The Jumping Bomb Angels in the WWF

The Jumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki) in the WWF.
These two held the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship at one time.
They actually held it for 136 days.

The Jumping Bomb Angels vs The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin)

The Jumping Bomb Angels vs The Glamour Girls

Itsuki Yamazaki Vs.Yukari Omori

This was a video posted on YouTube by xkingx2009 of Itsuki Yamazaki wrestling Yukari Omori at an old All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling event.
I say was because yes indeed...it is yet ANOTHER video that YouTube has taken down. 

Itsuki Yamazaki made her wrestling debut in 1980, and was one half of the famous Jumping Bomb Angels.
Yukari Omori was also part of a famous tag-team, the "Dynamite Girls".

This match is pretty much pure Joshi Puroresu.
No gimmicks, no over the top promotion, just two Japanese women in swimsuits (a Speedo swimsuit in Yukari's case) going at it in the ring.

After the intro, the ref going over the rules, the opening bell and a pretty quick series of moves, they lock up in the center of the ring...


Itsuki side-steps and rolls Yukari into a leg lock...


Then she moves up and puts her knee in Yukari's back, adding more pressure to the leg lock...


Another flurry of moves and Yukari winds up trapped in Itsuki's body scissors...


Yukari manages to escape, almost gets Itsuki in a boston crab, but gets rolled over into an attempted pin...


But Yukari escapes by trapping Itsuki in a head scissors...


Which Itsuki somehow manages to turn back into a modified leg lock.



And all this is less than four minutes into the match.

Itsuki Yamazaki wrestling Plum Mariko in Japan

Here's a hold you don't see much in women's wrestling, at least over here, a front bearhug.
I guess only women like Victoria (Tara) or Beth Phoenix would be able to pull off a bearhug submission believably.
But here are female Japanese wrestling stars Itsuki Yamazaki ( one half of the Jumping Bomb Angels) and the late Plum Mariko pulling it off.

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