Nene Kimura vs. Shu Shibutani
Yuka Shiina vs. Natsuki*Head
Kaoru Ito vs. Atsuko Emoto
Tojuki Leon vs. Nao Watanabe
Mariko Yoshida & Megumi Fujii vs. Kyoko Kimura & Ayumi Kurihara 15:27 of 20:23. Fujii was a natural pro wrestler if there ever was one. I have no doubt that if she wrestled full time, she would be at worst top 5 all-time. Everything she did was just so fast, and so next level in application. Normally ducking a front kick is a meh spot, but Fujii forward rolled under it, picked Kimura's leg, backward rolled to her feet, and hit a flying triangle. What's great about Fujii is she doesn't try to fit into the established pro wrestling hokem, instead purposely subverting the expected and reimagining how to make the silly pro wrestling cliches such as running the ropes actually work. There's a great spot where she lands on her feet for Kimura's vertical suplex, but instead of running into the ropes that are behind Kimura, she goes to a side of Kimura and then on the rebound immediately drops and slides into an Imanari roll to take Kimura down and attack leglocks. Of course, a lot of Fujii's inventive disguise is then negated by Kimura's "Hi, Mom, I'm WRESTLING" style where she insists on stopping & calling attention to the fact that she's prepared to do something (incredibly simplistic & totally mundane). Even though the opposition wasn't great, and Kimura refused to do much that fit the tone or style of the match, Fujii barely needed any help from them to be consistently awe inspiring doing advanced athletic grappling to the point that I was okay with Yoshida never stepping foot in the ring, which I never thought I'd say. I'm not exactly sure how to rate this because Fujii was off the charts & showed the potential to take wrestling to uncharted territory, which makes me feel like this is a match to see a lot more than your standard all out match. Yoshida was certainly good but at the same time badly outclassed by Fujii in the same style, while Kurihara was a rookie who could go with the opposition fine but really only had a dropkick and thus it was even more one-sided when she was in, and Kimura actively undermined the idea of a contest on many occassions even though the opposition forced her into a lot more credible segments than she'd normally engage in. ***3/4
2nd IBUKI 7/31/05 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st Ring
Undercard highlights
Mariko Yoshida & Mirai vs. Azumi Hyuga & Kyoko Kimura 4:33 shown. Hyuga was a workrate machine as usual, but didn't seem to alter her style much, while Kimura actually did a few cool submissions here, ultimately scoring the upset on Yoshida.
3rd IBUKI 9/23/05 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st Ring
Undercard highlights
Haruka Matsuo & Mariko Yoshida vs. Kaoru Ito & Natsuki Head 3:43 of 17:07. Frantic workrate style match featuring a good early performance from Natsuki.
Yumi Oka & Kyoko Kimura vs. Ayumi Kurihara & Atsuko Emoto
Mirai Memorial Ceremony
4th IBUKI 11/13/05 Tokyo Shinjuku FACE
Akiko Inoue vs. Yuna
Tojuki Leon vs. Mai Ichii
Mariko Yoshida & Bambi vs. Kaoru Ito & Shu Shibutani 10:25 of 16:38. Ito is still good & works well with Yoshida, but it always winds up being an AJW style match. The real revelation here was Shibutani, who despite only being a year into her career, was actually noticably better against Yoshida than Ito was. She went a long way toward making the match, while Bambi, while fine, often showed her inexperience. ***
Yuka Shiina vs. Nao Watanabe
Haruka Matsuo & Atsuko Emoto vs. Kyoko Kimura & Natsuki*Head
5th IBUKI 1/29/06 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st Ring
Ayako Sato vs. Cherry
Ayumi Kurihara vs. Tomoka Nakagawa. Great rookie match. It was basic, and realistically in the ** range, but the intensity was just fantastic. They wasted no time and just poured their heart & soul into beating each other down, which made it far more watchable than the supposed good stuff of your typical clowns who turn their back or throw their hands in the air the moment the opponent is down rather than pressing their advantage like it actually mattered. The style is a hybrid of the leagues Yoshida has been in previously, they do their best to make you believe the headbutts are nasty & the elbows are ferocious as in shoot style but it's overall less submission oriented than ARSION & they still run & jump at the opponents when they are prone like AJW. What makes this reasonable and credible, is they are just going nonstop, pouncing before the opponent is ready to defend themselves. It's a great style, the sort that could produce Arisa Nakajimas.
