Joshi Spotlight — page 4

GAEA IN WINTER 2000:
* And now we end the year 2000! It’s GAEA Japan with one last set of seven matches. With the Tag Title Shot Tournament concluding, leading to a big Korakuen Hall finish! Sakura Hirota in cosplay again! A very surprising finish! And the return of some EVIL VARIANTS!

NOV. 26th 2000:
* This is from some small house-show looking thing.

AJW WOMEN’S WRESTLING W FUSION 2000:
(Tokyo Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyogijo 2nd Gym, Nov. 23rd 2000)
* It’s time for a HUGE Zenjo show! I could find only three Zenjo matches from November, but the main event is one HELL of a doozy- a 30-minute video of LCO & Kumiko Maekawa taking on Kaoru Ito, Nanae Takahashi & Momoe Nakanishi! And this has 3-4 SPECTACULAR bumps, at least two of which are all-timers, as the name of the game is put over new champion Ito in every way possible. This is from a really big show in November, at the same arena as last year’s really big one. You can really tell that Zenjo has hit a new level of popularity from their “dark years”. It’s funny but Dave Meltzer quit watching the joshi scene in like 1997 and it led to a huge lack of updates on it, but this supposed “dark era” has a massively full arena and a HOT crowd as everyone pulls out all the stops.

We miss a handful of matches, but only involving the most barebones rookies. Miyuki Fujii finally finds someone to defeat, beating Chie Terashita (she lasts two years only). Miho Wakizawa also beats Mika Nishio (who lasts until Zenjo dies). A “mixed rules”/Amaresu match sees Wakizawa lose to Seiko Yamamoto.

GAEA JAPAN IN NOVEMBER 2000:
* It’s time for the AAAW Tag Title Contender Tournament! Notably, both Chigusa & Lioness, leaders of the Third Generation Army, are teaming with their mini-mes (Meiko & Kato, respectively) to try and win the belts. This leads to a lot of mix and match stuff, as Dynamite Kansai & Toshiyo Yamada form a team, taking on their own stable-mates in Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki, plus Chigusa & Meiko take on Toshie Uematsu & The Bloody (from JD’). And the final bout is Meiko & Chigusa vs. Devil Masami & KAORU, furthering the Devil/Meiko rivalry!

NOV. 3rd:

AAAW TAG TITLE TOURNAMENT:
CHIGUSA NAGAYO & MEIKO SATOMURA vs. TOSHIE UEMATSU & THE BLOODY:
* Hey, it’s The Bloody from JD! Haven’t seen her in a bit! She’s teamined up with Toshie against Team Red here, obviously a Filler Team.

GAEA Japan in October 2000:
* It’s time more more GAEA Japan as 2000 ticks down- the top veterans facing the top 1994 debuters again! We get a mix of Sept. 30th’s puny house show and a bit Oct. 22nd Korakuen show- two “Saika Takeuchi is improving” matches, a Sakura Hirota “title” defense, and the Sugar/Chikayo team once again taking on a team against their trainer Mayumi Ozaki!

MEIKO SATOMURA vs. SAIKA TAKEUCHI:
(Sept. 30th)
* Time for Saika to die against a veteran! It’s weird calling Meiko that, but she’s a 5th-year! Toyota was winning belts and shit at that level!

AJW IN FALL 2000:
* Here’s a quartet of matches, all from Sept. 30th to Nov. 19th in 2000! Come see Zenjo pull its later-year angles and stories as it settles into the “new normal”: Kaoru Ito as 3WA Champion, Momoe Nakanishi & Nanae Takahashi as Tag Champs, and Las Cachorras Orientales still kicking around as vicious heels who just won’t leave. Plus an angle where Miho Wakizawa gets showcased in some vicious beatings, both with and against Manami Toyota, who seems to be in “lecturing veteran” mode. This one also starts one of the big angles of the year with the former champions, Tomoko Watanabe & Kumiko Maekawa!

https://archive.org/details/arsion-zion-2000

It’s another Archive.org show!

HYPER VISUAL FIGHTING ARSION- ZION 2000:
* It’s time for more ARSION! But this is only a 1-hour tape! Well that’s interesting. And possibly not a good sign if they can only afford THAT now. This is also from Sept. 17th, which I think is the third women’s wrestling promotion running a show on that date. What is THAT about? Naturally, it’s ANOTHER TOURNAMENT, as ARSION just runs these constantly.

