Monday, May 12, 2008

Plenty of swerves at OZ Academy Tag Team Tournament


Anyone who thought that things were going to calm down in OZ Academy after Mayumi Ozaki had her head shaved can be assured that nothing has changed. The May 9 Shinjuku FACE show featured the first part of the OZ Academy Tag Team Tournament. The craziness began at the press conference when Aja Kong messed with Dynamite Kansai by announcing Manami Toyota as her partner instead of a youngster as expected. With Kansai's partner Tomoka Nakagawa out with a shoulder injury, who knows what might happen in this tournament. And new OZ principal Carlos Amano hasn't named her partner yet. More on that in a moment.





The opening match was supposed to be Mayumi Ozaki & Hiren vs Dynamite Kansai & Tomoka Nakagawa as part of the tournament. Of course Nakagawa is injured. Ozaki says that she has decided to switch partners with KAORU. Hiren will team with KAORU and Takako Inoue will now team with Ozaki. Kansai is told that she doesn't get a new partner. Uh oh. Looks like a lynching. Police & Mika Nishio join the fun and Nishio brains Kansai with a chair. They all pound with chairs & chains on Kansai until Ozaki finishes her with the Ozakick at 9:16. I guess my only problem with this is they've made Kansai look like a dope lately and this makes it worse. But Amano doesn't have a partner yet and they seem to be making things up as they go along.





Next up was Ran YuYu against the soon to retire Obacchi Iizuka. Ran wins in eight seconds with an cradle. But the match is restarted when Iizuka starts crying. Iizuka gets to do her usual crappy comedy and Ran wins again with a running elbow at 13:07. Next was Devil Masami, Kana & Carlos Amano vs Aja Kong, AKINO & Hiroyo Matsumoto. A lot of great action in this match but things got interesting when they went outside the ring as D-Fix attacked Amano. Aja won over Kana with a backdrop at 23:25. Afterwards, Dynamite Kansai came to the ring and discussed things with Amano. Something's cooking.





Next was Manami Toyota vs Toshie Uematsu. Toyota won with the Japanese Ocean Queen Bee Bomb in 13:21. The final tournament match was KAORU & Hiren vs Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato. KAORU & Hiren do a pretty good job of using heel tactics to control the match. But mistakes allow Nagashima & Kato to come back. The end comes when KAORU sprays Kato with a green mist. But she gets Kato's knees on the follow up moonsault and Kato wins over KAORU with the Crown's Gate at 21:46. The craziness at OZ Academy will continue on June 7.

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