NEO Three Nights 8/14-8/16/1998

 NEO Three Nights 8/14-8/16/1998

Yuka Nakamura vs Mima Shimoda

 

Yuka hits some forearms and gets chest kicked. Yuka gets put in a grounded sleeper and kicks Mima in the head. Then Yuka gets put in a crab. Yuka tries some slaps but gets knee'd down by Mima. Yuka crossbodies her then misses the 2nd attempt and takes an axe kick for the Mima win at 5:08.

 

Hiromi Yagi vs Yuka Shiina

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. Etsuko Mita (NEO Stage 1998 First Round Match) 

 

Would you believe it if I said Nicole Bass was actually a little bit over and decent in this match? Didn't think so. Nicole yells "You are weak" and "weak" a bunch of times along with saying "Nothing" after Mita does anything to her. She even yawns after a chair shot. Nicole wins in 3:11 with a chokeslam. 

 

This is your basic squash but it was interesting atleast. Rating: No rating

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

Was there a show during the late 90's that LCO wasn't on? I swear they are on almost every tape I own minus a couple of the LLPW's(Mima is even on some of them!). Not that I mind, but just saying. Mima gets hardway juiced from a Lioness chairshot to the nose. Ouch. It was a pretty nasty looking cut. Does Endo know any other moves besides the top rope leg drop? This match stunk. There was no direction to it and that's because Shark and Crusher came in and just destroyed the face team anyway. This went forever at 24:14 and it got slower by the second. The heels won with LCO's guardrail attack and a Lioness powerbomb.  I enjoyed the Kyoko/Bass match more. Rating: 3/4*

Fang Suzuki vs Yoshiko Tamura 

Fang is like a D-level Dump clone. Fang won after Shark came in and clotheslined Tamura. Rating: DUD

Mima Shimoda vs Chapritta ASARI

Mima did basically a 450 to the floor from the top. This was great AJW-style stuff. ASARI wins with two Skytwisters. Rating: ***

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