Emi Sakura & Natsuki*Head vs. Tojuki Leon & Bambi. Emi didn't change her style much, but looked really good & was able to carry Bambi, who was struggling to do the Ibuki style. Leon was supposed to carry Natsuki, but actually did little & Natsuki would have stolen the show if not for the insistence to make everything some kind of headbutt.
Kaoru Ito vs. Kyoko Kimura. Everything that made the Kurihara vs. Nakagawa match good made was reversed in this dog, which would have been much more home in GAEA or The Woman. If you took a big time negative athlete and gave them only the goofy aspects of Fujiwara & Kandori, you'd have something resembling Kimura, and she turned this into a hamfisted hamfest right from the outset. Ito was still one of the top females in the game in the earlier portion of the decade & can still go in bursts, so there was definitely some good here in her greatest hits, but everything coming from Kimura was cornball garbage & obviously Ito was a lot better when she didn't need to keep using crabs to get her wind back. For some reason, Kimura scored the most unconvincing of upsets with a front kick after Ito missed her diving footstomp.
Mariko Yoshida & Akiko Inoue vs. Atsuko Emoto & Shu Shibutani 15:15 of 20:38. A super intense & energetic contest that's a great example of what Yoshida's ARSION could have been if the workers had more of an MMA background rather than being fully entrenched in an old school pro wrestling. Inoue was in the midst of an unsuccessful MMA career with Shooto, while Yoshida trainee Emoto would try Smackgirl & Jewels a few years later. Needless to say, this was the least pro wrestling oriented bout on the card, and that much better for it. They went full speed and all out throughout, and that helped allow them to maintain the illusion of a high stakes real fight rather than the usual pro wrestling stall intensive performance, as well as get away with incorporating several running and jumping moves. Though it was ultimately kind of a spotfest in a non spotfest genre, as most of the more interesting U-Style stuff tends to be, the effort & pace were major plusses because ultimately we want to be entertained, and if this match accomplished one thing, it was refusing to give anyone a moment to get bored waiting for something cool to happen. Shibutani was the most pro wrestling oriented of the bunch, having accepted Asstress training after AtoZ blundered in turning her down, but she was much more suited for the more serious style that Ibuki offered compared to JD & WAVE, and really did a good job here and added to the match even though she was most prone to just doing fast paced pro wrestling. Yoshida was, well, Yoshida. Though she only worked a couple times a month in this era, she showed no decline from her late '90's heyday, and may still have been the best female wrestler, it's just hard to really rate her when she's concentrating on developing the next generation rather than her own glory of big singles and title matches. Everyone looked better against Yoshida, but they were smart in knowing what they could get away with, and they never ceased to impress no matter the combination of performers. Even if this was ultimately a pro wrestling match with a lot of low level high spots, it was still shoot oriented enough to feel fresh & unique, even compared to earlier incarnations of Yoshida's style, and was a definite step forward in tag matches of the genre, which tend to break down more easily given combat as sport is meant to be 1 on 1. ****
6th IBUKI 3/19/06 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st Ring
Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Mai Ichii
Ayumi Kurihara vs. Bambi
Kaoru Ito & Cherry vs. Tojuki Leon & Tomoka Nakagawa. While Cherry is not good in WAVE when she's older, and, like most others doesn't take it too seriously, in this early match when she's closer to her physical prime she's crisp & athletic, and arguably even steals the show. The match itself is more of an AJW style workrate match with dropkicks, dives, and powerbombs. It's pretty good, but doesn't quite get there because Leon surprisingly contributes little & being so early in her career, Nakagawa doesn't really have offense for this kind of match.