GAEA JAPAN IN SEPT. 2000:
(Sept. 17th 2000)
* From Korakuen Hall comes a series of REVENGE MATCHES! 7 on 7 as the 2nd Generation Army tries to beat up Chigusa & Lioness and all their friends in a series of singles matches! These all have a Time Limit of 10 minutes, which is important because the “Move Spam” is like… baked into that style rather than just being some moronic thing they’re trying. Though it took me like 6 matches in before I realized there were stips, haha.

HAND MADE TITLE:
SAKURA HIROTA vs. SAIKA TAKEUCHI:
* OH NO NOW SAKURA IS HITLER! Or maybe Chaplin. But probably Hitler. She’s got the li’l mustache and is wearing a suit. Wait it’s a tuxedo with tails it’s probably Chaplin we’re safe. Saika has upgraded to INDIE KICKPADS!

Sakura makes Saika hold a leather strap in her teeth and they tug-of-war over it until Sakura lets go, resulting in Saika getting her face smashed to tremendous heat while Sakura does this “oh hee hee- me naught” thing. She does some dances and headbutts, pratfalling as I’m guessing this is some Japanese TV host she’s parodying. Takeuchi throws some KARATE KICKS and even kicks the turnbuckles to show seriousness, while Sakura’s are no-sold as wimpy. She then gets head-kicked and takes a phony bump, demanding to be counted down, barely getting up and nearly getting rolled up trying her double-arm submission. They trip each other up for counters, then Saika nearly messes up eating the corner uraken (she barely stops her self in time to take it). Saika scores a few near-falls with rollups, but Sakura ultimately wraps her up with her trip into a Japanese leg roll clutch-ish one at (5:21) shown. Briefly amusing, played straight by Takeuchi but with typical Sakura pratfalls.

GAEA DOUBLE DESTINY 2000:
(Yokohama, Sept. 15th 2000)
* It’s time for more GAEA Japan! With another big show, with a roll call before the show! The Second Generation Army (Akira Hokuto, Devil Masami, KAORU, Mayumi Ozaki, Aja Kong, Toshiyo Yamada, Dynamite Kansai & RIE) are first, coming out to “Detroit Rock City” by KISS of all things, and the Third Generation Army (the Crush Gals as “CRUSH 2000” leading Meiko Satomura, Sonoko Kato, Toshie Uematsu, Chikayo Nagashima, Sugar Sato, Sakura Hirota & Saika Takeuchi). The GAEA loyalists do the “Crush Hand Signal” at the fans after Sakura’s opening address (the heel 2nd Generation, who hate all these girls, bail before she starts). This one is features a big “GAEA First Generation vs. Evil Veterans” concept, with five matches in a row featuring one of the Class of 1995 against the vets- KAORU, Yamada, Hokuto, Masami & Ozaki. AND it’s main evented by an amazing Crush 2000 vs. Aja Kong/Dynamite Kansai spectacle dream match!

It’s time for another Joshi Spotlight! This one features a Tag Title defense from the new champions, plus a huge Zenjo show from September! This one features Black Joker against a Zenjo team, Miho Wakizawa in her biggest match ever against Nanae Takahashi for the AJW Title, Yumiko Hotta vs. Tomoko Watanabe in an establishing match, and the biggest bout of KAORU ITO’s life, as she finally gets a shot against the Red Belt, held by world champion Manami Toyota!

MOMOE NAKANISHI & NANAE TAKAHASHI vs. KAYO NOUMI & MIHO WAKIZAWA:
(Sept. 9th)
* The two “Young Girl” teams in Zenjo go at it- NanaMomo have reached the level of “Serious Midcarders” but the others are still jobbers. NanaMomo are in matching tiger-striped gear (Momoe with blue; Nanae with pink), Wacky’s in yellow & Kayo’s in blue.

AJW- THE JAPAN GRAND PRIX 2000:
* It’s been a while since I’ve seen these, but the person who runs this YouTube channel just uploaded clipped versions of all but the finish. This is actually a single-elimination tournament, but HOLY COW that last match is a must-see! Zenjo enters “Push Ito” territory big-time and they make it a doozy in the end.

