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  1. Alex
    My second favorite WWF promo.
  2. Alex
    I loved this as a kid in the audience. The sight of Kane kicking out of the tombstone not once, but twice was SHOCKING. For a clean finish, this match really put over Kane.
  3. Alex
    This match isn't amazing, both men are completely banged up, but I've never went back to any WWF/E event since this. There's just no better live wrestling experience than seeing your favorite wrestler getting the strap for the first time. The aura of Mike Tyson makes this even cooler. One of my favorite matches to rewatch just to try to relive the experience.
  4. Alex
    I remember being at this show, I had no idea who Pete Rose was at the time. But even though I didn't know who he was, he still made me hate him. Even my dad who doesn't like wrestling was booing the shit out of Pete. You just don't shit on the Sox in Boston! Yeah Kane tombstoning Rose makes little sense, but in the end, it didn't matter.
  5. Alex
    During the introductions, Galactica gets the nunchucks and goes right after Jaguar. Jaguar is able to quickly get the nunchucks out the way and goes to rip Galactica's mask. Jaguar dumps Galactica to the floor, and they both exchange in brawling with Galactica getting extra help and a chair shot. Galactica goes on offense again in the ring, with head scissors to ground Jaguar and also biting. Jaguar transitions to working Galactica's right leg. Jaguar gets the stretch reversed from outside interference, and Galactica pounds away on Jaguar's face on a table. When Jaguar tries to enter back into the ring, Galactica stomps on one of her hands and bites the other. She, then, gets a series of near falls on Jaguar and then bashes Jaguar's skull on the ring post multiple times. Jaguar eats two big slaps and gets stretched. Jaguar is able to get Galactica against the ropes and works the body of Galactica and gets a huracanrana, two flying butt attacks, and the undertook suplex. Jaguar goes for a flying move, but gets attacked by Rossy Moreno and Galactica starts pounding on Jaguar's right arm with the nunchucks. Jaguar's right arm is now bleeding, and gets more abuse from a rod and biting. Galactica beats up Jaguar on the outside, and continues working the work when back in the ring with biting and kicks. Jaguar gets a quick transition to the figure four, her first amount of offense in minutes, and then we get a striking exchange on their knees which Galactica barely wins with kicks. Jaguar gets stretched with a bow and arrow, slammed, and eats a senton. Jaguar gets her babyface bridge and hits a delayed back suplex for a huge two. Jaguar goes for another suplex and struggles with it, and gets reversed by Galactica into a bridging suplex for a huge two. Galactica goes to the top but gets reversed into a superplex for a big near fall. The schoolgirls are getting hyped! Dropkick to Galactica which causes her to fall to the floor, and plancha by Jaguar! And Jaguar barely makes it in for the countout victory to retain the UWA Title. This was easily the best Yokota/Galactica match I've seen, I thought it was great. Galactica's rudo tactics were better here than in previous matches I've seen, and even the bloody arm was a much better visual than Yokota's blade job in January. Jaguar is typical great Jaguar, her facials and selling is so good. The ending and finishing stretch was also more satisfactory than the other matches also.
  6. Alex
    Galactica is way more 'competent' here than the mask vs hair match, and she doesn't have Monster Ripper to bail her out this time. Galactica takes advantage early using the post and brawling in the outside. Galactica's teammates triple team Yokota and Galactica gets a rolling senton on the floor. Galactica uses biting, rope burning, eye gouging, choking, and other heel tactics to control Yokota for a good amount of time until Yokota dumps Galactica to the floor. Yokota with a tope and a kneeling piledriver on the floor. Galactica takes back over using dirty tactics, and Yokota does a blade job. Galactica gets running kick, a senton, a biting chin lock and power slam. Yokota gets her babyface bridge out of the power slam pin and she hits a bunch of her signature moves. Galactica take back over and we get another team up on Yokota. Galactica locks in a bow and arrow and a camel clutch and chokes Yokota with a chair. Galactica hits Yokota with the gavel for the bell to get a close 20 count on the outside. Yokota gets in and gets some fiery offense but gets dropkicked on a crossbody. Galactica with senton, another double team to set up a big power slam off the second rope for a huge near fall. Galactica whips Yokota which is reversed and Galactica runs into the ropes, leaving her open to a tiger suplex for the win to retain the UWA Women's Title. I thought this match was very good, but didn't reach the great match status. The finish kinda felt like it came out of nowhere, but also made sense in the context of the match since Jaguar Yokota never really was on offense for a whole of time. Jaguar's selling was very good, and even though Galactica lost and used her team to continue her advantage, she looked very strong.
