Just noticed that on TWC from midnight to 2.00am are two showings of two women's shows:

One is called "Real Catfight" (12.00am & 1.00am) which is supposed to be from Japan and the other is "Women's Extreme Wrestling" (12.30am & 1.30am) which I think is the soft porn promotion.

My second fave Joshi lady, Cherry features in that Catfight fed, its from before she took up proper wrestling.

By the way Ive not posted much lately cos I was so anxious about the aiport strike which was threatening my holiday!

Aja Kong is known as Erica (her real name btw) and dresses in pink. Her character is very playful and a total babyface.

However, Yinling is the true babe of HUSTLE! One Sexxxxxy mama!



-- Edited by Man In Black at 09:44, 2008-01-05

Enjoying a lot of joshi at the moment, and becoming a great fan of Sanoko Kato who looks even cuter now then she did some years back! She looks amazing espicially after her injury trouble for a long time so its nice to see her back. Just saw a Neo show which featured Yuki Miyazaki,tanny mouse and some guy who is probably a comedian and they took on 3 female wrestlers (cant make out who they are though)dressed up as characters from Saiyuuki (or Monkey) and walking to the original monkey magic theme tune and copying all the mannerisms! fantastic stuff! Other weird things include Manami toyota beating up a 17 year old rookie Makoto and beating her with a giant robotic fist to the head and a battle royal where everyone gave up fighting and danced together...I love Neo ^^. Also weird but kind of cool was seing Kyoko Kimura in babyface mode when she took on Toshie Ueematsu, giving a banana and hug to a young boy in the crowd and shaking hands with the fans.Pity she got crushed at the end though..Excellent shows, and i still have another 30 odd to go through! Joshi is the best, funny, quality wrestling, just superb stuff.

-- Edited by Totoro101 at 15:29, 2008-01-06

Thats pretty cool, Amazing kong will be a fantastic champion. While i like Gail, as soon as i saw her get squashed at her hands, i couldnt take her to seriously against the Amazing one.But its good Tna is doing a good job with the division, for how long though..

indeed glowlad indeed. will have to watch more hustle when i can, bought a few shows along with my usual bundle of Joshi. Ice Ribbon is top of my list at the moment and its really fun yet watching matches with young girls in a tiny living room like room on a mat...its really weird, seeing a whole wrestling match take place on a big padded mat in a room with 2 windos sourrounded by fans. Intresting concept and good training i guess for the young girls, then there was a match with Emi Sakura vs Tanny mouse, 2 pros! Amazing stuff.

Excellent match between the two, Kim really impressed me in the match, and a rematch for the main event? Thats great! The Womens division is better then i thought it would be and lets hope TNA continue it.I wouldnt have thought Kim would have ever had a chance agains Amazing kong because of the squashing she recieved on her debut but kudos for actually making her look strong.

You guys probably know already, but on channel 279 of Sky each night at 11pm, they show matches from various 'Chickfight' show, sometimes including Joshi stars...they seem to repeat the shows fairly often. Havent seen the one's which Mariko Yoshida paricipated in yet.

Tamura was on tonight, just caught the end of her match...Jazz was on, as was Sumie Sakai who I like. Its weird that with a cool line up like that they got just a handful of people watching.

About Sonoko Kato, I saw her wrestle at an OZ Academy show when I was in Japan in 2006, she was very good. The Japanese guy I sat next to was a big fan of hers.

-- Edited by GLOWlad at 01:59, 2008-01-12

Yeah Sanoko Kato is awesome, i really want to see her live because im a fan of her work,you have to admire the girl after being away for such a long time with injury and coming back as good as she has. Yoshiko Tamura rarely works abroad but i know Mariko Yoshida and Sumie Sakai often do Shows in the US and other places for chickfight so thats pretty cool, will have to check that channel out.As for the porn stuff, the catfight stuff sounds like Ice Ribbon with the mat in a small room, i have a couple of that porn stuff and it does suck...Really poor but then the guys in the audiance couldnt give a hoot about the quality of wrestling could they? ^^

good luck Glowlad, im dead jealous but have fun ;) let us know how you get along when you come back of course!

Thanks guys, much appreciated. Its daunting all that travelling, but if I get to see so\e of my fave Joshi ladies it would make it worthwhile. But Im taking nothing for granted.

Ill try to pop onto these boards for the odd update while Im there.

Finally watched the Chickfight shows on Sky ch 279 (no relation to the Joshi promotion) and very good it was too. Mercedes Martinez beat Cheerleader Melissa in a very good match and MsChif beat Lacey in a fair encounter in a tournament to crown the Chickfight Champion. Martinez vs MsChif is the final.

I'm not familiar with these ladies (except for Martinez who I saw on some old CZW shows) but I was impressed with what I saw. I hope TNA brings some of these girls in (they'd be wasted in WWE) as they'd certainly help bolster their women's division.

