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JWP on WOWOW 10/18/97 SLY taped 10/10 Tokyo Korakuen Hall (1,500) Kanako Motoya vs. Aya Koyama (Big Japan) |
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| Kanako worked really hard, doing everything she could to carry Koyama to a good match, but it wasn't good because Koyama was so green. The match did get better as time went on, but Koyama literally and figuratively isn't in the same league as Motoya. Kanako showed her new submission skills here, mainly focusing on Koyama's knee. She eventually put Koyama away with a hizajujigatame, seemingly creating a new finisher for herself. However, JWP has done a really poor job of getting and keeping submissions over, so you can guess how many times she's won with this move since…. 12:00 (8:56 aired). " Part of the submission credibility problem was Kanako's 'fault' because she still has to be able to incorporate them into the match even if she doesn't win with them. Beating Koyama with the hizajujigatame doesn't really establish it as a new finisher due to the level of the opponent she beat with it. It does add credibility to her using it since people now see that she can win with it. However, I doubt people would've believed that she was going to win with it or even had a legit chance of winning to win with it if she had she used it on Cuty in the tag match that followed this," wrote Michael. Using a move you haven't really used before to beat Koyama obviously isn't like inventing a hot new move to beat Misawa. If you can stand to look at the crappy WWF, up until jobbers were eliminated a few years back (well, they still have jobbers but now they pay them good money and give them a shred of credibility and bad "comical" storylines), everyone debuted their new finisher by beating a jabronie, sometimes 3 or 4 in the same night, with the new move. Thus, while I agree that it would take more than just 1 win with the move to get anyone to believe she could beat Cuty with it, I don't think it's a reach to consider a move used on a TV taping to at least potentially be a new finisher. Special Thanks to: Michael Smith
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