With several big shows running during Golden Week next week, it was a fairly quiet week in the joshi business. Things will start heating up at the Apr. 29 JWP show with the Azumi Hyuga/Kayoko Haruyama main event. NEO continues to try and sell Haruka Matsuo's NEO Singles/NWA Pacific Titles defense against Kyoko Inoue on the May 5 Korakuen Hall show. They've been putting the two on opposing tag teams for the last month and NEO president Koda even tried to say that Matsuo lost her temper at a recent dojo show. His attempts haven't been very effective. Maybe he's getting desperate. He even reached for a little nostalgia on the Apr. 25 Nagoya show. He reunited the Double Inoues. They will work together again on the Apr. 29 Itabashi Green Hall show against Haruka Matsuo & Kana.
The show opened with Toshie Uematsu vs Saki Maemura. The match went as one would expect. Maemura got some offense in early but Uematsu came back and won with a dragon suplex at 12:26. Next Sonoko Kato came over from OZ Academy to face NEO youngster Aya Yuki. Yuki is said to be improving but again the match went as one would expect with Yuki getting in some offense early and Kato came back and won with a diving guillotine leg drop at 13:48.
Visiting gaijin Vanessa The Mountain teamed with Kyoko Kimura against Misae Genki & Etsuko Mita. This match emphasized Vanessa's size and power and it was only natural that she would have a test of strength with Genki. Genki beat up Kimura for a while. This included a choke slam. But Vanessa was unstoppable and won over Mita with a hanging neck power bomb at 15:08. NEO Tag Team Champs Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki faced Yoshiko Tamura & Jaguar Yokota. It's hard to watch Tamura on the outside looking in especially when the NEO Machine Gunz have the belts. Jaguar gets to use her trademark swastika hold and Tamura gets a cobra twist on Miyazaki. Tanny's attempt at a muscle buster is blocked by Tamura but then Tanny wins with a rollup pin called Mission Possible at 14:58.
The main event had Kyoko & Takako Inoue reuniting the Double Inoues team against Haruka Matsuo & Hikaru. The pattern over the last month has had Kyoko & Matsuo trading pinfalls in tag matches. How many times can Koda do that? I like Matsuo but the booking of her title reign continues to be terrible. She works hard and was reportedly good in this match. Matsuo & Hikaru hit double dropkicks in Takako followed by a double team in the ropes. Later, Matsuo traps Kyoko in the corner. But Kyoko blocks an attempted German suplex and wins with her Naigara Driver at 17:32.
Here's the full card for the May 5 Korakuen Hall show. Haruka Matsuo will defend her NEO Singles & NWA Pacific Titles against Kyoko Inoue. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki will defend the NEO Tag Team Titles against Cherry & Shuu Shibutani. Yoshiko Tamura, Misae Genki, Etsuko Mita & Aya Yuki will face Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, Tomoka Nakagawa & Vanessa The Mountain in a TBA gimmick match. Fuuka, Riho & Hiroyo Matsumoto will face Sakura Emi, Makoto & Misaki Ohata. Toshie Uematsu will face an opponent TBA and Nanae Takahashi will make her return against Kana. I expect Kyoko to win but the tag titles will stay with the NEO Machine Gunz. Expect some sort of comedy with Uematsu. NEO is running some other shows including another one of those Indiana Girl Fight shows featuring wrestlers that no one else will hire. They sure run a lot of shows.
The show opened with Toshie Uematsu vs Saki Maemura. The match went as one would expect. Maemura got some offense in early but Uematsu came back and won with a dragon suplex at 12:26. Next Sonoko Kato came over from OZ Academy to face NEO youngster Aya Yuki. Yuki is said to be improving but again the match went as one would expect with Yuki getting in some offense early and Kato came back and won with a diving guillotine leg drop at 13:48.
Visiting gaijin Vanessa The Mountain teamed with Kyoko Kimura against Misae Genki & Etsuko Mita. This match emphasized Vanessa's size and power and it was only natural that she would have a test of strength with Genki. Genki beat up Kimura for a while. This included a choke slam. But Vanessa was unstoppable and won over Mita with a hanging neck power bomb at 15:08. NEO Tag Team Champs Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki faced Yoshiko Tamura & Jaguar Yokota. It's hard to watch Tamura on the outside looking in especially when the NEO Machine Gunz have the belts. Jaguar gets to use her trademark swastika hold and Tamura gets a cobra twist on Miyazaki. Tanny's attempt at a muscle buster is blocked by Tamura but then Tanny wins with a rollup pin called Mission Possible at 14:58.
The main event had Kyoko & Takako Inoue reuniting the Double Inoues team against Haruka Matsuo & Hikaru. The pattern over the last month has had Kyoko & Matsuo trading pinfalls in tag matches. How many times can Koda do that? I like Matsuo but the booking of her title reign continues to be terrible. She works hard and was reportedly good in this match. Matsuo & Hikaru hit double dropkicks in Takako followed by a double team in the ropes. Later, Matsuo traps Kyoko in the corner. But Kyoko blocks an attempted German suplex and wins with her Naigara Driver at 17:32.
Here's the full card for the May 5 Korakuen Hall show. Haruka Matsuo will defend her NEO Singles & NWA Pacific Titles against Kyoko Inoue. Tanny Mouse & Yuki Miyazaki will defend the NEO Tag Team Titles against Cherry & Shuu Shibutani. Yoshiko Tamura, Misae Genki, Etsuko Mita & Aya Yuki will face Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto, Tomoka Nakagawa & Vanessa The Mountain in a TBA gimmick match. Fuuka, Riho & Hiroyo Matsumoto will face Sakura Emi, Makoto & Misaki Ohata. Toshie Uematsu will face an opponent TBA and Nanae Takahashi will make her return against Kana. I expect Kyoko to win but the tag titles will stay with the NEO Machine Gunz. Expect some sort of comedy with Uematsu. NEO is running some other shows including another one of those Indiana Girl Fight shows featuring wrestlers that no one else will hire. They sure run a lot of shows.
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