Pro Wrestling WAVE in Nagoya

One of the recent trends I'm seeing in joshi is companies doing more shows outside of Tokyo. A couple of years ago, they weren't doing much of that. New AJW was around and only ran shows outside of Tokyo but they're not really around anymore. Another reason to do out of town shows is better attendance. WAVE's Jan. 31 Shinjuku FACE show drew 148 fans while their Feb. 1 Nagoya Diamond Hall show drew 268 fans. Of course that doesn't change GAMI's ludicrous booking. In the main event, she teamed with Yumi Ohka & Commando Bolshoi vs Toshie Uematsu, Ran YuYu & Yuu Yamagata. Yamagata is a decent wrestler but she doesn't belong in a comedy match and it's hard to keep things on track when GAMI & Bolshoi are doing their usual antics. Uematsu works closely with GAMI but one blogger suggested she looked tired and overworked. She does work a lot of shows. And lately GAMI has been taking falls in these matches. She won over Uematsu with the Adios Amiga at 19:16.

Of course with Bolshoi on the show, she brought a couple of JWP wrestlers with her. Kaori Yoneyama gets what she doesn't seem to get anymore in JWP...a win. She won over Shuu Shibutani at 9:38 with a diving senton after a superplex, a northern lights suplex and two German suplexes. And Shibutani is a WAVE regular now. And of course you had Azumi Hyuga over Ayumi Kurihara at 9:25 with the Gannosuke clutch. Such is the life of a freelancer. Kurihara did some impressive flying outside the ring but Hyuga hit her knee to the back of Kurihara's head and then they exchanged rollup pins and Hyuga won. They had a bit of a staredown afterwards but a match like this seems like a waste on a show like this. I'm sure it was good but less than ten minutes. Why bother? Instead they gave more time to a mixed match with Kana & Ultraman Robin over GAMI & Abdullah Kobayashi when Kana used the Billiken on GAMI at 11:16. At least GAMI did the job. The opener had Cherry & Moeka Haruhi over Kayo Fujimori & Yuki Miyazaki (on her birthday). While Cherry held Miyazaki outside the ring, Hrauhi won over Fujimori with a diving body press at !6:24. I guess Haruhi isn't low woman on the totem pole anymore.