Guide to Japanese Wrestling 2010

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FREEDOMS on COMM - November 25, 2010, Tokyo - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 25, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (149 fans)

 

 

1. Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu -vs- The Winger & Ryuichi Sekine [*]

--- K-Dojo's Sekine got beat up a lot by the twins, but it was Winger who got pinned! The Sato's did their usual thing with black mist and that kind of stuff.

11:55 of 11:57 - Kei & Shu pinned Winger with a crucifix cradle

 

 

 

2. Keita Yano © -vs- Onryo - (Wallaby TV Title) [*]

--- Done in the rounds system and Onryo got a yellow card for being dusty! Yano got one for jumping off the top rope. And then the match ended awkwardly by DQ as Onryo threw more dust in Yano's face behind the referees back and Onryo Clutch'ed him. The ref started counting and then hesitated a while when coming to the three as he was expecting Yano to kick out, but then called for the bell DQ'ing Onryo noticing powder in Yano's face.

9:07 of 8:53 - Yano defeated Onryo by DQ 2:53 of the 3rd Round to retain the Wallaby TV Title.

 

 

 

3. Mammoth Sasaki & Kamui -vs- Masashi Takeda & Madoka [* 1/2]

--- Mammoth brought the moments! The lariats at the end before he destroyed Madoka was my favorite moment. It was a fun tag. Absolutely nothing of importance, but they gave the fans enough to be happy.

12:05 of 12:05 - Sasaki pinned Madoka after a brainbuster

 

 

 

4. Dick Togo & GENTARO -vs- Tatsuhito Takaiwa & HIROKI [* 1/2]

--- Fairly solid technical wrestling with such guys likle Takaiwa, Togo and GENTARO doing the bending, but the match lacked excitement to carry it to the next level. HIROKI tried to get over and he has a handfull fans, but in the company of these guys he'll stay a loser and tapped to Dick.

19:39 of 19:38 - Togo made HIROKI submit to a Crippler Crossface

 

 

 

5. Abdullah Kobayashi & Magnitude Kishiwada & Kazuhiko Ogasawara & Antonio Honda -vs- Takashi Sasaki & Jun Kasai & Ricky Fuji & Ken45 - (2/3 Falls) [**]

--- Two out of three falls with a easy screwjob ending the first one leveling it to 1-1 in one go with a double count out with all guys getting counted out holding off the other. This was Ken45's first match in Freedoms since he turned on his old pals so he got a very babyface reaction and role in this match nearly winning having Kishiwada in a lot of trouble until Kishiwada powered back and beat him with the Last Ride getting the win for Kojika's army! A rather fun match which had it's good parts. More interesting though was Tsuyoshi Kikuchi coming out and joining Ken45's side against Kojika!

19:07 of 19:07 - Kobayashi & Kishiwada & Ogasawara & Honda wrestled Sasaki & Kasai & Fuji & Ken45 to a Double Count Out

5:17 of 5:19 - Kishiwada pinned Ken45 after a Last Ride powerbomb

 

 

 

COMMENTS: The show had it's moments like the main event, but there was very few moments on the show that was trully good.

 

 

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NOAH on Samurai TV - November 26, 2010, Nagoya - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 26, 2010, Nagoya - Zepp Nagoya (850 fans)

 

 

1. Yoshinari Ogawa & Katsuhiko Nakajima -vs- Akira Taue & Taiji Ishimori [1/2*]

--- Very light action to open the show with Taue showing once more he's totally given up on pro-wrestling losing very simple to Ogawa.

6:03 of 8:15 - Ogawa pinned Taue with a second rope sunset flip

 

 

 

2. Claudio Castagnoli -vs- Takashi Okita [*]

--- Didn't look like Okita could put up much of a challenge against the ROH wrestler, but he got in a couple of good moves before he was slamed down hard a few times for the end.

4:11 of 7:19 - Castagnoli pinned Okita after a cross-arm powerbomb

 

 

 

3. KENTA & Atsushi Aoki -vs- Kotaro Suzuki & Akihito Ito [* 1/2]

--- Akihito Ito? I thought he quit for good, but here he pops up. Maybe taking a few bookings when he had time or something? They gave Ito a lot of ring time. I guess for old times sake and the fans enjoyed that. Not the most exciting of bouts, but fun enough because of the rare Ito match. He lost of course.

17:51 of 17:51 - Aoki pinned Ito after a top rope bodypress

 

 

 

4. Takeshi Morishima -vs- Masao Inoue [1/4*]

--- A slimmed down Morishima needing more time to squash Inoue then he did to squash the GHC Heavyweight Champion in that tag a few days earlier?! Squash the shit in 1 second next time Morishima!

2:32 of 2:32 - Morishima pinned Inoue after a backdrop suplex

 

 

 

5. Kensuke Sasaki -vs- Chris Hero [* 1/4]

--- Decent singles bout without being anything really special. Hero did a very nice springboard moonsault, but I doubt anyone was thinking he had a chance against Sasaki. And he didn't either. Northern Light Bomb....thats all.....

15:04 of 15:04 - Sasaki pinned Hero after a Northern Light Bomb

 

 

 

6. Bison Smith & Delirious -vs- Yutaka Yoshie & Ricky Marvin [*]

--- .....mildly amusing bout. A little flying, a little stupid stuff and a little heavyweight fighting with Smith squashing little Marvin.

15:10 of 15:09 - Smith pinned Marvin after a Styles Clash

 

 

 

7. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano -vs- Go Shiozaki & Shuhei Taniguchi [* 1/2]

--- The GHC Tag Champions beating up Taniguchi effectively. Taniguchi shows he's not going to be let into the elite guys in the company being continually trashed in basically every match they face. Taniguchi got to kick out of a bit, but thats the limited excitement the match had with some decent fighting involving Shiozaki when he was in.

14:21 of 14:22 - Sano pinned Taniguchi after a Northern Light Bomb

 

 

 

8. Takashi Sugiura & Akitoshi Saito & Masashi Aoyagi -vs- Mohammed Yone & Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Genba Hirayanagi [3/4*]

--- Terribly dull main event where most of the early portion of the match was loser Genba and washed-up old-timer Aoyagi fighting. And for the end it was loser Genba getting beat up with ease by washed-up old-timer Saito.

14:22 of 14:24 - Saito pinned Hirayanagi after a enzuigiri

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Another one.....house show.....not for fun.

 

 

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AJPW on GAORA TV - November 27, 2010, Osaka - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 27, 2010, Osaka Prefectural Gym #2 (1,050 fans)

 

 

1. Dark Ozz & Dark Cuervo -vs- Tamon Honda & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi - (RWTL '10) [* 1/4]

--- Poor Kikuchi. That Ozz Special looked great from a fans perspective. Doubt it was so great to be him though. A lot of slow moving Honda & Kikuchi wrestling until the AAA guys had them beat. Funny how those black metal goth wrestlers was looking at Kikuchi as HE was a freak.