Atsuko Emoto vs. Kyoko Kimura
2/3 Falls: Mariko Yoshida & Shu Shibutani vs. Natsuki*Head & Megumi Fujii 15:25 of 20:55. Kind of an odd matchup in that Fujii, now ascending her way to the top of the women's MMA heap, was making a rare pro wrestling appearance in a match that's not particularly shoot oriented because top pro wrestling prospect headbutt Momoe was involved, and thus Shibutani was pushed into a flashy athletic style to meet her. Probably ideally, Emoto would have been in Head's place instead of wasting her time with the goofball, and this would have been a more grappling centric contest, but Natsuki was overall already better & well on her way to being one of the top workers of her era, so it's not like she's unworthy of the main event. Actually, Natsuki was quite impressive here, and once I got past my expectations of what this match might be, it was quite entertaining seeing a sort of AJW style Momoe Nakanishi vs. Sakie Hasegawa match combined with a sort of ARSION style Yoshida vs. Hiromi Yagi match. Though this wasn't as intense, focused, or themed as the 5th Ibuki main event, it was really exciting, and can certainly hold its own with the best of the early ARSION tags. Yoshida is great as ever, and Shibutani really shines in Ibuki, but the real star of course is Fujii. Taiyo is extremely fast, but it was amazing just how slow Fujii made everyone look because she has a functional quickness you don't see in pro wrestling because there's no real need for the reactive explosion when your opponent is just waiting on you. Fujii just seemed so unpredictable because she was more or less sparring catch wrestling with Yoshida as opposed to working pro wrestling with her. She had so many creative answers, finding armbars & leg locks off everything, whether it be a mat position she's used to from MMA or turning Yoshida's air raid crash into an armbar. If Fujii was in an earlier era where she didn't get the opportunity to be the best doing the real thing but they actually had a female division in one of the UWF offshoots, there's no doubt in my mind she would have been the female Volk Han. Fujii actually sold a lot because she wasn't ready for a lot of the moves the opposition threw at her, she's not exactly training tornado DDT defense, but she also threw some crazy stuff back at them such as this sort of Imanari roll heel catch then spin into a kneebar to even it at a fall a piece. It's unfortunate that Fujii wasn't involved more, as she really elevated the match above the Freedom Force workrate sprint, but everyone was very impressive. ****
7th IBUKI
Mai Ichii vs. Ayako Sato 10:19
Tojuki Leon vs. Cherry 13:08
Mariko Yoshida & Shu Shubutani vs. Meiko Satomura & Tomoka Nakagawa 13:28 of 15:48. Yoshida & Satomura did some nice submission vs. kick sequences together. As with Bolshoi, this seemed an obvious opponent to split a pair of big singles matches, one in each promoter's league, that for some reason it never transpired. Yoshida carried the load here, with Shu looking better than Nakagawa, but playing a far smaller role. Match was good, but it was definitely a bigger deal for the youngsters. ***
Kaoru Ito vs. Natsuki*Head 19:46
Elimination Atsuko Emoto & Ayumi Kurihara vs. Bambi & Kyoko Kimura 22:51
8th IBUKI
Matsumoto & Kobayashi Debut Match: Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Hanako Kobayashi 6:38
Akiko Inoue vs. Mai Ichii 7:25
Shu Shubutani & TOMO Michinoku vs. Ayako Sato & Cherry 16:50
Kaoru Ito vs. Bambi 14:04
2/3 Falls: Kyoko Kimura vs. Mariko Yoshida 29:19. Yoshida did a great job here, firstly in just getting Kimura to tone her antics down to the point they could have an actual match, and then figuring out how to keep hold of her so Kimura wouldn't keep stopping to pose & scream. There was a great spot where Kimura tried for an Irish whip to set up one of her terrible big boots, but Yoshida immediately dropped into a forward roll and hooked the kneebar. Otherwise, it was mostly solid technical wrestling, with a few too many boots. It wasn't an amazing match, but it was way better than I expected, the best Kimura singles match I've seen for sure. I thought the 2/3 falls format worked well here in the sense that Yoshida got the first fall, making it seem like even more of a foregone conclusion that she'd win, but then Kimura took 2 straight for the upset. ***
9th IBUKI 9/10/06 Shinkiba 1st Ring
Ayumi Kurihara vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto 5:18
Ayako Sato vs. Yuri Urai 8:45
Aoi Kizuki & Kaoru Ito vs. Shuu Shibutani & Yuka Shiina 20:00
Atsuko Emoto vs. Bambi 11:03
Mariko Yoshida & Toshie Uematsu vs. Cherry & Kyoko Kimura 15:13 of 24:03. Usually Yoshida has one veteran & one understudy per team, which makes it much easier to have a good match. Sure, either Yoshida or Uematsu was carrying it one way or another, but there was no really strong pairing to make up for the weaker one. The match was fine, sometimes good, but it never really had that urgency that elevates a lot of Ibuki matches really good, or took off, in general.
