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[1991-04-29-AJW] Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs Manami Toyota & Esther Moreno


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3WA Tag Titles - 2 out of 3 Falls) Aja Kong & Bison Kimura © vs Manami Toyota & Esther Moreno

Speaking of MOTYs. After they lost the hair match in Jan to Bull & Kyoko, Jungle Jack vacated the tag belts. Earlier this month they regained them beating Hokuto & Hotta not sure if that was a tournament final or just a decision match though. Bison comes out rocking the kick ass giant spiked cape & viking horned devil helmet. Aja follows being carried out on a fucking thrown Macho Man style. You can tell something special's in the air for this one. Here they're taking on the Toyota & Esther proving that giving title shots to random ass mish mash teams who've never teamed before is not a recent trend in joshi. As far as random ass teams go though this is atleast an awesome one, they reminded me a little of one of my fav teams ever KAORU & Hikari Fukuoka, both being high flyers that mirror and compliment each other well. Match starts out with them playing the cat & mouse game, with Toyota & Esther running around a million miles an hour hitting high spots, knowing that they'll get killed if they get caught which JJ finally does after a while, using their size & power to dominate things. In a cool moment, Esther tries to head but Aja who literally reacts by going "BWAHAHAHA" and looking at her like "you idiot WTF" but jokes on them as they're able to come back and put Bison away with stereo moonsaults. 1 fall in and this is allready one of the better matches this year but they're just getting started. The 2nd fall starts the same as the 1st one but then Moreno makes the mistake of trying to head butt Aja again and this time she gets more then laughed at, this time she gets the trash can to the head which causes Esther to bleed...A LOT. She freakin bleeds like there was a who can bleed the most contest that night and the prize was a million dollars. Full on 1.0 Muta scale. She's able to tag out fairly quickly to Toyota but then comes back in soon after and gets caught for a while before finally getting put down by Bison, avenging her 1st fall loss with a twisting dive of her own. 3rd fall starts with Jungle Jack taking turns torturing Cynthia & Toyota for a while before they're finally able to come back. The finishing stretch is ridicuslously great with everyone busting out gigantic dives including Esther busting out an Asai moonsault that would make Ultimo go "WOW" and tons of other big moves before Toyota finally gets killed by Aja with a Mike Awesome style power bomb off the middle rope. Can't understand a bit of Japanese or Spanish but I can read body language & emotion and I believe the post match goes something like this. Aja - "hey, heck of match kids, good job" to which Esther responds "Fuck you Jungle Jack, shove it up your ass" followed by several more mins of Esther going all nutty and riling up the crowd for support, she disapears and then Toyota & Aja get into it and have to be held back from ripping each others throats out. Everyone brought their A game for this one, especially Esther who at times looked like the best wrestler in the match, showing that she can do so much more then just flippy high spots. Easily best match i've seen from AJW this year so far. I've got another 7 or so shows from 91 that I haven't watched yet but there isn't too much I exspect has a chance of toping this.

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I often feel a disconnect with FLIK's joshi picks but not in this case. This was a hell of a fun match. Big and nasty vs. little and courageous is one of your classic wrestling dynamics, and they played it to the hilt. Moreno and Toyota did a great job of establishing their approach in the first fall; they had to swarm from every direction at 100 mph to have a chance. Then, Moreno turned in a great face-in-peril segment complete with lots and lots of blood. I've now really liked her in both that elimination match from late 1990 and in this. The finishing stretch was all action, but it felt like a greater payoff than your typical AJW spotfest because the body of the match had established the underlying dynamic between the teams. The whole thing came off wild and exciting without being stupid.

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This was a fantastic match. Everyone looked great, but Esther Moreno was the highlight, bleeding like crazy, selling her ass off, taking some crazy bumps and pulling off some excellent high-flying moves. I also love that both teams actually wrestled like teams as opposed to two singles wrestlers. What a pair of great matches!

