The least inspiring of all of the interpromotional shows, as LLPW can offer a few interesting matches, but not a full card full of them. This had a compelling main event, but very little else of interest, and quality wise, it wasn’t even up to that of a normal Zenjo house show (which wasn’t helped by a lot of the wrestlers giving half effort).

Michiko Nagashima & Carol Midori (LLPW) vs. Chaparrita ASARI & Chikako Shiratori 11:21. There tends to be two types of junior matches. The boring ones where they do nothing, and the ones where they try to do too much, and it turns into a mess. This was the latter. It was okay for a while, and then everyone except for Midori blew just about every spot they tried. *1/4

AJW Junior Title Match: Numacchi vs. Mizuki Endo (LLPW) 10:30. More juniors. This wasn’t a botchfest, but it was awkward at times, and generally pretty awful. Endo was trying, working holds, but she’s limited and needs help to have a reasonable match. Nummachi is not that person. Endo won the title with a roll up out of nowhere. Of the two, she was the better one to hold the belt, but not by much. *

Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda vs. Infernal KAORU & Tomoko Watanabe 12:51. LCO controlled most of the match, which boded well. They mostly just worked over Watanabe. KAORU was only in the match for about 3 minutes of it, and mostly just did spots. Watanabe did some spots too, but typical for her at this point, she blew most of them. LCO kept it passable, but they didn’t get much help. **

All Japan Tag Title Match: Sakie Hasegawa & Kaoru Ito vs. Leo Kitamura & Mikiko Futagami (LLPW) 16:31. They weren’t really on the same page, which is about normal for Sakie and Ito in interpromotional. They don’t like to give up offense unless there’s seniors around. There was some decent matwork early, lots of reversals and fighting for stuff, and then Sakie and Ito just started brute forcing their way through and sitting around in holds. Leo and Futagami would come back with double teaming, which got them booed. The crowd just wanted to see them get run over in the end, which is what happened. **1/2

Suzuka Minami vs. Utako Hozumi (LLPW) 9:02. Minami carried Hozumi in the most basic Minami match, but it was like she was just carrying any rookie, and Hozumi was capable of a bit more than that. She gave her plenty before easily putting her away with a German. Fine for what it was. **

Takako Inoue vs. Yasha Kurenai (LLPW) 11:50. Yasha was using her red shinai, and they were trying to outheel each other. Yasha’s used Kumano’s old hangman choke. This was good scrap for about 4 minutes, but it had to go 12. It just became tedious, and they got really sloppy. Takako just sat around in the headscissors forever, then Yasha blew the armdrag spot. *1/2

Bull Nakano vs. Noriyo Tateno (LLPW) 15:36. Interesting on paper, but they just went out there and dogged it. Tateno didn’t even bother to show her heel personality, which is what makes her fun to watch in LLPW. Total nothing match. They did about 12 minutes of holds, and they did them the lazy way, just sit in a hold, make the ropes, switch to some other hold. Competent and they sold them, but far from anything interesting or exciting. They went into 3 minutes of spots at the end. Bull did the moonsault perfectly to finish. **

Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada vs. Harley Saito & Miki Handa (LLPW) 16:49. Disappointing match with the two best LLPW workers against Toyota and Yamada. I’m not sure if Harley was injured coming in, but after taking that double backdrop late in the match (which always looks like a recipe for disaster), her shoulder was pretty messed up. This wasn’t anyone's finest hour. Harley and Yamada were well below their usual level. It was mostly Yamada and Toyota working over Handa, with Handa doing a good job of putting them over. Picked up at the end with the usual spots, as the Zenjo team just ended up overwhelming them. The only real surprise was that Harley ate the pin, but it took Toyota’s best move, the Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex, to put here down. **3/4

Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue vs. Eagle Sawai & Yukari Osawa (LLPW) 11:12. You can tell how this match goes just by reading the names. Osawa was only in the match for one reason, and they made that clear. Kyoko and Eagle were pretty awkward together. Like most of the matches on this show, this was passable, but uninspired. Eagle and Aja clobbered each other and did power moves to move to their singles match. Their interactions were fun, but they weren’t interesting enough to make me want to see them in a singles match. The post-match with Aja and Kyoko goofing around was more fun than the match itself, and got a bigger reaction from the crowd. **

Yumiko Hotta vs. Shinobu Kandori (LLPW) 20:43. The start of this was great, with Hotta attacking before the bell, and Kandori looking indignant about it all and throwing her robe down in disgust. This was all about strikes vs. submissions, and they did it the right way. Hotta was far more dominant early on than Kandori. She gave her some abuse, and quickly made the ropes whenever Kandori went for a submission. Hotta had the submissions under control with her defense, and started getting her kicks through. Kandori ended up changing her gameplan to her own strikes, and she found more success with that. Hotta’s head was bandaged, and that was removed and she bled. Striking wasn’t Kandori’s best looking offense, but it looks painful. Hotta still won that battle though in the end, putting Kandori down for a couple of TKO teases. Kandori ended up looking for pins and bombs, taking them into their final portion, which was a really good exchange of powerbomb variations since these two don’t have much else, though it went a bit too long and did go past the peak. The actual finish was a bit lame. Kandori finally locked in a flash submission which was good, the problem was Hotta made the rope and Kandori just dragged her back without releasing first. After the match, she refused to break the hold, so Takako ran in laying the boots to her and got smacked around for it. Overall, I liked the match. It told its story even if it did take a little while to get moving and didn’t know when to end. Hotta did a good job controlling and leading it, and Kandori did well in a role we don’t usually see her in. ***1/2

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