Chigusa Nagayo vs Dump Matsumoto - Hair vs Hair Match 1985
Added 2025-09-26 18:00:10 +0000 UTCNot what we were expecting..
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Public figures who "shame" the government or the country still have to shave their head publicly to this day. I think the hair vs hair thing here could be related to that in regards to the drama. Nagayo and ashoka were also in a pop duo with like top 10 or number one singles type deal , after starting wrestling and in between. You were on the ball with what you was thinking akin to swift and shame
Diruroru
2025-09-30 23:49:44 +0000 UTCI guess the hair stipulations can be a bit confusing for new fans. I think mask stipulations are easier to understand because there are a lot of Luchador’s in American wrestling and so we have it hammered in our heads that this mask is a really important part of who you are, but if you think about it, it just means you can’t wear a particular piece of clothing anymore, but in wrestling it matters a lot more. Historically hair matches have always been significant, of course the most famous one being Trump VS McMahon, which is ironic considering that neither one of them were the ones wrestling, but I’d digress. I will also say, as far as the crowd reaction goes, not only were the ratings for all Japan Women, which is the name of the promotion by the way since you were asking, really off the charts, but the fan base was almost exclusively female, and particularly, teenage females. While it is true that hair can just grow back, but hair can be made significant in wrestling due to its context in the history of the sport, if there was ever a believable audience that, even without that history being what it is, that would take losing your hair as something a kin too, as you put it, being beheaded, it would be teenage girls, who, not sure if you are aware, really seem to care a lot about their hair, and how they look in general. I see matches like this and even though I don’t want human beings worshiped as gods and or, on the other side of it, being assaulted just for playing their roles really well, I wish that crowds could be as invested in good guys and bad guys as this, but it hasn’t happened in America since the 90s. Don’t get me wrong, despite what people read online, as everyone knows, when you go to the arena, pretty much everyone is rooting for Cody to win for instance, but if he loses, no one outside of a couple of kids would be bawling their eyes out, here it seemed like almost everyone was crying, and that is a kind of energy that just can’t be replaced.
Ian Hernandez
2025-09-29 05:56:18 +0000 UTC