10th IBUKI 10/29/06 Shinkiba 1st Ring
Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Tomoko Mori 9:19
Toshie Uematsu vs. Yuri Urai 10:33
Mariko Yoshida & Tojyuki Leon vs. Bambi & Rei 21:20
Cherry & Kyoko Kimura vs. Ayako Sato & Mai Ichii 21:45
Atsuko Emoto vs. Shu Shibutani 22:04
IBUKI 11 12/17/06 Tokyo Shinjuku FACE
Akiko Narikuni vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto 8:48
Toshie Uematsu vs. Mai Ichii 9:03
Mariko Yoshida & Yuka Shiina vs. Aoi Kizuki & NAO 9:55
Tojuki Leon vs. Rei 13:52
Atsuko Emoto & Shu Shibutani vs. Cherry & Kyoko Kimura 30:00
IBUKI #12 ~ROAD TO HALL 2 ~ 1/28/07 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
Ran YuYu vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto 13:10
Cherry vs. Mai Ichii 10:01
Ayako Sato & Tojuki Leon vs. Aoi Kizuki & Emi Sakura 16:13
Rei vs. Ayumi Kurihara 13:10
Atsuko Emoto vs. Mariko Yoshida 17:43 of 30:00. Emoto has rolled with Yoshida enough to know she wants no part of Yoshida having a hold of her, especially on the mat. She mostly took a reactionary role, trying to keep Yoshida out of her game by countering with anything she could, especially if they were locked up. The match was designed to elevate Emoto by being competitive with Yoshida, but like Kimura, Emoto really lacks any offense to threaten Yoshida. In this case, they were able to get more mileage than normal out of flash pin counters because they, at worst, shifted the pressure to Yoshida while forcing a restart once she kicked out. Though Emoto never really rose to Yoshida's high level, they did a good job of dragging you into a long, well worked competitive match & Yoshida was good enough that whatever Emoto was able to add was a bonus. ***1/2
IBUKI 13 ~ROAD TO HALL 2 ~ March 18, 2007 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
Kyoko Kimura vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto
Aya Yuki vs. Misaki Ohata
Ran YuYu & NAO vs. Emi Sakura & Aoi Kizuki
Shu Shibutani & Ayumi Kurihara vs. Cherry & Ray
Atsuko Emoto vs. Mariko Yoshida
IBUKI 14 ~2nd Anniversary~ May 5, 2007 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Mai Ichii vs. Misaki Ohata
Ran YuYu & Esi vs. Leon & Aya Yuki
Emi Sakura & Akiko Narikuni vs. Aoi Kizuki & NAO
Falls Count Anywhere Match: Ayumi Kurihara & Cherry vs. Tomoko Nakagawa & Ray
Shu Shibutani & Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Mariko Yoshida & Meiko Satomura
Atsuko Emoto vs. Kyoko Kimura
Kameido Sun Street Produce Show 5/8/05: Ayumi Kurihara vs. Mariko Yoshida
6/5/05: Shu Shibutani vs. Kyoko Kimura
Mariko Yoshida Produce 6/5/05: Mariko Yoshida & Miyuki Fujii vs. Ayumi Kurihara & Kyoko Kimura
7/31/05: Kaoru Ito vs. Yumi Oka
7/31/05: Azumi Hyuga & Kyoko Kimura vs. Mariko Yoshida & Mirai
9/23/05: Kyoko Kimura & Yumi Oka vs. Atsuko Emoto & Ayumi Kurihara 23:15
1/29/06: Ayumi Kurihara vs. Tomoka Nakagawa
5/6/06: Kaoru Ito vs. Natsuki*Head
7/16/06 Matsumoto & Kobayashi Debut Match: Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Hanako Kobayashi
12/17/06: Tojuki Leon vs. Rei
5/5/07: Mai Ichii vs. Misaki Ohata
6/24/07: Hiroyo Matsumoto & Ray vs. Io Shirai & Mio Shirai (10:06
11/11/07: Mariko Yoshida vs. Arisa Nakajima 12:38
IBUKI 20 1/27/08 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
Mio Shirai vs. Mika Mizunuma
Mariko Yoshida vs. Yoko Yamada
Atsuko Emoto & DASH Chisako vs. Shu Shibutani & Hanako Kobayashi
Cherry vs. Misaki Ohata
Hiroyo Matsumoto & Io Shirai vs. Tomoko Nakagawa & Sendai Sachiko
