So last week we were talking about what will happen to the WWWA Singles Title, known as the legendary red belt. The belt has been in storage since AJW closed last spring. And now of course the final champ Kumiko Maekawa is retiring and she has the belt.
Maekawa defended the title for the first time since AJW closed at the Feb. 19 GIRLS DOOR show against Ayako Hamada. Ayako won the title in 20:36 with the AP Cross. Congratulations to the new champ! Except that after the show there was some discussion and Ayako returned the belt to Maekawa. So what's that all about?
On Tuesday it was announced that Kumiko Maekawa has brought informer AJW chairman Takashi Matsunaga to produce her retirement showon Mar. 26 at Korakuen Hall. It seems that after defending the title against Nanae Takahashi on the retirement show, Maekawa will turn the belt over to Matsunaga and it will be retired. That will be the end of that. Maekawa is doing this out of loyalty to the Matsunagas.
So what was that title change all about? You know how it is. Sometimes promoters take stupid pills. I guess the nostalgia value was supposed to get some publicity for GIRLS DOOR. If something was actually going to be done with the belt in the next month, that would be fine. But phantom title changes are never a good idea as they tend to annoy fans. The whole thing makes no sense, not that it will stop them from doing it. Here's the results of the GIRLS DOOR show.
GIRLS DOOR - 2/19/06 - Shinjuku FACE
Atsuko Emoto def. Ayako Sato in 9:14
GAMI def. Cherry in 10:42
Kaoru Ito & Michiko Ohmukai def. Kyoko Kimura & Bambi (Ito over Kimura in 20:24)
Dynamite Kansai & Manami Toyota def. Aja Kong & Tomoko Watanabe(Toyota over Watanabe in 11:29)
WWWA SINGLES TITLE MATCH:Ayako Hamada def. Kumiko Maekawa in 20:36
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