Post by Joe on Mar 7, 2020 23:28:17 GMT -5
International Ladies Pro-Wrestling
"Indomitable Spirit"
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Emi Sakura & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeat Ayako Hamada & Nanae Takahashi after Matsumoto delivers a Revolution Bomb to Hamada for the pinfall.
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*Backstage Segment with Yoshiko Tamura.*
Yoshiko Tamura:
"What am I to say? I suffered one of the greatest losses of my career to that bitch Yoshida, and now I find myself back towards the bottom. But I find myself feeling more dangerous now than ever, and I will prove this against Hyuga, that nothing, nobody, pathetic imposter who wants to try to make a name off of me.
"Hyuga, I am a wolf now starving in the woods and I am running to rip your throat out and feast on your carcass. I am on the hunt once again, revitalized in my darkest hour and reborn into something terrible. You will feel my pain as I find catharsis in your thrashing. Your torture and demise will feed life's blood into my career and my arc will once again be ascending. I will not be denied."
*End Segment*
Azumi Hyuga vs. Yoshiko Tamura
Hyuga would show a reckless abandon in this match to try to overcome the punishment Tamura would try to suppress her with. Hyuga would also show an unwillingness to falter, as Tamura-chan struggled to keep her down, even with some of her biggest moves and blows. Tamura would eventually lock on a Scissored Dragon Sleeper, trying to rip Hyuga's head from her body and choking her out for the win. The win did not come as easy as Tamura had probably hoped, and the fire Hyuga showed here will not be forgotten by the fans who applauded her as she left the ring after, battered and hurting but certainly not looking like an "imposter" as Yoshiko had labeled her earlier.
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*Backstage Segment with Aja Kong.*
Aja Kong:
"Bull Nakano, you cowardice swine! You turn your back on me and you expect to remain breathing? Ha! I will eviscerate you, slaughter you and end your days on sight! All I have been thinking, all that consumes my thoughts and dreams is your destruction and demise!
"Tonight, Kyoko Kimura, you have hard luck to blame for what you have been dealt in this life, because tonight... I look across that ring and it's not your stupid face I see, that I am going to bash into oblivion, but when I look at you, I will see Bull, and I will rip you apart because of it! And I will do the same to any unfortunate soul that steps in my path until I have my vengeance on you, Bull! Until your blood is on my hands, my appetite for gore will not be sated!"
*End Segment*
Aja Kong vs. Kyoko Kimura
This was a wild brawl to start, as these two are very tough, heavy hitters, but there really is no heavier hitter than Aja in the sport. Aja was looking possessed as the match wore on and Kyoko began to succumb to Kong's brutality. This is when Bull Nakano would appear with her nunchucks and whacked Kong in the head with them, dazing her!
The bell would sound as the referee tried to stop this madness, but Bull continued her assault, pulling a long spike from her pants and began jabbing it into Aja's forehead and skull, spilling her blood all over! The fans are booing wildly, but Bull is not done! Bull pulls her to the apron and then proceeds to piledrive her of the apron to the floor!
Bull stands over Aja, mocking her verbally as the fans throw trash at her, but Bull settles into a pose, smirking and looking absolutely deviant, satisfied with what she has accomplished so far tonight.
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Dynamite Kansai defeats Takako Inoue with a Splash Mountain to get the pinfall victory.
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Cutie Suzuki & Shinobu Kandori vs. Meiko Satomura & Sonoko Kato
Kandori managed to overcome Meiko at the last show, but Meiko brought her long time friend and rival Kato with her tonight to try to exact a measure of redemption. Kandori had the very popular Suzuki with her, who worked hard but would fall to Meiko's Scorpio Rising, giving Meiko a satisfying win over Kandori in tag team action.
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*Backstage segment with The Crush Gals.*
Chigusa Nagayo:
"All of this talk of sheer violence is very unsettling tonight, and the things I've seen, they hit home for me and Asuka in a big way. We have been on the wrong end of these weapons, had our blood spilled in arenas all across the world, but we can never give up. We can't let our fans down, and under no circumstances can we stay down when there's a fight to be had!
"Tonight, we step into the ring with two very dangerous ladies in Devil and Oz, and I can tell you, we aren't taking that lightly, no way! These girls are going to do whatever it takes in their minds to take us out, but we're not going anywhere until our hands are raised, because if our hearts are still beating, we are still fighting, and we will prove again that we are the number one team in ILPW!"
