The Bloody & Megumi Yabushita & Fang Suzuki & Sumie Sakai vs. Drake Morimatsu & SAYA & KAZUKI & Kurohime
The Bloody & Megumi Yabushita & Fang Suzuki & Sumie Sakai vs. Sachie Abe & Hiroyo Muto & Ranmaru & Obacchi Iizuka
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Jd' 2/24/01
Sumie Sakai vs. Miwa Maruyama. This astress didn't seem to bad, but the match ended abruptly when she hurt her wrist landing improperly on a missile kick. At least Maruyama showed some athleticism. 1:49 shown
Sumie Sakai vs. Ranmaru. Exciting match even if a bit sloppy. 3:31 shown
Sumie Sakai vs. Hiroyo Muto. Sakai was tiring by this point. Muto nearly beat her with her nadare shiki no Russian leg sweep. This was the one match in the series that was probably better unedited because it was a slower, more Muto style match. Some nice sequences, but Muto made it clumsy at times. 2;52 shown
Kickboxing: Ayano Omori vs. Emi Tojo. Tojo was very aggressive in round one, throwing the majority of the blows. Omori almost never threw a punch in this round, and the few she threw weren't good. The second round was totally different though, Omori started throwing a bunch of punches and it was working well even though she has little technique. Omori won via TKO because Tojo got dizzy or woozy from taking all these punches.
5 Min Amaresu Sparring: Ayano Omori vs. Chiaki Kashida. Kind of like a real fake fight. Very dull unless you are really into amateur wrestling.
ID4 vs. Super Terrors: Megumi Yabushita & The Bloody vs. Drake Morimatsu & Kurohime. Bloody had a bad left knee, which the opposition worked over. The match was structured well until the end, which was a quick comeback win after a whole match of getting pretty much dominated. Kurohime was a pleasant surprise. She was pretty much on the level here. She does a "double uraken," which is a two handed backfist. It was decent, which is good for a match where Yabushita & Bloody didn't get much offense in. 12:39 shown
TWF Tag Senshukenjiai: Kamen Tenshi Rosetta & Kamen Tenshi Freia vs. SAYA & KAZUKI. Not good at all. Contrived and not well worked. Rosetta was the only one that showed anything. 6:49 shown
Jd' 3/3/01
SAYA & KAZUKI vs. Ranmaru & Tsukimaru. A little better than the tag title match, but still lousy. SAYA & KAZUKI showed less than nothing again. 3:08 shown
Astress tryouts. Physical training (running, kicking, sit ups, and some of the worst pushups you'll ever see), modeling in bathing suits, dancing (Ranmaru shows them some rhythm), and some of the worst acting this side of Stephane McMahon.
METAL GARAGE MATCH: Fang Suzuki vs. Sachie Abe. This was a cage like the hell in the cell except it had an opening so they could climb up to the top. You could win by escape, but also by the regular ways. Weapons were allowed in the cage (they used a crutch, chair, and especially a ladder), the ref was just there to declare a winner. Fang was on offense almost the entire match. The weapons helped make up for her lack of moves, but still she relied on the lariat more than Choshu at his worst. We must have seen the same exact near fall a half dozen times. Abe was like a combination of bad Kanemoto and KAORU. She supposedly did great selling, but what I saw was someone who made super fast comebacks with flying moves every time she went on offense, so how can this be considered good selling? She has added some new moves to make her offense slightly potent, but her execution still isn't good so now she sloppily performs better and more difficult moves. What I liked about the match was that it was different. Even if it was kind of a WWF ripoff, they did some new and interesting things with the gimmicks. One cool spot saw Abe use the ladder to grab the roof of the cage and get above Fang then let go so it was a new version of the diving footstomp. When they got to the top, Fang used moves like the Ace crushered and Romero special. The finish was memorable for the stunt, but exemplified all that was wrong with the match. Fang gives Abe an STO into the roof of the cage then tries to climb down. Abe, who has been getting killed for 6/7th of a match approaching 21 minutes, of course is still able to immediately trip Fang up. Fang gets away from her and starts climbing down the cage.Fang is so far down that her hands are still holding the top of the cage when Abe decides in "desperation" that there's "no way" she can stop her. She then gets her courage up while Fang is climbing down and does a suicide dive off the top of the cage to the floor, of course with a half dozen wrestlers conveniently set up to catch her, for the win. It was good in theory, but just not well done because Abe didn't sell long enough that the dive was the only way she could possible win. Fang did a good job of carrying the match, but it was no where near her weapon match with Bloody last year because Abe is hardly Bloody. For all it's flaws with execution, selling, comebacks, and repetitivity (they aren't meant to work this long, but a 12 minute match wouldn't have helped Abe nearly as much), it was enjoyable as something different and made Abe seem sort of special because she showed some real guts taking all that punishment then risking it all for the victory. **1/4
