Matches like this make my job harder than they must be. I used to be all the time taught that when you cannot express how you’re feeling without swearing, then you definitely aren’t expressing yourself properly, something I now imagine to be a load of nonsense because this, this match right here, Kana vs. Arisa Nakajima, was f****** awesome.
JWP, short for the Japanese Women’s Pro-Wrestling Project, was a promotion born out of the success of All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling within the Nineteen Nineties. Nevertheless, it was also a promotion that took advantage of AJW’s strict rules regarding its performers, equivalent to the “three no’s” of no drinking, no smoking, and no boys to take care of a clean-cut image, and the major rule JWP and other promotions like them benefited from, AJW wanting its roster to retire by the age of 25. That rule seems ludicrous by today’s standards, but JWP gave Joshi stars who weren’t able to hang up their boots a house, and by 2013, JWP had survived the dark ages of Joshi wrestling, and AJW had been dead for over eight years.
The ace of the promotion was Arisa Nakajima, who had spent mainly her entire profession with JWP after signing with the promotion just a couple of months after her in-ring debut. She would achieve mainly every part there may be to attain in JWP by 2013, but she would encounter a freelancer who had her number, Kana. During one in every of her many JWP appearances, Kana captured the JWP Openweight Championship from Nakajima. In response, Nakajima became loads more serious and brooding, and eventually she was granted a probability to get her title back from Kana at JWP’s last major show of 2013.
Kana wastes no time in sneaking up behind Nakajima initially, hitting her with a German Suplex and spraying her with purple mist, and before you already know it, we’ve a dogfight on our hands. The primary third of the match is spent in the gang as each women beat enough tar out of one another that they might resurface a road. Chairs are thrown, crowd members are pushed, the signs telling the fans where to take a seat are almost knocked off the wall. Even when things are nailed down, Kana and Nakajima would discover a solution to throw it at one another.
Then the motion gets to the ring and it’s nearly 20 minutes of two warriors struggling to maintain it together. They secure submissions but cannot hold them, throw strikes that do not drop their opponents, and headbutt one another to the purpose where Katsuyori Shibata’s ears began perking up. In the long run, it’s Nakajima who nearly keeps Kana down after a bridging German Suplex, barely beating the 30 minute closing date, and winning back her JWP Openweight Championship in the method. Like plenty of Joshi matches from this time, it’s not easy to seek out, but seek it out regardless since it is a sight to behold.