GAEA Japan at Korakuen Hall - 6/17/01
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At the merchandise tables before the show, Chikayo Nagashima acted as cashier for me. |
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 Chikayo Nagashima |
Meiko Satomura |
Saika Takeuchi |
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| Pictures of the inside of Korakuen Hall | |||
| Sakura Hirota vs Kaori Nakayama | |
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Hirota demanded an "exploding barb-wire" death match. |
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She also decided to take a shot at Nakayama's gimmick in FMW, by coming out with fake breasts. |
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Of course, Hirota was the first to go in the "barb-wire", complete with "explosion". |
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Hirota got beat down all over the ring. |
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A short spurt of offense with the kendo stick was all she could muster. |
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Hirota ended up losing to a simple roll-up. |
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She bitched at Nakayama... |
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Then cleaned up the mess and left. |
| KAORU vs Saika Takeuchi | |
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This was a mismatch between youngster, Takeuchi, and veteran, KAORU. |
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Takeuchi wasn't getting much streamer love from the crowd either. |
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KAORU hit Takeuchi with a regular moonsault, then a moonsault with the table... |
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And then dropped Takeuchi with the Excalibur to get the win. |
| Mayumi Ozaki/KAORU vs Lioness Asuka/Sakura Hirota | |
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If you could see this, you would see Ozaki and KAORU strutting around the ring. |
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Hirota decided to try and bumrush D-FIX and ended up getting blasted by KAORU's table. |
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Asuka tried to make the save but got herself handcuffed to the ringpost. |
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Then D-FIX started kickin Hirota's ass... |
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And taking turns. |
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Hirota was basically helpless. |
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For some reason KAORU uncuffed Asuka. But Asuka quickly managed to get herself cuffed again after a red mist attack from KAORU. |
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While Hirota tried to remember who she was. |
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Hirota made a stirring comeback, including very nearly pinning Ozaki. |
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But she soon succumbed to the numbers and was pinned. |
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KAORU then proceeded to tell Asuka how much she sucked and that it was her that was the real leader of Dead or Alive, restarting their feud. An
interesting part of this match that I didn’t get a picture of happened while Asuka was cuffed. KAORU went to get Asuka’s table and a woman in the stands ran down to try and stop KAORU from getting the table. She managed to hold up KAORU for a good minute before KAORU was able to shake her loose. |
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When it was all over, they had to come out to scrape up Hirota. |
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Aja Kong/Dynamite Kansai/Toshiyo
Yamada vs |
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The rules were kinda strange; three 5-minute singles matches and then a 6-person tag match. |
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Old rivals Aja and Satomura were the first to face each other. |
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Neither could get an advantage. |
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Once the tag match started, it was chaos. |
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A pretty good match that ended with the unbelievable result of Uematsu pinning Aja. The crowd was beside themselves. |
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The winning team celebrated while Aja sulked. |
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Aja then got on the mic to give Uematsu her props, and to tell her to watch her back. |