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  8. Alex
    This is during Japan Grand Prix 1985. I'm watching this via AJW Classics. Dump right away goes for Nagayo during her entrance, beating her up with a rod. Streamers are still being thrown in during this beatdown through . Dump hits a clothesline and a chin lock, and we get our first schoolgirl chant of CHIGUSA CHIGUSA. Chigusa is able to win a striking exchange, but Dump takes over again and Bull Nakano & Crane Yu (who wrestled each other on this show) beat up on Nagayo. Nagayo recovers and does a promo (I have no idea what she says), but the schoolgirls are screaming. Test of strength, the girls are really into it, and Dump forces the ref to bump to Chigusa's running attack and the ref pushes Chigusa lol. Dump gets the chain out and ties up Nagayo's left leg, and gets the rod again, and starts to really beat up Nagayo. Dump struggles to stab Nagayo with the rod, but forces it into Nagayo's chest, bites her and gives her a piledriver. After getting beat up by Dump's army on the outside, Nagayo gets the upper hand on Dump but she totally snaps by attacking the referee and beating Dump with the rod. Nagayo gets DQ'ed. The announcer says something that enrages Dump and she attacks another ref on the outside. In total there was about 10-13 minutes of wrestling, most of it not being that competitive since it's practically a handicap match.
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  10. Alex
    Yamada taking the beating...I'm ok with this, that means there's less screaming from Toyota! Aja Kong had me dying multiple time in this match, the kick while Yamada is in camel clutch and her taunting...so good. Kyoko's definitely the workhorse in this match, she makes this match great. Really nice finishing stretch, crowd was super into it. ZENJO CLAP CLAP CLAP ZENJO CLAP CLAP CLAP.
  11. Alex
    This is for Hokuto's All-Pacific Title. Frenetic opening trading suplexes, Hokuto slows it down with the sleeper and leg submissions and the camel clutch (with fishhooks!). Takako gets a tope and slams Hokuto's leg on a table to work leg submissions afterward. Hokuto reverses a hurracanrana to a power bomb, and goes for two missile dropkicks while selling the leg and misses the second which allows Takako to go for more leg holds. Hokuto reverses a move to get a plancha con hilo and two suplexes for two, and then the Northern Lights Bomb for the dub. Hokuto's offense was so good in this match, but it's hard to buy a Takako win in this match when her biggest move here was a superplex and a lot of her offense was doing kneebars.
  12. Alex
    Yeah this tag match was solid. Toyota pin balling for Bull was fun. That part where Toyota has the bridge, but Nakano can't break it, so Aja sits on Toyota was cool. Goddamn was the finishing stretch hot as hell, it was fantastic. Nakano had a great performance in this match.
  13. Alex
    This match was very good. Kyoko dominates most of the match except for small sections where Takako gets some offense in, but Takako's offense on the floor gave her more credibility in getting a possible upset. Kyoko sold those moves like death. The gap between count of 18 and 19 was pretty long though. Takako got some more big near falls in the ending stretch, but Kyoko regained her composure and won convincingly.
  14. Alex
    The last LCO vs Toyota/Yamada matchup I watch (1994.01.24), LCO was clearly not equals to Toyota/Yamada, but that gap has narrowed by a lot. Also Shimoda is the queen bitch now, she is great. LCO's hardcore wrestling starts about 5 minutes in with chair shots, and Toyota does a blade job. The female commentator looks shocked at the brawling on the outside. Toyota has enough of Shimoda's shit, and she is a bloody mess, but Mita crushes her chair shots. Haha, the table is already bloody before getting used for a power bomb spot. For some reason the ref refuses to count a Shimoda German suplex hold, so she kicks him. Toyota hits a moonsault on Mita, but Shimoda breaks up a pin with chair shots to the leg. Shimoda accidentally cracks Mita in the head with a chairshot, and here we go to the finishing sequence. Yamada gets tagged in and eats a chairshot followed by the Death Valley Bomb for two! Yamada gets a big near fall at the end, but Mita gets the huge pinball win on Yamada with the Death Valley Bomb. This got about 15-16 minutes and it was a fun match, not too much filler.
