T-1 president Futami loses his cool

Some pretty crazy stuff went down at Thursday's T-1 GP show at Shinjuku FACE. T-1 president Futami lost his cool in an altercation with Yumiko Hotta and then announced that he was through with the joshi business.



The problems seemed to start during the semi main event between Chikayo Nagashima & Kaori Yoneyama. Futami had invited Emi Tojyo to appear on the show despite her recent appearance in adult videos. Apparently this didn't go over well with the wrestlers. Tojyo didn't show up. So during this match Futami got up on the ring apron and started berating Yoneyama over her performance. Yoneyama told him to get off the ring apron and suggested he was upset Tojyo didn't accept his invitation.



Then things got really out of control during the main event. It was Manami Toyota, Yumiko Hotta & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Mayumi Ozaki, Megumi Yabushita & Amazing Kong. At one point in the match, Hotta threw Ozaki out of the ring. Hotta had been arguing with Futami during the match. He threatened to enter the ring. Then after Hotta used her pyramid driver on Yabushita to win the match, Futami did enter the ring to confront Hotta. Hotta then grabbed Futami's sunglasses and shattered them. He got on the mic and said that 50,000 yen would be deducted from Hotta's guarantee to pay for the broken sunglasses. The two glared at each other but the refs kept them apart so nothing else happened.



Futami was still angry backstage when he announced that the joshi business isn't worth the aggravation and T-1 will take their money elsewhere. There's embarassment in baseball when you lose but there's nothing like this. T-1 is officially through with joshi.



Now if I had paid money to see this show, I would have been very annoyed that the sponsor was running around disrupting the show because he was upset with some of the wrestlers. No one paid to see Futami go nuts. It was very unprofessional. It's too bad joshi lost a sponsor but I'm not sure this is much of a loss. He had no business going into the ring. Let the wrestlers do their jobs and deal with the personalities afterwards. Here's the results of the show.



T-1 GP - 2/23/06 - Shinjuku FACE
Michiko Ohmukai def. Kyoko Kimura in 11:45
Nozomi Takesako def. Yuna in 8:15
T-1 Mask def. Ayumi Kurihara in 10:07
Chikayo Nagashima def. Kaori Yoneyama in 11:44
Manami Toyota, Yumiko Hotta & Tsubasa Kuragaki def. Megumi Yabushita, Mayumi Ozaki & Amazing Kong (Hotta over Yabushita in 17:59)