Warrior Queen 2020: Babes, Blood and Barb Wire

[DarK_RaideR]

 

The recently-gone-viral online video begins with a second of static, as if converted from some video tape in the '90s, then a young woman's face is shown.

 

 

"For those of you who don't know me, my name is Mirai Kajahara and I am the eldest daughter of Ryu Kajahara. This is a message to all the people who have supported my father's Warrior Engine XXV promotion throughout the years. Do not despair, for I am here to pick up the mantle and carry on the family legacy."

 

Mirai turns the camera to face a large banner hung up on a nearby wall.

 

 

"My father has always been an innovator and an explorer. Simply resurrecting his company would be more of the same, so Warrior Queen 2020 will be something completely new and unheard of before, the world's first ever all-female deathmatch promotion! With me to tell you more about it is WEXXV Hall of Famer and our new lead announcer, Eisaku Shigeki!"

 

 

"Hello everyone, it's bloody good to be back and surrounded by these beautiful championship titles, all of which will be contested for at WQ2020's first ever event, The Death and Resurrection Show, scheduled to take place on the first Sunday of January 2020 in Sendai! Make sure to subscribe to this channel and get updates every time a new video is up so you can stay up to speed. Of course, not everything will be revealed here, we're saving some surprises for our first show so make sure you don't miss it once tickets go live on sale. Stay tuned for Babes, Blood and Barb Wire!"

Sad that WEXXV went out of business? Disappointed about the state of Women's Wrestling in 2020 CVerse? Looking for something violently different? This diary's got you covered, courtesy of the amazing work willr0ck and co. put in to release their Women's Revolution mod this diary's based on. Shout out to that crew, thanks for your work and here's to hopefully doing it justice.

[DarK_RaideR]

 

"Hey you all deathmaniacs, Fujio Mushashibo here, yes the one and only daughter of the man himself, Yoshimi. Didn't think I'd be missing out on all the hardcore action now, did you? Well I'm a part of the Warrior Queen 2020 roster and not just that, I'll be Mirai Kajahara's opponent in the main event of the Death and Resurrection Show! Mhm, it's Kajahara versus Mushashibo for the Queen's Heart title, a match I specifically requested just to get under the skin of some know-it-all online pundits like willr0ck and Historian. Joke's on you people, 'cause we'll be headlining the show in a goddamn Light Tube Deathmatch. Screw your technical wrestling and your stupid rest holds, we're about to get crazy up in this b**tch!"

[kanegan]

Damn, just when i was thinking of starting a Warrior Queen diary.

 

Well dropping that plan now and following this.

[Neoteros]

Damn, just when i was thinking of starting a Warrior Queen diary.

 

Well dropping that plan now and following this.

 

You can still do it, the more blood the better.

[Bigelow Cartwheel]

Yeah, sign me up.

 

Is Death and Resurrection Show in game of your own naming? Love a bit of Killing Joke.

[DarK_RaideR]

Damn, just when i was thinking of starting a Warrior Queen diary.

 

Well dropping that plan now and following this.

I've been planning to do this since the mod and company were first announced. In a way, I kinda think willr0ck called me out and challenged me to do it, even. But as Neoteros said, you're free to still start up one of your own, it's not like there has to be a single diary as each promotion.

Is Death and Resurrection Show in game of your own naming? Love a bit of Killing Joke.

It is absolutely intentional, I'm taking a page from FINisher's WEXXV diaries where he's naming his shows and teams after Static X, Fear Factory and other nu/industrial names. It's also meant as a "Death of WEXXV and its Resurrection in the form of WQ2020" plus it makes a great name for a first-of-a-new-year show

 

If only everything else in this save was equally as thought out as the show names...

[DarK_RaideR]

 

This video message begins with black and white footage of what seems to be cultists at some field with horns protruding out of their hoods. The imagery is complemented by the progressive neoclassical jazz-infused black metal sounds that true kvlt connoisseurs and metal elitists would instantly recognize as the distinctive sound of the band Gasp. The camera zooms in and focuses on the group's backing vocalist and clarinet player, Yuma Furuta. She is sporting her trademark white Hellraiser-esque facepaint (sans nails) and on her side is her actual real life boyfriend and WEXXV legend, Kimi Kawano.

