Command Bolshoi vs. Hanako Nakamori 20:00
Leon vs. Ayako Sato 11:58
Manami Katsu vs. Miyuki Takase 11:19
KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane vs. Hikari Shimizu & Saori Ano 11:05
PURE-J Openweight Title Match: DASH Chisako vs. Yako Fujigasaki 8:46
Yako Fujigasaki vs. Hikari Shimizu 9:38
KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane vs. Akane Fujita & Mochi Miyagi 11:25
Manami Katsu vs. Mika Iida 10:53
Command Bolshoi & Leon vs. Miki Tanaka & Rin Kadokura 15:08
Aoi Kizuki vs. Hanako Nakamori 19:26
KAZUKI vs. May Lee 9:47
Yako Fujigasaki vs. Aoi Kizuki 9:17
Leon & Miyuki Takase vs. Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru & Rydeen Hagane 12:36
KAZUKI & Manami Katsu & Rydeen Hagane vs. Command Bolshoi & Leon & Yako Fujigasaki 18:50
PURE-J Openweight Title Match: DASH Chisako vs. Hanako Nakamori 20:04
Mochi Miyagi vs. Yako Fujigasaki 7:21
Two Count Rules Match: MIKAMI vs. Rydeen Hagane 5:50
Command Bolshoi & Leon vs. Mio Momono & Rin Kadokura 14:56
Hanako Nakamori & Leon & Yako Fujigasaki vs. Command Bolshoi & KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane 16:10
PURE-J Openweight Title #1 Contendership Match:
Aoi Kizuki vs. Manami Katsu 16:12
Command Bolshoi vs. Koharu Hinata 7:53
Konami vs. KAZUKI 6:28
Manami Katsu vs. Rydeen Hagane 14:25
Mika Iida vs. Yako Fujigasaki 13:36
Aoi Kizuki & Emi Sakura vs. Hanako Nakamori & Leon 15:33
Rydeen Hagane vs. Ami Sato 11:25
KAZUKI vs. Hikari Shimizu 11:08
Manami Katsu vs. Ayako Sato 13:39
Hanako Nakamori & Saori Ano vs. Aoi Kizuki & Natsumi Maki 16:34
Daily Sports Tag Title Match: Command Bolshoi & Leon vs. Konami & Yako Fujigasaki 17:10
Yako Fujigasaki vs. Mari Manji 7:34
KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane vs. Konami & Ryo Mizunami 12:18
Makoto vs. Yako Fujigasaki 7:29
Ayako Hamada vs. Manami Katsu 13:05
Daily Sports Tag Title Match: Command Bolshoi & Leon vs. Emi Sakura & Emi Sakura W 15:54
PURE-J Openweight Title Match: Hanako Nakamori vs. Aoi Kizuki 18:02. Nakamori still has her hair short on the left side after losing the hair match, so she has a half mullet combined with some wild red David Bowie or Rod Stewart looking just sticks straight out hairdo. This may not be the match you'd want to headline your big show talent wise, but they went hard from the outset with Kizuki hitting an early plancha followed by a senton on the floor. Kizuki tried to negate Nakamori's kicks by working leg submissions after catching one & flopping into something of a kneebar, but didn't have much success. Kizuki got a lot of offense in, but Nakamori had the high impact bombs. Nakamori was good here, she's got a lot more on her offense & some actual explosion. Kizuki gave her all, but she doesn't do a lot of bending when she executes her moves, just kind of drops or plops, so it's not the epitome of grace or precision. Overall, this was pretty good & turned out about as well as one could have hoped.
Yako Fujigasaki vs. Mari Manji 7:34
KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane vs. Konami & Ryo Mizunami 12:18
Makoto vs. Yako Fujigasaki 7:29
Ayako Hamada vs. Manami Katsu 13:05
Daily Sports Tag Title Match: Command Bolshoi & Leon vs. Emi Sakura & Emi Sakura W 15:54
PURE-J Openweight Title Match: Hanako Nakamori vs. Aoi Kizuki 18:02. Nakamori still has her hair short on the left side after losing the hair match, so she has a half mullet combined with some wild red David Bowie or Rod Stewart looking just sticks straight out hairdo. This may not be the match you'd want to headline your big show talent wise, but they went hard from the outset with Kizuki hitting an early plancha followed by a senton on the floor. Kizuki tried to negate Nakamori's kicks by working leg submissions after catching one & flopping into something of a kneebar, but didn't have much success. Kizuki got a lot of offense in, but Nakamori had the high impact bombs. Nakamori was good here, she's got a lot more on her offense & some actual explosion. Kizuki gave her all, but she doesn't do a lot of bending when she executes her moves, just kind of drops or plops, so it's not the epitome of grace or precision. Overall, this was pretty good & turned out about as well as one could have hoped.
