JD STAR begins LEAGUE PRINCESS tournament

JD STAR began the League Princess tournament on their April 1 show at Shin-kiba 1st Ring. This is a round robin tournament for eight wrestlers with less than three years experience. The tournament matches will be on the undercard of the usual JD STAR shows. The eight wrestlers have been divided into two blocks of four. A wrestler gets two points for a win and of course zero for a loss. If a match is a draw there will be a five minute overtime and the winner gets one point. This tournament will be going on for the next couple of months with the final on June 25. It fills up the undercard so I guess it's not a bad thing.




Of course as always JD STAR's motivation for doing this or anything else is suspect because they are committed to pushing the Athtress concept. So when their recent attempt to try and push Fuuka as an ace didn't turn out too well, they decided she might do better against less experienced competition. This bit them on the butt in Sunday's first round. Fuuka faced Bambi from K-Dojo. Until recently Bambi hadn't won a match in her career. However, it appears that this new look that she unveiled at the recent Ibuki show has given her new confidence. She won her match on that show. You know what? She won her match here too. Fuuka suffered a busted lip and a popped eardum. Bambi won with her new finisher the diving senton in 7:23. And she got blood all over her brand new white bathing suit. And of course I have photographic evidence for your enjoyment.




The other matches had Tomoka Nakagawa over Yuri Urai, Natsuki*Head over Ayumi Kurihara. Shuu Shibutani & Mai Ichii had a ten minute draw and Shibutani won in the overtime. The main event had AKINO & Hikaru over Saki Maemura & Bullfight Sora.




So a bit of a surprise in the first matches of the League Princess tournament but just keep in mind it's a long tournament and JD STAR could be doing a bit of a swerve so Fuuka comes from behind or some nonsense like that. They really have to prove that they're not trying to hoodwink fans all the time and their past behaviour tells us that's what they will try to do. I would like to be pleasantly surprised for a change. The next matches in League Princess will be on Apr. 15. Here's the results of the show and a link to three pages of pics.




JD STAR - 4/1/06 - Shin-kiba 1st Ring
LEAGUE PRINCESS:Tomoka Nakagawa (2) def. Yuri Urai (0) in 7:47
LEAGUE PRINCESS:Bambi (2) def. Fuuka in 7:23
LEAGUE PRINCESS:Shuu Shibutani - 10 min. draw - Mai Ichii, Shibutani (1) def. Ichii (0) in 2:22 of overtime
LEAGUE PRINCESS:Natsuki*Head (2) def. Ayumi Kurihara (0) in 8:04
GAMI & Yuki Miyazaki def. Nanae Takahashi & Kyoko Kimura (Takahashi counted out in 22:59)
AKINO & Hikaru def. Saki Maemura & Bullfight Sora (AKINO over Maemura in 18:45)




http://sikisai.heavy.jp/p05.prowres.142_1.html