Jumping Bomb Angels ジャンピングボムエンジェルス

Itsuki Yamazaki 山崎五紀 & Noriyo Tateno 立野記代 WWF Women’s Tag Team Champions 🏆 ——— WWWA Tag Team Champions 🏆 ———[email protected]

[Jumping Bomb Angels ジャンピングボムエンジェルス @JBombAngels]

No matter the match, no matter the era, the Angels were never afraid to take flight. When you have the will to win, the rule is simple: Angels never run away from life — they fly towards it. #JBエンジェルス forever!
#立野記代 #山崎五紀 #JBA4HoF

[✨ひたちなか−走水(たかゆき) @takabo0409]

@JBombAngels
五紀さんが1番いいけど
流血した五紀さんはやだった💕💕💕

[Classic Women’s Wrestling @ClassWomenWrest]

Noriyo Tateno

[Jumping Bomb Angels ジャンピングボムエンジェルス @JBombAngels]

Some throwback shots of the old days!✨
Before becoming a dominant force in the ring, you still had to help set it up first. No matter how big the show or how big the stars, everyone pitched in. 懐かしいですね!
#立野記代 #山崎五紀 #JBA4HoF

[優宇 @yuu_tjp]

ＮＹで山崎五紀さんにご挨拶できました！現役時代にJBエンジェルス結成40周年記念興行でメインを任せていただいた事、引退の際にお花を贈っていただいた事、きちんとお礼をお伝えしたいと思っていたのでお会いできてとても嬉しかったです！五助のお寿司は本当に美味しかったです🍣ごちそうさまでした！

[Harry Harish sports and more memories @HarryHaris48861]

Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki, The Jumping Bomb Angels. High flying tag team were WWF women’s tag team champions in 1988, WWWA tag team champions in AJW in 1986. #JumpingBombAngels #NoriyoTateno #ItsukiYamazaki #WWF #WWE #prowrestling #AJW

[Jumping Bomb Angels ジャンピングボムエンジェルス @JBombAngels]

The other day there was a @sukeban_world (女子プロレス / women’s wrestling) match in Manhattan, NY, and today Yuu-chan @yuu_tjp from Team 200kg came to Gosuke Restaurant to visit.

We first met at JB’s Kanreki Carnival on December 1st last year, but just as people around her (fellow professionals) had said — she really is as cute 😍 and wonderful a competitor as her reputation suggests 😃

Thank you so much for going out of your way to come say hello.

先日マンハッタンNYでスケバンの試合があり今日team200キロの優ちゃんがGOSUKEレストランに来てくれました。
昨年12/1JBのカンレキカーニバルで初めて会いましたが周りの方から(同業者)評判通りの可愛い😍素晴らしい選手ですね😃
わざわざ挨拶に来てくれて有難う御座います。

[Chris 🏳️‍🌈The Women's Wrestling Encyclopedia @ChrisBergstro14]

@Madusa_rocks and @JBombAngels Itsuki Yamazaki at her restaurant after WrestleMania X in March 1994.

[Jumping Bomb Angels ジャンピングボムエンジェルス @JBombAngels]

The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be!

@BretHart was so nice to us during our WWF run. An amazing wrestler and equally amazing person. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

#BretHart #Hitman #NoriyoTateno #立野記代 #WWF

[Chris 🏳️‍🌈The Women's Wrestling Encyclopedia @ChrisBergstro14]

Aug 28 1993 Wild Women of Wrestling show held at Cherry Hill, New Jersey. @JBombAngels Itsuki Yamazaki was in attendance to visit Wendi Richter.

[Chris 🏳️‍🌈The Women's Wrestling Encyclopedia @ChrisBergstro14]

One of the Greatest Men's Tag Teams of all time The British Bulldogs meet One of the Greatest Women's Tag Teams of all time The Jumping Bomb Angels.

[Jumping Bomb Angels ジャンピングボムエンジェルス @JBombAngels]

A young Dump Matsumoto with an even younger Itsuki Yamazaki during their early AJW training days.

#ItsukiYamazaki #DumpMatsumoto #AJW

[Bronwyne Billington @Dynamitedoll84]

Episode 23 of "Dirt with the Doll," featuring @JBombAngels is up now !! This was such a special episode for me!! ❤️🎙💥🧨 https://t.co/Iu5H5xpswt

[Jumping Bomb Angels ジャンピングボムエンジェルス @JBombAngels]

https://t.co/XXuiq4FBRs

Thank you, @Dynamitedoll84 !

