Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Joshi wrestlers go hardcore


Joshi puroresu TV commentator and journalist Hirotsugu Suyama presented Hardcore Ladies 2008 on May 4 at the Kitsura Studio. I'm not a big fan of hardcore matches. As anyone who watches Big Japan can tell you, some wrestlers aren't very good at those kind of matches. But those who are good at it can be very entertaining. So I don't mind a show like this once in a while and with Kyoko Kimura & Mayumi Ozaki headlining, it's likely to be a lot of fun.





The opener was a standard tag team match with wrestlers from Ibuki. It was Mariko Yoshida & Ray vs Hitoyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata and her new hairdo. The match began with a test of strength between Yoshida & Ohata. Ray tags in and chokes Ohata with her foot in the corner. Yoshida tags in and continues this. Matsumoto tags in and gets a suplex on Yoshida followed by an Argentinian backbreaker. Ray does her flying with a moonsault press on Ohata followed by a missile dropkick. Yoshida get the win over Ohata with a vertical suplex followed by the Air Raid Crash. Next is a table match with Misae Genki vs AKINO. Genki is another wrestler experienced at this kind of match. Most of the spots have the two smashing each other into a table or hitting each other with a table. But Genki power bombs AKINO from the top rope and finishes her with a G-Driver through a table.






When Suyama first announced the barbed wire board match, it was supposed to be Mayumi Ozaki vs Arisa Nakajima. Then he decided to turn it into a tag match. He added Chikayo Nagashima as Nakajima's partner and then made Bambi as Ozaki's partner. I have to admit Nakajima looked very cute even for a match where she was obviously going to get her ass kicked. Ozaki & Bambi didn't waste any time hit a spike piledriver into a table on Nakajima. Then Ozaki nailed her with a chain followed by a chain choke. Next was a barbed wire face wash and Nakajima was busted open. Nakajima came back against Bambi but Ozaki hit her with a chair and choked her with a belt. Nagashima tries to come back but also winds up with a chain around her throat. Nakajima gets tossed out of the ring and is attacked with a chair. Finally Nakashima beats up Bambi for a while including a trip to the barbed wire. Just when it looks like she's getting over on Bambi, Nakashima gets hit with a chain and Ozaki tags in and then Nakajima attempts and misses a missile dropkick. That sets up the finish and Ozaki's power bomb onto a barbed wire board finishes Nakajima





Next was a ladder match with Yuu Yamagata & Apple Mayuki vs KAORU & Caribbean RUM. What's at the top of the ladder? A bottle of Dom Perignon champagne. Like with the table match, there are standard sposts in a ladder match like using it as a weapon, tipping the ladder while someone is on it. Miyuki is on the top of the ladder and gets knocked down by RUM while reaching for the bag. Yamagata & KAORU battle at the top of the ladder. KAORU knocks her off but can't get the bag. The end comes on a scaffold. Miyuki throws RUM off the scaffold and after Yamagata hits a suicide dive on RUM & KAORU, Miyuki gets the champagne and they drink it while on the scaffold.





The main event was Kyoko Kimura vs Yuko Miyamoto in a Fluourescent Death Tube match. The two begin by exchanging hammerlocks. Yuk yuk. But Miyamoto get Kimura on the floor and hits her with a light tube. Back in the ring, he grinds a broken light tube into Kimura's forehead and busts her open. Well, what did you expect? He continues to punish her but Kimura fights for a light tube and gets the advantage and busts him open with a light tube. It goes back and forth until Miyamoto finishes Kimura with a moonsault onto light tubes for the win. I know there are fans who get very squeamish about these kind of matches but this show looks like it was a lot of fun.

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