KO Productions held the conclusion of their ONLY ONE tournament Tuesday at Korakuen Hall. You may recall that Hikaru lost her first round match a while back. So they had an empty slot in the second round and rather than giving Saki Maemura a bye, they had a scramble match with first round losers Hikaru, Fuuka & Shuu Shibutani. Hikaru won that match and got back in the tournament. I suppose they could have done worse things.
Hikaru defeated Saki Maemura in her second round match. Kana & Mika Nishio won their matches. The fourth second round match was a much anticipated match between Nanae Takahashi & Yumiko Hotta. Oh yeah, that's right. Takahashi wasn't in the first round of the tournament. They went over twenty minutes and neither of them would do the job. The match ended in a double countout and both were eliminated. Nishio got a bye into the finals. Shouldn't they have had another loser's scramble match to fill that slot? Never mind. Sorry I tried to use logic. This is the kind of booking on the fly foolishness the joshi business has become.
Hikaru defeated Kana in her semi final match and then won the tournament final from Nishio. So what's going on here anyway? Here's my theory. If you like it, fine. If you don't like it, that's OK too. In order to get Hikaru to cancel future M's Style appearances, KO Productions & Flash 7 had to put her over in this tournament. And neither Takahashi or Hotta had to job to her. So they give the appearance of elevating Hikaru without her beating anyone of significance. Everybody's happy...I guess. Here's the results of the show.
KO PRODUCTIONS - 1/3/06 - Korakuen Hall
ONLY ONE TOURNAMENT LOSER'S SCRAMBLE THREE WAY MATCH:Hikaru def. Fuuka & Shuu Shibutani in 6:01
DEBUT MATCH:Mika Mizunuma def. Yasusato Nakajima in 6:48-both are big girls
ONLY ONE TOURNAMENT ROUND TWO
Kana def. Sachie Abe in 7:36
Hikaru def. Saki Maemura in 14:05
Mika Nishio def. Kumiko Maekawa in 18:35
Nanae Takahashi - Double countout in 23:55 - Yumiko Hotta
ONLY ONE TOURNAMENT SEMI FINAL:Mika Nishio def. Kana in 8:50
ONLY ONE TOURNAMENT FINAL:Hikaru def. Mika Nishio in 13:23
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