By: James Carlin
Sareee’s second produce show on August 4th is just around the corner, following on from the success of the first show where she faced off against Sendai Girls’ Chihiro Hashimoto.
Once again, the event will take place at Shinjuku FACE and will see The Sun Goddess headline the show – but this time she’s not alone.
The show can be purchased and watched live through the official website, sareeelive.com, which also has VOD capabilities to be able to watch the event after its initial airing.
Also available on the website are digital autographed photos and personalized messaged from Sareee herself.
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It only makes sense that Sareee has three other hard-hitters in the main event of her show.
Iroha and Nakajima have only teamed twice before: Once in 2018 against Hanako Nakamori and Nanae Takahashi, and most recently in a Beyond The Sea Tag Team #1 Contendership match against Rico Kaiju and Ayame Sasamura. Their record as a team currently sits at 0-2, but as the current Beyond The Sea champion Nakajima won’t be taking any nonsense and will be sure to hit extra hard for her opponents.
Iroha, much like KAIRI, was trained through Stardom, before Iroha transferred over to Marvelous in the middle of 2015. The Marvelous member sits at 0-1-1 against Sareee in singles matches, with their last encounter both in general and in tag team bouts was in 2019 when Mayu Iwatani teamed with Iroha against Sareee and Syuri.
KAIRI, now a freelance talent sailing the seas of Japan, finds her next docking against two of the best women in Japanese wrestling outside of the sphere of her home in Stardom. Her last match was at Stardom Sunshine in June and if her return in February of 2022 was any indicator, she’s much more dangerous than she used to be and a perfect match for all three competitors.
Chigusa Nagayo’s Marvelous has some more representation on this show in the form of Mio Momono, who is the current AAAW Champion at the time of writing, winning the title back at Marvelous’ 7th Anniversary Show in May. Much like the main event participants, she’s a hard-hitter who won’t go down easily and can be a force to be reckoned with inside the ring.
Since the announcement of the re-launch of Actwres girl’Z in 2022, Takase left her former home to work as a freelance talent, where she teams with Haruka Umesaki as Luminous who have four tag team title reigns together. She’s also the longest reigning AWG Champion (not to be confused with Miku Aono’s current AWG Single Championship) having defended against many notable freelances such as Nagisa Nozaki and Maika Ozaki before losing it to SAKI. The Phoenix of Osaka also enters the ring to Gurenge by LiSA from Demon Slayer, so expect her entrance to be muted after the event has aired.
Both women in this match are easy to cheer for, which makes the outcome even more unpredictable as either person could walk away with a victory after the match is over.
Two prospects of Pro-Wrestling WAVE and two legendary names of Japanese wrestling. One on each team.
Tanaka is the daughter of Minoru Tanaka, and had already shown herself to be a fully capable performer in the ring with only twenty-three matches to her name. Teaming with Jaguar Yokota is a big deal, but if anyone can handle the pressure, it’s her, having already been featured in some prominent matches against the likes of AEW’s Hikaru Shida
Kohaku is a hidden gem of the joshi puroresu scene. Five years in and at twenty-two years old, she has a lot that she can prove on a big stage like the Sareee-ISM shows. Teaming with AJW legend Ito is a first time experience for her, having only been on the opposite end of the ring in previous bouts. She does know Tanaka pretty well, as the two have been on opposing teams three times in the past.
Ice Ribbon also gets its own representation on the show with Ibuki Hoshi – a former two-time International Ribbon Champion, once with her mother Hamuko Hoshi and once with Hikaru Shida. She’s only twenty-years-old but has shown a lot of promise in her six years as a wrestler and no doubt could be at the top of Ice Ribbon in the next few years after last year’s standout year.
Chi Chi’s involvement is interesting, as she comes from the newly-formed Evolution Girls – a subsidiary brand of AJPW. Her Evolution Girls partners ZONES and Sunny aren’t on this show, and the three have had matches that have suited their wrestling styles perfectly, and Hoshi looks to be the next on that list for Chi Chi, an already popular name for the Evolution Girls brand.
The two are bound to put on a fun match for the crowd and maybe Chi Chi could come out with a win and some more eyes on Evolution Girls because of it.
Date:
July 31, 2023
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