![]() Moxley piledrives Trent but Penta is right back to take Trent outside. Penta ducks a swing and Backstabs Moxley, only to get a trashcan lid kneed into his face. Trent and Penta hit dives to start but Moxley is back up and grabs the 2×4 with nails. The introduction make it clear that this is anything goes. Video on the Women’s Title match with Hikaru Shida challenging Toni Storm. ![]() Was there anyone else who could have stood up for ECW and been something of a big deal? Cue Rob Van Dam to chase Perry off, with Perry hiding behind a young girl. Instead, he’s made a phone call to a friend of his, who wrestled in ECW and still wrestles today. On top of that, his neck is so banged up that no doctor would ever clear him. Lynn comes out to say that he isn’t going to come down there and beat up Perry, because that would be child abuse. Here is Jack Perry to say that he wants Jerry Lynn out here to end this. ![]() Matt Menard tells Chris Jericho has to be at a mandatory meeting of the Jericho Appreciation Society. Tony Khan says we are on the way to the biggest wrestling event of all time (no) and we see a highlight package from some of the best moments in Dynamite history. either Takeshita or someone else from Callis’ family down the line, but we might be a good way off from that point just yet. Odds are this is heading towards Jericho vs. Other than that, you had Garcia and Guevara being entertaining enough as a team and Takeshita feeling like a star. This was about Callis still trying to recruit Jericho, who might be getting with the program a bit. In this case, I imagine it wouldn’t take very long before the various territory promoters would be trying to find their own shooters as challengers in hopes of taking the title away from Brody and putting it on someone they would be more likely to trust and/or control.Rating: B. To wit, traditionally, the Champion had to be a shooter to protect himself in the ring in case one of his opponents tried to go into business for himself and steal the title. The reason the idea appeals to me is because it inverts the traditional NWA formula. I’m not sure in which timeframe this would be most likely to happen albeit it would likely have to be before Jim Crockett became the ipso facto sole promoter of the title. This would obviously never have happened in RL due to his willingness to walk out on any promoter if he thought he was getting a raw deal but indulge me, if you will, in a timeline where the NWA sees so much money in Bruiser Brody that they decide to make him the touring World Champion anyway despite his maverick ways. The company was one step away from bankruptcy, and ended up filing for bankruptcy in October. The story broke days later, and a press conference was held by the company on September 12 revealing the extent of the financial problems. After the show, the wrestlers went on strike in front of the office and demanded their unpaid salaries. Kyoko Inoue, Rie Tamada, and Yumi Fukawa announced they would be leaving the company after the show and it was clear to everyone that there were issues with management. Their patience came to an end on August 20. The only reason they could survive without being paid for so long was because they lived in the company building, but on the road, they had to rely on the venues to supply food. Payments to talent and office staff had been late or unpaid since 1996, and no one had been paid since March. Once the bubble burst and the real estate market nosedived, they took out significant bank loans to prop up their business, racking up huge debt which they were unable to pay back. During the 1980s economic bubble, the brothers got heavily into real estate, and among many other investments, attempted to franchise a Ramen house restaurant chain. ![]() Zenjo had been cold for some time which didn’t help things, but the reason was the Matsunaga’s losses in real estate, stocks and their other businesses. The Matsunaga’s wasteful spending had led to them having major financial difficulties since 1996 (and possibly years earlier). It’s time to talk about the collapse of All Japan Women (briefly). Some rookies stick around, Kaoru Ito & Tomoko Watanabe form the backbone of the loyalists, Yumiko Hotta steps up as the new Ace as she’s still loyal, and Manami Toyota is convinced to give up retirement and get a contracted gig… but they lose half the wrestlers and most of the stars. The owners’ bad business decisions (most notably, a restaurant chain) combine with fading business all over, and AJW stops paying its wrestlers partway through 1997. * Okay, so it’s big things afoot- 1997 is the year the joshi scene in Japan completely explodes, as All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling (AJW), the signature company of joshi, goes bankrupt. RIP the AJW we knew- it becomes a shell of itself in 1997, losing 2/3 of the roster.
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