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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Mimi! Ikeshita!
Disc 2 6. Mimi Hagiwara vs. Yumi Ikeshita (All Pacific Title) 2/25/81This was a major show, it's hard to know for sure but I'd guess it was the biggest AJW show of 1981. They have some retired stars providing guest commentary. Also on this show was Chino Sato's retirement ceremony and the team of Ayumi Hori & Nancy Kumi defeating Devil Masami & Mami Kumano to win the vacated WWWA Tag Team Tit...2026
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Rimi! Nancy! Ayumi!
Disc 2 4. Ayumi Hori & Nancy Kumi vs. Jackie Sato & Rimi Yokota 1/6/81K: This match is Red Phoenix vs. Dynamic Jaguars, i.e. the two babyface factions going up against each other. I noticed at the entrances that Ayumi Hori is now being billed as ‘Super Jumbo Ayumi Hori’, she’ll get her name changed to Jumbo Hori soon after this.This is worked a very fast pace, certainly unlike most wrestling ...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: Jackie! Rimi!
Disc 21. Jackie Sato vs. Rimi Yokota (WWWA Singles Title Tournament Semi-Final) 12/16/80 K: We’re at the penultimate match of this tournament to crown a new WWWA Singles Champion after the belt was vacated on the 8/8/80 show. There are only 3 matches from the tournament that we have footage of, the Nancy Kumi vs. Yumi Ikeshita match covered a couple of weeks ago, this, and the final. For thos...2026
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Ikeshita! Nancy!
Disc 1 14. Nancy Kumi vs. Yumi Ikeshita (WWWA Singles Title Tournament 1st Round) - 11/5/80K: The most striking thing here is that Yumi Ikeshita starts this match with some MMA style gloves and starts throwing punches. The announcer is calling “body blow, body blow!” as she corners Nancy Kumi and pummels her in the gut. Nancy reacts to it like something illegal is happening, turning to the re...2025
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Guam! Ayumi! Rimi! Richter! Ikeshita!
Disc 1 12. Fun in GuamMD: Everyone sings. For Jackie and Mimi, that makes sense, but they keep going down the roster with each being more of a surprise than the last. I’m not sure exactly when this was shown, but when they show Masami as a surprise, they call her Devil, which is the first time I’ve heard that so far. Nancy and Lucy (the tag champs) totally fumble their song to high comedy. Th...2025
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Guam! Ayumi! Rimi! Richter! Ikeshita!
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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: Jumbo! Jaguar! Victoria! Gomez! Rios! Ikeshita!
73. 1979.11.XX2 - 01 Ayumi Hori, Rimi Yokota & Victoria Fujimi vs. Norma Gomez, Raquel Rios & Yumi IkeshitaK: This didn't go anywhere I didn't expect from the start, but still, it felt like it overachieved somewhat considering it included two unfamiliar Mexican wrestlers and a very green Ayumi Hori, who actually got more focus than anyone.The first half of the match was mostly a drawn out face-in-...2025
• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Grable! Kai! Kumano! Lucy! Rimi! Victoria!
68. 1979.10.17 - 03 Joyce Grable, Leilani Kai & Mami Kumano vs. Lucy Kayama, Rimi Yokota & Victoria Fujimi (2/3 Falls, first part of match corrupted)K: There's a chunk of this match missing as the tape got screwed up and when the picture comes back we're in the middle of a heated 1st fall. Shame because this looks like the best match we've seen in a while. The heels have Lucy Kayama isolated in th...2025
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• Queen of Villains - Truth & Fiction
by @kadavri on TwitterI originally wrote this as a Twitter thread after having just finished the Dump Matsumoto ‘Queen of Villains’ Netflix series. The thread got way more interest than I’d expected! So I’ll try to tidy it up for the blog post.This isn’t me reviewing the show. This is for anyone’s who’s watched it (this article will be full of spoilers!) and wants to see the real-life matches it's...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: 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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• Found Footage Friday: RIP BART SAWYER~! VOLS~! WOLFIE~! FLASH~! ISHIKAWA~! JAGUAR~!
Lucy Kayama/Mimi Hagiwara vs. The Young Pair (Rimi Yokota/Seiko Hanawa) AJW 1979MD: This one had been out there for a while, but never complete. The first nine minutes were always missing. Yokota is pre-Jaguar here. Those first nine minutes seem essential to the overall match; after a bit of feeling out with dueling foot stomps, Yokota and Hanawa lean in hard on Hagiwara. This includes some nice r...2023
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"Rimi Yokota (WWWA Singles Title Tournament Semi-Final) 12/16/80 K: We’re at the penultimate match of this tournament to crown a new WWWA Singles Champion after the belt was vacated on the 8/8/80 show."

