Pro Wrestling WAVE's latest show was May 25 at Shin-kiba 1st Ring in front of 159 fans. They're doing a little better because they're not running much during the week anymore. To me the company is very strange. On one hand, you have Yumi Ohka trying to attract the kind of fans who want to see idol wrestlers. And when Moeka Haruhi was hired, she talked about forming an Idol Army. But GAMI is still the millstone around the neck of this promotion with her bad comedy ideas. And on this show, she booked herelf against Toshie Uematsu in a match called Serious WAVE. Huh?
The opener was between Cherry & Hanako Kobayashi in a match called Pink WAVE because both wore pink costumes. It's the kind of light action one would expect with Cherry mostly in control with a figure four leglock, a sleeper and a bow & arrow hold. They exchange punches and Kobayashi's pin attempt is reversed by Cherry's rollup pin for the win at 10:41. Ran YuYu vs Ayako Sato was similar except the veteran had complete control. Ran uses a test of strength to twist Sato into various leg holds. Sato comes back a bit but a Ran mule kick and German suplex is followed by a European Clutch for the win at 14:15.
Next was Comical WAVE with Eiger bringing her ghost character from LLPW teaming with some guy with a ghost costume named Onyro against Bullfight Sora and someone in a cat suit called Kitten Kid. The purpose of this match is to humiliate Sora and after some silliness, Eiger pins Sora with a lariat at 10:56. Apparently Sora is demanding a match with GAMI. So now GAMI wants to prove she can still wrestle a real match with Toshie Uematsu called Serious WAVE. Uematsu said she would win in five minutes. She goes after a quick pin with various suplexes and then attacks GAMI with a chair. But GAMI comes back and also uses the chair. At one point Uematsu seems to hurt her knee and she gets it rewrapped. It goes back and forth like this until they exchange German suplexes when the time limit runs out. Oy!
The main event is called Confusion WAVE Sayuri Okino making a rare appearance outside LLPW teaming with Shuu Shibutani & Kana against Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi & Kyoko Kimura. There's nothing wrong with this but it shouldn't be a main event. Ohka & Shibutani glare at each other before the match so obviously they're trying to build something with them but the other participants seem random. Just throw them in there and fans will enjoy the action. I guess I like more purposeful booking in a main event. Of course the match is chaos and Shibutani gets triple teamed but she turns the tables on Haruhi and tags to Kana. Kana and then Okino beat on Haruhi until Kimura brings in a chain but Okino cuts her off and nails her with martial arts kicks. Kana tags in but her attempt at a victory roll gets her planted face first into the mat. Ohka tags in and we finally get her & Shibutani in the ring. But they're only in there briefly though Ohka does nail Shibutani with a suplex while Shibutani is trying to set up Haruhi for a superplex. The end comes when Okino's uraken on Haruhi sets her up for Shibutani's diving senton for the win at 13:05. Afterwards, Toshie Uematsu confronts Ohka and it looks like Ohka & Ran YuYu will team up against Uematsu & Shibutani at a future WAVE show. Maybe Uematsu can turn Shibutani into a heel.
The opener was between Cherry & Hanako Kobayashi in a match called Pink WAVE because both wore pink costumes. It's the kind of light action one would expect with Cherry mostly in control with a figure four leglock, a sleeper and a bow & arrow hold. They exchange punches and Kobayashi's pin attempt is reversed by Cherry's rollup pin for the win at 10:41. Ran YuYu vs Ayako Sato was similar except the veteran had complete control. Ran uses a test of strength to twist Sato into various leg holds. Sato comes back a bit but a Ran mule kick and German suplex is followed by a European Clutch for the win at 14:15.
Next was Comical WAVE with Eiger bringing her ghost character from LLPW teaming with some guy with a ghost costume named Onyro against Bullfight Sora and someone in a cat suit called Kitten Kid. The purpose of this match is to humiliate Sora and after some silliness, Eiger pins Sora with a lariat at 10:56. Apparently Sora is demanding a match with GAMI. So now GAMI wants to prove she can still wrestle a real match with Toshie Uematsu called Serious WAVE. Uematsu said she would win in five minutes. She goes after a quick pin with various suplexes and then attacks GAMI with a chair. But GAMI comes back and also uses the chair. At one point Uematsu seems to hurt her knee and she gets it rewrapped. It goes back and forth like this until they exchange German suplexes when the time limit runs out. Oy!
The main event is called Confusion WAVE Sayuri Okino making a rare appearance outside LLPW teaming with Shuu Shibutani & Kana against Yumi Ohka, Moeka Haruhi & Kyoko Kimura. There's nothing wrong with this but it shouldn't be a main event. Ohka & Shibutani glare at each other before the match so obviously they're trying to build something with them but the other participants seem random. Just throw them in there and fans will enjoy the action. I guess I like more purposeful booking in a main event. Of course the match is chaos and Shibutani gets triple teamed but she turns the tables on Haruhi and tags to Kana. Kana and then Okino beat on Haruhi until Kimura brings in a chain but Okino cuts her off and nails her with martial arts kicks. Kana tags in but her attempt at a victory roll gets her planted face first into the mat. Ohka tags in and we finally get her & Shibutani in the ring. But they're only in there briefly though Ohka does nail Shibutani with a suplex while Shibutani is trying to set up Haruhi for a superplex. The end comes when Okino's uraken on Haruhi sets her up for Shibutani's diving senton for the win at 13:05. Afterwards, Toshie Uematsu confronts Ohka and it looks like Ohka & Ran YuYu will team up against Uematsu & Shibutani at a future WAVE show. Maybe Uematsu can turn Shibutani into a heel.
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