The participants:
Yumik Hotta: Shoot-style worker and Zenjo’s most credible wrestler.
Manami Toyota: The current WWWA Champion.
Kaoru Ito: Rapidly entering the main event tier.
Tomoko Watanabe: The new All-Pacific Champion.
Kumiko Watanabe: All-Pacific-level wrestler and typically Tomoko’s partner.
Nanae Takahashi: Kind of a powerhouse but a lesser star rising the ranks. Current Tag Champion.
Reggie Bennett: Reggie’s back! She left Zenjo when its financial fortunes failed in 1997, and she joined the newbie company ARSION, but is already gone from there (probably for similar reasons).
Etsuko Mita: One-half of LCO and always willing to eat pins.
Mima Shimoda: The other half of LCO.

AJW ODAIBA W EXPLOSION:
* All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling reaches the summer of 2000! The big Odaiba shows are some of the top shows of the year for Zenjo, so this is rather important. This one features Manami Toyota making a defense of the Red Belt against Black Joker’s Eagle Sawai, backed by her stablemates Rumi Kazama & Takako Inoue!

Plus there’s a tournament to determine the WWWA Tag Team Champions! The belts were vacated for… “Undocumented Reasons” in May, so like, everyone’s gotta fight each other in matches featuring mostly “obvious stars” (LCO, NanaMomo, U*Tops) and losers with zero chance! And this one ends up being a BIG story arc culminating in a year or two of build, as the tons of new, younger fans who joined Zenjo after their 1997 downturn and adopted NanaMomo as THEIR TEAM come out in force to cheer them on against the evil demons of Las Cachorras Orientales!

NIGHT ONE:
(July 14th 2000)

WWWA TAG TEAM CHALLENGE TOURNAMENT:
FIRST ROUND:
NANAMOMO (Momoe Nakanishi & Nanae Takahashi) vs. MIHO WAKIZAWA & KAYO NOUMI:
* The two “Young Girl” teams in Zenjo go at it- NanaMomo have reached the level of “Serious Midcarders” but the others are still jobbers. NanaMomo are in matching tiger-striped gear (Momoe with blue; Nanae with pink), Wacky’s in yellow & Kayo’s in blue. This is heavily clipped.

GAEA JAPAN IN SUMMER 2000:
* It’s time for more GAEA, as we finish off the rest of July and move in to August! Last we saw, DYNAMITE KANSAI had just left the dying JWP and joined GAEA Japan, joining the Second Generation Army (all the GAEA veterans besides Chigusa). Sugar Sato isn’t in many of these, but apparently wrestled a bit around this time, so it wasn’t because Dynamite Kansai murdered her by Razor’s Edging her off the top rope last time. This is mostly just a huge series of the 2nd Generation crew (vets who hate the Crush Gals) facing Crush/Kid teams of them and the Class of 1995- 5th years who have yet to be really elevated.

So after the first match, I realized that my plan involved FOURTEEN MATCHES, so I decided to be a lot less recappy and more try to just get a sense for the match. This is harder to do than it sounds, though.

Also Dynamite Kansai makes this face at one point.

JULY 20th:

THE SECOND GENERATION ARMY (KAORU & Dynamite Kansai) vs. THE THIRD GENERATION ARMY (Sugar Sato & Toshie Uematsu):
* Kansai has now fully joined the veterans group of heels, and they’re taking on mid-ranked Chigusa trainees.

https://archive.org/details/arsion-07-16-8-18-2000-tournament-sky-2

HYPER VISUAL FIGHTING ARSION- TOURNAMENT SKY II:
(July 16th & Aug. 18th 2000)
* It’s more ARSION! With another SKY tournament- the one devoted to undersized wrestlers. This also features Yumi Fukawa’s last-ever match! And Aja Kong defending the Queen of ARSION Title against Ayako Hamada! And a VIP vs. ReDRUG Gauntlet Match! And MAN these crowds really establishes the different demographics of the joshi pro companies. GAEA Japan has all these late-20s early-30s Crush fans in the crowds and leans heavily female. Meanwhile…

HARD CAM FULL OF BORED DUDES! Hard to say if this is because of their bikini-calendar focus or what, but… well, that’s Rossy Ogawa’s gameplan. Put big-eyed waifus in the calendars and lure in the pervy uncles and create a “strip club except everyone’s weirdly lurking and super-quiet” atmosphere. Like they wanna enjoy it, but only PRIVATELY, so everyone’s silent and cross-armed with serious expressions. totally what wrestlers want in a crowd- stoic, silent guys afraid to reveal that they’re a fan of someone. Are they afraid to start a fight over who is the true Best Girl? OBVIOUSLY IT’S MITA YOU GITSi mean this is just not a great look for a promotion trying to succeed.

