Nagashima Chikayo vs Toyota Manami (AAAW Single Championship)

Venue: Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium
Promotion: Gaea Japan

Background (shown in the first three minutes of Part I): Toyota Manami, the symbol of Zenjo-style prowrestling, left Zenjo on 6 July, 2002. On the following day, to many people's surprise, she showed up in Gaea Japan in response to Aja Kong's invitation. On 14 July, she fought her first bout on the Gaea ring, after which she declared, "After all, Zenjo is number one!" (See 0'25'' in Part I.) It was Nagashima Chikayo, the AAAW Single Champion representing Gaea Japan's style of prowrestling, who immediately responded by saying, "Zenjo-ism? What's that? I've never heard of such a thing of the past." (See from 0'35'' on in Part I). Toyota and Aja along with Lioness Aska and Devil Masami formed a team called Motozen (which is an abbreviation for "the former Zenjo wrestlers"), and got involved in a conflict with younger wrestlers on the Gaea ring, like Satomura Meiko and Hamada Ayako. Aja declares, "No matter what you say, you cannot erase the history of what we've done." (See 1'11''.) Nagashima still said, "I haven't heard of Motozen." Toyota finally told Nagashima: "From now on, I'll teach you what Zenjo is like. Let me challenge you for the championship belt." (See 1'35''.)

On 22nd September, Toyota and Nagashima for the first time met on the ring in a tag match, and Nagashima got a pinfall from Toyota. (See 2'23''.) Which will win, Zenjo-ism or Gaea-ism?



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