Zepp Sendai
Battlefield WAR Tournament

1. Ryo Mizunami vs Hiroyo Matsumoto
2. DASH Chisako vs Sendai Sachiko
3. Hiren vs Nanae Takahashi
4. Kagetsu vs Aja Kong
5. Toshie Uematsu vs Mizunami/Matsumoto
6. Yoshiko Tamura vs Chisako/Sachiko
7. Kaori Yoneyama vs Hiren/Takahashi
8. Meiko Satomura vs Kagetsu/Aja

ICE RIBBON April 10, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Riho & Chii Tomiya vs Hamuko Hoshi & Tsukushi
2. GENTARO & Aika Ando vs Ribbon Takanashi & Miyako Matsumoto
3. Emi Sakura vs Kazumi Shimouma
4. Hikari Minami & Makoto vs Hikaru Shida & Tsukasa Fujimoto

NEO April 10, 2010
Fukushima Iwaki Gymnasium

1. HIROKA vs Tomoko Morii
2. Aya Yuki vs Yumiko Hotta
3. Yoshiko Tamura vs Tanny Mouse
4. Kyoko Inoue & Yuki Miyazaki vs Nanae Takahashi & Kaoru Ito

JWP April 11, 2010
JWP Dojo

1. KAZUKI vs Senri Kuroki
2. Tsubasa Kuragaki & Leon vs Command Bolshoi & Kaori Yoneyama
3. Kayoko Haruyama vs JWP OCC Block Round Robin Matches (3 minutes each): Kayoko Haruyama vs Tsubasa Kuragaki, Keito, Sachie Abe, Kaori Yoneyama, Leon

BIG JAPAN April 12, 2010
Takaoka Techno Dome

2. GAMI & Bullfight Sora vs Leon & Senri Kuroki
5. Yumi Ohka & Moeka Haruhi vs Toshie Uematsu & Cherry

BIG JAPAN April 13, 2010
Toyama Industrial Pavilion Techno Hall

2. GAMI & Bullfight Sora vs Toshie Uemastu & Cherry
3. Yumi Ohka & Moeka Haruhi vs Leon & Senri Kuroki

ICE RIBBON April 14, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ?
2. Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Chii Tomiya
3. GENTARO & Natsuki*Taiyo vs Ribbon Takanashi & Hamuko Hoshi
4. Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii vs Makoto & Hikaru Shida

TOKYO GURENTAI "TOKYO LOVE ~SPRING BATTLE~" April 15, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

5. HIROKA vs Kyoko Kimura

ICE RIBBON April 17, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Exhibition: Tsukushi vs ?
2. Yumiko Inoue Re-debut: Yumiko Inoue vs Chii Tomiya
3. GENTARO & Aika Ando vs Makoto & Hamuko Hoshi
4. JWP Junior/POP Championship: Ryo Mizunami (c) vs Kazumi Shimouma
5. Emi Sakura, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Mai Ichii vs Hikari Minami, Hikaru Shida, & Tsukasa Fujimoto
6. Triangle Ribbon Championship: Miyako Matsumoto (c) vs Riho vs Nanae Takahashi

NEO April 17, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Battle Royale
2. Natsuki*Taiyo & HIROKA vs Ultima Moreno & noki-A
3. Yoshiko Tamura vs Sakura Hirota
4. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki vs Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto
5. Kyoko Inoue & Nanae Takahashi vs Aya Yuki & Ryo Mizunami

JWP "MANIA-X 2010" April 18, 2010
Korakuen Hall

1. Senri Kuroki vs Ryo Mizunami
2. Command Bolshoi & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Megumi Yabushita & Ayako Sato
3. Keito 15th Anniversary Match: Keito vs Kyoko Inoue
4. OCC League Participants Elimination Tag Match: Tsubasa Kuragaki, Kaori Yoneyama, Leon, & Sachie Abe vs Passion Hottei, Ran Yu-Yu, Yumi Ohka, & Emi Sakura
5. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Championship: KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu (c) vs HIROKA & Atsuko Emoto
6. JWP Openweight Championship: Kayoko Haruyama (c) vs Nanae Takahashi

ITO DOJO April 18, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Tomoko Morii vs Kazumi Shimouma
2. Hanako Kobayashi & Cherry vs Asami Kawasaki & Kana
3. Aki Kambayashi vs Sakura Hirota
4. Ayako Sato vs Mai Ichii
5. Kaoru Ito & Aja Kong vs Yumiko Hotta & Takako Inoue

WAVE April 20, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Moeka Haruhi vs Tomoka Nakagawa
2. Misaki Ohata & Io Shirai vs Ryo Mizunami & Mio Shirai
3. Shibutani Return: Shu Shibutani vs Kana
4. Best 2 of 3 Falls: GAMI, Yumi Ohka, & Toshie Uematsu vs Sakura Hirota, Bullfight Sora, & X

ICE RIBBON April 21, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Sayaka Obihiro vs ?
2. Kaori Yoneyama & Mai Ichii vs Hikaru Shida & Chii Tomiya
3. Miyako Matsumoto vs Hamuko Hoshi
4. Makoto vs GENTARO

ZERO1 April 22, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. First Ever Twitter Match: Kikutaro vs Emi Sakura

SMASH April 23, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

3. Lynn Byron Debut: Shuri & Hajime Ohara vs Lynn Byron & KUSHIDA

ICE RIBBON April 24, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Sayaka Obihiro vs ?
2. Chii Tomiya vs Yumiko Inoue
3. Hikari Minami & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Mai Ichii & Hamuko Hoshi
4. Miyako Matsumoto vs Tsukushi
5. Makoto & Hikaru Shida vs Minori Makiba & Kazumi Shimouma

NEO April 24, 2010
Tochigi Kanseki Sano Home Center Parking Lot

1. Manami Toyota vs Tomoko Morii
2. Tanny Mouse vs Aya Yuki
3. Yoshiko Tamura vs Yuki Miyazaki
4. Kyoko Inoue & Hanako Kobayashi vs Noriyo Tateno & Kaoru Ito

KURIHARA SPECIAL April 24, 2010
Chiba Marine Stadium Event Space

1. Kurihara 5th Anniversary: Ayumi Kurihara & GAMI vs Toshie Uematsu & Shu Shibutani

BIG JAPAN April 28, 2010
Korakuen Hall

2. Marcela & Tanny Mouse vs Yoshiko Tamura & Kaori Yoneyama

OSAKA PRO April 29, 2010
Matsushita IMP Hall

3. Kanjuro Matsuyama & Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru vs Ebessan III & Takoyakida

ICE RIBBON April 29, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ?
2. Sayaka Obihiro Debut Match: Sayaka Obihiro vs Kazumi Shimouma
3. Mai Ichii & Tsukushi vs Hamuko Hoshi & Chii Tomiya
4. Minori Makiba vs Miyako Matsumoto
5. Natsuki*Taiyo & Hikari Minami vs Makoto & Tsukasa Fujimoto
6. HARASHIMA & Riho vs Emi Sakura & Masa Takanashi
KANA PRODUCE April 29, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Kana & Ayumi Kurihara vs Toshie Uematsu & Sawako Shimono
2. Kengo Mashimo & Yujiro Yamamoto vs Hikaru Sato & Katsumi Usuta
3. MEN'S Teioh, Munenori Sawa, & GAMI vs GENTARO, Yuji Hino, & Kota Ibushi
4. Tatsumi Fujinami vs Yuki Ishikawa
5. Kana vs Meiko Satomura

VADER TIME April 29, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Shirai Sisters 3rd Anniversary Match: Mio Shirai vs Io Shirai
2. Basara Return: Basara & Bambi vs Apple Miyuki & Asami Kawasaki

Results, April 20-24

2010-04-25T06:31:00.000-05:00

First, a shameless plug for 1JoshI Radio Free Hiren. The joshi puroresu podcast is back from hiatus. Sunday, April 25th at 8 PM Central will be the next live podcast. Call in if you want to participate.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/1joshi

Very little happened in the ring this week. Ayumi Kurihara had her 5th anniversary match at an unusual location: outside the baseball stadium for the Chiba Lotte Marines. She teamed with GAMI and beat Toshie Uematsu and Shu Shibutani via a modified back arm throw on Shu.

Shibutani had returned from her broken nose earlier in the week, at a midweek WAVE show. She lost in the main event to Kana, the same wrestler who had injured her. NEO's house show in Sano (a small city in Tochigi Prefecture) was notable in that Nanae Takahashi didn't wrestle due to a (presumably) minor injury and was replaced by Manami Toyota. Toyota beat Tomoko Morii. Morii's jobbing partner Hanako Kobayashi lost in the main event, taking a powerbomb from Big Auntie Kaoru Ito. Ito's teammate was Noriyo Tateno and Hanako's was Big Momma Kyoko Inoue. Oh, and according to Wikipedia the city of Sano is known for its outlet mall and its ramen. Sounds like a really exciting place.

Ice Ribbon had a couple of small shows, setting up the Golden Ribbon event at Korakuen Hall. They have a new rookie debuting next week. Her name is Sayaka Obihiro and she's 23. Oh, and Yumiko Inoue had her re-debut, losing to tiny Chii Tomiya. As we all know, pro-wrestlers never really retire and apparently this includes the JD Star athtresses. Yumiko's gonna be 30 later this year, so that must have triggered some sort of not-quite-mid-life crisis, the same malady that struck Yumi Ohka and Asami Kawasaki. Emi Sakura is letting Mai Ichii win matches (I guess to give her some pseudo credibility before her pseudo MMA match with Emi Fujino) and Morishima's little sister Minori Makiba worked for the first time in months.

WAVE April 20, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
117 Fans

1. Misaki Ohata & Io Shirai vs Ryo Mizunami & Mio Shirai (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Moeka Haruhi (12:30) with the Australian Arm.
3. Best 2 of 3 Falls: Sakura Hirota, Bullfight Sora, & HIROKA defeated GAMI, Yumi Ohka, & Toshie Uematsu (16:53) by 2 falls to 1.
3a. HIROKA defeated GAMI (6:44) with a Clutch.
3b. GAMI defeated HIROKA (7:24) with a Huricanrana Cutback.
3c. HIROKA defeated Yumi Ohka (16:53) with the Muerte de Christ.
4. Shibutani Return: Kana defeated Shu Shibutani (18:16) with the Russian Hook.

ICE RIBBON April 21, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
51 Fans

1. Exhibition: Sayaka Obihiro vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Kaori Yoneyama & Mai Ichii defeated Hikaru Shida & Chii Tomiya (10:03) when Ichii used a High Kick on Shida.
3. Miyako Matsumoto defeated Hamuko Hoshi (7:49) with a Cradle.
4. GENTARO defeated Makoto (14:57) with a Sharpshooter.

ZERO1 April 22, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. First Ever Twit Match: Emi Sakura defeated Kikutaro (9:34) with a Shining Wizard.

SMASH April 23, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
590 Fans

5. Lynn Byron Debut: Lynn Byron & KUSHIDA defeated Shuri & Hajime Ohara (19:03) when Byron used the Low Rolling Press on Shuri.

KURIHARA SPECIAL April 24, 2010
Chiba Marine Stadium Event Space

1. Kurihara 5th Anniversary: Ayumi Kurihara & GAMI defeated Toshie Uematsu & Shu Shibutani (20:00) when Kurihara used a Modified Back Arm Throw on Shibutani.

ICE RIBBON April 24, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
96 Fans

1. Exhibition: Sayaka Obihiro defeated ? (3:00) by 1 fall to 0.
2. Chii Tomiya defeated Yumiko Inoue (5:08) with a Reverse Cradle.
3. Mai Ichii & Hamuko Hoshi defeated Hikari Minami & Tsukasa Fujimoto (9:50) when Hoshi used a Diving Body Press on Minami.
4. Miyako Matsumoto defeated Tsukushi (6:25) with the Miya Here Clutch.
5. Makoto & Hikaru Shida defeated Minori Makiba & Kazumi Shimouma (15:38) when Makoto used a Diving Rolling Senton on Makiba.

NEO April 24, 2010
Tochigi Kanseki Sano Home Center Parking Lot
106 Fans

1. Tanny Mouse defeated Aya Yuki (12:11) with the Paro Special.
3. Manami Toyota defeated Tomoko Morii (14:54) with the Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex Hold.
3. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Yuki Miyazaki (7:12) with the Attendant Clutch.
4. Noriyo Tateno & Kaoru Ito defeated Kyoko Inoue & Hanako Kobayashi (15:51) when Ito used a Powerbomb on Kobayashi.

Results, April 12-18

2010-04-18T09:23:00.001-05:00

The major event in joshi puroresu this week was JWP's annual spring event known as "MANIA-X", held in Korakuen Hall on April 18th. Sendai's Ryo Mizunami, who had defended the JWP Jr/POP titles against Kazumi Shimouma at an Ice Ribbon show the day before, beat JWP rookie Senri Kuroki, who got a halfway decent looking purple and silver costume. Command Bolshoi & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Megumi Yabushita and Ayako Sato in a High Speed meets Submissions match. Keito's 15th anniversary match saw her eat a Niagara Driver from Big Momma Kyoko Inoue.

The losing JWP OCC league participants had a JWP vs outsiders elimination tag match. Sachie Abe quickly dispatched Passion Hottei, and then ate Yumi Ohka's big boot. Leon eliminated Ohka, but then both Leon and Kaori Yoneyama were eliminated by Emi Sakura's La Magistrals, to leave JWP at a two to one disadvantage. Tsubasa Kuragaki overcame this handicap, beating both Ran Yu-Yu and Emi to win the day for JWP. KAZUKI and Toshie Uematsu sucessfully defended the JWP/Daily Sports tag belts over HIROKA and Atsuko Emoto, with Toshie pinning HIROKA with the Solarina.

The big news was Kayoko Haruyama's 9th defense of the JWP Openweight title, almost two full years since winning the belt from the now retired Azumi Hyuga at this same show in 2008. The challenger was Passion Red's Nanae Takahashi, who had won the OCC league. Nanae ended up taking the title after 24 minutes with the Nanaracka*100. Nanae said that she now plans on capturing the NEO/NWA Pacific belts and the Sendai Girls tournament title to establish herself as the dominant force of joshi puroresu. Nanae added this title to the International Ice Ribbon tag belt she shares with Kazumi Shimouma and the Ice Ribbon Triangle belt that she won from Miyako Matsumoto & Riho on Saturday's Ice Ribbon show. I don't really see the point of booking Takahashi to win Ice Ribbon's secondary belt. Fortunately for not-quite teenager Riho, the current ICEx60 champion, there's little threat that Nanae will ever make the 60 kg weight limit.

Ice Ribbon's Saturday show at Itabashi Green Hall, in addition to the title matches already mentioned, saw the re-debut of Yumiko Inoue, a former idol girl who briefly worked for JD Star several years ago. She lost to Chii Tomiya, the tiniest non-preteen wrestler in joshi. Ice Ribbon is setting up their "Golden Ribbon" at Korakuen Hall early next month, featuring Riho vs Emi Sakura for the ICEx60 title, Mai Ichii vs Emi Fujino in an MMA fight, and a three-way for the tag titles with champs Nanae & Kazumi vs GENTARO & Keita Yano and the dream team of Miyako Matsumoto and Jun Kasai. I predict fake light tubes made of balloons or styrofoam.

Ito Dojo held a rare show. I'm sure they won't start a website or get TV or sell DVDs or anything else that might get people's attention. I'm obsessive enough and found results. The ever-elusive Tomoko Morii drew with Kazumi Shimouma. Hanako Kobayashi & Cherry beat Asami Kawasaki & Kana, with the Cherryton Bomb on Asami. Aki Kambayashi (aka Miss Mongol) beat Sakura Hirota when Hirota submitted due to "shame and embarassement". I can't say I blame her. Or maybe that's a botched translation! Ayako Sato got a win over ex-Ito Dojo fighter Mai Ichii. The main event was a blast from the past, with Kaoru Ito & Aja Kong taking on Yumiko Hotta (not Passion Hottei) and Takako Inoue (who still is a hottie). Takako ate a backfist from Aja.

NEO had a silly house show. The opener was a battle royale to qualify for the battle royale on the anniversary show (part two) at Korakuen on May 5. It was Toshie Uematsu (already in) versus six indy sleazes that fall below Small Giant Baba on the puroresu pecking order. Such luminaries of the puroresu world as Konaka=Pale One and Karate Mummy failed, but Yuiga got the rare win and her chubby masked presence will bless the main battle royale for a least a few seconds. Oh, the main event was Kyoko Inoue & Nanae Takahashi against Ryo Mizunami & Aya Yuki. Sounds like an extended squash match. Big Momma got the expected win via powerbomb over Little Genki (Aya).

BIG JAPAN April 12, 2010
Takaoka Techno Dome

2. GAMI & Bullfight Sora vs Leon & Senri Kuroki
5. Yumi Ohka & Moeka Haruhi vs Toshie Uematsu & Cherry

BIG JAPAN April 13, 2010
Toyama Industrial Pavilion Techno Hall

2. GAMI & Bullfight Sora vs Toshie Uemastu & Cherry
3. Yumi Ohka & Moeka Haruhi vs Leon & Senri Kuroki

ZERO1 April 13, 2010
Asahikawa Local Industry Promotion Center

2. Bambi defeated Apple Miyuki (6:31) with a Standing Shining Wizard.

ZERO 1 April 14, 2010
Sapporo Factory Hall

2. Bambi defeated Apple Miyuki (8:12) with a Standing Shining Wizard.

ICE RIBBON April 14, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
56 Fans

1. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs GENTARO (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Chii Tomiya (7:55) with the Venus Shot.
3. GENTARO & Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Ribbon Takanashi & Hamuko Hoshi (11:19) when Taiyo used La Magistral on Hoshi.
4. Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii defeated Makoto & Hikaru Shida (18:12) when Ichii used a Jumping High Kick on Shida.

ZERO1 April 15, 2010
Hakodate Ciitizen Gymnasium

2. Apple Miyuki defeated Bambi (10:20) with La Magistral.

TOKYO GURENTAI "TOKYO LOVE ~SPRING BATTLE~" April 15, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
300 Fans

5. HIROKA defeated Kyoko Kimura (8:27) with a Modified Chickenwing Hold.

ICE RIBBON April 17, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
240 Fans

1. Exhibition: Tsukushi defeated ? (3:00) by 2 falls to 0.
2. Yumiko Inoue Re-debut: Chii Tomiya defeated Yumiko Inoue (5:19) with a Cradle.
3. GENTARO & Aika Ando defeated Makoto & Hamuko Hoshi (14:22) when GENTARO pinned Makoto.
4. JWP Junior/POP Championship: Ryo Mizunami defeated Kazumi Shimouma (16:11) with the Diving Guillotine Drop. Mizunami is successful in the 2nd defense.
5. Emi Sakura, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Mai Ichii defeated Hikari Minami, Hikaru Shida, & Tsukasa Fujimoto (17:56) when Ichii used a Jumping High Kick on Shida.
6. Triangle Ribbon Championship: Nanae Takahashi defeated Miyako Matsumoto & Riho (12:28) by using a Cradle on Matsumoto. Matsumoto fails in the 1st defense and Takahashi becomes the 3rd champion.

NEO April 17, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
122 Fans

1. Seven Wrestler Battle Royale: Yuiga defeated Toshie Uematsu Picture (4:37). Others, in order of elimination: Magnum Edo, Karate Mummy, Tama River, Konaka=Pale One, Octopus Nipple (???).
2. Natsuki*Taiyo & HIROKA defeated Ultima Moreno & AKINO (8:40) when HIROKA used the Muerte de Christ on Moreno.
3. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Sakura Hirota (8:53) with a Patriot Buster.
4. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki defeated Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto (14:50) when Tanny used the Mission Possible on Kimura.
5. Kyoko Inoue & Nanae Takahashi defeated Aya Yuki & Ryo Mizunami (18:39) when Inoue used a Powerbomb on Yuki.

JWP "MANIA-X 2010" April 18, 2010
Korakuen Hall
839 Fans

1. Ryo Mizunami defeated Senri Kuroki (6:39).
2. Command Bolshoi & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Megumi Yabushita & Ayako Sato (12:55) when Bolshoi used a Tiger Suplex Hold on Yabushita.
3. Keito 15th Anniversary Match: Kyoko Inoue defeated Keito (8:53) with a Niagara Driver.
4. OCC League Participants Elimination Tag Match: Tsubasa Kuragaki, Kaori Yoneyama, Leon, & Sachie Abe defeated Passion Hottei, Ran Yu-Yu, Yumi Ohka, & Emi Sakura (12:05).
4a. Sachie Abe defeated Passion Hottei (2:46) with a Cradle.
4b. Yumi Ohka defeated Sachie Abe (4:11) with a Big Boot.
4c. Leon defeated Yumi Ohka (5:26) with the Captured Buster.
4d. Emi Sakura defeated Leon (6:49) with La Magistral.
4e. Emi Sakura defeated Kaori Yoneyama (9:11) with La Magistral.
4f. Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Ran Yu-Yu (11:50) with the Wing Clutch Hold.
4g. Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Emi Sakura (12:55) with the Metal Wing.
5. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Championship: KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu defeated HIROKA & Atsuko Emoto (13:49) when Uematsu used the Solarina on HIROKA. KAZUKI & Uematsu are successful in the 1st defense.
6. JWP Openweight Championship: Nanae Takahashi defeated Kayoko Haruyama (24:47) with the Nanaracka*100. Haruyama fails in the 9th defense and Takahashi becomes the 14th champion.

ITO DOJO April 18, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Tomoko Morii vs Kazumi Shimouma (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Hanako Kobayashi & Cherry defeated Asami Kawasaki & Kana when Cherry used the Cherryton Bomb on Kawasaki.
3. Aki Kambayashi defeated Sakura Hirota by submission due to "embarassment".
4. Ayako Sato defeated Mai Ichii with a German Suplex Hold.
5. Kaoru Ito & Aja Kong defeated Yumiko Hotta & Takako Inoue when Kong used an Uraken on Inoue.

Results, April 7-11

2010-04-10T17:14:00.002-05:00

The main news in joshi puroresu this week focused on the Sendai Girls tournament and on the U.S.A.-bound wrestlers.

Sendai Girls met at Zepp Sendai on Friday night for the first two rounds of the second Battlefield Tournament. This year, it's 12 wrestlers in a single-elimination tournament, with 4 wrestlers drawing first-round byes. We also get the return of injured Hiren (back) and Sendai Sachiko (ankle) and the introduction of a new trainee from Nagano who will hopefully debut later this year. Hiren, Sachiko, and Kagetsu also got new costumes, much like DASH Chisako and Ryo Mizunami got a few months ago. Hiren's going with a sparklier version of her red Sendai gear, while Sachiko's main color is white, with red and pink trim and armbands (if big sis Chisako can have them, so can I!), while Kagetsu has a red and blue sporty two piece, and KNEEPADS (obviously Satomura loves her, as not just anyone gets kneepads).

In actual action, Ryo Mizunami was the first to advance to the semifinals. She beat Chicago-bound Hiroyo Matsumoto in the opener, gaining revenge for her loss in the youth tournament two years ago, then got that elusive win over a senior, pinning Toshie Uematsu. The sisters met in Sachiko's return, with older sis Chisako scoring the win by frogsplash. Chisako was then dispatched quickly by NEO ace Yoshiko Tamura. Nanae Takahashi made it through Hiren and then Kaori Yoneyama with little difficulty. Kagetsu (aka Yukari Ishino) had bragged in her blog that she was going to beat both Aja Kong and Meiko Satomura (a feat Ayako Hamada did pull off in 2007). Aja's vicious lariat after just 138 seconds made a liar out of young Ms. Ishino. The main event saw Meiko and Aja go to a twenty minute draw, allowing Meiko to advance by the Sendai house rule that allows the lighter wrestler to move on in the brackets. Next month will have Miz vs Tamura and Meiko vs Nanae.

The other big news is this weekend's U.S. debut for Hiroyo, Ayumi Kurihara, Tomoka Nakagawa, and Misaki Ohata in SHIMMER. The latter three flew in to Chicago on Friday, while Hiroyo showed what a trooper she is by working the Sendai show on Friday night and she still plans on working the SHIMMER taping on Saturday night, going straight from O'Hare to the Berwyn Eagles Club. Kurihara even got her picture in the Chicago Sun-Times. Joshi creeps all over 'da Region will spank and rejoice! Obviously the Tribune is far too stuffy to cover indy women's wrasslin'.

All I know so far is that Kurihara and Nakagawa will face each other, extending their feud from NEO and OZ, while Ohata will face Daizee Haze. I'm sure there will be other matches, as they are taping 4 DVDs worth of material. They will then work JAPW next weekend, with Ayumi vs Sara Del Ray and Hiroyo & Sumie Saki vs Misaki & Tomoka.

In other Japan action, Ice Ribbon had the usual two shows in Warabi City, with Kazumi Shimouma drawing with Emi Sakura before her junior title shot next weeks against JWP Jr./POP champ Ryo Mizunami, and Makoto getting two pins in tag action. NEO had a house show, with the main event of Kyoko Inoue & Yuki Miyazaki vs Nanae Takahashi & Kaoru Ito in a specially reinforced ring (ha, j/k). JWP will do a dojo show tomorrow in prep for their Korakuen Hall show next weekend.

