Starts out with some footage of AJW's 1992 year end party & awards ceremony. Pretty packed house with a lot of people from other companies showing up, the highlight being Atsushi Onita wandering around and posing with babies. Yoshida, Hotta, Hokuto & Bull all win various lesser singles awards. Toyota & Yamada win tag team of the year and for the big 2 awards, Toyota/Yamada vs OZ/Kansai won MOTY and Aja won MVP.
- (All Pacific Title) Akira Hokuto (c) vs Debbie Malenko
Debbie offers a handshake to Hokuto, playing all nice then imediatly jumps her once her back was turned. Surprisingly Hokuto does not murder her for this. Deb goes for the chicken wing but Hokuto escapes, few moments later she locks in a really tight dragon sleeper which Hokuto does a sweet escape from by running up the ropes and essentially hitting a sliced bread #2 and landing in a dragon sleeper of her own. Action gets cliped ahead as they start running through the bigger moves, both hit a couple of cool dives, Debbie gets in a nice suicide dive and Hokuto gaining revenge with a diving cross body. Understatement here but Debbie's quite good at hitting submissions and working over a body part and Hokuto's not too shabby at selling so unsurprisingly things get kicked up a notch once they start building the match around those two factors and Deb starts destroying Hokuto's arm. Crazy Fujiwara armbar as she just cranks the hell out of it among other things. Sadly just as that was getting going things end out of nowhear when Hokuto grabs a weird looking suplex whear she chicken wings Debbie's arm and then grabs both her legs with her other arm and just kinda drops her awkwardly for the pin. So should just stick to the NLB :) Match went around 14 mins and about half aired. Up until the screwy ending this was a darn good match though. Rare chance to see Debbie in a singles match, especially with one of the top stars as she didn't have a lot that made tape and she more then held her own in this.
- (IWA Title) Manami Toyota (c) vs Sakie Hasegawa
Things start off a bit sloppy as they trade a few moves but aren't on quite the same page, Sakie tries to slow things down but Toyota's having none of that. Sakie eventually gains controll and starts laying in some stiff kicks and it's here you can first see that Toyota's not really up for this match as it turns into a Sakie showcase for a bit. Sakie gets in a big series of suplexes, 4 top rope splashes from each corner and a lot of other stuff, really getting to shine but Toyota doesn't do an overly great job of putting it over. She fights back a little but it's half hearted and she mostly just kinda lays thear and takes it. Toyota finally wakes up a bit once it's time for her to spaz out and make the comeback. She wipes out totally on the moonsault to the outside attempt, barely grazing Sakie who was out of position just kind of grazing arm on the way down and mostly hitting floor but she soldiers on. They do a few more mins of highspots after that and it ends after Toyota half kills Sakie when she catches her climping up and just whips her down full forge with a nasty looking razor's edge power bomb which gets a big "oh shit" reaction from the crowd and a 2 count for Toyota. She follows it up with the JOCS to win. Weird match, Sakie looked real good here but she can't work for two this was an off night for Toyota. Don't get me wrong, a slopy, lazy Toyota is still better then a ton of other people out thear so I wouldn't call this a bad match but certainly disapointing and not as good as you'd hope on paper. Match goes 24, 11 aired.
Wacky Japanese Commercial report as there's a ton of adds for UFO tv specials on this episode.
- Toshiyo Yamada & Kyoko Inoue vs Aja Kong & Bull Nakano
Quite the awesome custom Jean Jacket Kyoko is sporting here. Anyways, most of this match is all about the mega monsters Aja & Bull dominating things. Yamada tries to get something going and gets a little bit of a run on Bull with a flurry of kicks but it's quickly shut down. Leads to a brawling section outside as Aja grabs her and tosses her all over the building which is always fun. Back in the Yamada/Kyoko team finally start making some progress and get in a lot of big moves including a flip powerbomb from Inoue on Aja but again their run eventually gets shut down leading to much trouble for Kyoko. Bull drops the leg but it's broken up before 3, Yamada saves her from a Bull moonsault attempt, Kyoko still can't come back and we get a long beat down section on her. Aja dumps her on her head with a huge german after cutting off the tag atempt. Yamada repeatedly in to make the save until Bull gets sick of her medling and takes her out, and Aja & Bull hit stereo guiloteen leg drops to crush both girls and end things. Real fun match, they didn't go all out or anything but put in enough effort to easily send the fans home happy. 9-10 mins of 23 aired.
Undercard highlights at the end of the show
Ito over Saemi "Numatchi" Numata in 11
Suzuka & Power over LCO in 11:30
Takako & Hotta over Bat & Watanabe in 12
Would have really liked to see that last one since Bat/Hotta was alway a good pairing.
Nothing essential on this show but it's a nice way to start the year off.
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