JD Star continued to its end with a June 3 afternoon show at Shin-kiba 1st Ring. Later that day, a lot of the wrestlers went to the wedding of retired JD Star wrestler Nene Kimura. Fans may recall that her trainer Asian Cougar convinced her to go to California to work for All Pro Wrestling a couple years back. She returned to Japan and after a while decided to quit the business. Fuuka posted some wedding pics on her blog. The main order of business on this show was to set the finals for League Princess 07. Also, JD Star announced that the July 16 finale would be a complete 11 year retrospective of the promotion. I guess that means we'll probably see Jaguar Yokota and others on the show.
The opener was a League Princess 07 match between Hanako Kobayashi & Kaori Ohki. They were tied with four points and neither was likely to make the finals. Ohki started with a drop kick and a couple of hair whips. Kobayashi comes back with stomps and a body scissors. Ohki hits a couple of cross body blocks but Kobayashi hits a diving body press and a fisherman suplex for the win at 7:28. Next was Arisa Nakajima vs Misaki Ohata. Nakajima was in second place with ten points. Ohata had four points. Though Nakajima controlled the match, Ohata held on for a ten minute draw. The final match was between Hiroyo Matsumoto & Yuri Urai. Urai already has ten points but a Matsumoto win would create a three way tie. That's what happened as Matsumoto reversed a back elbow and won with a backdrop at 7:12. Lily Urai, Hiroyo Matsumoto & Arisa Nakajima are tied with ten points and the to be announced finals format will begin on June 17.
Next was a tag match with the Musasaki sisters from the Makehen promotion facing each other. They're not twins but they do look alike. The older of the two teamed with Fuuka and the younger (she was in the POP tournament) teamed with Kyoko Kimura. Kimura and her partner didn't get along and Fuuka used a fisherman suplex to finish her at 20:02. Afterwards, GM Kobayashi suggested Kimura should bring her chain next time. Kimura demanded a match with her partner in this match. That was accepted and will happen on June 10. The main event had JWP's Kaori Yoneyama & Leon vs Shuu Shibutani & Tomoka Nakagawa. Yoneyama & Leon show excellent teamwork and after Shibutani misses a diving senton, they nail her with an avalanche style arm whip. Yoneyama's German suplex finishes her at 12:29. The main event of the June 10 show will be Nanae Takahashi & Fuuka vs Hikaru & Shuu Shibutani. Also, Mariko Yoshida will face Yuri Urai and Saki Maemura will face Misaki Ohata.
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