Jd' 5/19/01 taped 5/6
3 Way Battle: Chitose Yamamoto vs. Chiaki Nishi vs. Obacchi Iizuka. What a pitiful match. It was so deliberate and the execution sucked. Nishi can't even run properly, much less wrestle. 4:51 shown. DUD
Ayano Omori vs. Teruko Kagawa. Kagawa threw a good dropkick and they showed a few flashes of confidence, but that's about it. 1/2*
TWF Sekai Tag Senshukenjiai: Kamen Tenshin Rosetta & Kamen Tenshi Freia vs. The Bloody & Fang Suzuki. Bloody & Fang were very good here and made the match. They controlled after the first few minutes, using the Kamen Tenshi's flying as a change of pace from their brawling offense. The highlight was Bloody putting a ladder on the ramp and doing the Oz flip off of it to put both oppoents through a table. Bloody & Fang won the titles. **3/4
Jd' 5/15/01
12/10/00 Tokyo Differ Ariake: Sumie Sakai vs. Fang Suzuki. This is what the Fang vs. Abe matches should have been. I suppose that's somewhat unfair to Fang because Sakai is better than Abe in every aspect of wrestling, but they did several things to allow the match to reach the level it did. There was a nice contrast of styles, but Sakai wasn't afraid to brawl when she had to. She suplexed Fang on a pile of chairs a few times because the chance to do damage in Fang's style was there, and this made more sense than applying a submission on the ramp. The key was that the moves were made meaningful, and thus it was dramatic. They put over the toll of the match well, yet there was still a lot of action. Everything was well executed too. The STO was the most notable move because Sakai used Fang's move on her and also came up with a counter for it where she landed on her feet. Both women were at the top of their game here. Too bad they edited potentially the leagues best match of the year to show some astress nonsense. 13:20 shown. ***3/4 range
3/18/01 Tokyo QOR & AWF Sekai Joshi Senshuken: Megumi Yabushita
vs. Sumie Sakai. The first half was very technical. They relied too havey
on coming close to applying the submission spots. Later it was mainly spots
with a few submission attempts thrown in. This was not as focused as the
previous match and the selling certainly wasn't as good. The work was strong
and it was a very even match. Basically it was good like all their matches,
but at this point I'm looking for them to take it to the next level so my
patience for a disjointed match is going to be a bit less. Sakai won the
double title. ***1/4
Fang Suzuki & Sumie Sakai vs. Megumi Yabushita & The Bloody
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LSD2000 Match: KAZUKI vs. Megumi Yabushita & The Bloody & Sumie Sakai & Fang Suzuki
Drake Morimatsu & SAYA & Kurohime vs. Sachie Abe & Ranmaru & Himemaru
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The Bloody vs. Megumi Yabushita
Queen Of The Ring & AWF Sekai Joshi Senshukenjiai: Sumie Sakai vs. Sachie Abe
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Jd' 5/19/01 taped 5/6
3 Way Battle: Chitose Yamamoto vs. Chiaki Nishi vs. Obacchi Iizuka. What a pitiful match. It was so deliberate and the execution sucked. Nishi can't even run properly, much less wrestle. 4:51 shown. DUD
Ayano Omori vs. Teruko Kagawa. Kagawa threw a good dropkick and they showed a few flashes of confidence, but that's about it. 1/2*
TWF Sekai Tag Senshukenjiai: Kamen Tenshin Rosetta & Kamen Tenshi Freia vs.The Bloody & Fang Suzuki. Bloody & Fang were very good here and made the match. They controlled after the first few minutes, using the Kamen Tenshi's flying as a change of pace from their brawling offense. The highlight was Bloody putting a ladder on the ramp and doing the Oz flip off of it to put both oppoents through a table. Bloody & Fang won the titles. **3/4
Jd' 5/15/01
12/10/00 Tokyo Differ Ariake: Sumie Sakai vs. Fang Suzuki. This is what the Fang vs. Abe matches should have been. I suppose that's somewhat unfair to Fang because Sakai is better than Abe in every aspect of wrestling, but they did several things to allow the match to reach the level it did. There was a nice contrast of styles, but Sakai wasn't afraid to brawl when she had to. She suplexed Fang on a pile of chairs a few times because the chance to do damage in Fang's style was there, and this made more sense than applying a submission on the ramp. The key was that the moves were made meaningful, and thus it was dramatic. They put over the toll of the match well, yet there was still a lot of action. Everything was well executed too. The STO was the most notable move because Sakai used Fang's move on her and also came up with a counter for it where she landed on her feet. Both women were at the top of their game here. Too bad they edited potentially the leagues best match of the year to show some astress nonsense. 13:20 shown. ***3/4 range
