At the end of 2004, Mayumi Ozaki announced that she was ramping up her efforts as a promoter in partnership with Masatoshi Yamamoto, a guy she had worked with in JWP. He has a money mark. This Going Up show on Feb. 8, 2005 at the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse was their first effort together. That's Yamamoto doing colour commentary. The partnership didn't really work out. Ozaki continues to produce her OZ Academy shows more frequently than previously but she's probably a little disappointed her big plans didn't work out. Yamamoto has started EXCITING BOX with Megumi Kudo as one of his partners. But they did produce this one very good show together. All matches are in their entirety and the production quality is top notch. As usual, Ozaki seems to have a very good feeling for what works on a wrestling show.
The opener is Mariko Yoshida & Manami Toyota vs Dynamite Kansai & AKINO. In a nice touch, AKINO wears lime green to match Kansai. It's a pretty good match. AKINO brings a lot of energy like she always does and all the wrestlers get to do the things that they do well.Kansai wins over Toyota with a splash mountain. Next is GAMI vs Aja Kong. Obviously it's a comedy match with GAMI trying to avoid Aja at all costs. She pays the price when Aja gets her hands on her. GAMI uses a Greco Roman eye poke to put Aja down for two. That just makes Aja mad and her back fist gives Aja the win.
Next is a match billed as "Carrying Concealed Weapons". It's Dump Matsumoto & Shark Tsuchiya vs Mayumi Ozaki & Takako Inoue. Dump is accompanied to the ring by her stooge Sasori and this masked guy called Z-Father. Of course Ozaki brings Police with her. Both teams bring various weapons. Takako is busted open thirty seconds into the match courtesy of Dump's fork. It's just like the Atrocious Alliance. All you need is Shiro Abe to ref and look the other way. Dump, Shark & company beat up Takako, Ozaki & Police for the first few minutes with chains, chairs, Shark's scythe, a little bit of everything. Takako finally turns things around by using her stun gun and Takako & Ozaki get their revenge, on Shark anyway. Shark takes all the punishment. For one thing, Dump can't move. That's why Sasori is with her. For another thing, she probably outweighs Takako & Ozaki combined. How would they move her? The ending is hilarious. After all this garbage wrestling, Takako pins Shark with a monkey flip turned into a rollup. That was too funny.
Next is a JD tribute match with Jaguar Yokota, Devil Masami & Lioness Asuka vs Fang Suzuki, Sumie Sakai & Megumi Yabushita. Jaguar is in tremendous shape for her age. It takes a lot of hard work to look that good. It was pretty much a love fest with the old timers winning. The main event has Mayumi Ozaki vs AKINO. As usual, Police helps Ozaki get the upper hand. Kansai tries to help AKINO but isn't as successful. Both wrestlers work very hard and Ozaki wins the match with a highly technical chair shot to the head. So it was a pretty enjoyable show and as I said before, there's none of the usual editing of matches. The DVD is about two hours long.
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