ICE RIBBON April 7, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
72 Fans

1. Emi Sakura defeated Hikaru Shida (9:18) with a Crossface.
2. Munenori Sawa & Keita Yano vs GENTARO & Miyako Matsumoto (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Kaori Yoneyama & Makoto defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Chii Tomiya (13:58) when Makoto used a Rolling Senton on Tomiya.

SENDAI GIRLS April 9, 2010
Zepp Sendai
Battlefield WAR Tournament
600 Fans
1. Round 1: Ryo Mizunami defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto (17:04) with a Side Throw.
2. Round 1: DASH Chisako defeated Sendai Sachiko (10:58) with the Hormone Splash. (that's her Frogsplash)
3. Round 1: Nanae Takahashi defeated Hiren (6:25) with a Flying Knee.
4. Round 1: Aja Kong defeated Kagetsu (2:18) with a Lariat.
5. Round 2: Ryo Mizunami defeated Toshie Uematsu (8:34) with a Cradle.
6. Round 2: Yoshiko Tamura defeated DASH Chisako (6:23) with a Patriot Bomb.
7. Round 2: Nanae Takahashi defeated Kaori Yoneyama (7:58) with a Flying Knee.
8. Round 2: Meiko Satomura vs. Aja Kong (20:00) went to a time-limit draw. Satomura advances on the weight rule (i.e. in Sendai Girls tournaments, the lighter wrestler advances if there is a draw)

ICE RIBBON April 10, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
86 Fans

1. Exhibition: ? defeated ? (3:00) by 2 falls to 0.
2. Riho & Chii Tomiya defeated Hamuko Hoshi & Tsukushi (11:00) when Riho used a Northern Lights Suplex Hold on Tsukushi.
3. Ribbon Takanashi & Miyako Matsumoto defeated GENTARO & Aika Ando (10:16) when Matsumoto used the Miya Here Clutch on Ando.
4. Emi Sakura vs Kazumi Shimouma (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
5. Hikari Minami & Makoto defeated Hikaru Shida & Tsukasa Fujimoto (14:33) when Makoto used the Rising Star Suplex on Shida.

NEO April 10, 2010
Fukushima Iwaki Gymnasium
223 Fans

1. HIROKA defeated Tomoko Morii (8:53) with the Muerte de Christ.
2. Yumiko Hotta defeated Aya Yuki (7:10) with a Sleeper Hold.
3. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Tanny Mouse (13:13).
4. Nanae Takahashi & Kaoru Ito defeated Kyoko Inoue & Yuki Miyazaki (17:25) when Ito used a Diving Footstomp on Miyazaki.

JWP April 11, 2010
JWP Dojo
95 Fans

1. KAZUKI defeated Senri Kuroki (10:17) with the STF.
2. Tsubasa Kuragaki & Leon defeated Command Bolshoi & Kaori Yoneyama (11:38) when Kuragaki pinned Yoneyama.
3. Kayoko Haruyama vs JWP OCC Block Competitors Round Robin Matches (3 minutes each)
3a. Kayoko Haruyama vs Sachie Abe (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3b. Kayoko Haruyama vs Keito (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3c. Kayoko Haruyama vs Kaori Yoneyama (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3d. Kayoko Haruyama vs Leon (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3e. Kayoko Haruyama vs Tsubasa Kuragaki (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3f. Overtime: Kayoko Haruyama vs Command Bolshoi (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3g. Overtime: Kayoko Haruyama vs KAZUKi (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.

Results, March 31-April 4

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A decent number of cards in joshi puroresu this week. Let's start with Emi and the kids in Ice Ribbon. The midweek show saw 12-year old Riho and weatherlady Aika Ando defeat Makoto & Hikari Minami, with Riho pinning Makoto. Also, Miyako Matsumoto failed in her effort to add the DDT Extreme Championship to the ICEx60 and Triangle Ribbon belts she already has, losing to GENTARO. The Saturday show saw a title change, as Miyako lost the ICEx60 Championship to little (OK, she's not really so little anymore) Riho. Riho then challenged Emi Sakura at the Korakuen Hall show in early May. That will be for the title, assuming Emi stays away from the Haagen-Dazs and the KFC to keep under 60 kilos.

WAVE was in action on Friday and Sunday. Friday was a little trip to Yokohama to challenge the NEO roster (minus Kyoko Inoue and injured Nagisa Nozaki). After Tanny Mouse and Yuki Miyazaki mopped up Moeka Haruhi and Sawako Shimono, and GAMI & Yoshiko Tamura went to a draw, then Yumi Ohka beat Aya Yuki. HIROKA, in from Mexico this month, beat Bullfight Sora. The main event saw Tamura join with the losers against GAMI and the winners, and finally Tamura got to pin GAMI. Sunday's show was at the usual Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. It was Toshie Uematsu's 36th birthday, so she teamed with new partner KAZUKI vs Jaguar Yokota and Cherry in a match with everyone in Uematsu costumes. Toshie even got to win (no, not against Jaggy). Moeka Haruhi and Misaki Ohata retained the TLW junior tag team belts, beating Ryo Mizunami and Kagetsu when Ohata pinned the latter Sendai Girl. Ohka's 31st birthday resulted in a win over fellow ex-JD Star athtress Asami Kawasaki. Then I'm sure there was some cake in teh face.

HIROKA, along with fellow CMLL luchadoras Princess Sugein and Sarah "Dark Angel" Stock, ran a special lucha show on Saturday. FUKA Kid (i.e. Kaori Yoneyama under a mask) "retired", losing to Bolshoi Kid. Passion Seven (Nanae) and Passion Nakki (Natsuki*Taiyo) beat Kyoko Kimura and Atsuko Emoto, with Natsuki & Emoto trading falls before the Passion Red duo beat Revolucion Amandola when Kimura was disqualified for ripping Nanae's mask off. HIROKA teamed with Tomoka Nakagawa and beat Uematsu and Leon, Toshie tasting HIROKA's Muerte de Christ. Dark Angel beat Princess Sugei by 2 falls to 1, and then Sugei won the battle royale, with Nakagawa as the final opponent.

JWP was in action on Sunday at Tokyo Cinema Club, with the final non-dojo show before MANIA-X at Korakuen Hall on the 18th. HIROKA was here as well, and made KAZUKI taste the Muerte de Christ. The OCC League final ended up as expected, with Nanae Takahashi using the Nanaracka to beat Tsubasa Kuragaki and earn the title shot against Kayoko Haruyama.

Finally, OZ Academy was at Shinjuku FACE. The Carlos Amano-Manami Toyota five match series ended with everything square. Amano's victory today with the Carlos Ghosn means both have 2 victories, 2 losses, and 1 draw. I expect a final deciding match (probably for Carlos' OZ Academy title), to happen at some point, maybe at the May show in Sapporo or the next time they run Korakuen Hall (which is presumably in August for the Plum Mariko Memorial Show). The main event saw Aja Kong, KAORU, and Tomoka Nakagawa triumph over AKINO, Ran Yu-Yu, and Hiroyo Matsumoto, with Aja using the Uraken on AKINO. Not sure yet whether this is the end for the Jungle Jack 21 faction. Oh, and the May 16th show at Shinjuku FACE will be the 15h anniversary for Chikayo Nagashima, Sonoko Kato, Carlos Amano, and Ran Yu-Yu.

ICE RIBBON March 31, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
97 Fans

1. Hikaru Shida defeated Chii Tomiya (5:31) with the Three Count.
2. Riho & Aika Ando defeated Hikari Minami & Makoto (12:04) when Riho pinned Makoto.
3. Nanae Takahashi defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (7:52) with the Refrigerator Bomb.
4. DDT Extreme Championship: GENTARO (c) defeated Miyako Matsumoto (14:54) with a Miya Here Clutch Cutback. GENTARO is successful in the 2nd defense.

WAVE April 2, 2010
Yokohama Nigiwaiza
111 Fans

1. Tanny Mouse defeated Moeka Haruhi (8:12) with the European Clutch.
2. Yuki Miyazaki defeated Sawako Shimono (5:16) with the Young Lion Hold.
3. GAMI vs Yoshiko Tamura (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Yumi Ohka defeated Aya Yuki (7:22) with a Neck-Hanging Bomb.
5. HIROKA defeated Bullfight Sora (12:22) with a Schoolboy.
3. Winners vs Losers Tag Match: Yoshiko Tamura, Aya Yuki, Moeka Haruhi, & Sawako Shimono defeated GAMI, Yumi Ohka, Tanny Mouse, & Yuki Miyazaki (17:08) when Tamura used the Parka on GAMI.

ICE RIBBON April 3, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
66 Fans

1. Exhibition: Tsukushi defeated ? (3:00) by 1 fall to 0.
2. Kazumi Shimouma & Hikari Minami defeated Hikaru Shida & Chii Tomiya (8:38) when Shimouma used the Half Slam Buster on Shida.
3. Handicap Match: Ribbon Takanashi vs Emi Sakura & Makoto (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. ICEx60 Championship: Riho defeated Miyako Matsumoto (8:32). Matsumoto fails in the 2nd defense and Riho becomes the 7th champion.

ESTRELLA LUCHA 2010 April 3, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. FUKA Kid Final: Bolshoi Kid defeated Fuka Kid (6:51) with the POK Hold.
2. Passion Seven & Passion Nakki defeated Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto (17:17) by 2 falls to 1. Nakki defeated Emoto (4:03) with the Peach*Latch. Emoto defeated Nakki (12:47) with a Knee Kick. Seven defeated Kimura (17:17) when Kimura was DQd for ripping Seven's mask off.
3. HIROKA & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Toshie Uematsu & Leon (13:55) when HIROKA used the Muerte de Christ on Uematsu.
4. Best Two of Three Falls: Dark Angel defeated Princess Sugei (9:45) by 2 falls to 1. Sugei defeated Angel (4:09) with the Kangaroo. Angel defeated Sugei (6:50) with a Tiger Driver. Angel defeated Sugei (9:45) with the Reina.
5. Lucha Battle Royale: Princess Sugei defeated Tomoka Nakagawa (10:39) with the Land of Happiness Hold. Others, in order of elimination: HIROKA, Bolshoi Kid, Leon, Passion Seven, Toshie Uematsu, Passion Nakki, Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto, Dark Angel.

OZ ACADEMY April 4, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Aya Yuki defeated Nao Komatsu (7:45) with the Kamikaze.
2. Chikayo Nagashima defeated Ayumi Kurihara (13:12) with a Fisherman's Buster.
3. Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue defeated Dynamite Kansai & Sonoko Kato (20:11) when Ozaki used the Ozakick on Kato.
4. Single Series, Match #5: Carlos Amano [2] defeated Manami Toyota [2] (10:45) with the Carlos Ghosn.
5. Aja Kong, KAORU, & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated AKINO, Ran Yu-Yu, & Hiroyo Matsumoto (20:40) when Aja used a Uraken on AKINO.

JWP April 4, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club

182 Fans

1. Yumi Ohka defeated Senri Kuroki (10:01) with the Neck Hanging Bomb.
2. Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita defeated Misaki Ohata & Hanako Kobayashi (14:31) when Bolshoi used the Sensei Hold II on Kobayashi.
3. Kaori Yoneyama & Keito defeated Sachie Abe & Leon (10:43) when Yoneyama defeated Abe with a Modified La Magistral.
4. Kayoko Haruyama & HIROKA defeated KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu (15:09) when HIROKA used the Muerte de Christ on KAZUKI.
5. JWP OCC League Final: Nanae Takahashi defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki (20:26) with the Nanaracka.

WAVE April 4, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club
151 Fans

1. Bullfight Sora & Sakura Hirota defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai when Hirota pinned Io after a Mistaken Kick from Mio.
2. GAMI vs Leon (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2a. Restart: Leon defeated GAMI (1:27) with the Captured Buster.
3. Uematsu 36th Birthday Match: Toshie Uematsu & KAZUKI defeated Jaguar Yokota & Cherry (14:02) when Uematsu used the Solarina on Cherry.
4. TLW Young Women's Tag Team Championship: Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata defeated Ryo Mizunami & Kagetsu (18:46) when Ohata used the Flower-Maru Bang on Kagetsu. Haruhi & Ohata are successful in the 1st defense.
5. Ohka 31st Birthday Match: Yumi Ohka defeated Asami Kawasaki (14:03) with the Neck Hanging Bomb.

Schedule, March 1-31

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ICE RIBBON March 5, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Mai Ichii vs Hamuko Hoshi
2. Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Chii Tomiya
3. Keita Yano vs Miyako Matsumoto
4. Nanae Takahashi & Emi Sakura vs Kaori Yoneyama & Makoto

ICE RIBBON March 6, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Miyako Matsumoto vs ?
2. Exhibition: Chii Tomiya vs ?
3. Mr. 6 & Mr. 8 vs Ribbon Takanashi & Riho
4. Emi Sakura vs Hikari Minami
5. Nanae Takahashi, Kazumi Shimouma, & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Makoto, Hikaru Shida, & Hamuko Hoshi

JWP March 7, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club

1. Sachie Abe, Ayako Sato, & Io Shirai vs Leon, Hikaru Shida, & Mio Shirai
2. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Semifinals: Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita vs Natsuki*Taiyo & Kazumi Shimouma
3. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Semifinals: Toshie Uematsu & KAZUKI vs Kayoko Haruyama & Misaki Ohata
4. JWP OCC League: Keito [0] vs Emi Sakura [0]
5. JWP OCC League: Kaori Yoneyama [4] vs Nanae Takahashi [5]
6. JWP OCC League: Tsubasa Kuragaki [5] vs Passion Hottei [0]

JUNGLE JACK 21 PRODUCE March 7, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club

1. Tomoka Nakagawa vs Dynamite Kansai vs Aja Kong
2. Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Kaoru Ito
3. Ran Yu-Yu vs AKINO
4. 30 Minute Thunderqueen, Jungle Jack vs Passion Red: Aja Kong, Ran Yu-Yu, AKINO, Tomoka Nakagawa, & Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, Passion Hottei, Passion Ray, & Kazumi Shimouma

WAVE March 9, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Moeka Haruhi vs Ryo Mizunami
2. Sakura Hirota & Bullfigth Sora vs Cherry & Kana
3. JWP OCC League: Yumi Ohka vs Leon
4. Best 2 of 3 Falls: GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs Shu Shibutani, Fuuka, & Misaki Ohata

ICE RIBBON March 10, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Hikaru Shida vs Chii Tomiya
2. Aika Ando vs Hamuko Hoshi
3. Makoto vs Miyako Matsumoto
4. Nanae Takahashi & Emi Sakura vs Kaori Yoneyama & Tsukasa Fujimoto

JWP March 12, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

1. JWP OCC League: Kaori Yoneyama [4] vs Emi Sakura [0]
2. JWP OCC League: Keito [2] vs Passion Hottei [3]
3. Kayoko Haruyama & Command Bolshoi vs Toshie Uematsu & KAZUKI
4. Tsubasa Kuragaki & Sachie Abe vs Nanae Takahashi & Yumi Ohka
5. JWP OCC League: Leon [4] vs Ran Yu-Yu [6]

ICE RIBBON March 13, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Riho & Chii Tomiya vs ? & ?
2. Hikari Minami vs Hikaru Shida
3. Emi Sakura vs Hamuko Hoshi
4. Tsukasa Fujimoto & Makoto vs Kazumi Shimouma & Miyako Matsumoto

JWP March 14, 2010
JWP Dojo

1. Kuroki Return: Kaori Yoneyama vs Senri Kuroki
2. Command Bolshoi vs KAZUKI
3. Kayoko Haruyama, Sachie Abe, & Leon vs Tsubasa Kuragaki, Keito, & Jaguar Yokota

OZ ACADEMY March 14, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Nao Komatsu vs DASH Chisako
2. Five Match Series: Carlos Amano [0] vs Manami Toyota [2]
3. Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato vs AKINO & Hiroyo Matsumoto
4. Dynamite Kansai vs Ran Yu-Yu
5. Mayumi Ozaki, Takako Inoue, & Yumi Ohka vs Aja Kong, KAORU, & Tomoka Nakagawa

NEO "10th ANNIVERSARY VOL. 1" March 14, 2010
Kawasaki City Gymnasium

1. Aya Yuki vs Kagetsu
2. Natsuki*Taiyo vs MIKAMI
3. Emi Sakura vs Kana
4. Mima Shimoda, Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Ayumi Kurihara, Makoto, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai
5. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki with Akira Kushida vs Toshie Uematsu, Tsukasa Fujimoto, & Ayano Yoshikawa with Matsubara Valley
6. Nanae Takahashi vs Hiroyo Matsumoto
7. Kyoko Inoue & Emi Sakura vs Shinobu Kandori & Fuuka
8. NEO/NWA Pacific Championship: Yoshiko Tamura (c) vs Meiko Satomura

MICHINOKU PRO March 16, 2010
Odate Citizen Gymnasium

1. Great Sasuke & Fuuka vs Kesen Numajiro & Ayumi Kurihara

ICE RIBBON March 17, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Miyako Matsumoto vs Chii Tomiya
2. Hikaru Shida vs Hamuko Hoshi
3. Emi Sakura, Yuki Miyazaki, & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Makoto, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai

NEO March 18, 2010
Chiba South Boso Ichimaru Gymnasium

1. Tsukasa Kuragaki vs Senri Kuroki
2. Three Way Match: Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Tsubo Genjin vs Mr. Buddhaman
3. Yuki Miyazaki vs Mima Shimoda
4. Yoshiko Tamura vs Tanny Mouse
5. Kyoko Inoue & Makoto vs Aya Yuki & Toshie Uematsu

PASSION RED "4PASSION" March 19, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Passion Ray vs Emi Sakura
2. Passion Hottei & Ikuto Hidaka vs Toshie Uematsu & Munenori Sawa
3. Nanae Takahashi, Fuuka, & Kazumi Shimouma vs Aja Kong, Yoshiko Tamura, & Ryo Mizunami
4. NEO High Speed Championship: Natsuki*Taiyo (c) vs Tomoka Nakagawa

ICE RIBBON March 20, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
Riho/Seina/Hikari Minami Produce

1. Tsukushi Debut: Tsukushi & Kazumi Shimouma vs Hikari Minami & Tsukasa Fujimoto
2. Miyako Matsumoto vs Ribbon Takanashi
3. Makoto & Hikaru Shida vs Riho & Chii Tomiya

WAVE March 20, 2010
Osaka World Building

1. Moeka Haruhi vs Kagetsu
2. Cherry & Kana vs Bullfight Sora & Shu Shibutani
3. Yumi Ohka & Mima Shimoda vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata

4. Yumiko Hotta vs Sakura Hirota
5. Best 2 of 3 Falls: GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, & Ryo Mizunami

ICE RIBBON March 21, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
Muscle Venus Produce

1. Tsukushi vs Tanny Mouse
2. Elimination Match: Emi Sakura, Makoto, & Hikari Minami vs Riho, Kazumi Shimouma, & Chii Tomiya
3. Hikaru Shida vs Yoshiko Tamura
4. ICEx60 Championship: Tsukasa Fujimoto (c) vs Miyako Matsumoto

RINGSTARS March 21, 2010
Osaka World Building

1. POK Championship Decision Match: 8 Competitors
2. Asami Kawasaki & Cherry vs Shu Shibutani & Ryo Mizunami
3. Sakura Hirota vs Kagetsu
4. Kana Mask vs RING*STAR
5. Mio Shirai & Io Shirai vs Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato
6. A*YU*MI & Misaki Ohata vs Tomoka Nakagawa & Hiroyo Matsumoto

OSAKA GIRLS PRO March 21, 2010
Osaka World Building
Debut Show

1. Kana vs "Goddess Girl"
2. Keito vs Aya Yuki
3. GAMI & Police-woman vs Command Bolshoi & Ran Yu-Yu
4. Shimono Debut Match: Sawako Shimono vs Kagetsu

JOSHI ALL-STARS "HYPER VISUAL FIGHTING" March 21, 2010
Matsuyama Community Center

1. Ranmaru vs Tomoko Morii
2. Mr. Buddhaman vs Pretty Ota
3. Jaguar Yokota & Kaoru Ito vs Manami Toyota & Hanako Kobayashi
4. Nanae Takahashi vs Ayako Sato
5. Yumiko Hotta & Takako Inoue vs Mima Shimoda & Natsuki*Taiyo

ICE RIBBON March 22, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Triangle Ribbon Championship: Riho (c) vs Miyako Matsumoto vs Kazumi Shimouma
2. Ikuto Hidaka & Takeshi Oya vs GENTARO & Emi Sakura
3. Chii Tomiya vs Tsukushi
4. ICEx60 Championship #1 Contender's Match: Makoto vs Hikaru Shida

JWP March 22, 2010
Osaka World Building

1. JWP OCC League: Sachie Abe [2] vs Yumi Ohka [4]
2. Kayoko Haruyama, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs Keito, Kaori Yoneyama, & Senri Kuroki
3. JWP Tag Team Championship Tournament Final: Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita vs KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu
4. JWP OCC League: Leon [6] vs Nanae Takahashi [7]
5. JWP OCC League: Tsubasa Kuragaki [6] vs Ran Yu-Yu [6]

WAVE March 24, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata vs Sakura Hirota & Bullfight Sora
2. Cherry & Kana vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai
3. GAMI & Ryo Mizunami vs Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu
4. Yumi Okha vs Shu Shibutani (?)
SMASH March 26, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

3. Shuri (KG) vs Meiko Satomura

ICE RIBBON March 27, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

FUUKA MATSURI March 28, 2010
Korakuen Hall
Fuuka Retirement Show

1. Io Shirai vs Kagetsu
2. Future Ace Match: Shu Shibutani & Misaki Ohata vs Ayumi Kurihara & Natsuki*Taiyo
3. Royal Rumble: Minoru Suzuki, FUKA Kid, Bolshoi Kid, Tanny Mouse, Yuki Miyazaki,
Emi Sakura, Riho, Yumiko Hotta, GAMI, Yumi Ohka, Bullfight Sora, Caribbean KIM,
Mio Shirai, Kikutaro, Small Antonio Inoki, Small Giant Baba
4. Tiger Fuuka & Dark Angel vs Hiroka & Princess Sugey
5. Ultimo Dragon & X vs NOZAWA Rongai & MASADA
6. Special Match TBA
7. Fuuka Retirement Match: Fuuka vs Nanae Takahashi

NEO March 28, 2010
Ishioka Athletic-Park Gymnasium

1. Aya Yuki vs Chii Tomiya
2. Tanny Mouse & Pretty Ota vs Tsubo Genjin & Mr. Buddhaman
3. Mima Shimoda vs Atsuko Emoto
4. Yoshiko Tamura vs Cherry
5. Yuki Miyazaki & Hanako Kobayashi vs Dump Matsumoto & Kyoko Kimura
6. 11 Player Battle Royale
7. Kyoko Inoue & Toshie Uematsu vs Jaguar Yokota & Makoto

ICE RIBBON March 31, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

Results, March 22-28

2010-03-28T09:05:00.000-05:00

This week started off with JWP on Monday (3/22) in Osaka. They finally filled the tag titles, which had been vacant since Azumi Hyuga's retirment. The mismatchted midcarder team of KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu, usually more known for working with other partners and feuding with each other, triumphed over Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita. We also saw the final three matches of the round-robin portion of the JWP OCC (Open Class Challenger) league. Sachie Abe beat Yumi Ohka in a meaningless match. Nanae Takahashi ended up winning the outsiders block with 9 points after taking Leon's head off with a Lariat. Tsubasa Kuragaki used a lariat of her own on Ran Yu-Yu to finish with 8 points and win the JWP block. Those two will meet on April 4th (they had a draw during league play) and the winner moves on for a title shot against Kayoko Haruyama on April 18th in Korakuen Hall at the MANIA-X show.

The other big news of the weeks was the final Fuka Matsuri, as Ms. Kakimoto is retiring from puroresu. In a result that is ridiculous even by comedy battle royale standards, 12-year old Riho somehow got Minoru Suzuki over the top rope to win that event. Sarah "Dark Angel" Stock was absent due to travel woes, but "Tigre Mask" (Fuuka) & Leon (Stock's replacement) beat HIROKA & Princess Sugey, with Fuuka pinning Sugey. The semi-main saw Misaki Ohata & Yumi Ohka (subbing for injured Shu Shibutani) draw with Ayumi Kurihara & Natsuki*Taiyo, then Fuuka lost in her final match, eating the Nanaracka from Takahashi. The show drew 1550 fans, so about 200 more than Hyuga's retirement but a few hundred less than Etsuko Mita and Devil Masami got in their respective retirement shows.

In scattered action, Ice Ribbon had the usual pair of minor shows. Miyako Matsumoto became a double champion by winning the Triangle Ribbon Championship from Riho (it's always defended in three-way matches) and then successfully defended the main Ice Ribbon title against Makoto. WAVE ran another mid-week show at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring, with Yumi Ohka beating rookie Sawako Shimono and Toshie/Ran beating GAMI/Ryo Mizunami on the Miz's 22nd birthday. GAMI did the job and then presumably gave Ryo some cake in the face. Meiko Satomura beat Shuri (KG from HUSTLE) at the first SMASH show, and NEO had another house show with a card propped up with midgets and has-beens (wait, even the AJW midgets are has-beens).