TOURNAMENT SKY II:
(July 16th 2000)

LAS CACHORRAS ORIENTALES (Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita) vs. AJA KONG & MARIKO YOSHIDA:
* The ARSION super-team takes on LCO- one half of whom took the Twin Star (tag belts) from them. This is mostly just scattered clips to start, LCO divebombing them and kicking ass. Yoshida throws a goofy boxing combo to Shimoda (it loses impact because Shimoda doesn’t react to half the punches so it looks phony) but eats the DVD from Mita for two. Yoshida dodges the tandem finisher and her team fires off stereo finishers for two, and Yoshida flattens Mita with a punch for two (GREAT “flopping dead sell” by Mita), leading to Aja’s Brainbuster for two. A MASSIVE Uraken kills Shimoda when she breaks it up with a yellow chair, and Aja keeps on killing Mita with Urakens until Time Expires at (3:20 of 20:00 shown)- Mita’s dead-eye sell is great as she collapses off each shot, and even Shimoda gets one. Pretty wild to have Aja sacrifice a win just to do more punishment, but at least it wasn’t the Kicking Too Much Ass finish. Aja talks shit after the match, slaps around the VIP stable, and gets into it with them backstage, too.

WWWA WORLD TITLE:
JAGUAR YOKOTA vs. DEVIL MASAMI:
(AJW, 9/7/1983)
* Someone finally uploaded it! This match between the two top singles wrestlers of their day has been considered “lost media” for years (ie. TV, movie, a book that has fallen into such obscurity that nobody can find proof it happened, or watch the product: https://lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/Lost_Media_Archive). But finally someone uploaded this VHS transfer two weeks ago. Jaguar was the World Champion at this point- a legit badass and grappling superstar who was said to be untouchable on the mat, and had been the champ ever since Jackie Sato was dethroned. Devil Masami had been rising up for a couple of years, having failed in her 1982 attempt at the gold. Jaguar comes out with a lil’ pork pie hat and shirt like a background tough in a Mexican gangster movie (except for all the pink). Devil makes an even bigger entrance, coming out wearing the same Noh theatre mask that Akira Hokuto would later use, but painted gold, and riding on a luchadore’s shoulders to the ring. Jaguar at this point has super-short hair, while Devil’s is longer. She’s got a lot of weight on her tiny opponent, looking bigger and stronger in her purple 80s Swimsuit.

Both women are very respectful in the opening match handshake and we’re off- Jaguar immediately monkey flips Devil and bounces her around with dropkicks until she does the “big bounce to the floor”, looking mad. haha Jaguar messed up the first kip-up and made sure the second was GOOD. Jaguar pounces on the apron and judo flips Devil back in, but finally Devil uses her size to counter and catches her leap with a big press slam. Jaguar snags the ropes off a whip and they’re back to square one, doing a good bit with a lockup. Mat wrestling gets nasty when Devil hauls Jag up by the hair and bounces her off the top rope, but Jaguar finally hauls her down with fundamentals. Interesting how Jaguar mostly controls with speed and precision while Devil can use power to leverage her way to moves. Classic “80s wrestling” as Jaguar counters a jujigatame attempt with a backwards roll, slips the arm out and locks up the knees and bashes them with her knee. The usual bodyscissors spot that’s seen well into the 2000s has them reverse to pins and Devil finally snags the hair and wrenches the neck, then the standing back-stretch puts them right back into the bodyscissors! See, this is the “slow part” but it shows them fighting for every bit of ground and acting like EVERYTHING hurts and they have to fight out. And you can tell by the sweat that they’re not just havin’ a rest.

Just your everyday turning a younger wrestler into a sandwich board.

