Monday, April 13, 2009

S-Arena joshi video review for Apr. 13

I have three videos for you this week. The first is for NEO's Apr. 7 Itabashi Green Hall show. They ran a show during the week in Tokyo because they went out of town on the weekend. The first match in the video is the High Speed Starting Gate with Natsuki*Taiyo, Toshie Uematsu & Tojuki Leon vs Ray, Ayako Sato & Io Shirai. It's supposed to be a warm up for that High Speed Title that NEO will award next month but the match itself has nothing to do with that. It looks like the kind of sprint one would expect. Natsuki & Ray are in the ring together quite a bit and Natsuki gets Ray in a Majistral Cradle when time runs out and it's a draw. Next is Kyoko Kimura, Atsuko Emoto & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Kyoko Inoue, Hiroyo Matsumoto & Etsuko Mita. From the brief bit shown, it looks like Matsumoto took a lot of abuse. Nakagawa countered her attempted backdrop suplex into a sunset flip for the win at 18:50. They devote a lot of time to a mixed match with Haruka Matsuo & Takashi Saski vs Yuki Miyazaki & Yoshito Sasaki. It's all played for comedy with a baseball theme. Matsuo wins over Miyazaki with a Dragon Suplex at 14:59. The main event is standard booking leading to the Takahashi/Tamura title match. Yoshiko Tamura & Ayumi Kurihara won over Nanae Takahashi & Kana when Tamura used the Patriot Buster on Kana at 21:20.

The other two videos cover the JWP MANIAX show Apr. 12 at Korakuen Hall. The first match is Kyoko Kimura & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Arisa Nakajima & Pinkie Mayuca. They show a nice exchange between Nakajima & Kimura. The tide tutns when Nakagawa nails Mayuca with a chair and they destroy her for the win at 11:02. Next up is Yumiko Hotta & Kei'to defending the JWP/Daily Sports Tag Team Titles against Commando Bolshoi & Megumi Yabushita. Bolshoi & Yabushita use speed and submission attempts to counter Hotta & Kei'to's brawling. Bolshoi gets the win over Hotta with the Kido Clutch rollup at 19:41. You'll notice that Hotta's shoulders aren't actually on the mat. Oops. Hotta is shocked. Afterwards, Bolshoi bans Hotta from JWP. Hotta leaves and Kei'to follows her. She'll be back. The second video features Kayoko Haruyama defending her JWP Singles Title against Azumi Hyuga. NEO President Koda mused on his blog that the results of this match might influence his upcoming Takahashi/Tamura title match because fans still want to see Hyuga/Tamura 2. The match is what you would expect from these two as they are both accomplished performers. When Haruyama kicked out of Hyuga's Michinoku Driver II, one would have to figure that Haruyama would retain the title. And she did with the Keene Hammer at 23:28. Afterwards, Haruyama had a chat with Kyoko Kimura and she will be the next challenger. Enjoy the videos!

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