It was about a year ago that Nanae Takahashi blew out her knee while winning the WWWA Singles Title from Ayako Hamada. The injury forced Takahashi to drop the belt to Kumiko Maekawa and she has been on the shelf since appearing on her best friend Momoe Nakanishi's retirement show on Jan. 8. Then All Japan Women closed and Takahashi & Hikaru opened their own booking office called Flash 7.
Takahashi chose Sunday's second Flash 7 show to make her return to the ring in front of a full house of 602. Her opponent was her old tag partner Ayako Hamada. Not surprisingly, Ayako concentrated her attack on Takahashi's knee with low dropkicks. Then Ayako threw her outside the ring and continued to attack Nanae's knee. Ayako's older sister Xochitl Hamada joined in and the two of them busted Takahashi open with chairs & barbed wire bats. Ayako gave Nanae a Frankensteiner on the announce table and followed it with a power bomb. Takahashi came back with a Shining Wizard and the Nanarack for a near fall but Ayako won the match in 29:06. Nanae Takahashi is considered a major ace in today's joshi business so her return was greeted warmly by fans. I think she's a very good wrestler who has become a main event performer by default because most others aren't very good.
After the match, the soon to retire Kumiko Maekawa came down to the ring to challenge Nanae Takahashi to a match. Not only do these two have unfinished business in the ring but it is well known that they don't like each other for real. This match will likely happen at the upcoming KO Productions show in a couple of weeks. Here's the results of the Flash 7 show.
FLASH 7 - 12/18/05 - Shinjuku FACE
Natsuki*Head - 17 min draw - Kana
FOUR WAY MATCH:Jaguar Yokota def. Nozomi Takesako, Cherry & Tomoka Nakagawa in 18:53
Dynamite Kansai & Yumiko Hotta def. Chikayo Nagashima & Saki Maemura (Kansai over Maemura)
Hikaru & Meiko Satomura def. AKINO & Leon (Hikaru over Leon in 26:24)
Ayako Hamada def. Nanae Takahashi in 29:06
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