NEO's April 12 show at Itabashi Green Hall turned out to be sort of an impromptu celebration of Sachie Abe's 10th anniversary in joshi. Sachie is a very pretty girl and a decent wrestler. She was trained by Jaguar Yokota at JD and spent the first seven years of her career there. She was fortunate to have a long feud with Naomi (The Bloody) Kato while working there. Like a lot of JD wrestlers, she left in 2003 when the JD obsession with the Athtresses got ridiculous. She joined Yumiko Hotta's newly acquired A To Z and is still hanging around with Hotta today. Abe is not a main event performer. She lacks intensity at times and her primary finisher is the Majistral Cradle, not exactly a power move. But she is fun to watch sometimes and is very good at taking a beating while smiling.
The show started with Misae Genki giving that goofy DJ Nira guy a choke slam to end a tag match. More about Genki later. NEO comedy wrestler Tanny Mouse announced that she would be teaming with Sachie Abe on her 10th anniversary. The opponents are Megumi Yabushita & Etsuko Mita. Mita has been having knee problems lately but she got through the match and won over Tanny Mouse with a fisherman suplex. This was followed by Kyoko Inoue & Toshie Uematsu vs Yoshiko Tamura & Yuki Miyazaki. Kyoko won over Miyazaki with the Niagara Driver. Kyoko spoke afterwards about NEO wrestlers wanting to work with Nanae Takahashi and Flash 7.
Misae Genki didn't get enough work earlier in the show so she decided to team up with rookie Tomoka Nakagawa against Nanae Takahashi & Hikaru. Takahashi & Hikaru wisely concentrated on the rookie as trying to attack Genki didn't get them anywhere. Putting a rookie in a main event wasn't smart. She doesn't cut it. After Hikaru pinned Nakagawa, Genki wasn't satisfied and confronted Takahashi & Hikaru. She challenged both of them. Kyoko Inoue is promising good matches for her wrestlers and fans. It remains to be seen if she can deliver.
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