[2004-01-11-GAEA-Wild TImes] Ayako Hamada vs Dynamite Kansai

[ohtani's jacket]

I'm not gonna lie, I expected Kansai to be awful in this match but she wasn't. She wasn't prime Dynamite Kansai, but she shouldn't be expected to be as good as she was in the 80s and 90s. She could still kick hard and still had an aura of toughness. Ayako, on the other hand, was terrible. I was so behind her rise in ARSION and her emergence as one of the bright young stars of Joshi Puroresu, but just about everything she did in this match annoyed me to the extent that I was hoping Kansai would win. It's been a while since I've seen a match where a worker did some much damage to their rep.  So disappointing.