IBUKI 21 3/23/08 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
Tomoka Nakagawa vs. Ayako Sato
Cherry vs. Hanako Kobayashi
Tojuki Leon & Arisa Nakajima vs. Mariko Yoshida & Yoko Yamada
Yumi Oka vs. Ray
Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata
IBUKI in OSAKA 5/3/08 Osaka
3rd Anniversary Tournament R1: Hanako Kobayashi vs. Misaki Ohata
Tojuki Leon vs. Yoko Yamada
Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto vs. Mariko Yoshida & Io Shirai
3rd Anniversary Tournament R1: Shu Shibutani vs. Tomoka Nakagawa
3rd Anniversary Tournament R1: Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Ray
IBUKI 22 3rd Anniversary 5/25/08 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Mai Ichii & Akiko Narikuni vs. Emi Sakura & Ayako Sato
3rd Anniversary Tournament Semifinal: Shu Shibutani vs. Hanako Kobayashi
3rd Anniversary Tournament Semifinal: Atsuko Emoto vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto
Tojuki Leon & Yoko Yamada vs. Cherry & Natsuki*Taiyo
Ray & Misaki Ohata vs. Mariko Yoshida & Kyoko Kimura
3rd Anniversary Tournament Final: Shu Shibutani vs. Atsuko Emoto
IBUKI 23 7/6/08 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
Yoko Yamada vs. Chihiro Oikawa
Kyoko Kimura vs. Esui
Atsuko Emoto & Mio Shirai vs. Emi Sakura & Aya Yuki
Ran YuYu vs. Io Shirai
Hiroyo Matsumoto & Ray vs. Natsuki*Taiyo & Ryo Mizunami
IBUKI 24 9/28/08 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
Mariko Yoshida vs. Chihiro Oikawa
Cherry vs. Esui
Tojuki Leon & Arisa Nakajima vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Ray
Kyoko Kimura vs. Misaki Ohata
Shu Shibutani & Natsuki*Taiyo vs. Atsuko Emoto & Tomoka Nakagawa
IBUKI 25 11/9/08 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
Aya Yuki vs. Yukari Ishino
Nanae Takahashi vs. Esui
Emi Sakura & Ray vs. Apple Miyuki & Tomoka Nakagawa
Kyoko Kimura vs. Natsuki*Taiyo
Arisa Nakajima & Ryo Mizunami vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata
IBUKI 26 ~2008 FINAL~ 12/21/08 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Fuka & Tomoka Nakagawa vs. Genki Misae & Aya Yuki
Toshie Uematsu & Chihiro Oikawa vs. Aoi Kizuki & Akiko Narikuni
Nanae Takahashi vs. Misaki Ohata
Mariko Yoshida & Ray & Esui vs. Tojuki Leon & Raika & Commando Boirshoi
Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto vs. Shu Shibutani & Natsuki*Taiyo
JWP Jr & POP Double Title: Arisa Nakajima vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto
MARIKO YOSHIDA Debut 20TH ANNIVERSARY Show 8/3/08 Tokyo Shinjuku FACE
Tomoka Nakagawa vs. Esui
Cherry vs. Shu Shibutani
GAMI & Tojuki Leon vs. Manami Toyoda & Ray
Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata
Mariko Yoshida & Kyoko Inoue & Takako Inoue vs. Jaguar Yokota & Aja Kong & Kaoru Ito
Mai Ichii & Akiko Narikuni vs. Emi Sakura & Ayako Sato
3rd Anniversary Tournament Semifinal: Shu Shibutani vs. Hanako Kobayashi
3rd Anniversary Tournament Semifinal: Atsuko Emoto vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto
Tojuki Leon & Yoko Yamada vs. Cherry & Natsuki*Taiyo
Ray & Misaki Ohata vs. Mariko Yoshida & Kyoko Kimura
3rd Anniversary Tournament Final: Shu Shibutani vs. Atsuko Emoto
IBUKI #27 2/1/09 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
Prelim digest
Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto vs. Natsuki*Taiyo & Ray
JWP Jr & POP Title Double Title: Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Sendai Sachiko
IBUKI #28 4/5/09 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
Prelim digest
Tomoka Nakagawa vs. Ayumi Kurihara