6:40 of 6:40 - Ozz pinned Kikuchi after the Ozz Special piledriver

 

 

 

2. Seiya Sanada & Manabu Soya -vs- Osamu Nishimura & Joe Malenko - (RWTL '10) [* 1/2]

--- Slow technical wrestling. Interesting for seeing how old Malenko would mix with the younger generation. And he still knows how to lock a hold, if one looks away from the time he fucked up a Texas Cloverleaf forgetting how to lock that one (ha ha ha!!!). Glad to see technical masters also mess up at what they're supposed to be good at. He went for it again later in the match and this time Sanada was waiting for him managing to roll the old dude up for the upset!

22:42 of 26:00 - Sanada pinned Malenko with a small package

 

 

 

3. BUSHI -vs- Yasufumi Nakanoue

--- BUSHI wrestling the rookie. Had some minor near falls and such before BUSHI got the win over the heavyweight with a Mexican style submission hold.

2:32 of 7:53 - BUSHI made Nakanoue submit to a Mexican Strach

 

 

 

4. KAI -vs- Mazada

--- Only a little bit from KAI's defeat of Mazada. Didn't look like anything at all.

2:02 of 6:12 - KAI pinned Mazada after a top rope bodypress

 

 

 

5. TARU & Rene Dupree & Minoru -vs- Kaz Hayashi & Shuji Kondo & Hiroshi Yamato [* 1/2]

--- Focus is on Hayashi and Minoru with Minoru wanting Hayashi's AJPW Junior Hevayweight Title and made a good example of Yamato here using Hayashi's finisher the Power Plant on him to beat him with the champion only being able to look.

9:19 of 12:12 - Minoru pinned Yamato after the Power Plant

 

 

 

6. KENSO & KONO -vs- Akebono & Taiyo Kea - (RWTL '10) [* 3/4]

--- The heels prove themselfs strong against the Hawaiians. But a lot of cheating was needed and with the referee not available they smashed a chair to Akebono's head with KENSO making the easy cover to get the points. A half fun mess.

12:33 of 13:36 - KENSO pinned Akebono after a chairshot

 

 

 

7. Minoru Suzuki & Masakatsu Funaki -vs- Kohei Suwama & Ryota Hama - (RWTL '10) [** 1/4]

--- Two of the top teams in the tournament facing and this was quite sweet. Especially once things started settling in with the Hama and Funaki fighting! Poor Hama trapped in the achilles tendon hold and taking those kicks. He tried his best to fight back at Funaki, but was too slow making it easy for Funaki to lash in at him. And then Funaki planed the kicks kicking Hama hard as he was about to fall and the referee stopped the fight then and there as Hama wasn't moving.

18:37 of 23:12 - Funaki defeated Hama by Referee Stop after a highkick

 

 

COMMENTS: Fine wrestling, but it wasn't of the highest priority. The main event still got fairly hot as the Pancrase guys beat up the All Japan generation.

 

 

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PASSION RED on COMM - November 27, 2010, Kawasaki - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 27, 2010, Kawasaki - Lazona Kawasaki Plaza Sol (225 fans)

 

 

1. Yuki Miyazaki -vs- Kagetsu [3/4*]

--- Didn't get too much life into this one. Miyazaki was always the one controling things and no excitement happend with her winning easy with a moonsault.

10:21 of 10:20 - Miyazaki pinned Kagetsu after a moonsault

 

 

 

2. Yumiko Hotta & Toshie Uematsu -vs- Kayoko Haruyama & Tsukasa Fujimoto [1/2*]

--- A stupid happy match totally destroyed by Hotta's lazy attitude. She wasn't even bothering to kick out of the near falls. The ref should have just counted three on a few of those situations. Instead Passion Hotty won Tiger Driving Fujimoto.

11:30 of 11:30 - Hotta pinned Fujimoto with a Tiger Driver

 

 

 

3. Natsuki*Taiyo © -vs- Tojuki Leon - (NEO High Speed Title) [**]

--- Speed fighting. A lot of action. And sadly nothing too special about this one except it being a good joshi-rush match. They did what they know to do and that was jumping and doing fancy stuff. And they kept that going for over 20 minutes before we had a new High Speed Champion with Leon doing her leg-hook Northern Light Bomb type move!

21:42 of 21:44 - Leon pinned Natsuki after the Captured Buster to become the 4th NEO High Speed Champion.

 

 

 

4. Yoshiko Tamura & Emi Sakura -vs- Nanae Takahashi & Kazumi Shimouma [* 3/4]

--- Again an overflow of action without much direction except give Shimouma a bloody beating and the fans enough moves and near falls to last the day. Some good and plenty of moments that barely registered. They did work hard, but this was hardly a maximum quality result as Tamura knocks Shimouma silly with elbows.

23:15 of 23:15 - Tamura pinned Shimouma after a elbow smash

 

 

 

5. Yoshiko Tamura -vs- Nanae Takahashi [*]

--- And as an added bonus Nanae and Tamura fight it out for 5 more minutes in the same manner having a good and forgettable 5-min exhibition draw.

5:01 of 5:00 - Tamura wrestled Takahashi to a 5:00 Time Limit Draw

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Two long matches that was ok. The rest was unneccessary.

 

 

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ICE RIBBON on COMM - November 27, 2010, Kawasaki - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 27, 2010, Kawasaki - Lazona Kawasaki Plaza Sol

 

 

1. Chii Tomiya -vs- Remi Nagao - (Exhibition) [1/4*]

--- Nagao, a new Ice Ribbon girl getting a try-out test wrestling Tomiya to a 3-min draw. She didn't show much of anything here.

3:01 of 3:00 - Tomiya wrestled Nagao to a 3:00 Time Limit Draw

 

 

 

2. Kagetsu -vs- Sayaka Obihiro [3/4*]

--- Almost a decent competitive basic between Sendai Girls Kagetsu and Ice Ribbon's over-eager Obihiro.

8:19 of 8:18 - Kagetsu pinned Obihiro after a airplane spin Samoan Drop

 

 

 

3. Miyako Matsumoto -vs- Michael Nakazawa [1/2*]

--- Kinky match. Well, first Matsumoto squashed the DDT wrestler with a Hansen lariat! Then the match restarted and turned kinky with whippin', mouth-balls and oil to get a no-contest result as Michael was doing this to the referee too.

