This is by far not the best match I've seen, but it's pretty much the best match I've seen all month long, and it's not even from this year - but it deserves some love.
I've been watching an old Joshi tape that I had forgotten I'd even owned (which is distressing to me, as it possesses the incredible Akira Hokuto v. Meiko Satomura match from April 2001, a match which smoked most men's matches of that same year), and on it I had ARSION's Carival 1999.
The match: HamaKINO (Ayako Hamada & AKINO) vs. Las Cachorrus Orientales (Etsuko Mita & Mima Shimoda), 12/11/99. Our plucky young heroes, Ayako & AKINO, face off against the brutal LCO, who had previously cut a swath of destruction through the company, including a royal punking out of Hamada's mentor Aja Kong. There's some great buildup showing the history of things leading up to this confrontation in the pre-match video package.
The match itself is a thing of beauty - HamaKINO take a royal shit-kicking, and Hamada wins my heart and eternal devotion for being a cute girl who isn't afraid here to get utterly beaten into a pulp, including bleeding fucking buckets (we're talking near Muta levels - by the end of the match the ring is slick with a coating of gore) and taking nasty spots such as a sick piledriver through a wooden table. Ultimately, our courageous, if outmatched, young heroes win the day, but not before suffering grievous bodily injury. But that's not what's important here - this match pulls you in and is filled with emotion. You're filled with anger at the brutality of LCO, just as you cheer for the brave struggle of Hamada / AKINO. I can honestly say that I haven't felt this emotional for a match - at least, in North America - in a good long while. I marked the fuck OUT for this match.
Worth picking up. This match is better than any North American woman's match I've seen in the past five years, easy.
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