Kato mainly used UWF style offense, including injuring Chikayo's arm with an udehishigigyakujujigatame. Chikayo put this over by selling her arm when she tried to comeback with forearms. The match was surprisingly sloppy, falling apart when Chikayo went on offense and uncharacteristically blew a few spots. The match just kind of ended with Chikayo pinning Kato in a German suplex hold. This wasn't a bad match, but it's hard to believe these two could have had a match this bad in 1998.

13:16 (9:52 aired)

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Sugar Sato vs. Meiko Satomura Taped 3/15 Kanagawa Club Citta Kawasaki

This was an experimental match that fell flat because it was too great a departure from what they do well. Okay, the actual problem is there just isn't much that Sugar does well. Since Satomura has some real ambition and isn't content to do the same couple of things over and over for 10 minutes, Sugar was challenged, but she wasn't up to the task, as usual. They did a lot of strikes back and forth, which Satomura can do well but Sugar is lucky to hit 65% of her urakens, much less do any others convincingly. It's hard to fault Satomura for trying, but sometimes you have to know the limitations of your opponent. What really boggles the mind was how this was somehow still better than Nagashima vs. Kato. As usual, despite Sato being outwrestled to an embarrassing extent, Sato still got the win with her Ligerbomb.

10:26

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Tag Tournament Nikaisen (2nd Round): Mayumi Ozaki & Chikayo Nagashima vs. Chigusa Nagayo & Makie Numao Taped 3/15 Club Citta Kawasaki (evening show 750 sellout)

Another of the typical Chigusa sprints. A workrate match where everyone looked good, but Ozaki was still the best by a wide margin. Sugar's interference was key here, as she saved Ozaki from Chigusa's Super Freak. Later on, she held Chigusa off while Ozaki put Numao away with the tequila sunrise. A good match. However, as would become the norm for GAEA, it was way too short.

6:15

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Tag Tournament Kesshosen (final match): Mayumi Ozaki & Sugar Sato vs. KAORU & Toshiyo Yamada Taped 3/15 Kanagawa Club Citta Kawasaki

This continued the storyline of Yamada wanting to kick Ozaki's butt. However, for whatever reason, this time KAORU & Yamada worked as a cohesive unit. It was a junior style match, although the spots weren't as glamorous. The work was as good as you'd expect, but, unfortunately, it was another sprint. It's too bad Chikayo was injured because the match probably would have been a little better if the recently turned lackluster (at best) Sugar didn't have to take her place. In any case, the match would still have been considerably better when Ozaki was in. The opposition was strong because Yamada was fired up, and KAORU is made for this type of match. The key spot was KAORU taking the brunt of Yamada's thrust kick when Ozaki ducked it. KAORU wasn't angry that Yamada kicked her, which showed that they had buried the hatchet. The finish saw Yamada try her reverse Gori special bomb, but Sato urakened her then Ozaki urakened Yamada to take the tag tournament.

9:51

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Sakura Hirota vs. Meiko Satomura Taped 3/15 Kanagawa Club Citta Kawasaki

The typical Hirota goofiness, although thankfully she kept it under 1000 hip attacks. The technique wasn't clean due to Hirota. Any comparison of this match to Satomura vs. Ishii really leaves you scratching your head as to why Suckura is pushed on TV and Ishii's matches aren't even televised. I've been pretty critical of Sugar, but if it's any compliment she looks like a great wrestler when you compare her match against opponent to Hirota's. At least Satomura won this one, taking Hirota out with her Death Valley bomb.

7:45

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Mayumi Ozaki vs. Sakura Hirota Taped 3/29 Osaka IMP Hall (850 sellout)

The execution was fine, but the match wasn't interesting because there were too many restmissions. It seems to me that when Ozaki knows there is little hope for match quality, she pretty much just takes it easy out there. That said, even an unmotivated Ozaki was able to have a better non-comedy match with Hirota that just about anyone else. Obviously, it would have been much better if Hirota wasn't typically awful on offense, but that's as problem that all her opponents face, and it's not like she bumps like Kanemoto either. Hirota thought she could match urakens with Oz, but to show you how good Hirota's urakens were, most were actually back arms. Ozaki pulled Hirota up after a high angle powerbomb. Later, she pinned Hirota with her Ligerbomb.

13:08 (10:23 aired)

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AAAW Junior Heavykyu Tag Senshuken: Sonoko Kato & Meiko Satomura vs. Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima Taped 3/29 Osaka IMP Hall

Another match that was mainly ring work. This went longer than the other matches on the show, but still had no storyline. The hot action in the last 4 plus minutes really made the match. Chikayo was the standout, and she used her fisherman buster to score the upset pin on Satomura. These teams have been having very good matches for a while, but you'd think they would have improved on the level they reached in 1996 by now.

19:13

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