*End Segment*
Devil Masami & Mayumi Ozaki vs. The Crush Gals: Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka
Masami and Ozaki really got their heat tonight, grinding down Chigusa for a long time and with the hot tag being teased for an excruciating amount of time. Once Asuka made her way in, she really lit things up and showed why she is one of the best in ring performers of all time. Devil would manage to take Asuka down for a minute or two, but Asuka would show her heart and fight back with big chops and kicks before tagging to Chigusa who flew off the top and took Devil down with a dropkick. Ozaki would tag herself in as Devil stumbled and sold her way to the floor, but she was caught in a German Suplex for a two count by Chigusa. With the fans chanting their names, The Crush Gals would deliver the Spike Pile-driver to Ozaki, allowing Asuka to get the pin as Chigusa Dove and took out Devil, getting the big win!
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*Backstage segment with Bull Nakano.*
Bull Nakano:
"Aja, I hope your in the middle of seizure right now and you are gone for good! You worthless rat, you think I fear you!? You talk about my blood, but it was your's on my hands tonight, weakling!
"I will not be the one who shares the spotlight with anyone or be made to be an afterthought, and you have only your own bloated, undeserving ego to blame for what happened then and what happened tonight! You couldn't stand alone, but loneliness is all I know and the only way I stand, because when you are at the top, no one can touch you, no one can rival you, no one can see you eye to eye, and you are not my equal, Aja. I neither fear nor respect you, and I despise your very existence in my realm of domination that is ILPW!
"Consider this your final warning, sewer rat! Taste your own blood and make the smart decision and run for cover, far, far away, because this no place for you. You don't have the stomach or fortitude to last a second in my world, I will make you a crippled vermin if I must to prove just that.
"And how fitting it is now that after I embarrassed you and exposed for you are tonight that I get the double pleasure of destroying your protege in Yoshida. Yoshida, you barely had the guts to defeat low level slime like Tamura and now you want to take a shot at cthulu herself in the flesh? You are in way outside of your depths tonight and crushing you will barely bring me satisfaction. The small bit of consolation I will receive at your grisly demise will be knowing that Kong will be watching me turn you into raw hamburger on the mat, smashing out your very essence and being, and that will only torture her that much more.
"Mariko Yoshida, your name isn't even worthy of being breathed past my lips and you will only be remembered for the glorious, gruesome I have allowed you to have tonight. Your insignificance is astounding to someone as powerful as I am, but your end will be a truly profound message to Kong, and so I allow you a bludgeoning martyr's death at my hands."
*End Segment*
Bull Nakano vs. Mariko Yoshida
Yoshida would try to use her second to none grappling skills to overcome the best that is Bull Nakano early, but Bull would try to her will with massive headbutts and knees before throwing out f the ring completely by her hair! The fans booed loudly as Nakano laughed andocked her opponent, a nice Target to lash out at for people who want to see a bully get their comeuppance. The fans would chant for Yoshida as she pulled herself up and right back into the fire of stomps and pounding from Nakano, only to unleash her own fiery barrage of fists and strikes, even catching Bull with the Uraken Backfist favored by Aja Kong to knock Bull down to a road of cheers, but she only get a one count as Bull flung her off with authority. Bull would choke and pound Yoshida into the corner with the referee trying to give count her and create separation, but Bull would simply grab him and toss him from the ring like a ragdoll! Bull would continue her blatant mugging of Yoshida in the corner for another thirty seconds before out hobbled Aja Kong with a trash can in hand! The crowd is screaming approval as the heavily bandaged and battered looking Kong got on the apron and smacked Bull with the can, sending off of Yoshida and writhing with pain!
Aja would enter the ring and repeatedly brutalize Bull with the can before kicking her and piledriving Bull onto the can, which would split her head open! Kong would help Yoshida up before leaving the rings and standing ringside.
The ref would re-enter the ring looking dazed, but he would see Yoshida blast Bull with a knee to the face before pounding her head and bouncing it off the mat with hammer fists before pinning her for the three count as the crowd went absolutely nuts!
Kong would come back in and step on Bull's chest S her and Yoshida did their signature poses, and Bull is not going to be happy about this to say the least... You know, once she wakes up and all.
