AJW 6/27/1992

AJW 6/27/1992

- Kaoru Ito & Cynthia Moreno vs Tomoko Watanabe & Saemi Numata
A solid opening card affair, basic low level action. Pre match we learn Bat's got an injured arm so that's why we've got little Saemi getting slotten into this. Would have been a much better match with Bat in thear but Numata does her part and looked perfectly fine here. Moreno worked pretty well with her actually. Ito vs Watanabe as always is fun too and it comes down to them at the end with Ito getting the W after her & Moreno hit consequtive diving footstomps.

- (JGP 92) Mima Shimoda vs Takako Inoue
Good match once things settle down and they start exchanging holds. Shimoda gets the advantage first working over the arm. Shame Mima didn't work this style more often back then as at the time, she was better at that then any thing else she was trying. Takako takes over and goes into full on bitch heel mode, with a giant smile on her face as she humiliates Mima, happy to have someone she can pick on for a change. Like i've said in the past, Takako Inoue submission queen was awesome, kind of a shame she didn't stick with that style either as the years went on. Here she goes after the back at first then starts picking apart Shimoda's leg in an awesome way, dominating for quite a while. Mima comes back a little later on and goes for revenge trying to take out Tak's leg but it goes no whear. She does come out the victor soon after though, getting the big win with a backdrop superplex. Really liked this a lot.

- (JGP 92) Sakie Hasegawa vs Debbie Malenko
Pretty good match but felt like it was missing something to make it special. They built this up as the big battle of tag partners but it was more or less an average match for these two. Of course, for these two an average match is still damn good, just not anything to get super excited about. Debbie mostly controlls things, she goes to the mat naturally but there's no real struggle or drama involved, just Deb going from hold to hold until it's time for Sakie to make her come back and go all nutty with the spin kick barrage. Things get more interesting once they go to exchanging the bigger moves, some awesome suplexes from Deb in this but that proves to be her downfall as Sakie counters one into a small package to win.

- Terri Power Profile Segment
Cool little special look at Terri training with Debbie, working out in the gym, talking about her training with Brad Rhenigans, working LPWA and other stuff.

- (AJW Title) Mariko Yoshida (c) vs Etsuko Mita
A better version of the match type Shimoda & Takako did earlier. Perfect mix of brawling, mat work, awesome selling, little bit of flying and a great crowd cheering on Yoshida. Mita's really starting to embrace her new bad girl persona since teaming up with Hokuto and this is like her heel coming out party. She goes after Yoshida's bad arm and then turns the match into a chair swinging crowd brawl but keeps the focus still on the arm. Yoshida slowly comes back in, brining a chair with her which is rare but revenge is a bitch. Mita cuts her off though and she gets beat down some more, continuing to target the arm. A few minutes later Yoshida gets said revenge though, she sends Mita outside, hits a really nice dive then goes nuts with chair attacks of her own out in the stands trying to break Mita's bum knee. Both of them continue putting over the limb work late into the match even after the focus changes to other things which just adds to the drama. Yoshida finally gets the hard earned win, catching Mita on top with a DDT then hitting a beautiful looking step up splash. Mita's like bullshit to that and goes after Yoshida's arm with a chair again post match but it's quickly broken up she's sent to the back, limping away while Yoshida celebrates. Easliy the best singles match either had ever had up to this point in their careers.

- Aja Kong Miori Kamiya & Terri Power vs Bull Nakano Yumiko Hotta & Suzuka Minami
Cool, Kamiya's in her whacky Nise Muta mode. So, on paper one doesn't look at this lineup and crazy sprint but that's what they do and it's a damn good one. No major plot beyond Bull & Aja still hate each other's guts, just a lot of fast paced action and bodies flying all over the place. Terri does quite well here which is good since Bull & Hotta and hell probably Minami too would have been quick to fuck her up had she blown something but all goes well and everyone else is on point here too, especially Aja who's all amped up like a mad woman, total ball of energy smashing folks and destroying things left and right. Fun ending with Kamiya knocking Bull off the ropes, Terri hitting a rana on Suzuka and Aja crushing Hotta with the back drop smash all at the same time. Super fun match period.

- (3WA Tag Titles 2 out of 3 Falls) Toshiyo Yamada & Manami Toyota (c) vs Akira Hokuto & Kyoko Inoue
So after the events of the last show Hokuto & Inoue don't appear to be exactly thrilled to be teaming up but promise to make the most of it while the champs seem to be on the same page. 1st fall's all about puttin over how strong & tough Hokuto & Inoue are. Toyota & Yamada have better team work and are faster but they still get their butts kicked and heads smashed in and a good many times just plain outsmarted. The champs make a lot of mistakes early and it cost them as Hokuto & Inoue counter all their stuff and things end with a double pin after they miss a double team diving head butt and HokInoue hit their finishers at the same time on both. Hokuto & Inoue also have some cool moments whear they ape each other's sig spots, Hokuto bust out the mongolian chops and giant swing, Kyoko uses the spin kicks. Both do them really badly but it was neat to see them try, unity and all that. 2nd fall looks to be the same but Yamada shuts that shit down and in the span of like a minute she kicks Hokuto in the head, gives her 7 back drop suplexes, another kick to the head and then pins her with the same move she used to beat Toyota last show, the Gory Special Bomb. 3rd Fall is more Toyota & Yamada's style, as the up the pace. They take Hokuto out then bring Kyoko in and go to work over her for a while. Hokuto comes back a little but is still a little out of it from all she took earlier so isn't a ton of help leaving Kyoko to do all the work again. They finally rally but their team work falls apart and all the big stuff Hokuto & Inoue try back fires such as when Kyoko ends up smashing her parter on a dive gone horribly wrong. Meanwhile all the double teams Toyota & Yamada do hit and that becomes the final story. The champs divide & concor, they trap Hokuto in the ropes so she can't escape and after a few more big moves Kyoko falls to the JOCS. Aside from a few sloppy moments involving Toyota, the was a really great match, especially the final fall as it had that extra something to go along with the great action to put it over the top.