8/25 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Devil Masami & Aja Kong beat Lioness Asuka & Meiko Satomura when Aja urakened Lioness at 10:54. Although Aja & Kansai are the underdogs in the 9/15 main event, this shows that Aja is capable of beating Lioness.
Chigusa Nagayo & Chikayo Nagashima beat Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki when Chigusa pinned Kansai at 12:29.
Sugar Sato pinned KAORU in her Ligerbomb at 9:51.
Akira Hokuto & Toshiyo Yamada defeated Toshie Uematsu & Sonoko Kato when Yamada used her elbow cutter on Uematsu at 10:55.

8/13 Aichi Nagoya Shi Chikusa-ku Sports Center
Akira Hokuto & KAORU beat Lioness Asuka & Sonoko Kato when Kato was DQ'd at 11:26.
Devil Masami & Toshiyo Yamada beat Chigusa Nagayo & Toshie Uematsu when Yamada pinned Uematsu at 8:12 following her elbow cutter.
Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki defeated Chikayo Nagashima & The Bloody when Kansai pinned Nagashima at 9:06.

7/29 Hisaya Odori
Sakura Hirota won a 9 woman battle royal when she pinned KAORU at 11:10.
Dynamite Kansai & KAORU & Toshiyo Yamada beat Devil Masami & Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki when KAORU used her excalibur on Ozaki at 7:30.
Lioness Asuka pinned Toshie Uematsu in her high angle Ligerbomb at 10:32.

7/22 Tokyo Korakuen Hall 2,200 sellout
Aja Kong & Dynamite Kansai beat Chigusa Nagayo & Sonoko Kato. Kato, who has been out of action most of the year, finally returned from her neck injury, but the monster team was too much. The finish saw Aja & Kansai give Kato a double lariat then Aja urakened Kato and Kansai splash mountained her for the pin at 8:47. After the match there was a reverse nomination as Crush 2000 challenged Aja & Kansai to be their opponents in the main event of the 9/15 show at Kanagawa Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan.
Lioness Asuka pinned KAORU at 17:43.
Mayumi Ozaki pinned Sugar Sato at 8:09 following her uraken.
Toshiyo Yamada pinned Toshie Uematsu at 7:18 with her elbow cutter.
Devil Masami & Akira Hokuto beat Meiko Satomura & Chikayo Nagashima when Devil Ligerbombed Chikayo at 11:33.

7/20 Niigata Phase
Devil Masami & Akira Hokuto beat Chigusa Nagayo & Meiko Satomura when Devil pinned Satomura in her fire valley at 15:24.
Lioness Asuka & Chikayo Nagashima defeated Mayumi Ozaki & Toshiyo Yamada when Lioness towerhacker bombed Yamada at 13:15.
Dynamite Kansai & KAORU beat Sugar Sato & Toshie Uematsu when KAORU used her excalibur on Sugar at 11:27.

7/16 Osaka IMP Hall
Lioness Asuka & Meiko Satomura beat Devil Masami & Toshiyo Yamada when Satomura stopped the reverse Gori special bomb and did 3 Death Valley bombs in a row for the surprise pin over Yamada at 9:31.
Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki defeated Chigusa Nagayo & Sugar Sato when Hokuto pinned Sato in the kubigatame at 9:18.
Dynamite Kansai & KAORU beat Chikayo Nagashima & Toshie Uematsu when Kansai splash mountained Uematsu at 8:21. This was the first time Kansai & KAORU had tagged, so there was a "sense of incongruity."

7/15 Act City Hamamatsu
Devil Masami & Dynamite Kansai beat Chigusa Nagayo & Meiko Satomura when the ref stopped the match at 9:51 because Satomura was trapped in Devil's doshime sleeper.
Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki defeated Lioness Asuka & Chikayo Nagashima when Ozaki urakened Chikayo at 12:38.
KAORU & Toshiyo Yamada beat Toshie Uematsu & The Bloody when Yamada pinned Bloody in her quick Gori special bomb at 7:47. KAORU pinned Uematsu in her excalibur at the same time.