GAEA JAPAN IN JUNE 2000:
* It’s time for more GAEA Japan! I nearly did more ARSION but it’s been too long since I grabbed this one. GAEA recently had their Fifth Anniversary Show- their biggest show in history, with Chigusa & Lioness reforming the CRUSH GALS and defeating the heel stable in the main event. As a result, they formed the GAEA Third Generation Army underneath them, even convincing Chikayo Nagashima & Sugar Sato to leave Mayumi Ozaki and rejoin their original mentor! However, this action incensed many of GAEA’s veteran wrestlers, who now formed a super-stable under Ozaki and her crew. This set of matches features some pretty big stuff, as we get Sakura Hirota doing Swan Lake, DYNAMITE KANSAI joining GAEA Japan, and some pretty dramatic Rising Stars vs. Veterans performances as Sugar & Chikayo take on their ex-mentor in tag matches.

JUNE 11th:

https://archive.org/details/arsion-2000-04-20-05-07

Come watch it on Archive.org! Which was a HUGE pain in the ass that kept skipping on me and freezing, so I had to download the 2-hour thing and watch it on a video player, which had issues skipping back & forth in time to re-watch points of the matches!

ARSION- HYPER VISUAL FIGHTING TOURNAMENT:
* Yes, it’s an ARSION Tournament! You can tell Rossy’s booking when… I wonder if this one will be full of inexplicable flukes!

There’s no sound to start (probably copywrite), but it shows the VIP stable walk around in designer clothes, which might be their signature. Tragically, Mita isn’t in a designer dress like Omukai but a ’90s mom sleeveless turtleneck. Also Bionic J kind of doesn’t fit the overall motif. You can tell Omukai’s getting the push because she’s wearing a full-on gown- everyone else is wearing what COULD pass for “everyday people clothes”.

APRIL 20th:

GRAN APACHE & LINDA STARR vs. MARI & FABI APACHE:
* OH GOODY MORE INTERGENDER STUFF. With Apache wrestling both his daughters, lol. Well I guess that means we won’t be getting hentai spots. oh please don’t prove me wrong…

AJW IN JUNE 2000:
* It’s time for more Joshi, as we finally hit the mid-point of 2000! And it’s the rise of BLACK JOKER! This is the heel stable comprised of Takako Inoue (Freelance) with LLPW’s Rumi Kazama & Eagle Sawai. Takako is then a Freelancer mostly working for Zenjo still, but the other two are from LLPW and now getting into the “Dominant Heel Stable” schtick, albeit with more of a Team Uniform and focus.

This set features Black Joker teaming up against some hapless Zenjo kids, and ends with Takako Inoue taking on the WWWA Champion, Manami Toyota, in a match that’s a prelude to Toyota’s later title defense against Eagle Sawai. We also see more JWP interactions, as there’s both a rookie fight and ace Azumi Hyuga teaming with Command Bolshoi against the heel ZAPs.

MIHO WAKIZAWA & KAYO NOUMI vs. BLACK JOKER (Takako Inoue & Rumi Kazama)
* This is just clipped to nothing, but it’s the first time BLACK JOKER appears in my watchalong! They’re of course wearing all black and brutalize the Zenjo rookie squad. Wacky bleeds! Takako hits a big powerbomb (that is such odd offense from her) but Kayo slides out, annoying her. She hits a backfist that has Kayo barrel-rolling forward, pulls her up before three, then hits another two that leaves her a pile of limbs on the sell-job- that’s it at (1:28 shown)- Black Joker of course winning decisively. I actually have no idea when this match took place (it’s not on Cagematch, I think), but here’s as good as any.

June 11th:
* All of these are from the same show.

GAEA JAPAN- THE FIRST FIVE YEARS:
* So with GAEA’s Fifth Anniversary Show just being posted, I realized I’d done exactly five years of their content, so I figured I’d do the column I’d been thinking about for a while- a summation of their first five years of existence! As the promotion only lasted about ten, it’s fitting to strike at the halfway point.

The story of GAEA Japan is more or less how Chigusa Nagayo, the biggest women’s star of all time, came out of retirement and after a year or so of working with JWP on occasion (she had a fairly adversarial relationship with the Matsunagas, the heads of her old home at All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling, owing to a variety of things), formed a new promotion with her own trainees and a few wrestlers from elsewhere. Within a couple years, the promotion was a pretty big hit, and soon was able to stop working interpromotional matches all over the card as her first class of trainees, a miraculous group all things considered, slowly improved and mostly became good workers. By 1999-2000, GAEA was easily the #1-2 joshi promotion in the world, usually fairly even with Zenjo (AJW), which ran way more shows but probably drew less money to the average show.

