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Into the Indies 08.26.09: SENDAI Girls Tournament

August 26, 2009 | Posted by Ryan Byers

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Into the Indies, the column that exists to prove that I actually do watch the obscure things that I vote for in the polling for 411’s Wrestler of the Week.

To date, this column has been dedicated to my effort to reconnect with Japanese professional wrestling, which I was a large fan of through the 1990’s but largely fell out of touch with during the first two thirds of the present decade. I have already written about the fact that, when I was first watching Japanese wrestling, one of my biggest loves with the so-called “lucharesu” style of Michinoku Pro Wrestling. The only thing that could beat out lucharesu in my book was “joshi,” the name given to women’s pro wrestling in Japan. From 1992 to 1995, there may not have been a better wrestling promotion from an in-ring perspective than All Japan Women’s. The wrestlers in that company were working a fast-paced style peppered with innovative moves that was, without a doubt, smoking the actual bell-to-bell wrestling put on by male wrestlers in any country on the planet. If you think that is the opinion of some ridiculous smark with tunnel vision ignoring what actually gets fans in to wrestling, consider the fact that, at the peak of All Japan Women, over 30,000 people were filling some of the Japan’s largest venues in order to watch the ladies’ matches.

Unfortunately, as the old saying goes, all good things come to an end. The Matsuanaga family, which owned All Japan Women, earned the majority of its money in the real estate industry, and those investments went south in a major way. As a result, AJW had to close up shop in 2005. The promotion’s last several years were nowhere near its peak in terms of business, even though there were still several excellent matches. Things were not helped by the fact that several splinter promotions formed, diluting the joshi talent pool to the point that those excellent matches became fewer and farther between. From what I have been able to ascertain, in 2009, joshi is dead to just about everybody aside from a handful of the hardest core fans who have held on from the glory period, a negligibly small group of people who have recently become fans, and, quite frankly, perverts who get their kicks out of this sort of thing.

So, yes, there are still a handful of joshi promotions hanging around Japan and drawing small crowds to small venues for occasional shows. Are these promotions still capable of pulling out the types of quality cards that I saw in th golden age of joshi? The chances of this strike me as being slim, but, even if that is the case, what is women’s wrestling in Japan looking like these days?

In an effort to answer those questions, I picked up the April 19, 2009 show from a promotion known as SENDAI Girls’ Pro Wrestling. SENDAI, which is named for the Japanese city in which the promotion is based, is the project of Meiko Satomura. Satomura, despite being only twenty-nine years old, is a fourteen year veteran of the professional wrestling circuit, and she founded this company in 2004 so that women who she was training to be professional wrestlers would have one more place in which to learn their crafts. Satomura usually only has a small number of trainees who are ready for the ring at a given time, so the shows are supplemented with many outside performers. In the case of this particular show, it does not seem that, aside from Satomura herself, the outside wrestlers that she has brought in have that much more experience than her trainees.

Let’s take a look at what this novice crew can do . . .


Match Numero Uno: Sendai Sachiko vs. Misaki Ohata

If you couldn’t tell from her name, Sachiko is one of the SENDAI Girls trainees. Ohata, meanwhile, is an outsider to the company, having been trained by Mariko Yoshido and getting her start in a promotion known as jD. The women are battling it out in the first of two matches on this card which are the semi-finals of a four woman tournament.

We’re joined in progress here with a Sachiko shoulderblock series that gets a one count and is immediately followed by a side headlock. Far be it from me to judge the editors, but, if we’re clipping, maybe we should bypass the blatant resthold. Ohata turns it in to a headscissors, but Sendai slips out and hits some big forearms to the midsection. That sets up a rear naked choke, which Ohata spends a rather long time in before draping her leg over the bottom rope. Things get ugly as Ohata tries to do the old Booker T./Pat O’Connor sunset flip out of the corner spot only to blow it. (O’Connor . . . O’Hata . . . both great Irish wrestlers, you know.) She causes Sendai to trip over her in the process, and then she gets perhaps the ugliest cross body that I’ve ever seen. Ohata’s next trick is applying what can best be described as an inverted cross armbreaker, which looks exactly like the regular version of the hold except for the fact that Sachiko was face down instead of face up. Ohata heads up top after Sendai makes the ropes, but she misses a cross body and allows Sachiko to hit two front flip sentons. A trio of dropkicks is next from Sendai, but she still can’t quite put Ohata away. A vertical suplex only gets a two count, so Sachiko decides it is her turn to ascend the ropes. Ohata cuts her off and shoves her down to the apron, but she takes too long to capitalize and allows Sendai to get to the second for a tornado DDT. That only gets two as I begin to realize that Ohata may have the laziest kickouts this side of Carlito Colon. Despite the lazy kickouts, she manages to slap on a legitimate cross armbreaker out of nowhere, but Sendai gets the ropes one more time. Ohata scores a couple of flash pin attempts after that, but neither of them are successful and she runs in to Sachiko’s boot. A German comes quickly thereafter, followed up by a boot to the face DDT one-two punch. Ohata somehow kicks out of that, but, seconds later, Sendai goes back to the German suplex. This time she bridges, and that’s enough to bring the match to an end.