6/25 Osaka IMP Hall
Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki beat Chigusa Nagayo & Chikayo Nagashima when Ozaki tequila sunrised Chikayo at 10:49. Chigusa kicked out of Kansai's splash mountain at 1, so Kansai returned the favor when Chigusa's Death Valley bombed her. Later Kansai had Chigusa set up for the Die Hard, but Chigusa stood up out of it. Chikayo tried to annoy Ozaki, but Ozaki got the last laugh.
Devil Masami & Akira Hokuto & Toshiyo Yamada defeated Lioness Asuka & Meiko Satomura & Sugar Sato. Yamada beat Satomura by TKO when the towel was thrown in at 11:22. I think Yamada turned the Death Valley bomb into some arm submission and Satomura refused to submit.
In a Free Weapon Match, "Miss Hardcore" KAORU pinned Sakura Hirota under at ladder at 8:24. Hirota was dressed as a policeman.
Toshie Uematsu & The Bloody beat Chikayo Nagashima & Saika Takeuchi when Bloody pinned Takeuchi in her Bloody EX at 12:09.

TOP OF THE WORLD 2000 6/11 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Dynamite Kansai & Mayumi Ozaki beat Lioness Asuka & Sugar Sato when Kansai used (wasted?) her rarely used Die Hard Kansai top finisher to pin Sato at 15:49. This match was built around the Lioness vs. Kansai rivalry from Jd' and the Ozaki vs. Sato rivalry from Sato leaving Ozaki last month. At one point, Ozaki turned Sato's Liger bomb into a sankakujime while in the air, but Sato kept fighting and nearly pinned Ozaki in a kaiten shiki no Ligerbomb. After the match Kansai said she was going from JWP to Crush, but never actually said she was a free agent.
Devil Masami & Toshiyo Yamada defeated Toshie Uematsu & The Bloody when Yamada pinned Uematsu in her quick Gori special bomb at 8:43.Uematsu & Bloody double teamed with missile kicks, suplexes, and sentons, but it wasn't enough.
Akira Hokuto & Ozaki & KAORU beat Chigusa Nagayo & Meiko Satomura & Chikayo Nagashima . Spotfest. Chikayo showed how much she hates Ozaki in this match, and proved her loyalty by rescuing Chigusa at one point, but fell prey to Hokuto's northern lights bomb at 20:38

5/20 Osaka IMP Hall
Devil Masami & Toshiyo Yamada beat Chigusa Nagayo & Meiko Satomura when Devil gave Satomura fire valley at 7:30.
Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki & KAORU defeated Lioness Asuka & Toshie Uematsu & The Bloody when Hokuto pinned Bloody in her DQ bomb at 10:01.
Dynamite Kansai & Rie beat Sugar Sato & Sakura Hirota when Kansai splash mountained Sugar at 8:46.

Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima are with Chigusa rather than Ozaki now. They switched sides on the 5/14 show. They had been with Ozaki since the summer of 1996, when they left Chigusa to join Oz Academy.

GAEA is claiming that their phone was ringing off the hook this morning because so many fans were calling and asking when Crush 2000 would team again. Then later I think it said that 300 people called, which I guess is an awful lot when you consider the goofiness of the question.

5th Annivs.DAY 5/14 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum 9,000
The Crush Gals, now called Crush 2000, reunited to beat Akira Hokuto & Devil Masami in the main event when Chigusa pinned Hokuto at 20:28 with a new move called Over The Crush. The article talked about the Crush Gals bleeding, in particular Chigusa getting her head split open with a wooden sword, but I didn't notice blood in any of the pictures so it wasn't exactly the "crimson mask."Apparently there was a brawl during the post match press conference to keep some heat on Hokuto.