 

 

Kawano: "Hello there, fans of deathmatch wrestling, greetings from the hardcore power couple of this business. Kimi Kawano here with a message I never thought I'd be able to deliver, but I'm so glad the day is finally upon us. I've had the honour and privilege of wrestling for Ryu Kajahara's legendary Warrior Engine XXV and for most of my matches, this woman was in the front row supporting me, including the night I beat Eiichi Umehara to win the WEXXV King of Death Matches title. Tonight, the tables are turned and I am here to introduce you to Dr. Yumaniac!"

 

Dr. Yumaniac: "Warrior Engine XXV has given way to Warrior Queen 2020. The King of Death Matches title has become the Queen of the Death Matches title. And at the Death and Resurrection Show, with my King now cheering me on from the front row, I will claim my gold to stand beside him as Queen..."

 

The couple raise their fists and strike a power pose to wrap up the video. Just then, the third cultist pulls back their hood to reveal a ghastly figure that creeps up towards the two...

 

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[Dr_Avalanche]

Following this with great interest.

[Bigelow Cartwheel]

It is absolutely intentional, I'm taking a page from FINisher's WEXXV diaries where he's naming his shows and teams after Static X, Fear Factory and other nu/industrial names. It's also meant as a "Death of WEXXV and its Resurrection in the form of WQ2020" plus it makes a great name for a first-of-a-new-year show

 

Awesome. Totally cool vibe.

 

Also loving the use of static in the vids. And everybody enjoys a good cult.

[willr0ck]

<p>Wooohooo! The wait is over!!!!!!!!!! (of course the waiting part was 100% my fault)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

If you don't sign Etelka The Hun then for shame sir...for shame!</p>

[DarK_RaideR]

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[Historian]

Take all my virtual monies.

[FINisher]

Man those Kajahara offspring.. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Following of course.

[kanegan]

I've been planning to do this since the mod and company were first announced. In a way, I kinda think willr0ck called me out and challenged me to do it, even. But as Neoteros said, you're free to still start up one of your own, it's not like there has to be a single diary as each promotion.

 

Na man I was just joking. Subscribed this thread. Maybe later on I might just do it.

[DarK_RaideR]

 

The video package is set in a traditional Japanese bath house, with the camera spotting an attractive female figure. Almost voyeristically, the camera begins to trace the woman's curves, the editing between shots ensuring an arousing result. The women herself is either unaware of the filming or aware and confidently flaunting her stuff. Whatever the case, there is an intense erotic vibe, with the woman stepping out of the shadows into dim light. The colour of ink on her skin one-ups the content, camera once again scanning her body from up close. Beautiful tattoos eventually begin to intertwine with cuts and scars, some apparently inflicted after the art and some prior, with the tattoo almost embracing and concealing the damage. As the video continues, the scars get more frequent. More dense. The ink never stops, now a swirl of colours without end, a sense of yakuza tattoos adding menace and urgency to the increasing scars. And finally, the camera locks up with the woman's face. She's been completely aware all the time, her grin enough to make one's blood run cold.

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[Deamon]

Looking forward to this.

[willr0ck]

I love the roster reveal vignettes. I'm excited to see who all you signed.

[DarK_RaideR]

The camera shows a smartphone on a bench, blasting

by the Dropkick Murphys. Out of frame, a hand reaches out for the phone and launches it against the ground, shattering upon impact. The figure responsible squats low next to the phone's remains, her face now visible, a smug smile of satisfaction on it. She speaks in a heavy Irish accent.

 

 

"That what they're selling you as Irish? Pft, those lads are from Boston. Can't bloody stand 'em. If that's the case, imagine what passes as deathmatch wrestling over there..."

 

A foot in a combat boot stomps down, crunching the remains of the phone under its sole. Another woman, clad in black studded leathers and brandishing a mohawk squats down as well to face the camera. Hers is an English accent.

