Tomi Aoyama vs Mami Kumano: 1985 in 1979

1979/Showa 54 1979 is a year when AJW had to figure out who they were after the split of Beauty Pair in February. Jackie Sato was tasked with being a singles star and ace of the company, Queen Angels were poised as the new top tag team, and Mami Kumano had replaced Black Pair original,…

Go Shiozaki vs Kazuyuki Fujita: Panem et circenses

March 29, 2020/Reiwa 1 Art is often transformed while still pending completion, — pendent opera interrupta; they go on quietly, in harmony with the changes in the art. The new form of art takes up the monument where it finds it, becomes a part of it, assimilates it to itself, develops it according to its…

The 1969 AJW Roster vs Yakuza Goons: Violence at the Pepsi stand

1969/Showa 44 To get up to speed, our main characters are heading to a spring festival to sell knives and other fine goods at their market stand and to also make a peace deal with their fellow yakuza families. Along the way they pick up a pretty lady who’s stranded on the side of the…

Jackie Sato vs Rimi Yokota: Beauty ends

February 25, 1981/Showa 56 At quick glance it’s easy to tell that this will be an important title match for the immediate future but this match is also a major changing of the guard for AJW from their first stars to the eventual rise of some of the biggest wrestlers of the new decade. I’ll…