Issue 68D - 3/22/00 Jd' TOGETHER '98 Commercial Tape 12/26/98

Request Ni Yoru The Heel Taiketsu (showdown): Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima (Oz Academy team) vs. The Bloody & Fang Suzuki (Bukyogun team)

I think Oz Academy vs. Bukyogun would have been an interesting program. Unfortunately, after two matches, Ozaki and Lioness decided it was more fun to team up against Chigusa, or something like that. This match was alright in spite of Fang. Sugar did nothing to hurt the match, but she's gained too much weight and is longer doing anything to help it. Chikayo & The Bloody were quite good, as usual, though. Both teams did several heel spots, including Bloody & Fang using a chain to double lariat Sugar. This set Sugar & Chikayo up for a revenge spot where they wrapped the chain around Bloody's throat and posed. I liked that, but it brings to mind that the acting in the rest of the match should have been better. Sugar was taped to the top rope, so it was 2-1 against Chikayo until Amano cut Sugar's tape, allowing her to make a last second save after Bloody & Fang had given Chikayo a nodowa otoshi/German suplex combo. Later on, Chikayo had Fang in trouble, but she pulled Fang up after a move that I think was supposed to be a diving guillotine leg drop (if so, she came up a little short so it looked more like a footstomp except she wasn't standing on top of the opponent). Chikayo then won with a daruma shiki no German suplex (cross arm German suplex). I enjoyed this match for all the heel spots, and it was cool seeing Chikayo against Bloody, but overall, this was not particularly well wrestled. Average match. 14:51 (4:58 shown)