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*Backstage segment with Megumi Kudo and Combat Toyoda. Toyoda is helping Kudo, who is wearing a neck brace and looking worn down.*
Combat Toyoda:
"LCO, you vile pieces of shit, look what you did to Kudome! And you're proud of yourselves, I know. You cowards, you know damn well that Kudome could kick any of your asses any day, any rules, and so you tried to take her out. But my best friend Megumi here, she's the toughest lady around, bar none, and she is going to be back and we will get our revenge on you second rate bitches soon enough!
"And tonight, for our satisfaction, we are coming down front row with the commentary team to watch Manami and the girls kick your asses up close and personal!
"Akira, I'm going to address you specifically, because it's your jealousy and greed that lead to all of this. Tonight, you stand in that ring with the champion, but you have no chance at that title thanks to Kudome. It's Megumi who will stand across that ring next with Toyota, and it will be Megumi who will hold that title you so badly desire to justify your pathetic life!
"So just know, no matter what you do, you'll never be as classy, talented, beautiful or tough as Kudome and you will always be just a jealous also ran who couldn't hack it, and I hope you choke on that reality, bitch!"
*End Segment*
LCO: Akira Hokuto, Etsuko Mita, and Mima Shimoda vs. Jaguar Yokota, Manami Toyota, and Toshiyo Yamada
Before the match began, Combat Toyoda helped Megumi Kudo out to the ringside commentary table as she used crutches and wore a neck brace. Kudo would get somber applause from the crowd and a small chant as she winced in pain with each movement.
Of course, LCO would make their way out and mock Kudo, using their neon colored chairs they carry to the ring like crutches and laughing at her pain. Toyoda would leave her seat like she was going to do something but Kudo grabbed her arm to stop her.
Akira would get on the mic.
Akira Hokuto:
"Look at gimp Kudome here, ha! Yeah, Toyoda, you listen to your girlfriend there and sit your fat ass down before we cripple you too!"
Hokuto tosses the mic and they motion for their opponents to come out. The International Women's champion Manami Toyota is followed to the ring by her trainer Jaguar Yokota and her best friend Toshiyo Yamada, and these ladies look ready for war as they get the biggest pop of the night! These fans adore Toyota and outs it all on the line every time she is out there.
This match is just a huge, hardcore brawl that goes all over the arena. LCO are absolutely wild and disrespectful and the fans have to be held back at times from getting involved because they just hate these girls.
Toyota's team looked like they might be getting the better of things before Hokuto actually assaulted a security guard with a chair and then stole a nylon handcuff from his pants! Hokuto would then bash Yokota with a chair and then zip tie her to the guardrail, and this just became a three on two massacre!
The fans are booing like crazy as LCO are just pummeling Toyota and Yamada now, and they are bringing in the table. They are looking like they are going to do to Toyota what they did to Kudo!
Hokuto has Toyota on the table, about to lift her into Pile-driver position when she looks at Kudo, smiling and laughing giving her a thumbs down.
That's when Kudo stands up... And pulls off the neck brace! She then gives Hokuto a throat slash taunt as Hokuto looks like she just saw a ghost!
Kudo and Combat jump the rail and this crowd goes absolutely insane as they begin to beat down LCO with the crutches Kudome brought to the commentary table! Then they just kept beating them with whatever else they could get their hands on!
With Mita and Shimoda out of the ring, Kudo picked up Hokuto and delivered her brutal Kudome Valentine finisher onto one of the neon colored chairs LCO brings to the ring, trying to snap her neck! Kudo and Combat then go out and continue to beat on Mita and Shimoda through the crowd.
Manami Toyota regains her footing and composure as Yokota is cut loose from the guardrail. Yokota rolls in and pulls the table to the center of the ring. Toyota then picks up a three quarters dead looking Hokuto and lifts her into her shoulders...
Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex through the table! Toyota bridges it and the ref counts to three and the match is over!
What a wild ride, as everybody is going crazy.
Toyota celebrates with her friends when Megumi Kudo and Combat Toyoda make their way back to the ring.
There is a tense stare down for a moment, as Toyota and Kudo are set to fight for the belt at the next show. Neither woman releases eye contact, but it's Toyota who offers her hand out of respect. There is a suspenseful beat, but thankfully to the roar of the crowd Kudo takes her hand and the two shake before they enter what is sure to be a Hell of a match next month.