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"Nancy Kumi & Rimi YokotaK: The opening to this was strange."

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"Seiko Hanawa is best known as Rimi Yokota's partner in the 'Young Pair' tag team, she disappears from footage by late 1979 so not much else to say about her."

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"The Young Pair (Rimi Yokota/Seiko Hanawa) AJW 1979MD: This one had been out there for a while, but never complete."

• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Rimi! Nancy! Ayumi!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Guam! Ayumi! Rimi! Richter! Ikeshita!
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• 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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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Finale
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Day! Tsumaki! Masami! Mimi! Jaguar! Victoria!
35. 1979.07.XX - 01 Cheryl Day, Masumi Tsumaki & Tenjin Masami vs. Mimi Hagiwara, Rimi Yokota & Victoria FujimiK: This one looks a bit different as it’s outdoors, you can see the odd tree peaking up in between the stands. Anyway I’m in very familiar territory from the jump as we get a bit of outside brawling and then Tenjin Masami taking great delight in noisily beating up Mimi Hagiwara. I keep my...2024
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Mimi! Rimi! Kai! Kumano! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Ikeshita! Nancy!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Grable! Kai! Kumano! Lucy! Rimi! Victoria!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Martin! Ikeshita! Rimi! Seiko!
62. 1979.10.XX - 01 Judy Martin & Yumi Ikeshita vs. Rimi Yokota & Seiko Hanawa (Either late September or before October 17)K: This was a bit toned down compared to the face vs. heel tags I’ve gotten used to seeing, and that has good and bad points. The good being that the match felt pretty cohesive throughout. I got the impression that the heel team were clearly superior and they rightly dominatin...2025
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Hori! Komine! Yokota! Sato!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Lucy! Mimi! Yokota! Hanawa!
26. 1979.03.XX2 Lucy Kayama & Mimi Hagiwara vs. Rimi Yokota & Seiko Hanawa (Before April 6th as Lucy is tag champ)K: I really like this match. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to people though, I like it for very ‘me’ reasons. I don’t even think it’s all that good. It’s certainly very flawed. But I’ve still watched it several times since the full version popped up on YouTube about a year ago (b...2024
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Mimi! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Rimi! Nancy! Ayumi!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Mimi! Rimi! Kai! Kumano! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Ikeshita! Nancy!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Guam! Ayumi! Rimi! Richter! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Yokota! Mimi!
Disc 1 11. Mimi Hagiwara vs. Rimi Yokota - 8/80K: Before I go into the match, I’ll fill in a bit of missing context. Shortly before this match we’re covering was the biggest AJW show of 1980, which was on 8/8/80 at the Denen Coliseum. The claimed attendance was 10,000 fans, almost certainly exaggerated, but it gives you an idea. The main event was Jackie Sato vs. Monster Ripper for the WWWA S...2025
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Nancy! Rimi! Romero! Ripper! Masami!
Disc 1 10. Chabela Romero, Monster Ripper & Tenjin Masami vs. Jackie Sato, Nancy Kumi & Rimi Yokota - 5/80One of my rules for making this set is I tried to get at least 1 trios match for each year. I'd be surprised if anyone picked one of them as their favourite match (though I've been surprised before), they're more used to build towards a blowoff/give the top stars something to do in betwee...2025
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Rimi! Masami!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Yokota! Sato!
Disc 11. Intro - 1/4/802. Chino Sato vs. Rimi Yokota (AJW Junior Title) - 1/4/80K: For anyone who didn't know, I am the person who curated this set. So it feels a bit strange for me to be reviewing it when it's partly my work, but I also haven't had the chance to write about it in any real depth or explain my thought processes. I'll try to keep that on the sidelines though as talking about the mat...2025

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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Rimi! Nancy! Ayumi!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Mimi! Rimi! Kai! Kumano! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Rimi!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Ikeshita! Nancy!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Guam! Ayumi! Rimi! Richter! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Yokota! Mimi!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Nancy! Rimi! Romero! Ripper! Masami!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Rimi! Nancy! Ayumi!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Grable! Kai! Kumano! Lucy! Rimi! Victoria!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Rimi! Seiko! Chino! Martin! Kumano! Masami!
58. 1979.09.2X2 - 01 Chino Sato, Rimi Yokota & Seiko Hanawa vs. Judy Martin, Mami Kumano & Tenjin Masami (After 9/21, possibly October)K: The Americans are very visible at ringside for this one but thankfully they appear to not be in constant interference mode for this low stakes matchup. We start with Chino Sato goes for some kind of grab attack on Mami Kumano which seemed to throw Mami off a bit...2025
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• Queen of Villains - Truth & Fiction
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Rimi! Nancy! Ayumi!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Jumbo! Jaguar! Victoria! Gomez! Rios! Ikeshita!
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