Full Version: Manami Toyota vs Sakie Hasegawa
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Hasegawa is more of a mat wrestler than most of her contemporaries, which is a nice change of pace. Nice slow build to all the false finishes toward the end, and more focus on selling than usual. I like Hasegawa a lot, because she wrestles the Joshi style very well, but also seems like a more complete wrestler than almost anyone else from her era. Lots of struggle for the big moves, and they sell the big moves enough to give them time to get over. Toyota's insistence on doing moonsaults that never get even a slight pop is puzzling though.
I loved this match so much!
Hasegawa is one of those Joshi performers that I really haven't paid much attention to in matches. Not that she is bad by any means, she was always just there for me.
But I became such a major Hasegawa supporter during this match. The slow build, the fired up Hasegawa visuals, the incredible near falls, by the end of it I was longing for Hasegawa to get the win.
Tremendous match that did something few matches these days do-it got me involved!
Hasegawa is one of those Joshi performers that I really haven't paid much attention to in matches. Not that she is bad by any means, she was always just there for me.
But I became such a major Hasegawa supporter during this match. The slow build, the fired up Hasegawa visuals, the incredible near falls, by the end of it I was longing for Hasegawa to get the win.
Tremendous match that did something few matches these days do-it got me involved!
So I'm guessing this was Hasegawa's retirement match or something? They made it seem like it.
Pretty good match that was different from the spotfest joshi matches earlier on the set. I still like Toyota.
Pretty good match that was different from the spotfest joshi matches earlier on the set. I still like Toyota.
Close, her retirement match was a couple weeks later on the 31st, Hasegawa & Ito vs Watanabe & Michiko Nagashima.
Shame too as they'd been building her up to be the next big main event star but she injured her back before they were able to pull the trigger on it.
Shame too as they'd been building her up to be the next big main event star but she injured her back before they were able to pull the trigger on it.
The more matches I watch, the less I love Manami - she's always in such a hurry, unless you have an opponent who slows her down. And god damn it, Woman, shut up!
Hasegawa would have fit so well into ARSION. She has that serious-athlete look about her, and her constant submissions feel like Yoshida. There's a great sequence where she's going for an armbar but can't get the tap. So she stands up, drops an elbow, and goes back into the armbar. It's very smooth.
Hasegawa would have fit so well into ARSION. She has that serious-athlete look about her, and her constant submissions feel like Yoshida. There's a great sequence where she's going for an armbar but can't get the tap. So she stands up, drops an elbow, and goes back into the armbar. It's very smooth.
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Hasegawa would have fit so well into ARSION. She has that serious-athlete look about her, and her constant submissions feel like Yoshida.
If you haven't seen it track down some late 91/92 AJW shows
Long stretch of Sakie, Yoshida, Takako & Debbie Malenko ripping things up in various combinations against each other in the mid card.
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Hasegawa would have fit so well into ARSION. She has that serious-athlete look about her, and her constant submissions feel like Yoshida.
If you haven't seen it track down some late 91/92 AJW shows
Long stretch of Sakie, Yoshida, Takako & Debbie Malenko ripping things up in various combinations against each other in the mid card.
I think I may have seen some of the Debbie matches, but it's been awhile. I like grumpy badass Takako and Mariko from the early 00's, myself.
I will go fishing at Doublemiz for those 91/92 matches.
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