Here's the S-Arena video for the double shot JWP ran the Kitasenju Mini Theatre 1010 on Sunday. The major news coming out of this is Commando Bolshoi has changed the eligibilty for the JWP Junior & POP Titles from three years to five years of experience. The reason for this change is the depth in the junior ranks is very weak right now. There are very few newcomers and a lot of them seem to get hurt. Current champ Misaki Ohata will be a wrestler for three years in December and would have to give up the belt under the old rules. So they showed a clip from a match with Ohata teaming Kaori Yoneyama vs Commando Bolshoi & Ryo Mizunami. It was announced that Ohata will defend her title against Mizunami on the Dec. 20 Sensai Girls show at Zepp Sendai. Meiko Satomura will also return on this show. They also continued the JWP vs Passion Red angle with Kayoko Haruyama, Sachie Abe & Tojuki Leon vs Nanae Takahashi, Yumiko Hotta & Natsuki*Taiyo. Passion Red loses when Hotta hits Natsuki by accident. Afterwards, Abe argues with Takahashi about who gets the next shot at Haruyama's JWP Open Weight Title. Thos two will have a #1 contender's match to decide that. The second show had retirement road matches for Etsuko Mita and Azumi Hyuga. LCO wins over WANTED! (Sachie Abe & KAZUKI) and Hyuga teams with Ran YuYu vs Tsubasa Kuragaki & Kayoko Haruyama in a JWP reunion match. Enjoy the video!
My understanding is that the JWP Junior was always for 5 years of less (Candy Okutsu gave up the belt on her 5th anniversary) and that it was just the P.O.P. belt that had the 3 year limit. Of course, the real answer on who is or isn't eligible for a title in pro wrestling is the same. Whoever they want competing for it is eligible, thus Ohata's 3rd anniversary doesn't matter and we don't count Ryo Mizunami's time between GAEA and Sendai Girls against her.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter. As we saw at the Sendai Girls junior tournament, the current crop of juniors is so poor, the smartest thing to do is put the title on the shelf until they have better juniors. Changing the rule doesn't address the real problem of getting young girls to be interested in the joshi business.
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