Aja Kong and Kyoko Inoue vs LCO (Etsuko Mito and Mima Shimoda) - All Japan Women's Wrestling
Added 2025-03-11 16:00:05 +0000 UTCWatch: https://streamable.com/m4f7ns
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Yes I've discovered toyota last few matches I think I watched a documentary about all japan womans rise and fall on youtube and it said one of there shows was one of best shows ever so I watched it think was dream slam 1 toyota was in a tag match she really impressed me then I watched some more of her matches few were vs aja Kong they were great and hokuto she also wrestled in eve uk womans promotion that started in 2010 likes of toni storm saraya Jamie hayter has been there she faced blue Nokia there in 2017 I think so yh im a massive toyota fan she one of the best wrestlers I've ever seen some say the best womans wrestler ever I defo see why she was brilliant
Ryan Evans
2025-03-14 04:47:51 +0000 UTC๐
Dport
2025-03-12 07:12:46 +0000 UTCcrazy that matches like this were happening 18 years before Stephanie McMahon invented women's wrestling
Will Humphries
2025-03-12 07:07:05 +0000 UTCah man, my top 5 match ever
Strabisson
2025-03-12 06:31:05 +0000 UTCKong vs Kaoru as well
you want a war ๐คจ๐คจ
2025-03-12 02:44:55 +0000 UTCoh my god my goats
you want a war ๐คจ๐คจ
2025-03-12 02:44:33 +0000 UTCSo, I wasn't watching AJW in 1997 or wrestling in general in 1997 as I was not born yet. I really got into wrestling in the late 2000s through early 2010s. I started with WWE like you did and eventually branched into TNA, ROH and other promotions from there. I used to watch a promotion called Chikara on a podcast on my ipod back then. Since then, I have been able to watch many promotions and companies throughout the last decade. I just actively search out reccomendations and matches that seem interesting, So I have built up a collection of shows and matches that i store. Back then, most indie companies, old school wrestling, and foreign promotions were spread through tape trading and sometimes Youtube. Depending on the promotion, you can find some really interesting stuff online. Cagematch and WrestlingDatabase are great tools, people just seem to focus on match ratings a bit too much.
JayDVDV
2025-03-12 01:33:18 +0000 UTCI think nowadays it's a lot easier to find out about Japanese wrestling whether it's current day, 2010s, 2000s, 80s, 90s. Japanese wrestling may not be mainstream popular like North American wrestling, but it's a very big part of pro wrestling as a whole with major influence. I think as long as you kind of dwindle in the internet wrestling culture whether you're on twitter, reading wrestling articles, watching YouTube videos/documentary related to wrestling, you'll eventually come across hearing about Japanese wrestling or Japanese wrestlers in general. A lot of big name American wrestlers have probably talked about watching Japanese wrestling at one point too and may have already or considered wrestling in Japan. AJ Styles we know has wrestled in New Japan Pro Wrestling before he went to WWE. He's also stated in an interview that back in the early 2000s that him and a lot of the TNA guys use to watch everything such as NOAH, NJPW, AJPW, all of which are Japanese promotions. John Cena I believe has said that he was a big All Japan Pro Wrestling fan in the 90s. CM Punk was as well and I'm pretty sure he paid tribute to Mitsuharu Misawa back in 2009. Both Kurt Angle & Stone Cold Steve Austin praised the Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada match (which you guys saw). Mercedes Mone was a huge fan of Manami Toyota & Akira Hokuto. I can't say I'm super knowledgeable with Japanese wrestling or just anything outside of the bubble I know in general as I grew up purely watching WWE. But I would hear about these wrestlers one way or another and sometimes it'll make me fascinated enough to check out their body of work and look up the context of it.
lolstone
2025-03-12 00:10:21 +0000 UTCI'm probably a little older than many of your other Patreon members so for me, the way I found stuff like 90's wrestling was I was actually on the wrestling Internet such as it was in the mid-to-late 90's and eventually, if you dug deeper than say the front page of AOL or the really terrible wrestling news sites that make the current wrestling media look like Cronkite & Murrow combined, there were the newsgroups and from there in places like rec.sports.pro.wrestling (which is basically the forerunner of today's IWC - while the Observer letter columns were actually that but I guess the grandfathers as opposed to primordial ooze), you got to various other websites and forums like the Death Valley Driver forum and others that talked about stuff like All Japan, joshi, New Japan, lucha, and such. From there, you then emailed somebody who was posting online about their tape list or by the early 2000's went to their likely Geocities or Angelfire website where they listed all the tapes/DVD's they had for "trade" (wink wink), and then you sent off a $20 dollar per tape check or money order (got down to $5-7 per DVD by the mid-2000s) to a guy you didn't know and hoped for the best. All this is why it really took until the rise of the Internet and the relative lack of copyright most (ie. not New Japan) Japanese care about when it comes to uploading Japanese/Mexican matches plus subscription services like New Japan World for it to be far easier for Japanese and Mexican wrestlers to be 'over' among American audiences before being on North American TV. As late as the early 2010's, you still had to pay monthly for big New Japan shows like any other PPV and for instance, it cost $100+ to see the entire G1 a little earlier than that. Like, Nakamura's debut at NXT would've been basically impossible to happen even five years earlier.
Jesse Ewiak
2025-03-11 22:33:11 +0000 UTCGonna need that Aja Kong vs Manami Toyota in the future. Banger match
Drippalo21
2025-03-11 22:13:02 +0000 UTCI think I can answer that question you had at the end about discovering stuff like this The easy answer is a rabbit hole I found New Japan but would always see people comparing chops from other wrestlers to "Kobashi-San" so I looked up Kenta and I was instantly hooked So many of his matches from the 90s were added to YouTube thus I found more and more of his matches and discovered more and more people I liked(Hansen, Jumbo, Misawa, Kawada, Taue, etc.) Through that rabbit hole other old Japanese promotion pop up Such as AJW! Which is how I discovered people like Bull Nakano, Dump Matsumoto, and Aja Kong. It's always a matter of time before stumbling upon another promotion you enjoy as long as footage from that time has been saved and given immortality on the Internet
Paul Watson
2025-03-11 16:54:17 +0000 UTCIโve been watching some minayma Toyota matches dam she was great some these woman was just brilliant I hope we get some Toyota matches in future love to see Josh and tally react to them eventually Im gonna do one but next few months matches per month planned Im gonna try watch more all Japan woman shows
Ryan Evans
2025-03-11 16:24:02 +0000 UTC