I’ve read that a huge part of GAEA’s early appeal was “Doing It Ourselves”, with a women-led company (only the money guy was a dude), countering all the other promotions run by men. That Chigusa, the biggest star ever, was there only helped, as she brought in all the ’80s girls now that they were in their 20s and 30s. GAEA audiences tend to be the most woman-heavy, with lots of amused moms in the crowd.

THE INAUGURAL CLASS:
Chigusa Nagayo: The biggest star in joshi history, a megastar of the 1980s. She retired in 1989, coming back at the 1993 Dream Slam show and working periodically for JWP before training GAEA’s first class and getting a backer for a promotion. She was the head trainer AND booker, while someone provided the money and another did the business.

KAORU: The next most experienced wrestler- she had debuted for Zenjo 1986, but left the company for a couple years before returning in an iffy role. KAORU had some of the laziest performances by a veteran I’d ever seen in some of the early ’90s shows, oftentimes doing the job or getting a midcard match where she has to go 20 minutes with a nobody. But then in 1994 wrestles the match of her life against Mariko Yoshida (a 30:00 draw that turns into an overtime that KAORU quickly wins). She leaves Zenjo a second time and founds GAEA. In GAEA she’s the obvious #2 native, and in the early era is usually paired with another promotion’s wrestler in a “Sub Main Event” type of match. And she wrestles like she absolutely knows she needs to succeed to make GAEA work, and puts on some of the best performances of her career.

Bomber Hikaru: A weak-ass wrestler of dubious experience who is hired out of nowhere by Chigusa, acting as a “mid-tier” veteran below Chigusa & KAORU, but above the green rookies. Her role seems clear- to act as a barrier to them as they rise up the ranks.

THE ROOKIES:
* All of them are given Arena swimsuits in a single block of color- a brilliant move to immediately differentiate all of them. This becomes a GAEA trademark- I see it all the way up to 1999 debuts. To say this class is a big miracle is a huge understatement- you will likely never see this much raw talent in the early years of their careers before or since. Of the class of six, all five were at least “pretty good” within a year- pure insanity. These girls were clearly meant to be the backbone of the company, so they wouldn’t have to rely on “Dream Matches” to fill out the cards, and they wrestle like it- each one fighting to show that they deserved to be there and wanted a shot. Alas, GAEA never succeeds to anywhere near this level ever again.

GAEA JAPAN- 5TH ANNIVERSARY DAY:
(May 14th 2000)
* GAEA Japan is officially 5 years old! Their big anniversary show takes place in a good-sized arena (the Tokyo Ariake Coliseum) and features a lot of big matches for the company- The CRUSH GALS REUNITE as Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka take on Devil Masami & Akira Hokuto! The two biggest stars of the ’80s take on one of their top rivals AND one of the top stars of the ’90s! Aja Kong defends the AAAW World Title against Meiko Satomura once more, in a rematch of GAEA’s best-ever match! A giant weapons brawl between Mayumi Ozaki & KAORU where one of them invents the One Winged Angel! Toshiyo Yamada getting fed to Neo’s Kyoko Inoue! Rookie Saika Takeuchi being faced by heel cheater RIE! We start off with the introductions, each group showing up separately.

GAEA Roster: Chigusa Nagayo, Devil Masami (sorta), Mayumi Ozaki, Akira Hokuto, Toshiyo Yamada, KAORU, (First Class) Meiko Satomura, Sonoko Kato, Sugar Sato, Chikayo Nagashima, Toshie Uematsu, (Second Class) Sakura Hirota
Himiko Roster: Mayumi Ozaki, Akira Hokuto, Devil Masami, Sugar Sato, Chikayo Nagashima, RIE, Kaori Nakayama
DorA Roster: Aja Kong, Lioness Asuka, KAORU, Sonoko Kato

AJW IN SPRING 2000:
* It’s time for more Zenjo! With a bunch of random tag matches from March and May! We start off with a bit part of the AJW/JWP feud that’s been going on, with Manami Toyota leading a team of AJW wrestlers against JWP in a Gauntlet Match! And things culminate with a WWWA World Title defense as Manami Toyota defends against Ran YuYu! Meanwhile, Tag Champions Tomoko Watanabe & Kumiko Maekawa continue their year-long feud against Lac Cachorras Orientales in a title defense!