Someone posted the Akira Hokuto vs Shinobu Kandori Dream Slam I match to Youtube!
This is the best brawl you will ever see. I’m not sure how well it will come across on Youtube, but by the end of the match the ring so smeared in blood that it’s turned from white to pink.
For those not familiar, both wrestlers are archtypal stiff heels. Akira is the woman in the make-up and bleached hair. Shinobu is the one in the ugly ring gear and looking a bit like a man.
This was in the early nineties. Nowadays Kandori still wrestles full time, but Hokuto is retired. Of course this is wrestling retired and she does still make occasional appearances, often with her husband Kensuke Sasaki. What I find fascinating is that since retirement Hokuto has successfully reinvented herself as a celebrity mum. In fact if you look at the Kensuke Office website, which apparantly Hokuto runs, you ge the feeling that they are marketing their whole family (including “adopted” son, wrestler Katsuhiko Nakajima) as being something more than just a family of wrestlers. Looking at the “Family Entertainment Side” they seem to be are making plenty of regular non-wrestling TV appearances.
Akira’s cookbook:
Akira advertises Kincho products: