The big news on the Jan. 21 JD Star Shin-kiba 1st Ring show was the return of HIROKA to Japan after a very successful run in CMLL in Mexico including a stint as CMLL Womens Champ. She brought Marcela with her and they appeared in the main event tag team match. This show also had a ladder match. That's not something you see very often in joshi and some of the wrestlers on this show aren't qualified to appear in one. Azumi Hyuga came over from JWP to appear on this show. Maybe she should teach some of the unqualified wrestlers.
The show opened with an idol match, rookie Athtress Bisa Ohata vs Gutsworld's Lily Urai. Not surprisingly, the match wasn't very good. Ohata won her first match ever with a double arm salto at 9:36. The problem with Ohata is similar to the other Athtresses. She looks weak and putting her in there with someone at her level like Urai doesn't help. That brings me to Fuuka vs Ibuki rookie Hiroyo Matsumoto. The problem is that Matsumoto looks stronger and more capable than Fuuka though Fuuka has two years more experience. They even mention this on the JD Star website. Right now Matsumoto is depending too much on the Argentinian backbreaker and it's getting her into trouble. It's time to learn something new. The one thing Fuuka can do is kick and she uses kicks and the F Doll to finish Matsumoto at 10:37.
The ladder match was next. It's supposed to be the Athtress Army vs the Caribbean Army. But there were no Athtresses in this match. It was Bullfight Sora & Cherry vs Caribbean KIM & RUM. You may recall that the Caribbean Army stole that toy cow that Bullfight Sora carries around. So it was hung from the ceiling and whoever recovers the cow wins the match. And if Sora loses, she has to unmask. Huh? We know who is under that mask. Cherry got clobbered for most of the match. She had a little disagreement with the ladder. But she was able to do a senton bomb from the top of the ladder and Sora recovered her cow at 13:23.
Next was Azumi Hyuga vs Ayumi Kurihara. Kurihara used several back throws to get the advantage But Hyuga used several double arm suplexes and a top rope knee drop to the back of the head for the win at 13:10. The main event had HIROKA & Leon vs Marcela & Shuu Shibutani. The teamwork between HIROKA & Leon was very good (pictured). The match was also very good when HIROKA & Marcela were in there together. The end came when HIROKA kicked Shibutani in the face, hit a Hirokeya (AP Cross) and a double arm facebuster for the win at 19:07. HIROKA will face Fuuka at the Feb. 4 show and Fuuka also expressed interest in wrestling Marcela. Nothing has been said but it looks like HIROKA might be a JD Star regular.
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