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June 1984 - October 1984 BOOM! We have now entered AJW’s 80s boom period, both in terms of business and just being some of the best wrestling ever. The June 28th show at Kawasaki City Gymnasium was the first show aired on AJW’s new Monday 7pm TV slot (between the Beauty Pair era and now they’d bounced around irregular slots, usually late at night). I’ll quote from EvitoQQ’s excellent Retro Joshi review series to give the background to this one: “July 9, 1984, Zenjo returned to a weekly 7pm half hour slot for the first time since 1979. They wanted to start big, so the first show opened with Noriyo Tateno vs. Leilani Kai and then featured Lioness Asuka & Chigusa Nagayo vs. Devil Masami & Jaguar Yokota from 6/28, can’t go wrong with throwing the four most popular stars out there. The following week they aired Jumbo Hori & Yukari Omori vs. Dump Matsumoto & Crane Yu for the WWWA Tag Team titles from the same show. Unfortunately the former was cut down from 30 minutes to 10, thankfully it was released unedited 20 years later on the original Zenjo Classics. (Retro Joshi #49) Another important moment is August 21 1984, when Crush Gals released their first single ’Bible of Fire’, which was a big hit. Although they’re already very popular, after that Crush Gals Mania really runs wild. Meanwhile, the Fuji TV Tag Tournament that began on August 25th is ongoing. It’s a round robin tournament with the two teams with the highest points meeting again in the final, which is on September 26th. Here are the contents of the video with timestamps. I can’t provide this without some slight spoilers, so if you wanna watch without major clues on how things unfold, maybe just don’t read it :) 1. Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka vs. Devil Masami & Jaguar Yokota 6/28/84 - 00:00:00 2. Crane Yu & Dump Matsumoto vs. Jumbo Hori & Yukari Omori (WWWA Tag Team Titles) 6/28/84 - 00:35:28 3. Crane Yu & Dump Matsumoto vs. Devil Masami & Jaguar Yokota (Fuji TV Tag League) 8/25/84 - 01:05:38 4. Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka vs. Jumbo Hori & Yukari Omori (WWWA Tag Team Titles) 8/25/84 - 01:26:47 5. Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka vs. Devil Masami & Jaguar Yokota (Fuji TV Tag League) 9/4/84 - 01:59:43 6. Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka vs. Crane Yu & Dump Matsumoto (Fuji TV Tag League) 9/17/84 - 02:15:22 7. Jaguar Yokota vs. La Galactica (UWA World Women’s Title & WWWA Singles Title) 9/17/84 - 02:29:24 8. Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka vs. Devil Masami & Jaguar Yokota (Fuji TV Tag League) 9/26/84 - 02:46:16 9. Crush Gals Sing ’Bible of Fire’ 10/6/84 - 03:05:46 10. Chigusa Nagayo & Lioness Asuka vs. La Galactica & Lola Gonzalez (WWWA Tag Team Titles) 10/6/84 - 03:10:29 11. Itsuki Yamazaki vs. Jaguar Yokota 10/18/84 - 03:49:43
