LLPW Debut - The Kageki Renaissance! LLPW Grand Opening Commercial Tape 8/29/92 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

LLPW Debut Show 8/29/1992 Review

Leo Kitamura vs Mizuki Endo

Leo won with a moonsault that she really only hit with her legs. That wasn't too good. Crowd wasn't into it until the end and they clipped it too much for me.

Midori Saito & Rumi Yasuda vs. Mikiko Futagami & Yukari Osawa

Yasuda was out for a minute after this

Saito won this with a surprise roll-up on Gami. This had the makings of a good match but it didn't really grow to it. Osawa and Gami did alot of double teams, but they were quite weak. Saito and Yasuda are weak, so lots of weak stuff here. Never take a chair to the back of the head though, as you will get messed up like Osawa did. Rating:*

Eagle Sawai vs. Michiko Nagashima

Sawai won with a powerbomb, after botching the one before it. Not good. Too many botches here and we all know who was going to win this.

Noriyo Tateno & Harley Saito vs. Miki Handa & Utako Hozumi

Tateno and Harley won over Handa with stereo top rope headbutts. This match went 36 minutes long. I like a couple of these girls as much as anyone, but there is no one in LLPW that I would put in a 36 minute match. This was like a mini-series or something. It just never ended and there was no logical story or anything to keep me going. Just moves and Saito/Tateno controlling everything. I would have much rather switched out Handa or Hozumi for Eagle just to make this thing a little bit more fair.

Shinobu Kandori vs. Rumi Kazama

The finish

Kandori won here with a powerbomb. They started off really hot with stiff kicks but then kept it slow for the rest of the match. Kazama mostly had Kandori in the sleeper and had her down for most of the match with various kicks to the head. Kandori made a comeback towards the end with lariats and knees and hit the powerbomb for the win. This match switched from shootstyle to basic wrestling and I kind of prefered them shooting. Few people hit harder shots than these two so I was glad to see some nice shots here.  This was good and well-worked, but it really could have been a five star match if they just stuck to stiff shots and ended it in about 10 minutes. Instead my rating is :***1/4

Overall thoughts: Skip this. Only the main event was worthwhile.

LLPW The Kageki Renaissance! Grand Opening 3rd Commercial Tape 10/30/92 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

LLPW The Kageki Renaissance! Grand Opening 3rd Commercial Tape 10/30/92 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

Midori Saito vs. Rumi Yasuda

This one ended in a draw. It had some nice early legwork then everyone forgot about selling it or working it. Rating: Dud

Mikiko Futagami & Leo Kitamura vs. Michiko Nagashima & Mizuki Endo

The finish

Kitamura won this one with a middle rope suplex on Nagashima. Nagashima took a whoopin' as you can see in the GIF's. This was pretty much all Kitamura/Futagami stomping on Nagashima. However, this was entertaining and I enjoyed them throwing her around like a ragdoll. Rating:**

Harley Saito vs. Yukari Osawa

Harley misses the flying headbutt and then gets the pin...

Harley won with a missed flying headbutt. I've never seen a match break down so fast. I expected this to be the best match on the show and for the first half it was, then it turned into a total disaster. I don't know what happened but after the missed tombstone above they just blew it. Harley then botched the finish. I don't know what happened here and I don't know why they didn't just do what they are great at: throwing stiff kicks. Rating:1/2*

Rumi Kazama & Miki Handa vs. Eagle Sawai & Utako Hozumi

Handa won this with a quick roll-up on Utako. The second half of this was good but the first half wasn't anything too special Nothing really wrong with it. Utako hit alot of cool reversals as you can see above and the Handa/Sawai sections had some heat. Rating:*1/2

Shinobu Kandori (black/red/blue) vs. Noriyo Tateno (black/pink)

Noriyo Tateno - The Queen of the cheap shots

The finish

Kandori won with a ground ankle lock. This was almost all mat based minus Tateno's top rope moves. Kandori sold the knee for most of this, but then they just stopped focusing on it. The crowd died near the end of this when they started doing last minute desperation submissions, but I didn't have any real problems with it minus the knee stuff. This could have been much better though.

Overall thoughts: This had some decent but not great matches. This whole show was also missing heat that it should have had. It might be worth a look but it's nothing I would go out and buy minus the tag match with Futagami and Nagashima.