Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Fuuka retains POP Title against Lily Urai


The main event of the Nov. 5 Shin-kiba 1st Ring show had Fuuka defending her POP Title against Gutsworld's Lily Urai. Here's another bit of Fuuka news for you. Nosawa is promoting a show called Nosawa Genome on Nov. 8 at Shin-kiba 1st Ring. Fuuka went to the Tokyo Shinbun newspaper and challenged former triple crown champ Minoru Suzuki to a match. That match will happen. It was splashed all over the media the last couple of days so as publicity stunts go, it worked.






The show started with the title match contract signing and the usual cheerleading. The opener had JWP veteran Tsubasa Kuragaki against rookie Hiroyo Matsumoto. Kuragaki controlled the match with her power and experience and won at 11:38 with an Argentine backbeaker. Next was a four way match with Tanny Mouse, Leon, Bullfight Sora & the masked wrestler Animal who is part of the Caribbean angle. Obviously it was a comedy match with plenty of silliness. Leon pinned Animal in 8:49.







This was followed by another comedy match, this one a three way with Shuu Shibutani, Caribbean KIM & Sakura Emi. Emi used a pin attempt by Shibutani to win the match over KIM at 14:21. KIM protested and I guess this is supposed to set up an angle between the two factions. In the main event, Fuuka successfully defended her POP Title over Lily Urai with a high kick in 12:53. Urai was very aggressive at first and even hit a Brainbuster on the arena floor. But Fuuka came back and prevailed. Fuuka said afterwards that she was surprised by Urai's attack and was fortunate to retain the belt. The main event of next week's show was supposed to have Mariko Yoshida teaming with Fuuka against Shuu Shibutani & Hiroto Matsumoto. But Yoshida is having surgery on a broken nose suffered in her match against Yoshiko Tamura. No replacement has been named.

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