| 1 | * Wrestling/ManamiToyota: [[Awesome/ManamiToyota Oh boy, where to begin...]] |
| 2 | * At ''Wrestle Marinepiad '89'', a quartet of rookies in the opening match stole the show from the veterans. The match? Manami Toyota and Mima Shimoda vs Toshiyo Yamada and Etsuko Mita, who would go on to become four of the biggest names in ''joshi'' in the next decade (and ironically, wrestlers who were opponents in this match would go on to form top tag teams - Toyota/Yamada and, as you'll see below, Shimoda/Mita). This was also the match that kicked off... |
| 3 | * ...the epic three-year feud between Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada, which came to its finale in a ''Hair vs. Hair'' match. The match itself was brilliant, but the [=CMoA=] came after Toyota finally pulled off the win: Toyota declared that Yamada had earned her respect, and pleaded with officials not to subject Yamada to the humiliation of having her head shaved, even offering to have her own head shaved instead (and going so far as to start ''cutting her own hair'' to prove the point). Toyota had to be physically restrained while the shaving of Yamada's hair took place. |
| 4 | * AJW in the early-to-mid 90s is widely considered the Crowning Era of Awesome for women's wrestling (with their mid-80s era as runner-up), featuring stars like Manami Toyota, Akira Hokuto, Kyoko Inoue, Bull Nakano, and Wrestling/AjaKong (among others) at the top of their game, and several contenders for "greatest women's match of all time", including the aforementioned Toyota/Yamada match, Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori at ''Dreamslam 1'', and Manami Toyota and Kyoko Inoue's 60-minute draw. |
| 5 | ** Akira Hokuto vs. Shinobu Kandori has two [=CMoA=] contenders: |
| 6 | *** At the opening bell, Hokuto '''decks''' Kandori, grabs the mic, and asks Kandori if that's all she's got. Kandori responds by getting up, grabbing Hokuto's arm and wrenching it nearly out of its socket. |
| 7 | *** Later in the match, Kandori piledrives Hokuto on a table. And we're not talking one of those wimpy, thin tables that you normally see in wrestling; this was a really thick, ''solid'' table. After the piledriver spot, the camera zoomed in on the dent left in it. Hokuto's frickin' sick bladejob after the spot just capped off the awesome. |
| 8 | * ''AJW Super Woman Great War ~ Big Egg Wrestling Universe'' in 1994 not only for living up to its name with a whopping twenty three matches of various styles and a wide variety of opponents but also for drawing the promotion's biggest crowd at 42,500, which is also the largest number on record for a joshi event. |
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