Pro Wrestling WAVE had their latest show on Sept. 11 at Shin-kiba 1st Ring. Unfortunately, the big news on this show is not good. The attendance was 86 fans. But then it got worse. GAMI admitted to Lady's Ring magazine that the announced attendance of 128 for the Sept. 3 show was padded. The real figure was 55 fans. She apologized and promised not to do that again. Padding attendance figures at Japanese wrestling shows isn't unusual. Getting caught is another matter. This should be very alarming to the company. The problem may be no one wants to go to mid week shows. It's more likely that the ticket prices are too high. They should cut the prices and they'll get more fans. They're running shows every week so how long can WAVE go on like this?
The show started with a brief ceremony in tribute to the 2nd anniversary of the death of Mirai. She died Sept. 12, 2005 in a bathtub accident. Of course she was very good friends with GAMI. They had a ten bell count and a minute of silence. Opening WAVE had KAORU over Kyoko Kimura with a moonsault press at 19:07. Lucha WAVE had AKINO over Shuu Shibutani with the noki-A backbreaker at 16:38. Shibutani was still talking about her upcoming trip to Mexico and becoming KAORU's disciple. The two will team up next week.
Comical WAVE had Toshie Uematsu & Ran YuYu over GAMI & Bullfight Sora when some comedy nonsense resulted in Uematsu pinning Sora. The main event had Yumi Ohka continue Resurrection WAVE against Nanae Takahashi. Ohka tried hard and was said to have performed better than she performed last week. Takahashi won with a backdrop at 21:24. Toshie Uematsu challenged Ohka after the match and that will be the main event for Sept. 18. Comical WAVE will have Lingerie Muto vs Bullfight Sora. Lucha WAVE will have KAORU & Shuu Shibutani vs AKINO & Tojuki Leon. Opening WAVE is GAMI vs Ran YuYu vs Kyoko Kimura in a 3 way match. We'll see how many fans they get next week.
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