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Wednesday, May 07, 2025

70s Joshi on Wednesday: Martin! Ikeshita! Rimi! Seiko!

62. 1979.10.XX - 01 Judy Martin & Yumi Ikeshita vs. Rimi Yokota & Seiko Hanawa (Either late September or before October 17)

K: This was a bit toned down compared to the face vs. heel tags I’ve gotten used to seeing, and that has good and bad points. The good being that the match felt pretty cohesive throughout. I got the impression that the heel team were clearly superior and they rightly dominating most of the proceedings, but they also established that Yokota has a bit more going for her than Hanawa. She got the big comebacks and most of the prolonged offense when they were able to put the heels on the backfoot. The bad point though, is that it all felt a bit pedestrian. Even when they spilled to the outside to brawl a bit it felt like they were doing it coz that’s just what happens in 1979 AJW tags rather than having any real commitment to it.

The definitely highlight for me was the 2nd big comeback when Ikeshita was able to swing a chair at her opponent only to get knocked over and it wasn’t immediately clear what even happened. It looked a bit like she just lost her balance because the chair was so heavy hah. But no it was Yokota saving the day. She had a pretty good showing in an otherwise very unmemorable affair. I thought Martin was pretty disappointing and didn’t add much at all.

*3/4

MD: This wasn’t perfect but I thought it was a structural improvement to what we’ve been seeing lately. No heel ref. Less sputtering heat and more clear delineated double heat (with a reason to justify the second). Pretty hot finish. Ikeshita took over right from the start and she looked like an absolute monster as per usual. Just scraping faces on mats. That sort of thing. Most of the first heat was on Yokota and Martin was able to give fairly well (though Ikeshita did most of the work). When it was time for the first comeback (Yokota pulling Ikeshita off the top as she was going for her seated senton) Martin didn’t take as well as I’d hope. Some of it was struggle and not going along with things but some of it seemed like she wasn’t exactly sure how to take something.

Second heat was because Ikeshita started to use the top of a microphone as a weapon and she escalated on to chairs. Again, they didn’t need a heel ref to make all of this work. It was just the usual chaos with a little help from the outside. Comeback here was good visually as Yokota came out of nowhere to make it happen. Ikeshita grabbed someone’s handbag as they were brawling down the aisle and used it as a weapon which I’m not sure I’d ever seen before. Then she used that advantage to get back in the ring and win the match. It was only one fall and was a little tighter overall than what we’ve been seeing

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