Tuesday, December 06, 2005

It's yet another new joshi promotion

Guess what folks? We had another announcement today of yet another new joshi puroresu promotion. Just what we need, eh. Veteran wrestler GAMI held a press conference today in Tokyo to announce she's starting a new promotion in January called THE WOMAN complete with logo. GAMI has been running a few stand alone shows under the M's Style banner this year and now she wants to make a big splash of her own...or go broke trying. GAMI says that she agrees that there are a lot of joshi promotions but that THE WOMAN will be different because she plans to offer a more comedic wrestling show. Not surprising considering GAMI is known as a comedy wrestler. I guess she hasn't watched any NEO shows lately. The debut show will be on January 6 at Shin-kiba 1st Ring. GAMI will face Toshie Uematsu in the main event. Too bad neither of them are main event wrestlers. The rest of the card will be announced later and GAMI is hoping for a favourable reaction to this from the other companies and wrestlers. The plan is for THE WOMAN to run one show a month at Shin-kiba 1st Ring and GAMI is aiming for a sell out crowd of 350. That's a very nice goal but is it realistic considering the continued dilution of the joshi business and the number of new promotions that have started in recent days?

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