AAA Recap
Aired: 04/09/05
Recapped: 05/15/05

This is all from the AAA in Japan tour.

Match 1: Alberije, Esther Moreno, Pimpinela Escarlata vs Ayako Hamada, Kaz Hayashi, Danshoku Dino
Korakuen Hall, 01/23/05

Winner: Team AAA
Match Time: 15:08
Other Match Notes: Mixed trios - it's like we're one person short. Pimpinela gets friendly with people at ringside and the ring announcer. Cuije is there with Alberije - they cut out his entrance. Hamada has no less than five belts on her: one each hand, two around the waist, and one over one under shoulder and under the other.   How does he ever decide which one to hit people with? Ayako and Kaz get big reactions. Hayashi wants no part of Pimpinela. This would be freakshow vs non-freakshow if Dino wasn't on the Japan team. He gets a big reaction too. Is the job of the other guy to follow him and wave madly when called upon? He too wants no part of Pimpinela. Ooh, kiss on the mouth. Dino doesn't like it when he's on the other side. No one on Dino's team wants anything to do with him either. Hey, break.

The Japan team should kill the AAA team here by my math. Dino and Pimpinela get thing off to a proper start. By running off the ropes and posing. Pimpinela going in for seconds on Dino, and Dino isn't that easy. Esther and Ayako in next, and there's a couple quick spots where they don't appear to be on the same page. There's a moment where they both try to hiptoss each other at same time and about kill their elbows on the stalemate. Never quite seen something like it. Ayako later dropkicks Esther out, Esther takes her time getting back in, Ayako figures she's done and leaves, Esther comes back and wants a piece of her, and Kaz tags himself in. Esther thinks about it, talks to Kaz, and tags in Alberije. Kaz has no idea what to make of the outfit. He does find out, whatever it is, he can still sure it into a handshake double cross. So I guess he's a rudo here? Maybe. Alberije leaves Kaz bent over with a punch to the midsection, and Cuije grabs a feel from behind - shouldn't that have been a Pimpinela spot? Kaz chases after him into a Alberije tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Kaz comes back in, but doesn't want any part of Pimpinela again. Ayoko convinces him to let Dino in. I think she just wants to keep the only other sane person in this match close to her. It only takes moments before Dino's face is in Pimpinela's butt, and it only gets better from there. Pimpinela has no problem beating up Dino, and neither does Alberije, Alberije's Viscera like wheel kick notwithstanding. Team AAA starts doing teamwork, tagging in and out and keeping Dino in peril. Esther gets in good shots until she dumbly runs into the Japan corner, and gets beat up for it. Kaz has no problem choking her out. Alberije tries to help out gets beat up, Kaz's whiff on a handspring heel kick notwithstanding. Kaz gets a hold of Cuije and tries too work him over. El Hijo del Tirantess fights with him for control of the midget, but Kaz gives Cuije Snake Eyes! Ayoko gets in a kick on Alberije in the middle of this, but gets back out when Pimpinela comes into bite Kaz in the rear. Dino makes the save - he wants to do the biting, you see. This match wants to do the biting! Somehow we get to Ayoko facing Alberije but being really unhappy about it. Alberije teases a chokeslam, opts not, and takes a headscissors and quebrada instead. Dummy. Ayoko slaps him in the mask many times, but can't quite pull off the slam. Alberije can. Kaz comes in to show her how it's done, and Ayoko goes up top - moonsault is probably supposed to hit knees or feet but didn't. Butterflyman afire! Front facelock into a Northern Lights Suplex on Ayoko. Esther into for a bodyscissors rollup and two. Dropkick gets Ayoko in the face. Esther pulls her up, and gets a return superkick. Ayoko slow up, and stopped by Pimpinela. Esther climbs up - 'rana off. No pins, because Esther wants to show off her elbow drops. Moonsault hits and is supposed to - we don't see the count, but we do see Kaz break it up. Kaz walks out, gets tag, walked back in. Esther manages to get a 'rana for two on him. Esther gets backdropped to the apron, but catches Kaz's fist and bites it. This match still bites! It's not THAT bad but it's not good either. Esther does her Jinsei Shinzaki impersonation while walking the ropes very slowly and flips off with a delayed armdrag. There's the headscissors, there's the rolling pose. Pimpinela in and happy to grab Kaz in a bearhug. Dino breaks it up. Alberije tagged in, spinning side backbreaker, why do you pose before covering? Only gets two. Slam, to the apron, slingshot legdrop. No pose, but no weight on covering Kaz that time, one two no. What is that, a hammerlock rotation suplex one two - and this time Team Japan breaks it up. Ayoko boosted up into a high dropkick/stomp on Alberije. Asai Moonsault into the first row! Esther sneaks in a missile dropkick on Kaz while he's trying to figure out what happened. Whip, reversed, Kaz misses the clothesline and Esther figures she might as well believe thru the ropes, flattening Ayoko with a tope con giro. Kaz takes a moment to recover, then realizes someone from Team AAA ought to be fighting and brings Pimpinela in. That doesn't work so well, as a bodypress knocks Kaz out of the ring. In turn, Dino slaps Pimpinela out, and turns into an Alberije clothesline. Cuije in, Cuije running, Cuije tope caught by Dino. Dino places him down - and kicks him to the ground! Alberije tope! Kaz wants to get in on this hot diving action, but Pimpinela cuts him off with a kiss. Kaz luckily stops in time and sends Pimpinela into the ropes, but Pimpinela just comes back with a Thesz press/hug. Pimp gets shoved away, charges again, and the kiss lands on Tirantes! Inside cradle, Tirantes trying to recover, now he sees it onetwothree (15:08) Snappy count! Team AAA questions the speed there, but that's it. Well, for the match - Alberije and Esther hold Kaz down so Pimp can finally give him the big kiss. is the doctor looking over Kaz? Dino checks on Kaz - wait, that's not going to work out so well either. Dino has Kaz by the tights, but Kaz pulls a switch and whoever Kaz' backup from AJPW gets the kiss instead. That wasn't bad, but why did I spend so many words on it?

