You Call Kandori a Cheater She Left You to Die
It sets up a tremendous second half where Kurenai keeps running in, being a bloody mess and looking half dead, and going fucking crazy on the heels with kendo sticks and even a scissor, trying to take chunks out of Eagle Sawai. You really end up wanting her to get to win but also dreading her getting pinned due to how sympathetic she is set up to be. Shark Tsuchiya and Lioness Asuka interfere in the match along with like a dozen tracksuited ringside girls from LLPW and JD' trying to jump into the frey, and while I normally dislike liberal interference in joshi matches, it felt like a frantic gang war here. I could see some folks being irked by them teasing some hot nearfalls and then doing an elaborate chain spot followed by another heat segment, although I thought everything worked and it was a suitably crazy moment. Finish was completely unexpected but great. I think the match would have moved into all-time territory if we had gotten Kandori choking some people out and Kurenai being involved in the finish to pay of her story more, but those are very minor criticisms for what was a damn great unpredictable brawl.
PAS: Killer discovery by Sebastian who is truly the master of digging in the mines. This is a wild gang fight with lots of mean looking ladies in ugly colors and fringe mangling each other. Our girl Kandori is somewhat of a minor player in this, although she does get one superstar moment where she cleans house with nasty straight punches, gets cut off with a chain to the ribs, and then turns an attempting Eagle Sawai chain choke into a judo throw. Kurenai and Nagashima take the biggest beatings with blood caking on Kurenai's head and Nagashima getting hung by the ankles and wailed upon. I dug the wildness of it, with lots of random gals running in and smashing and being smashed. I thought it needed a slightly bigger climax to move into all time legendary status, but still a hell of find.
Labels: Eagle Sawai, LLPW, Michiko Nagashima, Rumi Kazama, Sayuri Okino, Shinobu Kandori, Yasha Kurenai
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