WAVE - Sapporo Wave NA.MA.RA ~Zen~ (6/3/2018)

3. ASUKA vs. Rina Yamashita

***

4. Avid Rival (Misaki Ohata & Ryo Mizunami) vs. NEW-TRA (Takumi Iroha & Rin Kadokura)

I liked this a lot, great pacing and rhythm and chemistry between the two teams. Ohata was particularly good here, loved her interactions with Rin-chan.

****

5. WAVE Tag Team Championship: KUSO ONNA NIGHT (Nagisa Nozaki & Yuki Miyazaki) (c) vs. BOSS to Mammy (Mio Momono & Yumi Ohka)

Momono is the mastermind of the BOSS to Mammy team, Ohka is more or less an instrument in Momono's game. KUSO ONNA have developed into one of my favorite tag teams in the scene, Miyazaki still has one of the sweetest moonsaults.

****

Ice Ribbon - 906 ~Hamuko Hoshi, Miyako Matsumoto & Tsukasa Fujimoto 10th Anniversary Show~ (8/26/2018)

6. Hikaru Shida vs. Risa Sera

This delivered about on the level that I expected it to, very solid match between teacher and student. There's little down time and a couple of nice, stiff attacks.

***3/4

9. ICE×∞ Championship: Tsukasa Fujimoto (c) vs. Maya Yukihi

Great main event, there's some heated slaps to the face and they threw hellish kicks to the head (Maya-obachan shared her facial bruises on twitter after the event - the kicks she took to the face towards the end were vicious).

***1/2

Takumi Iroha vs. Mayu Iwatani (Marvelous, 8/8/2018)

Marvelous (8/8/2018)

Takumi Iroha vs. Mayu Iwatani

Solid match for Marvelous' first Korakuen main event. The swanton from the stairwell was cool, and there's some exciting offense traded between the two, and the limb-targeting kept the action fresh towards the time limit draw.

***1/2

Misaki Ohata vs. Takumi Iroha (WAVE, 6/28/2018)

WAVE - Weekday Wave vol.116 ~Weekday MAX~ (6/28/2018)

Regina Di WAVE Championship: Misaki Ohata (c) vs. Takumi Iroha

This had all of the excitement you want from an interpromotional clash of aces with a top championship on the line. It's not often that you hear a WAVE crowd so receptive to what's taking place in front of them, and here there were women screaming after the three-count!

***3/4

SEAdLINNNG - Shinkiba 6th Night (8/16/2018)

3. Aoi Kizuki & Ryo Mizunami vs. Miyuki Takase & Nanae Takahashi

Came for Miyuki Takase, stayed for the strong work between Aoi and Nanae. Amazing match for Aoi~chan's retirement road.

****

4. Captain’s Fall: Yoshiko (c) & Akane Fujita, Rina Yamashita vs. Ayame Sasamura (c), Arisa Nakajima & Mio Momono

That Rina-Arisa segment ruled and I liked the juniors using speed and craftiness to take down the team of bruisers. The ending was really great.

****

Stardom - 5STAR Grand Prix 2018 (Night) (8/26/2018)

6. 5STAR Grand Prix 2018 Block A: Mayu Iwatani vs. Natsu Sumire

This was an immensely fun match-up with some entertaining shenanigans. I also really enjoyed Mayu's workover at the beginning.

***1/2

7. 5STAR Grand Prix 2018 Block B: Kagetsu vs. Natsuko Tora

The 3-minute time limit (unofficial as Rossy didn't sign off on it) created some fun comedy at the start and the wrestling was mostly good, albeit never leaving second gear. I liked how Kagetsu's damaged neck came into play.

***