DTC V: Four Equals, Two Different Scales
Match: Matoi Hamabe & Anne Kanaya vs Ema Maishima & Kikyo Furusawa (10:46)
Company: World Wonder Ring Stardom (STARDOM)
Year: 2025
Event: Stardom Dream Queendom 2025 [Pre-Show]
Well... that last Dynamic Thunder Connection didn't do well, haha. Last time, I released one of my unreleased work that has been in my archive which is my Dynamic Thunder Connection series from SickosClub.com and making it part of my blog here. My role when I was doing articles for that website was doing full write ups as I detail as much as I can in a wrestling match from bell to bell with my own inclusion. That has been the formula I had for 2025 and it resulted greatly for my own portfolio. Now it's 2026 and now doing these blogs have been a funny transition as I haven't written any breakdowns in quite a while. It's definitely a funny transition given my most viewed blogs are nothing like what I did last year and my least viewed blog was the last DTC I did, so... yeah.
So this one is the last unreleased piece for Dynamic Thunder Connection is the first time I covered a match where Ema Maishima and Kikyo Furusawa are teaming up together. It is not the first time I watched a match where these two teamed together, but it is first time I have covered one... for a self published website. (Well, I already written this one thoroughly, haha. It is quite funny that it is now March and not January.) If you are someone who have been following my blog for a long time, you will a bit surprised or maybe not that I am not the biggest fan of doing tag team matches. However, I have done tag matches as I did the Ober Eats vs Hot Shot from Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, which is a ridiculously long article in hindsight.
The opponents for Ema and Kikyo are rookies who debuted before them who are Matoi Hamabe and Anne Kanaya. Hamabe has had unlucky start to her pro career as injuries played a factor, but recent events showed that her and Ema, who was also on the injury list, seemed to be returning anytime soon. Anne Kanaya makes me laugh in a sense that she is always amped up and she seemed to be someone who has been doing soundly since coming back from injury in December.
So with that being said, from Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. On the pre-show, it's Matoi Hamabe and Anne Kanaya vs Ema Maishima and Kikyo Furusawa. Let's roll with it.
Both teams shook hands from a standing position unlike bending the knee. I may not understand the handshake bit, but I always found it very funny when they did it. Anyway, the match begins with Matoi Hamabe and Kikyo Furusawa doing a collar and elbow tie up. Hamabe goes for the waist lock, but Furusawa quickly snatches the wrist to switch to a wrist lock. Hamabe did a forward roll to alleviate the pain before grabbing the wrist to escape and trap Furusawa in a wrist lock. Furusawa reversed that into a hammerlock, but Hamabe reversed it into her own hammerlock to switch to a side headlock. Hamabe followed up with a side headlock takedown, but Furusawa used her legs to trap her head and as well escape from the move. Hamabe used her athleticism to escape and they both stared at each other. You can see them smiling, but we all know when you stare at someone in wrestling, it's Super Whooper Serious. The next two tags were to Anne Kanaya and Ema Maishima.
These two start at a quicker pace as Ema kicks Anne in the gut and Irish whip her to the ropes. (And yes, I'm going to use the English part of their names.) Anne hops over the dropdown as she runs across. Ema sidesteps as Anne runs back to the same side. Ema hops over her with a leapfrog and as she rolls back, Anne forward rolls over and sidesteps as Ema run the ropes. Ema answers shortly with a Mexican Arm Drag and Irish whip her again after getting back to their feet. Anne answered with a Cassadora into an Arm Drag and followed up with a Dropkick to the back. Anne looked for a rope rebound attack, but Ema remembers that her strength is active and counters with a dropkick. Furusawa gets the tag as Anne crawls to the corner which isn't exactly the best thing as Kikyo hits her with a dropkick in the corner. She followed up with another dropkick for a two count. Furusawa went for the Ankle Lock, but Anne forward rolled her way out. And when she went for a running attack, Furusawa just countered with a dropkick for a two count. Given I played a lot of video games, I kinda chuckled at that. Furusawa had Anne in the Ankle Lock again, but Anne quickly got to the ropes. As Furusawa had Anne's foot on the bottom rope and ran across to the ropes to rebound for a dropkick, Hamabe appeared and both teammates did a double leg sweep and followed up with a double dropkick.