ICE RIBBON March 22, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
82 Fans

1. Chii Tomiya defeated Tsukushi (4:43) with a Brainy Person Buster Hold.
2. ICEx60 Championship #1 Contender's Match: Makoto defeated Hikaru Shida (8:13).
3. Triangle Ribbon Championship: Miyako Matsumoto defeated Riho & Kazumi Shimouma (10:03) by using the Miya Here Clutch on Riho. Riho fails in the 2nd defense and Matsumoto becomes the 2nd champion.
4. GENTARO & Emi Sakura defeated Ikuto Hidaka & Ken Ohka (0:04) when Sakura used a Schoolboy on Ohka.
4a. Restart: GENTARO & Emi Sakura defeated Ikuto Hidaka & Ken Ohka (16:19) when GENTARO used a Scorpion Deathlock on Ohka.

JWP March 22, 2010
Osaka World Building
173 Fans

1. JWP OCC League: Sachie Abe [4] defeated Yumi Ohka [4] (14:20) with a Modified La Magistral.
2. Kayoko Haruyama, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai defeated Keito, Kaori Yoneyama, & Senri Kuroki (11:51) when Haruyama used the Keene Hammer on Yoneyama.
3. JWP Tag Team Championship Tournament Final: KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu defeated Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita (17:36) when KAZUKI used a Somersault Throw Cutback on Yabushita. KAZUKI & Uematsu become the 34th JWP champions.
4. JWP OCC League: Nanae Takahashi [9] defeated Leon [6] (21:30) with a Lariat.
5. JWP OCC League: Tsubasa Kuragaki [8] defeated Ran Yu-Yu [6] (17:56) with a Lariat.

WAVE March 24, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
112 Fans

1. Cherry & Kana defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (12:12) when Kana used the Russian Hook on Mio.
2. Sakura Hirota & Bullfight Sora defeated Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata (11:07) when Sora pinned Ohata.
3. Yumi Okha defeated Sawako Shimono (12:27) with the Neck Hanging Bomb.
4. Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu defeated GAMI & Ryo Mizunami (23:42) when Ran used a Forearm Smash on GAMI.

SMASH March 26, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

2. Meiko Satomura defeated Shuri (KG) (11:06) with a Sleeper Hold.

ICE RIBBON March 27, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
84 Fans

1. Exhibition: Tsukasa Fujimoto vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Emi Sakura defeated Tsukushi (6:13).
3. Kazumi Shimouma defeated Chii Tomiya (7:49).
4. Nanae Takahashi & Riho defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikari Minami (13:03) when Riho pinned Fujimoto.
5. ICEx60 Championship: Miyako Matsumoto defeated Makoto (11:28). Matsumoto is successful in the 1st defense.

FUUKA MATSURI March 28, 2010
Korakuen Hall
Fuuka Retirement Show
1550 Fans

1. Io Shirai defeated Kagetsu (8:24) with a Rider Kick.
2. Royal Rumble: Riho defeated Minoru Suzuki (19:42) by Over the Top Rope. Others: FUKA Kid, Bolshoi Kid, Tanny Mouse, Yuki Miyazaki,
Emi Sakura, Yumiko Hotta, GAMI, Bullfight Sora, Caribbean KIM, Mio Shirai, Kikutaro, Small Antonio Inoki, Small Giant Baba
3. Tigre Fuuka & Leon defeated HIROKA & Princess Sugey (8:50) when Fuuka used the Mac on Sugey.
5. Ultimo Dragon & Madoka defeated NOSAWA Rongai & MAZADA (11:43) when Dragon used the Asai DDT on MAZADA.
2. Future Ace Match: Yumi Ohka & Misaki Ohata vs Ayumi Kurihara & Natsuki*Taiyo (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
6. Fuuka Retirement Match: Nanae Takahashi defeated Fuuka (16:33) with a Nanaracka.

NEO March 28, 2010
Ishioka Athletic-Park Gymnasium
519 Fans

1. Aya Yuki defeated Chii Tomiya (7:35) with a Fireman's Carry.
2. Tanny Mouse & Pretty Ota defeated Tsubo Genjin & Mr. Buddhaman (9:51) when Tanny used the Paro Special on Genjin.
3. Atsuko Emoto defeated Mima Shimoda (8:16) by Count Out.
4. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Cherry (9:57) with a Rolling Senton.
5. Dump Matsumoto & Kyoko Kimura defeated Yuki Miyazaki & Hanako Kobayashi (9:45) when Matsumoto used a Body Press on Kobayashi.
6. Battle Royale: Aya Yuki defeated Tsubo Genjin (4:52) with a Schoolboy. Others, in order of elimination: Yoshiko Tamura, Hanako Kobayashi, Mima Shimoda, Yuki Miyazaki, Tanny Mouse, Pretty Ota, Chii Tomiya, Mr. Buddhaman, Cherry.
7. Kyoko Inoue & Toshie Uematsu defeated Jaguar Yokota & Makoto (16:16) when Inoue used a Powerbomb on Makoto.

Results, March 16-21

2010-03-21T10:36:00.004-05:00

A lot happened this week. First, the original JoshiFans board, at http://joshifans.com/joshifansforum/index.php is back online and ready for joshi creepiness and fanaticism. Also, a lot of groups ran shows and we had some debuts and title changes and new titles and new "promotions". Several groups ran Osaka along with the usual scattering of shows, so let's get to it.

Ice Ribbon had 3 shows, with another tomorrow. The 17th was a typical house show at their usual small arena in Warabi City, Saitama. Over the weekend, they had two special "produce shows". Saturday the 20th was a special Riho/Seina/Hikari Minami produced show. I think they don't trust any one over 20. After several exhibitions, 12-year old Tsukushi made her formal debut, losing to Minami. Riho, teaming with Chii Tomiya, lost in the main event to Makoto (with Hikaru Shida). Sunday the 21st had them in Osaka at the World Building. This show was produced by "Muscle Venus", featuring Tsukasa Fujimoto, Hikaru Shida, and Miyako Matsumoto, who came to joshi via a reality show/movie. The semi-main saw Shida with too big of a challenge, losing to NEO ace Yoshiko Tamura. The main event saw a title change, as Matsumoto won the ICEx60 championship from Fujimoto.

In addition to Ice Ribbon, WAVE and Ringstars magazine ran shows at Osaka World Building, with JWP to follow tomorrow. At the WAVE show, Sakura Hirota invoked the "you can recycle gimmicks after seven years" rule of pro-wres and created a new gimmick title. Back in the day, there was the HHH Championship, a parody of the AAAW title that was GAEA's main belt. Now there's the WA Championship, a red construction paper mockery of the classic WWWA Championship, aka the Red Belt that was AJW's main prize. Hirota unveiled this belt at the WAVE show on Saturday and summarily lost it to Yumiko Hotta, who is now the only wrestler to hold both red belts. Hotta was gracious enough to smile and get photographed with it, but defending it was out of the question, so Hirota tried her luck on Sunday at the Ringstars show against young Kagetsu (aka Yukari Ishino from Sendai Girls). Kagetsu needed only three minutes to win her first "title". Unfortunately Shu Shibutani was injured, with a possible broken eye socket from Kana :(

The main event of WAVE saw Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, and Ryo Mizunami beat GAMI, Mio Shirai, and Io Shirai by 2 falls to one. The rest of the Ringstars show saw Ayumi Kurihara win the POK Championship (aka butt-bumping in a "sumo" ring), Kana Mask draw with Ring*Star (Fuuka?), and the main event with the four SHIMMER-bound joshi wrestlers in action. In a bit of an upset, Tomoka Nakagawa and Hiroyo Matsumoto beat covergirl A*YU*MI and Misaki Ohata, with Tomoka pinning Ayumi.

Then the "Osaka Girls" promotion had their first show. It's not really a promotion, as they only got three trainees and only one survived to get her debut. So it was basically a "GAMI and her friends" show. The rookie got to main event her debut. Her name is Sawako Shimono and she's a pretty stout young lady. She lost to fellow Osaka native Kagetsu. GAMI then challenged Kagetsu to a tag match at the June Osaka show. It will be "Large Women" (GAMI & Shimono) vs Sendai Girls (Kagetsu and partner to be determined).

NEO had a house show in Chiba on Thursday, with a horrifyingly weak card that should cause PUNQ to question his will to review every puroresu show ever. The semi-main was Tamura vs Tanny Mouse (lol, Tamura won) and the main event was Kyoko Inoue and Makoto vs Aya Yuki and Toshie Uematsu (Big Momma powerbombed Yuki). Passion Red had their 4th show on Friday, moving from Itabashi Green Hall to the somewhat bigger Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. Haruka Matsuo showed up to be the ring announcer and get christened as "Passion Matsuo". Emi Sakura beat Passion Ray, then it turned into a red slaughter. Passion Hottei pyramid drivered Uematsu in a mixed tag. Nanae Takahashi pinned Ryo Mizunami in a 6-woman tag, then in the main event Natsuki*Taiyo retained the NEO High Speed title over Tomoka Nakagawa.

Next week we have the conclusion of league play in the JWP OCC League, a new JWP Tag Team champion will be crowned, Shuri (the former KG) will face Meko Satomura at the SMASH debut show, either Makoto or Hikaru Shida will become the #1 Contender in Ice Ribbon, and Fuka will retire! You can buy "FUKA's BIBLE" from Ringstars.

MICHINOKU PRO March 16, 2010
Odate Citizen Gymnasium

1. Great Sasuke & Fuuka vs Kesen Numajiro & Ayumi Kurihara

ICE RIBBON March 17, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
56 Fans

1. Miyako Matsumoto defeated Chii Tomiya (8:24) with the Miya Here Clutch.
2. Hikaru Shida defeated Hamuko Hoshi (6:55) with the Three Count.
3. Makoto, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai defeated Yuki Miyazaki, Emi Sakura, & Tsukasa Fujimoto (16:18) when Makoto used a Cradle on Fujimoto.

NEO March 18, 2010
Chiba South Boso Ichimaru Gymnasium
206 Fans

1. Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Senri Kuroki (8:44) with an Argentine Backbreaker.
2. Three Way Match: Mr. Buddhaman defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Tsubo Genjin (7:45) with a Schoolboy on Genjin.
3. Mima Shimoda defeated Yuki Miyazaki (10:53) with a Tiger Suplex Hold.
4. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Tanny Mouse (15:33) with the Tomore Clutch.
5. Kyoko Inoue & Makoto defeated Toshie Uematsu & Aya Yuki (19:18) when Inoue used a Powerbomb on Yuki.

PASSION RED "4PASSION" March 19, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
300 Fans

1. Emi Sakura defeated Passion Ray (11:47) with a Second Rope Nyan Nyan Press.
2. Passion Hottei & Ikuto Hidaka defeated Toshie Uematsu & Munenori Sawa (10:54) when Hottei used a Pyramid Driver on Uematsu.
3. Nanae Takahashi, Fuuka, & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Aja Kong, Yoshiko Tamura, & Ryo Mizunami (23:21) when Takahashi defeated Mizunami with an Iku Bomb.
4. NEO High Speed Championship: Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Tomoka Nakagawa (19:07) with the Taiyo-Chan Bomb. Taiyo is successful in the 1st defense.

ICE RIBBON March 20, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
Riho/Seina/Hikari Minami Produce
76 Fans

1. Tsukushi Debut: Hikari Minami & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Tsukushi & Kazumi Shimouma (12:50) when Minami used the Blockbuster on Tsukushi.
2. Ribbon Takanashi defeated Miyako Matsumoto (7:53).
3. Makoto & Hikaru Shida defeated Riho & Chii Tomiya (16:20) when Makoto pinned Riho.

WAVE March 20, 2010
Osaka World Building
204 Fans

1. Moeka Haruhi vs Kagetsu (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Cherry & Kana defeated Bullfight Sora & Shu Shibutani (16:19) when Kana used a Uraken on Sora. (Shu got potatoed by Kana)
3. Yumi Ohka & Mima Shimoda defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata (14:59) when Okha used a Tiger Suplex Hold on Ohata.
4. WA Championship: Yumiko Hotta defeated Sakura Hirota (7:54) with the Pyramid Driver. Hotta becomes the 1st champion. (The WA Championship is a parody of the WWWA "Red Belt" that Hirota made).
5. Best 2 of 3 Falls: Toshie Uematsu, Ran Yu-Yu, & Ryo Mizunami defeated GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai (20:17) by 2 falls to one.
5a. Yu-Yu defeated Io (1:35) with a Forearm Smash.
5b. GAMI defeated Mizunami (12:18) with the Adios Amiga.
5c. Uematsu defeated Mio (6:24) with a Dragon Suplex Hold.

ICE RIBBON March 21, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
Muscle Venus Produce
135 Fans

1. Tanny Mouse defeated Tsukushi (5:56) with a Kasado-Ra Crush.
2. Elimination Match: Riho, Kazumi Shimouma, & Chii Tomiya defeated Emi Sakura, Makoto, & Hikari Minami (14:19).
2a. Minami eliminated Tomiya (10:19) with the Blockbuster.
2b. Riho eliminated Minami (10:56) with the Riku Ribbon.
2c. Shimouma eliminated Makoto (12:47).
2d. Riho & Shimouma eliminated Sakura (14:19) by Over the Top Rope.
3. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Hikaru Shida (11:17) with a Rolling Senton
4. ICEx60 Championship: Miyako Matsumoto defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (11:20) with the Miya Here Clutch. Fujimoto fails in the 4th defense and Matsumoto becomes the 6th champion.

RINGSTARS March 21, 2010
Osaka World Building
204 Fans

1. POK Championship Decision Match: Ayumi Kurihara defeated Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, Aya Yuki, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Mio Shirai, Io Shirai, Sakura Hirota, & Bullfight Sora. Kurihara becomes the 2nd POK (butt-bumping) champion.
2. Asami Kawasaki & Cherry vs Aya Yuki & Ryo Mizunami (20:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. WA Championship: Kagetsu defeated Sakura Hirota (3:25) with a Back Flip. Kagetsu becomes the 2nd champion.
4. Kana Mask vs RING*STAR (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
5. Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (18:43) when Nagashima used a Fisherman's Buster on Io.
6. Tomoka Nakagawa & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated A*YU*MI & Misaki Ohata (17:55) when Nakagawa used the Australian Arm on A*YU*MI.

OSAKA GIRLS PRO March 21, 2010
Osaka World Building
Debut Show
204 Fans

1. Kana defeated "Goddess Girl" (4:23) with a German Suplex Hold. (Shu behind mask?)
2. Keito defeated Aya Yuki (14:03) with a Modified Shubain.
3. Command Bolshoi & Ran Yu-Yu vs GAMI & Police-woman (30:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Shimono Debut: Kagetsu defeated Sawako Shimono (13:09) wiht a Back Flip.

JOSHI ALL-STARS "HYPER VISUAL FIGHTING" March 21, 2010
Matsuyama Community Center

1. Ranmaru vs Tomoko Morii
2. Mr. Buddhaman vs Pretty Ota
3. Jaguar Yokota & Kaoru Ito vs Manami Toyota & Hanako Kobayashi
4. Nanae Takahashi vs Ayako Sato
5. Yumiko Hotta & Takako Inoue vs Mima Shimoda & Natsuki*Taiyo

Results, March 9-14

2010-03-14T07:11:00.003-05:00

Let's start this week's rundown with WAVE. Ryo Mizunami beat Moeka Haruhi and then issued a challenge to Haruhi & Misaki Ohata for the junior tag belts, saying she'd get another Sendai Girl and would beat them. Ohata was involved in the main event, as she teamed with Shu Shibutani and soon-to-be retired Fuuka to beat GAMI and the Shirai sister by 2 falls to 1. Fuuka and Shu then had an impromptu singles match. Also on the card was Yumi Ohka beating Leon in a JWP OCC league match.

That league is getting close to completion, as JWP's weekend show saw Leon get back on winning ways by defeating Ran Yu-Yu, Kaori Yoneyama beating Emi Sakura (who lost every one of her matches), and Passion Hottei over ~~mini-Hotta~~ Keito. At this point, the top of the JWP block has Yoneyama, Leon, and Kuragaki all on 6 points. Yoneyama is out of matches, but Leon and Kuragaki each have one match remaining. The outsider's block will be won by either Nanae Takahashi (7 points) or Ran Yu-Yu (6 points). On the 22nd, the final matches will feature Nanae vs Leon and Kuragaki vs Ran. That will decide who meets in the league final on April 4th and gets the title shot at JWP's MANIA-X on April 18th. The March 22nd show will also see the vacant JWP/Daily Sports tag championship be filled, with either Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita or the mismatched duo of Toshie Uematsu & KAZUKI becoming the champions. KAZUKI lost to Haruyama in a tag match, then to Bolshoi at the dojo show, so with JWP booking she'll probably win. The dojo show also saw Leon pin Kuragaki in a tag match and rookie Senri Kuroki return from injury (unlike many recent rookies who disappear and are never seen again).

OZ Academy ran Shinjuku FACE on Sunday. DASH Chisako picked up a rare win, beating OZ's rookie Nao Komatsu. Carlos Amano beat Manami Toyota to make the score two wins for Toyota, one for Amano, and one draw after the fourth of their five match series. AKINO & Hiroyo Matsumoto got a nice win over Chikayo Nagashima and Sonoko Kato, with Hiroyo pinning Chikayo. Dynamite Kansai beat Ran Yu-Yu, then the main event saw the Ozaki-gun, with Mayumi Ozaki, Takako Inoue and their new recruit Yumi Ohka beat Aja Kong, KAORU, and Tomoka Nakagawa, with Ohka pinning Nakagawa. AKINO then questioned Aja's authority and it looks like there is turmoil in the Jungle Jack 21 camp. AKINO, Ran, and Hiroyo will face Aja, KAORU, and Tomoka at the next show.

NEO's "big" 10th anniversary show at Kawasaki Gym only drew a so-so Korakuen crowd of 1122 fans, and featured some wonky booking. The opener saw Aya Yuki beat Sendai's Kagetsu, then Natsuki*Taiyo and MIKAMI had a draw. Then Emi Sakura beat Kana (wtf?) and then Makoto, of all freaking people, pinned Mima Shimoda in the Revolucion Amandola vs babyfaces 8 woman tag. Granted, it was a rollup after Atsuko Emoto accidentally hit Mima with a chair, but still...

Then the NEO Mashin Ganz (that's how they seem to say it) beat Toshie Uematsu, Tsukasa Fujimoto, and some idol/soccer player wannabe, with Tanny going over. Then Nanae Takahashi got to squash Hiroyo in 3 minutes. Hmmmph. The semi main event had the Shinobu Kandori-Fuuka team (I think the intersection of their respective fan clubs is the empty set) beat Kyoko Inoue and Emi Sakura, since 45 year old politicians who are semi-retired and work for promotions that haven't run a show or updated their website in 6 months can't be expected to not win, as obviously Kandori>>>>Emi>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Kana.

The main event had Yoshiko Tamura defending the NEO and NWA Pacific titles against Meiko Satomura. Unfortunately, the brackets for the Sendai Girls tournament makes it pretty obvious that these two will face each other in the finals there, so Tamura won today and I expect the return job a few months from now at Sendai's anniversary show.

WAVE March 9, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
180 Fans

1. Ryo Mizunami defeated Moeka Haruhi (6:30) with a Shoulder Hold.
2. Sakura Hirota & Bullfigth Sora defeated Cherry & Kana (10:09) when Hirota used a Small Package Hold on Cherry after a Mistaken Russian Hook from Kana.
3. JWP OCC League: Yumi Ohka [4] defeated Leon [4] (20:21) with the Big Boot.
4. Best 2 of 3 Falls: Shu Shibutani, Fuuka, & Misaki Ohata defeated GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai (25:09) by 2 falls to 1. Shibutani defeated Io (9:52) with a Diving Senton. Io defeated Shibutani (1:12) with the Io De Janeiro. Fuuka defeated GAMI (14:05) with the F-Doll.
5. Fuuka vs Shu Shibutani (5:00) went to a time-limit draw.

ICE RIBBON March 10, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
64 Fans

1. Hikaru Shida defeated Chii Tomiya (6:00) with the Three Count.
2. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Aiki Ando (5:01) with the Idol Hold.
3. Makoto defeated Miyako Matsumoto (8:35) with the Double Arm Suplex Hold.
4. Nanae Takahashi & Emi Sakura defeated Kaori Yoneyama & Tsukasa Fujimoto (19:06) when Sakura used the Clione on Fujimoto.

JWP March 12, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
120 Fans

1. JWP OCC League: Kaori Yoneyama [6] defeated Emi Sakura [0] (11:15) with the U.S.-Zou.
2. JWP OCC League: Passion Hottei [5] defeated Keito [2] (8:39) with the Pyramid Driver.
3. Kayoko Haruyama & Command Bolshoi defeated Toshie Uematsu & KAZUKI (11:51) when Haruyama used the Keene Hammer on KAZUKI.
4. Nanae Takahashi & Yumi Ohka defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki & Sachie Abe (17:56) when Ohka used the Big Boot on Abe.
5. JWP OCC League: Leon [6] defeated Ran Yu-Yu [6] (19:28) with the Four Character Jackknife Hold.

ICE RIBBON March 13, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
88 Fans

1. Exhibition: Riho & Chii Tomiya defeated ? & ? (5:00) by 2 falls to zero.
2. Hikari Minami defeated Hikaru Shida (3:49) with the Blockbuster.
3. Emi Sakura defeated Hamuko Hoshi (7:29) with La Magistral.
4. Kazumi Shimouma & Miyako Matsumoto defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Makoto (15:08) when Matsumoto used the Miya Here Clutch on Fujimoto.

JWP March 14, 2010
JWP Dojo
89 Fans
1. Kuroki Return: Kaori Yoneyama defeated Senri Kuroki (5:46) with a Rear Cradle.
2. Command Bolshoi defeated KAZUKI (6:47) with a Gannosuke Clutch.
3. Kayoko Haruyama, Sachie Abe, & Leon defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki, Keito, & Jaguar Yokota (20:36) when Leon used a Four Character Jackknife Pin on Kuragaki.

OZ ACADEMY March 14, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
303 Fans

1. DASH Chisako defeated Nao Komatsu (9:10) with a Missile Kick.
2. Five Match Series: Carlos Amano [1] defeated Manami Toyota [2] with the Carlos Ghosn.
3. AKINO & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato when Matsumoto used a Fisherman's Buster Cutback on Nagashima.
4. Dynamite Kansai defeated Ran Yu-Yu with a Diving Foot Stomp.
5. Mayumi Ozaki, Takako Inoue, & Yumi Ohka defeated Aja Kong, KAORU, & Tomoka Nakagawa when Ohka pinned Nakagawa.

NEO "10th ANNIVERSARY VOL. 1" March 14, 2010
Kawasaki City Gymnasium
1122 Fans

1. Aya Yuki defeated Kagetsu (6:29) with a Diving Elbow Drop.
2. Natsuki*Taiyo vs MIKAMI (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Emi Sakura defeated Kana (9:12) with a Cradle.
4. Ayumi Kurihara, Makoto, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai defeated Mima Shimoda, Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa (9:16) when Makoto pinned Shimoda after a mistaken Chair Attack by Emoto.
5. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki with Akira Kushida defeated Toshie Uematsu, Tsukasa Fujimoto, & Ayano Yoshikawa (11:36) with Matsubara Valley when Tanny used a Muscle Buster on Fujimoto.
6. Nanae Takahashi defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto (2:58) with a Cradle.
7. Shinobu Kandori & Fuuka defeated Kyoko Inoue & Emi Sakura (7:42) when Kandori used a Reverse Cross Armbreaker on Sakura.
8. NEO/NWA Pacific Championship: Yoshiko Tamura defeated Meiko Satomura (21:05) with a Running Elbow. Tamura is successful in the 2nd defense.

Results, March 5-7

2010-03-07T12:01:00.001-06:00

Ice Ribbon did shows on Friday and Saturday. The usual light house show action. The most notable result was Saturday's main event, with Nanae Takahashi, Tsukasa Fujimoto, and Kazumi Shimouma beating Makoto, Hikaru Shida, and Hamuko Hoshi when Shimouma pinned Hoshi.

JWP had a show on Sunday that went far towards sorting out the various title situations. In the JWP OCC League to determine the #1 singles contender, Keito defeated Emi Sakura in a battle of cellar-dwellers (both cannot win their blocks), Nanae Takahashi's lariat brought her to 7 points and ruined Kaori Yoneyama's hopes, as she is left on 4 points with only 1 match to go. Tsukasa Kuragaki and Passion Hottei had a double count-out, leaving Kuragaki on 6 points and Hottei with 3. It seems that the JWP block will be won by either Kuragaki or Leon (who has 2 matches in hand) and the outsiders block by either Nanae or Ran Yu-Yu. The semifinals of the tournament to fill the vacant tag titles saw Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita (over Natsuki*Taiyo and Kazumi Shimouma) and the mismatched duo of KAZUKI & Toshie Uematsu (over Kayoko Haruyama & Misaki Ohata) advance.

There was a special show produced by "Jungle Jack 21", Aja Kong's faction in OZ Academy. The main event was sort of a GAEA version of the JWP Thunderqueen gimmick. It was Jungle Jack 21 (Aja, Ran Yu-Yu, AKINO, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Tomoka Nakagawa) vs Passion Red (Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, Passion Ray, Passion Hottei, Kazumi Shimouma) in a 30 minute Thunderqueen, with 5 three minute singles matches and 15 minutes of tag action. The falls came fast and furious, as Ran (on Ray) and Nanae (on Nakagawa) scored in the singles portion, then six falls were scored in the tag part. We had Nanae over Nakagawa, Hiroyo over Shimouma, AKINO over Shimouma, Natsuki with a Huricanrana on Aja (!!!), and then Hiroyo and Hottei traded falls in the closing minutes. It ended 4-4, so extra time was needed, where Nakagawa pinned Natsuki to bring a 5-4 win to Jungle Jack.