"Indomitable Spirit"
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Emi Sakura & Hiroyo Matsumoto defeat Ayako Hamada & Nanae Takahashi after Matsumoto delivers a Revolution Bomb to Hamada for the pinfall.
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*Backstage Segment with Yoshiko Tamura.*
Yoshiko Tamura:
"What am I to say? I suffered one of the greatest losses of my career to that bitch Yoshida, and now I find myself back towards the bottom. But I find myself feeling more dangerous now than ever, and I will prove this against Hyuga, that nothing, nobody, pathetic imposter who wants to try to make a name off of me.
"Hyuga, I am a wolf now starving in the woods and I am running to rip your throat out and feast on your carcass. I am on the hunt once again, revitalized in my darkest hour and reborn into something terrible. You will feel my pain as I find catharsis in your thrashing. Your torture and demise will feed life's blood into my career and my arc will once again be ascending. I will not be denied."
*End Segment*
Azumi Hyuga vs. Yoshiko Tamura
Hyuga would show a reckless abandon in this match to try to overcome the punishment Tamura would try to suppress her with. Hyuga would also show an unwillingness to falter, as Tamura-chan struggled to keep her down, even with some of her biggest moves and blows. Tamura would eventually lock on a Scissored Dragon Sleeper, trying to rip Hyuga's head from her body and choking her out for the win. The win did not come as easy as Tamura had probably hoped, and the fire Hyuga showed here will not be forgotten by the fans who applauded her as she left the ring after, battered and hurting but certainly not looking like an "imposter" as Yoshiko had labeled her earlier.
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*Backstage Segment with Aja Kong.*
Aja Kong:
"Bull Nakano, you cowardice swine! You turn your back on me and you expect to remain breathing? Ha! I will eviscerate you, slaughter you and end your days on sight! All I have been thinking, all that consumes my thoughts and dreams is your destruction and demise!
"Tonight, Kyoko Kimura, you have hard luck to blame for what you have been dealt in this life, because tonight... I look across that ring and it's not your stupid face I see, that I am going to bash into oblivion, but when I look at you, I will see Bull, and I will rip you apart because of it! And I will do the same to any unfortunate soul that steps in my path until I have my vengeance on you, Bull! Until your blood is on my hands, my appetite for gore will not be sated!"
*End Segment*
Aja Kong vs. Kyoko Kimura
This was a wild brawl to start, as these two are very tough, heavy hitters, but there really is no heavier hitter than Aja in the sport. Aja was looking possessed as the match wore on and Kyoko began to succumb to Kong's brutality. This is when Bull Nakano would appear with her nunchucks and whacked Kong in the head with them, dazing her!
The bell would sound as the referee tried to stop this madness, but Bull continued her assault, pulling a long spike from her pants and began jabbing it into Aja's forehead and skull, spilling her blood all over! The fans are booing wildly, but Bull is not done! Bull pulls her to the apron and then proceeds to piledrive her of the apron to the floor!
Bull stands over Aja, mocking her verbally as the fans throw trash at her, but Bull settles into a pose, smirking and looking absolutely deviant, satisfied with what she has accomplished so far tonight.
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Dynamite Kansai defeats Takako Inoue with a Splash Mountain to get the pinfall victory.
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Cutie Suzuki & Shinobu Kandori vs. Meiko Satomura & Sonoko Kato
Kandori managed to overcome Meiko at the last show, but Meiko brought her long time friend and rival Kato with her tonight to try to exact a measure of redemption. Kandori had the very popular Suzuki with her, who worked hard but would fall to Meiko's Scorpio Rising, giving Meiko a satisfying win over Kandori in tag team action.
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*Backstage segment with The Crush Gals.*
Chigusa Nagayo:
"All of this talk of sheer violence is very unsettling tonight, and the things I've seen, they hit home for me and Asuka in a big way. We have been on the wrong end of these weapons, had our blood spilled in arenas all across the world, but we can never give up. We can't let our fans down, and under no circumstances can we stay down when there's a fight to be had!
"Tonight, we step into the ring with two very dangerous ladies in Devil and Oz, and I can tell you, we aren't taking that lightly, no way! These girls are going to do whatever it takes in their minds to take us out, but we're not going anywhere until our hands are raised, because if our hearts are still beating, we are still fighting, and we will prove again that we are the number one team in ILPW!"