 

 

"Irish? That wasn't even punk to begin with! Listen up, we comin' over, from one set o' islands to another, Roisin and Mad Millie, we're gonna show ya what hardcore really looks like: tuff as nails, beat the hell of whoever's in front of you and bow to none! Warrior Queen? Spare me, this place invented the Queen! And once we get to Japan... there'll be no future, no future for you!"

[The Swanton825]

 

This video message begins with black and white footage of what seems to be cultists at some field with horns protruding out of their hoods. The imagery is complemented by the progressive neoclassical jazz-infused black metal sounds that true kvlt connoisseurs and metal elitists would instantly recognize as the distinctive sound of the band Gasp. The camera zooms in and focuses on the group's backing vocalist and clarinet player, Yuma Furuta. She is sporting her trademark white Hellraiser-esque facepaint (sans nails) and on her side is her actual real life boyfriend and WEXXV legend, Kimi Kawano.

This right here is everything I hoped someone would do with Yumaniac. The Behemoth gif, the jabs at black metal fanboys, Kawano introducing her, it's perfection.

[DarK_RaideR]

This right here is everything I hoped someone would do with Yumaniac. The Behemoth gif, the jabs at black metal fanboys, Kawano introducing her, it's perfection.

Thrilled to hear I delivered on your expectations. Willr0ck hyped me and the coming of this diary quite a bit and if I'm being honest, having done the first show there's no way it'll live up to these vigniettes. Might be time to pull off some Oddworld/CTUC stuff again...

[DarK_RaideR]

Sendai, January 2020

The Death and Resurrection Show

Attendance: 452 paying fans

 

I was so hyped. This was finally happening. An all-female deathmatch promotion, in the vein of dad's WEXXV and I was in it. Hell, I was running it! As Killing Joke's theme song for the show was nearing its end, I heard a voice beside me. "It is time, young one. Let's do this"

 

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I was accompanied to the ring by Matsudaira Morioka, a legendary WEXXV figure. Former King of Death Matches and five time holder of the Blood Brothers alongside Mamoru Nagahama, before they left to wind down their career with PGHW and one last title run there. I had memorized all his accolades so I could quote them in my opening welcome speech. He was our Road Agent, sure, but I wanted to introduce him to new fans as another link to Warrior Engine, get the whole "spiritual successor" thing across. I tried to avoid thinking that he and Eisaku Shigeki on the broadcast table were way more well known than pretty much any of the active wrestlers on the Warrior Queen roster.

 

I did my part on the mic, welcoming fans and running down the card. Morioka did not speak, but his facial expressions as I spoke of Warrior Queen not just reviving the Warrior Engine spirit but keeping it alive by pushing things even further, were money. We're trying to build this dynamic of me being the flagbearer and him the salty veteran who's not convinced. In essence, he's the personification of all our (predominantly male) doubters. I think we were off to a good start. Not sure how much I'm going to chase this one though, he's well known and we need that badly, but I'm not making him an Authority Figure or anything, especially when he can't cut a half decent promo.

Rating: 49

 

It was all downhill after the opening segment, really. Clearly it's crossing over into this narration, because I laid out the "Warrior Queen rules" during my speech but I forgot to mention them here. No countouts, no disqualifications, falls count anywhere, anything goes. Basically everything's a deathmatch in terms of setup and rules, it's just that some aren't necessarily worked as a deathmatch too. This one certainly was, with Monster Ishimura and Unstoppable Tai doing what they do best: squash girls smaller than themselves. I tried to avoid hiring "branded" 5SSW wrestlers as much as I could, but these two were just too good to pass, plus they're fine with working deathmatches and that's not as frequent a thing as you might think. Tai especially, masks with her facepaint were flying off the merch counter by the end of the show. Their unfortunate opponents were Maneater, the only gaijin to participate in the notorious Five Woman Love Hotel Deathmatch (the outcry over which led to her visa being revoked, but we managed to sort that part out) and Piper Hale, a former US Marine who got the job when she bladed herself on the spot during her "interview" just to prove her point of being willing and able to bleed buckets. Bleed she did too, which brings me to another part of this deathmatch, the introduction of "the rabid ref" Kyoko Okuda.