ICE RIBBON March 5, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
45 Fans

1. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Mai Ichii (9:07) with a Sumo Lariat.
2. Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Chii Tomiya (9:57) with the Shawn Capture.
3. Keita Yano defeated Miyako Matsumoto (7:26) withe the Miya Clutch Cutback.
4. Nanae Takahashi & Emi Sakura defeated Kaori Yoneyama & Makoto (16:59) when Takahashi used the Refrigerator Bomb on Makoto.

ICE RIBBON March 6, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
80 Fans

1. Exhibition: Miyako Matsumoto defeated ? (3:00) by 1 fall to 0.
2. Exhibition: Chii Tomiya vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Ribbon Takanashi & Riho defeated Mr. 6 & Mr. 8 (11:25) when Takanashi used a High Kick on Mr. 6.
4. Emi Sakura defeated Hikari Minami (3:48) with La Magistral.
5. Nanae Takahashi, Kazumi Shimouma, & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Makoto, Hikaru Shida, & Hamuko Hoshi (18:55) when Shimouma used the Passion Half Slam Buster on Hoshi.

JWP March 7, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club
190 Fans

1. Sachie Abe, Ayako Sato, & Io Shirai defeated Leon, Hikaru Shida, & Mio Shirai (8:35) when Abe used La Magistral on Shida.
2. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Semifinals: Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita (14:08) defeated Natsuki*Taiyo & Kazumi Shimouma when Bolshoi used Sensei Hold II on Shimouma.
3. JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Semifinals: Toshie Uematsu & KAZUKI defeated Kayoko Haruyama & Misaki Ohata (12:48) when Uematsu pinned Ohata after a Mistaken Tora Kick from Haruyama.
4. JWP OCC League: Keito [2] defeated Emi Sakura [0] (2:42) with the Modified Shubain.
5. JWP OCC League: Nanae Takahashi [7] defeated Kaori Yoneyama [4] (18:48) with a Lariat.
6. JWP OCC League: Tsubasa Kuragaki [6] vs Passion Hottei [3] (11:20) went to a draw due to a Double Count-Out.

JUNGLE JACK 21 PRODUCE March 7, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club
255 Fans

1. Three Way Match: Dynamite Kansai defeated Tomoka Nakagawa & Aja Kong (6:32) with a Diving Foot Stomp on Nakagawa.
2. Kaoru Ito defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto (16:24) with a Spiral Bomb.
3. AKINO defeated Ran Yu-Yu (16:37) with a European Clutch Cutback.
4. Thunderqueen, Jungle Jack vs Passion Red: Aja Kong, Ran Yu-Yu, AKINO, Tomoka Nakagawa, & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, Passion Hottei, Passion Ray, & Kazumi Shimouma (33:35) by 5 falls to 4.
4a. Aja Kong vs Kazumi Shimouma went to a time-limit draw.
4b. Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Passion Hottei went to a time-limit draw.
4c. Ran Yu-Yu defeated Passion Ray (8:17) with a European Clutch.
4d. AKINO vs Natsuki*Taiyo went to a time-limit draw.
4e. Nanae Takahashi defeated Tomoka Nakagawa (13:27) with a Reverse Mat Hold. Takahashi defeated Nakagawa (14:28) with an Iku Bomb.
4f. 5 vs 5 Tag Match: Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Kazumi Shimouma (22:39) with a Chokeslam. AKINO defeated Kazumi Shimouma (22:50) with a High Kick. Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Aja Kong (27:00) with a Peach*Latch. Passion Hottei defeated Matsumoto (29:15) with La Magistral. Matsumoto defeated Hottei (29:35) with a Back Elbow.
4g. Sudden Death: Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Natsuki*Taiyo (33:35) with a Jackknife Style Pin.

1JoshI Radio Free Hiren Volume 6

2010-02-28T19:59:00.000-06:00

The sixth episode of my BlogTalkRadio show on joshi puroresu and other stuff will be Sunday night, February 28, at 8PM Central. Let's talk about our top 20 from 2009 and what we've been watching.

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Results, February 22-28

2010-02-28T06:28:00.002-06:00

The joshi news dump this week is pretty sparse. On Monday during an indy show was the retirement ceremony for Nozomi Takesako. You may or may not remember her from her IWA Japan work a few years ago. She was injured a few days ago and subsequently married and had a child (and I think she married the infamous Chocoball Mukai, although I'm not 100% sure on that). This seemed like a belated send-off from her sleazy indy friends. Good luck to the Chocoball Family.

The biggest news angle-wise happened at the WAVE show on Wednesday. Mayumi Ozaki has been lurking and inviting Yumi Ohka to join her in the Ozaki-gun for several weeks. They had a singles match and Ohka scored a big win, pinning Ozaki with the Neck Hanging Bomb. Then, much to the shock of GAMI and the rest of WAVE's wrestlers and crowd, Okha then announced that she was joining with Mayumi. Ozaki, Ohka, and Takako Inoue will team at OZ Academy's next show on March 14 against KAORU, Aja Kong, & Tomoka Nakagawa. I'm sure this will spice up WAVE booking as well.

Very little happened over the weekend. Ice Ribbon had the usual pair of small shows at their home ring, and both NEO and JWP had dojo shows. JWP will get back in the swing next month, as the OCC League will resume to determine Kayoko Haruyama's next challenger and the tag tournament will fill the vacant JWP/Daily Sports championships. NEO is geared up for the big 10th anniversary show at Kawasaki City Gym (on March 14). In addition to the previously announced Yoshiko Tamura vs Meiko Satomura main event for the NEO/NWA Pacific crowns, we will also have Kyoko Inoue/Emi Sakura vs Shinobu Kandori/Fuuka (what an odd team!), Natsuki*Taiyo vs DDT wrestler MIKAMI, and Mima Shimoda/Kyoko Kimura/Atsuko Emoto/Tomoka Nakagawa heeling it up against babyfaces to be announced. They are still teasing, but haven't announced if they will pull the trigger on Nanae Takahashi vs Kana at this show or save that for the May History show.

MOEBIUS February 22, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
538 Fans

1. Minoru Fujita & Makoto defeated NOSAWA Rongai & Kana (9:09) when Fujita used an Axe Bomber on NOSAWA.
4. Nozomi Takaba Retirement Match: Ariya defeated Nozomi Takaba (Takesako) (7:22) with the STW.

WAVE February 24, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
150 Fans

1. Handicap Match: Mio Shirai & Io Shirai defeated GAMI (13:53) when Mio used the Purple Flash.
2. Yumi Ohka & Ryo Mizunami defeated Bullfight Sora & Sakura Hirota (11:57) when Okha used a Small Pakcakge Hold on Sora after a Milk Jet.
3. Toshie Uematsu vs Kana (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Best 2 of 3 Falls: Shu Shibutani, Cherry, & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Moeka Haruhi, Tomoka Nakagawa, & Misaki Ohata (19:23) by 2 falls to 1. Haruhi defeated Shibutani (3:38) with the Astro Scissors. Kurihara defeated Ohata (7:44) with the Jumping Double Knee Attack. Shibutani defeated Haruhi (8:01) with a Diving Senton.
5. Yumi Ohka defeated Mayumi Ozaki (10:37) with the Neck Hanging Bomb.

ICE RIBBON February 26, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
68 Fans

1. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Chii Tomiya (8:10) with a Lariat.
2. Keita Yano & Makoto defeated Ribbon Takanashi & Miyako Matsumoto (13:35) when Makoto used a Double Arm Suplex Hold on Matsumoto.
3. Emi Sakura defeated Mai Ichii (9:59) with La Magistral.
4. Natsuki*Taiyo & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Nanae Takahashi & Hikaru Shida (16:02) when Fujimoto used the Tsukadora on Shida.

ICE RIBBON February 27, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
123 Fans

1. Exhibition: Hamuko Hoshi vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Exhibition: Hamuko Hoshi vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikari Minami defeated Riho & Chii Tomiya (6:43) when Minami used the Blockbuster on Tomiya.
4. Makoto & Hikaru Shida defeated Kazumi Shimouma & Miyako Matsumoto (13:41) when Makoto used a Double Arm Suplex Hold on Matsumoto.
5. Nanae Takahashi & Ribbon Takanashi defeated Emi Sakura & Ikuto Hidaka (17:44) when Takahashi used the Nanaracka on Sakura.

JWP February 28, 2010
JWP Dojo
90 Fans

1. Pool Match: Leon defeaed Sachie Abe (9:16) by submersion.
2. Keito & Jaguar Yokota defeated Command U.S. Bolshoi & HARUKI (14:15) when Yokota used a K-Crusher Cutback on HARUKI.
3. Special Rules Match: KAZUKI defeated Senri Kuroki 9-7. KAZUKI defeated Kuroki (0:50) in a Banana Eating Contest. KAZUKI defeated Kuroki (0:17) in a Cola Drinking Contest. KAZUKI vs Kuroki (7-7, 3:00) drew in a Rice Ball Eating Contest.
4. Yoneyama 29th Birthday Match: Kayoko Haruyama & Kaori Yoneyama defeated Tsubasa Kuragaki & Leon (15:13) when Yoneyama used a Modified La Magistral on Leon.

NEO February 28, 2010
Yokohama NEO Dojo
51 Fans

1. Yuki Miyazaki defeated Toshie Umeatsu (8:22) with a Cradle.
2. Tanny Mouse defeated Nanae Takahashi (13:08) with a Cradle.
3. Kyoko Inoue & Makoto defeated Yoshiko Tamura & Chii Tomiya (17:45) when Inoue used a Lariat on Tomiya.

UNION PRO February 28, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
225 Fans

1. Takeshi Oya & Cherry defeated Kyosuke Sasaki & Hamuko Hoshi (12:22) when Cherry used the Spring Night Love on Hoshi.

Schedule, February 1-28

2010-02-28T02:00:00.000-06:00

WAVE February 2, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Shu Shibutani vs Cherry
2. 3WAY Match: Bullfigth Sora vs Sakura Hirota vs Toshie Uematsu
3. Moeka Haruhi vs Yuki Miyazaki
4. Best 2 of 3 Falls: GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs Yumi Ohka, Kana, & Misaki Ohata

ICE RIBBON February 3, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Natsuki*Taiyo vs Chii Tomiya
2. Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Mai Ichii
3. Nanae Takahashi vs Miyako Matsumoto
4. Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hamuko Hoshi vs Makoto & Hikaru Shida

ICE RIBBON February 6, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Exhibition Match: Riho vs ?
2. Exhibition Match: Mai Ichii vs ?
3. Hikari Minami vs Natsuki*Taiyo
4. Aika Ando & Touru Owashi vs Ribbon Takanashi & Chii Tomiya
5. JWP OCC League: Emi Sakura vs Tsubasa Kuragaki
6. International Ice Ribbon Tag Team #1 Contenders Match: Makoto & Hikaru Shida vs Nanae Takahashi & Kazumi Shimouma
7. ICEx60 Championship: Tsukasa Fujimoto (c) vs Hamuko Hoshi (non-title if Hoshi exceeds 60 kg)

NEO "SHINE" February 6, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Kana vs Mio Shirai
2. Tanny Mouse vs X
3. Yuki Miyazaki vs Cherry
4. Aya Yuki, Hiroyo Matsumoto, & Misaki Ohata vs Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa
5. Kyoko Inoue & DASH Chisako vs Nanae Takahashi & Natsuki*Taiyo
6. Yoshiko Tamura vs Kagetu
Meiko Satomura "arrives"

OZ ACADEMY February 7, 2010
Osaka Taisho Azalea Hall

1. Dynamite Kansai vs Nao Komatsu
2. Manami Toyota vs Carlos Amano
3. Dynamite Kansai & Ayumi Kurihara vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Tomoka Nakagawa
4. Aja Kong & KAORU vs Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue
5. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu (c) vs Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato

ICE RIBBON February 10, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Hikari Minami vs Chii Tomiya
2. Mai Ichii vs Hamuko Hoshi
3. Munenori Sawa & Keita Yano vs Ribbon Takanashi & Souma Takao
4. Nanae Takahashi & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Makoto & Hikaru Shida

IBUKI "THANKFULNESS" February 11, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Shu Shibutani vs Esui
2. Leon vs Bambi
3. Toshie Uematsu & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Ray & Natsuki*Taiyo
4. Meiko Satomura & DASH Chisako vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata
5. Atsuko Emoto vs Kyoko Kimura

IBUKI "FORESIGHT" February 11, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Ryo Mizunami & Esui vs Aya Yuki & Kagetsu
2. Future Trial/Experimental Match: ??? (something maybe involving Mariko Yoshida)
3. Emi Sakura & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Akiko Narikuni & Cherry
4. Ray vs Natsuki*Taiyo
5. Atsuko Emoto, Ayumi Kurihara, & Misaki Ohata vs Kyoko Kimura, Shu Shibutani, & Hiroyo Matsumoto

OSAKA PRO "OSAKA HURRICANE 2010" February 11, 2010
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

2. Kana & Apple Miyuki vs GAMI & Yumi Ohka
3. Shiro Koshinaka, Kikutaro, & Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru vs Kuishinbo Kamen, Ebessan III, & Kanjuro Matsuyama

ICE RIBBON February 13, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Mai Ichii vs ?
2. Exhibition: Chii Tomiya vs ?
3. Hikari Minami vs Miyako Matsumoto
4. Triangle Ribbon Championship: Riho (c) vs Makoto vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
5. Kazumi Shimouma vs Hamuko Hoshi

WAVE February 14, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

Part 1
1. Yumi Ohka & Kana vs Shu Shibutani & Hiroyo Matsumoto
2. Toshie Uematsu vs GENTARO
3. Ryo Mizunami vs Bullfight Sora
4. Ryo Mizunami vs Sakura Hirota
5. Best 2 of 3 Falls: GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs Moeka Haruhi, Misaki Ohata, & Yuki Miyazaki

Part 2
1. Garters Championship Semifinal: Moeka Haruhi vs Shu Shibutani
2. Garters Championship Semifinal: Cherry vs Toshie Uematsu
3. Garters Championship Final

ITO DOJO February 14, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Aki Kambayashi vs Cherry
2. Kaoru Ito & Tomoko Watanabe vs Shu Shibutani & Asami Kawasaki
3. Tomoko Morii vs Takako Inoue
4. Manami Toyota vs Kyoko Kimura
5. Kaoru Ito, Aja Kong, & Yumiko Hotta vs Ayako Sato, Hanako Kobayashi, & Noriyo Tateno

JWP February 14, 2010
Lazona Kawasaki Plaza Sol

1. Command Bolshoi, KAZUKI, & Megumi Yabushita vs Toshie Uematsu, Io Shirai, & Mio Shirai
2. Kayoko Haruyama & Misaki Ohata vs Keito & Leon
3. NEO High Speed Championship: Kaori Yoneyama (c) vs Natsuki*Taiyo
4. OCC League: Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Yumi Ohka
5. OCC League: Sachie Abe vs Nanae Takahashi

NEO February 14, 2010
Lazona Kawasaki Plaza Sol

1. Kana vs Kagetsu
2. Atsuko Emoto vs Makoto
3. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki vs Toshie Uematsu & Tsukasa Fujimoto
4. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata vs Nanae Takahashi & Natsuki*Taiyo
5. Kyoko Inoue vs Hikaru Shida
6. NEO Tag Team Championship: Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara (c) vs Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa

ICE RIBBON February 20, 2010
Osaka Minami Move On Arena

1. Hikari Minami & Hikaru Shida vs Mai Ichii & Chii Tomiya
2. Atsushi Kotoge & Emi Sakura vs Daisuke Harada & Natsuki*Taiyo
3. Miyako Matsumoto vs Kuishinbo Kamen
4. ICEx60 Championship: Tsukasa Fujimoto (c) vs Makoto
5. International Ice Ribbon Championship: Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi vs Nanae Takahashi & Kazumi Shimouma

ICE RIBBON February 21, 2010
Nagoya Aichi Sportiva Arena

1. Mr. 6 & Mr. 8 vs Natsuki*Taiyo & Miyako Matsumoto
2. Nanae Takahashi & Emi Sakura vs Loser of Tsukasa Fujimoto/Makoto & Hikaru Shida
3. Kazumi Shimouma vs Mai Ichii
4. Hamuko Hoshi vs Chii Tomiya
5. ICEx60 Championship: Winner of Tsukasa Fujimoto/ Makoto (c) vs Hikari Minami

JWP February 21, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club

1. KAZUKI vs Toshie Uematsu
2. Tsubasa Kuragaki & Kaori Yoneyama vs Leon & Shu Shibutani
3. JWP & Daily Sports Tag Team Championship Tournament, First Round: Kayoko Haruyama & Misaki Ohata vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai
4. JWP & Daily Sports Tag Team Championship Tournament, First Round: Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita vs Ayako Sato & Hanako Kobayashi
5. OCC League: Keito [0] vs Yumi Ohka [0]
6. OCC League: Sachie Abe [2] vs Passion Hottei [0]

OZ ACADEMY February 21, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Sonoko Kato & Nao Komatsu vs AKINO & Tomoka Nakagawa
2. Chikayo Nagashima & Ayumi Kurihara vs Ran Yu-Yu & Hiroyo Matsumoto
3. Five Match Series, Match 3: Carlos Amano [0] vs Manami Toyota [2]
4. Aja Kong vs KAORU
5. Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue vs Dynamite Kansai & Yumi Ohka

MOEBIUS February 22, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
Masao Orihara 20th Anniversary Show

1. NOSAWA Rongai & Kana vs Minoru Fujita & Makoto
4. Nozomi Takaba Retirement Match: Nozomi Takaba (Takesako) vs Ariya
6. Masao Orihara 20th Anniversary Match: Genichiro Tenryu & Nobukazu Hirai vs Toshiaki Kawada & Masao Orihara

WAVE February 24, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Toshie Uematsu vs Kana
2. Handicap Match: GAMI vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai
3. Bullfight Sora & Sakura Hirota vs Yumi Ohka & X
4. Best 2 of 3 Falls: Shu Shibutani, Cherry, & Ayumi Kurihara vs Moeka Haruhi, Tomoka Nakagawa, & Misaki Ohata
5. Yumi Ohka vs Mayumi Ozaki

ICE RIBBON February 26, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Hamuko Hoshi vs Chii Tomiya
2. Ribbon Takanashi & Miyako Matsumoto vs Keita Yano & Makoto
3. Emi Sakura vs Mai Ichii
4. Nanae Takahashi & Hikaru Shida vs Natsuki*Taiyo & Tsukasa Fujimoto

ICE RIBBON February 27, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Hamuko Hoshi vs ?
2. Exhibition: Hamuko Hoshi vs ?
3. Riho & Chii Tomiya vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikari Minami
4. Makoto & Hikaru Shida vs Kazumi Shimouma & Miyako Matsumoto
5. Emi Sakura & Iku Hidaka vs Nanae Takahashi & Ribbon Takanashi

JWP February 28, 2010
JWP Dojo

1. KAZUKI vs Senri Kuroki
2. Sachie Abe vs Leon
3. Command Bolshoi & KAZUKI vs Keito & Jaguar Yokota
4. Kayoko Haruyama & Kaori Yoneyama vs Tsubasa Kuragaki & Leon

NEO February 28, 2010
NEO Dojo

1. Yuki Miyazaki vs Toshie Umeatsu
2. Tanny Mouse vs Nanae Takahashi
3. Yoshiko Tamura & Chii Tomiya vs Kyoko Inoue & Makoto

UNION PRO February 28, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
1. Takeshi Oya & Cherry vs Kyosuke Sasaki & Hamuko Hoshi

Results, February 20-21

2010-02-21T15:46:00.002-06:00

The limited action this weekend was all on the weekend. Ice Ribbon ran Osaka and Nagoya on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. The Osaka show saw Tsukasa Fujimoto successfully defend the ICEx60 Championship with a win over Makoto. The International Ice Ribbon Tag Team belts changed hands, as Nanae Takahashi and Kazumi Shimouma defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi. Sunday in Nagoya saw Fujimoto roll up her 3rd defense, beating teenager Hikari Minami, while Nanae & Emi Sakura beat Makoto & Hikaru Shida in the main event.

JWP was at the Tokyo Cinema Club and we had continuing action in the OCC League to determine the next JWP Openweight Championship challenger and the first round of the six-team tournament to fill the vacant JWP/Daily Sports tag crowns. If you were hoping for young teams to get a push, you'd be disappointed. Command Bolshoi and Megumi Yabushita finished off the Shirai sisters (Yabushita making Mio submit), and Kayoko Haruyama and Misaki Ohata beat the Ito Dojo duo Ayako Sata & Hanako Kobayashi. These teams advance to the semifinals along with KAZUKI/Toshie Uematsu and Natsuki*Taiyo/Kazumi Shimouma, who had byes. It was mostly bottom feeders in the OCC League. Yumi Ohka and Passion Hottei both scored their first victory of the league, over Keito and Sachie Abe respectively. In the JWP block, Keito and Sachie Abe cannot win, and Tsubasa Kuragaki leads with 5 points, while Kaori Yoneyama and Leon both have 4 points. In the outsiders block, Ran Yu-Yu leads with 6 points, Nanae Takahashi has 5, Hottei and Okha are both barely alive with 2 points, and Emi Sakura has 0.

OZ Academy was at Shinjuku FACE. Carlos Amano and Manami Toyota drew in their third match of the five-match series, leaving Toyota with the same 2-0 lead. Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue beat Dynamite Kansai & Yumi Ohka, with Ozaki using the Ozakick on WAVE's Okha. I don't know if Okha is still resisting the offer to join the Ozaki-gun. The main event saw KAORU steal a win from Aja Kong, countering an Uraken. I'm sure Aja was unhappy about that.

ICE RIBBON February 20, 2010
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
183 Fans

1. Exhibition: Chii Tomiya vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Hikari Minami & Hikaru Shida defeated Mai Ichii & Chii Tomiya (8:49) when Minami used a Blockbuster on Tomiya.
4. Daisuke Harada & Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Atsushi Kotoge & Emi Sakura (10:06) When Taiyo used the Triple Taiyo-Chan La Magistral on Sakura.
5. Miyako Matsumoto defeated Kuishinbo Kamen (7:15) with the Miya Here Clutch.
6. ICEx60 Championship: Tsukasa Fujimoto (c) defeated Makoto (15:00) with the Tsukadora. Fujimoto is successful in the 2nd defense.
7. International Ice Ribbon Championship: Nanae Takahashi & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi (17:32) when Shimouma used a Diving Elbow Drop on Hoshi. Matsumoto & Hoshi fail in the 2nd defense and Takahashi & Shimouma become the 9th champions.

ICE RIBBON February 21, 2010
Nagoya Aichi Sportiva Arena
126 Fans

1. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Exhibition: Mai Ichii vs ? (3:00) went to a time-lmit draw.
3. Chii Tomiya defeated Hamuko Hoshi (8:35).
4. Kazumi Shimouma defeated Mai Ichii (6:06).
5. Mr. 6 & Mr. 8 defeated Natsuki*Taiyo & Miyako Matsumoto when Mr. 6 pinned Matsumoto.
6. ICEx60 Championship: Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Hikari Minami (10:03). Fujimoto is successful in the 3rd defense.
7. Nanae Takahashi & Emi Sakura defeated Makoto & Hikaru Shida (19:01) when Sakura pinned Makoto.

JWP February 21, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club
196 Fans

1. Toshie Uematsu defeated KAZUKI (7:35) with a K-Crusher Cutback.
2. Tsubasa Kuragaki & Kaori Yoneyama defeated Leon & Shu Shibutani (11:59) when Kuragaki used a Lariat on Shibutani.
3. JWP & Daily Sports Tag Team Championship Tournament, First Round: Command Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita defeated Ayako Sato & Hanako Kobayashi (13:24) when Yabushita used a Jumping Cross Armbreaker on Kobayashi.
4. JWP & Daily Sports Tag Team Championship Tournament, First Round: Kayoko Haruyama & Misaki Ohata defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (12:22) when Haruyama used a Yokosuka Cutter on Mio.
5. OCC League: Yumi Ohka [2] defeated Keito [0] (14:42) with the Big Boot.
6. OCC League: Passion Hottei [2] defeated Sachie Abe [2] (17:38) with a Scissors Sleeper.

OZ ACADEMY February 21, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
430 Fans

1. AKINO & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Sonoko Kato & Nao Komatsu (18:33) when AKINO used a Nagata Lock III on Komatsu.
2. Chikayo Nagashima & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Ran Yu-Yu & Hiroyo Matsumoto (18:48) when Nagashima used a Fire Valley Cutback on Ran.
3. Five Match Series, Match 3: Carlos Amano [0] vs Manami Toyota [2] (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue defeated Dynamite Kansai & Yumi Ohka (13:03) when Ozaki used an Ozakick on Ohka.
5. KAORU defeated Aja Kong (11:41) with an Uraken Cutback.

