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It's Wrong! Super Heel Tag
Match: ZAP I & ZAP T vs. Eagle Sawai (LLPW/G-Max) & Shark Tsuchiya (Free/Modukutai) |
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This was such a mess that it's hard to know where to begin. I guess I should just state the obvious, that this was the worst incarnation of crap. I can't believe AJW would allow their top heels to be massacred on their own major show. I mean, I know the Matsunagas are old, out of touch, senile, etc., but this set a new standard of cluelessness. The ZAPs were attacked before the bell by all of Eagle's lackeys, which set the tone for the entire match. Basically the story of the match was that the Zaps got destroyed because they were really outnumbered and had no friends in AJW to help them out since they turned their back on the promotion. It's a workable storyline if it doesn't involve other heels you are trying to portray the Zaps as being superior to and if it advances the ZAP vs. AJW feud, but this, of course, did neither. As horrible as it sounds, the Zaps would have been hurt less if they were destroyed by the new monster gaijin team of Nicole Bass & Chyna, setting them up for a reign of terror to all wrestling fans where they squash everyone in 2 minute -* matches that have the spots called very audibly by second Captain Suck It. I know I've just ensured that you'll have nightmares tonight, but at least there would be purpose to this if they wanted to use those two awful roided up eunuchs. Instead, AJW was totally embarrassed and whatever momentum or credibility the Zaps built up was destroyed by Eagle in one fail swoop. G-Max tried to unmask the Zaps, but instead the Zaps did so voluntarily when they regained the advantage. The "positives" of this were that there wasn't a sole in the audience that didn't know who the Zaps were anyway, and neither young Tomoko nor young Kaoru had a mask vs. mask match scheduled against Psicosis in Tiijuna. They brawled chaotically all over the arena from start to finish doing almost no wrestling. In fact, Shit did no wrestling at all, but, of course, cut Watanabe up once again with her kama. Ito was good when she had the chance to be, but her chances were as rare as a seeing a WWF PPV that doesn't garner at least ten total * more than the matches were worth. Midori has taken Michiko Nagashima's role as the G-Max member who does all the work and gets none of the credit. Eagle finally ended this disaster by pinning T with her Eagle cannon bomb. After this travesty, Eagle & Shark may as well have presented the Zaps with a first class ticket on the nonstop to nowhere. This match could only have been worse for the ZAPS if Eagle had hit her diving footstomp. Miko: At no point in this match is there even the pretense that this is a 2 vs. 2 tag match. ZAPS get jumped before the bell (Wearing those jackets with hoods does wonders for your peripheral vision;^) and spend most of the match getting pummeled 8-on-2. Given that this was basically a 8-on-2 beat down, I was disappointed no one came out to help the ZAPS. Not only would it have made for a better match, but it could have set up the ZAPS coming out to help AJW a little over a month later during the battle with Neo Ladies. I could easily have seen at least former U*TOPS friend Yumiko Hotta coming out to help. Or former partner Takako Inoue. Michael: "It's Wrong" is the perfect title and summation for this match. The idiocy in the Matsunaga's booking reached an all-time peak here because I can't think of one viable reason or excuse as to why AJW's top tag team was sent out there to get squashed for 11 minutes. The Zaps were outnumbered 8-3 (if you include all 10 seconds that Isozaki was involved), so realistically Ito and Watanabe should've been clobbered with those odds against them. The thing is, they shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place. Simply calling this match was a complete waste and a farce is a gross understatement. James: Bloody awful! Back in the days of Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, British wrestling was better than this. Special thanks to: Michael Smith, Miko Kubota - Michiku Pro, & James Phillips- Japanese Women's Wrestling10:38
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