Natsuki*Taiyo & Ray vs. Shu Shibutani & Fuka
IBUKI EXTRA Road to Hall 5/4/09 Tokyo Itabashi Green Hall
Prelim digest
Ryo Mizunami & Sendai Sachiko vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Esui
IBUKI #29 4th Anniversary 5/31/09 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Prelim digest
Meiko Satomura & Nanae Takahashi vs. Natsuki*Taiyo & Ray
JWP Jr & POP Title Double Title: Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Misaki Ohata
IBUKI #30 7/12/09 Tokyo Shinjuku FACE
Azumi Hyuga vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto
JWP Jr & POP Title Double Title: Misaki Ohata vs. Io Shirai
IBUKI #31 9/13/09 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING
Prelim digest
Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Kyoko Kimura
Natsuki*Taiyo & Ray vs. Shu Shibutani & Ayumi Kurihara
IBUKI #32 11/8/09 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Prelim digest
Tojuki Leon & Kaori Yoneyama vs. Natsuki*Taiyo & Ray
2/3 Falls: Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Atsuko Emoto 29:28
IBUKI #33 Thankfulness 2/11/10 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING Day Show
Prelim digest
Meiko Satomura & DASH Chisako vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata 8:05 of 18:00. One of the good things about IBUKI is the workers wrestle as though they want to be there. The youngsters gave energetic performances, which held Satomura's interest, and thus made her take them more seriously. It was mostly Matsumoto vs. Satomura, with Matsumoto doing a nice job of standing up to the vet.
Kyoko Kimura vs. Atsuko Emoto
IBUKI #34 Foresight IBUKI FINAL 2/11/10 Tokyo Shinkiba 1st RING Night Show
Prelim digest
Exhibition Match: Mariko Yoshida vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto 3:00
Natsuki*Taiyo vs. Ray 4:36 of 15:36. High level purolucha. Ray has the big moves, but Taiyo is a lot more explosive athlete, and generally her reactions & body control are among the reasons she's one of the better workers. Taiyo uses a lot of lucha cradles before winning with the avalanche style Spanish fly. Good match.
Hiroyo Matsumoto & Shu Shibutani & Kyoko Kimura vs. Misaki Ohata & Ayumi Kurihara & Atsuko Emoto 26:30 of 26:41. High workrate contest, despite the length. Enthusiasm definitely exceeds the actual quality, but that was the case with young Kobashi or Toyota, you generally have to first desire to be great & just keep going as hard as you can while your skills improve to meet the level of your desire. Best portions involved Kurihara & Shibutani, worst, of course, Kimura, who even managed to bad technique her way to barely connecting with a series of mount strikes. ***
5/5/07: Atsuko Emoto vs. Kyoko Kimura
5/25/08 3rd Anniversary Tournament Final: Shu Shibutani vs. Atsuko Emoto
6/5/05: Yuka Shiina vs. Natsuki*Head
5/3/08: Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto vs. Mariko Yoshida & Io Shirai
7/6/08: Hiroyo Matsumoto & Ray vs. Natsuki*Taiyo & Ryo Mizunami
5/25/08: Tojuki Leon & Yoko Yamada vs. Cherry & Natsuki*Taiyo
1/29/06: Ayumi Kurihara vs. Tomoka Nakagawa
11/11/07: Misaki Ohata & Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Kyoko Kimura & Aoi Kizuki
11/9/08: Arisa Nakajima & Ryo Mizunami vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto & Misaki Ohata
12/21/08 JWP Jr & POP Double Title: Arisa Nakajima vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto
11/8/09 2/3 Falls: Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Atsuko Emoto