Aja Kong once again beat Meiko Satomura to retain the AAAW Single Senshuken when she pinned her at 15:22 following a bare hand uraken. This was a no win situation, IMO, because ARSION would be killed if Satomura beat Aja before even Mariko Yoshida did, but on the other hand it will be hard to believe in Satomura after losing to Aja twice in a row on major shows. Certain wrestlers can get over it, but she's still below all the free agents (except RIE) so it's not like she's the #2 wrestler in the company and just can't beat the top star.

Mayumi Ozaki earned the next shot at Aja's title when she beat KAORU in a Free Weapon Match. This was a falls count anywhere match where you could use anything you wanted because there was no DQ. Ozaki got the win when she urakened KAORU at 28:36. I'm glad that the huge arena and the company record attendance at least got them to have some real match lengths.
In what was most likely a bad move on Jd's part, their top wrestler The Bloody teamed with Toshie Uematsu to lose to Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima in an AAAW tag title match when Sato pinned Bloody in her Ligerbomb at 16:15.
Kyoko Inoue pinned Toshiyo Yamada with her lariat at 16:58. I suspect this means that Kyoko will be putting over Chigusa within the next year because they wouldn't just bring her in and have her go over one of their veterans in the fourth match from the top if they weren't going to get their moneys worth later.
GAEA's least experienced wrestler, 23-year-old Saika Takeuchi scored a "big upset" when she pinned RIE in a Tiger suplex hold at 9:31.
Dynamite Kansai pinned Sakura Hirata at 9:31 following her lariat.

Chigusa Nagayo got a Crush tattoo on her left shoulder to commemorate their reformation on 5/14. She said getting the tattoo felt like being stabbed. Chigusa got a goddess GAEA of the earth tattoo on her right shoulder last year after being defeated by Lioness Asuka, which gave her good luck because she then beat Etsuko Mita in all of 12 seconds.

4/29 Osaka IMP Hall
Devil Masami & Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki beat Lioness Asuka & Aja Kong & KAORU when Hokuto "completely KO'd" KAORU with a new version of her northern lights bomb called northern lights Devil at 9:52.
Chigusa Nagayo & Toshie Uematsu beat Chikayo Nagashima & RIE when Chigusa pinned RIE with her Death Valley bomb at 8:48.
Toshie Uematsu revealed that her mystery partner in the tag title match against Sugar Sato & Nagashima would be The Bloody.

4/29 at Osaka IMP Hall is headlined by the DoA team of Lioness Asuka & Aja Kong & KAORU against the Himiko team of Devil Masami & Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki
The card for the major show on 5/14 at Tokyo Ariake Colisuem called 5th Annivs.DAY is as follows:
Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka teaming for the first time in 11 years against Devil Masami & Akira Hokuto (Hokuto was actually their opponent the last time they teamed together). The Crush Gals claim they are reforming because all of the leagues are having a hard time drawing fans now, but in the days when they were teaming they played before full houses 250 times per year. So Crush Gals 2000 is somehow going to open a new door for women's wrestling and get all the fans at the show to shout in joy like they did during Crush Gals matches of the 80's (this is forgetting that the audience then was a bunch of girls in their young teens, but for the last decade the promotions have had a hard time getting girls of that age to attend). The Crush Gals are supposed to have expensive new costumes for this show.

Aja Kong defending the AAAW Single Senshuken against Meiko Satomura again. It's not out of the question that Satomura could win since they had this match on their last major show as well with Aja coming out on top, but if Aja is stupid enough to put over Satomura in a title match before she puts over one of her own "new stars" like Michiko Omukai in one than ARSION deserves whatever cruel fate befalls them.
KAORU faces Mayumi Ozaki for the next shot at the AAAW Single.
Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima defend the AAAW Tag Senshuken against Toshie Uematsu and an undecided partner
Toshiyo Yamada takes on NEO's Kyoko Inoue
RIE faces Saika Takeuchi
Sakura Hirota wrestles an opponent that will be announced that day.

