ALL OUT (Akito, Konosuke Takeshita & Shunma Katsumata) vs. Cassandra Miyagi, DASH Chisako & Meiko Satomura (DDT, 7/24/2018)

DDT - Live! Maji Manji 卍 #12 (7/24/2018)

KO-D Six Man Tag Team Championship: ALL OUT (Akito, Konosuke Takeshita & Shunma Katsumata) (c) vs. Cassandra Miyagi, DASH Chisako & Meiko Satomura

This was an exciting trios with interesting pairings. It was packed with action and everyone had their moment to shine, especially DASH Chisako who put in an impressive performance and did a huge dive off of the entrance gate. There's good heat between Takeshita and Satomura as well.

***3/4

Ice Ribbon - #891 ~ Osaka Ribbon 2018 II (6/16/2018)

2. Arisa Nakajima, Asahi & Tsukushi vs. Giulia, Rina Yamashita & Yoshiko

Fun fast-moving trios with great exchanges between Tsukushi and Yoshiko.

***3/4

5. Six Woman Tag Team Tournament - Finals: Akane Fujita, Hiiragi Kurumi & Mochi Miyagi vs. Maika Ozaki, Saori Anou & Tae Honma

This was an absolute doozy of a trios to close the six-man tournament, with one exciting sequence flowing into the next. Maika Ozaki shined bright.

****1/4

Tokyo Joshi Pro - Go Ahead, Hot Guys In Osaka! (7/21/2018)

4. Shoko Nakajima vs. Yuki Aino

Another fun match between these two. Yuki is obviously limited in the ring so that allowed Shoko to do all sorts of fun stuff as she was working on top for much of this. There's also a full nelson struggle that I liked.

***3/4

5. Miyu Yamashita & Ito Respect Army (Ito Maki & Mizuki) vs. NEO Bishiiki-gun (Sakisama, Azusa Christie & Martha)

This match was a lot of fun. Mizuki and Masa have a great sequence in the opening and the Bii-gun infighting was entertaining.

***

DDT - SUMMER VACATION 2018 (7/22/2018)

5. KO-D Tag Team Championship: DAMNATION (Tetsuya Endo & Mad Paulie) (c) vs. Mike Bailey & MAO

Thought Endo & Paulie were really on point together compared to the match where they won the belts. MAO & Bailey were great as well with their visually stunning high flying and double team maneuvers.

****

6. KO-D Openweight Championship: Shigehiro Irie (c) vs. HARASHIMA

Spectacular bout. The defending champion Irie is winless against HARASHIMA in singles so tensions were high during the wild finishing run. There were clever counters and spots throughout the match that makes this a standout in their series.

****1/4

Daisuke Sasaki vs. Shuji Ishikawa (DDT, 1/11/2018)

DDT - D-Ou Grand Prix 2018 In Yokohama (1/11/2018)

D-Ou Grand Prix 2018 Block B: Daisuke Sasaki vs. Shuji Ishikawa

I couldn't buy into Sasaki kicking out of a superplex at 1, but this was otherwise a great match and the story of two stablemates going at it was told well. Ishikawa hit some gnarly knee strikes and there's fun involving lots of folding chairs. 

****

SEAdLINNNG - Stay Tune (5/16/2018)

3. ULTRA777 U-21 Tag Team Tournament - Semi Finals: Best Friends (Arisa Nakajima & Tsukasa Fujimoto) vs. Sae Nomura & Saki Akai

This is the sort of high workrate match I expected from a SEAdLINNNG tag tournament. Arisa's selling of Saki's kicks was really good.

***1/2

5. ULTRA777 U-21 Tag Team Tournament - Finals: Best Friends (Arisa Nakajima & Tsukasa Fujimoto) vs. BORDERLESS (Rina Yamashita & Yoshiko)

Enjoyable main event. It doesn't reach the high level that I expected, but they kept things fairly exciting. Watching Arisa and Yoshiko go at it was the highlight.

***1/2

Miyu Yamashita & Shoko Nakajima vs. Hyper Misao & Yuu (Tokyo Joshi Pro, 7/16/2018)

Tokyo Joshi Pro - Go Ahead, Hot Guys In Osaka! (7/16/2018)

Miyu Yamashita & Shoko Nakajima vs. Hyper Misao & Yuu

Last two segments with Miyu-Yuu and Miyu-Misao were very good. Hyper Misao needs another big singles match this year.

***