Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Nakajima gets revenge at Junior All Star War


JWP presented this year's Junior All Star War on New Year's Eve at Korakuen Hall. Unfortunately with all the other big New Year's Eve shows, it gets overlooked. Having a title match as the main event might have helped but Commando Bolshoi probably had to compromise to get the Sendai Girls on the show. It also marked Shuu Shibutani's return to Japan after three months in Mexico. She arrived back in Japan a couple of days ago. She got to use her new finisher.





The show began with the only singles match on the show. It was last year's NEO rookie Nagisa Nozaki vs this year's JWP rookie Mayuca Shinzeki. Nozaki won with a diving body press at 7:29. Next was a unique match called The First Sisters War. DASH Chisako & Sachiko Sendai vs Io & Mio Shirai. The sisters from Sendai Girls are now being called The Cross Sisters and they won the match when Sachiko used a hurricanrana on Mio at 12:59. Apparently it was a pretty good match considering thei experience level.




Next was the Daily Sports Cup Junior Battle Royal. Of course it was played for comedy and the highlight was Ice Ribbon's Makoto hiding from everyone. The order of elimination was Francoise, Yuri Urai, Mika Mizunuma, Makoto, Tomoko Morii & Ayako Sato. Tomoka Nakagawa won over Miki Ishii with a lariat at 9:47. Next was Shuu Shibutani, Cherry & Aska Ohki vs Tomoka Nakagawa, Kana & Misaki Ohata. It's only one match but Shibutani showed off some new techniques from her mexican trip. Apparently Kana was pretty good as she has been since returning a few months ago. Shibutani won over Nakagaw at 18:24 with something called the Satanico. It's some sort of stretch submission hold.




Next was Natsuki*Taiyo & Fuuka vs Yumi Ohka & Mai Ichii. They called this Junior Graduation Premium indicating that these four aren't juniors anymore. Natsuki*Taiyo won over Ohka with the Taiyo Bomb at 17:09. The main event was Arisa Nakajima, Hiroyo Matsumoto & Hanako Kobayashi vs Tyrannosaurus Okuda, Aya Yuki & Aoi Kizuki. The idea here was to give Nakajima a little revenge on Okuda for losing the title a while back. Nakajima won with the Cutie Special over Okuda at 19:29. Nakajima was named show MVP. The main event was the best bout and the Shirai Sisters were Most Photogenic. Still, one can't help but think that this show would have had a lot more oomph with a title on the line.

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