Today's selection on Big Bad Blog Video Theater is Yuzuki Aikawa vs Yoshiko for the Wonder Of STARDOM Championship at last Sunday's Korakuen Hall. show. So if you're talking about wrestling, Nanae Takahashi is obviously the ace of STARDOM as she should be. But Aikawa is a different kind of ace. the 28 year old bikini model is supposed to be the new Fuuka. She's supposed to be a merchandise revenue generator. Like Fuuka, the wrestling is secondary. My problem with Fuuka was though she had the technical wrestling skills, she didn't care enough to be good. And she quit because she didn't like wrestling anyway. She wanted to be a model. That didn't work out very well. The hope is that Aikawa will learn to love wrestling but obviously it's not a prerequisite in STARDOM. The one thing Fuuka could do was kick and that's what they're concentrating on with Aikawa. It must be the easiest thing to learn. Yoshiko is playing a miserable heel who is jealous of Aikawa. The match itself was OK. It was what one would expect from greenhorns. It had rough patches but the crowd reacts to Aikawa like she is a star. The funniest thing is how Yoshiko punishes Aikawa's boobs and she overreacts to that. She acts like she's dying or something. Most joshi wrestlers don't have those boobs and none of them were bikini models. Yoshiko dominates the first part of the match and then Aikawa comes back and uses mostly kicks to win. The axe kick is her finisher. Obviously Takahashi taught her the Shining Wizard and I thought she did that OK. They're both very green and you can see how limited they are in the ring. But it wasn't horrible. We'll see how they progress. Afterwards, Aikawa posed with the trophy and the belt. That's what she's really good at. Enjoy the video!
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