Results, February 10-14

2010-02-14T18:26:00.007-06:00

Several groups saw action this week. Ice Ribbon had the usual Wednesday/Saturday line up from the Isami Wrestle Budokan out in Warabi City, Saitama. Notable results were the Makoto/Hikaru Shida team picking up a win over Nanae Takahashi & Tsukasa Fujimoto in Wednesday's main event (Makoto using a German Suplex on Fujimoto) and little Riho retaining the Triangle Ribbon Championship over Makoto & Fujimoto on Saturday.

The final two Ibuki shows on Thursday saw quite a bit. We had the retirement of the Mongolian wrestler Esui, the return of Mariko Yoshida in two short exhibition matches, Meiko Satomura & DASH Chisako beat Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata when Meiko put Hiroyo to sleep, Kyoko Kimura beat usual partner Atsuko Emoto with a Big Boot in the main event of the matinee, and the Kimura/Matsumoto/Shibutani team beat the Emoto/Kurihara/Ohata team in the final Ibuki match when Hiroyo used a Liger Bomb on Ohata. Yoshida was a bit inscrutable as usual regarding her plans, but it sounds like S-Ovation will return with something that's not Ibuki this summer.

WAVE was in action late Saturday night (really early Valentine's Day morning). They had a 4 woman "Garters" championship for creeps and perverts, with Moeka Haruhi emerging as champ in a field including Toshie Uematsu, Cherry, and Shu Shibutani. GAMI sat this one out, wisely. Ryo Mizunami defeated the comedy duo of Bullfight Sora and Sakura Hirota in consecutive singles matches, and Haruhi/Ohata/Yuki Miyazaki won the main event over GAMI and the Shirais by 2 falls to one. GAMI got the first fall on Misaki, then Miyazaki used a Moonsault on Mio and Misaki got the victory by getting a revenge pin on GAMI.

Ito Dojo held a rare show. Too bad birthday girl Ayako Hamada is spending her 29th birthday at a Chili's in suburban Orlando with Kevin Nash, Sean Waltman, and Brian Knobbs, who ate all the nachos and jalapeno poppers himself. We did have the usual old ladies beat younger ladies routine, with Kaoru Ito teaming with Tomoko Watanabe again to beat Shibutani & Asami Kawasaki, Takako Inoue beating Tomoko Morii, and Manami Toyota beating Kyoko Kimura. There was an upset in the main event, as Ayako Sato (teaming with Hanako Kobayashi and Noriyo Tateno) did get a rare pin on Big Auntie Ito (with Aja Kong and Yumiko Hotta).

JWP and NEO both ran Lazona Kawasaki Plaza Sol. JWP's show saw a title change, as Natsuki*Taiyo recaptured the NEO High Speed Championship from Kaori Yoneyama. Two league matches saw Tsubasa Kuragaki beat Yumi Ohka and Nanae Takahashi beat Sachie Abe and both seem fairly likely to end up meeting in the finals for a shot at Kayoko Haruyama's title. The vacant JWP/Daily Sports tag titles will be decided in upcoming weeks in a six team tournament. KAZUKI didn't have a partner, but recruited tag team stalwart Toshie Uematsu, and they drew a first round bye, along with the Natsuki*Taiyo/Kazumi Shimouma Passion Red squad. First round matches will be Command Bolshoi/Megumi Yabushita vs Ayako Sato/Hanako Kobayashi and Kayoko Haruyama/Misaki Ohata vs Mio Shirai/Io Shirai.

NEO's show features their ever-dwindling roster, as all of the rookies seem to be gone for good, Nagisa Nozaki's still hurt as usual, and now the seemingly immune Aya Yuki is out. She has a neck injury that was apparently suffered in her junior titles match against Ryo Mizunami at last month's Sendai Girls show. Fortunately for NEO, they have a stable of strong free-lancers that regularly appear and access to Ice Ribbon for card fillers. The main event was a NEO Tag Team Championship match, and the champs retained. Yoshiko Tamura and Ayumi Kurihara thwarted off the Revolucion Amadola challengers Kimura & Emoto, with Ayumi scoring a big pin on Kimura for their first defense.

In injury updates, we have the previously mentioned Aya Yuki injury. Severity of injury and date of return is not known at this point. We do know that Basara will return on April 29th at the Vader Time show, which will be a mix of joshi and non-joshi action. Apparently Vader is gonna try and wrestle, teaming with his son. This show is at Shinjuku FACE the same day as the Kana Produce show, with the Kana-Meiko main event. Maybe Basara and Meiko will run into each other and exchange valentines, or hugs, or dirty looks or kicks, or something. Kana's show will also have a lot of non-joshi action, including a Tatsumi Fujinami vs Yuki Ishikawa match that sounds pretty awesome. In additon to Basara, Hiren should be back by April, as she's expected to appear in Sendai's tournament starting in early April. Sendai Sachiko's screwed up ankle will not allow her to return in time for that event.

ICE RIBBON February 10, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
71 Fans

1. Hikari Minami defeated Chii Tomiya (6:19) with the Blockbuster.
2. Hamuko Hoshi defeated Mai Ichii (8:12) with the Shubain Buster Bomb.
3. Munenori Sawa & Keita Yano defeated Ribbon Takanashi & Souma Takao (14:10) when Yano used a Missile Kick on Takao.
4. Makoto & Hikaru Shida defeated Nanae Takahashi & Tsukasa Fujimoto (18:01) when Makoto used a German Suplex Hold on Fujimoto.

IBUKI "THANKFULNESS" February 11, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
391 Fans

1. Shu Shibutani defeated Esui (9:08) with a Modified Cradle.
2. Leon defeated Bambi (6:16) with the Mad Splash.
3. Ray & Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Toshie Uematsu & Tomoka Nakagawa (15:06) when Taiyo used the Peach*Latch on Nakagawa.
4. Exhibition: Mariko Yoshida vs Ray (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
5. Meiko Satomura & DASH Chisako defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata (18:00) when Satomura defeated Matsumoto with a Modified Sleeper Hold.
6. Kyoko Kimura defeated Atsuko Emoto (19:18) with a Big Boot.

IBUKI "FORESIGHT" February 11, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
427 Fans

1. Esui Retirement Match: Ryo Mizunami & Esui defeated Aya Yuki & Kagetsu (13:13) when Esui used a Chokeslam on Kagetsu.
2. Future Trial Match: YUMIKO & Atsushi Tashiro defeated ゆき & TAIJU (9:36) when YUMIKO used the t.m.r. on TAIJU.
3. Emi Sakura & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Akiko Narikuni & Cherry (13:59) when Sakura used the Nyan Nyan Press on Cherry.
4. Exhibition: Mariko Yoshida defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto (3:00) by 1 fall to 0.
5. Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Ray (15:36) with the Taiyo-Chan Spanish Fly.
6. Kyoko Kimura, Shu Shibutani, & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Atsuko Emoto, Ayumi Kurihara, & Misaki Ohata (26:41) when Matsumoto used a Liger Bomb on Ohata.

OSAKA PRO "OSAKA HURRICANE 2010" February 11, 2010
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium
5083 Fans

2. GAMI & Yumi Ohka defeated Kana & Apple Miyuki (10:43) when Ohka used a Tiger Suplex Hold on Apple.
3. Shiro Koshinaka, Kikutaro, & Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru defeated Kuishinbo Kamen, Ebessan III, & Kanjuro Matsuyama (13:05) when Koshinaka used a Powerbomb on Ebessan.

ICE RIBBON February 13, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
80 Fans

1. Exhibition: Mai Ichii vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Exhibition: Chii Tomiya vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Hikari Minami defeated Miyako Matsumoto (6:17) with a Blockbuster.
4. Triangle Ribbon Championship: Riho defeated Makoto & Tsukasa Fujimoto (6:11) by using the Ribbon Round and Round on Fujimoto. Riho is successful in the 1st defense.
5. Kazumi Shimouma defeated Hamuko Hoshi (14:19) with a Back Half Slam Buster.

WAVE February 14, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
124 Fans

Part One
1. Yumi Ohka & Kana defeated Shu Shibutani & Hiroyo Matsumoto (13:57) when Okha used a Tiger Suplex Hold on Shibutani.
2. GENTARO defeated Toshie Uematsu (16:58).
3. Ryo Mizunami defeated Bullfight Sora (9:00).
4. Ryo Mizunami defeated Sakura Hirota (9:30) with a Guillotine Drop.
5. Moeka Haruhi, Misaki Ohata, & Yuki Miyazaki defeated GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai (28:48) by 2 falls to 1. GAMI defeated Ohata (13:17) with the Adios Amiga. Miyazaki defeated Mio (4:41) with the Moonsault Press. Ohata defeated GAMI (10:47) with a Reverse Cradle.

Part Two
1. Garters Championship Semifinal: Moeka Haruhi defeated Shu Shibutani (4:50).
2. Garters Championship Semifinal: Cherry defeated Toshie Uematsu (4:54).
3. Garters Championship Final: Moeka Haruhi defeated Cherry (6:35).

ITO DOJO February 14, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Aki Kambayashi defeated Cherry (10:15) with the Marukurijabe.
2. Kaoru Ito & Tomoko Watanabe defeated Shu Shibutani & Asami Kawasaki (19:20) when Ito used a Spiral Bomb on Shibutani.
3. Takako Inoue defeated Tomoko Morii (12:27) with the Destiny Hammer.
4. Manami Toyota defeated Kyoko Kimura (16:30) with the Japanese Ocean Queen Bee Bomb.
5. Ayako Sato, Hanako Kobayashi, & Noriyo Tateno defeated Kaoru Ito, Aja Kong, & Yumiko Hotta (26:36) when Sato pinned Ito.

JWP February 14, 2010
Lazona Kawasaki Plaza Sol
157 Fans

1. Command Bolshoi, KAZUKI, & Megumi Yabushita defeated Toshie Uematsu, Io Shirai, & Mio Shirai (15:40) when KAZUKI used a Dragon Suplex Cutback on Uematsu.
2. Keito & Leon defeated Kayoko Haruyama & Misaki Ohata (15:46) when Leon used the Captured Buster on Ohata.
3. NEO High Speed Championship: Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Kaori Yoneyama (14:26) with the Avalanche-Style Sea Fire. Yoneyama fails in the 2nd defense and Taiyo becomes the 3rd champion.
4. OCC League: Tsubasa Kuragaki [5] defeated Yumi Ohka [0] (14:04) with the Metal Wing.
5. OCC League: Nanae Takahashi [5] defeated Sachie Abe [2] (14:10) with a Lariat.

NEO February 14, 2010
Lazona Kawasaki Plaza Sol
189 Fans

1. Kana defeated Kagetsu (8:34) with a Backhand.
2. Atsuko Emoto defeated Makoto (8:31) with an M-Clutch.
3. Toshie Uematsu & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki (11:38) when Fujimoto used a Schoolboy on Tanny.
4. Nanae Takahashi & Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata (16:23) when Takahashi used an Iku Bomb on Ohata.
5. Kyoko Inoue defeated Hikaru Shida (5:22) with a Lariat.
6. NEO Tag Team Championship: Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa (22:21) when Kurihara used a Diving Double Knee Attack on Kimura. Tamura & Kurihara are successful in the 1st defense.

1JoshI Radio Free Hiren Volumes 4 & 5

2010-02-11T22:00:00.001-06:00

I forgot to publicize it here, but we had the 4th episode last week, with a full panel including Jamie Virtue, Joshi Rob, J.H., FLIK, and AirRaid Crush. It was a rollicking good time with us talking about 1JoshI's favorite unheralded match from Big Egg Universe, other Big Egg Universe matches, early JWP, the awesomeness that is Shinobu Kandori, how great Akira Hokuto was on the mike, the 2009 NEO tag tournament, the 2009 JWP Azumi Hyuga retirement show, the awesomeness that is UTAKO HOZUMI and the other forgotten babes of LLPW that are now appearing on a Youtube near you, the breakup of Passion Red, and Jamie's plug for Jushin Liger's upcoming appearance at an anime convention in Toronto. We also talked briefly about the dying days of AJW that FLIK has been graciously uploading and writing show reports on. The Youtube user I was talking about that is uploading obscure LLPW and JD and other nontypical stuff is http://www.youtube.com/user/Chibaish (yes, he has joshi creep wallpaper on his Youtube page!)

Episode 5 is scheduled for Thursday, February 11th at 10 PM Central. My agenda this time includes my top 20 in joshi in 2009, Hokuto vs Kandori (Jamie should be done watching it by then), our favorite joshi comedy matches, and (just for AirRaidCrush, whose name we will repeat aloud over and over and over) All Things Apache. Maybe I'll go on a digression and talk about my favorite Sirius satellite radio channels. I'll try to slip in some ~MACH FUMIAKE or UTAKO HOZUMI if the urge strikes me.

Streaming audio or a download of episode 4 is available. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/1joshi

Results February 2-7

2010-02-07T17:42:00.008-06:00

Several groups saw action this week. Let's lead it off with Groundhog's Day action from WAVE. Punxsutaney Phil did not make an appearance, as he was afraid he'd end up in a match with Bullfight Sora or Sakura Hirota or that GAMI would shove a cake into his face. Toshie Uematsu did face and beat the cow and the Hirota. Yuki Miyazaki was the one who got the cake, as she turned 31, beat Cherry, and got the birthday WAVE treatment. The main event saw the team of Yumi Ohka, Kana, & Misaki Ohata defeat GAMI, Mio Shirai, and Io Shirai by 2 falls to nil, with Ohka pinning GAMI twice. Then Mayumi Ozaki showed up again and invited Ohka to join the Ozaki-gun faction in OZ Academy, saying to show up at the OZ show on 2/21 to announce her decision.

Ice Ribbon ran two shows, a small show on Wednesday in the usual Warabi City location, and a Saturday show, doubling with NEO at Itabashi Green Hall. Ice Ribbon actually outdrew NEO (oof!). They've got a couple more very young kids in training, working three minute exhibitions until they get a total of 500 votes to debut. A JWP Open Class Challenge league match was held, and Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Emi Sakura to keep Emi at zero points. Nanae Takahashi and her newest Passion Red member Kazumi Shimouma won a shot at the International Ice Ribbon tag belts, beating Makoto & Hikaru Shida. Hamuko Hoshi made weight (you have to be under 60 kilos) and got a new costume, but Tsukasa Fujimoto remained as the ICEx60 champion.

NEO's show started off with Kana beating Mio Shirai's ass and Tanny Mouse getting a rare singles win as they dug up Yuiga for her yearly job. Revolucion Amandola defeated the Aya Yuki/Hiroyo Matsumoto/Misaki Ohata trio, with Nakagawa using her low lariat on Ohata. Kimura & Nakagawa will challenge Yoshiko Tamura and Ayumi Kurihara for the NEO tag belts next weekend. The semi-main event saw Nanae and Natsuki*Taiyo beat Kyoko Inoue and DASH Chisako, with DASH doing the expected counting of the lights after getting rocked by Nanae. After this match, Big Momma took the mike and asked Nanae to face Kana in singles, but Nanae said she wants Meiko Satomura in the finals of the Sendai tournament and blew off the idea of facing Kana. Sendai's Kagetsu (i.e. Yukari Ishino) was in her first main event singles match, but had no answer for champ Yoshiko Tamura. Tamura then reissued her challenge to Meiko, as she needs a new rival since Genki & Hyuga retired and she has somehow not faced Meiko in their fifteen years. Satomura was there and (of course) accepted the challenge, so it's a juicy matchup with those two headlining the big NEO 10th Anniversary show at Kawasaki Gymnasium next month for the NEO/NWA Pacific crowns.

Sunday saw OZ Academy in Osaka. Dynamite Kansai made the rookie Nao Komatsu submit to a Brain Claw. Manami Toyota defeated Carlos Amano for her second straight win in their five-match series; still three matches to go and I'm guessing Amano's gonna get the next two wins. Kansai was doing double duty, as she teamed with Ayumi to beat Hiroyo and Tomoka. KAORU got some revenge on Ozaki, as the KAORU-Aja team defeated Ozaki & Takako Inoue in an elimination tag without taking a fall themeselves. The main event saw AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu retain the OZ tag title, with Ran using Devil Masami's Fire Valley finisher on Kato.

WAVE February 2, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
127 Fans
1. 3WAY Match: Toshie Uematsu defeated Bullfight Sora & Sakura Hirota (11:52) with a Double Pin after a German Suplex on Hirota and a Japanese Leg Roll on Sora.
2. Cherry defeated Shu Shibutani (14:08) with the Fantasy Illusion.
3. Yuki Miyazaki defeated Moeka Haruhi (12:38) with a Tiger Press.
4. Best 2 of 3 Falls: Yumi Ohka, Kana, & Misaki Ohata defeated GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai (16:36) by 2 falls to none. Ohka used a Small Package Hold on GAMI (16:04). Ohka used a Tiger Press on GAMI (16:36).

ICE RIBBON February 3, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
66 Fans

1. Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Chii Tomiya (8:33) with a Diving Body Press.
2. Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Mai Ichii (7:19) with an Argentine Backbreaker.
3. Nanae Takahashi defeated Miyako Matsumoto (7:00) with a Kneebar.
4. Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hamuko Hoshi defeated Makoto & Hikaru Shida (14:49) when Hoshi used a Lariat on Makoto

ICE RIBBON February 6, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
205 Fans

1. Exhibition Match: Riho vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Exhibition Match: Mai Ichii vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Hikari Minami (7:13) with La Magistral.
4. Aika Ando & Touru Owashi defeated Ribbon Takanashi & Chii Tomiya (8:18) when Ando used the Request Clutch on Tomiya.
5. JWP OCC League: Tsubasa Kuragaki [3] defeated Emi Sakura [0] (14:00) with the Metal Wing.
6. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Miyako Matsumoto (8:17) with a Reverse Cradle.
7. International Ice Ribbon Tag Team #1 Contenders Match: Nanae Takahashi & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Makoto & Hikaru Shida (22:09) when Shimouma used the Passion Half Slam Buster on Makoto.
8. ICEx60 Championship: Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Hamuko Hoshi (15:59) with the Tsukadora. Fujimoto is successful in the 1st defense.

NEO "SHINE" February 6, 2010
Itabashi Green Hall
163 Fans

1. Kana defeated Mio Shirai (10:22) with a Russian Hook.
2. Tanny Mouse defeated Yuiga (6:18) with an Armlock.
3. Yuki Miyazaki defeaed Cherry (10:09) with a Gedo Clutch.
4. Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Aya Yuki, Hiroyo Matsumoto, & Misaki Ohata (17:11) when Nakagawa used the Australian Arm on Ohata.
5. Nanae Takahashi & Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Kyoko Inoue & DASH Chisako (20:25) when Takahashi used an Iku Bomb on Chisako.
6. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Kagetsu (13:48) with an Elbow Smash.

OZ ACADEMY February 7, 2010
Osaka Taisho Azalea Hall
430 Fans

1. Dynamite Kansai defeated Nao Komatsu (2:14) with the Brain Claw.
2. Manami Toyota defeated Carlos Amano (8:50) with a Small Package Hold. Toyota leads 2 wins to 0 in the five match series.
3. Dynamite Kansai & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Tomoka Nakagawa (14:12) when Kansai used a Lariat on Nakagawa.
4. Elimination Match: Aja Kong & KAORU defeated Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue (6:02). Kong eliminated Ozaki (0:03) with a Small Package Hold after a Can Blow. KAORU eliminated Inoue (5:59) with an Excalibur.
5. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu defeated Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato (23:15) when Yu-Yu used the Fire Valley on Kato. AKINO & Yu-Yu are successful in the 5th defense.

Results January 26-January 31

2010-02-01T18:50:00.007-06:00

Ice Ribbon had their usual two small shows. The main excitement seemed to be the new tag team of Makoto and Hikaru Shida scoring two victories over Nanae Takahashi and Hamuko Hoshi, with Hoshi taking both falls. Hoshi is the International Ice Ribbon Tag champ with Hiroyo Matsumoto, and it seems that a title challenge from Makoto & Shida is imminent. Also, according to Frank Pozen, Ice Ribbon's Kazumi Shimouma has joined Passion Red.

Sunday 1/31 was a busy day, with shows in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Sendai. JWP ran a doubleshot from Kitasenju Theater, featuring several matches in the Open Class Challenge league. In the matinee, Kaori Yoneyama beat Passion Hottei by count-out (and we thought that never happened on the radio show; we all forgot about the Toshie/Ran tag team reign in 2004 GAEA) and Ran Yu-Yu took out Sachie Abe. The late show saw Ran pin Yoneyama in under 2 minutes, Leon won over Emi Sakura, and Nanae Takahashi beat Keito. Current standings are JWP Block: Kaori Yoneyama 4 (2 matches left), Leon 4 (3 matches left), Sachie Abe 2 (3 matches left), Tsubasa Kuragaki 1 (4 matches left), Keito 0 (3 matches left) and Outsiders Block: Ran Yu-Yu 6 (2 matches left), Nanae Takahashi 3 (3 maches left), Emi Sakura 0 (3 matches left), Passion Hottei 0 (3 matches left), Yumi Ohka 0 (4 matches left).

WAVE was in Nagoya. Highlights included Ayumi Kurihara beating Io Shirai, Manami Toyota over Shu Shibutani, and the GAEA team of Toshie Uematsu, Sonoko Kato, and Sakura Hirota beating GAMI, Yumi Ohka, and Bullfight Sora by 2 falls to 1. After Ohka beat Sakura with a tiger suplex and Sonoko tied the score with a German suplex on GAMI, Hirota won the match by kissing the cow. Okey dokey.

Sendai Girls seemed to be doing a joshi version of UWF or BattlARTS, with a bunch of kickers in town. Yukari Ishino got her new ring name, it's 花月which means "Flower Moon" and I think translates to Katsuki (tell me if I'm wrong). Then she got stomped on by Dynamite Kansai. Then Fuuka kicked DASH Chisako Hardy around. Then Katsuki & Chisako teamed up (due to the short-handed roster, they worked double) and had to face Meiko Satomura and Kana. I guess these girls were very bad in previous lives, as I suspect they got a severe ass-kicking. It was announced that Kana vs Meiko will be the main event at Kana's vanity show at Shinjuku FACE on April 29th. Let's pray for TV or DVD on this one. I think Kana might have found a vet that's as eager to work super stiff as her. The finale saw Ryo Mizunami make her first defense of the JWP Junior/P.O.P. titles, beating NEO's Aya Yuki.

EDIT: Ishino's new name is "Kagetu" or "Kagetsu".

FMW January 26, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

2. Mixed Tag Match: Yuta Nakata & Io Shirai defeated Great Sata & Mio Shirai (12:12) when Nakata used a Swanton Bomb on Sata.

ICE RIBBON January 27, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
55 Fans

1. Kaori Yoneyama defeated Mai Ichii (6:33) with a Rear Cradle.
2. Emi Sakura & Ribbon Takanashi vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Chouun Shiryu (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Chii Tomiya (7:27) with a Jackknife-Style Hold.
4. Makoto & Hikaru Shida defeated Nanae Takahashi & Hamuko Hoshi (16:27) when Makoto used a German Suplex Hold on Hoshi.

ICE RIBBON January 30, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
91 Fans

1. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Exhibition: Mai Ichii vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Chii Tomiya defeated Miyako Matsumoto (6:52) with the Chiichikin.
4. Kazumi Shimouma defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (9:28) with The Passion of the Woman.
5. Makoto & Hikaru Shida defeated Nanae Takahashi & Hamuko Hoshi (15:18) when Makoto used a Cradle on Hoshi.

T-1 January 30, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
257 Fans

1. Mio Shirai defeated UGP Mask with the Purple Flash.
5. Handicap Match: President Futami, Mika Nagano, & Aky defeated The Great Sasuke & Io Shirai (20:22) when Futami pinned Shirai after a Mistaken Bombing by Sasuke and a High Kick by Nagano.

JWP January 31, 2010 (afternoon)
Kitasenju Theater 1010
135 Fans

1. Leon defeated Hikaru Shida (7:12) with the Mad Splash.
2. Tsubasa Kuragaki & Keito defeated Kayoko Haruyama & KAZUKI (15:28) when Kuragaki used the Metal Wing on KAZUKI.
3. NEO High Speed #1 Contender's 3 Way Match: Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Command Bolshoi & Tsukasa Fujimoto (8:38) by using the Triple Taiyo*Chan Bomb on Fujimoto.
4. OCC League Match: Kaori Yoneyama [4] defeated Passion Hottei [0] (11:44) by Count Out.
5. OCC League Match: Ran Yu-Yu [4] defeated Sachie Abe [2] (20:25) with a Forearm Smash.

JWP January 31, 2010 (evening)
Kitasenju Theater 1010
130 Fans

1. Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated Hanako Kobayashi (10:14) with a Lariat.
2. Sachie Abe, KAZUKI, & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Kayoko Haruyama, Command Bolshoi, & Chii Tomiya (17:10) when KAZUKI used the K-Crusher on Tomiya.
3. OCC League Match: Ran Yu-Yu [6] defeated Kaori Yoneyama [4] (1:56) with the European Clutch.
4. OCC League Match: Leon [4] defeated Emi Sakura [0] (7:21) with the Captured Buster.
5. OCC League Match: Nanae Takahashi [3] defeated Keito [0] (16:19) with a Lariat.

