Itsuki Yamazaki Vs.Yukari Omori

This is a video posted on YouTube by xkingx2009 of Itsuki Yamazaki wrestling Yukari Omori at an old All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling event.

Itsuki Yamazaki made her wrestling debut in 1980, and was one half of the famous Jumping Bomb Angels.
Yukari Omori was also part of a famous tag-team, the "Dynamite Girls".

This match is pretty much pure Joshi Puroresu.
No gimmicks, no over the top promotion, just two Japanese women in swimsuits (a Speedo swimsuit in Yukari's case) going at it in the ring.

After the intro, the ref going over the rules, the opening bell and a pretty quick series of moves, they lock up in the center of the ring...


Itsuki side-steps and rolls Yukari into a leg lock...


Then she moves up and puts her knee in Yukari's back, adding more pressure to the leg lock...


Another flurry of moves and Yukari winds up trapped in Itsuki's body scissors...


Yukari manages to escape, almost gets Itsuki in a boston crab, but gets rolled over into an attempted pin...


But Yukari escapes by trapping Itsuki in a head scissors...


Which Itsuki somehow manages to turn back into a modified leg lock.



And all this is less than four minutes into the match.



If you like this match, you can see more like it at xkingx2009's YouTube channel here.
http://www.youtube.com/user/xkingx2009



Itsuki Yamazaki Vs.Yukari Omori, posted to http://joshipuroresu.blogspot.com/ on September 20th, 2010.

Itsuki Yamazaki wrestling Plum Mariko in Japan

Here's a hold you don't see much in women's wrestling, at least over here, a front bearhug.
I guess only women like Victoria or Beth Phoenix would be able to pull off a bearhug submission believably.
But here are female Japanese wrestling stars Itsuki Yamazaki ( one half of the Jumping Bomb Angels) and the late Plum Mariko pulling it off.



technorati tags: sexy, japan, sports, pro-wrestling, wrestling, pro wrestling, pro wrestling blog, pro-wrestling, news

Jumping Bomb Angels

Ring name(s) Jumping Bomb Angels
Billed height Both - 5' 5" (164 cm)
Billed weight Tateno - 165 lb (75 kg), Yamazaki - 125 lb (57 kg)
Born Tateno - December 1, 1965
Tateno - Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan
Wrestling Debut Tateno - July 12, 1981, Yamazaki - 1980
Retired Yamazaki - 1991

Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki formed one of the most exciting teams on the Japanese Woman's Wrestling circuit. On January 5, 1986, The Angels defeated Bull Nakano and Condor Saito to win the vacant WWWA World Tag Team Women's Championship. Then on March 20, 1986, Lioness Asuka and Chigusa Nagayo, the Crush Gals, defeated The Angels to capture the WWWA Tag Team titles.

Tateno and Yamazaki were known as "The Jumping Bomb Angels" in the WWF. At the Survivor Series 1987, The Jumping Bomb Angels were the sole survivors in the Women's division Survivor Series match. On January 24, 1988 at the Royal Rumble, The Angels beat The Glamour Girls in a best 2out of 3 Falls match to win the WWF Women's Tag Team Wrestling Championship. On June 8, 1988, The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin) defeated The Angels to recapture the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship.

It was reported that in January 2004 the WWE approached Yamazaki for a recommendation of a Japanese woman wrestler they could use. She suggested that the WWE look at Takako Inoue. Nikkan Sport went on to report that Takako was very happy with the workout and said that she wants to be more than a sexy WWE Diva. If they want her only for her sex appeal she wouldn't be interested as she was a professional wrestler first and foremost.

Yamazaki is retired from wrestling and lives in New York where she owns the sushi restaurant GO.

Prior to her retirement, Yamazaki appeared in the WCW in 1991. She wrestled at the WCW Wrestle War pay-per-view, teaming with Mami Kitimura to defeat Miki Handa and Miss A.

Tateno has remained active after Yamazaki's retirement and has competed in Ladies Legends Pro Wrestling (LLPW) in Japan.