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Cuty Suzuki Intai Jiai: Cuty Suzuki & Hikari Fukuoka & Devil Masami & Command Bolshoi vs. Tomoko Kuzumi & Tomoko Miyaguchi & Rieko Amano & Kanako Motoya From Battle Station JWP 1/6/99 Taped 12/27 Tokyo Korakuen Hall (2,030 sellout) |
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| Dynamite Kansai was originally going to wrestle Cuty in her retirement match, but due to the unfortunate accident on 11/29, she was unable to perform. Instead of slipping in a younger wrestler like Kana and giving her a much needed win over Cuty, they changed it to a standard 8 woman tag and had Cuty get a pointless win over Kana. In order to give Kansai some role in the match, they had her be the special referee and her involvement lead to poor Kana's demise. Cuty received almost no streamers when she was introduced, but that was because everyone was saving them for her retirement ceremony. What you think about this match depends on what you like. If you like work and spots than this is worth checking out because that's what this match delivers. If you are looking for psychology this is certainly not the match for you because it was just an exhibition of meaningless spots. I suppose this could be said about most good JWP, but this was supposed to be a special match. It had a finish that was memorable, but only for the lack of build to it, poor execution of it, and, most importantly, the utter stupidity behind it. Otherwise, the match itself was like any old JWP match, except there was a retirement ceremony at the end. "This match was the veterans in the organization against the young up and comers. Looking at the match-up on paper, the veteran team didn't look too good because they had Cuty, who is retiring; Masami, who should retire; Fukuoka, who would retire in a few months; and Kansai wasn't on the team because of injury was the referee," wrote Jason. What I found disappointing was that they match had no intensity. They set it up as the younger wrestlers vs. the older wrestlers, but there was no rivalry or anything like that. The new guard should have tried to take out the old guard, eventually pinning the retiring wrestler, but that would have made too much sense. "Once the match started, it went right to a quick pace as expected in a JWP match. Cuty started the match and was the focus of the match. This was the typical JWP match with no build, no selling, and no psychology. The work was decent, but nothing to be proud of. The youngsters were the ones keeping the pace up which only Fukuoka and Bolshoi could match, where as Cuty and Masami looked out of place. The sequences with Amano and Bolshoi were probably the best, but were too short to really tell," wrote Jason. This was kind of like an ECW match, a fast-paced spotfest, except it was three times as long. Cuty wrestled a lot since there was no tomorrow for her, but she didn't have the fire left in her to make the match truly special. Amano did a lot of nice submissions, but they were all for show, so nobody believed they could be the finish. Kuzumi was the best of the bunch, but then again she should be. Bolshoi was actually the best on her team, which I guess shows how far Hikari had fallen due to health. At one point Devil press slammed all of her teammates over the top rope onto the opposition. This was cool, but wouldn't it make more sense to throw on of her opponents onto another? Hikari powerbombed Bolshoi onto Kuzumi then did a moonsault for a near fall. Amano stomped her in the back of her bad neck to break this pin up and you could tell Hikari was really hurting. She had Bolshoi tag in and sat in the corner inside the ring in pain. Amano had a sankakujime locked in and Kuzumi did a swandive shiki no footstomp, so Amano just released the hold and let Bolshoi go because Kuzumi was legal. Hikari aggravated her neck injury doing a spot where she climbed up the ropes and dropkicked two opponents, knocking them off the ring apron to the floor. Kana took several footstomps, and was nearly pinned by one that Cuty did off Devil's shoulders. Cuty got a near fall with her Dragon suplex hold, but again Kana was saved. Cuty then did her enzui knee drop, but Motoya was saved. For no reason at all, Kansai picked Kana up in splash mountain position, but Kana was being held too close to the ropes and too high, so Cuty blew the spot and they had to redo it. This time Cuty was able to give Kana a nodowa otoshi (although it looked more like the double impact) off the top rope, adding to the momentum behind Kansai's splash mountain. Apparently outside interference is okay when the referee is the one interfering, so a three count followed. The finish really made less than no sense, and the shock was really killed by the blown attempt causing them to have to redo it. "Kansai, the ref, held Motoya up in her splash mountain position for Cuty to hit her destiny hammer. This looked bad because it seemed like Cuty didn't expect this and screwed up the first time and then on the second try she barely jumped high enough to hit Motoya in the head with her knee. Then a real referee came in to count to three. Cuty didn't retire looking strong because Kansai had to help her to get the win," wrote Jason. Kana didn't look as weak because Kansai ganged up on her, but there was no reason for Kansai to help either Kana or Cuty. If they had to let Cuty win her last match, they could at least have given a reason for Kansai's actions and had them lead to a rivalry between Kana and Kansai that could have helped elevated Kana. Of course, that would require Kansai to actually sell for her... "It was time for Cuty to retire, she wasn't adding anything to the matches she was involved in and she couldn't keep up with the younger girls anymore which made her look out of place," wrote Jason. Takako Inoue, Jenn Yukari, Candy Okutsu, Hiromi Yagi, Sumio Toyama, Sumiko Saito, and Mayumi Ozaki were there for the retirement ceremony. As per tradition, the active JWP wrestlers threw Cuty up in the air a few times, but Devil spiked her on the way down. It was nice of the promotion to let Cuty go out "on top," but you can't be nice when you are plummeting toward the bottom. Special thanks to: Jason Higgs 23:44
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