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Selected matches from Oz Academy
#2 3/18/99 Taped 2/28 Kanagawa Club Citta Kawasaki (830 sellout) Aja Kong & Carlos Amano vs. Toshiyo Yamada & Meiko Satomura |
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This is basically what a very good or better women's tag match looks like. There are a lot of spots, some cool sequences, strong work, and a lot of near falls. There just isn't much thought put into the match. "The story of this match was young Satomura being destroyed by SSU, but showing spunk and getting in the face of monster Aja Kong. The first confrontation happened as soon as Satomura got in the ring, then during the introductions. After a few exchanges between Amano and Satomura, the match broke into a brawl and SSU clearly dominated their opponents, beating them with chairs and even the time keeper's hammer. Satomura slowly circled around the ring, but as she got near Aja, she threw a chair at the monster. She received Aja's metal box in the head for her trouble. Back in the ring, Amano and Aja managed to punish Satomura for quite a while, before Meiko came back a little quickly for my taste," wrote Jerome. Aja was pretty vicious, but Amano didn't do much quality brawling. She needed to stay with the Oz Academy to develop this part of her game, but instead she's not really with them anymore, and thus isn't heelish and doesn't really brawl. After the fast start, it slowed down with the veterans pretty much having their way with the youngsters. The match heated up with Aja vs. Yamada for a brief period that Yamada got the best of, which gave Satomura the opening to do some damage to Aja. She didn't get to do much though, as Aja dropped her on her head with a backdrop then tagged Amano. "The match was the least interesting when Yamada was in the ring because she didn't showed any emotion or real intensity. Everybody else played their part really well, but Yamada was just there. Her work was still good however, and the match saw spots back and forth with some nice double teams. Amano really impresses me each and every time I see her. Her work is crisp, smooth and she always find an interesting way to get in her jujigatame. I'd like to see her in ARSION," wrote Jerome. Nobody really had a good run in the first 20 minutes, which is one of the reasons it make sense for this match to go long. Even when they started doing their big spots, no one was able to do more than a couple in a row. One of the best spots was Amano countering Yamada's reverse Gori special bomb by rolling into a sankakujime. Another was Yamada ducking Aja's uraken then Satomura running over and Death Valley bombing her. Yamada followed with her reverse Gori special bomb for a near fall. I thought this should have been the finish because it was two killer moves, their finishers, in a row. Instead, the ref began a 10 count because Aja acted like she was KO'd. Yamada turned her back once the ref started counting since you are supposed to back off and go to your corner, but Aja was somehow faking it, I mean how much damage could a mere Death Valley bomb and reverse Gori special bomb do, so she popped up and urakened Yamada for the win. Just an awful ridiculous finish to an otherwise strong match. "The match should have ended sooner because the last minutes were kind of anticlimactic. Satomura basically disappeared from the action for a while and the match ended with Aja vs. Yamada, which is the least exciting pairing in the match since they have no issue and Yamada is not that great anymore. Maybe the match was 5 minutes too long. Very good match, but the finish is a little disappointing," wrote Jerome. Special thanks to: Jerome Denis 24:37
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