Posted November 6, 201015 yr comment_5458041 Holy mother of fuck. This was like the best possible version of the Raven/Richards vs. Pitbulls 2/3 falls dog collar match, as it is just a total booking clusterfuck, but said clusterfuck booking was soooooooo good, and the in-ring action was able to match it. Dump's Army hits the ring dressed in identical kung fu uniforms and some of the best masks I've ever seen in wrestling, black with a red bird design over the face and a skull on the forehead. The Crush Gals roll out, and Lioness grabs away one of the planks that one of the army members was carrying and snaps it over her knee. Chigusa grabs another and bonks one of the Army members with it. Dump and Bull respond in kind by taking the bouquets given to the Crush Gals and violently chucking them aside before the entire army rushes them. The other babyfaces in the tournament, who have come to ringside to watch, get in the ring to even the score, and the whole thing is just insane in the best possible way. The ring clears out, and Bull goes into her nunchaku demonstration, but Lioness says "fuck that" and just kicks the shit out of her before unmasking her. Dump meets a similar fate soon afterwords, and then tempers flare and all the girls on the outside end up back in again. Dump's Army starts fucking up Chiggy's knee to the point that even her heel ref decides that enough is enough and awards the first fall to the Crush Gals by DQ. The second fall doesn't go quite so well for our heroines, as Lioness gets spiked with a piledriver en route to Dump scoring the pin to even things up. In a rare moment for puroresu, the piledriver is sold like death, and subsequently, the third fall becomes a glorified handicap match. Chigusa fights valiantly, and Lioness recovers a bit and tries to lend a hand (but gets choked out with Dump's chain for her troubles), but the heels continue to target Chigusa's bum knee. The girls on the outside keep getting involved, getting into fights with each other, trying to save their respective teams in the match, and one of the announcers even has to fight off a member of Dump's Army as she tries to steal a table from him to use as a foreign object. She doesn't need it, though. We get a false finish as officials hit the ring to determine whether or not the match should continue. They give the thumbs up, but a few more minutes of knee destruction later, and they have to declare Chigusa to be in no condition to continue, giving the match and the tournament to Dump and Bull. This wasn't perfect, but there were large swaths of this where it felt like the entire roster was living and dying on this match, and I think that makes it an easy nomination.