[Chris 🏳️‍🌈The Women's Wrestling Encyclopedia @ChrisBergstro14]

@JBombAngels This was the first time an all-Japanese women’s tag team match had ever been featured on American pay-per-view television. Itsuki Yamazaki of course had appeared years earlier during her 1987–1988 run in the WWF alongside Noriyo Tateno as the legendary Jumping Bomb Angels, but even then they had never competed against Japanese opponents on American PPV. WCW was presenting something completely different here — full blown joshi tag team action.

At WrestleWar ’91, tucked between the chaos of WarGames, Vader vs. Hansen, and the breakup of Doom, WCW quietly presented something many American fans had never truly seen before — Japanese women’s wrestling performed at full speed, full force, and with absolutely no hesitation.

Itsuki Yamazaki & Mami Kitamura vs. Miki Handa & Miss A marked a rare showcase of joshi tag team wrestling on American PPV television, and from the opening seconds they absolutely beat the hell out of each other.

WCW barely gave viewers any introduction to these women. Outside of Yamazaki — known in America from the legendary Jumping Bomb Angels tag team in the WWF — neither Jim Ross nor Dusty Rhodes seemed especially confident identifying who was who. WCW even misspelled Yamazaki’s name on her onscreen graphic. Dusty, naturally, decided the easiest solution was simply to support Miss A because she had the simplest name to pronounce.

As the referee checked for foreign objects before the bell, Dusty delivered one of the greatest completely unhinged lines in commentary history:

“She’s got a tremendous costume on her and her partner is missing one leg on hers, but they both look good!”

The match instantly exploded into chaos. Miss A and Handa jumped their opponents before the bell and the four women launched into a wild brawl. Yamazaki quickly showed flashes of the speed and athleticism that made the Jumping Bomb Angels so revolutionary years earlier, countering Miss A with flying wristlocks and rapid movement that looked completely different from the style most American women’s wrestling audiences were used to seeing.

Then the stiffness started.

Miss A unloaded vicious kicks into Kitamura in the corner, suplexes were snapped off with frightening force, and nearly every strike looked like it landed flush. Handa and Kitamura traded heavy suplexes while Yamazaki flew around the ring with dropkicks, rolling headbutts, missile dropkicks, and quick counters.

Dusty Rhodes on commentary somehow elevated the entire experience even more. As Yamazaki connected with a rolling headbutt, Dusty casually declared:

“That headbutt was right through that cross your heart bra situation there.”

Later, while Miss A brutalized Yamazaki with corner kicks that JR described as “submission karate kicks,” Dusty joked that maybe setting Jim Ross up on a date with Miss A during the upcoming WCW/New Japan Supershow might not be such a good idea after all.

Underneath the comedy, though, the match genuinely shocked the crowd with its intensity. These women wrestled with a level of physicality that American audiences rarely saw from female wrestlers in 1991. Northern lights suplexes, backdrop suplexes, fisherman’s suplexes, missile dropkicks, top rope clotheslines — the pace barely slowed and every exchange looked violent.

The finish came suddenly and perfectly. After Kitamura connected with a top rope clothesline on Miss A, Yamazaki caught her in a quick roll-up seemingly out of nowhere for the pinfall victory.

And then something unusual happened.

The crowd gave all four women a standing ovation.

Not out of politeness. Not because WCW told them to care. They earned it.

For a few minutes in Phoenix, Arizona, a WCW audience got a crash course in joshi wrestling — hard-hitting, fast, innovative, and years ahead of its time. Long before women’s wrestling in America was regularly treated as elite athletic competition, these four women walked into WrestleWar ’91 and quietly stole the show.

[豊田真奈美 @marukomariya]

昨日は尊敬してやまない五紀さんのお見送りに行って来ました😊

私の事を本当に心配してくれて私の為に涙まで流して下さるとても素敵な御姉様です

五紀さんの元でプロレスを学んだ事は勿論、沢山の常識も学びました

五紀さんが師匠で私は幸せです

[豊田真奈美 @marukomariya]

昨日は帰国されてる五紀さんとご一緒させて頂きました

実のお姉ちゃんの様にいつも私の事を心配してくれる五紀さん

本当に尊敬です😊

[Jumping Bomb Angels ジャンピングボムエンジェルス @JBombAngels]

友達と近況報告するのが大好き！はじめまして、なつぽい！​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Love catching up with my friends! Great to meet you, @n_poi07 !

#ItsukiYamazaki #JumboHori #ShingoTakagi #Natsupoi

[Jumping Bomb Angels ジャンピングボムエンジェルス @JBombAngels]

In great company!

素晴らしい人たちに囲まれている!

#NoriyoTateno #ItsukiYamazaki #ManamiToyota #EtsukoMita #AJW @marukomariya