[1996-05-03-AJW] Manami Toyota & Yumiko Hotta vs Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue

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The early highlight here is Kong putting on a reverse Indian deathlock the way her partner so often does, and Kyoko successfully encouraging her to do her clap hands/hip shimmy move.

 

Other than that, there wasn't much new under the sun for the body of this. They all worked hard and quick, but it felt very house-showy and run-of-the-mill, despite some last-second pin saves. The "new" stuff came at the very end, when Hotta and Kong started trading submissions--a sequence that pays off with Hotta getting on a cross armbreaker and getting Kong to tap! That *feels* like a historic result, at least. Overall, this was fine, but inconsequential.