BREAK OUT AGAIN 4/23 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Aja Kong & KAORU beat Toshiyo Yamada & Meiko Satomura when Aja urakened Satomura at 12:56.
Mayumi Ozaki pinned Sakura Hirota at 7:46 following a fisherman buster.
Chigusa Nagayo & Toshie Uematsu defeated Devil Masami & Chikayo Nagashima when Uematsu used captured on Nagashima at 6:10.
Lioness Asuka & KAORU beat Akira Hokuto & Sugar Sato when KAORU knucked Sugar at 8:42.

4/8 Honkawagoe Pepe Hall 1,200 sellout
Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki beat Aja Kong & KAORU when Hokuto pinned Aja in a nadare shiki no ebigatame at 7:10.
Devil Masami & Sugar Sato defeated Toshiyo Yamada & Toshie Uematsu when Devil pinned Yamada after something illegal was done to Yamada that the temporarily blinded ref couldn't see.
Meiko Satomura & Sakura Hirota upset Lioness Asuka & Sonoko Kato when Satomura made Kato submit to an udegatame at 10:24.

3/20 Osaka IMP Hall 700 (non-sellout) & 800 sellout
Chigusa Nagayo lost a singles match when Mayumi Ozaki urakened her at 6:48!
Lioness Asuka & Aja Kong defeated Toshiyo Yamada & Meiko Satomura when Lioness used her LSDIII on Yamada at 10:35.

Devil Masami & Mayumi Ozaki beat Lioness Asuka & KAORU when Devil pinned Lioness in fire valley at 16:17. Wow, Lioness and Chigusa were pinned in the same day.
Toshiyo Yamada & Meiko Satomura beat Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima when Satomura pinned Nagashima at 16:43 following her death valley bomb.

3/12 Tokyo Korakuen Hall 2,200 sellout
GAEA did a major angle to set up their biggest show ever, their 5th Anniversary on 5/14 at Tokyo Ariake Coliseum. Akira Hokuto recommended that Chigusa Nagayo have JWP's Devil Masami face Lioness Asuka and Devil came out and declared war. Hokuto's plan didn't go as planned though because Chigusa wound up siding with her enemy Lioness. Chigusa & Lioness, who haven't teamed together since Chigusa retired on 5/6/89, announced that there would be a Crush Gal revival for the main event of the 5/14 show against Hokuto & Devil. Devil is a "godparent" of the Crush Gals because she was one of the people who trained them in AJW and the Crush Gals vs. Jaguar Yokota & Devil was the program that made the Crush Gals (the Crush Gals vs. Dump was later). It seems like Chigusa & Lioness won't be teaming on a regular basis, rather they'll team up on the 5/14 show and maybe a few other major shows here and there but Chigusa will still be a face and Lioness will still be a heel the rest of the time.
Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki beat Chigusa Nagayo & Meiko Satomura when Hokuto strangled Satomura at 7:10.
Lioness & Aja Kong dropped Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima when Aja urakened Chikako at 15:41.

2/27 Osaka IMP Hall 800 sellout
Chigusa Nagayo & Toshie Uematsu beat Mayumi Ozaki & Sugar Sato in 8:08 when Uematsu pinned Sugar in her doublewrist armsault.
Lioness Asuka put Chikayo Nagashima away with her Ligerbomb at 9:00.
Aja Kong pinned Toshiyo Yamada in 11:23.

2/13 Tokyo Korakuen Hall 2,200 sellout
Aja Kong made her third successful defense of the AAAW Senshuken, defeating KAORU in 16:34 following an uraken. This was a brutal match where Aja did some serious ass kicking. She attacked KAORU with a fragment of a table, opening up a 15 centimeter cut on KAORU's arm. She also cut KAORU in the back of the head and apparently knocked one of her front teeth out. Mayumi Ozaki & Toshiyo Yamada are looking to be the next challenger to Aja's crown, but Ozaki beat Yamada in 12:21 with an uraken so she had more of a reason to petition for a challenge than Yamada did.
Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima made their first successful defense of the AAAW Tag Senshuken beating Lioness Asuka & Sonoko Kato in 18:16 when Chikayo used her fisherman buster on Kato. Even though Asuka's team were the challengers, one would have to say that this was an upset.

