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[2017-02-23-Stardom] Kairi Hojo vs Jungle Kyona


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This is for Hojo's Wonder of Stardom title (White Belt) and is Kyona's second title shot in less than a month. It's clear from the early going that the intent of this match is to make Kyona more of a potential threat to the top girls in Stardom and it definitely succeeds in that regard. From the very start Kyona shows little fear of going toe-to-toe with Hojo, even managing to hold her own in strike exchanges. Hojo herself does a great job of putting over Kyona's performance. She goes from confident veteran showing no fear of what Kyona has to offer to realizing that she is going to have to hit all of her big moves if she is going to retain. Just an excellent, well built match that builds on the star potential of Jungle Kyona. ****

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Joshi is often associated with crazy spots, and Hojo has taken her share of them (in this match you had the camera zoom in on the welts on her lower back) and it's kind of bizarre to ground stomping back strikes and a reckless apron bumb in the same match. I'm not so sure about Kyona's corner splashes either, she's not big enough that that would carry the move by itself and she doesn't make it look that good so it's just kinda there. I would agree this was a well built match. There was plenty of selling and character work that allowed the match to flow well, the strike exchanges were crisp and tight and they didn't dwell on them, Hojo executed a lot of cool offence like the twisting neckbreake, the spinning backhand and all the elbow strikes and drops variations she did. My favourite moments of the match were when Kyona fired up after Hojo had repetaedly elbowed her and just kind of showed her into the ropes and exploded with hammerfists, they're not exactly Vader-level so it was more symbolic than just a straight up explosion of violence (that would've probably helped it make it an evne better match) but it was good enough and a nice change of pace from the usual nonsense in jwres matches. There was also the spear counter, which some would probably criticize as a botch, and whether or not that was the case or not it made it look more realistic which is always nice. And my favourite moment of them all had to be Hojo eating a Lariat only to push Kyona into a pin as soon as she fell down, a surprising moment that gets across a wrestler's perservance and determination really good without hurting anything in the match as Kyona who had been the last one to execute a move before that was the first one to get up. Finish got a little nearfall heavy but they salvaged it with the struggle over the top rope, and I certainly won't complain about a brutal headbutt being used for a big transition. ***1/4

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