3/18/01 Tokyo QOR & AWF Sekai Joshi Senshukenjiai: Megumi Yabushita vs. Sumie Sakai. The first half was very technical. They relied too havey on coming close to applying the submission spots. Later it was mainly spots with a few submission attempts thrown in. This was not as focused as the previous match and the selling certainly wasn't as good. The work was strong and it was a very even match. Basically it was good like all their matches, but at this point I'm looking for them to take it to the next level so my patience for a disjointed match is going to be a bit less. Sakai won the double title. ***1/4
4/29/01 Tokyo Korakuen Hall QOR & AWF Sekai Joshi Senshuken Jiai: The Bloody vs. Sumie Sakai. Just an exhibition of spots, but at least they were impressive. The best of which was Bloody German suplexing Sakai off the 2nd onto her head. Lots of fighting on the outside with both women finding elevated areas to do their favorite flying move off. Sakai bled. Silly finish saw 5 fisherman busters in the last minute with Bloody beating Sakai with her own move. ***
5/6/01 Tokyo Differ Ariake TWF Sekai Tag Senshukenjiai: Kamen Tenshin Rosetta & Kamen Tenshi Freia vs.The Bloody & Fang Suzuki. Bloody & Fang were very good here and made the match. They controlled after the first few minutes, using the Kamen Tenshi's flying as a change of pace from their brawling offense. The highlight was Bloody putting a ladder on the ramp and doing the Oz flip off of it to put both oppoents through a table. Bloody & Fang won the titles. **3/4
11/26/00 Tokyo Differ Ariake QOR Shodai Oza Kettei Tournament Kesshosen: The Bloody vs. Megumi Yabushita. More mat oriented due to Yabushita. Unfortunately, Bloody is not skilled in this area and could do little more than sell the submissions. When they weren't on the mat, which was about half the match, the offense was excellent. All the counters and avoidals they implement adds so much to their already impressive moves. These moves redeemed the match, which wasn't well thought out and relied on a contrived double KO punch where both were "sent flying off the ramp". ***
3/18/01 Tokyo Korakuen Hall The Bloody's BOUT 2: The Bloody vs. Aja Kong. Aja brings a much different style than Bloody's peers. This was less exciting and didn't have as sharply worked sequences, but more structured and dramatic with better selling. Something of a big vs. small match, but Aja actually suppressed her ego and gave Bloody respect. I believed Bloody could win this match even though in the back of my mind I knew it wasn't happening. On the short side, but it was pretty even and with this matchup that's what counts. ***1/4
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1/6/01 Osaka Bayside Jenny QOR & AWF Double Title Match: Megumi Yabushita vs. Fang Suzuki
3/4/01 Tokyo Differ Ariake QOR & AWF Double Title Match: Megumi Yabushita vs. Drake Morimatsu
4/8/01 Tokyo Differ Ariake: Megumi Yabushita vs. Kyoko Inoue
12/29/00 Tokyo Korakuen Hall QOR & AWF Double Title Match: Megumi Yabushita vs. The Bloody
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3 WAY Battle: Yuki Miyazaki vs. Chiaki Nishi vs. Obacchi Iizuka
Drake Morimatsu vs. Chitose Yamamoto
Ranmaru vs. KAZUKI
The Bloody & Fang Suzuki & Sachie Abe vs. Sumie Sakai & Hiroyo Muto & Tsukimaru
TWF Sekai Tag Senshukenjiai: The Bloody & Fang Suzuki vs. Ranmaru & Chiaki Nishi
Hiroyo Muto vs. KAZUKI
Sumie Sakai & Hiromi Yagi & Ariya vs. The Bloody & Drake Morimatsu & Sachie Abe
Full match list coming soon
Mizuho Ishikawa vs. Ayano Omori. Mercifully, it only lasted 41 seconds.
LSD 2000 2 HOUR MATCH Part 1:
The Bloody vs. Sachie Abe. Abe was exposing her weaknesses rather than Bloody doing anything to hide them. Abe is too slow doing her moves, particularly her overused magistral, to hang with Bloody. She made sequences deliberate, even awkward.
Takako Inoue vs. Obacchi Iizuka. They kept it short and simple, which is a good idea for them.
Takako Inoue vs. Sumie Sakai. Sakai made it a decent energized segment. Her suplexes look much better against smaller opponents though, and Takako isn't exactly large.
Chitose Yamamoto vs. Kaori Yoneyama. These women have some athleticism and did a fast-paced segment. Action wasn't good, especially with Yoneyama's sloppiness, but it was plentiful. Good finish though.
Chitose Yamamoto vs. KAZUKI. Better than expected. Good moves and adequate work.
