On Friday, Chigusa Nagayo promoted her first show since closing GAEA
at Shijuku FACE attracting a sell out crowd of 500. Chigusa used the
money she made at her restaurant to stage the show. The show was
titled Marvels Night. There was very little advance promotion and
none of the matches were announced in advance. And the goofiest part
was that all the wrestlers and matches were in costume play. This is
not unprecedented as AJW would do that occasionally but it's still a
strange way to do a debut show. The show started with Aja Kong's
announcement that Nov. 11 is Dump Matsumoto's 45th birthday. Sonoko
Kato brought out a birthday cake and a stuffed Winnie The Pooh and
Dump started to cry with happiness. I wish I had been there to see
that. The first match had Chikayo Nagashima dressed as a schoolgirl
against Devil Masami dressed like somebody's mother. Chikayo was
accompanied by five real high school girls. Nagashima won in 6:42.
The second match had Candy 2 (Tomoko Watanabe) defeat some guy in a
mask in 9:26. Then Yokota MOE (Jaguar Yokota as a housemaid) over A-
BOY ( Carlos Amano dressed up as a man) in 8:21. Next was Manami
Toyota dressed as a character in a popular soap opera over Meiko
Satomura in a general's uniform in 9:54. Finally, an international
contest had Dynamite Kansai as an American & Ayako Hamada as a
Mexican (very funny) over Toshie Uematsu & Mayumi Ozaki in what I
think were food related costumes. Anyway, the show sounds very
strange but it did well. What will Chigusa do next?
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