WAVE Sunday Wave Vol. 20

Pro Wrestling WAVE is one of my favorite wrestling promotions. I have yet to see a show live. I get my WAVE fix from purchasing DVDs and seeing the GyoA webcast of their weekly TV show which airs on V☆Paradise. This often means that matches I watch are clipped or out of sequence. Today I will share with you something a little different. This is a complete show recorded off NicoNico. I want to thank RealHero for uploading this.  This is the closest you can get to attending a WAVE show without being in Japan.

Mika Iida & Misaki Ohatta vs Mio Shirai & Yuu... by JAHMAL1111
The show starts out with some sort of music that apparently the folks at NicoNico are afraid they will get sued over so they cut the music.  NicoNico does this kind of thing a lot.  I once watched a DDT show where 2 of the wrestlers were big fans of a certain Idol group.  Hearing that group had the same effect on them as spinach has on Popeye.  It was hard to follow this gimmick on the NicoPro broadcast as Nico cut the audio anytime the the idol music was played...but I digress.  Anyway it is interesting to see how a WAVE show starts. The image on the TitanTron  reminds of when there is angel attack in Eva.  While I highly doubt that "Decisive Battle" was the music playing I can't get the music out of my head now.    They play the opening titles on the Tron in front of the live crowd.  They all clap in time. All the wrestlers come out  and take a bow and Shida cuts a promo.Then they all go to back.   Mio's music hits and it time for the 1rst match. It is a tag match. Mio Shirai and Yuu Yamagata enter the ring.  I guess Mio's theme is either public domain or owned by WAVE, as they play it.  I don't know whose music Misaki Ohata and Mika Iida come out to because Nico once again cut the music.  I am assuming it was Iidas because from the little bit I heard it didn't sound like Maxium the Hormone.  Great Match.  Watch the video.

Tomoka Nakagawa vs Melanie Cruise (WAVE) by JAHMAL1111

Next up is Tomoka Nakagawa vs Melanie Cruise.  This match felt like it could have been part of a SHIMMER taping.  I especially loved Tomoka's interaction with the crowd. Once again that in itself gave it a SHIMMER feel.

Shuu Shibutani & Ayako Hamada & Sakura Hirota... by JAHMAL1111

Next up is the semi-final.  It is 6 woman tag. Cherry, Hikaru Shida & Kyoko Kimura vs. Ayako Hamada, Sakura Hirota & Shuu Shibutani.  Once again Nico cuts the music.  I really wish they would add some generic music like they do on the DVD releases. This is another great match.  Fast and funny.  I love how Sakura carefully folds her shirt only to have one of the other girls mess it up.  I wonder if I buy a shirt from her at the merch table if she would fold it so carefully?   Cherry come to the ring with a copy of the Iron Ladies Mook.  Hikaru Shida, Cherry & Kyoko Kimura do a lot of body building poses in this match.  All three of them were featured in this book for those who don't know.

Yumi Ohka vs. Moeka Haruhi, Sumire Natsu... by JAHMAL1111



Now it is time for the Main Event! It is an 8 woman tag team 3 out of 5 falls match. The participants are Kana, Moeka Haruhi, Rina Yamashita & Tsukasa Fujimoto vs. Kaho Kobayashi, Natsu Sumire, Sawako Shimono & Yumi Ohka! There is an added stip. The winner of each fall can pick there partner for the DuelShock Tag Team Tournament. Lots of great stuff here. I don't really want to spoil the match so watch the vid. After the match GAMI come out and set up the tourny.There is a real funny part where Melanie comes out from the back and demands to be part of the tournament but GAMI can't understand her as she is speaking English. Cruise also has trouble because she doesn't speak Japanese!

This years teams are Las Aventureras (Ayako Hamada and Yuu Yamagata), Classic Gals (Cherry and Shuu Shibutani) Revolucion Amandora (Tomoka Nakagawa and Kyoko Kimura) Plus Minus (Mio Shirai and Misaki Ohata) the current and defending champs, Sakuragohan (Sakura Hirita and Mika Iida.) The new Tag teams will be Kaho Kobayashi and Kana, Hikaru Shida and Natsu Sumire, Dynamite Kansai and Fairy Nipponbashi, Melanie Cruise and Moeka Haruhi, Rina Yamashita and Sawako Shimono, and Tsukasa Fujimoto and Yumi Ohka. The tournament will be single elimination style.  It starts on September 23rd. Before the tourny starts though Sakuragohan will have to defend the belt against PlusMinus.  The winner of the match will be propelled into the semifinals while the loser will have to start the tourny at the bottom! 

The Duel Shock tournament looks awesome this year.  I look forward to getting the DVD of the event when it officially released!





 

Labor Day is BS

Ever since I lost my paraprofessional job, Holidays have lost all meaning to me. In retail there are no holidays. EVERYDAY IS DAY FOR SHOPPING, which means everyday is the same. I can’t even say I am working for the weekend because I often work the weekends. There is literally nothing to look forward to (except the possibility of getting a “real job” and quitting this one) I am forced to work Holidays and most retail stores are open normal hours for Holidays…Very rarely do the close early...in fact they are more likely to open early and close later than to shutdown early on a Holiday. 9 times out of 10, you paid regular pay for working the holiday because the company doesn’t consider this day a “real holiday”—not that it stops them from opening an hour early or having “special sales” that particular day.

Out of all the so called holidays that I am required to work, one the ones that pisses me off the most is bullshit labor day. According to Wikipedia, “Labor Day in the United States is a holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. It is a celebration of the American labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of their country.” It is a slap in the face. As a worker, it means that this day, that is supposed to celebrate me and my fellow workers….how do I get to accomplish this, you ask? By going to work like I do any other day. For me, the person that this holiday is supposed to be dedicated for, it is not a special day at all. It is just a day without mail. I am not alone in this. More American’s work retail than any other industry. Almost 25% of all jobs in the USA are retail jobs. Only 3% of those in retail are part of union (which is how the stores get away with scheduling us on holidays.)

So I don’t get a day off because ‘Murica needs to shop. There is not one holiday in this country which isn’t used an excuse to shop. Why is that? What is wrong with America? Can’t we do anything else but spend money? Are all our lives so completely empty that the only way to fill the void in our nation’s collective soul is buy some shiny new trinket? Something that can momentarily distract us from the pain and sorrow that we call life. It is disgusting and sad.

Labor Day was founded 128 years about by the Central Labor Union. At the time there were much social unrest at the state of labor in America. The Haymarket Massacre in Chicago was one of the worst cases. This started out as a peaceful rally but ended up as a riot. In order to quell the violence, President Cleveland quickly signed a law making Labor Day an official US Holiday. It was originally supposed be on May 1rst but the President thought it was too close to the date of the Haymarket Massacre so he changed the date to September. We have become complacent. Maybe we need to stand up for ourselves. Not that I am advocating “Blood in the Streets,” but back then the government had some healthy fear of the common worker.

I doubt I could get people to stop shopping on Labor Day. All the customers I saw today, wished me a “happy holiday,” when they knew I wasn’t going to have one. After all how could I? I am working on day I should have off. AND THEY KNEW THAT but they didn’t care. They need buy stuff to break up the monotony of their daily existence . I have worked many holidays, but there is something about working Labor Day, that just sticks in my craw. Perhaps it wouldn’t both me so much it was called something else. Renaming the so-called holiday would be much easier that getting ‘Murica to close their wallets.