Carlos Amano, Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato held a press conference to announce a show called Yes We Can on Apr. 30 at Korakuen Hall. The concept of the show is that all participating wrestlers debuted in 1994-95. So what is this about? 2009 will be the 15th anniversary of GAEA and it is also the 15th anniversary for many of the wrestlers who worked their entire careers for GAEA until it closed in 2005. I guess 1995 was added for ease of booking. In addition to the three above named wrestlers, other participants will include Azumi Hyuga, Meiko Satomura, Yoshiko Tamura, Yuki Miyazaki, Toshie Uematsu, Ran YuYu, Tanny Mouse & Kei'to. I'm not sure who else qualifies for this show but Nanae Takahashi debuted in 1996 so she doesn't qualify. Megumi Yabushita debuted in 1997 so neither does she. I do expect a one time return by Sugar Satoh and I would be shocked if Chigusa Nagayo didn't appear in a non wrestling role. Mayumi Ozaki's response to this on her blog was "Oh, was there an announcement today?" Yuk yuk.
This does have Chigusa's fingerprints all over it and I won't be surprised if she shows up to sing & dance and be a general attention whore. It'll be great if people like Ozaki and maybe Aja and Manami keep no-selling the show. They can make it seem like a big deal if they continually mention how unimportant it is and how it doesn't matter to them.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that Sugar is pregnant right now? I saw a picture of her on KAORU's blog recently and she's several months in. Although she'll have had her baby by April, I don't think we'll see her in the ring again. I think the 2007 comeback at the Plum Mariko Memorial with her & Chikayo against Sonoko & Meiko was a one-time only thing that they did because Sonoko was finally back in the ring and Sugar probably was thinking about starting a family and this was probably their last chance to get all four back in the ring.
As far as that list, I think it's a pretty comprehensive list of people who debuted then and are still active.