Yokota & Sato vs. Hori & Kumi (AJW - 1/6/1981)
Apr 10, 2018 13:58:57 GMT -5
Post by jetlag on Apr 10, 2018 13:58:57 GMT -5
Jaguar Yokota & Jackie Sato vs. Jumbo Hori & Nancy Kumi (AJW 1981)
tl;dr great great technical contest where they but their wrestling boots on and WRESTLE. Can't locate the date, but it's from the 1981 TV set and on my channel.
Utterly brilliant match. I've seen this before, but after watching a bunch of 70s/early 80s joshi, this kind of feels like the quintessence of the style. And it emphasizes how distinct the girl wrestling at the time was from everything else. So, this is like a lucha trios or one of those french tags: Graceful, unique wrestling. Just the stuff I like so much. Being that it's joshi the pace is fast, and being that it's the early 80s the match is built around cool throws and hard fought submissions. Tons of awesome flying headscissor work too (I don't mean that in the crazed wrestling fetishist way). This project is about Jaguar, but the standout is Jackie (like in almost any match she is in). You can tell she loved this kind of pure wrestling contest and was a total wrestling machine. Damn what a badass grappler. Jumbo Hori also looks really great, with her size advantage and power adding a different dynamic.Yokota looks like motherfucking Jaguar Yokota, doing some stuff vastly beyond the ability of most wrestlers. Hori and Kumi have to fight hard, and there's the sense that they don't stand much chance against the two women who would compete for the top belt the same year. I could see some people having a problem with the sheer speed and number of spots as well as flowing partner-in-and-out structure, but that was the style of the day and how hard they are sprinting here for 20 minutes and doing all this awesome no-bullshit wrestling is endearing to me. It's way better than the joshi sprints from 20 years later that's for sure. Also, the rhytm of the bout was right and there were a number of really well timed spots, proving that they were thinking on their feet as they went. Great match.
tl;dr great great technical contest where they but their wrestling boots on and WRESTLE. Can't locate the date, but it's from the 1981 TV set and on my channel.
Utterly brilliant match. I've seen this before, but after watching a bunch of 70s/early 80s joshi, this kind of feels like the quintessence of the style. And it emphasizes how distinct the girl wrestling at the time was from everything else. So, this is like a lucha trios or one of those french tags: Graceful, unique wrestling. Just the stuff I like so much. Being that it's joshi the pace is fast, and being that it's the early 80s the match is built around cool throws and hard fought submissions. Tons of awesome flying headscissor work too (I don't mean that in the crazed wrestling fetishist way). This project is about Jaguar, but the standout is Jackie (like in almost any match she is in). You can tell she loved this kind of pure wrestling contest and was a total wrestling machine. Damn what a badass grappler. Jumbo Hori also looks really great, with her size advantage and power adding a different dynamic.Yokota looks like motherfucking Jaguar Yokota, doing some stuff vastly beyond the ability of most wrestlers. Hori and Kumi have to fight hard, and there's the sense that they don't stand much chance against the two women who would compete for the top belt the same year. I could see some people having a problem with the sheer speed and number of spots as well as flowing partner-in-and-out structure, but that was the style of the day and how hard they are sprinting here for 20 minutes and doing all this awesome no-bullshit wrestling is endearing to me. It's way better than the joshi sprints from 20 years later that's for sure. Also, the rhytm of the bout was right and there were a number of really well timed spots, proving that they were thinking on their feet as they went. Great match.