NEO January 31, 2010
Yokohama NEO Dojo

WAVE January 31, 2010
Nagoya Aichi Club Diamond Hall
277 Fans

1. Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata defeated Mio Shirai & HARU (12:25) when Haruhi used the Young Lady Clutch on HARU.
2. GAMI & Abdullah Kobayashi vs Cherry & Shigehiro Irie (13:16) when GAMI used a Cradle of Cherry.
3. Ayumi Kurihara defeated Io Shirai (8:51) with an Uranage.
4. Manami Toyota defeated Shu Shibutani (13:50) with a Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex Hold.
5. WAVE vs GAEA, Best 2 of 3 Falls: Toshie Uematsu, Sonoko Kato, & Sakura Hirota defeated GAMI, Yumi Ohka, & Bullfight Sora (21:31) by 2 falls to 1. Ohka pinned Hirota (13:27) with a Tiger Suplex Hold. Kato pinned GAMI (3:34) with a German Suplex Hold. Hirota defeated Sora (4:30) with a Kiss.

SENDAI GIRLS January 31, 2010
Zepp Sendai
600 Fans

1. Dynamite Kansai defeated Kagetu (7:15) with a Diving Footstomp.
2. Fuuka defeated DASH Chisako (10:52) with a Gedo Clutch.
3. Meiko Satomura & Kana defeated DASH Chisako & Kagetsu (16:39) when Kana used a Mawashi Kick on Katsuki.
4. JWP Junior & POP Championship: Ryo Mizunami defeated Aya Yuki (15:45) with a Shoulder Hold. Mizunami is successful in the 1st defense.

Schedule, January 1-31

2010-01-31T07:47:00.014-06:00

ICE RIBBON January 4, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Kaori Yoneyama & Makoto vs Natsuki*Taiyo & Chii Tomiya
2. Kenny Omega, Aika Ando, & Miyako Matsumoto vs Ribbon Takahashi, Futoshi Miwa, & Riho
3. Ice Ribbon Tag Championship Decision Match: Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi
4. SUPER ICE-CUP Semifinals & ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura (c) vs Hikari Minami
5. SUPER ICE-CUP Semifinals: Hikaru Shida vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
6. SUPER ICE-CUP Finals & ICEx60 Championship

WAVE January 4, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. GAMI vs Ryo Mizunami
2. Misaki Ohata & Chisato Kuroki vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai
3. 3WAY Tag Match: GAMI & Command Bolshoi vs Mima Shimoda & Bullfight Sora vs Cherry & Sakura Hirota
4. Aja Kong & Moeka Haruhi vs Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu
5. Shu Shibutani vs Ayumi Kurihara
6. Yumi Ohka vs Mayumi Ozaki

ICE RIBBON January 9, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Makoto vs Chii Tomiya
2. Natsuki*Taiyo vs Riho
3. Nanae Takahashi vs Mai Ichii
4. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi vs Kazumi Shimouma & Hikaru Shida

OZ ACADEMY January 10, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Chikayo Nagashima vs Nao Komatsu
2. Dynamite Kansai vs Hiroyo Matsumoto
3. Aja Kong & KAORU vs Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue
4. Carlos Amano vs Manami Toyota
5. Chikayo Nagashima, Sonoko Kato, & Ayumi Kurihara vs AKINO, Ran Yu-Yu, & Tomoka Nakagawa

JWP January 10, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club

1. Kayoko Haruyama & KAZUKI vs Command Bolshoi & Chisato Kuroki
2. OCC League: Keito vs Ran Yu-Yu
3. OCC League: Kaori Yoneyama vs Yumi Ohka
4. OCC League: Tojuki Leon vs Passion Hottei
5. OCC League: Sachie Abe vs Emi Sakura
6. OCC League: Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Nanae Takahashi

NEO January 10, 2010
Yokohama NEO Dojo

GURO PRO January 11, 2010
Kitasenju Theater 1010

7. Takatsu, Apple Miyuki, & La Malcriada vs Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa

HEART LINE January 13, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Guts Ishijima & Tadashi Sano vs Daisuke & La Malcriada
2. 3WAY Match: Kikutaro vs Kana vs Konaka=Pale One
5. Hardcore Match: Apple Miyuki & Magnitude Kishiwada vs Kintaro Kanemura & Tetsuhiro Kuroda

ICE RIBBON January 13, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Emi Sakura vs Chii Tomiya
2. Natsuki*Taiyo vs Makoto
3. Kaori Yoneyama vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
4. Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hikaru Shida

ICE RIBBON January 16, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Chii Tomiya vs ?
2. Exhibition: Chii Tomiya vs ?
3. Mai Ichii vs Hikaru Shida
4. Riho vs Miyako Matsumoto
5. Emi Sakura & Makoto vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Kazumi Shimouma

WAVE January 16, 2010
Yokohama Nigiwaiza

1. GAMI vs Ray
2. Yumi Ohka vs Hiroyo Matsumoto
3. Shu Shibutani vs Esui
4. Atsuko Emoto vs Tomoka Nakagawa
5. Moeka Haruhi vs Misaki Ohata
6. Winners vs Losers 5 vs 5 Tag Match

NEO "WITH 2010" January 17, 2010
Osaka Minami Move On Arena

1. Natsumi Kawano vs Yukari Ishino
2. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki vs Toshie Uematsu & Sakura Hirota
3. Lottery Tag Match: Ayumi Kurihara, Natsuki*Taiyo, Kana, Hiroyo Matsumoto
4. Kyoko Inoue vs Aya Yuki
5. Yoshiko Tamura, Nanae Takahashi, & Emi Sakura vs Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa

WAVE January 20, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Misaki Ohata vs Io Shirai
2. Bullfight Sora vs Sakura Hirota
3. Shu Shibutani vs Kana
4. Best 2 of 3 Falls: GAMI, Toshie Uematsu, & Mio Shirai vs Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, & KAORU

ICE RIBBON January 20, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Natsuki*Taiyo vs Chii Tomiya
2. Mai Ichii vs Hiroyo Matsumoto
3. Hamuko Hoshi vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
4. Emi Sakura & Nanae Takahashi vs Makoto & Hikaru Shida

ICE RIBBON January 23, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ?
2. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ?
3. Nanae Takahashi & Miyako Matsumoto vs Riho & Chii Tomiya
4. Mai Ichii vs Makoto
5. International Ice Ribbon Tag Team Championship: Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi (c) vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Kazumi Shimouma

NEO "DYNAMISM" January 23, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Aya Yuki vs Hiroyo Matsumoto
2. Kyoko Inoue vs Sakura Hirota
3. Ayumi Kurihara, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai vs Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa
4. Tanny Mouse, Yuki Miyazaki, & Toshie Uematsu vs Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Kana
5. Yoshiko Tamura vs Asami Kawasaki

UNION January 24, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

2. Handicap Match: Mototsugu Shimizu vs Masa Takanashi & Sakura Hirota
4. Ricky Fuji vs Cherry

FMW January 26, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

2. Mixed Tag Match: Great Sata & Mio Shirai vs Yuta Nakata & Io Shirai

ICE RIBBON January 27, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Mai Ichii vs Kaori Yoneyama
2. Mixed Tag Match: Emi Sakura & Ribbon Takanashi vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Chouun Shiryu
3. Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Chii Tomiya
4. Makoto & Hikaru Shida vs Nanae Takahashi & Hamuko Hoshi

ICE RIBBON January 30, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ?
2. Exhibition: Mai Ichii vs ?
3. Miyako Matsumoto vs Chii Tomiya
4. Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Kazumi Shimouma
5. Nanae Takahashi & Hamuko Hoshi vs Makoto & Hikaru Shida

JWP January 31, 2010 (afternoon)
Kitasenju Theater 1010

1. Leon vs Hikaru Shida
2. Kayoko Haruyama & KAZUKI vs Tsubasa Kuragaki & Keito
3. NEO High Speed #1 Contender's 3 Way Match: Command Bolshoi vs Natsuki*Taiyo vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
4. OCC League Match: Kaori Yoneyama vs Passion Hottei
5. OCC League Match: Sachie Abe vs Ran Yu-Yu

JWP January 31, 2010 (evening)
Kitasenju Theater 1010

1. Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Hanako Kobayashi
2. Kayoko Haruyama, Command Bolshoi, & Chii Tomiya vs Sachie Abe, KAZUKI, & Kazumi Shimouma
3. OCC League Match: Kaori Yoneyama vs Ran Yu-Yu
4. OCC League Match: Leon vs Emi Sakura
5. OCC League Match: Keito vs Nanae Takahashi

NEO January 31, 2010
Yokohama NEO Dojo

WAVE January 31, 2010
Nagoya Sportiva Arena

1. Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata vs Mio Shirai & HARU
2. GAMI & Abdullah Kobayashi vs Cherry & 入江茂弘
3. Ayumi Kurihara vs Io Shirai
4. Shu Shibutani vs Manami Toyota
5. WAVE vs GAEA, Best 2 of 3 Falls: GAMI, Yumi Ohka, & Bullfight Sora vs Toshie Uematsu, Sonoko Kato, & Sakura Hirota

SENDAI GIRLS January 31, 2010
Zepp Sendai

1. Yukari Ishino vs Dynamite Kansai
2. DASH Chisako vs Fuuka
3. DASH Chisako & Yukari Ishino vs Meiko Satomura & Kana
4. JWP Jr. & POP Championship: Ryo Mizunami (c) vs Aya Yuki

Kana Leaves Passion Red

2010-01-26T06:38:00.002-06:00

A few tidbits to make a midweek post about. First, as most joshi fans following the online forums or blogs know, Kana has left Passion Red. Apparently she scuffled and exchanged words with Nanae Takahashi during their tag match at the NEO show last weekend, resulting in Kana's announcement. Then they traded barbs in their respective blogs. Opinions are mixed on whether this is a work, a shoot, or a "worked shoot". I'm leaning towards work and hope this leads to a Nanae-Kana feud and establishing Kana in the upper echelon. If it's a shoot, then I hope this doesn't lead to Kana getting marginalized to indy sleaze shows or leaving joshi altogether. As far as I know, Kana is still appearing on the Sendai Girls show on 1/31 and the WAVE show on 2/2 that she was already announced on. Neither of those shows involve other Passion Red wokers.

JWP has announced that rookie Senri Kuroki (I now think "Chisato" was a mistranslation of her name, as announcers seem to say "Senri" and an alternate translator gave me something close to that) is injured with an "avulsion fracture" to her knee. They are announcing about a month for recovery. I looked it up on Wikipedia; this is basically an injury at the point where the tendon or ligament attaches to the bone. Minor injuries just need rest; more major injuries require surgery. I'm always worried every time a rookie misses action, as so many of them disappear.

One who hasn't disappeared is Basara (aka Shuri "Tyrannosaurus" Okuda). She's still blogging away and writing her column for L-Ring. In addition to being a lightweight who couldn't hold down her champagne at her 20th birthday party, she's finally back in training. She's working out with Hanako Kobayashi, Ayako Sato, and Tomoko Morii from Ito Dojo. I don't know if this means that she'll be working for Ito Dojo in the future or free-lancing, but I'm guessing we'll see her re-emerge in a few months. It does look like Sendai Girls' Sendai Sachiko is out for longer than I thought. She recently had surgery to remove a metal rod from her ankle and even posted a yucky picture of her stitched up ankle. No timetable for her or Hiren's return.

Results, January 20-24

2010-01-23T07:57:00.002-06:00

The main excitement at WAVE's show on Wednesday came after the main event. GAMI, Toshie Uematsu, and Mio Shirai had defeated Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, & KAORU in a best 2 of 3 falls match, with Mio pinning Moeka, KAORU using the Excalibur on Mio, and GAMI winning with the Adios Amiga on Ohka. Then Mayumi Ozaki and Police showed up, beat the crap out of KAORU, and invited Yumi Ohka to join the Ozaki Army. Ohka completely refused Mayumi's offer. I'm guessing this means that Ohka will become part of the Ozaki-KAORU feud, likely now teaming with KAORU.

Saturday saw Ice Ribbon and NEO in action. Emi Sakura wrestled short exhibition matches with two unknowns, so I guess there will be even more little Ice Ribbonites. Hiroyo Matsumoto and Hamuko Hoshi were successful in their first defense of the International Ice Ribbon tag team title, beating Tsukasa Fujimoto and Kazumi Shimouma when Hoshi pinned Fujimoto.

NEO were at Shin-Kiba and it appears the general rookie curse in joshi has struck NEO again, as Natsumi Kawano, with a full two matches to her career total, was not on the card. I'm not sure the reason, but Kawano is still on NEO's homepage along wtih Aoi Ishibashi and Nozomi Dai, who also disappeared quickly after debut. Nagisa Nozaki is ever-injured, but President Koda talks about her every other day and obviously wants to push her badly. Fortunately (?), the ever-bland Aya Yuki is immune to rookie injury curses and had a 15 minute draw with Hiroyo. I guess they didn't want to job Aya a week before she challenges Ryo Mizunami for the JWP Jr./POP titles in Sendai. Big Momma Inoue made short work of Sakura Hirota, the Revolucion Amandola Trio beat Ayumi Kurihara and the Shirais, with Nakagawa pinning Kurihara. The funny girls (Tanny Mouse, Yuki Miyazaki, and Toshie Uematsu) beat Passion Red, with Miyazaki using a Gedo Clutch on Natsuki*Taiyo. Yoshiko Tamura obviously beat Asami Kawasaki in the main event.

Joshi puroresu has no Sunday shows this week. This is uncommon. Maybe they are all praying that Amazing Kong and her buddy Melissa don't come back to Japan and beat them like they were Bubba the Hate Sponge.

WAVE January 20, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
104 Fans

1. Io Shirai defeated Misaki Ohata (8:44) with the Io de Janiero.
2. Kana defeated Shu Shibutani (11:45) with a Guraunndomannjigatame.
3. Bullfight Sora vs Sakura Hirota (0:00) was ruled no-contest
4. Best 2 of 3 Falls: GAMI, Toshie Uematsu, & Mio Shirai defeated Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, & KAORU (29:35) by 2 falls to 1. Mio defeated Haruhi (15:03) with the Purple Flash. KAORU defeated Mio (1:43) with the Excalibur. GAMI defeated Ohka (12:39) with the Adios Amiga.

ICE RIBBON January 20, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
54 Fans

1. Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Chii Tomiya (6:50) with a Modified Cradle.
2. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Mai Ichii (9:20) with a Tokaido Drop.
3. Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Hamuko Hoshi (6:59) with the Tsukadora.
4. Emi Sakura & Nanae Takahashi defeated Makoto & Hikaru Shida (15:12) when Takahashi used a Lariat on Makoto.

ICE RIBBON January 23, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
91 Fans

1. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Exhibition: Emi Sakura vs ? (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Nanae Takahashi & Miyako Matsumoto defeated Riho & Chii Tomiya (9:58) when Matsumoto did a Mama Mia on Plywood to Tomiya.
4. Mai Ichii defeated Makoto (8:56) with a Tonpachi Crash.
5. International Ice Ribbon Tag Team Championship: Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Kazumi Shimouma (16:32) when Hoshi used the Shubain Bomb on Fujimoto. Matsumoto & Hoshi succeed in the 1st defense.

NEO "DYNAMISM" January 23, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
201 Fans

1. Aya Yuki vs Hiroyo Matsumoto (15:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Kyoko Inoue defeated Sakura Hirota (7:36) with a Power Bomb.
3. Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Ayumi Kurihara, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai (20:45) when Nakagawa used the Australian Arm on Kurihara.
4. Tanny Mouse, Yuki Miyazaki, & Toshie Uematsu defeated Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Kana (13:04) when Miyazaki used the Gedo Clutch on Taiyo.
5. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Asami Kawasaki (12:21) with the Patriot Buster.

UNION January 24, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
291 Fans

2. Handicap Match: Mototsugu Shimuzu vs Masa Takanashi & Sakura Hirota (6:02) went to a no-contest.
4. Ricky Fuji defeated Cherry (10:20) with the Kamikaze.

Results, January 13-17

2010-01-17T19:44:00.001-06:00

A pretty light week of action, as we saw just a smattering of indy sleaze, Ice Ribbon, WAVE, JWP at their dojo, and NEO in Osaka. WAVE's show in Yokohama saw a WAVE vs S-Ovation (i.e. Ibuki) theme, with Atsuko Emoto joining the WAVE side. After five singles matches, the winners faced the losers in a tag. Ray suprised GAMI, Yumi Ohka defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto, Emoto beat her usual partner Tomoka Nakagawa, and Misaki Ohata beat Moeka Haruhi. Haruhi got immediate revenge, pinning Ohata in the tag match.

The JWP dojo match saw Leon (no Tojuki, just Leon) win twice, pinning rookie Chisato Kuroki in the opener and then as Tigers Mask Lady she pinned KAZUKI in the 6-woman main event. NEO's show in Osaka saw Sendai Girl Yukari Ishino win in her hometown, pinning the recent debutant Natsumi Kawano. Then the NEO Machine Gunz (Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki) beat the GAEA nostalgia team of Toshie Uematsu and the unretired Sakura Hirota, with Hirota slipping right back into counting the lights. Natsuki*Taiyo and Ayumi Kurihara beat Kana & Hiroyo Matsumoto, as Hiroyo's bad week concluded by getting pinned by the much smaller Natsuki's Taiyo*Chan Bomb. Big Momma Kyoko Inoue used a typical Power Bomb on Aya Yuki. A suprise in the main event, as Revolucion Amandola got 2010 off to a good start over the dream team of Yoshiko Tamura, Nanae Takahashi, and Emi Sakura. Kyoko Kimura pinned Tamura with the Big Boot and I wonder if Kimura and partners will be the next challengers for either the singles or tag team belts, both currently held by Tamura.

HEART LINE January 13, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
182 Fans

1. Daisuke & La Malcriada defeated Guts Ishijima & Tadashi Sano (10:49) when Daisukek used the D-Smash on Sano.
2. 3WAY Match: Kana defeated Kikutaro & Konaka=Pale One (11:37) by using a German Suplex Hold on Kikutaro.
5. Hardcore Match: Kintaro Kanemura & Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated Apple Miyuki & Magnitude Kishiwada (14:55) when Kanemura used the YAMA Special on Miyuki.

ICE RIBBON January 13, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
74 Fans

1. Emi Sakura defeated Chii Tomiya (5:38) with a Reverse Cradle.
2. Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Makoto (6:17) with a Taiyo*Chan Bomb.
3. Kaori Yoneyama vs Tsukasa Fujimoto (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hikaru Shida (12:23) when Takahashi used a Diving Body Press on Shida.

ICE RIBBON January 16, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
65 Fans

1. Exhibiton: Chii Tomiya defeated くるみ (3:00) by 1 fall to 0.
2. Exhibition: Chii Tomiya vs つくし (3:00) went to a time-limit draw.
3. Mai Ichii defeated Hikaru Shida (7:16) with the Tonpachi Crash.
4. Riho defeated Miyako Matsumoto (6:55) with a Mat Hold.
5. Emi Sakura & Makoto vs Kazumi Shimouma vs Tsukasa Fujimoto (20:00) went to a time-limit draw.
5a. Restart: Kazumi Shimouma & Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Emi Sakura & Makoto (3:06) when Shimouma used The Passion of the Woman on Makoto.

WAVE January 16, 2010
Yokohama Nigiwaiza
144 Fans

1. Ray defeated GAMI (4:03) with the Strange Mirage.
2. Yumi Ohka defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto (9:27) with the Big Boot.
3. Shu Shibutani vs Esui (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
4. Atsuko Emoto defeated Tomoka Nakagawa (7:48) with the Arupura.
5. Misaki Ohata defeated Moeka Haruhi (8:10) with the Flower-Maru Bang.
6. GAMI, Moeka Haruhi, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Esui, & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Yumi Ohka, Shu Shibutani, Atsuko Emoto, Ray, & Misaki Ohata (20:12) when Haruhi used the Astro Scissors on Ohata.

JWP January 17, 2010
JWP Dojo
87 Fans

1. Leon defeated Chisato Kuroki (9:02) with a Spear.
2. Keito defeated Kaori Yoneyama (6:40) with a Brainbuster.
3. Command Bolshoi, Tigers Mask Lady, & Sachie Abe defeated Kayoko Haruyama, Tsubasa Kuragaki, & KAZUKI (19:02) when Tigers Mask Lady used a Tigers Splash on KAZUKI.

NEO "WITH 2010" January 17, 2010
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
242 Fans

1. Yukari Ishino defeated Natsumi Kawano (9:12) with a Missile Kick.
2. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki defeated Toshie Uematsu & Sakura Hirota (13:52) when Miyazaki used the Super Shy on Sakura.
3. Natsuki*Taiyo & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Kana & Hiroyo Matsumoto (15:25) when Taiyo used the Taiyo*Chan Bomb on Matsumoto.
4. Kyoko Inoue defeated Aya Yuki (14:03) with a Power Bomb.
5. Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Yoshiko Tamura, Nanae Takahashi, & Emi Sakura (21:58) when Kimura used the Big Boot on Tamura.

Results, January 4-10

2010-01-10T09:15:00.003-06:00

The Fourth of January is the biggest day of the year in the world of professional wrestling. No, I'm not talking about ~MONDAY NITE WARZ~!!!! (the AARP edition) or even ~FORTYONEIMEANTWENTYONETHOUSANDPEEPSATDATOKYODOMEZ~!!!! No, I'm talking about the double shot of Ice Ribbon and WAVE at Shinjuku FACE.

First up was Ice Ribbon. We had a decision match for the vacant International Ice Ribbon tag titles and the end of the SUPER ICE CUP. The new tag queens are Hiroyo Matsumoto and Hamuko Hoshi, as they beat Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii. Hoshi pinned IchiMai, who really is the 21st century Bomber Hikari, and Hiroyo has her third different tag title of her young career. Hoshi's not quite the legendary partner that Aja Kong (in OZ Academy) or Kyoko Inoue (in NEO) was. The semifinals of the SUPER ICE CUP saw Emi Sakura beat young Hikari Minami and Tsukasa Fujimoto win the battle of the Three Count reality show gurlz over Hikaru Shida. Then Fujimoto pinned Emi in EIGHT FUCKING SECONDS to win the SUPER ICE CUP and become the new Ice Ribbon X60 champion. Holy flukez! Now Emi can stop eating those fat burning tacos on the Taco Bell Drive-Thru Diet Menu and let herself eat a Big Mac and get up to 61 kg.

WAVE likes to run directly against the Dome show. They claimed about 240 people showed up. At least the WAVE ticket taker is more accurate at counting than New Japan's. The Fourth of January happens to be GAMI's birthday (41), so she gets to beat youngsters and have cake shoved in her mug. GAMI defeated new junior champion Ryo Mizunami, and then actually lost in a 3WAY tag match, being simultaneously pinned by Bullfight Sora and Sakura Hirota (yeah, she's back). LOLZ. Then Moeka Haruhi, partnered with Aja Kong in a classic beauty & punter team, pinned her trainer Toshie Uematsu. Yumi Ohka failed to get a big win, as Mayumi Ozaki did her in with poison mist. Ayumi Kurihara, in her new "I want to look like Tamura-san gladiatoress" outfit, beat Shu Shibutani in the main event.

The weekend featured OZ and JWP shows. In OZ Academy, it appears that current champ Carlos Amano and former champ Manami Toyota are going to have a five match series against each other. The first of these matches saw Toyota pin Amano in a non-title match. Mayumi Ozaki (w/Takako Inoue) and KAORU (w/Aja Kong) bled a lot and the match ended in a no-contest due to referee stop. Sonoko Kato pinned Ran Yu-Yu in a 6 woman tag, setting up yet another Chikayo/Sonoko vs Ran/AKINO tag title match.

The JWP show had the first round of matches in the Open Class Challenge league, featuring JWP vs outsiders. JWP had a good day, with Kaori Yoneyama, Sachie Abe, and Leon (the Tojuki part of the name has been dropped) winning (over Yumi Ohka, Emi Sakura, and Passion Hottei), and Tsubasa Kuragaki going to a draw with Nanae Takahashi. Only Keito lost, and Ran Yu-Yu isn't that much of an outsider.

ICE RIBBON January 4, 2010
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
295 Fans

1. Kaori Yoneyama & Makoto defeated Natsuki*Taiyo & Chii Tomiya (9:29) when Makoto used a Double Arm Suplex Hold on Tomiya.
2. Kenny Omega, Aika Ando, & Miyako Matsumoto defeated Ribbon Takahashi, Futoshi Miwa, & Riho (13:23) when Matsumoto used an Oklahoma Roll on Riho.
3. Ice Ribbon Tag Championship Decision Match: Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi defeated Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii (19:29) when Hoshi used a Modified Shubain Buster on Ichii. Matsumoto & Hoshi become the 8th champions.
4. SUPER ICE-CUP Semifinals & ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura defeated Hikari Minami (11:46) with a Moonsault Press. Sakura is successful in the 10th defense.
5. SUPER ICE-CUP Semifinals: Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Hikaru Shida (8:59) with the Tsukadora.
6. SUPER ICE-CUP Finals & ICEx60 Championship: Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Emi Sakura (0:06) with the Tsukadora. Sakura fails in the 11th defense and Fujimoto becomes the 5th champion.

WAVE January 4, 2010
Shinjuku FACE
241 Fans

1. GAMI defeated Ryo Mizunami (14:17) with the Eye Poke.
2. Mio Shirai & Io Shirai defeated Misaki Ohata & Chisato Kuroki (12:38) when Mio used the Purple Flash on Kuroki.
3. 3WAY Tag Match: Mima Shimoda & Bullfight Sora and Cherry & Sakura Hirota (16:55) defeated GAMI & Command Bolshoi when Sora & Hirota pinned GAMI.
4. Aja Kong & Moeka Haruhi defeated Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu (15:28) when Haruhi used the Heat of the Moment on Uematsu.
5. Mayumi Ozaki defeated Yumi Ohka (14:30) after using Poison Mist.
6. Ayumi Kurihara defeated Shu Shibutani (17:47) with a Modified Uranage.