*End Segment*
Devil Masami & Mayumi Ozaki vs. The Crush Gals: Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka
Masami and Ozaki really got their heat tonight, grinding down Chigusa for a long time and with the hot tag being teased for an excruciating amount of time. Once Asuka made her way in, she really lit things up and showed why she is one of the best in ring performers of all time. Devil would manage to take Asuka down for a minute or two, but Asuka would show her heart and fight back with big chops and kicks before tagging to Chigusa who flew off the top and took Devil down with a dropkick. Ozaki would tag herself in as Devil stumbled and sold her way to the floor, but she was caught in a German Suplex for a two count by Chigusa. With the fans chanting their names, The Crush Gals would deliver the Spike Pile-driver to Ozaki, allowing Asuka to get the pin as Chigusa Dove and took out Devil, getting the big win!
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*Backstage segment with Bull Nakano.*
Bull Nakano:
"Aja, I hope your in the middle of seizure right now and you are gone for good! You worthless rat, you think I fear you!? You talk about my blood, but it was your's on my hands tonight, weakling!
"I will not be the one who shares the spotlight with anyone or be made to be an afterthought, and you have only your own bloated, undeserving ego to blame for what happened then and what happened tonight! You couldn't stand alone, but loneliness is all I know and the only way I stand, because when you are at the top, no one can touch you, no one can rival you, no one can see you eye to eye, and you are not my equal, Aja. I neither fear nor respect you, and I despise your very existence in my realm of domination that is ILPW!
"Consider this your final warning, sewer rat! Taste your own blood and make the smart decision and run for cover, far, far away, because this no place for you. You don't have the stomach or fortitude to last a second in my world, I will make you a crippled vermin if I must to prove just that.
"And how fitting it is now that after I embarrassed you and exposed for you are tonight that I get the double pleasure of destroying your protege in Yoshida. Yoshida, you barely had the guts to defeat low level slime like Tamura and now you want to take a shot at cthulu herself in the flesh? You are in way outside of your depths tonight and crushing you will barely bring me satisfaction. The small bit of consolation I will receive at your grisly demise will be knowing that Kong will be watching me turn you into raw hamburger on the mat, smashing out your very essence and being, and that will only torture her that much more.
"Mariko Yoshida, your name isn't even worthy of being breathed past my lips and you will only be remembered for the glorious, gruesome I have allowed you to have tonight. Your insignificance is astounding to someone as powerful as I am, but your end will be a truly profound message to Kong, and so I allow you a bludgeoning martyr's death at my hands."
*End Segment*
Bull Nakano vs. Mariko Yoshida
Yoshida would try to use her second to none grappling skills to overcome the best that is Bull Nakano early, but Bull would try to her will with massive headbutts and knees before throwing out f the ring completely by her hair! The fans booed loudly as Nakano laughed andocked her opponent, a nice Target to lash out at for people who want to see a bully get their comeuppance. The fans would chant for Yoshida as she pulled herself up and right back into the fire of stomps and pounding from Nakano, only to unleash her own fiery barrage of fists and strikes, even catching Bull with the Uraken Backfist favored by Aja Kong to knock Bull down to a road of cheers, but she only get a one count as Bull flung her off with authority. Bull would choke and pound Yoshida into the corner with the referee trying to give count her and create separation, but Bull would simply grab him and toss him from the ring like a ragdoll! Bull would continue her blatant mugging of Yoshida in the corner for another thirty seconds before out hobbled Aja Kong with a trash can in hand! The crowd is screaming approval as the heavily bandaged and battered looking Kong got on the apron and smacked Bull with the can, sending off of Yoshida and writhing with pain!
Aja would enter the ring and repeatedly brutalize Bull with the can before kicking her and piledriving Bull onto the can, which would split her head open! Kong would help Yoshida up before leaving the rings and standing ringside.
The ref would re-enter the ring looking dazed, but he would see Yoshida blast Bull with a knee to the face before pounding her head and bouncing it off the mat with hammer fists before pinning her for the three count as the crowd went absolutely nuts!
Kong would come back in and step on Bull's chest S her and Yoshida did their signature poses, and Bull is not going to be happy about this to say the least... You know, once she wakes up and all.
