Double shot in Yokohama

Golden Week concluded on May 6 with a double shot at the Red Brick Warehouse in Yokohama. There was an Ibuki show in the afternoon followed by a joint JWP/NEO show in the evening. Great news for joshi fans. The Ibuki show is scheduled to be on Samurai TV for the first time. Previous shows have been released on DVD. So this show should be available at your favourite joshi video dealer in the next couple of months.





This was also the first time Ibuki ventured outside Tokyo. As usual, the show featured all of the young wrestlers training at Mariko Yoshida's gym. And the special guest star was Meiko Satomura. The main event was an elimination tag team match with Atsuko Emoto & Ayumi Kurihara vs Bambi & Kyoko Kimura. There's been a lot of talk about Bambi lately but it appears she wasn't very good on this day. Emoto won the final fall over Kimura with an avalanche brainbuster.





The evening show was JWP vs NEO. It had some goofiness like JWP masked wrestler ECO defeating Tanny Mouse by spraying hair spray in her eyes. ECO is supposed to be an ecological warrior so it's very silly. The main event was a JWP vs NEO 30 minute iron woman match with JWP's Tsubasa Kuragaki, Commando Bolshoi, Kayoko Haruyama & Kaori Yoneyama vs Kyoko Inoue, Misae Genki, Etsuko Mita & Haruka Matsuo. Most falls in 30 minutes. Kyoko worked the match on a bad ankle from her May 5 match with Nanae Takahashi. She will have X-rays this week but torn ligaments in her ankle are suspected. Bolshoi won the first fall over Mita with a hurricanrana at 3:16. Mita tied it up at 1-1 with the death valley driver on Haruyama at 23:29. With time running out, Genki gave the G-driver to Yoneyama and the bell rang at the count of two. A tie meant the match continued in sudden death. Yoneyama got a flash pin on Genki in 34 seconds. JWP wins. Here's the results of both shows.





IBUKI - 5/6/06 - Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse
Mai Ichii def. Ayako Sato in 10:11
Leon def. Cherry in 13:08
Mariko Yoshida & Shuu Shibutani def. Meiko Satomura & Tomoka Kakagawa (Shibutani over Nakagawa in 15:48)
Kaoru Ito def. Natsuki*Head in 19:46
ELIMINATION TAG TEAM MATCH:Atsuko Emoto & Ayumi Kurihara def. bambi & Kyoko Kimura (Kimura over Kurihara in 11:22, Emoto over Bambi in 15:23, Emoto over Kimura in 22:51)




JWP vs NEO - 5/6/06 - Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse
Yuka Shiina def. KAZUKI in 8:54
Yuka Nakamura def. Electric Wave Mask Woman in 3:42
ECO def. Tanny Mouse in 7:11
Yoshiko Tamura & Yuki Miyazaki def. Azumi Hyuga & Ran YuYu (Miyazaki over Hyuga in 22:16)
30 MINUTE IRON WOMAN MATCH:Tsubasa Kuragaki, Commando Bolshoi, Kayoko Haruyama & Kaori Yoneyama def. Kyoko Inoue, Etsuko Mita, Misae Genki & Haruka Matsuo (Bolshoi over Mita in 3:16, Mita over Haruyama in 23:29)
SUDDEN DEATH:Yoneyama over Genki in 34 sec.