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Post by Cap on Dec 9, 2017 17:21:28 GMT -5
Devil Masami vs Jackie Sato (AJW - 11/27/1980)
I love this match so much. Devil and Sato twist and contort each other like I have never seen. Its a brutal grappling match that is punctuated with massive strikes and kicks. This one is just so visceral and intense. I'd be a little surprised if this one didn't make my list. Its such a great match.
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Post by elliott on Dec 10, 2017 0:09:30 GMT -5
Seconded. Something I'll need to rewatch. I know I've seen it, but don't remember much about it specifically. Devil is great though.
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Post by El Mckell on Jan 14, 2018 10:35:48 GMT -5
Great snug grappling at a pace that is very fast for 1980. Some crazy bombs thrown in too, backbreaker from a vertical suplex position. Sato does a good job getting me behind her with great selling, facial expressions and hope spots.
****1/4 Thirded.
Going through these matches in the 'nomination process' I feel I'm watching so many great matches that won't make ever my list, it's a lotta fun
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Post by puropotsy on May 13, 2018 17:09:27 GMT -5
Great match. I watched it almost all the way through and wasn't that into it. Then the pizza arrived and I watched it again after eating and loved it. Masami was a genius performer and was a great heel against Sato's great babyface. I might have liked for it to go a bit longer but that's about it.
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Post by elliott on Oct 7, 2018 23:08:15 GMT -5
I liked this a lot. I'm not sure I watched the same match Cap did based on his comments, but I enjoyed this. It is a rare Joshi match that feels very "of its time" if that makes sense. Something like Devil vs Kandori looks like a mid-late 90s AJPW main event. This feels more like if Junior Heavyweights were main eventers in the late 70s & early 80s Japan, this is what their matches would look like. Fast paced, but nothing insane like the sort of shit you'd see in a Jaguar Yokota match. "Basic" but in a really good way. Devil was already fucking awesome way back in 1980 and this has me looking forward to more Jackie Sato. A great "joshi for people who don't like joshi" match.
The backbreaker from a vertical suplex position spot was incredible and something I don't remember seeing before.
Great match for sure, but not something I see as a real contender for my list.
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Post by tetsujin on Jul 16, 2020 7:07:53 GMT -5
Devil Masami might be one of the best wrestlers when it comes to show gimmick in the ring. Her sadistic look when she's about to take Sato's bad leg for the second or third time is a perfect facial expression. How she enjoys the pain she inflicts while she's on top (the ruthless way she attacks, her screams). Jackie's an amazing babyface, the more of her matches I see, the more I realize she might be one of the best babyfaces ever. That timing to counter a headbutt with an abdominal stretch was amazing, I popped really hard right there. Oh and if I was a pro wrestler, the vertical suplex into a backbreaker would be one of my signature moves, holy shit.
A very good match with strong character work from both women and surprising action and rythim for their era, and I love how almost everything is fluid and feels earned. Maybe the ending was anticlimatic, and they didin't take things to a phenomenal climax like Sato/Yokota from a month later, yeah, but I find this finish an interesting way of putting Masami over as a very dangerous threat, being capable of not letting you continue the match, and it also was a kinda good pay off to the vicious legwork early on.
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Post by Cap on Jul 16, 2020 7:45:44 GMT -5
This one never wound up on my list. On later watch it was still fantastic, but not quite on that level I thought on my original watch. I would still highly recommend this match.
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