Devil Masami vs Yukari Ohmori (AJW – 8/23/86)

Second. It actually reminded me a bit of Kobashi vs. Misawa 1/20/97 in that every shift of momentum had a reason behind it, which is pretty atypical for the company they were wrestling in. Plus Devil's focus on the arm. Omori's biggest weapons are her chops and her palm shoves (there's probably a precise term for that I just don't know it) so Devil has to take that out, easier said than done. There's a big transition where Omori gets a bit too confident and tries a overhead chop off the apron but Devil moves out of the way so she smacks her hand into the barricade. The finishing stretch is so epic. I'll spoiler text why for people who haven't seen it: [Devil doesn't get a single piece of offense for the last 5 minutes of the match. Omori just pummels her until she's dead, which takes quite a long time as Devil appears to have some demonic force repeatedly bringing her back to life.] The one thing which is probably keeping this off my list unfortunately is there's a significant bit of clipping at the start of the match where you'll hear the time call for 15 minutes past when only 8 minutes had passed. It's around here when Devil is selling the back huge without Omori really doing anything to warrant that, but Devil's not the kind of wrestler to do that we're probably just missing something that happened in the clipped parts.

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