June 1997

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The stipulation seems batshit (and the match isn't too far off it in practise) but as a match this was real good. This was a eight man survival tag, for the record. The key idea is that OZ Academy as a team are massively outgunned here; Ozaki is here, sure, other than that she's surrounded by essentially rookies. Team GAEA by comparison have Nagayo/Devil/Meiko, a hellish trio that would make any prospective wrestlers shit their pants and run for the hills, insanely superior hierarchy-wise; even Meiko this early already had tag team gold for instance. There's no way you can look at these two teams and judge them equally, and thankfully the match doesn't attempt to do so. …

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