0:49 of 0:49 - Matsumoto pinned Nakazawa after a lariat

9:11 of 9:09 - Matsumoto wrestled Nakazawa to a No-Contest

 

 

 

4. Tsukasa Fujimoto & Riho & Minori Makiba & Mai Ichii & Kurumi -vs- Makoto & Hikari Minami & Hamuko Hoshi & Hikaru Shida & Tsukushi - (Elimination) [* 1/4]

--- 100% Ice Ribbon style sprint elimination bout full of action and with a good gameplan making the half-rough wrestling seem almost meaningfull. It lasted a while, but they didn't waste time either keeping it alive sharing the workload and trading eliminations until 13 years old Riho was alone with both Hoshi & Minami and fighting them both off winning the match for the team!

3:31 - Kurumi pinned Makoto with a German Suplex

7:01 - Fujimoto & Shida eliminated via Over The Top Rope

7:12 - Tsukushi pinned Ichii with a Samson Clutch

9:38 - Makiba made Tsukushi submit to a modified Octopus Hold

10:26 - Minami pinned Makiba with a Capture Suplex

11:08 - Minami pinned Kurumi with a Capture Suplex

11:55 - Riho pinned Hoshi with a forward rolling cradle

13:52 of 13:52 - Riho pinned Minami with a running double-knee attack

 

 

 

5. Kazumi Shimouma -vs- Nanae Takahashi -vs- Emi Sakura - (Triangle Ribbon Title) [*]

--- Wow! Shimouma pinned BOTH Emi Sakura and the always un-pinnable Nanae Takahashi at the same time!!! Thats history! And it's that annoying screamer Shimouma who gets to do it to keep the stupid Triangle Ribbon belt.....

13:07 of 13:06 - Shimouma pinned Takahashi & Sakura with a double Gannosuke Clutch to retain the Triangle Ribbon Title.

 

 

 

6. Kazumi Shimouma -vs- Riho; Hikari Minami; Chii Tomiya; Hamuko Hoshi; Kagetsu; Tomomitsu Matsunaga; Minori Makiba; Hikaru Shida; Tsukasa Fujimoto; Makoto; Nanae Takahashi - (Pupil Belt Title Tournament; Consecutive 1-Min Matches) [*]

--- Series of eleven 60 second sprint match for Shimouma. This is the kind of match that just pass you by because the stuff come at such a rappid pace and little time for anything to sink in. A few nice moves here and there as Shimouma is in survival mode. She didn't manage to win any of these 11 matches, but did get 9 draws losing only to male wrestler Tomomitsu Matsunaga and joshi ace Nanae Takahashi who gets her win back.

1:00 of 1:00 - Shimouma wrestled Riho to a 1:00 Time Limit Draw

1:00 of 1:00 - Shimouma wrestled Hikari Minami to a 1:00 Time Limit Draw

1:01 of 1:00 - Shimouma wrestled Chii Tomiya to a 1:00 Time Limit Draw

0:59 of 1:00 - Shimouma wrestled Hamuko Hoshi to a 1:00 Time Limit Draw

1:00 of 1:00 - Shimouma wrestled Kagetsu to a 1:00 Time Limit Draw

1:02 of 0:58 - Tomomitsu Matsunaga pinned Shimouma after a backdrop suplex

1:01 of 1:00 - Shimouma wrestled Minori Makiba to a 1:00 Time Limit Draw

1:04 of 1:00 - Shimouma wrestled Hikaru Shida to a 1:00 Time Limit Draw

1:02 of 1:00 - Shimouma wrestled Tsukasa Fujimoto to a 1:00 Time Limit Draw

1:01 of 1:00 - Shimouma wrestled Makoto to a 1:00 Time Limit Draw

0:55 of 0:45 - Nanae Takahashi pinned Shimouma after a lariat

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Shimouma Produced this Ice Ribbon show. Still just a Ice Ribbon show except featuring too much Shimouma.

 

 

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NEO on COMM - November 28, 2010, Tokyo - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 28, 2010, Tokyo - Cinema Club (219 fans)

 

 

1. Misaki Ohata -vs- Miki Iida [1/2*]

--- A simple match and a super simple win for Ohata who had few problems taking care of the new rookie.

6:13 of 6:12 - Ohata made Iida submit to the Fairy Lock

 

 

 

2. Emi Sakura & Toshie Uematsu -vs- Nagisa Nozaki & Hikari Minami [1/2*]

--- Minami did all these springs and leeps. Could have been cool had it not been so gimmicky. And the team of Nozaki & Minami was never going to be a winner in either quality or result no matter how easy they let them in......

11:13 of 11:13 - Sakura pinned Nozaki after a rolling double-chop

 

 

 

3. Yoshiko Tamura & Hailey Hatred & Makoto -vs- Cherry Bomb & Sexy Star & Madison Eagles [* 1/2]

--- Interesting tag with a bunch of foreigner mixed in. An all gaijin side of Cherry Bomb & Sexy Star & Madison Eagles facing another foreigner in Hailey Hatred who was teaming with NEO's own star Tamura and Ice Ribbon's cult favourite Makoto. Never a perfect tag, but more a curiosity seeing how well the foreigners would work in a Japanese ring. And the result was fairly mixed. No one super impressed and no one looked absolutely terrible. Hailey looked the most at home and was in charge of the ending sequences with Cherry Bomb killing the beauty off with impact moves until she had her with her version of the backdrop suplex.

20:25 of 20:25 - Hailey pinned Cherry after a modified backdrop suplex

 

 

 

4. Aya Yuki & Ryo Mizunami -vs- Yuki Miyazaki & Tanny Mouse - (NEO Tag Title) [* 1/4]

--- Fairly rough action most of the way with the brutes Yuki & Mizunami trying to defend their NEO Tag Titles that they won a couple of weeks earlier. But they were not able to retain against the most experienced team in NEO as Miyazaki took advantage of a mis-hap of Mizunami legdropping her own parter and follorwed up with a Gedo Clutch on a stunned Yuki to get the belt.

19:05 of 18:59 - Miyazaki pinned Yuki with a Gedo Clutch. Miyazaki & Tanny become the 14th NEO Tag Champions.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: A title change and a bunch of foreigners getting to show what they're good for. Not much else.

 

 

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JWP on COMM - November 28, 2010, Tokyo - (1 3/4 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 28, 2010, Tokyo - Cinema Club (221 fans)

 

 

1. Sawako Shimono -vs- Senri Kuroka - (JWP Junior/POP Titles Contendership Tournament - Semi-Final) [1/2*]

--- Rookie tournament for who'll face Hiren for her JWP Junior/POP Titles. And I hope none of these two boring rookie fighters get the title shot. Sawako has a chance beating Kuroka here with a Samoan Drop.

9:34 of 9:33 - Sawako pinned Kuroka after a Samoan Drop

 

 

 

2. Cherry & Cherry Bomb -vs- Kazuki & Misaki Ohata [*]

--- The Cherry's! Both the Japanese one and the Canadian one! In a standard tag bout offering very little except some action and a Cherry win with the Japanese one getting the pin.

