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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! 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: 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: Guam! Ayumi! Rimi! Richter! Ikeshita!
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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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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Lucy! Ikeshita!
Disc 14. Tomi Aoyama & Jackie Sato Interviews - 2/21/805. Lucy Kayama vs. Yumi Ikeshita (All Pacific Title) - 2/21/80K: Before we get to the match, we have an announcement from Commissioner Ueda that Tomi Aoyama will have to vacate the All Pacific title and cancel her title challenge against Jackie Sato due to an injured knee. This is all real, but they make the most of it for TV purposes by getti...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: Tomi! Kumano!
71. 1979.11.XX1 - 02 Mami Kumano vs. Tomi AoyamaK: They do something pretty effective right at the start here which sets the tone that tempers are gonna flare for this one. Before the bell starts, they both square up looking like they want to bite each others head off, and then Mami quickly snatches at Tomi’s hair, and the crowd does an audible ‘wooah’. Spices things up nicely.This then plays out ...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: 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: Nancy! Victoria! Kumano! Ripper!
30. 1979.05.XX1 - 01 Mami Kumano & Monster Ripper vs. Nancy Kumi & Victoria FujimiK: This was a very similar kind of match to one we covered last week and the main purpose was clearly building up Monster Ripper for her title match against Jackie Sato on 7/31. To avoid repeating myself I’ll just focus on the different aspects. Firstly this was two falls but the two falls played out very diffe...2024
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Ripper! Fujimi! Tsumaki!
17. 1979.01.XX2 - 05 Masumi Tsumaki & Victoria Fujimi vs. Monster RipperK: I believe Masumi Tsumaki is Victoria Fujimi’s sister. There’s not much information about her. She’s better known as a masked wrestler called ‘Silver Satan’ who tagged with Mariko Akagi as Silver Pair. They both retired together later in 1979.We get a bit of stalling to start this off including Yumi Ikeshita punching the ref...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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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Guam! Ayumi! Rimi! Richter! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Tomi! Lucy! Kumano! Ikeshita!
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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!
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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: Jackie! Lucy! Ikeshita! Gomez!
72. 1979.11.XX1 - 03 Jackie Sato & Lucy Kayama vs. Norma Gomez & Yumi Ikeshita (2/3 Falls)We start in the middle of the 1st fall. I found it a little hard to get into being dropped into it with Jackie getting double teamed by the Ikeshita and her Mexican ally, lots of choking for several minutes, and when Lucy got tagged in she just got more of the same. Then, in a blink and you’ll miss it transit...2025
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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
• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Nancy! Victoria! Kumano! Ikeshita!
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• 70's Joshi on Wednesday: Miyamoto! Fumiake! Ueda! Sato! Aso! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Mimi! Ikeshita!
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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: Lucy! Kumano!
Disc 19. Lucy Kayama vs. Mami Kumano - 5/80K: The Lucy Kayama vs. Yumi Ikeshita match that we covered a few weeks ago was always going to make the set, I think this is a good companion piece. Mami Kumano is the less technically impressive than her Black partner, but she has a feral raging energy of her own that she works into her matches well. It's also rare that we see her in a singles match, so ...2025
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Lucy! 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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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Lucy! Kumano!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Mimi! Rimi! Kai! Kumano! Ikeshita!
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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Yokota! Mimi!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Finale
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Lucy! Ikeshita! Gomez!
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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: Jackie! Lucy! Tomi! Ikeshita! Masami! Komine!
49. 1979.08.XX3 - 04 Hiroko Komine, Tenjin Masami & Yumi Ikeshita vs. Jackie Sato, Lucy Kayama & Tomi Aoyama (2/3 Falls)K: Top babyface & two buddies vs. top (native) heel and two buddies. Jackie’s team really should have the clear advantage with her having Queen Angels as her partners and Yumi just has two rookies, but that’s not how the match goes. The heels dominate the early goings easily, but...2025
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Queen Angels! Black Pair!
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• 70s Joshi on Wednesday: Charito! Kumano! Ikeshita! Jackie! Nancy! Tomi!
18. 1979.01.XX2 - 06 Charito Silver/Mami Kumano/Yumi Ikeshita vs. Jackie Sato/Nancy Kumi/Tomi AoyamaK: This JIP in a strange way, they do all the ring introductions then just when the match is about to start it skips ahead into the match already in progress. This gets very chaotic very quickly. They’re brawling on the outside and a moment I really liked was just the way Jackie smashes Yumi’s head ...2024
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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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• 80s Joshi on Wednesday: Jackie! Rimi!
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• 70's Joshi on Wednesday: Miyamoto! Fumiake! Ueda! Sato! Aso! Ikeshita!
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