2/6 Tokyo Ryutsu Central Hall 1,200 sellout
Lioness Asuka has formed a group called DOA (Dead Or Alive) with Aja Kong, KAORU, and Sonoko Kato. I assume this means that the Crush Gals reunion is off for now because they would have to realign too many wrestlers too soon.
In the semifinal, KAORU defeated Toshiyo Yamada in 9:37 with a new version of her excalibur called excalibur 2000. This win earned KAORU the right to challenge Aja Kong for the AAAW singles title on 2/13 at Tokyo Korakuen Hall.
Aja Kong & Sonoko Kato defeated Mayumi Ozaki & Chikayo Nagashima in the main event when Aja urakened Nagashima at 9:40. Kato will team with her regular partner, Asuka, on 2/13 in an AAAW tag title match against Nagashima and Sugar Sato. I wouldn't be surprised to see the titles change hands here.

1/30 Osaka IMP Hall 850 sellout
This was the night of upsets.
Lioness Asuka & Sonoko Kato beat Chigusa Nagayo & Toshiyo Yamada when Kato actually pinned Yamada at 11:49 following a diving guillotine (leg) drop.
There was another upset as Sakura Hirota beat Chikayo Nagashima in the opener at 5:14. If I'm translating this right, Chikayo was trying her fisherman buster, but she slipped on cake cream (frosting?) and Hirota pinned her. I'm talking about how Chikayo should win the Premium League, and they are having her lose to the chubby chipmunk. Wonderful...
In order to make Sakura's joke win worthless, they had them do a second match right after the first where Chikayo got her revenge, pinning Hirota in her Ligerbomb at 8:26.
KAORU scored a minor upset, pinning Mayumi Ozaki at 16:38 after using a chain knuckle.

1/23 Nagoya Shi Taiikukan 2,500
Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki beat Lioness Asuka & KAORU when Ozaki used an shotei on KAORU at 9:26.
Toshiyo Yamada forced Sonoko Kato to submit to the doushime sleeper at 9:06
Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima downed Chigusa Nagayo & Sakura Hirota under a new gimmick called Lionel (or Lioneru?) Sakura when Sato pinned Suckura at 15:24

1/16 Tokyo Korakuen Hall 2,200
In a main event that should be entitled why Mike dislikes GAEA, Lioness Asuka & Aja Kong beat Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki in just 10:12 when Aja urakened Ozaki. A first ever tag match between for of the best women ever and it's the same old 10 minute crap. Why do people stand for this?
Chigusa Nagoya had a tough night because it took her all of 4:41 to beat KAORU with her running three in the opener.
GAEA began PREMIUM LEAGUE 2nd, which looks about the same as last years when it comes to participants since they don't have any new wrestlers. Anyway, it's a round robin singles league with their five pushed young wrestlers that runs until 2/6 with the final on 2/13 at Korakuen. Chikayo Nagashima scored something of an upset when she beat Meiko Satomura in the longest match on the show with a fisherman buster at 14:49. I would like to see Nagashima win it this year because she has the ability, but not the credibility. Sugar Sato beat Sonoko Kato in 10:35 with a Ligerbomb. Sugar has a handful of moves, but her match goes longer than Lioness, Aja, and Ozaki in tag. Argh!

12/27 Tokyo Korakuen Hall 2,200 sellout
A year ago to the day, Lioness Asuka showed up at GAEA's Korakuen Hall show and aligned herself with Aja Kong & Mayumi Ozaki to form the Super Star Unit and feud with Chigusa Nagayo. This angle immediately took GAEA from being a league that drew 1,500 at Korakuen like most of the other women's groups to being the top drawing women's promotion, including two overflow crowds at Kanagawa Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan for the two Chigusa vs. Lioness matches. I criticized the league for burning through everything they had to offer and really only getting nine months out of the GAEA vs. SSU feud, which was ridiculous in my opinion given how stacked SSU was (of course, Chigusa vs. Mita or Shimoda wouldn't have done any return business after she got the brilliant idea to beat them in 10 seconds).