Leon vs. Mari Manji 9:01
Command Bolshoi vs. Kaori Yoneyama 10:00
Manami Katsu & SAKI vs. Rydeen Hagane & Yako Fujigasaki 17:43
PURE-J Openweight Title Match: Hanako Nakamori vs. KAZUKI 17:19
KAZUKI vs. Mari Manji 8:31
Hanako Nakamori & Makoto vs. Aoi Kizuki & SAKI 16:23
Arisa Nakajima vs. Rydeen Hagane 16:06
Daily Sports Tag Title Match: Command Bolshoi & Leon vs. Manami Katsu & Yako Fujigasaki 20:26
Command Bolshoi vs. Mari Manji
Leon vs. KAZUKI
Visual Hunter Battle Royal: Yako Fujigasaki vs. Aoi Kizuki vs. Hanako Nakamori vs. Koharu Hinata vs. Makoto vs. Saori Ano
Manami Katsu & Rydeen Hagane vs. Mari & Sareee
Miyuki Takase vs. Mari Manji 10:08
KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane vs. Hikari Shimizu & Kaori Yoneyama 13:01
Command Bolshoi vs. Makoto 11:42
Manami Katsu vs. Leon 19:01
Hanako Nakamori vs. Yako Fujigasaki 9:30
Akane Fujita vs. Mari Manji 9:01
Moeka Haruhi vs. Yako Fujigasaki 9:58
Hanako Nakamori & Makoto vs. Manami Katsu & SAKI 14:51
Daily Sports Tag Title Match: Command Bolshoi & Leon vs. KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane 16:27
Kaori Yoneyama vs. Mari Manji 6:02
Aoi Kizuki vs. KAZUKI 8:56
Leon vs. Makoto 6:39
Chihiro Hashimoto vs. Rydeen Hagane 11:08. Hard hitting, high impact match that was better than expected, especially given where it was positioned on the card. They beat each other up early then exchanged power moves with Hashimoto hitting a crucifix roll & Hagane hitting an avalanche style backdrop. Hashimoto had most of the big moves, but Hagane kept kicking out.
Tsukasa Fujimoto vs. Yako Fujigasaki 10:09
Arisa Nakajima vs. Command Bolshoi 15:00. Bolshoi's career is finally winding down after 27 years due to spine problems, but apparently she's still got a few good matches in her, and she really wanted to go for it here with the announcement of her impending retirement. She didn't look that great in the last few overlong, we'll do a bunch of things to no real purpose eventually tag title matches I saw her in, but this was some of her best work, partly because against the promotions former ace Nakajima, returning for the 2nd time since she left at the end of 2016, Bolshoi was able to do a far more technical match. Nakajima isn't as skilled on the mat as Bolshoi, but she's one of the most well rounded female wrestlers, and moves quickly & fluidly no matter what she's doing. Part of the beauty of the match is rather than simply go along with what her old boss was trying to do, she tried to make it more of an action oriented lucha style match, but Bolshoi was able to counter into submissions & they created a really fun tension between the styles. These are two of the smallest women around, but they've gotten over that through hard work, and that was a real theme here, with both refusing to give in to the other. Nakajima just has so much willpower & fighting spirit that she adds drama to the match almost just by pressing forward. The highlight was a great sequence in the middle of the match where Bolshoi countered the German suplex rolling into a kneebar, but Arisa rolled through into the German suplex only to have Bolshoi twist into a Kimura. Nakajima eventually stood out & hit a bridging fallaway slam, but Bolshoi never released the arm, and again turned into pressure then switched to a wakigatame only to have Nakajima roll into a reverse bodylock & hoist her up for another German suplex. Bolshoi kept gaining traction here because she was dangerous when Nakajima was on the run, which is when Nakajima is at her best, but Nakajima wasn't stopping Bolshoi's running offense at nearly the same rate. Bolshoi eventually took her out with a shining wizard & threw a series of mount punches after Nakajima kicked out only to have Tommy Ran pull her off & give her a down count, which just seems so nonsensical in 2018, you either stop it or force her to defend herself. Nakajima, of course, lived on, and answered Bolshoi's elbows with a series of her own until she layed Bolshoi out with one. Bolshoi feebly lifted an arm at the last second for the most unconvincing kickout she could muster, so Nakajima avenged with mount punches until Ran pulled her off & threw her into the corner. Ran gave Bolshoi all the time she needed to