11:39 of 11:35 - Cherry pinned Kazuki with a modified crucifix roll up

 

 

 

3. Yoshiko Tamura & Yuki Miyazaki & Tanny Mouse -vs- Kaori Yoneyama & Hailey Hatred & Commando Bolshoi [* 1/2]

--- One of many last meetings as Tamura, Tanny & Miyazaki goes into retirement in a months time. Good fun, but nothing great, super serious or exciting. Only a friendly with Miyazaki getting the tribute win over Bolshoi.

21:15 of 21:15 - Miyazaki pinned Bolshoi with a Gedo Clutch

 

 

 

4. Tsubasa Kuragaki -vs- Kayoko Haruyama [* 3/4]

--- Two of the veteran stars of JWP. Both former JWP Champions and follow a similat style of fighting. The sad thing is that these two hasn't renewed themself much in years so their performance is a little on auto-pilot and fairly standard for them trying to have a big match without really managing to pull off it's potential. Still plenty of good action, but these two know how to do this much better if they wanted. After a lot of back and forth Haruyama looked to win landing her main finisher the Keene Driver when Kurigaki just reversed the cover to win it.

18:38 of 18:39 - Kuragaki pinned Haruyama after a cradle reversal

 

 

 

5. Aja Kong & Sachie Abe © -vs- Tojuki Leon & Kagetsu - (JWP/Daily Sports Women's Tag Titles) [* 1/2]

--- A little on the light side which is always the case with Abe matches. Both execution and mentality as a lot of it has to be a tiny bit comic with her and the teamplay with Aja. It most of the time take away any serious edge a title match might have, so that kept this down. Didn't help that Abe slipped off the top rope on her hot tag there toward the end looking really embarrassing. She picked up her act for the final minutes and won with a fine rolling elbow on Kagetsu to retain the belts.

17:16 of 17:16 - Abe pinned Kagetsu after a rolling elbow. Kong & Abe retain the JWP/Daily Sports Women's Tag Titles in their 1st defence.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Ok at times, but none of the matches was delivering their potential.

 

 

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DDT on Samurai TV - November 28 & December 1, 2010, Tokyo - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 28, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (1,525 fans)

 

 

1. MIKAMI & KUDO & Tatsuhiko Yoshino -vs- Yukihiro Abe & Rion Mizuki & Kazuki Hirata [* 1/4]

--- Fine action with Yoshino looking fairly good. Hope he gets more gigs with the promotion. He was on the right team aswell getting to be on the winning side as KUDO pressed Hirata down with the diving double-knee attack!

8:55 of 8:53 - KUDO pinned Hirata after a top rope double-knee press

 

 

 

2. Toru Owashi -vs- DJ Nira - (Group Election Match w/ Danshoku Dino, Kota Ibushi, Tanomusaku Toba, Hoshitango, Michael Nakazawa & Tomimitsu Matsunaga) [1/2*]

--- .....what? This was a singles match between Owashi and DJ Nira with other guys joining in. And Dino, Toba, Hoshitango and Ibushi all came out looking like Owashi with his look and music. Only Nakazawa & Matsunaga did something different wearing "I have shit heart" t-shirts....and then DJ Nira was beat up.

11:15 of 11:10 - Owashi pinned Nira after a top rope bodypress

 

 

 

 

3. Takao Soma -vs- Keisuke Ishii - (Young Drama Cup - Final) [* 3/4]

--- Final of the young guys tournament and it's two small guys that fight it out in a main event style without really having the credibility to pull it off a 100%. But it was a solid bout where they struggled to get the crowd to care a lot of the time. Soma beat Ishii in the league stanges of the Young Drama Cup and there he used diving legdrops as his leathal weapon. And he did the same here needing to land 3 of them to beat Ishii once more!

17:08 of 15:10 - Soma pinned Ishii after a top rope legdrop to win the Young Drama Cup 2010.

 

 

 

 

December 1, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (207 fans)

 

 

4. Hikaru Sato -vs- Kazuki Hirata [1/2*]

--- Only minor troubles for the former KO-D Champion....

3:08 of 7:14 - Sato pinned Hirata after a German Suplex

 

 

 

5. KUDO & Tanomusaku Toba -vs- Danshoku Dino & Makoto Oishi [1/4*]

--- Danshoku Dino annouce K-Dojo's Oishi in his alliance! But it didn't turn out well as the two turned on each other resulting in a 3-on-1 situation with Dino losing.

3:38 of 6:44 - KUDO pinned Dino after a top rope double-kneepress

 

 

 

6. Michael Nakazawa & Tomimitsu Matsunaga -vs- Takao Soma & Keisuke Ishii [1/2*]

--- Matsunaga and Ishii were having some decent moments and Ishii was almost winning when his partner and Young Drama Cup 2010 winner Soma turned on him and beat him and the referee up.... Soma joins Michael & Matsunaga!

3:04 of 9:38 - Nakazawa & Matsunaga defeated Soma & Ishii by DQ

 

 

 

7. Toru Owashi & Hoshitango -vs- HARASHIMA & Yukihiro Abe

--- Owashi beats up fellow Disaster Box wrestler Abe very easy!

2:23 of 16:51 - Owashi pinned Abe with a powerbomb

 

 

 

8. Dick Togo & GENTARO & Yasu Urano -vs- Kota Ibushi & Antonio Honda & Daisuke Sasaki [3/4*]

--- Dick Togo will be defending the KO-D belt against long time running buddy Antonio Honda on the next Korakuen Hall show so this one had that in focus. And Urano got revenge for the KO-D Tag Title loss last month beating the other half of the belt holders.

4:29 of 15:40 - Urano pinned Sasaki with a La Magistral cut-back

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Trying to establish Soma and shake-up the stables a little.

 

 

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SECRET BASE on COMM - November 29, 2010, Warabi City - (1 hr)

 

 

 

 

November 29, 2010, Warabi City Isami Wrestle Budokan

 

 

1. Kamui -vs- Ferist [1/4*]

--- There was nothing Kamui could do to save this one. Ferist is shit....!

9:37 of 9:37 - Kamui pinned Ferist with a modified sit-out powerbomb

 

 

 

2. Yamada Man Pound & Kenji Takeshima -vs- Spark Aoki & Intergalactic Warrior Andros [1/4*]

--- Weak Battlarts fighting and non-belivable wrestling. Yeah, it's Secret Base! And the people don't know if they should clap or not to this crap.....

10:22 of 10:22 - Yamada pinned Aoki after a kneekick

 

 

 

3. Mototsugu Shimizu & Kazuhiro Tamura -vs- Amigo Suzuki & Guts Ishijima [1/2*]

--- Not much more to this one, but at least some of the fighting seemed to hang together. Still not too much to brag about even if they had help from guys from Style-E and Guts World. Shimizu steals the win.