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*Backstage segment with Megumi Kudo and Combat Toyoda. Toyoda is helping Kudo, who is wearing a neck brace and looking worn down.*
Combat Toyoda:
"LCO, you vile pieces of shit, look what you did to Kudome! And you're proud of yourselves, I know. You cowards, you know damn well that Kudome could kick any of your asses any day, any rules, and so you tried to take her out. But my best friend Megumi here, she's the toughest lady around, bar none, and she is going to be back and we will get our revenge on you second rate bitches soon enough!
"And tonight, for our satisfaction, we are coming down front row with the commentary team to watch Manami and the girls kick your asses up close and personal!
"Akira, I'm going to address you specifically, because it's your jealousy and greed that lead to all of this. Tonight, you stand in that ring with the champion, but you have no chance at that title thanks to Kudome. It's Megumi who will stand across that ring next with Toyota, and it will be Megumi who will hold that title you so badly desire to justify your pathetic life!
"So just know, no matter what you do, you'll never be as classy, talented, beautiful or tough as Kudome and you will always be just a jealous also ran who couldn't hack it, and I hope you choke on that reality, bitch!"
*End Segment*
LCO: Akira Hokuto, Etsuko Mita, and Mima Shimoda vs. Jaguar Yokota, Manami Toyota, and Toshiyo Yamada
Before the match began, Combat Toyoda helped Megumi Kudo out to the ringside commentary table as she used crutches and wore a neck brace. Kudo would get somber applause from the crowd and a small chant as she winced in pain with each movement.
Of course, LCO would make their way out and mock Kudo, using their neon colored chairs they carry to the ring like crutches and laughing at her pain. Toyoda would leave her seat like she was going to do something but Kudo grabbed her arm to stop her.
Akira would get on the mic.
Akira Hokuto:
"Look at gimp Kudome here, ha! Yeah, Toyoda, you listen to your girlfriend there and sit your fat ass down before we cripple you too!"
Hokuto tosses the mic and they motion for their opponents to come out. The International Women's champion Manami Toyota is followed to the ring by her trainer Jaguar Yokota and her best friend Toshiyo Yamada, and these ladies look ready for war as they get the biggest pop of the night! These fans adore Toyota and outs it all on the line every time she is out there.
This match is just a huge, hardcore brawl that goes all over the arena. LCO are absolutely wild and disrespectful and the fans have to be held back at times from getting involved because they just hate these girls.
Toyota's team looked like they might be getting the better of things before Hokuto actually assaulted a security guard with a chair and then stole a nylon handcuff from his pants! Hokuto would then bash Yokota with a chair and then zip tie her to the guardrail, and this just became a three on two massacre!
The fans are booing like crazy as LCO are just pummeling Toyota and Yamada now, and they are bringing in the table. They are looking like they are going to do to Toyota what they did to Kudo!
Hokuto has Toyota on the table, about to lift her into Pile-driver position when she looks at Kudo, smiling and laughing giving her a thumbs down.
That's when Kudo stands up... And pulls off the neck brace! She then gives Hokuto a throat slash taunt as Hokuto looks like she just saw a ghost!
Kudo and Combat jump the rail and this crowd goes absolutely insane as they begin to beat down LCO with the crutches Kudome brought to the commentary table! Then they just kept beating them with whatever else they could get their hands on!
With Mita and Shimoda out of the ring, Kudo picked up Hokuto and delivered her brutal Kudome Valentine finisher onto one of the neon colored chairs LCO brings to the ring, trying to snap her neck! Kudo and Combat then go out and continue to beat on Mita and Shimoda through the crowd.
Manami Toyota regains her footing and composure as Yokota is cut loose from the guardrail. Yokota rolls in and pulls the table to the center of the ring. Toyota then picks up a three quarters dead looking Hokuto and lifts her into her shoulders...
Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex through the table! Toyota bridges it and the ref counts to three and the match is over!
What a wild ride, as everybody is going crazy.
Toyota celebrates with her friends when Megumi Kudo and Combat Toyoda make their way back to the ring.
There is a tense stare down for a moment, as Toyota and Kudo are set to fight for the belt at the next show. Neither woman releases eye contact, but it's Toyota who offers her hand out of respect. There is a suspenseful beat, but thankfully to the roar of the crowd Kudo takes her hand and the two shake before they enter what is sure to be a Hell of a match next month.