Michiko Ohmukai celebrated 15 years in joshi puroresu on Jan. 21 at Shinjuku FACE. The show was called Egoist Live. Ohmukai was trained by Sakie Hasegawa at AJW in 1992. She retired briefly due to injury and returned in 1993 in LLPW. She was part of the ARSION startup in 1998 and became a star at that time. She seemed to lose focus in the ring as she got more involved in the business end of ARSION and left in Feb. 2003. Ohmukai was the driving force behind M's Style's debut in April 2004. Ultimately that didn't work out and M's Style closed in Oct. 2006. Ohmukai has toyed with retirement for a couple of years now but hasn't pulled the trigger on that yet. She has opened her Crystal Egoist retail store in Tokyo.
The show started with a dance performance by The Ring. Then M's Style trainee Ayumi Kurihara opened the show against Cherry. Kurihara won with a back throw at 12:13. Ohmukai came into the ring and asked Kurihara "Do you love professional wrestling?" Kurihara said "I love it to death." Ohmukai said Kurihara should continue to make her proud. Then Azumi hyuga defeated Bullfight Sora with the Gannosuke clutch at 14:24. Next was Yumiko Hotta & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Toshie Uematsu & Leon. This was played mostly for comedy and Uematsu pinned Kuragaki at 16:18 after Hotta accidently nailed Kuragaki with a thrust kick.
Next was a video retrospective of Ohnukai's career. This included her debut match, her LLPW days, Her ARSION days and M's Style. The main event had Michiko Ohmukai, Ayako Hamada & Devil Masami vs Aja Kong Kaoru Ito & GAMI with Lioness Asuka as guest referee. Ohmukai got to do all her big moves like the tiger suplex, the heel drop and of course the shining wizard. But Aja Kong's back fist got the win at 20:04. A commemoration ceremony followed with appearances by Lioness Asuka, Kumiko Maekawa & KAORU. Asuka said she remembers when Ohmukai was a rookie and is very proud of her. Ohmukai once again encouraged Ayumi Kurihara to do her best. Lots of tears as usual and a very happy ending to the show.
As a tribute to Michiko Ohmukai's career, here's a classic ARSION match between Michiko Ohmukai & Yumi Fukawa from 1998.
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