Hamabe gets the tag and immediately hits as many dropkicks as possible to Furusawa to no avail. Hamabe tried going for a bodyslam, but Furusawa put her body weight down to prevent that. These two started a strike exchange. They are never beating the Baki allegations. Hamabe got the better of it and ran to the ropes for a rebound attack. Furusawa counters by dropkicking her legs and follows up with a rope rebound dropkick for a two count. Furusawa tried to go for a bodyslam, but ended up getting bodyslammed instead.Hamabe continues the momentum by using a running flip senton for a two count. She tried to go for a short-arm Judo Throw, but Furusawa put her body weight down again to prevent that. Hamabe kicked her back to the ropes, but when she Irish whipped her to the ropes, Furusawa came back with the Hachi Counter (Cartwheel Tierras) to follow up with a dropkick.
Furusawa gets the tag to Ema and she hits as many dropkicks as possible. It was like a pinball with a way Matoi kept popping up. That was a two count as Ema Irish whipped to the corner, but Hamabe pin balled her way back to her to hit the Dropkick. That allowed Hamabe to get the tag to Anne. Anne quickly dropkicked Ema and placed her in the corner. Anne followed up with a running back elbow and went for the bodyslam, but Ema escaped and pushed her to the ropes. She went for the lariat, but Anne ducked under and kept back with a running dropkick across. Anne Irish whipped her from the ropes to across, and much like a few seconds ago, Ema came back with a dropkick right at her head. Ema applied with a Boston Crab, but Hamabe slid in and kicked her off. Furusawa got in and got Hamabe out of there. Ema kept kicking her in the back, and ended with a running dropkick tot the back of Anne while she draped to the middle rope for a two count. Ema seemed like she was gonna go for the Sky Sunrise (Half & Half Suplex), but Anne escaped with a standing switch to push her to the corner. That allowed Hamabe to slide back to hit a running dropkick and Anne followed up with a Bulldog.
Anne kept going by hitting bodyslam for a nearfall. After both are vertical base, they both engage in a strike exchange. Anne got the better of it as she kept striking her to the ropes. She Irish whipped her to the ropes and Ema came back with a brand new move, the Sling Blade for another nearfall. Ema applied her Half Gory Special Submission as she bent her knee. Furusawa slides in the ring to dropkick Anne, which was a perfect way for Ema to transition into a Backslide which was another nearfall. Ema tried to hit the Brainbuster, but Anne reversed into a Small Package for a nearfall. Ema went for the lariat and Anne did the Matt Hatter Chronicles slide underneath the move. Anne climbed on her bak to sit on her shoulders and did a Leg-Style Arm Drag into a pin, but Kikyo ran in and broke that up. Anne kept striking her down and picking her up so she ran to the ropes to Irish whip her back to Ema. Ema picked her up and hit another new move, the Spinebuster. She immediately applied the single leg Boston Crab, but Anne was already reaching the ropes. Ema realised that so she dragged her back to the centre to apply a deeper version of a full Boston Crab and Anne tapped out.
Ema Maishima and Kikyo Furusawa are your winners. And Furusawa was celebrating like they just won the lottery. It made me chuckle.
Post: There are lot of things in that archive that I can do. I'm glad that I have finished my Dynamic Thunder Connection archive since it was starting to become a problem. I do hope that you enjoy these kinds of things. And it seems like DTC will continue to be the Furusawa show, until Ema gets back. But I have more plans for more stuff in this series. So... Let's Fucking Go!!!
Kind Regards,
ZERO (or Archer)
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