A GAEA shout-out

[Guest Jubuki]

I thought it was somebody here who said something to me about watching the 10/20/02 Toyota/Nagashima title switch.

 

Well, it sucked ass. I just reviewed it. Go find out why, whoever you were.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

No doubt that was Dean. Besides the two of you, I doubt there's anyone here who watches GAEA these days.

 

Nice to see you're still reviewing quite a bit, though.

[Guest DragonflyKid]

I am at least one in the guilty party:

 

GAEA Megaride ’02- The Toyota/Nagashima is the only match worth going out your way to see. It was very good although Toyota’s emotion hurt the match, her facial expression didn’t express the importance of the match or Nagashima’s threat until Chikayo semi-no-sold two Japanese Ocean Queen Bee Bombs but by that time the match was nearly over. The undercard ranged from okay to bad, the opening match between Amano and YuYu was the 2nd best match on the card which says something about the quality of the other matches. The Crush Girls/LCO match was boring and the tag title match was highly disappointing. Instead of having a good, hard-fought, memorable title change the focus of the match was D-Fix’s attempt at using the chain, their use of the chain and Police’s interference. A bad match made worse by the fact the title switch happened in a match that wasn’t taken seriously. D-Fix < Hirota.

 

From another message board.

I though Toyota's approach was a little annoying though. I could understand Toyota coming into the match not taking the younger, smaller Nagashima seriously if she(Toyota) was champ and Nagashima was the underdog challenger but Chikayo was the champ thus should already have credibility. Doing stuff like her smiling routine and the Wakizawa nose thing in a title match doesnt appeal to me. The crowd barely popped for the nearfall after a Chikayo Fisherman's Buster because she wasn't being taken as a serious threat. Aside from that it was well worked and after consecutive 360 Footstomps(The first one missed) the crowd did buy into Chikayo but I felt it was a little late in the match for it to finally happen. The ending with the Queen Bee Bomb no-sells and Toyota's facial expressions did put Nagashima over but I felt it could have been done more throughout the match.

 

 

I had seen it pimped elsewhere as a MOTYC @ Real in Memphis among other places.

 

I'll go read your review and will likely agree with your points but I'm one who while acknowledging flaws has a great deal of tolerance which allowed me to enjoy this particular match as a whole. After two viewings I thought it was around ***3/4 - ****, then again my opinions are rather queer.

[Guest DragonflyKid]

After reading your review I can't dismiss the points you made as they are accurate but I doubt most(Including myself) would have picked up on all of the flaws you mentioned thus would have been more apt to enjoy the match. I think the majority of people would enjoy it thus I'd have little problem recommending it to a degree(Not to a newbie but to someone who has 25 minutes to burn on a custom comps or something this match is worthwhile). There's alot of stuff out there that's much better but compared to the rest of the current product it is good IMO.

[Guest Jubuki]

That's the kind of attitude that turns into Mutoh/Kawada ****1/2.

[Guest BionicRedneck]

After reading your review I can't dismiss the points you made as they are accurate but I doubt most(Including myself) would have picked up on all of the flaws you mentioned thus would have been more apt to enjoy the match. I think the majority of people would enjoy it thus I'd have little problem recommending it to a degree. There's alot of stuff out there that's much better but compared to the rest of the current product it is good IMO.

I haven't seen the match so I wont comment.

 

But, to me, that basically says "It's shit....but I enjoyed it"

 

[Guest DragonflyKid]

I haven't seen the match so I wont comment.

 

But, to me, that basically says "It's shit....but I enjoyed it"

 

 

 

If I thought it was shit I wouldn't have enjoyed it or recommended it. I admit it had flaws but also redeeming qualities that I found enjoyable. It was far from perfect but also far from being shit.

[Guest wolverine]

I thought about getting that match a while ago, but thankfully I changed my mind. At this point, it's all about Hokuto early 90's footage for me. After all, that stuff's as good as it gets. Literally.

[Guest PhilRippa]

You know.... I am not sure it was Dean. I can't find a review of it from him. That's not to say he didn't recommend it but I just can't find a review either way.

 

Mind you - he has a ton more GAEA he keeps claiming he will review. Maybe by #178.

 

Phil

[Guest DragonflyKid]

You know.... I am not sure it was Dean. I can't find a review of it from him. That's not to say he didn't recommend it but I just can't find a review either way.

 

He reviewed it here(His second post)- : DVDVR #141 @ SMforum and seemed to be high on it as most are.

[Guest DEAN RASMUSSEN]

You know.... I am not sure it was Dean. I can't find a review of it from him. That's not to say he didn't recommend it but I just can't find a review either way.

 

He reviewed it here(His second post)- : DVDVR #141 @ SMforum and seemed to be high on it as most are.

Here's my review. Go watch it. I liked it because Nagashima carries Toyota to a non-1993 match. Coey is high.

 

DEAN.

 

 