ICE RIBBON January 9, 2010
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
85 Fans

1. Makoto defeated Chii Tomiya (6:54) with a Double Arm Suplex Hold.
2. Natsuki*Taiyo defeated Riho (6:11) with a Triple Taiyo*Chan La Magistral.
3. Nanae Takahashi defeated Mai Ichii (8:47) with the Albatross.
4. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi defeated Kazumi Shimouma & Hikaru Shida (17:23) when Hoshi used the Shubain Buster Bomb on Shida.

OZ ACADEMY January 10, 2010
Shinjuku FACE

1. Chikayo Nagashima defeated Nao Komatsu (6:31) with a Missile Kick.
2. Dynamite Kansai defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto (7:58) with a Diving Footstomp.
3. Aja Kong & KAORU vs Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue (11:07) ended in a no-contest due to Referee Stop.
4. Manami Toyota defeated Carlos Amano (8:38) with an Avalanche Style Japanese Ocean Queen Bee Bomb.
5. Chikayo Nagashima, Sonoko Kato, & Ayumi Kurihara defeated AKINO, Ran Yu-Yu, & Tomoka Nakagawa (22:53) when Kato used Crown's Gate on Ran.

JWP January 10, 2010
Tokyo Cinema Club
250 Fans

1. Kayoko Haruyama & KAZUKI defeated Command Bolshoi & Chisato Kuroki (12:32) when KAZUKI used a Jaguar-Syle Backdrop on Kuroki.
2. OCC League: Ran Yu-Yu [2] defeated Keito [0] (9:30) with a Forearm Smash.
3. OCC League: Kaori Yoneyama [2] defeeated Yumi Ohka [0] (10:55) with the U.S.-Zou.
4. OCC League: Leon [2] defeated Passion Hottei [0] (1:22) with a Jackknife Hold.
5. OCC League: Sachie Abe [2] defeated Emi Sakura [0] (11:21) with La Magistral.
6. OCC League: Tsubasa Kuragaki [1] vs Nanae Takahashi [1] (30:00) went to a time-limit draw.

1JoshI Radio Free Hiren podcast #3

2010-01-07T09:28:00.000-06:00

Yep, I'm trying again. I even have a couple of people lined up who promised to call in and save the world from an abbreviated monologue by yours truly. We'll talk about disillusionment, unheralded matches from Big Egg Universe, how to get started in joshi, and El Cuarto de Enero.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/1joshi

Results, December 29-31

2010-01-03T08:12:00.000-06:00

The main excitement in joshi puroresu as 2009 ended happened in the Ice Ribbon and NEO rings. In addition, some new indy group that's going to mix puroresu, MMA, and dancing called "IMPACT" had their debut show at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. It just seems to be the collection of usual indy sleaze suspects. They had a joshi match, as the Shirai sisters beat Bambi & Apple Miyuki as Io hit the Rider Kick (Hikari Fukuoka's move) on Apple. Apparently Basara (the former Tyrannosaurus Okuda) was lurking around as well and says she'll be back in the ring this coming spring.

NEO's year end show at Korakuen Hall had a pretty iffy card. The 16 year old Natsumi Kawano debuted, losing to Aya Yuki. Hopefully she won't quickly disappear or get hurt like other recent joshi rookies. Hiroyo is the #1 Matsumoto after pinning Miyako in a match that also featured Dump. Most matches were quite short, but the Woman Army vs West Exit Pro Army 5 vs 5 elimination match was horrifyingly long for a comedy match. It ended with Tanny Mouse and Small Antonio Inoki getting simulataneously eliminated over the top rope, so they used some sort of imitation or mimicry contest as a tiebreaker. Mima Shimoda and the Revolucion Amandola stable beat Makoto, the Shirais, and Yukari Ishino. Emi Sakura, our reigning queen of joshi awards, beat Big Momma Kyoko Inoue. The finale saw Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara take the NEO tag titles away from Nanae Takahashi and Kana, with Ayumi beating Kana to claim her first title.

Ice Ribbon ran the first round of the eight woman SUPER ICE CUP. The winner will also be the Ice Ribbon title holder, as Emi will defend the title throughout the event. Emi beat Miyako Matsumoto; we also had Hikaru Shida over Makoto, Hikari Minami over Riho, and Tsukasa Fujimoto over Mai Ichii.

Early title action in 2010 will see the end of the Ice Ribbon SUPER ICE CUP on 1/4, along with a decision match for the newly vacant Ice Ribbon tag titles (Azumi Hyuga held with Ran Yu-Yu when she retired). That match will have Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hamuko Hoshi.

JWP will feature a league called the Open Challenge Cup in 2010. There are ten wrestlers, five from JWP and five outsiders. Each JWP wrestler will face each outsider in singles action and the top scorer from the JWP and outsider groups will face off in the finals. That winner gets Kayoko Haruyama for the JWP title at MANIA-X in April. Representing JWP are Tsubasa Kuragaki, Kaori Yoneyama, Tojuki Leon, Keito, & Sachie Abe. The outsiders are Nanae Takahashi, Passion Hottei, Ran Yu-Yu, Emi Sakura, & Yumi Ohka.

MR. GANNOSUKE PRODUCE December 29, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

2. 3WAY Match: Emi Sakura defeated Makoto vs Tsukasa Fujimoto (7:34) with La Magistral on Fujimoto.

IMPACT December 30, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Mio Shirai & Io Shirai defeated Bambi & Apple Miyuki (10:48) when Io used the Rider Kick on Miyuki.

NEO "CARNIVAL 2009" December 31, 2009
Korakuen Hall
976 Fans

1. Natsumi Kawano Debut: Aya Yuki defeated Natsumi Kawano (6:00) with a Fireman's Carry.
2. Fuuka & Asami Kawasaki defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikaru Shida (8:00) when Fuuka used the F-Crash On Shida.
3. #1 Matsumoto Match: Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Miyako Matsumoto vs Dump Matsumoto (4:33) when Hiroyo used a Tokaido Drop on Miyako.
4. Kenny Omega defeated Natsuki*Taiyo (9:46) by KO after repeated dragon suplexes.
5. Woman Army vs West Gate Pro Army Battle Royale: Tanny Mouse vs Small Antonio Inoki (23:38) ended in a draw after they simultaneously went over the top rope.
Others, in order of elimination: World Noumezawa, Tiger Kid, Live Man, Chou-un Shiryu, Ran Yu-Yu, Toshie Uematsu, Yuki Miyazaki, Small Giant Baba.
5a. Mimicry Championship: Antonio Small Inoki & Yuki Miyazaki had a judgment draw.
5b. Mimicry Championship: World Noumezawa & Chou-un Shiryu had a judgment draw.
5c. Mimicry Championship: Small Antonio Inoki defeated Toshie Uematsu by decision.
6. Mima Shimoda, Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Makoto, Mio Shirai, Io Shirai, & Yukari Ishino (15:07) when Shimoda used the Death Lake Driver on Makoto.
7. Emi Sakura defeated Kyoko Inoue (4:45) with a Flying Body Attack.
8. NEO Tag Team Championship: Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Nanae Takahashi & Kana (21:32) when Kurihara used a Double Knee Attack on Kana. Takahashi & Kana fail in the 2nd defense and Tamura & Kurihara become the 12th champions.

ICE RIBBON December 31, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
120 Fans

1. SUPER ICE-CUP: Hikaru Shida defeated Makoto (4:53) with a Reverse Cross Armbreaker.
2. SUPER ICE-CUP: Hikari Minami defeated Riho (8:30) with a Blockbuster.
3. SUPER ICE-CUP: Tsukasa Fujimoto defeated Mai Ichii (9:40) with the Venus Shot.
4. SUPER ICE-CUP & ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura defeated Miyako Matsumoto (8:11) with a Moonsault Press. Sakura is successful in the 9th defense.
5. Hamuko Hoshi & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Kazumi Shimouma & Kaori Yoneyama (10:11) when Hoshi used a Passion of the Woman Cutback on Shimouma.

Schedule, December 3-31

2009-12-31T07:05:00.007-06:00

SHINJUKU PRO December 3, 2009
Shinjuku FACE

1. Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, & Fuuka vs GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai
2. Kikutaro & Apple Miyuki vs Vancouver Cat & Antonio Honda

NEO "STORM 2009" December 4, 2009
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Tanny Mouse vs Lingerie Muto
2. Yuki Miyazaki & Hamuko Hoshi vs Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa
3. Kyoko Inoue & Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Aya Yuki & Yukari Ishino
4. Yoshiko Tamura, Ayumi Kurihara, & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Kana

WAVE December 4, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Cherry & Misaki Ohata vs Ryo Mizunami & Chisato Kuroki
2. Shu Shibutani vs Toshie Uematsu
3. Yumi Ohka vs Moeka Haruhi
4. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga & Ran Yu-Yu vs GAMI & Bullfight Sora

ICE RIBBON December 5, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Mai Ichii vs Chii Tomiya
2. Riho vs Hikari Minami
3. Traingle Ribbon Match: Miyako Matsumoto vs Hikaru Shida vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
4. Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi vs Makoto & Haruna Akagi

KAZUSHI MIYAMOTO PRODUCE December 5, 2009
Ishinomaki City Gymnasium

1. TLW Young Woman's Tag Team Championship: Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (c) vs Kana & Yukari Ishino

JWP December 6, 2009
Shinjuku FACE

1. Special Challenge Match: Keito & Toshie Uematsu vs Chisato Kuroki & Ice Ribbon Selection
2. Submission Match: Tojuki Leon vs Carlos Amano
3. JWP vs Passion Red: Tsubasa Kuragaki, Sachie Abe, & KAZUKI vs Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Passion Hottei
4. NEO High Speed Championship: Kaori Yoneyama (c) vs Ayako Sato
5. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga vs Command Bolshoi
6. JWP Openweight Championship: Kayoko Haruyama (c) vs Emi Sakura

OZ ACADEMY "HEY YOU" December 6, 2009
Shijuku FACE

1. KAORU vs Hiren
2. 3WAY Match: Manami Toyota vs Carlos Amano vs Tomoka Nakagawa
3. Dynamite Kansai & Ayumi Kurihara vs Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue
4. Chikayo Nagashima vs Sonoko Kato
5. OZ Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu (c) vs Aja Kong & Hiroyo Matsumoto

ICE RIBBON December 11, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Mai Ichii vs Makoto
2. Keito vs Chii Tomiya
3. Azumi Hyuga vs Miyako Matsumoto
4. Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura vs Hikaru Shida & Tsukasa Fujimoto

ICE RIBBON December 12, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Riho and Chii Tomiya vs Hikari Minami & Tsukasa Fujimoto
2. Mai Ichii vs Haruna Akagi
3. Hikaru Shida vs Miyako Matsumoto
4. Azumi Hyuga & Makoto vs Nanae Takahashi & Kazumi Shimouma

JWP December 13, 2009
Lazona Kawasaki Plaza Sol

1. Chisato Kuroki vs Toshie Uematsu
2. Keito & Kazumi Shimouma vs Command Bolshoi & Chii Tomiya
3. Tojuki Loen vs Passion Ray
4. Kayoko Haruyama & KAZUKI vs Tsubasa Kuragaki & Sachie Abe
5. JWP/Daily Sports/Ice Ribbon Tag Team Championships: Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura (c) vs Azumi Hyuga & Ran Yu-Yu

WAVE December 13, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Moeka Haruhi vs Aja Kong
2. Shu Shibutani vs AKINO
3. Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai
4. GAMI vs Yumi Ohka

WAVE December 13, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
Year-End Party

1. KAORU vs Albert Nekpuruguru
2. Battle Royale

LEE BEGINNING December 13, 2009
Shinjuku FACE
Asami Kawasaki Return Show

1. Ranmaru vs Mio Shirai
2. Kaoru Ito & Cherry vs Yuki Miyazaki & Ayako Sato
3. Takako Inoue vs Io Shirai
4. Nanae Takahashi & Fuuka vs Natsuki*Taiyo & Hanako Kobayashi
5. Asami Kawasaki vs Yumiko Hotta

ASAGAYA PRO December 13, 2009
Shinjuku Studio

1. Kyoko Kimura vs Ray

UNION PRO "HAPPY XMAS" December 16, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Cherry vs Sakura Hirota
2. 726 & Motosugu Shimizu vs Masa Takanashi & Emi Sakura

NEO "FORCE 2009" December 18, 2009
Itabashi Green Hall

1. Tanny Mouse vs Hamuko Hoshi
2. Yoshiko Tamura vs Tomoka Nakagawa
3. Yuki Miyazaki vs Azumi Hyuga
4. Mima Shimoda & Makoto vs Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto
5. Kyoko Inoue, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Aya Yuki, & Yukari Ishino vs Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, Kana, & Passion Ray

ICE RIBBON December 19, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Emi Sakura vs Hikari Minami
2. Makoto vs Tojuki Leon
3. Mai Ichii vs Kaori Yoneyama
4. Kazumi Shimouma & Riho vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Miyako Matsumoto

ICE RIBBON December 20, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Mai Ichii vs Hikari Minami
2. GENTARO & Shinobu vs Yu Sato & Futoshi Miwa
3. Makoto vs Keito
4. Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Hiroyo Matsumoto

ITO DOJO December 20, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Magnetic Force Offer Match: Kaoru Ito vs Kuniko Hayase
2. Aki Kambayashi vs Toshie Uematsu
3. Manami Toyota & Hanako Kobayashi vs Yumiko Hotta & Tomoko Morii
4. Takako Inoue vs Shu Shibutani
5. Kaoru Ito, Ayako Sato, & Asami Kawasaki vs Noriyo Tateno, Aja Kong, & Cherry

ASUKA MASK FIESTA December 20, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Tiger Mask Fuuka & Passion Seven vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai

SENDAI GIRLS December 20, 2009
Zepp Sendai

1. Yukari Ishino vs Minori Makiba

2. DASH Chisako vs Esui
3. JWP Junior/POP Championship: Misaki Ohata (c) vs Ryo Mizunami
4. Satomura Return & Hyuga Retirement Road: Meiko Satomura vs Azumi Hyuga

FUUKA MATSURI December 23, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Caribbean KIM vs X
2. Mima Shimoda vs DASH Chisako
3. Kakimoto Family Theater: Fuuka & Bullfight Sora vs Masahide Kakimoto (Fuka's father) & Genki Kakimoto (Fuka's oldest brother)
4. Nanae Takahashi & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs Natsuki*Taiyo & Passion Ray
5. Fuuka vs Meiko Satomura

JWP Decemer 23, 2009
JWP Dojo

1. Keito & Chisato Kuroki vs Sachie Abe & Kaori Yoneyama
2. Azumi Hyuga & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs KAZUKI & Tojuki Leon
3. Santa Battle Royale

OZ ACADEMY "THERE IS NO CHRISTMAS IN THE LAND OF OZ!" December 23, 2009
Korakuen Hall

1. Komatsu Debut: Nao Komatsu vs Tomoka Nakagawa
2. Takako Inoue vs Kyoko Inoue
3. Dynamite Kansai & Ayumi Kurihara vs Aja Kong & Hiroyo Matsumoto
4. No Holds Barred Match: Mayumi Ozaki vs KAORU
5. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu (c) vs Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato
6. OZ Academy Championship: Manami Toyota (c) vs Carlos Amano

WAVE December 23, 2009
Osaka Minami Move On Arena

1. Exhibition: GAMI vs Sawako Shimono
2. Shu Shibutani & Cherry vs Ryo Mizunami & Yukari Ishino
3. Mixed Tag Match: Sakura Candle & Atsushi Kotoge vs Ranmaru & Kanjuro Matsuyama
4. TLW Young Woman's Tag Team Championship: Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (c) vs Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata
5. GAMI, Toshie Uematsu, & Policewoman vs Yumi Ohka, shu Shibutani, & Kana

ICE RIBBON December 23, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Mai Ichii vs Chii Tomiya
2. Handicap Match: Emi Sakura vs Aika Ando & Miyako Matsumoto
3. Kazumi Shimouma vs Hikaru Shida
4. Makoto & Hamuko Hoshi vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikari Minami

TARZAN GOTO PRODUCE December 24, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

2. Miss Mongol & Kyoko Kimura vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai

ICE RIBBON December 26, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. Makoto vs Hikaru Shida
2. Handicap Match: Kazumi Shimouma vs Riho & Chii Tomiya
3. Emi Sakura vs Hamuko Hoshi
4. Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikari Minami

NEO December 26, 2009
Yokohama NEO Dojo

1. Aya Yuki vs Hiroyo Matsumoto
2. Yoshiko Tamura vs Misaki Ohata
3. Kyoko Inoue & Esui vs Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki
4. Graffiti Battle Royale

FUKUMEN MANIA December 26, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

2. Sakura Candle, Apple Miyuki, & Toshie Uematsu vs GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai
3. Kikutaro & Ranmaru vs Lingerie Muto & Vancouver Cat (with Hiroshi Cat)

JWP "CLIMAX 2009" December 27, 2009
Korakuen Hall
Azumi Hyuga Retirement Show

1. Chisato Kuroki & Yukari Ishino vs Mio Shirai & Io Shirai
2. JWP vs Passion Red: Tsubasa Kuragaki, Tojuki Leon, Keito, & KAZUKI vs Natsuki*Taiyo, Kana, Passion Ray, & Passion Hottei
3. Sachie Abe vs Nanae Takahashi
4. Battle Royale: Azumi Hyuga, Yoshiko Tamura, Yuki Miyazaki, Aja Kong, Mayumi Ozaki, Dynamite Kansai, Carlos Amano, Ran Yu-Yu, Toshie Uematsu, GAMI, Yumi Ohka, ohters
5. Hyuga Retirement Match: Azumi Hyuga & Command Bolshoi vs Kayoko Haruyama & Kaori Yoneyama

MR. GANNOSUKE PRODUCE December 29, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

2. 3WAY Match: Emi Sakura vs Makoto vs Tsukasa Fujimoto

NEO "CARNIVAL 2009" December 31, 2009
Korakuen Hall

1. Natsumi Kawano Debut: Natsumi Kawano vs Aya Yuki

2. 5 vs 5 Match: Tanny Mouse, Yuki Miyazaki, Toshie Uematsu, Emi Sakura, & X vs Small Antonio Inoki, Small Giant Baba, World Noumezawa, Tiger Kid, & X
3. Natsuki*Taiyo vs Kenny Omega
4. Fuuka & Asami Kawasaki vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikaru Shida
5 Mima Shimoda, Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa vs X, X, X, & X
6. #1 Matsumoto Match: Dump Matsumoto vs Hiroyo Matsumoto vs Miyako Matsumoto
7. Kyoko Inoue vs Emi Sakura
8. NEO Tag Team Championship: Nanae Takahashi & Kana (c) vs Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara

ICE RIBBON December 31, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

1. SUPER ICE CUP: Makoto vs Hikaru Shida
2. SUPER ICE CUP: Hikari Minami vs Riho
3. SUPER ICE CUP: Mai Ichii vs Tsukasa Fujimoto
4. SUPER ICE CUP & ICEx60 Championship: Emi Sakura (c) vs Miyako Matsumoto
5. Kazumi Shimouma & Kaori Yoneyama vs Hamuko Hoshi & Hiroyo Matsumoto

PRO-WRESTLING BRIDGE 2009 December 31, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, & Tomoka Nakagawa vs GAMI, Yumi Ohka, & Shu Shibutani

Results, December 23-27

2009-12-29T13:48:00.000-06:00

The holiday season always bring a heavy schedule for puroresu. I'm not in Japan like some lucky joshi fans, so I eagerly await their first hand reports.

Fuuka had her final show at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on the 23rd-she's retiring next spring with a show at Korakuen Hall. The highlight here was Fuuka doing a rare job at her vanity show, falling victim to Meiko Satomura's new sleeper hold finisher. Also on the 23rd was the year-end OZ Academy show. Quite a bit happened here. A rookie named Nao Komatsu had her debut, losing to Tomoka Nakagawa. Mayumi Ozaki & KAORU are having a spat and tried to settle things with a Dress Up Wild "Serial Killing" Fight. Basically, this is a streetfight where you have to score two consecutive falls to win the match. KAORU won the 1st and 3rd falls, but eventually Ozaki won by scoring the 2nd, 4th, and 5th falls. It seems that Aja might have helped KAORU out, but I'm not sure. In any case, Aja & KAORU are facing Ozaki & Takako Inoue next month.

OZ also had two title matches. There was another title switch for the singles crown, as Carlos Amano took the belt from Manami Toyota with the Carlos Ghosn headbutt finisher. Yet another time-limit draw saw AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu retain the championship in a match against Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato.

The biggest news was the Azumi Hyuga retirement show. It also has come out that injured teenager Pinkie Mayuka has ended her career. She had been absent since the summer after a knee injury. JWP seems to be feuding with Passion Red. An eight-woman tag match saw JWP win with Tojuki Leon pinning Passion Ray. A lumberjack match saw Passion Red even things up, as Nanae Takahashi nanaracked up another win over Sachie Abe. A memorial battle royale (with people like Ozaki, Kansai, Jaguar, Meiko, Tamura, etc.) saw Ran Yu-Yu win, getting the final elimination over Yuki Miyazaki. Hyuga did the traditional job in her final match, as her & Bolshoi lost to Kayoko Haruyama & Kaori Yoneyama. Kayoko hit one last Keene Hammer to officially end the Hyuga era of JWP.

JWP is setting up a league early next year, with a JWP block and an outsiders block, to determine Haruyama's next challenger. I predict Tsubasa Kuragaki to win on the JWP side and will face Nanae for the title shot.

FUUKA MATSURI December 23, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
385 Fans

1. Antonio Honda defeated Caribbean KIM (8:13).
2. Mima Shimoda defeated DASH Chisako (8:52) with a Tiger Suplex Hold.
3. Kakimoto Family Theater: Fuuka & Bullfight Sora defeated Masahide Kakimoto (Fuka's father) & Genki Kakimoto (Fuka's oldest brother) when Fuuka pinned Genki after a Milk Bomb.
4. Natsuki*Taiyo & Passion Ray defeated Nanae Takahashi & Tsukasa Fujimoto (17:30) when Taiyo used the Triple Taiyo*Chan La Magistral on Fujimoto.
5. Meiko Satomura defeated Fuuka (10:18) with a Modified Sleeper Hold.

JWP Decemer 23, 2009
JWP Dojo
118 Fans

1. Sachie Abe & Kaori Yoneyama defeated Keito & Chisato Kuroki (12:58) when Abe used a Diving Body Press on Kuroki.
2. Azumi Hyuga & Tsubasa Kuragaki defeated KAZUKI & Tojuki Leon (14:13) when Kuragaki used a Wing Clutch Hold on Leon.
3. Santa Battle Royale: Azumi Santa defeated Abe Santa (13:35) by Over the Top Rope: Others, in order of elimination:
Leon Santa, Keito Santa, Kuragaki Santa, KAZUKI Santa, Yoneyama Santa, Kuroki Santa, Haruyama Santa, Bolshoi Santa.

OZ ACADEMY "THERE IS NO CHRISTMAS IN THE LAND OF OZ" December 23, 2009
Korakuen Hall

1. Komatsu Debut: Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Nao Komatsu (9:47) by submission.
2. Kyoko Inoue defeated Takako Inoue (12:15) with a Lariat.
3. Aja Kong & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Dynamite Kansai & Ayumi Kurihara (12:17) when Kong used a Diving Elbow Drop on Kurihara.
4. Dress Up Wild Fight "SERIAL KILLING": Mayumi Ozaki defeated KAORU (24:15) by scoring two consecutive falls.
4a. KAORU defeated Ozaki (5:30) with an Excalibur.
4b. Ozaki defeated KAORU (3:35) with a Cross Armbreaker.
4c. KAORU defeated Ozaki (1:16) with a Schoolboy.
4d. Ozaki defeated KAORU (0:04) with a Cross Armbreaker
4e. Ozaki defated KAORU (13:50) with an Avalanche-Style Brainbuster onto a Barbed Wire Board.
5. OZ Academy Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu (c) vs Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato (30:00) went to a time-limit draw. AKINO & Ran are successful in the 4th defense.
6. OZ Academy Championship: Carlos Amano defeated Manami Toyota (22:20) with the Carlos Ghosn. Toyota fails in the 1st defense and Amano becomes the 7th champion.

WAVE December 23, 2009
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
240 Fans

1. Exhibition: GAMI defeated Sawako Shimono (5:00) by one fall to zero.
2. Shu Shibutani & Cherry defeated Ryo Mizunami & Yukari Ishino (14:43) when Shibutani used a Diving Senton on Ishino after a Cherryton Bomb.
3. Mixed Tag Match: Sakura Candle & Atsushi Kotoge defeated Ranmaru & Kanjuro Matsuyama (11:17) when Sakura used the Candle Twist on Matsuyama.
4. TLW Young Woman's Tag Team Championship: Moeka Haruhi & Misaki Ohata defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (16:10) when Haruhi used the Astro Scissors on Mio.
Mio & Io fail in the 4th defense and Haruhi & Ohata become the 2nd champions.
5. GAMI, Toshie Uematsu, & Policewoman defeated Yumi Ohka, shu Shibutani, & Kana (19:20) when GAMI used a Small Package Hold on Ohka.