12:25 of 12:55 - Shimizu pinned Suzuki with a modified cradle

 

 

 

4. Bear Fukuda & Chango & Go Sato -vs- GENTARO & Black Orca & Jun Ogawauchi [*]

--- This was better. Decent action match considering the arena size. It became a lot about Jun still trying to establish himself after the comeback. And he looks ok....until he loses. And this time it was Bear who splashed him down.

16:22 of 16:22 - Fukuda pinned Ogawauchi after a top rope bodypress

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Your typical Secret Base show......

 

 

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JOSHI 4 HOPE on COMM - November 30, 2010, Tokyo - (1 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 30, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING

 

 

1. Kaori Yoneyama & Hailey Hatred -vs- Cherry Bomb & Sexy Star - (TLW Women's Tag Title Decision) [* 1/4]

--- Ok, a set of TLW Tag belts to be given out to the winner. Foreigner filled with JWP Champion Yoneyama being the sole Japanese in the match teaming with Hailey against the sexy team of Cherry Bomb & Sexy Star. And this was really rough at times. Funniest moment was Cherry Bomb doing the most wrong tag ever! Referee Tommy Ran hid her face in shame for allowing it! There was a few misses too, but thankfully a few real brutal blows too with the most brutal of all being the ending when Hailey Ligerbomb'ed Cherry with authority. Which makes Yoneyama & Hailey you're TLW Tag Champions.

13:49 of 13:50 - Hailey pinned Cherry with a Ligerbomb. Yoneyama & Hailey become the TLW Women's Tag Champions.

 

 

 

2. Yoshiko Tamura -vs- Madison Eagles [3/4*]

--- Zzz zzz zzz.....for the most part and on top of that a lot of this was a total styles clash. Not a very positive experience, but of course streached out over 20 minutes there was some good moves landing too, but the overall stucture was just not there and they struugled too much to work together. A draw.

19:47 of 20:00 - Tamura wrestled Eagles to a 20:00 Time Limit Draw

 

 

 

3. Yuki Miyazaki & Tanny Mouse -vs- Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata [1/2*]

--- NEO Machine Guns bullshit match with Matsumoto & Ohata going down the same lame lane. A little bit of wrestling and at least they tried fresh crap comedy before Miyazaki rolled Ohata up for the pin.

16:55 of 16:56 - Miyazaki pinned Ohata with a Gedo Clutch

 

 

 

4. Tomoka Nakagawa -vs- Ayumi Kurihara [* 1/2]

--- Wow, I'm nearly surprised that Nakagawa managed to fight herself to a victory. The match was struggling to pick up any momentum most of the way so it felt like just a standard WAVE style match with a decent finisher and cradle finish where they kept trading what they had until Nakagawa ended up looking stronger with that lariat of hers. Good for her.

14:17 of 14:17 - Nakagawa pinned Kurihara with a low-angle lariat

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Hardly symbolizing hope for joshi puroresu this Joshi 4 Hope show. Mostly boring and awkward wrestling with a near dead atmosphere a lot of the time.

 

 

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NOAH on Samurai TV - November 30, 2010, Kumamoto - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

November 30, 2010, Kumamoto Hungnam Hall (1,100 fans)

 

 

1. Shuhei Taniguchi -vs- Genba Hirayanagi [1/4*]

--- The end shown. Looked like a dead boring match which Taniguchi seemingly won easy with a German.

3:06 of 11:08 - Taniguchi pinned Hirayanagi with a German Suplex

 

 

 

2. Akitoshi Saito -vs- Masao Inoue [1/4*]

--- ....a Inoue match...at least he got squashed....

3:27 of 11:23 - Saito pinned Inoue after a enzuigiri

 

 

 

3. KENTA & Atsushi Aoki -vs- Bison Smith & Delirious [*]

--- Surprisingly tame considering this is the KENTA match. Still, this really feels like a dead house show already and I haven't got much expectations of the rest of ther show either. A couple of nice moves at the very end as KENTA & Aoki won the match.

16:42 of 16:42 - KENTA pinned Delirious after a Go 2 Sleep

 

 

 

4. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano -vs- Mohammed Yone & Yoshinobu Kanemaru [*]

--- Yeah....it's house show steam. Basic stuff with Takayama running Kanemaru down with a knee to end it.

11:23 of 11:24 - Takayama pinned Kanemaru after a kneelift

 

 

 

5. Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli -vs- Taiji Ishimori & Ricky Marvin [* 1/4]

--- Not even this picked up much steam from the fans. Some decent action at least without going overboard or even close to what these guys would do on a bigger show. But it was easily the most enjoyable one so far on the show as Hero & Castagnoli get ready for their GHC Tag Title shot on December 5th.

14:35 of 14:36 - Hero pinned Ishimori after a big boot

 

 

 

6. Takeshi Morishima & Yutaka Yoshie -vs- Takashi Suguira & Yuto Aijima [* 1/4]

--- It's quite weird watching Morishima now having lost all that weight. Will be some time before he's fit as a champion, but it's the right way to go. He's really been to fat lately. And leading up to his award getting a shot at Sugiura's GHC Heavyweight belt on the December 5th show he gets to be the king of this tag beating up indy power plug Aijima.

14:16 of 14:17 - Morishima pinned Aijima after a backdrop suplex

 

 

 

7. Go Shiozaki & Yoshinari Ogawa & Kotaro Suzuki -vs- Kensuke Sasaki & Takashi Okita & Katsuhiko Nakajima [* 3/4]

--- Not much help from the arena atmosphere, but they had moments where they worked ok hard to at least have a main event that tried. A lot of Sasaki vs Shiozaki grabbing the attention and Shiozaki got to show he's one of the top guys in the company winning in the end, but not over Sasaki. No, over his student Okita. Go Flasher style!

25:21 of 25:22 - Shiozaki pinned Okita after the Go Flasher

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Small show and little of importance happening.

 

 

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Dragon Gate on GAORA TV - December 2 & 5, 2010 - (2 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 2, 2010, Tokyo - Korakuen Hall (2,350 fans)

 

 

1. Masato Yoshino & Susumu Yokosuka & K-ness -vs- Naruki Doi & Gamma & Takuya Sugawara [* 1/2]

--- K-ness's turn to beat Gamma and he did so with that rolling body-scissor cradle of his! The match was the usual mish-mash of action going back and forth and naturally there was some of Doi and Yoshino as they're facing later in the month for the Dream Gate belt.

