Ice Ribbon 7/30/2022 New Ice Ribbon #1217

Ice Ribbon 7/30/2022 New Ice Ribbon #1217

Saran vs Nao Ishikawa

Nao's been out and is replacing someone else here in her return.

They shake hands to start and Sarah kind of throws the hand down. Saran gets a chant going then Nao tries to take it over. Saran stomps her on her feet then stomps her fingers. Nao then tries to do it to her but Saran moves her fingers. Nao hair throws her then footchokes her. Nao does a bad facebuster then camel clutches her. She tries to pull on the nostrils and the ref yells at her for it then she does.

Nao slams her and Saran rolls her up for 2. Saran then camel clutches her and pulls on her nostrils. Saran hits dropkicks and chest forearms. Nao shoulders her over then elbow drops and sentons her for 2. Nao bodyscissors her and pulls back on the arms and Saran ropebreaks as she sits on her back and does it.

Saran dropkicks her against the ropes for 2 and they trade chest forearms. Saran goes up and over with a roll-up in the corner then rolls her up for 2. Nao cartwheel knees her for 2 then lariats her for another 2. Saran rolls her up then is sat on and pinned on another attempt for the Nao win.

Nothing wrong with this. They kept it moving, they two meshed pretty well together and the finish was cool.

Yuko Sakurai vs Sumika Yanagawa

Yuko avoids elbows then shoulders her over. Yuko then snapmares and headscissors her and Sumika rolls to the ropes. Sumika full nelson's Yuko and dragon sleepers her until she hits the ropes. Yuko hits a running back elbow then splashes her for 2.

Yuko misses a dropkick the ntakes a handstand double knee and Sumika rolls over her back into an indian deathlock. Sumika does her handstand double knees to the gut and they trade chest forearms. Yuko misses one then takes a dropkick. Yuko then slams her for 2 and dragon sleepers her. Sumika ropebreaks and hits some rollups for 2. Yuko also tries some roll-ups then blocks Sumika's bridged swinging kick, but takes a spinning high kick for 2. Yuko then puts her in the dragon sleeper position and slices her with her body. Yuko then suplexes her with a high bridge and wins it.

It wasn't bad at all. Sumika's offense didn't look like crap for a change and Yuko didn't mess anything up. Don't get me wrong, there wasn't much story or anything to it, but it was better than I expected.

Ibuki Hoshi vs Yura Suzuki

Ibuki rolls through a wristlock early then Yura kips up out of one. Yura hammerlocks her then Ibuki shoulders her over. Ibuki puts her in the boston crab and forces Yura to ropebreak. Ibuki ties her up in the ropes and dropkicks her while she's in them.

Ibuki misses a forearm and is shouldered over hard. Yura then hits back kicks for 2. They trade Ibuki chops for Yura forearms then Ibuki puts her in an octopus stretch. Yura gets out and running high kicks her for 2. Yura hammerlocks her then fujiwara armbars her.

Ibuki goes for a jumping codebreaker but kind of mises then she dropkicks her. Yura slightly misses a high kick then hits it on the 2nd try for 2. Yura suplexes her for 2. Ibuki drops her with a high kick then double chops her for 2. Ibuki then top rope splashes her and wins it.

It wasn't bad. Yura did miss some stuff but the strike exchanges were decent and it was not a boring match.

Hikari Shimizu & Kaho Matsushita vs Amin & Asahi

Amin yells for handshakes as usual and both opponents oblige in their own unique ways. Kaho and Amin test of strength then Asahi pushes Kaho to help her win it. Hikari boots Kaho out then they royally mess up some some double shoulder spot. Amin says something to them then is double dropkicked. Kaho cartwheels out of an irish whip then dropkicks her. Hikari footchokes Amin for 2 then Amin corner splashes her and pedulum bronco busters her.

Hikari is double footchoked in the corner then Asahi footchokes her. Asahi spinning facebusters her and hits chest forearms. Hikari evades her charge in the corner then is rolled up through the ropes by Asahi. Hikari then trips her and butt drops her for 2. Hikari then crossbodies her for 2.

Asahi gets in and fujiwara armbars Kaho and actually leaps over her before being rolled into a figure four. Asahi is popped up kind of and butt drops Kaho. Amin gets in and hits a falling splash on Kaho but has her next attempts of it blocked and avoided. Hikari then climbs Kaho's back and they falling splash Amin. Amin then butt drops, sentons and splashes Kaho for 2. Amin is snapmared off the top rope then takes a running kick from Kaho.

Kaho then top rope dropkicks Amin for 2. Hikari top rope crossbodies Amin for 2 then Amin spinning double chops her. Amin racks Hikari over her shoulder and puts her in reverse tree of woe. Hikari is then splashed and dropkicked as she hangs and Amin rolling sentons her. Hikari superkicks Amin then step up kicks her. Hikari then 2nd rope double stomps Amin for 2.

Amin powerslams Hikari and holds her up for Asahi to press her down. Asahi then climbs Amin's back for a falling splash. Amin ducks a high kick only to take a step up enzugiri from Kaho and a gamengiri from Hikari. Hikari then running leg lariats her as she is on her knees for 2. Hikari and Kaho dropkick Asahi out then Hikari top rope double stomps Amin for 2. Hikari then suplexes Amin and gets the win.

This was good. It was fast paced, Hikari/Kaho made for a fun team and Amin stepped up and did a lot of the work here. Easily one of the better dojo matches Ice has had in a while and I hope we see more of the Hikari/Kaho team.

Hikari takes on the mic after then Tsukasa Fujimoto and Ibuki Hoshi are given cakes for their birthday.

Overall thoughts: One of the better Ice Ribbon dojo shows. Nothing was a classic or anything but everything was decent here.