ICE RIBBON December 23, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
77 Fans

1. Mai Ichii defeated Chii Tomiya (8:28) with the Tonpachi Clutch.
2. Handicap Match: Emi Sakura defeated Aika Ando & Miyako Matsumoto (10:35) with a Reverse Cross Armbreaker on Matsumoto.
3. Kazumi Shimouma defeated Hikaru Shida (9:03) with a ShidaXa Cutback.
4. Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikari Minami defeated Makoto & Hamuko Hoshi (16:50) when Fujimoto used the Venus Shot on Hoshi.

K-DOJO December 23, 2009
Chiba Blue Field
177 Fans

4. Marlins Mask defeated Bambi (3:09) with the Marlins Clutch.
5. 4WAY Match: PSYCHO, Yuu Yamagata, & Kim Nam Seok defeated Kunio Toshima (8:19) by Triple Pinfall.

AKIBA PRO December 25, 2009
Akiba Square
714 Fans

3. Maid Battle Royal: Hikaru Sato defeated Fuuka (14:51) with a Cross Armbreaker. Others, in order of elimination: Mio Shirai, Takayuki Mizushina, Apple Miyuki, Io Shirai, Kana, Kota Ibushi.

ICE RIBBON December 26, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
79 Fans

1. Makoto vs Hikaru Shida (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Handicap Match: Kazumi Shimouma defeated Riho & Chii Tomiya (7:31) by using The Passion of the Woman on Tomiya.
3. Emi Sakura defeated Hamuko Hoshi (9:37) with a Cross Body Attack.
4. Tsukasa Fujimoto & Hikari Minami defeated Nanae Takahashi & Mai Ichii (17:03) when Fujimoto used the Venus Shot on Ichii.

FUKUMEN MANIA December 26, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

2. GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai defeated Sakura Candle, Apple Miyuki, & Toshie Uematsu (13:32) when GAMI used a Small Package Hold on Miyuki.
3. Lingerie Muto & Vancouver Cat defeated Kikutaro & Ranmaru (12:12) when Cat pinned Kikutaro after a Shining Wizard by Muto.

JWP "CLIMAX 2009" December 27, 2009
Korakuen Hall
Azumi Hyuga Retirement Show
1340 Fans

1. Mio Shirai & Io Shirai defeated Chisato Kuroki & Yukari Ishino (9:02) when Io used a Moonsault Press on Kuroki.
2. JWP vs Passion Red: Tsubasa Kuragaki, Tojuki Leon, Keito, & KAZUKI defeated Natsuki*Taiyo, Kana, Passion Ray, & Passion Hottei (9:07) when Leon used a Captured Buster on Ray.
3. Lumberjack Match: Nanae Takahashi defeated Sachie Abe (10:50) with the Nanaracka.
4. Battle Royale: Ran Yu-Yu defeated Yuki Miyazaki (16:49) with a Cradle. Others, in oreder of elimination: Great Kabuki, Azumi Hyuga, Dynamite Kansai, Jaguar Yokota, Kyoko Kimura, Emi Sakura, GAMI, Mayumi Ozaki, Yoshiko Tamura, Meiko Satomura, Toshie Uematsu, Tanny Mouse, Carlos Amano.
5. Hyuga Retirement Match: Kayoko Haruyama & Kaori Yoneyama defeated Azumi Hyuga & Command Bolshoi (21:27) when Haruyama used the Keene Hammer on Hyuga.

Results, December 16-19

2009-12-20T10:36:00.004-06:00

This week saw a couple of GAEA girls return from absences and a title switch.

Wednesday saw DDT's offshoot Union run a show. Sakura Hirota, who retired in 2005 but wrestled at Sasori's retirement show earlier this year made her formal comeback. She wore her rookie pink Arena swimsuit and did the job to Cherry.

Meiko Satomura also returned after her latest trip to the disabled list with that bad back. This was Sendai Girls' first show in several months, but they are yet again hampered by injuries, with Hiren's recent injury and Sendai Sachiko's continued absence. Yukari Ishino got her first singles win at home, beating Hamuko Hoshi. There's going to be a contest to give her a new ring name. The new also saw DASH Chisako and Ryo Mizunami get new costumes. DASH apparently hit up the WWE ShopZone during a Jeff Hardy clearance sale, but got the win via Cross Armbreaker over the big Mongolian girl Esui. Ryo Mizunami raided the Misae Genki/Aya Yuki closet and her new two-tone hair is pretty bad, but she's a good wrestler and won the JWP Junior and P.O.P. titles by beating Misaki Ohata. Satomura's comeback was also a success, as she concentrated on kicks (including some Muay Thai stuff) and submissions and finally put Azumi Hyuga under with a Sleeper Hold. Meiko didn't used the Death Valley Bomb at all; I think she might be protecting her back by abandoning that move.

Other action saw the usual small Ice Ribbon shows, a NEO house show, Fuuka playing Tiger Mask at an indy show, and a rare Ito Dojo show. The main development in NEO was Kyoko Kimura and Atsuko Emoto beating Mima Shimoda and Makoto, with Emoto pinning Mima. Mima then seemed to abandon Makoto, who was Etsuko's protege, and will wrestle with the Revolucion Amandola at NEO's Carnival show on 12/31. Ito Dojo featured Hanako Kobayashi beating Tomoko Morii, as they seem to get to feud with each other for a while. Asami Kawasaki's second match back ended badly, as she ended up eating a Vertical Drop Brainbuster from Aja Kong in a 6-man tag.

UNION PRO "HAPPY XMAS" December 16, 200
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
302 Fans

1. Cherry defeated Sakura Hirota (10:03) with the Cherryton Bomb.
2. Masa Takanashi & Emi Sakura defeated 726 & Motosugu Shimizu (5:46) when Takanashi pinned 726 after mistaken gas bombing.

K-DOJO December 17, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
114 Fans

2. YOSHIYA, Yuu Yamagata, & Ryuichi Sekine defeated TAKA Michinoku, JOE, & Randy Takuya (13:21) when YOSHIYA used a Sekine-Assisted Under the Mountain on JOE.
3. Bambi defeated Lingerie Muto (6:57) with a Shining Wizard.

NEO "FORCE 2009" December 18, 2009
Itabashi Green Hall
151 Fans

1. Tanny Mouse defeated Hamuko Hoshi (7:18) with a Crawling Tanibat.
2. Yoshiko Tamura defeated Tomoka Nakagawa (6:28) with a Patriot Buster.
3. Azumi Hyuga defeated Yuki Miyazaki (17:09) with a Diving Enziguiri Knee.
4. Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto defeated Mima Shimoda & Makoto (16:54) when Emoto used a Schoolboy on Shimoda.
5. Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, Kana, & Passion Ray defeated Kyoko Inoue, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Aya Yuki, & Yukari Ishino (23:39) when Kana used a Right High Kick on Ishino.

K-DOJO December 19, 2009
Chiba Blue Field
57 Fans

2. 3WAY Match: PSYCHO defeated Kaji Tomato & Bambi (9:46) with the Kojika no Mai Cutback on Bambi.
3. YOSHIYA, JOE, & Yuu Yamagata defeated Boso Boy Raito, Randy Takuya, & Kim Nam Seok (17:16) when JOE used the Big Boot on Seok.
ICE RIBBON December 19, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
66 Fans

1. Emi Sakura defeated Hikari Minami (8:19) with a STF.
2. Tojuki Leon defeated Makoto (7:47) with a Mad Splash.
3. Kaori Yoneyama defeated Mai Ichii (7:48) with a Modified La Magistral.
4. Kazumi Shimouma & Riho defeated Hiroyo Matsumoto & Miyako Matsumoto (16:24) when Shimouma used a Half Slam Buster on Miyako.

ICE RIBBON December 20, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
82 Fans

1. Mai Ichii defeated Hikari Minami (7:01) with a Heel Drop.
2. GENTARO & Shinobu defeated Yu Sato & Futoshi Miwa (11:06) when Shinobu pinned Miwa.
3. Keito defeated Makoto (6:41) with the Falcon Arrow.
4. Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Tsukasa Fujimoto (14:16) with the Tokkaido Drop.

ITO DOJO December 20, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

1. Magnetic Force Offer Match: Kaoru Ito defeated Kuniko Hayase (Aki Takakhura) (4:30) with a Brainbuster.
2. Toshie Uematsu defeated Aki Kambayashi (9:48) with the Solarina.
3. Manami Toyota & Hanako Kobayashi defeated Yumiko Hotta & Tomoko Morii (20:36) when Kobayashi used a Fisherman's Suplex Hold on Morii.
4. Takako Inoue defeated Shu Shibutani (13:42) with the Beauty Fist.
5. Noriyo Tateno, Aja Kong, & Cherry defeated Kaoru Ito, Ayako Sato, & Asami Kawasaki (24:16) when Kong used a Vertical Drop Brainbuster on Kawasaki.

ASUKA MASK FIESTA December 20, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
330 Fans

1. Tiger Mask Fuuka & Passion Seven defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai when Seven used the Passion Press on Mio.

SENDAI GIRLS December 20, 2009
Zepp Sendai
700 Fans

1. Yukari Ishino defeated Hamuko Hoshi (12:08) with the Blockbuster.
2. DASH Chisako defeated Esui (12:57) with a Cross Armbreaker.
3. JWP Junior/POP Championship: Ryo Mizunami defeated Misaki Ohata (12:42) with a Diving Guillotine Drop. Ohata fails in the 3rd defense and Mizunami becomes the 18th JWP Junior and 8th POP champion.
4. Satomura Return & Hyuga Retirement Road: Meiko Satomura defeated Azumi Hyuga (16:47) with a Modified Sleeper Hold.

Results, December 11-14

2009-12-14T08:20:00.001-06:00

This week saw the usual assortment of Ice Ribbon house shows, along with WAVE's year end show, Hyuga's last challenge for titles in JWP, and the return of a JD Star athtress.

WAVE's year end show saw a series of youngster vs veteran challenges. Moeka Haruhi had the unenviable task of facing Aja Kong, and of course did not win. Shu Shibutani (losing to AKINO) and Yumi Ohka (losing to GAMI) also lost in their challenges. The battle royale at the year end party did see Sendai Girls' Ryo Mizunami claim the victory, leading up to her challenge for Misaki Ohata's JWP Junior/POP titles next weekend and then a singles match vs GAMI at the "I think the Tokyo Dome sucks and I'd rather go to Shinjuku FACE show" on 1/4.

The highlight of JWP's show was Azumi Hyuga and Ran Yu-Yu challenging Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura for three different tag belts: JWP, Daily Sports, and Ice Ribbon. Even though Hyuga is retiring in 2 weeks, she continues to own Emi and used the knee of death to the back of Emi's head to win those titles. I'm not sure if there will be some match for Hyuga to drop the titles back to someone or if she'll retire as champion and give JWP and Ice Ribbon excuses to run tournaments in early 2010.

The LEE Beginning show was notable for Asami Kawasaki's return to joshi. She was in the main event in singles action against Yumiko Hotta. The result was pretty standard; Hotta wins with a palm strike and then talks shit about how weak Asami is. Apparently Asami will get another chance at next week's Ito Dojo show in a tag match.

A couple of quick news bits: NEO and OZ will both debut new wrestlers. NEO has 16 year old Natsumi Kawano on 12/31, while OZ has 26 year old (hey, that's young for those ladies) Nao Komatsu on 12/23. Also, Hiren is the latest victim of the Sendai Girls injury curse, suffering a compression fracture in her back. The poor girl's in a body cast and they say she'll be out 3 months, which sounds optimistic to me.

ICE RIBBON December 11, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
84 Fans

1. Mai Ichii vs Makoto (10:00) went to a time-limit draw.
2. Keito defeated Chii Tomiya (4:11) with the Falcon Arrow.
3. Azumi Hyuga defeated Miyako Matsumoto (9:04) with a Reverse Cradle.
4. Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura defeated Hikaru Shida & Tsukasa Fujimoto (15:07) when Sakura used La Magistral on Fujimoto.

ICE RIBBON December 12, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
78 Fans

1. Riho and Chii Tomiya defeated Hikari Minami & Tsukasa Fujimoto (9:12) wehn Tomiya used a Huricanrana on Minami.
2. Mai Ichii defeated Haruna Akagi (5:59) with a Missile Kick.
3. Hikaru Shida defeated Miyako Matsumoto (5:36) with a Brainbuster.
4. Azumi Hyuga & Makoto defeated Nanae Takahashi & Kazumi Shimouma (19:55) when Hyuga used a German Suplex Hold on Shimouma.

K-DOJO December 12, 2009
Chiba Blue Field
51 Fans

2. PSYCHO defeated Yuu Yamagata (10:17) with a Samson Clutch.
5. KAZMA, Kengo Mashimo, Daigoro Kashiwa, & Hiro Tonai defeated Saburo Inematsu, Makoto Oishi, Shiori Asahi, & Bambi (23:20) when Kashiwa used a Diving Headbutt on Oishi.

K-DOJO December 13, 2009
Hakata Star Lane
322 Fans

1. Kunio Toshima, PSYCHO, & Taishi Takizawa defeated YOSHIYA, Yuu Yamagata, & Ryuichi Sekine (13:48) when Takizawa used a Tiger Driver on Sekine.
2. Boso Boy Raito defeated Bambi (6:12) with a Gedo Clutch.

AJPW "FAN APPRECIATION DAY" December 13, 2009
Korakuen Hall
2100 Fans

2. F4 Offer Match: Satoshi Kojima & Mima Shimoda defeated KAI & Hiroshi Yamato (12:13) when Shimoda used a Horizontal Cradle on Yamato.

JWP "CLIMAX 2009~2nd" December 13, 2009
Lazona Kawasaki Plaza Sol
205 Fans

1. Toshie Uematsu defeated Chisato Kuroki (10:47) with a Missile Kick.
2. Keito & Kazumi Shimouma defeated Command Bolshoi & Chii Tomiya (16:02) when Shimouma used a Half Slam Buster on Tomiya.
3. Tojuki Leon defeated Passion Ray (13:05) with a Jackknife Hold.
4. Tsubasa Kuragaki & Sachie Abe defeated Kayoko Haruyama & KAZUKI (12:38) when Kuragaki used the Metal Wing on KAZUKI.
5. JWP/Daily Sports/Ice Ribbon Tag Championships: Azumi Hyuga & Ran Yu-Yu defeated Kaori Yoneyama & Emi Sakura (21:03) when Hyuga used a Diving Enziguiri Knee on Sakura. Yoneyama & Sakura fail in the 2nd defense of the JWP, Daily Sports, and Ice Ribbon tag team championships and Hyuga & Yu-Yu become the 33rd JWP, 6th Daily Sports, and 7th Ice Ribbon champions.

WAVE December 13, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
184 Fans

1. Bullfight Sora & Misaki Ohata defated Cherry & Ayumi Kurihara (13:33) when Sora used a Milk Bomb on Cherry.
2. Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu defeated Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (11:19) when Ran used a Vertical Drop Brainbuster on Io.
3. Aja Kong defeated Moeka Haruhi (9:04) with a Diving Elbow Drop.
4. AKINO defeated Shu Shibutani (10:15) with the Akianexploder.
5. GAMI defeated Yumi Ohka (19:30) with a Sleeper Hold

WAVE December 13, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
Year-End Party

1. KAORU (with Takako Inoue) defeated Albert Nekpuruguru (with Bullfight Sora) (12:45) with an Upper Knee.
2. Battle Royale: Ryo Mizunami defeated Bullfight Sora (26:24) with a Spear. Others, in order of elimination:
Shu Shibutani, Moeka Haruhi, Mio Shirai, Toshie Uematsu, Yumi Ohka, Ayumi Kurihara, Arnold Susukejaner & Albert Nekpuruguru, KAORU & Aja Kong, Jaguar Yokota, AKINO, GAMI, Azumi Hyuga, Ran Yu-Yu, Io Shirai, Tiger Mask Lady, Takako Inoue, Misaki Ohata, Cherry.

LEE BEGINNING December 13, 2009
Shinjuku FACE
Asami Kawasaki Return Show

1. Mio Shirai defeated Ranmaru (8:32) with a Cradle.
2. Kaoru Ito & Cherry defeated Yuki Miyazaki & Ayako Sato (18:06) when Ito used a Diving Footstomp on Sato.
3. Takako Inoue defeated Io Shirai (10:19) with the Beauty Fist.
4. Nanae Takahashi & Fuuka defeated Natsuki*Taiyo & Hanako Kobayashi (19:42) when Takahashi used an Iku Bomb on Kobayashi.
5. Yumiko Hotta defeated Asami Kawasaki (13:43) with a Palm Strike.

ASAGAYA PRO December 13, 2009
Shinjuku Studio

1. Kyoko Kimura vs Ray

K-DOJO December 14, 2009
Kumamoto Hungnam Hall
150 Fans

2. Yuu Yamagata defeated Bambi (7:36) with the Basashi.

Results, December 3-6

2009-12-06T10:01:00.002-06:00

WAVE had a weekday show again this week. The highlight was a Comical Lumberjack match with Azumi Hyuga & Ran Yu-Yu facing off against GAMI and Bullfight Sora. Azumi was wearing her hair with cornrows (Ran-style) and there were a bunch of stupid rules. The lumberjacks had wiffleball bats and there was milk involved and the wrestlers had to go in slow motion when music played. Hyuga beat GAMI in the end. The midweek also saw a NEO house show, with standard results.

The major excitement was the Sunday doubleshot at Shinjuku FACE. First was JWP, with the first part of their CLIMAX 2009 (later this month, Hyuga has her retirement show at Korakuen Hall). JWP beat Passion Red in trios action, as Sachie Abe gets a pinfall on Passion "Hottei". Kaori Yoneyama defends the NEO High Speed title with an expected victory over Ayako Sato. Hyuga continued her retirement road, using the Michinoku Driver II on Command Bolshoi. Kayoko Haruyama's lengthy title reign continues, as Emi Sakura is unable to add the JWP belt to her collection after being another victim of the Keene Hammer.

OZ Academy was also at Shinjuku FACE, setting up their year end show at Korakuen Hall. Mayumi Ozaki and KAORU are feuding, and will be meeting at that show in a hardcore match. KAORU warmed up by making Ozaki disciple Hiren tap out to her own finisher, the ~KURTIE Ankle Hold. Other youngsters were more successful, as Tomoka Nakagawa scored an upset pin on Carlos Amano in a three-way match also involving OZ champ Manami Toyota. Then Ayumi Kurihara (w/Dynamite Kansai) got a big win, pinning Mayumi Ozaki (w/Takako Inoue) with the Uranage. Chikayo Nagashima and Sonoko Kato, bitter rivals in 2007 but friends since, had a time limit draw. They will resume their team and meet AKINO and Ran Yu-Yu for the titles on 12/23, as AKINO & Ran defended over Jungle Jack 21 stablemates Aja Kong & Hiroyo Matsumoto, as AKINO pinned Hiroyo.

SHINJUKU PRO December 3, 2009
Shinjuku FACE

1. Vancouver Cat & Antonio Honda defeated Kikutaro & Apple Miyuki after Cat used a Cradle on Kikutaro after a kick to the vitals.
2. GAMI, Mio Shirai, & Io Shirai defeated Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi, & Fuuka when GAMI used the Adios Amiga on Haruhi.

NEO "STORM 2009" December 4, 2009
Itabashi Green Hall
105 Fans

1. Tanny Mouse defeated Lingerie Muto (8:08) with a European Clutch.
2. Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Yuki Miyazaki & Hamuko Hoshi (11:49) when Nakagawa used a Cradle on Hoshi.
3. Kyoko Inoue & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeated Aya Yuki & Yukari Ishino (18:06) when Inoue used a Lariat on Ishino.
4. Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Kana defeated Yoshiko Tamura, Ayumi Kurihara, & Tsukasa Fujimoto (17:50) when Takahashi used an Iku Bomb on Fujimoto.

WAVE December 4, 2009
Shin-Kiba 1st Ring
94 Fans

1. Toshie Uematsu defeated Shu Shibutani (8:05) with a Cradle after countering a diving senton.
2. Cherry & Misaki Ohata defeated Ryo Mizunami & Chisato Kuroki (12:08) when Ohata used a Reverse Arm Crossbreaker on Kuroki.
3. Yumi Ohka defeated Moeka Haruhi (12:44) with a Neck Hanging Bomb.
4. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga & Ran Yu-Yu defeated GAMI & Bullfight Sora (23:11) when Hyuga used a Diving Enzuigiri Knee on GAMI.

ICE RIBBON December 5, 2009
Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan
78 Fans

1. Mai Ichii defeateed Chii Tomiya (7:38) with the Tonpachi Crash.
2. Riho defeated Hikari Minami (7:23) with the Ribbon Round and Round.
3. Traingle Ribbon Match: Miyako Matsumoto defeated Hikaru Shida & Tsukasa Fujimoto (7:56) by pinning Shida.
4. Kazumi Shimouma & Hamuko Hoshi defeated Makoto & Haruna Akagi (17:32) when Shimouma used the Half Slam Buster on Akagi.

KAZUSHI MIYAMOTO PRODUCE December 5, 2009
Ishinomaki City Gymnasium

1. TLW Young Woman's Tag Team Championship: Mio Shirai & Io Shirai (c) defeated Kana & Yukari Ishino (13:14) when Io used a Moonsault Press on Ishino. Mio & Io are successful in the 3rd defense.

K-DOJO December 5, 2009
Chiba Blue Field
40 Fans

1. YOSHIYA, Yuu Yamagata, & Ryuichi Sekine defeated Kunio Toshima, PSYCHO, & Randy Takuya (16:01) when YOSHIYA used the Big Boot on Takuya.

JWP December 6, 2009
Shinjuku FACE
369 Fans

1. Special Challenge Match: Keito & Toshie Uematsu defeated Chisato Kuroki& Miyako Matsumoto (9:59) when Keito used a Heel Drop on Kuroki.
2. Submission Match: Carlos Amano defeated Tojuki Leon (11:46) with an Arm Bar.
3. JWP vs Passion Red: Tsubasa Kuragaki, Sachie Abe, & KAZUKI defeated Nanae Takahashi, Natsuki*Taiyo, & Passion Hottei (16:24) when Abe used La Magistral on Hottei.
4. NEO High Speed Championship: Kaori Yoneyama (c) defeated Ayako Sato(8:13) with the Shiranui. Yoneyama is successful in the 1st defense.
5. Hyuga Retirement Road: Azumi Hyuga defeated Command Bolshoi (18:55) with the Michinoku Driver II.
6. JWP Openweight Championship: Kayoko Haruyama (c) defeated Emi Sakura (23:18) with the Keene Hammer. Haruyama is successful in the 8th defense.

OZ ACADEMY "HEY YOU" December 6, 2009
Shinjuku FACE

1. KAORU defeated Hiren (10:54) with an Ankle Hold.
2. 3WAY Match: Tomoka Nakagawa defeated Manami Toyota & Carlos Amano (10:36) with a Jackknife Hold on Amano.
3. Dynamite Kansai & Ayumi Kurihara defeated Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue (15:48) when Kurihara used an Uranage on Ozaki.
4. Chikayo Nagashima vs Sonoko Kato (30:00) went to a time-limit draw.
5. OZ Tag Team Championship: AKINO & Ran Yu-Yu (c) defeated Aja Kong & Hiroyo Matsumoto (21:47) when AKINO used the Huricanrana on Matsumoto. AKINO & Yu-Yu are successful in the 3rd defense.

OSAKA PRO December 6, 2009
Matsushita IMP Hall
732 Fans

3. Great Kabuki, Kanjuro Matsuyama & Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru defeated Kuishinbo Kamen, Miracle Man & Takoyakida (10:00) when Kabuki used a Lariat on Takoyakida.

My Second Podcast

2009-12-02T22:00:00.001-06:00

Amazingly, J.H. called in and we had a decent discussion on joshi puroresu for the first show. If you missed it, it can be streamed or downloaded at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/1joshi

The second episode of 1JoshI Radio Free Hiren will be on Wednesday December 2nd, at 10 PM Central. Please call in if you can and wish to discuss joshi puroresu.

The agenda includes:
1. Who are the top twenty women wrestlers in the world (joshi, US, Mexico, etc.) right now? The "Wrestling Daily" top 20 list might be out by next week for comparison purposes.
2. What is your favorite underrated match from the "old days" (defined as pre-2005) that no one else seems to pimp? I've got one from Big Egg Universe that I'll discuss. You'll have to tune it to find out what it is.
3. Homework Match: A recent match I got that was previously unavailable. It's JWP, 11/17/2007, with Azumi Hyuga & Command Bolshoi vs Kaori Yoneyama & Tsubasa Kuragaki.

Results, November 23-29

2009-11-30T06:18:00.004-06:00

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.

Schedule, November 23-29

2009-11-22T10:51:00.000-06:00

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

Results, November 20-22

2009-11-22T10:32:00.001-06:00

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.

Joshi Digest: November 8-20, 2009

2009-11-21T18:52:00.000-06:00

IBUKI "VOL. 32" 11/8/2009 Korakuen Hall Video 1 Video 2

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.

Results, November 12-15

2009-11-15T08:28:00.004-06:00

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.

My First Podcast

2009-11-11T09:52:00.000-06:00

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.

Schedule, November 12-22

2009-11-11T07:01:00.001-06:00

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