How does one survive as a ref and do their job in a deathmatch, you might ask. By swinging their own damn weapon, Kyoko will tell you. She's not shy about using anything she can get her hands on, either, which in turn opens up a lot of opportunities for ref bumps and wrestlers using a weapon she'd been wielding. There's this running joke of whether she's actually honest or just looking for an excuse to whack somebody and get away with it. Think the smart way is to keep it ambiguous. Anyway, I'm rambling. This was a terrible match. Ishimura and Tai won. Our first ever match and it's certainly not one for the ages. Might actually go down as the worst one we've ever done. Oh wait, there was an even worse one later on. Yeah, big monsters won this. At least nobody got injured.

 

In an abysmal match, Monster Ishimura and Unstoppable Tai defeated Piper Hale and Maneater in a Deathmatch in 10:18 when Unstoppable Tai pinned Piper Hale with a Tai Bomber.

Rating: 19

 

"The Cosplay Queen" Hiroko Iha came out next, pushing an ice cream cart. Yeah, we're that kind of promotion. She sang a bubblegum pop song too, something about your love being sweet as ice cream, or her heart melting for someone like ice cream, can't quite recall. Whether you wanna see it as honouring the joshi tradition or mocking it, up to you. Fans seemed to enjoy it. Dad must have seen something in her to bring her abroad during WEXXV's final days. What I saw was her charisma being way greater than her cartoonish cute gimmick. Like ice cream dripping out of a cone, the container's actually too small for the content.

Rating: 44

 

Etelka the Hun (who's actually Hun-garian) walked out to the most stereotypically racist music and ouftit next. Say what you want, but we ran out of headdresses in the merch stand so she must be doing something right. Her opponent was Naoko Majima, one of the few girls to have gotten hype packages prior to this show. Yes, she's got yakuza tats. I know the rumors about Warrior Engine, I've even heard that Warrior Queen is also backed by yak money, or that it's an attempt to make some money so I can pay off some shady debt dad's got with them. Joke's on them and WLW. Majima looks badass and she's willilng to work deathmatches, as is Etelka who's actually got a reputation for being, imagine this, the safest deathmatch worker in the business. As far as this style goes, it was a pretty enjoyable filler midcard bout and Majima established herself as the badass when she made her larger opponent give up.

 

In a bout that had terrible wrestling and non-existent crowd heat, Naoko Majima defeated Etelka The Hun in a Deathmatch in 8:07 by submission.

Rating: 28

 

But wait, there's more! Actually, there's a bunch of guys in tracksuits that surrounded the ring after the match. Basically, any Russian-looking person we could get to play the part for a few yen. With Majima trapped inside the ring, out comes her arch nemesis...

The Mafiya Princess, Tereza Smirnov! Oh yes, I'm pushing the yakuza thing hard and turning it into a mafia turf war storyline. Smirnov introduced herself and cut her promo all in Russian, which fans did not get but sure as hell reacted to. Looks like this could be her thing, speaking in Russian actually adds heat to her mic work. What she said no one understood, but her goons backed down once she was done, so it was probably a taunt or challenge. Or, you know, both. Maybe.

Rating: 24

 

Oh damn, a championship match! Okay, so on one side we had the Chernobyl Generation, two Russians with unpronounceable full names but pretty awesome post apocalyptic outfits. Iryna, the one with the spiky hair, seems really comfortable playing the gimmick and her real life wife, Rayisa, can actually hide her smaller size behind the theatrics to maybe pull off a solid squash match if needed. Their opponents were the Hooligan Sisters. I'm not going to say which one's which, because I immensely enjoyed the "Which one's Hannah? Which one's Helena?" duelling chants from the audience, but I was told they're both dating the Gilberts so that may be where they got their entire schtick from. That's about it, the match played out as an arena-wide brawl in the stands for a change... Rayisa botched blocking a punch and hurt her opponent's wrist... Remember earlier on when I said there was actually a worse match than the opener on the card? Well, this one's it. Whatever, the Chernobyl Generation won and now they got the QW2020 Blood Sisters belts.