Match 2: Psicosis and Mini Psicosis vs Mascara Sagrada, Mascarita Sagrada for the LLL Mascot Tag Team Championship
Korakuen Hall, 01/23/05

Winner: Mascara Sagrada and Mascarita Sagrada
Match Time: 19:02
Other Match Notes: This match is totally getting short straw. Lots of posing standoffs before this one can actually get started. I'm something less than captivated in this match, being at least my second time seeing third time seeing Mini Psicosis and Mascarita this week in one form or another. Mini Psicosis headscissors Maxi Sagrada to the floor in a less than perfect looking fashion. Psicosis spend quite some time setting up Sagrada on Maxi's shoulders while he's sitting on the top rope, so Mini Psicosis can 'rana him all the way off. Long beatdown. They blow a Psicosis powerbomb, and go for it again. It's nice how the referee doesn't allow Maxi Sagrada to get involved when his mini is getting beat, but once he's the only getting beat, it's okay. I like when Mini Psicosis yells at the crowd, and the crowd gives boos him, obligatory and totally half hearted. They go to the powerbomb well once too much and of course it turns bad. Weird t hear it get no reaction, though. On and on the match goes, with another (shorter) beatdown and another tecnico comeback sequence. There's the stereo tope, which is great because it means we're almost done. Mascarita is slow getting up, but good enough for Maxi Sagrada to leave him in the ring for a sequence with Mini Psicosis. Yay, it over. They go to break ten seconds after the finish, so they can show the rest later.  

Back, and if that was a title match, they've sorta neglected to give them their title belts. Everyone pose. This certainly seemed like a title match and Alfredo's got it listed as one, but they also didn't hand over any belts in the end, so I dunno.

Match 3: Mr. Aguila, Charly Manson, Juventued Guerrera (c), Tiffany, Ghefar vs Jushin Lyger (c), Electroshock, Lady Apache, Oriental, Zorro
Korakuen Hall, 01/23/05

Winner: Rudos
Match Time: 19:56
Other Match Notes:

What the utter heck is this match. They need to stop using the hat to book! Take a break, sure.

