Saturday 27 August 2022

Revisiting 90s Joshi #38

Shinobu Kandori & Mizuki Endo v Yasha Kurenai & Noriyo Tateno (LLPW, 5/11/93)

I think this is the earliest match I've seen of the Kandori/Endo team. In fact I don't even know if they were a regular tag team, but they teamed up a few years later when Hotta and Maekawa rocked into town. Endo is even less established here than she was in '97 and in '97 all she did was get the shit kicked out of her. I thought this was going to be one of those wild 90s LLPW melees as they all just brawl at the start and Tateno tried a pescado on Kandori that missed badly. It was a ridiculous thing to try in all honesty, a sign of desperation that was threaded through everything her and Kurenai did, particularly when Kandori was involved. I expected a murder to occur as Kandori picked Tateno up and launched her into a stack of chairs. Then she got on the mic and Kurenai immediately jumped her from behind with a sick elbow. The rest of the match was mostly Kurenai and Tateno isolating Endo, then any time Kandori was in - or close to getting it - they'd just jump her and claw at her face. They did not want Kandori in a fair fight under any circumstances, two women who knew they were in an unwinnable situation if Kandori could get rolling. Kandori does clean house eventually like you knew she would, but in the end Endo is basically hopeless and succumbs to her own pitifulness. Or rather a double chokeslam or something. 

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