Monday, January 29, 2007

Wizard Of OZ tournament continues at Jan. 28 OZ Academy show


The Wizard Of OZ tournament continued at the Jan. 28 Shinjuku FACE OZ Academy show. This is one of these round robin tournaments with one point awarded for a win, half a point for a draw and no points for a loss. These are ten minute matches. It looks like this is going to go on for a couple of months with some sort of championship match at the end. There were two tournament matches on this show with Aja Kong vs Mayumi Ozaki in the main event. Chikayo Nagashima, Carlos Amano & Dynamite Kansai are the other participants. Also, AKINO returns to the ring and Takako Inoue makes a rare appearance outside LLPW.





The opener had Mayumi Ozaki & Chikayo Nagashima vs Sonoko Kato & AKINO. This was AKINO's first ring appearance since taking a sabbatical in September. She's supposed to be taking up golf and in fact she did play in a tournament last month. And she just returned from a vacation in North America. Of course Police was there and it appears that he clobbered Kato to end the match at 18:51. She wasn't very happy with Ozaki afterwards. As for AKINO, I don't know if she is returning to the ring on a regular basis but she has posted on her website that she will appear on the Jaguar Yokota 30th Anniversary show on March 11.





Next was a rare OZ Academy appearance by Takako Inoue. She teamed with Eagle Sawai against Dynamite Kansai & Carlos Amano. Takako posted on her blog that she was knocked loopy by a Kansai kick and wasn't of much use for the rest of the match. Eagle had to carry it. Takako said she was unconscious for a few seconds and this is the third time this has happened in her career. Accidents do happen and Takako was joking about it afterwards so it looks like she's OK. Kansai used the Splash Mountain on Eagle for the win at 15:58.





The other two matches were part of the Wizard Of OZ tournament. First was Chikayo Nagashima vs Carlos Amano. Amano used her head butt attack but Nagashima did the same in return. It appears that Nagashima won the match with a rollup reversal with four seconds left in the match. Next was Mayumi Ozaki vs Aja Kong. It seems that Aja went into a rage when she saw Police at ringside. She chased him around the arena and the distraction helped Ozaki win at 8:43. The current Wizard of OZ standings have Mayumi Ozaki & Aja Kong tied for the lead with 2 points, Chikayo Nagashima & Carlos Amano with 1 point and no points for Dynamite Kansai. The tournament will continue at the Feb. 10 Shin-kiba 1st Ring show.

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