Glass Hand Discolving: Las Cachorras Orientales

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Vs Kyoko Inoue & Aja Kong (AJW 8/9/1997)


As you might expect, we start by brawling in the crowd, only to hit the ring with LCO in control and working over Inoue. Eventually, Inoue fights back, tags in Kong, and the momentum turns. There's a spot where Kyoko gets the crowd clapping, and then she and Aja dance, and now I hate this. Kong and Inoue have a big of control, but then Kong gets bumped off the top rope, and again LCO are in charge and brawling outside. Then things get really out of hand, and we're teasing hanging Aja Kong off the balcony. LCO shift focus to Inoue while Aja is out of commission, only for Kong to come back with a fire extinguisher. This is the kind of shit I do not like. She sprays it everywhere, and you can tell that the crowd isn't digging being sprayed and breathing in this shit. More brawling, more lawlessness, more momentum shifts. Kyoko Inoue really is trying to make this match work, she's got great fire here, is really going all out, but man, it ain't happening for me. Lioness Asuka gets involved, because this match didn't have enough, first with weak strikes to Aja Kong, and then by taping Kyoko Inoue to the ropes. The tape doesn't really stick, so Kyoko kinda just lies there for a bit, and then enters back in the match to break up a pin. She hits a giant powerbomb, helps Aja Kong hit a backfist, and this is over.


Vs Noriyo Tateno & Michiko Omukai (LLPW 10/28/97)


Shockingly, LCO attacks the other team while the ring is being pelted with streamers. First, Omukai gets eaten up and brutalized, before Tateno gets tagged in. She's tentative and apprehensive, but then, eventually, it is Tateno who decides to take the match outside the ring and into the crowd. So, we do the whole bit, throwing chairs, walk and brawl, everything you'd expect, and then we arbitrarily end up back in the ring and start wrestling again. It's divide and conquer for the ring portion of this match, with LCO working over Omukai and making sure Tateno isn't much of a factor. Eventually, that's enough, and LCO get the win.


Vs Meiko Satomura & Sonoko Kato (GAEA Wild Times 1998)


This is off the rails pretty much from the start. We brawl around the arena, eventually hitting the ring so that LCO can piledrive Kato through a table in the middle of the ring. After all of the lawlessness, we get back to having a tag match, where LCO work over Sato until Meiko makes the hot tag and finally gets a little bit of shine. It doesn't last very long, and again, LCO are back to working over Kato, brawling outside of the ring, and then setting up another big spot, this time with a guard rail in the ring. As we get closer to the finish, the face team is getting a little bit more offense, a little bit more control, but eventually LCO are just too much and get the pin.


Vs AKINO & Ayako Hamada (Arsion Carnival 1999)


This is pretty great. It's still got too much of the LCO sort of calling cards for my taste, too much brawling outside the ring, too much lawlessness, too much violence that doesn't quite register. The difference here, to me, is that Arsion is a more grounded promotion and that the face team is just on a different level. Hamada really carries the back half of this, but AKINO plays her part really well.


Vs Michiko Omukai & Yumi Fukawa (Arsion 12/19/99)


The bell rings, and everyone is screaming. Frankly, it is disconcerting. The crowd is silent, and outside of the bumps, all you can hear is everyone yelling while running the ropes. This is a lot of go-go-go and some of it is fine, and some of it looks bad. Fukawa, especially, isn't sharp here. This goes less than seven minutes, and the finish looks bad, and Omukai flops around on the cover in a way that undermines the match.


Verdict:


Not for me. I liked the match with Hamada and AKINO, but pretty much disliked everything else. There's something that happens in a lot of a certain kind of Joshi, where you can brawl outside the ring, and basically attempt homicide for a portion of the match, but at some point you have to get back to wrestling in the ring, and that wrestling doens't seem to match the violence up to that point. That's LCO.

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