KAZUKI vs. Drake Morimatsu. They tried to wrestle a more athletic style that doesn't suit their makeup. It was much better whenthey went to their power moves. the Drakebomb is set up like a DVB, but finishes with the opponent landing on their back between her legs like a falcon arrow.
Drake Morimatsu vs. Yuki Miyazaki
Yuki Miyazaki vs. The Bloody. Best segment. Miyazaki has the quickness, athleticism, and moves to challenge Bloody. Communication and timing were somewhat lacking though.
The Bloody vs Ranmaru. Good moves, but short and Ranmura's flying is inaccurate.
Athtress Point Match: Teruko Kagawa & Keiko Furuta vs. Emi Tojo & Chiaki Kashida. Too much RVD flipping and rolling. At least he's athletic and smooth, this was slow and incredibly deliberate. Incredibly fake looking match that couldn't end quick enough. 1/2*
LSD 2000 2 HOUR MATCH Part 2:
Fang Suzuki vs. Haruka Matsuo. Good basic scenario that the fans got into. Fang squashed Matsuo and was ready for the quick win, when some other Athtresses interfered, giving Matsuo the opportunity to get a few near falls. Fang came back and you figured that was it, but Matsuo surprised by withstanding a few chokeslams to squeak out the draw.
Ariya vs. Sachie Abe. Ariya is Aya Koyama. Okay short segment.
Ariya vs. MARU. Even the finisher was poor.
MARU vs. The Bloody
The Bloody vs Hiroyo Muto
The Bloody vs. Kyoko Inoue. Kyoko played the size card. Terrors bailed Bloody out, but she still lost within 30 seconds of this. I didn't like Kyoko's attitude here, nor the match that resulted from it.
Kyoko Inoue vs. Chiaki Nishi. Nishi was afraid of Kyoko then came at her with the weakest forearms ever. The whole thing was rightfully a joke. Kyoko finished her off quickly with a nasty powerbomb.
Kyoko Inoue vs. Fang Suzuki. Fang threw powder in Kyoko's eyes. Heels ganged up on Kyoko, handcuffing her to a table outside the ring so Fang could get a count out win.
Fang Suzuki vs Sumie Sakai
Fang Suzuki vs Takako Inoue. Takako came in fired up, but the final 30 seconds were ruined by her pulling out the stun gun because Fang wisely stayed out of the ring until she dropped it. By that time, there wasn't enough time for a finish.
10/28/01
Sumie Sakai & Obacchi Iizuka vs. Ranmaru & Komina Ichikawa. Sakai vs. Maru was pretty good, but it was hard to care with all the stupidity in between. Ichikawa was doing a form of voodoo or something. Totally retarded. 10:00 shown
Catch the Weapon Pail vs. Bat: Drake Morimatsu vs. KAZUKI. Lots of spots, but they aren't the most coordinated wrestlers. Still, the wrestling was decent until Drake got the bat. The moves had impact but were deliberately set up, while the bat strikes were so phony. The pail was basically a waste basket. Drake did a shining wizard off it that was kind of cool for a shining wizard. Adequate. 9:57 shown
The Bloody & Fang Suzuki & Sachie Abe vs Hiromi Yagi & Hiroyo Muto & Ariya. Everyone did their own thing, so there were conflicting ideas. No direction and little flow, but Bloody, Fang, Yagi, and Muto execute well. Ariya looked bad when she tried something, although one of her spinning high kicks was nice. Abe didn't try much "difficult" since she's a heel, which in her case is a good thing. Moves were much more impressive than how they were used. **
11/4/01
Athtress Point Match: Chiaki Kashida & Keiko Furuta vs. Mizuho Ishikawa & Teruko Kagawa. They tried, but that doesn't make up for really deliberate wrestling with no flow, bad timing, and tons of screw ups. The execution was even bad when they "got it right." DUD
Fang Suzuki & KAZUKI & MARU vs. Sumie Sakai & Obacchi Iizuka & Chiaki Nishi. Even against each other, Sakai & Fang weren't at their best. It looked great compared to the athtresses, but there were still a lot of problems and general disorganization. Sakai was the only one that showed anything, and it was more good moves than her usual good work. *
AWF & QOR Double Title Match: The Bloody vs Hiromi Yagi. A good match, but not what it could have been because Yagi didn't even have enough offense to be a threat and they didn't build up their moves and counters like they are capable of. Yagi had a little offense early, but then the Super Terrors got involved and Bloody did a lot of damage brawling in the back. Yagi didn't come back and get some mat wrestling in until after the 10 minute mark. She showed a few super transitions, but like I said they could have done a lot more. Their styles are very different and they didn't really converge here in spite of moments of brillance which mainly consisted of the big move counters. ***