 

In an abysmal match, Chernobyl Generation defeated The Hooligan Sisters in a Deathmatch match in 8:24 when Rayisa Volkova submitted YL Helena Hooligan. Chernobyl Generation win the WQ2020 Blood Sisters titles.

Rating: 12

 

After the match, the winners continued to attack their opponents because... evil villains from Mad Max, I guess, with one Hooligan sister trying to fight back and the other selling her hand injury. The save was made by...

Angel Takudome and Rika Tsujimura, of all people. Yeah, no idea why they'd do that or work together, but here we are. Clearly that's enough to get them first in line for a shot at the tag titles, no?

Rating: 22

 

Ah, yes, more title matches. Gotta crown all our champions and whatnot. This was probably our most expected and hyped up match after my clash with Mushashibo, which is why it went up there in the semi main event slot. I debated bringing in Kawano at ringside but decided against it. This is Warrior Queen, women should be empowered, not watched over, helped and rescued by men. Having Morioka in the opener beside me was enough already and I only went with it because of the role I want him to play in the grander scheme of things. Anyway, I could tell from their entrances, fans were really into both these ladies and the "sold out" signs on the merch stands were proof. Tell me again how wrestling in Japan doesn't need gimmicks, you puro purists.

 

The story here was Onryo, spirit of vengeance, haunting Dr. Yumaniac, presumably after one of her band's satanic rituals to sell more albums had gone sideways or something. Not that I cared much, because the action in this one was sick. Onryo had an awesome spot where she did a basic eye rake that ended up with her opponent wearing the crimson mask over her corpse paint. You know, because she's a spirit with sharp claws? She basically clawed her opponent's face off! I should remember to ask her how she pulled that off. Probably razor blades under her nails or something. Amazing. Not that the good doctor was a slouch either: she used weapons galore, including some handed to her by the rabid ref, and won the match in death defying fashion when she reversed an attempted superplex off the top rope into a package piledriver, to the outside floor, through a table. How her tailbone is still in one piece or how Onryo isn't crippled for life, I'll never understand, but Dr. Yumaniac got the pin after that one and I'll be damned if I wasn't impressed by both of them.

 

In a terrible match, Dr. Yumaniac defeated Onryo in an Ultimate Deathmatch match in 9:56 by pinfall. Dr. Yumaniac wins the WQ2020 Queen Of The Deathmatch title.

Rating: 28

 

Instead of Dr. Yumaniac's progressive neoclassical jazz-infused black metal theme song (a generous contribution by her band, Gasp, who wrote and recorded it exclusively for Warrior Queen 2020), the speakers came alive with the divisivly cute yet aggressive sounds of J-pop/metalcore group Kawaiicore. That could only mean one thing...

Mizucore, a former member of the band, was in the building! Mhm, we are totally doing a feud out of that one, wrestling fanboys can be just as opinionated as metal fanboys, most of the time because they're the same people. Those are exactly the flames Mizucore fanned in her promo, calling Dr. Yumaniac a fraud in both the music and wrestling business before challenging her to a match. The challenge was of course accepted on the spot and it is so going to light the promotion up because Mizucore's merch probably sold more in one night than all of her Kawaiicore albums ever have. Which mainly has to do with the fact that people don't really buy albums anymore, they just listen to stuff on YouTube and Spotify, but I digress.

Rating: 45

 

Yay, main event time! At long last, Mushashibo versus Kajahara for the top prize. Never thought you’d read that sentence, huh? Wait, I can make it even better. Mushashibo, versus Kajahara, for the top title, in a Barb Wire match! Oh yeah, we really upped the ante for this one. Took quite some time to remove the ropes and have them replaced with barb wire, but this one needed to feel special. We went to great lengths to sell the stipulation too, both me and Fujiko, hitting the wire often and grinding against it in a chase for cuts that would look cool and bleed aplenty. I don’t remember much, to be honest, probably due to the blood loss. Sort of remember Fujiko trapping my leg in a chair and slamming it with a sledgehammer, which is how doctors told me I got that nasty bruise near my ankle. They say I’m lucky it wasn’t shattered, I say it gives me some time to write all this while I rest and ice it. Joke was on her though, because she went for a moonsault off the corner and hit herself against a chair. Thing is, that wasn’t meant to happen and the chair hadn’t been set up right, so she landed gut first on its protruding legs and properly ruptured her spleen, from what I’m told. She’ll be taking a few months off to heal, but the income from her goggle replicas selling like hot bao buns should be enough consolation for the wages she’ll be missing. Meanwhile, I got a title to defend.

