[1993-05-08-AJW-Grand Prix] Manami Toyota & Yumiko Hotta vs Akira Hokuto & Toshiyo Yamada

[PeteF3]

Not a major match in the grand scheme of things so no deep story or anything but it's the main event of a K-Hall show so they go out and bust ass for 20+ anyways and have a great 4* ish range match. Says a lot for how deep AJW was at the time because in many other promotions this would stand out as one of the best matches of the year, but for this time frame it's something that seems to have been a little forgotten and i'm not even sure if this cracks the top 20 AJW matches in the first 6 months of 93. Post match Rumi Kazama & a bunch of LLPW roster members who were watching in the crowd came in the ring & had a big confrontation with Hokuto, LCO, Suzuka & Bat (Suzuka & Mita had a damn good match on the undercard of this show too)

[garretta]

YouTube this, please!

[Zenjo]

The booking is pretty much a case of putting four main eventers in random teams and seeing what they can do. 1993 AJW was the one year more than any other when throwaway matches on paper were anything but in reality. There weren't any prominent storylines, it was all about the workrate. It was noticeable how Yamada dominated the in-ring time for her team as Hokuto's knees must have been hurting. Not that there was a deterioration in her performance level mind you. Toyota's flexibility makes the early matwork segments more interesting. She had a reasonable day on offence. The two star performers today were the tuff girlz, who kicked the tar out of each other. They had a fun rivalry going throughout the first half of the 90's. The first 3/4 of the match was really high quality action. The final stages weren't bad, yet were not up to the standard of what had gone before. Afterwards Hokuto grabbed the mic and put Rumi Kazama and her LLPW buddies in their place.