[2004-04-30-GAEA-Yoyogi Limit Break] Meiko Satomura vs Ayako Hamada

[ohtani's jacket]

I was at this show, but I've never actually watched it on tape until now. The crowd was dead for this match after being electric during the Crush Girls vs Nagashima & Sato match, and it's not difficult to see why. It's a better match than I expected given how shitty Hamada looked heading into the show, but the majority of the bout is close quarters stuff, which looks good on tape but doesn't really play to folks in the arena. Some great facial expressions and plenty of intensity. Probably looked good on the big screen, but pales in comparison to the pops that Chigusa and Lioness drew. Hamada botches a spot on the outside that sucks the life out of things a bit. They try to make up for it in typical Japanese fashion by stiffing each other for a bit, but it still leaves me a bit sour faced. The right person goes over, and they run a post-match angle that I had totally forgotten about, but was designed to draw folks to the next show.