 

In a bout that had sub-par wrestling and little heat, Mirai Kajahara defeated Fujiko Mushashibo in a Barbed Wire match in 10:27 by submission. Mirai Kajahara wins the WQ2020 Queens Heart title.

Rating: 30

 

Speaking of defending my title, Ai Takami came out to challenge me afterwards and set up our match. What’s a woman like her doing in WQ2020, you might wonder. Well, she’s our straight shooter character, the “this is garbage, I’ll show you real wrestling” type that guys like Morioka would love to have us teach a lesson. She laid down the heat on me and the product, hard, driving fans into a frenzy. Which makes me the company ace an defender of hardcore wrestling, obviously.

Rating: 44

 

After the show was over, I powered through my limping and delivered my speech, thanking everyone and telling them how the dream became a reality: we’d just completed our first ever show! Just as Mushashibo was being rushed to the hospital, I gave her a big hug and thanked her for our awesome bout. Later on, I’d hear she was getting heat with the roster for injuring me with that sledgehammer, so I guess hugging her also showed everyone I was cool with her so they should be too. Dr. Yumaniac and Onryo also had their praises sung by yours truly. Willing to go to great lengths in order to deliver a great deathmatch as well as compelling characters (and sell a ton of merch, but I didn’t mention that out loud) I outright said I wished I had more people in the locker room like them. They’re the kind the others should aspire to become like and all that.

 

“Uhm, boss?”

 

Morioka wanted a chat, in private. This couldn’t be good. Calling me boss, too.

 

“I know you’re excited to be doing this, but jury’s out on our performance already” he said, tapping his phone to show me comments on social media. ‘Underwhelming’. ‘No real draws’. ‘Didn’t quite live up to the hype’. Pro Wrestling Outsider had given us a 28, swearing if we did another show, we wouldn’t be able to draw half as many fans again. Morioka’s expression seemed to share the sentiment, combined perhaps with a worry that we wouldn’t be able to put on a third show and he’d be out of a job once more. I felt like I’d put in my best effort and still gotten slammed for it. Hell, this hurt way more than Mushashibo bashing my foot in with a sledgehammer. But just like outside the curtain, I had to be the fearless leader behind it as well. I couldn’t show any sign of doubt or weakness.

 

“Well, screw them” I concluded. “It’s time for another Kajahara to prove them wrong, again.”

[Historian]

Great first show!

[willr0ck]

Thrilled to hear I delivered on your expectations. Willr0ck hyped me and the coming of this diary quite a bit and if I'm being honest, having done the first show there's no way it'll live up to these vigniettes. Might be time to pull off some Oddworld/CTUC stuff again...

 

Don't sell yourself short, I thought the show was great. I mean I didn't expect you to would be pulling MOTY ratings out of this loveable cast of psychopaths. It was an entertaining read so that's all that matters.

 

I'm excited to see this cast of crazies grow into something. Your core is super young so it will be cool to see them improve from show to show.

[kanegan]

That's a good 1st show.

[DarK_RaideR]

Great first show!

That's a good 1st show.

Thank you both.

Don't sell yourself short, I thought the show was great. I mean I didn't expect you to would be pulling MOTY ratings out of this loveable cast of psychopaths. It was an entertaining read so that's all that matters.

I may have forgotten what I was dealing with (too much time with BCG is probably to blame). My enthusiasm (and inevitable disappointment) mirrors that of Mirai Kajahara, so I wrote her as hopeful for this debut show but expect her to get more cynical in the next ones.