Reviewed by Pogo Pete - DVDVR#99
"Just a huge brawl from start to finish.
Cachorrus dominate the first several minutes after Yamada accidentally
takes out KAORU with a kick; Shimoda ejects Yamada as well and follows
with her Mita-assisted tope con hilo.
Mita follows with a tope on Yamada, who
got bloodied up at some point not caught on camera. Yamada and KAORU
get thrown back into the ring and get set up for the railing dive, but
Yamada and KAORU are playing possum and they quickly take out the Cachorrus.
KAORU then slams Mita and Shimoda down, sets a row of chairs on top of
them, and Yamada gives them a taste of their own medicine with a railing
ride of her own! KAORU (also juicing; did GAORA hire the AAA camera crew
for this one?) gives Shimoda two brainbusters onto a chair and follows
up with Excalibur, but Mita makes the save. Mita holds KAORU for
Shimoda, but KAORU ducks and Mita eats a punch. Shimoda comes back and
hits her Aussie (Tiger) suplex on KAORU for 2. Mita comes in and
goes for the DVD; KAORU flips out of it, but Shimoda comes in and chairs
her. Shimoda tries it a second time but KAORU ducks and Mita takes the
chair instead. KAORU's Excalibur gets 2 after she FUBAR's her quebrada.
Yamada comes in and goes for her Reverse Gorry Special Bomb; Mita gets
out of it and Shimoda comes off the top, but Yamada sees this coming and
lays her out with a kick. She goes for it again; Mita gets behind
her, but KAORU comes off the ropes with a clothesline on her. Yamada
goes for her kick off the top, but Shimoda chairs her leg on the way down.
Tommy Ran tries to get the chair out of the ring, but while she does so
Shimoda dropkicks Yamada into the chair and KO's Ran. Yamada finally
hits the RGSB but Ran can't make the count in time. Yamada goes for the
RGSB again; Mita flips around and hits the DVD, but Yamada no-sells (!)
and gives Mita a nasty kick for 2. Mita gets up and gives Yamada
two straight DVDs, but KAORU makes the save. Yamada downs Shimoda
with a spin kick and tags KAORU who hits her Valkyrie Splash (moonsault
into senton), but Mita saves. Mita accidentally hits Shimoda with
her Blazing Chop and Yamada heads up top, but Shimoda moves and Yamada
gives KAORU her kick by mistake. Shimoda gives KAORU the axe kick
but Yamada saves. Mita wraps Yamada up while Shimoda hits the Death
Lake Driver on KAORU, who kicks out. All four venture onto the runway,
where KAORU gives Yamada a quebrada after the Cachorrus move. Shimoda
and Yamada brawl all the way back to the interview area and back while
Mita gives KAORU a DVD on the runway; they then line KAORU and Yamada up
on the runway so Shimoda can give them a revenge railing ride on the runway
(say THAT five times fast =P). Yamada and KAORU get tossed inside
and get lined up for another railing ride; Ran tries to stop them only
to get squashed as well. Mita gives KAORU another DVD and Shimoda
hits her with a rolling guillotine legdrop; Ran staggers over to make the
cover, but Mita knocks her away for not being quick enough. Cachorrus hit
KAORU with everything in their playbook but she either kicks out or gets
saved. KAORU finally makes her comeback and hits her quebrada off
the *light standard* on the floor onto the Cachorrus! Yamada hits
a flip dive onto everyone on the floor. In-ring KAORU hits the Excalibur
on Shimoda but Mita saves. Yamada takes Mita out while KAORU hits
a leg lariat on Shimoda. Yamada heads over and takes Shimoda's head
off with a kick, which allows KAORU to hit two straight Excaliburs and
IMPLODE Shimoda with a running Excalibur for the pin at 38:27. Just
an amazing brawl that never ends... this'll make someone's MOTYC list for
sure based on all of the action, and you get the added bonus of emotional
closure to the old Yamada-KAORU rivalry."
Reviewed by Dean Rasmussen - DVDVR
Delta
The KAORU/Yamada vs. Shimoda/Mita match
was SSSOOOOOOOOOO close to being match of the year. Hell, in terms
of sheer fun (and that's what we here in Death Valley Land are all about)
this WAS the match of the year. My only technical beef is that the whole
rail ride stuff just doesn't look real painful but is a large part of the
match anyway, that and everyone tended to randomly sell at points. KAORU
is so fucking awesome as she goes the extra mile to make this fucker rule:
the scaffold moonsault, the Excalibers, the 19 alarm bladejob- all this
plus the fact that she carried the body of the match so that the now-physically
limited Yamada looked more effective as she could exert in spurts and kick
the super hot Mima and Mita right in the face without having to do beyond
what she is physically capable of now. KAORU and Yamada are the most underrated
tagteam in wrestling. They bring an tough heavyweight edge to GAEA that
makes this feud five layers deeper and that translates to the ass-stomping
they dish out to Mima and Mita after taking a duel-blade-worthy ass-kicking
themselves. There are wads to love in this match. Plus Mima wore tiny enough
pants to warrant an extra star. ALLLRIGHT! I'm a pig! WOO-HOO! Plus the
ending was motherfucking awesome. SEEE THIS! GO AND GET THIS!