10:09 of 15:43 - K-ness pinned Gamma with a rolling cradle

 

 

 

2. Anthony W. Mori & Masato Yoshino & BxB Hulk & Susumu Yokosuka & K-ness & PAC & Super Shisa -vs- CIMA & Masaaki Mochizuki & Ryo Saito & Don Fujii & Dragon Kid & Genki Horiguchi & Kenichiro Arai - (Mori's Retirement Match) [** 1/2]

--- A 14-man tag?! Well, everyone wanted to be a part of Anthony W. Mori's final wrestling match! He's wrestled since 2000, so 10 years is enough he feels. He hasn't done all that much or been very motivated in recent years so this has been hanging in the air. And now finally it's the end of Mori. And this was one hell of a happy occation with his friends and 'foes' doing all they could to make this a special match for him. And the crowd ate it up too loving it all from the tribute stuff, to the silly, to the drama to anything they could do Mori related. And it had to end elegantly with a Mori win too, didn't it. Yes, just yes, it did.

14:37 of 14:37 - Mori pinned Horiguchi with the Elegant Magic cradle

 

 

 

 

December 5, 2010, Sapporo Teisen Hall (1,200 fans)

 

 

3. Masato Yoshino & PAC -vs- CIMA & Dragon Kid [* 3/4]

--- Yeah, you know the drill. Loads of cool moves and some super close near falls as the singles champs and their potential challengers face off in a moral battle for position. But we've seen all this before and so on, so it's your ordinary Dragon Gate stuff with Dragon Kid getting the treatment at the end getting beat by Open the Dream Gate Champion Yoshino.

16:54 of 22:52 - Yoshino pinned Dragon Kid after a Lighting Spiral

 

 

 

4. Kzy© & Yasushi Kanda -vs- Kotoka© & BxB Hulk - (Captain's Fall Hair Match) [**]

--- Kzy and young Kotoka's hairs on the line. And it was a fairly good match, especially considering Kotoka isn't exactly a established guy in the company. He was the natural fallguy too so it wasn't too exciting who was going bald, but he did a ok profile before losing to Kzy's double-arm piledriver.

16:24 of 20:40 - Kzy pinned Kotoka after a double-arm piledriver

 

 

 

COMMENTS: Sad to see Anthony W. Mori leave....

 

 

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IGF on Samurai TV - December 3, 2010, Tokyo - (3 hrs)

 

 

 

 

December 3, 2010, Tokyo - Sumo Hall (8,625 fans)

 

 

1. Hikaru Sato -vs- Akira Jo [3/4*]

--- Only a basic serious opener with this hopeless Jo not really getting much hope regardless of how much Sato let him into the game. Because when Sato wanted it over he just lifted Jo up and down and locked in the cross-armbreaker for the win.

6:09 of 6:08 - Sato made Jo submit to a cross-armbreaker

 

 

 

2. Mark Coleman -vs- Hideki Suzuki [1/4*]

--- After jobbing on the last Inoki show making Suzukawa look like a star, Mark Coleman gets a quick and easy win here over this mean looking Suzuki.

2:58 of 2:58 - Coleman made Suzuki submit to a shoulder lock

 

 

 

3. Eric Hammer & Taka Kunou -vs- Mohammed Yone & Atsushi Aoki [* 1/4]

--- It was an impossible tast, but the NOAH guys got at least something out of this tag bout with these two IGF characters. All they could do was keep it up-float and hope that the other two wouldn't mess thigns up and it worked like that. And for the finish the freakshow Hammer threw Aoki around for a referee stop!

9:22 of 9:22 - Hammer defeated Aoki by Referee Stop after the Hammer Spike

 

 

 

4. Kendo Kashin -vs- Carlito Colon [1/2*]

--- Carlos Colon Jr coming to Japan and IGF! And for a nothing 5-min match with Kendo Kashin! There was a strange moment in there with Kashin being saved by the referee on a near fall with Kashin being very late in kicking out after a neck-breaker. And then Kashin would naturally steal the win with a creadle reversal and foot on rope.

4:30 of 4:30 - Kashin pinned Carlito with a cradle reversal

 

 

 

5. Alexander Timonov -vs- Alexander Otsuka [1/4*]

--- Double Alexander! One Russian MMA fighter and one Japanese pro-wrestler. And it's over in less then a minute with a palm shot to the face from Timonov!

0:51 of 0:51 - Timonov defeated Otsuka by Referee Stop after knocking him down

 

 

 

6. Keith Hanson -vs- The Predator [*]

--- Drew Hankinson coming in to do a Stan Hansen gimmick as Keith Hanson to face the guy who's been doing the Buiser Brody gimmick in Japan the last decade in The Predator. And it was a decent big mans fight, espeically after the shit we've been served so far on this show. And they gave this Hanson the win with a Blockbuster suplex.

7:01 of 7:00 - Hanson pinned Predator after a Blockbuster

 

 

 

 

7. Tiger Mask I & Ultimo Dragon -vs- Tatsumi Fujinami & Red and White Mask [*]

--- The legends tag featuring a weird and irrelevant Red/White mask dude to do the job. Not as interesting or relevant as other legends matches on these Inoki shows because of it even if he didn't look terrible wrestling. Dragon took care of him with a reversed DDT.

8:11 of 8:11 - Dragon pinned Mask after a Asai DDT

 

 

 

 

8. Go Shiozaki -vs- Atsushi Sawada [* 1/2]

--- Heated ugly fighting with Sawada wanting show-up the NOAH wrestler and with Shiozaki not taking Sawada seriously chopping and knocking him down at a tauniting pace. And then he finished off with a short-range lariats straight in Sawada's face!!!

11:20 of 11:20 - Shiozaki pinned Sawada after a lariat

 

 

 

 

9. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima -vs- Bobby Lashley & Hurricane Helms [**]

--- So weird watching WWE characters Bobby Lashley & Hurricane Helms wrestle in Japan and mix with the style of Sasaki and his proteg

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NOAH on G+SN - December 5, 2010, Tokyo - (3 1/2 hrs)

 

 

 

December 5, 2010, Tokyo - Nippon Budokan (8,600 fans)

 

 

- The show opened with a 10-count for the late Joe Higuchi.

 

 

1. Taiji Ishimori & Shuhei Taniguchi -vs- Akira Taue & Kentaro Shiga [3/4*]

--- Easy start to the show with the slapstick side of Taue & Shiga thankfully getting beat when Taniguchi suplexed Shiga down.

7:31 of 7:32 - Taniguchi pinned Shiga with a German Suplex

 

 

 

2. Atsushi Aoki -vs- Delirious [*]

--- Should have been more fun. Instead it was dead a lot of the time without getting many fans to care. At least Aoki destroyed the freak with authority at the end.

10:17 of 10:18 - Aoki pinned Delirious with a leg-hook backdrop suplex hold

 

 

 

3. Kensuke Sasaki & Katsuhiko Nakajima & Kento Miyahara -vs- Akitoshi Saito & Ricky Marvin & Masao Inoue [* 1/4]

--- With Inoue there, this became a Inoue match and not a Sasaki & Co war. Light hearted wrestling until the shit was taken care of.

