- Commando Bolshoi & Candy Okutsu vs Sumiyo Toyama & Yumi Tenma
Just a couple mins of highlights aired. Bolshoi beating up on Toyama for the little it was shown looked fun but that's about all I got out of this. They pin Tenma after a nice looking Clownsault and ugly looking Candy splash.
- Masked Yawara vs Machiko Hioki
Odd aperance from 2 randoms. Yawara looks like a long lost ZAP only minus the talent. I can find no other matches for either of these 2 before or after this match. It went exactly 1 minute and sucked so i'm not complaining. Yawara wins over generic rookie #9000 after some judo throws and a cross arm breaker.
- Plum Mariko vs Sumiko Saito
Plum looked pretty decent, Saito was unmemorable, nothing bad, nothing good, just thear. Ok action, little on the slow side but I liked what I saw for the most part. 6 or 7 mins out of 25 aired. Plum gets the win with a cross arm german.
- (JWP Title Tournament Semi Final) Dynamite Kansai vs Devil Masami
Again clipped down to around 6 mins out of 17. A lot diffrent then their match a few months ago. Whear as that one seemed to be a sprint this has a lot more slower paced, old school build to it even though they had much less time to work with. Still good, just in a diffrent way. When they do pick up the pace there's some nice power stuff gettin thrown back and forth for the finish, especially from Devil breaking out diff suplexes & powerbombs. Devil goes for 1 too many and Kansai counters into a roll up to advance to the final.
- (JWP Title Tournament FINL - 2 count rules) Dynamite Kansai vs Cuty Suzuki
Yay, a full match. Cuty sprints down and immediatly jumps Kansai while she's still recovering from the last match. Kansai puts an end to that quickly, knocking her on her butt with a few kicks. Match then follows the pattern of Kansai wanting to slow things down and Cuty playing spunky little pixie who won't be beat and keeps coming back. Cuty gets a fair amount in and dominates atleast half the match actually but each time she gets a little run going Kansai cuts her off with brute force. Fun moment when Kansai jacks some dudes brifecase in the crowd and waffles Cuty with it. The 2 count rules really add to the drama too with Cuty especially milking it for all it's worth and kicking out with force each time at 1. Been a while since i'd last watched this match, liked it a lot more then I did previous viewings. Good stuff. Kansai folds Cuty in half with brutal powerbomb to take the win and become JWP's first champ.
- Yumiko Hotta & Takako Inoue vs Mayumi Ozaki & Hikari Fukuoka
Story of the match is young Fukuoka wanting to step up, play with the big girls and prove herself and they certainly give her every oportunity as she works about 75% of this. One of those matches designed to get a kid over by showing how tough they are for surviving a massive beating, never giving up and still fighting back. Gotta say OZ stole the show however playing the role of protective big sister. Watching this I got the sense that she wanted Fukuoka to prove herself just as much as Fukuoka did so she gives her every opportunity but when needed she was always thear to step in and make the save, attack someone from behind, get in a cheap shot and generally even the odds, come in and kick ass when things got too overwhelming for Fukuoka. Great moment around 10 mins in whear OZ just says fuck it and has enough of watching Fukuoka get beat up so she goes nuts on Takako, getting in a crazy slap war, which she wins. Between this and Dream Rush I don't think i've ever enjoyed watching someone work from the apron more then Ozaki. A noticeable minority of AJW fans were in the house booing her and she tells them all to fuck off. For their part, dominating bully is a role Hotta was born to play and Takako is quite good here too. Last few minutes are awesome as Fukuoka gets to fight back finally & the JWP team go on a little mini run. Great near fall stretch, Fukuoka bust out some nice moonsaults and suplexes and everything else she can think of but the Zenjo girls are still too tough in the end. Takako gets OZ out of the way keeping her from making any more saves and Hotta drops Fukuoka with the Carribean Splash to win it. This wasn't non stop greatness like Dream Rush, it took it's time a little more but kept going and going and getting better and better and by the end was for sure one of the better matches of the year. Wasn't planning to but re-watching this single handidly made me want to go track down more 92 JWP just to see more of OZ.
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