  15. Alex
    This is an elimination match but starts off like Thunderqueen, I guess AJW was trying to capture the brilliance of Thunderqueen a few months prior. Minami and Masami open up for the first five minutes, and Minami surprisingly holds her own but she gets bombed to hell, just holds out long enough to draw the first 5 minutes. Then we get Ozaki vs Shimoda for another five minutes, and we get another draw. Then, in comes the Mita vs Mariko matchup, Mita completely owns Mariko until Mariko pulls out a kneebar, and...we get another draw. Now we get Akira Hokuto face off with Dynamite Kansai. Test of strength, and here come the kicks, and Hokuto is literally kicked out of the ring. Right when Kansai hits the Splash Mountain, we get another draw. So that's 20 minutes gone with literally no consequences. JWP gets a collective superplex for 2. And then we go a Survivor Series tag team match. The elimination of Mariko by Minami feels really strange, since Minami and LCO were on defense literally seconds before the fall, but a simple power bomb gets the elimination. Devil Masami gets in, and LCO hit a series of dives and Minami gets a sloppy tope. Then JWP hits Hokuto with a series of lariats, but Hokuto eliminates Masami with a victory roll. JWP is now down to Ozaki and Kansai. Hokuto gets the LCO pose on Kansai! And then a four way diving headbutt! We get a Ozaki vs Shimoda matchup and Ozaki gets a bridged suplex to eliminate Shimoda really quickly. 3-2 AJW. Ozaki with a power bomb to Hokuto, and a double diving headbutt. Minami is in against Ozaki and gets some pretty big near falls. OZAKI chants in AJW. Ozaki gets a schoolboy against Mita to be able to tag in Kansai, and she wrecks Minami and Mita to eliminate Mita. Minami is then quickly eliminated by a double power bomb clothesline move. This wins the match? Hokuto never got eliminated. I thought the wrestling was mostly really good, but the booking of this match is not that great. Just about half of this match is complete filler (well I guess the Kansai/Hokuto face off was pretty cool). If this match started off after the final draw, I would have liked this match a lot better.
  16. Alex
    There were so many moments that made me go "Oh Jesus". Brutal, brutal match. This ruled.
  17. Alex
    I agree with FLIK on his opinions of Mita vs Shimoda; Mita was definitely hotter, more charismatic and a better wrestler than Shimoda in the early 90's but when LCO really became the real "Oriental Bitches", that's when Shimoda really shined. First two falls were pretty solid, but the third fall was rather strange and LCO just didn't have the offense in to make it that compelling. Crowd wasn't really buying it, but the crowd was definitely feeling in the last few minutes. Pretty good match overall, though too long.
  18. Alex
    This felt like a title match between the established veteran and the future of the company, but there was no title on the line. Bull Nakano's selling was fantastic, really putting over Inoue and Kyoko brings it also. Ending stretch was pretty awesome too (well, except when Nakano had to wait for a while for Kyoko's flying move). Great match.
  19. Alex
    I've seen two versions of this match, one with commentary and one without. And the one without commentary is definitely way more difficult to watch, not just because of the no commentary aspect, but the crowd sounds even more lifeless. But in general, AJW in 1997 has dead crowds and it definitely makes it harder to watch than earlier stuff despite solid matches. Title card says VIOLENCE WAR and it is wicked accurate. Tomoko knows she's going to war before the match even happens, wearing those football pads . Mostly a big brawl with juicing with lots of hardcore wrestling (chains, chairs and a guardrail oh my) and big moves and submission holds mixed in. Ending was really cool. Fantastic match.
  20. Alex
    Kyoko is the ace of the company now, and she is defending her Triple Crown against the former ace here. Despite being the champion, Kyoko is outsized and gets outclassed by Aja Kong early in the match. Kyoko gets little bursts of offense, but even if she hits two DDTs, she gets two hellacious chair shots in return. Kyoko is finally able to ground Aja after a DDT and headlock. At this point the match feels more even, but then we get some brawling where Aja has a clear advantage and Kyoko eats a big pile driver to a table on the outside. This leads to the stretch of big moves, which I think was not completely justified; Kyoko hits a frankensteiner and that fucks up Kong enough to allow her get shit in. One power bomb had struggle, but all the others are rather easy. Kyoko gets enough offense in to get a stalemate, Kyoko gets a lariat when both get to their feet, she misses another and gets suplexed to hell. Aja messes up a superplex, which is the pretty much the last of her on offense in the match and gets bombed and slammed three more times to get Kyoko the victory. This match was mostly pretty good title match, with some flaws and hiccups.