13:19 of 13:19 - Sasaki pinned Inoue after a Northern Light Bomb

 

 

 

4. Mohammed Yone & Genba Hirayanagi -vs- Go Shiozaki & Yoshinari Ogawa [* 1/4]

--- I was expecting just a throw away tag, and that's basically what we got but with a cool twist. Genba cutting off some of Shiozaki's hair! You can bet that pissed him off. So much that he beat up his own partner and the referee because they were trying to make him stop hurting Yone!

8:15 of 8:16 - Yone & Hirayanagi defeated Shiozaki & Ogawa by DQ

 

 

 

 

5. KENTA -vs- Naomichi Marufuji [**]

--- These two met earlier in the year in KENTA's comeback match. This time it's Marufuji's comeback back after getting injured against Kenny Omega at DDT's July Sumo Hall show! And I was so looking forward to this re-match because their June match was one of this years highlights. But they messed it up. Sure some qualities, but for a KENTA/Marufuji match the timing was clearly off. Execution wasn't there. And the structure was non-excistent. It was like they didn't know what was best for the match. Seeing Marufuji take a nasty second rope Tiger Suplex from KENTA and then no-sell it was really stupid. It was a match-defying moment and if was just dusted off like it was nothing and went on to the next spot. Marufuji's biggest moment was the quebrada, but it was KENTA who was supposed to be the main guy here with Marufuji supposedly showing that he's got some ring rust after the 5 month lay-off. And the Go 2 Sleep landed and ended the match giving KENTA his win back after losing in June.

19:13 of 19:09 - KENTA pinned Marufuji after the Go 2 Sleep

 

 

 

 

6. Bison Smith -vs- Yutaka Yoshie [* 1/2]

--- A #1 contenders match with the winner getting a shot at the GHC Heavyweight Title in January. And it's between two real super heavyweights! And we got our heavyweight moments. Sadly not as explosive as it could have been. The end came out of nowhere with Bison nailing pinky with a hard lariat. Liked that!

13:17 of 13:18 - Smith pinned Yoshie after a lariat

 

 

 

 

7. Yoshinobu Kanemaru -vs- Kotaro Suzuki - (GHC Junior Title) [** 1/4]

--- Kanemaru's reign hasn't been all that great. He hasn't really renewed himself much in recent years so it doesn't feel any special. With Suzuki getting the title shot they at least try to get some urgency out of it with Kanemaru starting hard right away hoping for a quick win arguing with guest referee Wada about the counts wanting it over as quickly as possible. Well, it didn't matter how many brainbusters he tried, he could not get Suzuki beat. Suzuki tried the Blue Destiny a couple of times without succseeding, but kept at it with Misawa wrestling landing elbows and such until he managed to beat the champ with a Tiger Driver! The match was fun, but it wasn't brilliant. This is the 2nd time Suzuki holds the belt, but it's the first time under his real name as he held it under the Mushiking terry gimmick in 2007.

14:49 of 14:49 - Suzuki pinned Kanemaru with a Tiger Driver to become the 20th GHC Junior Champion.

 

 

 

 

8. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takuma Sano © -vs- Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli - (GHC Tag Title) [** 3/4]

--- I must admit I didn't have too much expectatons about this one, but the challengers made it memorable. Mainly because the blows they gave Takayama and the way that they came. My absolute favourite moment of the match was Hero's big moonsault dive out of the ring knocking Takayama straight down! And Takayama took the blows like a man giving the challengers some credibility as they were searching for the gold. But of course it's two brutals they were facing so Hero & Castagnoli was always going to be in danger and it was only a matter of time before the violence would be returned. And it came! Loved the Dragon Suplex from Takayama and it wasn't long after Takayama had Castagnoli beat with the Everest German! Real good match and they didn't over-do it.

14:21 of 14:22 - Takayama pinned Castagnoli with a German Suplex. Takayama & Sano retain the GHC Tag Title in their 2nd defence.

 

 

 

 

9. Takashi Sugiura -vs- Takeshi Morishima - (GHC Title) [***]

--- And here they get the explosion. Glad they managed to get it in the main event. For a period there it looked like they weren't going to get it because the first half was fairly bland. A few bigger bumps and a lot of laying around just to pass time. But then they started fighting the second half of the match and didn't waste too much time making sure they gave the fans what they payed to see. Top moment was Morishima landing the backdrop suplex! And loved the face slaps Sugiura gave Morishima when he planed another one! Vicious face shots. And what a lock to the back of the head at the end there from Sugiura! Sugiura should expand his finisher repertoire because he needed to do his Olympic Slam 3 times before he had the slimmed down big man down. Yeah, this was yet another successful defence from the little power plug making his 7th successful defence and the mile stone of holding the belt over a year!

22:11 of 22:12 - Sugiura pinned Morishima after a Olympic Slam to retain the GHC Title in his 7th defence.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: The show was kind of tame early on and I'm sad they didn't get more out of the KENTA vs Marufuji bout, but the final bouts had something to offer and made it worth wild!

 

 

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WAVE on COMM: WAVE MANIACS 4 - July-December 2010 - (3 1/4 hrs)

 

 

 

July 13, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (151 fans)

 

 

1. Io Shirai -vs- Sakura Hirota [1/2*]

--- Sakura Hirota as.....KANA!!! With the biggest boobs EVAR!!! Enjoy.....

7:21 of 9:23 - Shirai pinned Hirota with a jack knife cradle

 

 

 

2. Akino & Shuu Shibutani -vs- Ayumi Kurihara & Misaki Ohata [* 3/4]

--- Not the most spirited joshi tag I've seen, but it had some spunk as Akino was being all kinds of mean. Both trying on some Kurihara wrestling and giving Ohata the treatment. Loved the way she stopped a jumping Ohata by just pushing her away with the legs sending her flying. And then for the meanness kicking her head in at the end.

10:31 of 14:40 - Akino pinned Ohata after a headkick

 

 

 

3. Ayumi Kurihara -vs- Akino [1/2*]

--- ....not much point with a 5-min match is there? Decent action, but never too serious or great. A draw.

4:26 of 5:00 - Kurihara wrestled Akino to a 5:00 Time Limit Draw

 

 

 

 

 

July 25, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (176 fans)

 

 

4. Shuu Shibutani & Moeka Haruhi -vs- Kana & Shimono Sawako [3/4*]

--- Wasn't getting into this one much. Mainly because of it featured too much Haruhi and rookie Sawako in which they gave Haruhi the damn win. And Haruhi did it in a terrible way locking in a lucha style Octopus hold, but was unable to really hang on to it so the referee had to call for the bell quick enough before she lost the hold all together.

