Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Big night for Hikaru at Apr. 2 Empress show

For those who don't know, Empress Produce is the joshi fed started by joshi legends Jaguar Yokota & Devil Masami. They had their third show April 2 at Shinjuku FACE. Jaguar & Devil have been calling some of their old pals from joshi of the 70s & 80s to appear. Last time around it was Mimi Hagiwara, possibly the most beautiful woman ever to appear in a joshi ring. She still has a huge fan following over twenty years after her retirement. On this show there was a special appearance by Tomi Aoyama, one half of the Queen Angels tag team of the late 70s with Lucy Kayama. Tomi was a great athlete who unfortunately was forced to retire prematurely due to a bad knee. She was fun to watch.




Though the main event was Aja Kong vs Devil Masami, Hikaru was scheduled to challenge for the NSG Title. The champ was determined at the Mar. 21 M's Style show. it would be the winner of the Leon vs Saki Maemura match. Leon won and would defend against Hikaru. After flowers were presented to Tomi Aoyama, Maemura teamed up with Azumi Hyuga vs Jaguar Yokota & Natsuki*Head. Jaguar pinned Maemura with a fisherman buster. This was followed by Nanae Takahashi over Toshie Uematsu and then Kaoru Ito & Ayako Sato def. Mariko Yoshida & Ayumi Kurihara.




AKINO faced Mayumi Ozaki next and of course that meant that she had to face Police & Chikayo Nagashima as well. Bullfight Sora came down to help AKINO but it was to no avail as Ozaki was the winner. This was followed by a talk show featuring Tomi Aoyama, Lioness Asuka & Jaguar Yokota. Talking about the good old days was very entertaining for the fans. Jaguar said she was supposed to be Tomi's partner in the Queen Angels but management thought she was too short and replaced her with Lucy Kayama. That was a pretty good team so that turned out very well. Next was Meiko Satomura & Dynamite Kansai vs Mika Nishio & Hiroyo Muto. Meiko said before the match that her four trainees will be ready to go on the Sendai Girls debut show on July 9. Satomura won the match over Muto with the Death Valley Bomb.




Next Leon defended her NSG Title against Hikaru. Hikaru won the title using the Tower Hacker Bomb and then said she would like to raise the value of the belt by defending it against Mika Nishio & Kaori Yoneyama. The main event had two joshi legends in Aja Kong & Devil Masami. Aja won with her back fist finisher. Aja said afterwards that she was very impressed with the performances by the younger wrestlers on the show. The Empress shows have been very well received so far and Jaguar & Devil announced that the next show will be in July.

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