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More excellent stuff with a strong story backing up the big moves. Nothing much to add except that I loved Moreno's tap-dancing pin save late in the match--it's one of the most joyous, excited pin saves I've ever seen. That comes after basically out-Pillmaning Brian Pillman as the gutsy babyface-in-peril for most of the match. After a match built around both teams trying to isolate one of the opponents Jungle Jack isolates Toyota long enough to get a big second-rope powerbomb and victory, but it comes off as a real skin-of-the-teeth escape.

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Whatever happened to Esther Moreno? She was flying about like Rey Mysterio in there. A career best performance in Japan, and she didn't have opponents of this calibre to work with back home. I was wondering how she was going to make herself look credible against Aja but somehow she managed it. Kong looked like a monster throughout but the challengers posed many problems with their quickness and teamwork. In the first fall Bison gets isolated and is taken out by a quick array of double teaming. Jack take over in the 2nd as Moreno does a meaty blade job. Then a fitting final fall with a threat of a title change. High quality throughout, a few minor errors but nothing major. A really exciting match that was better than it had any right to be. Esther excelled and the others all brought it. AJW continues to kick ass in 1991.

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Yeah this a great match that played off one of my favorite storylines in wrestling. The Toyato/Moreno team actually had a rationale for being so quick and fast paced. Then the ass kicking Moreno takes in the second fall when Jungle Jack gathers their bearings is amazing. Finishing run was really hot and had me on the edge of my seat. Top 10 for the year contender.

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Moreno was sensational in this and the glue that held it together. She made a real fist at speaking Japanese and I guess that helped with calling spots. I wasn't so sure whether that blade job was appropriate for the match they were working and it was a bit deep, but everything else she did was great and I thought she matched up with Aja tremendously well. Aja was like a fat kid at the pool with that plancha. Total belly-flop. The second rope power bomb to win it was vicious looking. Really fun, high energy bout. The time flew by which was a big positive.

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One of the wildest women's matches I've ever seen, period. I've never seen two women take the beatings Esther and Manami did in the second and third falls. We focus on Esther because she bled so insanely, but Manami didn't exactly escape unhurt. The amazing thing was that this match was still competitive in spite of all that, as Jungle Jack always seemed to be on the run despite the punishment they dished out. The finishing powerbomb from the second rope looked sickening, but that kind of brutality should be what it takes to finish off such plucky challengers.

 

The only downside to this whole thing is Aja's continued use of the trash can. It must be like Abby and his fork or Original Sheik and his pencil: it's technically illegal, but the fans expect to see it, so the ref treats it as if it was legal. At least here it had a purpose, which was opening up that gusher on Esther's head. Moolah would have been horrified to see blood like that in a women's match, and I couldn't have blamed her one bit. If Esther bladed that deeply on purpose, she's either braindead, warped, or both. If it was an accident, my hat's off to her for continuing to compete on such a high level.

 

I'd call this the greatest women's match I've ever seen, but I'm sure there's better to come throughout these Yearbooks. How Vince didn't see workers like this with both talent and beauty (Aja excepted, at least as far as beauty goes) and sign them up for his women's division I'll never know. Then again, if he had Sunny and Sable would have been so thoroughly outclassed it wouldn't have been funny (and for the record, I love Tammy as a performer, particularly in Smoky Mountain).

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Great match with the big vs. fast dynamic. Esther Moreno managed to do enough work for two despite being in the ring with some pretty heavy hitters. Loved her sequences with Aja where she just went ahead at a million miles an hour because that's all she had going in her favor, even when it didn't work out. Puts both of them over a ton if you ask me. One of the few joshi matches I've seen on the yearbooks that I seem to like as much as the rest.

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  • GSR changed the title to [1991-04-29-AJW] Aja Kong & Bison Kimura vs Manami Toyota & Esther Moreno
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After losing their hair match in January, Bison and Aja are back and they're here to hurt someone. This felt like a lucha match. Not just because of the 2/3 falls stipulation, but because of the frantic pace and high spots these women busted out. Even Aja gets time to hit a plancha to the outside. Esther Moreno was a real discovery for me. She's incredibly athletic, which is saying something when you are on the same time as Manami freakin' Toyota. Moreno bleeds a gushers and works as a FIP for a lot of the match. They do go a touch overboard with the amount of spots in the final fall, but it's a minor complaint. 

★★★★
 

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