Interpromotional warfare makes everything better (you know, in wrestling. Prolly). This was the third match of the night on AJW's annual Wrestlemarinpiad show, pretty much a lower midcard match where the star power is carried largely by Kandori, and yet the place was rocking for the LLPW invaders rolling into town. You could see how everyone involved played off it as well. Takako Inoue is a strange animal. She'll be responsible for complete tripe against the likes of Ozaki and then she'll be involved in something like this where she's totally awesome and try to crush someone's trachea. Kandori was amazing, letting every bit of her charisma shine through to make this whole thing feel like it had some proper stakes. She would just bully one of her opponents while flipping off the other, assert her dominance with a smirk, projecting this aura of absolute badass while giving Inoue and Hasegawa enough to keep the crowd red hot. Inoue would come in swinging and connect with a potato shot, Kandori would stagger back half in surprise, then look at her grinning like "okay so we're doing this now?" Loved the moment at the start where she grabbed Inoue in a cross-armbreaker right in the middle of the ring only to let her up and tell her to bring it. I've never seen Kurenai before but she was a perfectly fun Kabuki to Kandori's Tenryu. At one point she even applied a nerve hold and she was not the least bit afraid to let Inoue spin kick her in the throat. I could've done without the ropey crowd brawling section, but it was brief and if nothing else I bought it as Inoue and Sakie trying to win by countout because they realised who they were in there with. Kandori basking in the moment and making sure Inoue watched as she choked out Hasegawa was a great finish, too.
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