AJPW: Akebono vs Suwama

[YaakovLee]

This is the most recent AJPW Triple Crown match. It was posted on Dory Funk Jr.s YouTube page. He's apparently the PWF(?) President. This is from a cam, but it's a solid match between the champion Suwama and the challenger Akebono. Suwama is one of my favorite workers from Japan and Akebono has improved quite a bit.

[Steveweiser]

That show drew ultra poor... heck if I'm not mistaken, STARDOM (a Joshi promotion) outdrew them there. You could make the argument, especially post-split, that All Japan should win the Worst Promotion award this year.

[YaakovLee]

Nov 8, 2013 7:44:32 GMT -5 Steveweiser said:

That show drew ultra poor... heck if I'm not mistaken, STARDOM (a Joshi promotion) outdrew them there. You could make the argument, especially post-split, that All Japan should win the Worst Promotion award this year.

That's really sad news. There was a good D-Lo Brown/Bambi Killer tag match on there and they still have Burning from what I can gather. It's a shame because when I was a young kid I used to trade for AJPW cards and All Japan Women's shows in the 90's.

I disagree that they could even be close to the worst promotion. I haven't seen tons of Japanese wrestling this year, but NOAH and Zero 1 seem much worse off with less direction. All Japan seems to have lost 3/4ths of their roster to Wrestle-1 so it'll probably take a year to get anything going again.

[Steveweiser]

Zero1 plod along. NOAH are actually starting to gain some traction again, slowly, but there is some progress.