So with Yumiko Hotta having the ONLY ONE show to promote on Mar. 19, it's pretty obvious that the war of words between Hotta and T-1 president Futami will result in an angle at the show. Futami has been expending a lot of energy to defend his behaviour at the T-1 GP show on Feb. 23.
He says on the T-1 website that extending an invitation to Emi Tojyo to appear on the show got him into big trouble with some of the other wrestlers. Her involvement in an adult video has made her persona non grata with a lot of the wrestlers. He got into a very noisy argument backstage with Mayumi Ozaki. He says he tried to calm her down but she didn't want to hear any of it. She was clearly very upset with him and threatened not to appear on the show unless she got paid in advance. The argument continued during the show until Futami came out to the ring during the Kaori Yoneyama/Chikayo Nagashima match to berate Yoneyama. He says this was not planned and was a result of the backstage argument with Ozaki because Yoneyama sided with Ozaki. It appears that the confrontation during the main event with Hotta was planned. However, he says things got out of hand earlier and stayed that way for the rest of the day. He admits now that he hurt the show.
On Mar. 7 Yumiko Hotta told Sportsnavi that Futami is welcome to come to the ONLY ONE show on Mar. 19 to try and collect 50,000 yen for the broken sunglasses if he can. Futami faxed a response to Hotta saying that he's responsible for Hotta getting media coverage for her show and if it wasn't for him no one would care if she called it A To Z, ONLY ONE or whatever. He wants to help her sell tickets anyway so he can collect what she owes him for the sunglasses. He says maybe he'll show up with his own team for the ONLY ONE tag tournament.
Hotta's response was very typical of her character. She decided to go to the T-1 office on Friday with a Sportsnavi reporter in tow to confront Futami in person. It's not the first time Hotta has done this to set up an angle. Not surprisingly, they got into an argument in front of the reporter. The result of this is that Futami will have a T-1 team in the ONLY ONE tag tournament. Their opponents? Yumiko Hotta & Kumiko Maekawa. Well, what do you know? The other match in the tournament will have Manami Toyota & Sachie Abe vs ZAP & Scorpion (both are masked wrestlers). Kana will also have her retirement ceremony on the show. Hotta crowed that she called out Futami in person and he had no choice but to respond accordingly. She was upset that he responded to her by fax. So there you have it. The Hotta/Futami war continues. It should be good for a laugh anyway.
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