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WOTD - DEAN CELEBRATION WEEK: JAGUAR YOKOTA


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Preston Quinn has 2 replies. Good to know y'all hate Dean.

 

Anyhoo... I can't remember what Jaguar/Lioness matches we posted in the Lioness thread so I will avoid those.

 

Jaguar vs. La Galactica - Hair vs. Mask (5/7/83)

 

http://youtu.be/oXvphANMY2U

 

 

Jaguar vs. Dump - 10/6/84

 

http://youtu.be/4JUlSp-vZas

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I have a secret weapon for Dean's week. You gotta come correct though Phil.

 

I might not even bother since I didn't realize how much everyone loathed Dean apparently

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I have a secret weapon for Dean's week. You gotta come correct though Phil.

I might not even bother since I didn't realize how much everyone loathed Dean apparently

I am patiently waiting for what i assume some day this week will be Hart Richard Murdoch day.

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I have a secret weapon for Dean's week. You gotta come correct though Phil.

I might not even bother since I didn't realize how much everyone loathed Dean apparently

I am patiently waiting for what i assume some day this week will be Hart Richard Murdoch day.

 

I think we all knew with 99% certainty that Friday would be a celebration of Dick Murdoch.

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Is she the GFOAT? I know that Chigusa and Hokuto are the only others that would make my general GOAT top 20. If she was more active during 91-93 I don't think they'd be an argument. That Wendi Richter match above is excellent and might be her best moment outside of the La Galactica series.

 

Not much of her later stuff is online which is a shame as I would have liked to see some of the Lioness matches. I love this match with Bison Kimura and it has the novelty of her working as some sorta ninja heel.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDXzzPjtWZk

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4nGKiX1Myo

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I am including Aja in that discussion but I am also horribly biased

 

One of the reasons I was able to get into joshi was because Dean would not shut up about Jd' and NEO and well fuck pretty much any other place Yokota was working

 

 

I also pretend the Hustle days never happened

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Aja certainly does. None of the other joshi workers have had that longevity, she's still one of the best female wrestlers in the world now. To be honest though, I've never liked her as much as everyone else. There isn't any Kong matches that I find blow away great. There's a disconnect there, I just don't find her very interesting as a worker. As the lead monster heel Bull Nakano was more dynamic and Dump was more entertaining and about 20 times more charismatic. Even during her first run with the red belt it felt like she was overshadowed by Bull and Hokuto, who were more popular, had more personality, better look and arguably better protection in booking. That's probably why I like her more in her later career. No longer in the shadows. 

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As cool as the match earlier in the night between Chig and Devil was, her match with Lioness on 8/22/85 is one of my favorite matches. Absolutely destroys her for 20 minutes. Lets her get a cool comeback run, then lets the knee work she did all match work into the finish. Probably the smoothest female wrestler I ever watched. I could watch her do lucha sequences for hours and hours. She was just incredible. The first few minutes of this match blew me away.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfffrvd4tK0

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