Do X-league only have 2 episodes of Chickfight? I've taped it the last three days and last night's was the one I taped on Sunday!

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Im booked for a show in japan thanks to my friend who will reveal the details later so hopefully ill get to meet Yuki Miyazaki again! In the picture above (not the one with my baby being nailed with a back suplex),Yuki is holding what i think is her niece, because having got to the area with all the sales and fan meets, she was talking all the time with a girl and her mom, anyway i managed to meet her (thanks to my pal) and get her pic and talked with her which was amazing.shes amazingly beautiful!....It also seems like Oni loves her as much as i do Mib (we both kept talking about her on Joshi forums a while back) but he will have to fight me for affections one day ;).
Also and i hope this isnt a spoiler of some sort but that ninja woman in TNA with Kong is Cheerleader Mellissa with a dodgy accent.

Really? that sucks.I dont understand why amazing kong would need an assistant anyhow so its a bit odd to pair her with a silly gimmicked character.

Yo Totty - have you seen this card:

NEO "BE HAPPY AGAIN ~ 10TH ANNIVERSARY", 06.01.2008
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,107 Fans - Super No Vacancy


1. Youth Green vs. JWP: Nagisa Nozaki & Aoi Kizuki vs. Arisa Nakajima & Asuka Ohki

2. Aya Yuki & Hiroyo Matsumoto vs. Kyoko Kimura & Atsuko Emoto

3. Japanese Luchadora Reimportation: Yuki Miyazaki & Toshie Uematsu vs. Mima Shimoda & Shu Shibutani

4. 10th Anniversary Memorial Match: Yoshiko Tamura & Misae Genki vs. Etsuko Mita & Tanny Mouse

5. First Dream of the New Year: Haruka Matsuo vs. Fuka

6. 10th Anniversary 30 Player Battle Royal: Misae Genki, Tsubasa Kuragaki, Emi Sakura, Yoshiko Tamura, Azumi Hyuga, Ran Yu-Yu, Yuki Miyazaki, Tsubo Genjin, Aya Yuki, Tanny Mouse, Kazuhiko Ogasawara, Choun Shiryu, Asuka Ohki, Riho, Haruka Matsuo, Shu Shibutani, Lingerie Muto, Tomoka Nakagawa, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Makoto, Yuiga, Kaori Yoneyama, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Miki Ishii, Etsuko Mita, Arisa Nakajima, Aoi Kizuki, Nagisa Nozaki, Toshie Uematsu, Mima Shimoda

-- Edited by Man In Black at 21:28, 2008-02-06

Condolences to Awesome Kong whose mother passed away this week.

A classic match for you: Akira Hokuto vs Bull Nakano 1990



The original capper took this from a VHS so there is the occasional bit of noise flutter at the bottom of the picture but otherwise this is perfectly watchable.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KB5X6PHQ  AVI format 199 MB

Enjoy!

Kong vs ODB vs Kim was another great match on the Destination X PPV last night. Check it out on Bravo 2 on Wednesday.

Do you have this Oz Academy Show from February 10th Totty?


OZ Academy "OZ-WOMAN ON THE RUN", 10.02.2008
Shinjuku FACE


1. AKINO vs. Devil Masami

2. Ran Yu-Yu vs. KAORU

3. Kayoko Haruyama & Tsubasa Kuragaki vs. Chikayo Nagashima & Sonoko Kato

4. Mayumi Ozaki Principal Position Deprivation Match: Carlos Amano vs. Mayumi Ozaki

5. Aja Kong, Dynamite Kansai & Carlos Amano vs. Mayumi Ozaki, KAORU & Police

Two more for you Totty:

SENDAI GIRLS "LIVE VOL. 16 ~ 1ST NEW YEAR 1 DAY TOURNAMENT", 18.01.2008
Zepp Sendai
500 Fans - No Vacancy


1. 1 Day Tournament - Round 1: Mari Harada vs. Tyrannosaurus Okuda

2. 1 Day Tournament - Round 1: Ryo Mizunami vs. DASH Chisako

3. 1 Day Tournament - Semi Final: Sendai Sachiko vs. Winner of Match #1

4. 1 Day Tournament - Semi Final: Hiren vs. Winner of Match #2

5. 1 Day Tournament - Final: Winner of Match #4 vs. Winner of Match #3


SENDAI GIRLS "LIVE VOL. 18", 24.02.2008
Zepp Sendai
700 Fans - Super No Vacancy


1. Mayumi Ozaki vs. Sendai Sachiko

2. Chikayo Nagashima vs. Hiren

3. Dynamite Kansai vs. DASH Chisako

4. Aja Kong vs. Tyrannosaurus Okuda

5. OZ Academy Openweight Title: Carlos Amano (c) vs. Ryo Mizunami

Or you could just install a BT client and download them and burn them onto a DVD+RW.