10:40 of 14:47 - Haruhi made Sawako submit to a modified Octopus Hold

 

 

 

5. Ran Yu Yu -vs- Sakura Hirota [3/4*]

--- Sakura Hirota as..... Toshie Uematsu of couse. Ran's tag partner. And Hirota had the Uematsu mannerisms down well making it half-enjoyable silly match. Hirota got squashed naturally. Or would hurt herself just as much as Ran would beat her.....

4:48 of 6:31 - Yu Yu pinned Hirota after a elbow smash

 

 

 

 

 

August 11, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (160 fans)

 

 

6. Simono Sawako -vs- Moon Mizuki [1/2*]

--- Basic rookie action with WAVE's own Sawako beating the JWP Moon.

4:12 of 8:06 - Sawako pinned Mizuki after a Samoan Drop

 

 

 

7. 8-Woman Battle Royal [*]

--- The gimmick was that they were dressed up as each other. Sakura Hirota as referee Tommy Ran was classic! Kana as the horrible Haruhi was also fun. So in that regard it was a happy battle royal. Easy fun with all the style-copying and very little serious going on, but it worked at that level.....

(4:47) - Moeka Haruhi eliminated

(6:30) - Sakura Hirota eliminated

(7:19) - Kana eliminated

(10:46) - Io Shirai & Mio Shirai eliminated

(13:05) - Misaki Ohata eliminated

(13:13) - Cherry eliminated

13:13 of 17:17 - Toshie Uematsu win the 8-Woman Battle Royal

 

 

 

 

 

October 12, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (151 fans)

 

 

8. Yoshiko Tamura & Yuki Miyazaki & Tanny Mouse -vs- Gami & Yumi Ohka & Moeka Haruhi - (2/3 Falls) [* 1/4]

--- NEO vs WAVE with the main focus being Yumi Ohka managing to beat someone established as she pinned and beat up the NEO Champion Tamura with authority. This builds up to a title shot for Ohka in December. The action was decent, but clipped down a lot and the final falls was all about Gami and the Machine Guns with Gami losing to both members.

6:52 of 19:49 - Ohka pinned Tamura with a Tiger Suplex

2:19 of 4:14 - Miyazaki pinned Gami with a Gedo Clutch

1:16 of 2:54 - Tanny pinned Gami with a modified small package

 

 

 

9. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Tomoka Nakagawa -vs- Ryo Mizunami & Shimono Sawako [*]

--- Decent light work. Nothing that was super impressive, but at least the match kept going without getting embarrassing with Sawako being the weak link at both the work and being the jobber. She's not really improving, is she?

7:46 of 10:23 - Nakagawa pinned Sawako after a assisted rolling senton

 

 

 

10. Kana -vs- Cherry [*]

--- A 15-min draw sprint where Cherry got to look almost competitive with the established stiffer. Decent while it lasted, but at the same time it never turned exciting.

7:11 of 15:00 - Kana wrestled Cherry to a 15:00 Time Limit Draw

 

 

 

11. Ran Yu Yu & Toshie Uematsu -vs- Misaki Ohata & Moeka Haruhi [*]

--- Moeka Haruhi's birthday celebration match. Lets just say it was not horrible even if the birthday girl was heavily involved in what was shown. But after a lot of surviving and fighting back Uematsu put her to rest Dragon-style.

9:27 of 15:07 - Uematsu pinned Haruhi with a Dragon Suplex

 

 

 

 

 

November 16, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (138 fans)

 

 

12. Kana & Misaki Ohata -vs- Cherry & Shimono Sawako [*]

--- Average joshi action. Little sticking out, but they kept moving. Ohata gets the win making the rookie submit to her speciality submission hold.

10:53 of 15:36 - Ohata made Sawako submit to the Fairy Lock

 

 

 

13. Ayumi Kurihara -vs- Tomoka Nakagawa [*]

--- Was on it's way to getting interesting when it ended with Kurihara using her Uranage to take care of Nakagawa. Wish there had been more.

5:26 of 10:42 - Kurihara pinned Nakagawa after a throat slam suplex

 

 

 

14. Ryo Mizunami -vs- Sakura Hirota [1/2*]

--- Sakura as.....Kaoru? Why, I have no idea. Maybe Mizunami was a Kaoru trained wrestler as she originally came from GAEA and that's what Hirota was aiming at? The fake table parts didn't help Hirota and Mizunami had this under control and even taking a bite at Hirota's ass!

6:49 of 10:37 - Mizunami pinned Hirota after a top rope legdrop

 

 

 

15. Yumi Ohka & Bambi -vs- Toshie Uematsu & Moeka Haruhi [* 1/4]

--- Liked the way the heel duo of Ohka & Bambi beat Haruhi up stiffing and throwing her impressively. Sadly not too much outside of that happening, but at least it was something before Bambi landed her Shining kicks to beat Haruhi down for the count.

9:38 of 15:06 - Bambi pinned Haruhi after a Shining headkick

 

 

 

16. Gami -vs- Yuki Miyazaki [* 1/4]

--- Some stupid Gami stuff and a lot of lazy fighting, but this this served a puropse and had it's moments with Gami getting to look strong beating a NEO wrestler before challenging for the JWP belt on the December 5th show.

11:31 of 20:00 - Gami pinned Miyazaki after the Adios Amiga

 

 

 

 

 

December 5, 2010, Tokyo - Shin-Kiba 1st RING (308 fans)

 

 

17. Yoshiko Tamura © -vs- Yumi Ohka - (NEO/NWA Pacific Titles) [**]

--- A little difficult to get into the flow of things thanks to the editing, but this looked good with WAVE's Ohka getting in quite a lot of the offence and being badder then usual stiffing Tamura straight in the face a few times and dropping her in all the finishers she could get in. Wasn't going to stop Tamura, but it was a nice try and Ohka got some close wins on a few occations before Tamura with her elbows and driver got back in the game and won with the Mount Cook to make it V9.

13:46 of 22:05 - Tamura pinned Ohka with the Mount Cook to retain the NEO/NWA Pacific Titles in her 9th defence.

 

 

 

18. Kaori Yoneyama © -vs- Gami - (JWP Title) [* 3/4]

--- Another good match it seemed clipped down a bit. A little bit too much of Gami's tired stuff keeping it down, but they did have a good share of near falls and killer moves with Gami landing a Tiger Suplex '85 as one of the main highlights before the JWP Champion managed to snap roll Gami up for the pin after struggling too much against the aging wrestler.

12:01 of 21:59 - Yoneyama pinned Gami with a forward rolling cradle to retain the JWP Title in her 7th defence.

 

 

 

COMMENTS: A lot of average action like it used to be back in Jd', but it had the title matches at the end there saving the impression a little. Still wish they'd left more unedited.

 

 

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