When Shinobu Kandori announced the All Star Strongest Woman tournament a few months ago, she claimed that her motivation was to show that joshi puroresu could still put on a big show. So she decided to book the finals in the 10,000 seat Sumo Hall. When she was accused of being delusional, she said the tournament wasn't about making money. It was about restoring luster to the joshi business. She forgot to mention that she would torpedo the whole thing with mind boggling selfish and silly booking. That didn't improve on LLPW's Feb. 12 Sumo Hall show but they did find 5,832 fans at the show. Harley Saito & Eagle Sawai also celebrated their 20th anniversary in joshi with a special match.
The opener was LLPW newcomer Francoise against Bambi. I guess Francoise is Kandori's idea of an idol wrestler. Francoise won her first match last month. She hit Bambi with three missile dropkicks but Bambi used a high kick to win at 8:52. Then a comedy match with Bolshoi Kid over Obacchi Iizuka in 7:22. Next was the tournament semi final between Meiko Satomura & Mayumi Ozaki. It was the usual stuff with Police helping Ozaki and wrapping a chain around Satomura's neck. But Satomura came back and won with the Scorpion Rising at 10:06.
The other semi final had Shinobu Kandori against Dump Matsumoto. How do you think this ended? Dump did her usual shtick and busted Kandori open with a fork. And of course Sasori helped her. But then Dump was DQd for hitting the ref at 8:12. If you're keeping score, that's the third DQ in this tournament and the second to benefit Kandori. How lame is that? The final will be the main event. Next was a six person tag with Eiger, Sayuri Okino & Amazing Kong over Noriyo Tateno, Yumiko Hotta & I Haran in 14:12. Then Kyoko & Takako Inoue vs Dynamite Kansai & Kaoru. It's mostly a power match with lariats and footstomps. Kyoko won over Ito with a lariat in 14:12. I understand Kyoko's ankle was really hurting.
The special mixed match for Eagle Sawai & Harley Saito's 20th anniversary was next. Saito teamed with Ichiro Tenyru against Sawai & Hika Kitahara. The main thing that was talked about was the action between Tenyru & Eagle. He said he had a lot of fun and would like to work with her again in a singles match. He won with a lariat at 9:21.The final of the tournament was the first ever meeting between Shinobu Kandori & Meiko Satomura. Anyone hoping for a classic matchup with Satomura prevailing would be disappointed. Satomura would get some offense in but Kandori wore her down with a sleeper and finished her with two power bombs at 11:37. Afterwards, Satomura admitted some disappointment with the match. It doesn't look like fans liked it much either. Kandori didn't care. She stood in the ring with the trophy. Talk about delusional.
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