[2000-10-09-JWP] Megumi Yabushita & Sumie Sakai vs Tsubasa Kuragaki & Kayoko Haruyama

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I will be interested in hearing other opinions on this. Something between the clipping, lack of knowledge with the wrestlers or feud that comprise this match and the random beeping and alert message that pops up on the screen at different intervals made this match not connect for me. A lot of the individual sequences were good and these are four women we will get pretty acquainted to especially someone like Haruyama who I am looking forward to. I thought Sumie was the highlight of the match and showed more viciousness than you might expect. She pounded Tsubasa and Kayoko when given the opportunity. Finish with Yabushita picking up the win felt natural as her Shooter background helped her stature. I miss Ran Yu Yu. **3/4

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This was a good match. The Samurai TV commentary was inane but all four girls were out there doing their thing. Sakai and Yabushita were good workers who came along at the wrong time and could have gotten a better run if they'd entered the business a bit earlier. I don't think that their idol combination worked that well but you could tell that they were Jaguar trainees. I thought Haruyama worked really hard in this and to be fair she was the glue that kept it together. Kuragaki was decent but the least impressive of the four. The match petered out toward the end and they probably kept it going for longer than necessary but they weren't that experienced so I thought this was fairly good for young talent.