Jaguar Yokota and her husband held a press conference Thursday to announce the lineup for her 30th Anniversary show at the Garden Hotel Laforest on Mar. 11. This will be the biggest joshi show in years. Aja Kong & Lioness Asuka also attended the press conference. The show will have two parts, a wrestling show and then singing wrestlers. Just about everybody will be there but the big news is the return to the ring of 70s joshi legends Mimi Hagiwara, Tomy Aoyama & Lucy Kayama. The Crush Gals and Maki Ueda of The Beauty Pair will appear on the second part of the show.
The wrestling show has two parts. The first part will be a 30 girl Royal Rumble style battle royal. The wrestlers will enter the ring at 25 second intervals and elimination can occur by pinfall, submission, DQ or going over the top rope. Of course Jaguar Yokota will be in the match along with Mimi Hagiwara, Tomi Aoyama & Lucy Kayama. I believe this may be the first wrestling appearance by these three since they all retired. Also appearing is Devil Masami, Dump Matsumoto, Yumiko Hotta, Manami Toyota, Mayumi Ozaki, Mariko Yoshida, Kaoru Ito, Michiko Ohmukai, Yoshiko Tamura, Misae Genki, Tanny Mouse, Yuki Miyazaki, Carlos Amano, Chikayo Nagashima, Toshie Uematsu, Sachie Abe, Nanae Takahashi, KAZUKI, AKINO, Hiroyo Muto, Saki Maemura, Haruka Matsuo, Nozomi Takesako & Cherry. I think there may be one more wrestler to be announced.
With the exception of the main event, the rest of the show will have matches featuring the participating promotions. First will be Hikaru vs Natsuki*Taiyo in a Pro Wrestling SUN match. Then Noriyo Tateno vs Takako Inoue in an LLPW match. Then Commando Bolshoi, Azumi Hyuga & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs Kayoko Haruyama, Kaori Yoneyama & ECO in a JWP match. Then Kyoko Inoue vs Etsuko Mita in a NEO match. The main event is a six girl Jaguar Yokota 30th Anniversary match with Jaguar Yokota, Dynamite Kansai & Ayako Hamada vs Aja Kong, Amazing Kong & KAORU.
This will be followed by a concert led off by Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo. This will be followed by Devil Masami singing and she will be followed by Mimi Hagiwara. Mimi has actually been an actress since her retirement. Finally Maki Ueda of The Beauty Pair will sing with a partner to be announced. Of course Maki's Beauty Pair partner Jackie Sato died of cancer in 1999 at age 41. There will also will be some sort of talk show and there was something about Jaguar's husband doing a tap dance. Maybe they're kidding about that. I assume there will be some sort of ceremony commemorating Jaguar Yokota's 30th Anniversary. As I said, this will be the biggest joshi show in recent memory and could be a lot of fun. Here's a classic match from Aug. 22, 1985. It's Jaguar Yokota vs Lioness Asuka.
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