NEO Three Nights 8/14-8/16/1998
Yuka starts off with some knees and goes for a quick pin. Yagi misses a 2nd rope crossbody. Yagi hits a backdrop into a legbar, then she does something like a crucifix bomb from the top and legbars her fro the win at 9:19. We got maybe 3 minutes of this.
Jaguar Yokota vs Yuka Shina
Jag goes for a flying butt bump and gets german suplexed instead. Yuka takes a superplex from the top and Yuka gives her one back. We get major jump cuts here and they even screw up a shot of Jag doing a flip dive on Yuka. Jag wins it soon after with a fisherman's buster. Maybe 3 minutes of the 12 minutes this went were shown.
Mayumi Ozaki vs Yuka Shiina
Yuka attacks with dropkicks early and meets a chest club. Yuka tries to dive from up top but gets caught with knees. Oz hits a nasty powerbomb on her for 2. Oz slaps Yuka hard then powerbombs her again when she pops up. Oz superplexes her from the top rope and pulls her during the pin attempt to punish her more. Yuka does a legbar out of nowhere, then Yuka dives on the leg then legbars it.Yuka missile dropkicks Oz from the top twice. Oz misses a double axe handle and gets rolled up. Then Yuka goes for a lariat but Oz ducks and hits her own double axe handle shot. Oz then hits a uraken and wins it at 6:36. We saw most of this.
Yoshiko Tamura vs. Misae Genki (NEO Stage 1998 Contestants Decision League Final Match)
This is heavily clipped. They botch a northern lights suplex and Tamura gets backdropped. Genki hits a top rope elbow, but takes a la magistral at 1:10 to lose.Fang Suzuki vs. Yoshiko Tamura (NEO Stage 1998 First Round Match)
Tamura goes after Shark Tamura at ringside and eats some shots from a stick by Fang. Fang whips her by the hair. Tamura legtrips Fang then pounds on her, then legbars her. Fang nails the ref with her stick/cane then tees off on Tamura with it. There was No DQ for....reasons. Tamura then grabs the stick and starts hitting Fang with it. Tamura goes for Shark Tsuchiya on the outside but comes back in and gets hit with cane shots. Tamura missile dropkicks Fang in the back, then northern lights suplexes her. Someone grabs the ref and distracts him then Shark hits some lariats for the Fang win at 8:51. We saw about half and it wasn't very good.
Chapritta ASARI vs. Mima Shimoda (NEO Stage 1998 First Round Match)
Nicole Bass vs Chapritta ASARI
Surely if Mita couldn't get the job done, ASARI can right? Nicole gets another chokeslam victory at 1:57. Again another squash, not much to say about it. Rating: No Rating
Nicole Bass vs Kyoko Inoue
Naturally, Kyoko booked herself to be almost even with Nicole. Everything Nicole does looks akward, she even looks akward. She almost kills Kyoko by losing her on a powerbomb and having her make a really odd landing. Nicole wins in 4:50 with another chokeslam. You know, if wrestling had nothing to do with actually being coordinated and physical, Bass maybe could have improved, but she can't do anything and make it look good. There wasn't much to it and certainly not much to rate. I imagine that the rating would have plummeted further if this went any longer. Rating: *
Lioness Asuka & Hechicera & The Bloody -vs- Mima Shimoda & Etsuko Mita & Saya Endo
Fang Suzuki vs Yoshiko Tamura
Fang is like a D-level Dump clone. Fang won after Shark came in and clotheslined Tamura. Rating: DUD
Kyoko Inoue vs Hikari Fukuoka
Hikari was a house on fire in this. Kyoko german'd her from the top, so nasty. I loved Hikari's high impact front flip dropkick from the top, loved the moonsault footstomp too. Hikari took a great 360 bump off the lariat too. This match was a Hikari highlight reel. There's never going to be another like her. Great stuff. Hikari probably could have pulled out something better with Bass. Rating: ***3/4.
Yoshiko Tamura vs Misae Genki
Bowling shoe ugly. Genki popped Tamura right in the face for botching a move. They only showed a minute of this thankfully. Rating: No Rating
I had to come and read the blog for the Nicole Bass in Japan match reviews. I'm a sucker for the WTF Gaijins on Japanese tours.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't get much stranger than Nicole Bass in NEO! Truth be told, I'm surprised we haven't seen more former WWE girls in japan.
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