recover until Nakajima shoved her out of the way & kept kneeing Bolshoi until she answered with what was probably supposed to be a Mariko spike. Nakajima really did a good job of continually escalating the tension here. She wasn't striking early on, but she wasn't going to be out done, and really put some good shots in on Bolshoi in the 2nd half. On one hand, this being half an MMA oriented match & half a junior style spotfest was at odds, but Nakajima hitting a moonsault is a lot more credible after she's nearly knocked Bolshoi out a few times. Bolshoi got her legs up for the 2nd moonsault, and with time about to expire made a super clown comeback with a couple more shining wizards, but Nakajima wasn't going to get finished off now, and the match ended with a frantic elbow exchange. I'm not a huge fan of 15 minute draws, but the length was about right for the style they were wrestling & they did a good job of telling the refuse to be defeated storyline. I loved the effort & creativity here, and while a couple things could have been done better, Bolshoi's 1st 619 was particularly lame, they really hit it out of the park here just constantly answering & one upping the other in a manner where they actually made you care about what they were doing. ****
PURE-J Openweight Title Match: Hanako Nakamori vs. Manami Katsu 20:30. This had no hope of following the previous match, but Katsu has improved since their title match last October to the point that a decent match has become a good one. Katsu is the best of the four remaining wrestlers who debuted for JWP this decade, very much molded after her mentor & former tag partner Kayoko Haruyama. She's been wrestling 7 years, although that is deceiving given she was retired from 7/14-4/16. She's short & not super athletic, but with the added weight she's able to bang with Nakamori. She's still not someone to get excited about, but her maximum effort resulted in a good performance. It would be nice if Azumi Hyuga or Dynamite Kansai were still around & in their prime, but while there's no all-time greats in the league anymore, Bolshoi has ensured this title, like it's JWP predescessor, is contested in high effort, no nonsense, 20 minute matches where they actual wrestle the whole time. These two like to go big, and have similar enough styles they work better together because they almost naturally mirrored & tried to top each other. This was a high impact match, but it wasn't the usual thoughtless flatfooted exchanges, they were mostly on the move & taking the opponent down with one big shot or occasionally a combination from Nakamori. I thought Katsu was doing a high cross body early, but she just floored Nakamori with a knee to the head instead. Nakamori doesn't appear to be returning to her idol days, now sporting blonde hair combed back like Mr. Gannosuke. She didn't so much carry the match as give a good confident performance that was a little cleaner than what Katsu brought. She is comfortable in this ace role now, and willing to do enough to get the job done. Nakamori hit a fisherman buster on the floor, but Katsu answered with a German suplex. This wasn't a match that had much in the way of stories or themes. Nakamori did work on the neck to aid her destiny hammer, including draping Katsu on the second & legdropping her, but Katsu avoided the guillotine legdrop after taking a tombstone & they somewhat moved on. There was a big double sell spot where all the seconds were pounding the canvas when Nakamori headbutted her way out of a German suplex, but then charged into a Michinoku driver II. They did a good job of making it seem like Katsu could win, and she wrestled well enough that it may not have been a bad idea. Nakamori came back though, and got the pin with the second Chinkonka driver. ***
Kaori Yoneyama vs. Mari Manji 6:02
Aoi Kizuki vs. KAZUKI 8:56
Leon vs. Makoto 6:39
Chihiro Hashimoto vs. Rydeen Hagane 11:08. Hard hitting, high impact match that was better than expected, especially given where it was positioned on the card. They beat each other up early then exchanged power moves with Hashimoto hitting a crucifix roll & Hagane hitting an avalanche style backdrop. Hashimoto had most of the big moves, but Hagane kept kicking out.