I don't think we got the opening bell. Juvi and Lyger go face to face, and is it sick that instantly remember Juvi breaking his arm when Lyger didn't catch him on a plancha and Juvi ripping Lyger for it on the next Thunder in the worst stretch of time ever for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship? I'm pretty sure we're supposed to think they're reminiscing about it, and it's not a happy memory. This is the first match they've actually had two referees in it, which makes some sense. Lyger and Juvi actually go out without fighting, so maybe they've left five year old grudges in the past. It's a Tiffany/Lady Apache thing instead. Ghefar is a technical wonder! Nah, Ghefar looks to be a whole lot of Styrofoam. Oriental gets in his tope (on Charly Manson) pretty early. When Aguila does the run up the ropes and flip to the mat, and then stands there for a beat without doing anything, it seems really dumb. Juvi gets the crowd cheering for him against Lyger. At least partly. There's this great moment where Juvi wants to come in with a springboard 'rana, kinda slips, and Lyger just powerbombs him in the meanest way possible. Ghefar pulled off a standing moonsault on Zorro at one point, in your token "he's big - but he's amazingly agile" moment. Cibernetico tries to break his foam arm with a Fujiwara, but it's tough to break foam. Aguila gets the honor of moonsaulting onto Lyger's knees. Powerbomb after finishes this as far as the bell man is concerned (14:13) because everyone's forgotten about captain's rules (and they're selectively enforcing them here.) Zorro ducks a clothesline and superkicks Juvi for two. Juvi gets kicked into the hamstring bump into the ropes, but comes back with a 'rana for two. Juvi and Zorro have a telegraphed two count pin exchange, then do the Flair bridge up/backdrop bit. Zorro just leaves Juvi racked instead of pulling him over, then ducks a clothesline and tries a German suplex, Juvi lands on his feet (in theory), Juvi messy powerbomb one two no. Zorro and Juvi play a game of "how bad can you miss the other guy on a corner charge" - Zorro wins by spearing the post, and Juvi finishes him with the Juvi Driver. (16:04) Lyger, the only other person standing (everyone else having been dived out of the picture and maybe randomlly counted out), are left to fight. Lyger gets a big double chop to wipe out Juvi for two. Slam, Juvi goes behind, Lyger back elbows free, backs up, charges, and takes a drop toe hold into the middle rope. Juvi signals he's going to rip off Rey, but Lyger is up to quick to let that happen. Clothesline is ducked, Juvi with a reverse thrust kick and there's the 619 anyway. One two NO. Juvi wandering around. Okay, now he's calling for the driver. Lyger small packages him, one tow no. Lyger with a kick, powerbomb? Yes. Lyger's pretty proud of himself, though the crowd is anti-him. Lyger is saying this is it, though Juvi kipping up fresh kinda ruins his moment. Juvi with a kick, Juvi Driver right on Lyger's neck! (sloppy? receipt? you make the call!) will do it. (19:56) Quick to the break.

Then they came back and everyone doing post match posing and I didn't actually stop fast forwarding.

Match 4: Chessman, Abismo Negro, Cibernetico (c) vs La Parka, Latin Lover (c), Gronda
Korakuen Hall, 01/23/05

Winner: Tecnicos
Match Time: 11:30
Other Match Notes: Abismo has quite the Road Warriors spikey gear going tonight. Cibernetico has a belt. Parka doesn't allow the rudos to break his flow, knocking ChessKane and Abismo's heads. Haha, Abismo stomps Latin Lover's pullaway pants when he just leaves them laying there. Gronda scares everyone on both teams. Latin Lover tries to keep him in control. They go to break right after they start the match.

I start counting time from when they come back. This is the match they do every week in some combination, isn't it? It's pretty much the same match it always is. Including the part where Abismo is waiting for Gronda to do his move already so he can stop standing here like a goof. Chessman blows mist at Gronda, which is different. Somehow, we have two referees and both managed to miss that. Or maybe that's not a DQ, who can say. Rudo beatdown is added by duct taping Gronda to the bottom rope. Are Chessman pants supposed to have the straps hanging off like that, or are they falling apart? I vote for falling apart. Abismo Negro nails Latin Lover with a low blow dropkick, and el Hijo de Tirantes actually makes like he's going to DQ them for such antics before Team LLL remind him that's not the finish. Lady Apache is randomlly out to help Gronda get loose, and there's the comeback - helped by the rudos being completely unaware of the large man in red coming around and battling their teammates till he gets to them. I thought because we were in Japan, we weren't doing run-ins or something, but now there's Juvi attacking Latin Lover, Tiffany and Charly Manson attacking Lady Apache, and I almost missed Mini Psicosis and Psicosis rushing the ring. Mr. Aguila's turned up here too. Parka and the half of the mask which is still on, has a lot of trouble doing a rope flip armdrag spot with Abismo. Parka gets a comeback despite being out numbered nine to four, and takes Abismo out with an Asai turning crossbody. Meanwhile, Gronda is getting beat 3.5 to 1. If it was me, I'd have someone a little bigger than Mini Psicosis delivering the blows to the knee, but it's not up to me. All the rudos are in the ring, and the most the referees are doing are yelling Triple L - that's just the LLL referee, though. Fans boo, and there's Pena leading Zorro, Cibernetico, Mascara Sagrada and Lyger to the ring. Mascarita is a little bit behind the pack. Play the AAA music, why not. This randomlly spills into the crowd, with some people in the ring fighting and others just walking around. Latin Lvoer randomlly gives Cibernetico a La Majistral and that's it. (11:30) Quick! Must break! Must not think how El Hijo del Tirantes was going to DQ for a low blow dropkick but 500 people running around is aces!

Next Week: They don't actually say. Presumably, lucha, but who can say.

Hey, people are still brawling. This match and so many others will solve none of this. That's it.