  21. Alex
    This was the 7th of 8 matches at AJW's final Wrestling Queendom. What a difference between this match and the previous match! This is going a 100 miles an hour, all the girls have to get their offense in. Even top rope DDTs are getting two counts. Yoshida gets pinned in less than five minutes into the match after a Doomsday Device and an Ax Kick. Yoshida eats more offense in the second fall, but avoids the Ax Kick to get Takako tagged back in. So much offense from all women happens in such a short amount of time, it is hard to keep track all of the sequences. Yoshida hits a missile dropkick after a missed power bomb from Tomoko, and Inoue and Yoshida get a double power bomb. Takako basically misses a Takako Panic, but gets second one to finish the second fall like 11 minutes into the match. Third fall starts much slower with Yoshida being grounded with submission holds, including a camel clutch double team with kicks to the face. Yoshida reverses Kumiko's stiff offense to get some nice submission holds in and here comes Takako and Yoshida double teams. Kumiko even gets put in the camel clutch and gets kicked in the face by Takako. Now this fall feels like a proper Joshi match, lots of buildup, a bunch of submissions, a bunch of double teams and go out with a bang. Kumiko accidentally kicks Tomoko with the Axe Kick and Takako hits a Panic, and Yoshida and Inoue get a Doomsday Device-like move and a double superplex for near falls. Yoshida goes for Air Raid Crash and gets dumped on her head. Doomsday Senton for two! Blue Thunderbomb for two! It becomes Yoshida and Watanabe showcase to finish the fall with Tomoko taking it in the end to retain the titles. The first two falls were too much in my opinion, the third fall is pretty solid 15 minute joshi tag team match. I kind of wish they just did a single fall match.
  22. Alex
    This was the 6th of 8 matches at AJW's final Wrestling Queendom. Right off, Ito hits a German suplex and we get table spots from both women. None of this matters though, these spots and all the submission holds get no sold until Ito smashes Toyota's leg in the railing. This is the first part of the match that feels like they're actually going anywhere with a story and any kind of selling. Toyota's boot even gets taped out on the floor by her team after a bunch of big moves. But Jesus Christ, I wish Ito knew another leg submission besides a single leg crab, Toyota has to sit in like 10 of these in this match. And so many footstomps! Toyota definitely has some Sabu moments in this match as well, like almost completely missing that first table spot and crotching herself setting up a diving missile dropkick and Ito has to wait around to eat it. Ito missing the diving footstomp to the floor sets up the finish with a ton of big moves. Since this was a 30 minute time limit, the match is being teased as time limit draw, but Ito wins with a screwdriver-like move at ~29:30. I thought this match was mediocre. Ito was on offense a lot, and her offense, is...not good. So many half-crabs, so many stomps, it just made the majority of the match feel like filler.
  23. Alex
    Smarkschoice had a lot of joshi fans though, I think they had their own sub-forum. AJW was dead by then, but not for that long and joshi is just nowhere near as big as used to be. I know I'd have these wrestlers on my list: Jaguar Yokota Jackie Sato Devil Masami Chigusa Nagayo Bull Nakano Aja Kong Akira Hokuto Mayumi Ozaki Dynamite Kansai Mariko Yoshida Meiko Satomura etc
  24. Alex
    Why didn't Hokuto get the strap? She has a ton of charisma, always was a good talker (I don't know what she's saying ever but she is top tier in joshi. And I know it doesn't really matter in Japan), her matches were incredible, and she was over as hell. This match has always been and always will be amazing. It was one of my first Zenjo matches and still love the hell out of it for all these years. I've never understood the narrative that Kandori was carried here, she was working her ass off for this match. An all-out war, up there with matches like Tully/TA for me.
  25. Alex
    Oh my God. This match is brilliant, a total chaotic war, probably my favorite kind of wrestling. This is the best match from AJPW in the 80s in my opinion and definitely up there with the best of the decade.
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