Tsukasa Fujimoto vs. Yako Fujigasaki 10:09
Arisa Nakajima vs. Command Bolshoi 15:00. Bolshoi's career is finally winding down after 27 years due to spine problems, but apparently she's still got a few good matches in her, and she really wanted to go for it here with the announcement of her impending retirement. She didn't look that great in the last few overlong, we'll do a bunch of things to no real purpose eventually tag title matches I saw her in, but this was some of her best work, partly because against the promotions former ace Nakajima, returning for the 2nd time since she left at the end of 2016, Bolshoi was able to do a far more technical match. Nakajima isn't as skilled on the mat as Bolshoi, but she's one of the most well rounded female wrestlers, and moves quickly & fluidly no matter what she's doing. Part of the beauty of the match is rather than simply go along with what her old boss was trying to do, she tried to make it more of an action oriented lucha style match, but Bolshoi was able to counter into submissions & they created a really fun tension between the styles. These are two of the smallest women around, but they've gotten over that through hard work, and that was a real theme here, with both refusing to give in to the other. Nakajima just has so much willpower & fighting spirit that she adds drama to the match almost just by pressing forward. The highlight was a great sequence in the middle of the match where Bolshoi countered the German suplex rolling into a kneebar, but Arisa rolled through into the German suplex only to have Bolshoi twist into a Kimura. Nakajima eventually stood out & hit a bridging fallaway slam, but Bolshoi never released the arm, and again turned into pressure then switched to a wakigatame only to have Nakajima roll into a reverse bodylock & hoist her up for another German suplex. Bolshoi kept gaining traction here because she was dangerous when Nakajima was on the run, which is when Nakajima is at her best, but Nakajima wasn't stopping Bolshoi's running offense at nearly the same rate. Bolshoi eventually took her out with a shining wizard & threw a series of mount punches after Nakajima kicked out only to have Tommy Ran pull her off & give her a down count, which just seems so nonsensical in 2018, you either stop it or force her to defend herself. Nakajima, of course, lived on, and answered Bolshoi's elbows with a series of her own until she layed Bolshoi out with one. Bolshoi feebly lifted an arm at the last second for the most unconvincing kickout she could muster, so Nakajima avenged with mount punches until Ran pulled her off & threw her into the corner. Ran gave Bolshoi all the time she needed to recover until Nakajima shoved her out of the way & kept kneeing Bolshoi until she answered with what was probably supposed to be a Mariko spike. Nakajima really did a good job of continually escalating the tension here. She wasn't striking early on, but she wasn't going to be out done, and really put some good shots in on Bolshoi in the 2nd half. On one hand, this being half an MMA oriented match & half a junior style spotfest was at odds, but Nakajima hitting a moonsault is a lot more credible after she's nearly knocked Bolshoi out a few times. Bolshoi got her legs up for the 2nd moonsault, and with time about to expire made a super clown comeback with a couple more shining wizards, but Nakajima wasn't going to get finished off now, and the match ended with a frantic elbow exchange. I'm not a huge fan of 15 minute draws, but the length was about right for the style they were wrestling & they did a good job of telling the refuse to be defeated storyline. I loved the effort & creativity here, and while a couple things could have been done better, Bolshoi's 1st 619 was particularly lame, they really hit it out of the park here just constantly answering & one upping the other in a manner where they actually made you care about what they were doing. ****
PURE-J Openweight Title Match: Hanako Nakamori vs. Manami Katsu 20:30. This had no hope of following the previous match, but Katsu has improved since their title match last October to the point that a decent match has become a good one. Katsu is the best of the four remaining wrestlers who debuted for JWP this decade, very much molded after her mentor & former tag partner Kayoko Haruyama. She's been wrestling 7 years, although that is deceiving given she was retired from 7/14-4/16. She's short & not super athletic, but with the added weight she's able to bang with Nakamori. She's still not someone to get excited about, but her maximum effort resulted in a good performance. It would be nice if Azumi Hyuga or Dynamite Kansai were still around & in their prime, but while there's no all-time greats in the league anymore, Bolshoi has ensured this title, like it's JWP predescessor, is contested in high effort, no nonsense, 20 minute matches where they actual wrestle the whole time. These two like to go big, and have similar enough styles they work