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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Kumano! Ito! Jaguar! Noriyo!
Disc 2 11. Hiroe Ito & Mami Kumano vs. Jaguar Yokota & Noriyo Tateno 8/81K: Black Pair and Jumping Bomb Angels are Joshi tag teams from totally different eras, so the biggest novelty of this match is that their careers overlapped just enough to see one of each team against each other. By 'just enough' I mean this is Noriyo Tateno's TV debut and, from the footage we have available, the last in...2026
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Mimi! Rimi! Kai! Kumano! Ikeshita!
Disc 2 3. Jackie Sato, Mimi Hagiwara & Rimi Yokota vs. Leilani Kai, Mami Kumano & Yumi Ikeshita 1/4/81K: AJW traditionally do a good Korakuen show on or around January 4th where you’re almost guaranteed to get a quality main event even if they’re not almost the most consequential. This match is such a good example of what these shows were going for. Here we have probably the top 3 babyfaces i...2026
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Tomi! Lucy! Kumano! Ikeshita!
Disc 18. Lucy Kayama & Tomi Aoyama vs. Mami Kumano & Yumi Ikeshita - 4/4/80K: Firstly, I want to give a little shout out to an old poster called Xalazi. Many years ago, I remember him posting on Reddit that this was one of his favourite Joshi matches. This would have been around the time I decided I was going to make this set. That comment prompted me to decide that I'm gonna include any match I s...2025
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• Leila Park attracts attention while relaxing in an indoor pool while wearing black lingerie.

With a daring twist, Leila Park has reinvented elegance once more. The model, dressed in a striking black pair of underwear that combines refinement and sensuality, is shown lounging in a sleek indoor pool in her most recent photo. Soft lighting bounces off the water’s surface, creating shimmering patterns on the tiled walls and her […]...2025
• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Rimi! Masami!
Disc 16. Tenjin Masami & Rimi Yokota Interviews - 4/4/80MD: Big takeaways here are that Masami’s family didn’t want her to get into wrestling so that was inspiring her to become a champion to show them that she could be one and the interviewer making Yokota stop her jump roping and being super patronizing before getting Jackie’s opinion on things. This made it seem like Jackie was her mentor in a ...2025
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Ripper!
5a. Jackie Sato vs. Monster Ripper (WWWA Singles Title) - 3/15/80K: This is another match I left off the proper set after giving it some thought. It's certainly a big match. But it's a big match AJW didn't plan on having until a few weeks before, it was supposed to be Jackie Sato vs. Tomi Aoyama, but Tomi was injured and had to pull out. So rather than Jackie facing the heir apparent, she's back f...2025
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Finale
CLOSING THOUGHTSK: I’m coming at this from a very different place to Matt in that I’d seen maybe 60% of these matches before starting this, but I’d written very little nor did I have many organised thoughts about 1970s Joshi. I mostly saw it as an interesting precursor to my prime interest, the 80s & 90s Joshi boom periods. Have my views changed? No. Not in any significant way at least. But I do f...2025
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Lucy! Kumano! Masami!
75. 1979.11.XX2 - 03 Jackie Sato & Lucy Kayama vs. Mami Kumano & Tenjin MasamiK: This is a fairly throwaway formula match with good wrestlers in it. The most significant thing I'll point out is that Tenjin Masami gets a good showing, she's in the ring about as much as Mami Kumano but I don't think she ever looks like she's significantly less developed even if she doesn't have any signature moves y...2025
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Williams!
69. 1979.10.17 - 04 Jackie Sato vs. Vicki Williams K: This is the final match of the Japan vs. USA series. I hadn’t noticed before but they seem to have got a pretty good crowd for this show, you can see there are fans in the upper sections and this is before they started being careful to only show one side of the venue on camera for poorly attended TV tapings. It starts with Jackie Sato comi...2025
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• Caddix cleats set to alter the athletic shoe landscape, our exclusive interview with CEO Jack Rasmussen

Caddix Company Images 25 questions with the inventor of new cleats, which are designed to reduce non-contact injuries Every sport has its own equipment. Players can substitute a Buick for first base, but there is still a bat that is needed to whack the ball with. A couple of chairs or a pair of two-liter bottles work well for a makeshift goal, but while playing hockey, the athlete r...2025
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Nancy! Victoria! Kumano! Ikeshita!
55. 1979.09.21 - 02 Mami Kumano & Yumi Ikeshita vs. Nancy Kumi & Victoria Fujimi (WWWA Tag Team Titles) (2/3 Falls)K: The introductions are pretty reserved considering what happens the moment the bell rings: Mami Kumano apron neck-swings both her opponents within the first minute while Yumi Ikeshita keeps the other at bay. From here Black Pair really dominate too things, probably a bit too much re...2025
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Victoria! Day!
47. 1979.08.XX3 - 02 Cheryl Day vs. Victoria FujimiK: Cheryl Day starts this match with a strange leaning back a few inches more than you’d expect pose like she’s about to start doing the limbo. Whatever this tactic is it doesn’t work as Victoria takes over the match pretty quickly with one of her typical flurries of screaming offense, only to get over-zealous on one of her flying crossbodies and ...2025
• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Mimi! Victoria! Day! Masami!
45. 1979.08.XX2 - 02 Cheryl Day & Tenjin Masami vs. Mimi Hagiwara & Victoria FujimiK: This has a crazy start where Victoria Fujimi just recklessly launches herself through the air only to splat herself on the match. Well that set the scene for a wild match. Strangely though, she tags out for Mimi Hagiwara soon afterwards and then barely does anything for the first half of it, and this is a very lo...2025

• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Enter Monster Ripper! Kumano! Beauty Pair!
10. 1979.01.04 - Jackie Sato & Maki Ueda vs. Mami Kumano & Monster RipperK: This is the last match Beauty Pair ever had a tag team. It is also the debut of Monster Ripper, aka Rhonda Sing or Bertha Faye in her unfortunate WWF gimmick. Rhonda grew up in Calgary and was a big fan of Stampede Wrestling growing up. She had contacted Stampede about being trained but was turned down (the Harts didn’t tr...2024
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Tomi! Lucy! Kumano! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Rimi! Masami!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Finale
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Ikeshita!
32. 1979.05.XX2 - Jackie Sato vs. Yumi IkeshitaK: The legal-illegal moves ratio from Yumi Ikeshita here is off the chart. It's like she wrestles dirty as a matter of principle, even if a legal move would have done. There was probably more dirty moves in this one match from her than there's been on Raw this year. It's not just that that she's breaking rules though, there's a real malicious savagery...2024
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• 70's Joshi on Wednesday: Miyamoto! Fumiake! Ueda! Sato! Aso! Ikeshita!
MD: Most weeks we'll try to hit one full match but here, to start off, we have a few due to clipping.1. 1975.03.19 - Jumbo Miyamoto vs. Mach Fumiake (WWWA Singles Title) (Clipped)K: This is a historically important match that we only have due to the Samurai TV show ‘AJW Classics’ airing a portion of it in 2003. Jumbo Miyamoto is the current champion, she is a cousin of the Matsunaga Brothers (the ...2024
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Hori! Komine! Yokota! Sato!
27. 1979.04.XX1 - 01 Ayumi Hori vs. Hiroko KomineK: Ayumi Hori is part of the class of 1978 but didn’t debut until the end of the year as she suffered an injury during training, so she’s really a lot less experienced than her classmates at this point. She’s also probably the tallest wrestler in AJW’s history, billed at 180cm. I can tell Hiroko Komine was leading this at some points, she moves...2024
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• 70's Joshi on Wednesday: Miyamoto! Fumiake! Ueda! Sato! Aso! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Lucy! Nancy! Kumano! Ikeshita!
Addendum 2 3b. Lucy Kayama & Nancy Kumi vs. Mami Kumano & Yumi Ikeshita (WWWA Tag Team Titles) - 2/5/80K: Already sneaking in a match that isn't on the set proper but I've since uploaded a supplementary volume to include it. It was always being considered, but I'd made myself a rule to keep each volume to under 4 hours and this ended up being cut because it doesn't really link up with the res...2025
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Finale
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Lucy! Tomi! Queen Angels Explode!
77. 1979.12.11 - 02 Lucy Kayama vs. Tomi Aoyama (All Pacific Title)K: Lucy Kayama challenges her tag partner in Queen Angels for the All Pacific belt. I guess we got the Black Pair members fighting each other to fit a theme for this show.Really strong lock up to start. Followed up with Tomi leaping onto the ropes looking for some kind of boomerang move but Lucy avoided it, but Tomi follows up with...2025
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Lucy! Kumano! Masami!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Kai! Ikeshita! Nancy! Victoria!
61. 1979.09.2X2 - 04 Leilani Kai & Yumi Ikeshita vs. Nancy Kumi & Victoria Fujimi (After 9/21, possibly October)K: This has a heated energy to it that’s been missing in the earlier matches on the show. Things explode almost from the off when things go to the outside and Golden Pair get the better of the heels on the outside with some classic throwing wrestlers into chairs action. When things get b...2025
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Nancy! Victoria! Kumano! Ikeshita!
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• Caddix cleats set to alter the athletic shoe landscape, our exclusive interview with CEO Jack Rasmussen
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Kumano! Ito! Jaguar! Noriyo!
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• Leila Park attracts attention while relaxing in an indoor pool while wearing black lingerie.
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Mimi! Rimi! Kai! Kumano! Ikeshita!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Queen Angels! Black Pair!
39. 1979.07.31 - 02 Lucy Kayama & Tomi Aoyama vs. Mami Kumano & Yumi Ikeshita (WWWA Tag Team Titles) (2/3 Falls)K: This to me is the first match in the canon of the Joshi Classics. It’d probably be the weakest of the collection strictly in terms of quality, there’s still a few stylistic creases that they’d yet to iron out, but it’s definitely great and it hits a specific tragic emotional resonance...2024
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Hori! Komine! Yokota! Sato!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Enter Monster Ripper! Kumano! Beauty Pair!
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• 70's Joshi on Wednesday: Akagi! Ikeshita! Kumi! Fujimi!
8. 1978.09.XX - 02 Mariko Akagi & Yumi Ikeshita vs. Nancy Kumi & Victoria Fujimi (2/3 Falls, probably September)K: Nancy Kumi and Victoria Fujimi are the ‘Golden Pair’ and would have been WWWA Tag Team Champions shortly before this match. They had some acclaimed matches with Queen Angels (Lucy Kayama & Tomi Aoyama) earlier in 1978, you can see about 3 and a half minutes of one of them in this vide...2024
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• 70's Joshi on Wednesday: Kayama! Yokota!
7. 1978.09.XX - 01 Lucy Kayama vs. Rimi Yokota (Probably September)MD: Believe it or not, we’re still in Hawaii. This was definitely a thing. Yokota is a couple more months experienced at this point and she shows quite a bit of confidence and intensity. Kayama has a height advantage, but Yokota deals with that by ambushing her from behind at the bell. After tearing her apart a bit, Yokota started ...2024
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Enter Monster Ripper! Kumano! Beauty Pair!
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• 70's Joshi on Wednesday: Miyamoto! Fumiake! Ueda! Sato! Aso! Ikeshita!
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