Today, GAEA set themselves up for another strong run in 1999 when Team Nostradamus ran out at 7:20 and attacked both teams to cause a no contest. This put Chigusa and Lioness on the same side, as they had to try to fend off the attack. At the end of the angle, they shook hands. Undoubtedly this sets up Crush Gals & co. vs. Akira Hokuto, Aja, Ozaki, and co. This feud won't be as strong as last year's because essentially what they've done is move SSU's top wrestler, Lioness, onto the face side and replace her with Akira Hokuto, who really hasn't meant that much since she started wrestling in GAEA although she hasn't lost many matches. Also, the heel side doesn't have the depth it used to because Chigusa jobbed out LCO before she stopped booking them. Chigusa & Lioness are simply above their opposition and tag matches, even involving the Crush Gals, aren't going to draw as well as the Crush Gals singles matches did last year. That said,, Hokuto's big singles matches in GAEA haven't been used up, Aja beat Chigusa for the title the last time they met (which was just a Korakuen Hall main event), and Ozaki has only had one singles match with Lioness. There's definitely enough there for two major shows, which is all GAEA had last year (which was as many as they had in their other 4 years combined). The match quality could improve because SSU had all the best wrestlers, but now Chigusa will have arguably the best of the bunch to do almost all the work for her

Toshie Uematsu & Sakura Hirota were pushed on the undercard. They beat Chikayo Nagashima & Kaori Nakayama at 14:28 to earn the right to face Hokuto & Ozaki in the next match when Uematsu pinned Nakayama after a punch. Then, they actually went on to beat Hokuto & Ozaki at 8:41, although it was by ring out so it's not like they actually pinned one of the stars. Still, it doesn't say much for Hokuto & Ozaki drawing against Crush Gals when they are losing in any way, shape, or form to a no hope clown like Suckura.

Chigusa Nagayo & Meiko Satomura vs. Lioness Asuka & Sonoko Kato headlines GAEA's 12/27 Tokyo Korakuen Hall show. This is the good thing about getting Kato away from Chigusa. Previously, she was always stuck behind Satomura, so it was hard to feature her in a key tag match (you wouldn't usually have 1 & 3 in a "big" main event, and if you did, 3 would "have to" get pinned).
The winner of the Toshie Uematsu & Sakura Hirota vs. Chikayo Nagashima & Kaori Nakayama match will face Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki later in the night. This probably means Nagashima & Nakayama will win because they wouldn't normally fight their own stablemates otherwise, although it has happened a few times before.
KAORU & Toshiyo Yamada & Ayaka Takeuchi vs. Aja Kong & Sugar Sato & Rie rounds out the card.

12/12 Osaka IMP Hall 800 sellout
Lioness Asuka & Sonoko Kato won one of those "marathon" GAEA main events, defeating Aja Kong & Chikayo Nagashima in 8:43 when Lioness towerhacker bombed Chikayo. Akira Hokuto & Mayumi Ozaki beat Chigusa Nagayo & KAORU when Ozaki made KAORU submit to strangle hold gamma. Looks to be a predictable and boring GAEA show to me. No upsets. Of the five matches, only two went 10 minutes, with the longest one being an 11:28 opener.

12/5 Niigata Phase 650 sellout:
The main thing of note is that it seems like they've finally given up on Sugar Sato. These days she's doing as many jobs on one show as she used to do in a nine month span to anyone in GAEA not named Chigusa. In the third match, KAORU beat Sato in 13:01 with a huracan rana. In the main event, Toshiyo Yamada & Meiko Satomura & Toshie Uematsu beat Mayumi Ozaki & Sugar Sato & Kaori Nakayama when Satomura made Sato submit at 14:51 to a makosankakujime (side triangle choke). The other notable match was Akira Hokuto & RIE scoring a minor upset win over Lioness Asuka & Sonoko Kato when RIE thunder fire powerbombed Kato at 12:16. Poor Kato.