PeteF3 Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted March 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 This was on FLIK's recommended GAEA list and you can see why, as it involves a major joshi star against a top-quality worker. Yamada blitzes Nagayo at the start, and is about to go for the Gory Special Bomb in the early going. Nagayo rolls through with a neat counter and applies an anklelock and...gets the tapout at 1:51?? And it's a one-fall match, too. Both women say something on the mic afterward. Is this part of a deeper story? Nagayo jobbing out the AJW worker? Weird. I guess the big story comes afterward, as Nagayo introduces Akira Hokuto to the audience, in what was probably seen as a big deal at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenjo Posted March 24, 2015 Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 My best explanation for the booking was that Yamada was in the midst of a losing streak storyline at the time. She'd been depushed in AJW during 1996, losing to wrestlers she always used to beat. As the company ace, Chigusa therefore felt it necessary to notch up a crushing win over an opponent who was damaged goods by this point. The following year Yamada would move to GAEA permanently and benefit from the lighter schedule during the remaining years of her career. It was definitely a major coup with Hokuto moving to GAEA. They now had a second major star to headline their shows so it didn't have to be Chigusa main eventing all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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