Carlos Amano & Mayumi Ozaki vs. Chikayo Nagashima & Sugar Sato

[7.0] "This is Sugar Sato's last match (well ok it wasn't, she'd show up once more two years later in typical wrestling fashion). She was never anywhere close to being one of the more technically complex or charismatic of the GAEA rookies but still reasonably competent enough as a mid-card feature. This match showcases her doing what she does best; big power moves and aggressive shit, this has both literally as soon as the match starts as Amano/Ozaki run in with tons of streamers in the ring before Ozaki does a batshit springboard twisting senton off the apron. Nagashima is here mostly as the cool lucha-ish worker who can do most of the intensive workrate/bumping. Ozaki and Amano both get their moments with Sato: mostly to beat the dogshit out of each other with either big backfists or stiff ass headbutts. I don't quite think Sato gets close to reaching the levels of those two (then again at this point who really could? ) so she mostly settles for a mix of comedy bits and cool power moves. The middle part turns into a long outside walk and brawl that is only really worth watching for Nagashima doing a double foot-stomp off one of the Korakuen entrance arches, crazy stuff. She does a 450 foot stomp in-ring later on to Amano that looks like compete and utter death. The crowd wasn't enamoured with Naga/Sato controlling the match when they did do so but got more into it with the usage of multiple near falls and more spots. I wasn't particularly wowed (especially given there are a good few of these that are completely unorganic and feel rather contrived) but hey it worked and said spots were cool by themselves so I can't complain too much. Last few minutes were at least a bit more interesting with Ozaki/Sato taking up the majority of the action to smack each other with Uraken shots. The finish was goofy ahh nonsense with Ozaki going over Sato with a half-Nelson suplex before Sato no-sells right after the pin to get a symbolic one...but only after she powerbombs Naga onto them. No idea why they went for that in retrospect given it didn't do anything bar deflate the crowd. Match as a whole isn't tremendously deep and mostly consists of everyone just doing cool stuff, so that's your kind of match then this is definitely amazing quality. Otherwise there's not a lot else to it bar a really good spot-show by Nagashima and Sato doing her best to try to end on a high note."