Manami Toyota vs Chikayo Nagashima

This match rules it for the most part - except for the fact that the youngster is better at the psychology of wrestling than the woman who debuted in 1987. Manami has gotten way better though and has parlayed the cool cranky old bitch who hates young upstarts personna she hinted at in her final days with AJW into fuller bloom here - as Chikayo is custom made for her, what with her being a much smaller wrestler and also a real ace at every style of wrestling. Chikayo is also really great at selling the offense of Toyota, selling it as champion with real fighting spirit but also as the much smaller wrestler in the match. Chikayo used the lessons she learned from selling for Aja and applied them here. Manami establishes her power dominance early with a knucklelock but Chikayo turns into her Tarantula Cross-Armbreaker - as speed and guile must elude power if it is to survive. Chikayo then goes up top but Manami throws her down and fucking DESTROYS her with a dropkick her while tied up in ropes - this being the move that Chikayo made look so balls out in the tag match. Manami tries other side of the ring by tying Chikayo in the ropes and going for the dropkick to the back again but Chikayo moves and Manami flies out of the ring, spectacularly zooming to the floor and landing straight on her back. Chikayo follows it with a double stomp off top to floor and Manami acts like she is coughing up a lung. Chikayo rolls Manami in and does another double stomp, but off topturnbuckle. Manami fights out of a Northern Lights Bomb and hits fabulous snap suplex - as Manami always throws spectacular suplexes with even larger wrestlers, so imagine the torque she can get on someone who weighs 100 pounds - to set up series of missile dropkicks. Chikayo runs up the ropes on third Missile attempt, catches Manami and ranas into a roll-up. Manami kicks to transition and then does a nasty double leg drop that looked like it would rip Chikayo's hamstrings apart. Manami starts working on Chikayo's leg with a half crab that flows effortlessly into an Indian Deathlock that flows seamlessly into Bridging facelock. Manami loses bridge and goes back to a simple Indian Deathlock, which she converts into a hands-free Romero Special. It's a beautiful couple of combinations of lucha lucha mat-cum-US Pro Style matholds all executed masterfully. Chikayo sells the back and Manami stalks her, allowing to get over to the crowd that Chikayo has been weakened and that Manami is in control. Chikayo goes from the vertical base to a rollup into kneebar but Manami makes the ropes easily. Manami then goes from the vertical base to a Davey Boy Smith-esque extended Butterfly Suplex that she follows up with a Camel Clutch. Chakayo gnaws on Manami's foot to transition and Manami quickly switches to a bodyscissors to sustain the submission sequence until Chikayo makes ropes. Back to a vertical base, they run the ropes and Chikayo hits a Released German which Manami no-sells. Chikayo hits another one and Manami feels compelled to sell the second one. Chikayo hits a toprope missile dropkick that Manami no-sells. I'm fixing to get upset with young Miss Toyota but she hits a released German that Chikayo doesn't sell so I call it even and move on with my life. Chikayo straps on the Octapus Hold until Manami makes the ropes.Chikayo gets thrown out of the ring and Manami will still do those things that you know that no wrestler should ever attempt to do as she hits a fucking spectacualr and astoundingly stupid Ryder Kick to floor. Chikayo is sells it as Manami is dragging her by her hair. Chikayo wanders around the ring in a daze and Manami nails her with another missile dropkick to Chikayo's back. Chikayo catches Manami going up and hits a Released German which somehow works it's way through standing switches and shots into the ropes to the next offensive move being a sequence into a Toyota Rolling Cradle. Manami follows it up with an attempt at her third tier finisher - her Wrist Clutch Suplex, but Chikayo turns it into a roll-up. Chikayo hits a double stomp but Manami fights out of Nagashima's Northern Lights Bomb and hits her own German with a bridge. Manami still has the edge over the beaten Chikayo and goes for her Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex but Chikayo rolls through into a roll-up. More rollups ensue until Chikayo hits her first Northern Lights Bomb for 2, goes for second but Manami reverses it into a Straightjacket German with bridge - and it is at this point I realize that i want these two to wrestle each other 46 times before they retire because the counters out of established finishers is all kindsa cool as shit. Chikayo with a Northern Lights Bomb for 2 but she misses the Double stomp and goes for a rana off the toprope - as Manami had scaled the ropes just prior. Manami catches before she can rotate on the hurricanrana and hits the FAT ASS powerbomb that is the turning point of the match. Chikayo hits a rollup to escape the next Queen Bee Bomb attempt and counters with a Tequila Sunrise Suplex to set up her somersault double stomp. Manami catches Chikayo going up for a second double stomp and gets in her first Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex for two. Chikayo staves off defeat by reversing out of Manami's Wrist Clutch Suplex into a roll-up for 2. Chikayo catches Manami going up the ropes and hits a Spyder Suplex out of the corner and sets up her two somersault double stomps for two. Manami is selling it like she has been eating at Jack In The Box. Manami tries to counter out of rana but Chikayo is feeling a resurgence in momentum and follow through with the roll-up. Manami feels it slipping away and goes for a second Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suples but Chikayo turns it into a Tequila Sunrise Suplex but both are spent. Manami gets to feet first and hits a devastating Queen Bee Bomb. Chikayo struggles for the ropes to escape and the look on the face of Manami is fucking great as she realizes that she has her now and has to put her away. Manami goes for the kill but Chikayo escapes with a roll-up but can barely move much less hold the pinning predicament. Manami finally hits her second Queen Bee Bomb and gets the win. Postmatch, Manami is a total bitch by taunting Chikayo and YOU and IIII love it. Rematch already! Manami was like Misawa at the end there - trying to figure out what it would take to put the young punk away and Nagashima was the perfect mix of champion taking on the outsider and ALSO the underdog wrestling the older larger opponent. It a fascinating match-up that I don't think even Manami vs Meiko will match. In the ring, they go all angletastic as Yamada looks on in contempt at Manami and her cronies. Devil joins Aja and Manami. Lioness turns on Chigusa and joins the new stable. Chigusa makes that look of betrayal that no one else in wrestling can make. GAEA rules.

[Guest Jubuki]

So, what you're saying is she carries her to a match that doesn't strongly resemble a Toyota match from the best year for Joshi wrestling ever. Oh how right you are.

 

Oh, and DFK, shame on you for reading Real in Memphis. They are my true hated foe - they really did plagiarize me, har har.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

I have nothing to add to this thread except for the suggestion that Jubuki should definitely go and kick some ass in the NHB folder. Some may like your posts because you know alot about Puro, but I dig it just waiting to see who you're going to tear apart next. Keep up the good work. It's highly entertaining.