LLPW 14/12/07 Korakuen Hall
Sayuri Okino & Eiger vs Jumbo Hori & Obacchi Iizuka
4 of my favourite wrestlers in 1 match! Jumbo Hori is a real Grandma and Obacchi's gimmick is that of a Grandma, a fairly unique tag-team then. Okino and Eiger are the most awesome tag-team in wrestling today.
This match is largely how you would expect from the personnel involved, humour and gimmicks galore from Obacchi and Eiger plus some stick action from Okino. Jumbo Hori's ring outfit is rather weird and she looks like a giant mushroom. Despite the wrestlers in this match though it lacks a bit of sparkle, Obacchi seemed a bit off and Jumbo is still very rusty. Okino and Eiger phone it in a bit. Oh well. 1.5/5
Sayuri Okino
The traditional LLPW transvestite match followed, i always fast forward through that, indeed i heard the DVD fast-forward function was invented because of these matches. Onwards...
Jaguar Yokota vs Francoise
Francoise is the young rookie on the LLPW books, well she was anyway, she hasn't been around much this year. Her ring work isn't that great but she at least does have some different facial expressions and a model persona compared to the usual overly earnest and super determined rookie persona. Jaguar puts her away without that much trouble. 1/1
Takako Inoue & Harley Saito vs Shinobu Kandori & Ayako Sato
Ayako Sato has appeared on a lot of LLPW cards over the last year, admittedly jobbing on most of them. Here she adds plenty of energy to this meeting of the LLPW top table. This is quite a good match with Ayako's enthusiasm backfiring but her putting on a good show.
Thats what people miss when they moan about the youngsters jobbing, for a young wrestler's development and image build-up she gets much more out of a hard fought loss to a veteran than a barely known about win against another rookie. 2/5
Yumiko Hotta, Blue Wolf I & Blue Wolf II vs Noriyo Tateno & Mizuki Endo
A typical Hotta brawl, Endo gets cut up pretty bad and takes some hard chair shots. Its a shapeless match that takes place mostly out of the ring, some of the audience getting Noriyo on their laps (not the worst thing to happen in the world...) and probably no actual wrestling in the match but good fun if you like joshi brawls. I do. 2/5
A typical LLPW show, they have the highest production values of any current promotion in joshi and the right mix of story lines, comedy, wrestling and star names to elevate them over other promotions like NEO which can be a bit dull sometimes.
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