better together because they almost naturally mirrored & tried to top each other. This was a high impact match, but it wasn't the usual thoughtless flatfooted exchanges, they were mostly on the move & taking the opponent down with one big shot or occasionally a combination from Nakamori. I thought Katsu was doing a high cross body early, but she just floored Nakamori with a knee to the head instead. Nakamori doesn't appear to be returning to her idol days, now sporting blonde hair combed back like Mr. Gannosuke. She didn't so much carry the match as give a good confident performance that was a little cleaner than what Katsu brought. She is comfortable in this ace role now, and willing to do enough to get the job done. Nakamori hit a fisherman buster on the floor, but Katsu answered with a German suplex. This wasn't a match that had much in the way of stories or themes. Nakamori did work on the neck to aid her destiny hammer, including draping Katsu on the second & legdropping her, but Katsu avoided the guillotine legdrop after taking a tombstone & they somewhat moved on. There was a big double sell spot where all the seconds were pounding the canvas when Nakamori headbutted her way out of a German suplex, but then charged into a Michinoku driver II. They did a good job of making it seem like Katsu could win, and she wrestled well enough that it may not have been a bad idea. Nakamori came back though, and got the pin with the second Chinkonka driver. ***
Matsuya Uno vs. Mari Manji 6:46
KAZUKI vs. Moeka Haruhi 13:06
Hanako Nakamori & Leon vs. Command Bolshoi & Manami Katsu 15:41
PURE-J Openweight Title #1 Contendership Match: Rydeen Hagane vs. Yako Fujigasaki 17:00
Plum Mariko Memorial Battle Royal: Command Bolshoi vs. Hanako Nakamori vs. KAZUKI vs. Leon vs. Manami Katsu vs. Mari Manji vs. Rydeen Hagane vs. Yako Fujigasaki 8:09
Himeka Arita vs. Mari Manji 7:01
KAZUKI vs. Megumi Yabushita 11:12
Command Bolshoi & Leon vs. Makoto & Riho 15:00
Manami Katsu vs. Yako Fujigasaki 14:04
PURE-J Openweight Title Match: Hanako Nakamori vs. Rydeen Hagane 14:05
Moeka Haruhi vs. Mari Manji 9:05
Yako Fujigasaki vs. Giulia 10:41
KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane vs. Aoi Kizuki & Manami Katsu 12:15
Daily Sports Tag Title Match: Command Bolshoi & Leon vs. Hanako Nakamori & Makoto 18:38
Giulia vs. Mari Manji 12:36
KAZUKI vs. Mei Suruga 10:30
Manami Katsu & SAKI vs. Keiko Aono & Rydeen Hagane 15:05
Leon vs. Moeka Haruhi 11:10
Command Bolshoi & Yako Fujigasaki vs. Aoi Kizuki & Hanako Nakamori 18:36
Hikari Shimizu vs. Mari Manji 10:00
Manami Katsu & SAKI vs. KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane 17:58
Command Bolshoi vs. Mio Momono 12:10
Hanako Nakamori & Moeka Haruhi vs. Leon & Yako Fujigasaki 20:36
Leon vs. Mari Manji 9:45
Command Bolshoi vs. Sakura Hirota 7:50
Hanako Nakamori vs. Makoto 9:47
Daily Sports Tag Team Title #1 Contendership League Match: Hikari Shimizu & Tae Honma [2] vs. KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane [0] 15:34
Daily Sports Tag Team Title #1 Contendership League Match: Manami Katsu & SAKI [2] vs. Moeka Haruhi & Yako Fujigasaki [0] 18:00
Mio Momono vs. Mari Manji 8:28
Leon vs. Mikoto Shindo 9:45
Daily Sports Tag Team Title #1 Contendership League Match:
Moeka Haruhi & Yako Fujigasaki [2] vs. Hikari Shimizu & Tae Honma [2] 16:57
Manami Katsu vs. KAZUKI 14:08
Arisa Nakajima & Command Bolshoi vs. Hanako Nakamori & Rydeen Hagane 16:47
Mei Suruga vs. Mari Manji 8:32
Leon vs. Mystique 10:07
Hanako Nakamori vs. Command Bolshoi 12:25
Daily Sports Tag Team Title #1 Contendership League Match: Manami Katsu & SAKI [5] vs. Hikari Shimizu & Tae Honma [2] 19:20
Daily Sports Tag Team Title #1 Contendership League Match: KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane [3] vs. Moeka Haruhi & Yako Fujigasaki [2] 16:19
Emi Sakura vs. Mari Manji 7:30
Tae Honma & Yako Fujigasaki vs. Hana Kimura & Hikari Shimizu 8:33
Leon vs. Moeka Haruhi 7:24
2/3 Falls Daily Sports Tag Title #1 Contendership League Final: KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane vs. Manami Katsu & SAKI
Command Bolshoi & Jaguar Yokota vs. Kaori Yoneyama & Tsubasa Kuragaki 14:44
PURE-J Openweight Title Match: Hanako Nakamori vs. Arisa Nakajima 16:55
Emi Sakura vs. Mari Manji 7:30
Tae Honma & Yako Fujigasaki vs. Hana Kimura & Hikari Shimizu 8:33
Leon vs. Moeka Haruhi 7:24
2/3 Falls Daily Sports Tag Title #1 Contendership League Final: KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane vs. Manami Katsu & SAKI
Command Bolshoi & Jaguar Yokota vs. Kaori Yoneyama & Tsubasa Kuragaki 14:44
PURE-J Openweight Title Match: Hanako Nakamori vs. Arisa Nakajima 16:55
Yuna Mizumori vs. Mari Manji 9:30
Tsubasa Kuragaki vs. Yako Fujigasaki 9:01
Hanako Nakamori & Misaki Ohata vs. Hiroe Nagahama & Manami Katsu 14:38
Daily Sports Tag Team Title Match: Command Bolshoi & Leon vs. KAZUKI & Rydeen Hagane 24:20
Battle Royal: Yako Fujigasaki, Command Bolshoi, Hanako Nakamori, KAZUKI, Leon, Manami Katsu & Rydeen Hagane 9:23