Wrestle Expo 2006 held a press conference to announce most of the special joshi show on August 20 at the Obaida arena in the Tokyo Bay development. The show is being booked by JWP owner Commando Bolshoi and will feature wrestlers from all the joshi companies. It's called World Women's Wrestling Classics (WWWC) and the main attraction is a World Cup tournament. The tournament is to have eight wrestlers from Japan, North America, Latin America & Europe. They have only named six wrestlers with more to be announced.
The Japanese wrestlers are Yoshiko Tamura from NEO & freelancer Kyoko Kimura. Now it gets interesting. Amapola is coming from Mexico. She has been working a lot for CMLL lately and I think she has been to Japan before. Also returning to Japan is Ireland's Rebecca Knox, considered by many to be one of the best female wrestlers today. She was in Japan last fall for the IW*GP tour and was very impressive. She will also work one of GAMI's THE WOMAN shows the same week. The other two are making their Japanese debuts. First is Ms. Chif from the US. She has been getting strong reviews for her work in SHIMMER and her goth gimmick should go over very well in Japan. Maybe they should put her in the ring with LLPW's Eiger. Just kidding. The other wrestler is being called Vanessa The Mountain from Canada. Huh? It appears to be Quebec wrestler Vanessa Kraven. She's been in the wrestling business for two years and mostly works Quebec indy feds. She has also worked in the US Midwest as a bodyguard. She has the look to get over as a heel. There's two more to be named so I'll let you all know.
Other matches include a NEO Machine Gunz dissolution match. If Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki lose their match to Haruka Matsuo & Rika Takahashi, they will split up forever. I think we've been down this road before with these two. We can only hope they lose. They're also doing a special farewell match for the Mexico bound Mima Shimoda. Shimoda will team with Kyoko Inoue against Kayoko Haruyama & Sakura Emi. There will also be a battle royal with Commando Bolshoi, Azumi Hyuga, Tsubasa Kuragaki, Misae Genki, Leon, Toshie Uematsu, Kizahana & Ran YuYu with another few to be announced.
One other thing. For the August 19 G-Shooto Joshi vs MMA show, Amazing Kong's opponent will be sumo wrestler Rika Shimizu. I'm not kidding. There are female sumo wrestlers in Japan. Atsuko Emoto's opponent will be Michiko Takeda. That's in addition to the other matches already announced.
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