Match Thoughts: The first half of this match (or at least the first half of what aired) was fairly boring because it consisted mainly of uninspired mat wrestling. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike mat wrestling per se, but there’s a difference between good mat wrestling which helps build the match and features snazzy reversals and mat wrestling in which the participants slap on a hold and sit there in it for a while. This match’s mat wrestling fell in to the latter category. The second half featured the women moving away from that and in to more highspots, was not pretty at points, mainly due to Ohata. Neither woman seemed to be very experienced, but Ohata in particular was attempting moves that looked far too complex for somebody of her talent level, and she usually came out the worse for it. The lazy kickouts that I mentioned in the play-by-play were almost more problematic than the blown spots, because they evidenced either a lack of stamina or a lack of knowledge of how to connect with the crowd, both of which are more important in joshi than executing every one of your moves flawlessly. Sachiko looked somewhat better, but she wasn’t quite seasoned enough to save this match. *


Match Numero Dos: Ryo Mizunami vs. Esui

This is semi-final match number two of the tournament, with the winner getting to wrestle Sendai later in the evening. Mizunami is another SENDAI trainee, while Esui is another grappler with ties to Mariko Yoshida, working mainl in Yoshida’s IBUKI wrestling promotion. She has a bit of a unique look on this show as 1) she’s Mongolian and not Japanese and 2) she’s a fair deal taller than anybody else on the card.

After the entrances, we clip ahead to Esui torturing Mizunami with a variation on the bow and arrow submission hold, which she follows up with a crossface. She attempts to turn that in to some sort of arm submission, but Mizunami counters and gets an armbar of her own. The two then fight over wristlocks, a battle that Miz quickly abandons to grab an ankle. They then jockey for control of each other’s legs, a war that Esui wins. Mizunami makes the ropes, but she quickly finds herself locked in to a wacky, indescribable submission that looks like something out of Dos Caras’ nightmares. Esui voluntarily breaks that one and throws a forearm, but Mizunami is game for that, and soon we’ve got two women hitting each other in the chest as hard as they can. Miz loses out and is forced in to the corner, where Esui hits her with a SWEET kneelift. An atomic drop of all things follows that, and Esui then uses a knee to Mizunami’s back to send her crashing chest-first in to the ropes. A half crab is applied by the taller woman, but the ropes are quickly reached. More knees connect from Esui, and they set up a giant swing of sorts. It gets two. I’m begging somebody to actually finish a match with that move in the twenty-first century. Esui looks for a chokeslam after that, but Mizunami reverses it in mid-move in to a Fujiwara armbar in a variation on a spot that the Big Show and Chris Benoit did hundreds of times with the Crippler Crossface. Esui grabs the ropes and then catches her opponent in a choke, but Miz reverses in to a judo-esque throw and goes to the cross arm breaker. The ropes save us yet again, and the two women begin hitting each other with shoulderblocks. Miz wins out and looks for some sort of slam, but Esui is just too large and lands a giant-sized dropkick for two. Esui tries to give Mizunami a receipt for the atomic drop earlier in the match, but that is countered. Esui stays on her with another awesome looking running knee that gets two. Chokeslam? TWO! The crowd, none of whom we can see due to the lighting, is going crazy for these nearfalls. Esui runs the ropes, but Mizunami grabs her, scoops her up, and hits a shoulderbreaker out of nowhere. One rolling Anaconda Vice-esque submission hold later, and Miz has picked up the submission victory.

Match Thoughts: Everything was much better executed and paced in this match than in the opener. It is nice to see somebody like Esui participating in the world of joshi, because she brings some qualities to the ring that your average female Japanese wrestler does not. Though the genre has seen monster heels in the past like Bull Nakano and Aja Kong, it’s been rare to see a woman come through who has a significant height advantage and puts that to work in her matches as opposed to a significant weight advantage. The (comparatively) sky-scraping Esui did that to a certain extent here, though I think that she could have done even more. Mizunami appeared competent for a younger wrestler as well, though her style and the moves that she executed were VERY similar to those of Sachiko on the first match, so I’m beginning to wonder how much these SENDAI trainees are actually being taught. **3/4



Match Numero Tres: Meiko Satomura & Yukari Ishino vs. Chihiro Oikawa & Minori Makiba

On one side of the ring in this match, we’ve got a student-teacher team, as Satomura is standing next to the youngest of her trainees in the form of Ishino. On the other side of the ring is another outsider duo. Frankly, I could not find any information on Makiba, though I do not see her mentioned in connection with Satomura’s trainees, so I am fairly certain that she is not fighting out of the SENDAI dojo. Oikawa, meanwhile, I know a little bit about. My understanding is that she is the first female trainee of BattlArts, a pro wrestling promotion which is known for its “worked shoot” style. She also has a bit of a legitimate fighting background, with a split 1-1 record in two MMA fights in 2009.

Ishino and Makiba start, with Ishino blindsiding her opponent and hitting a dropkick to the back immediately after the bell. She doesn’t get that much of an upper hand, though, as the two women are quickly trading foerams. They head to the mat next, as I suddenly realize why Makiba looks so familiar. She is a DEAD RINGER for Takeshi Morishima, just smaller. Seriously, if there is ever a need for a lucha-style mini wrestler version of Morishima, somebody needs to get Makiba on the phone. (The picture above does not do the resemblance justice, as Makiba has lightened her hair color since.) Anyway, Mini Mori slams Ishino and tags in Oikawa, who immediately goes for the rear naked choke and occasionally lets go of the hold just so she can slap Ishino in the back of the head. Awesome. Oikawa tries to send Ishino in to the ropes next, but she comes off with a dropkick that allows her to tag in Satomura.

Satomura and Oikawa tentatively trade kicks until Satomura decides to change her tactic and gets the good, old fashioned, armdrag/bar combination. Oikawa tries to escape, so Satomura grabs her foot and applies a heel hook instead. Eventually, Chihiro is able to slip out and get to a vertical base. The two women then go in to a test of strength, and Satomura forces Oikawa down in to a bridge. They do the bit in which Satomura tries to jump on to Oikawa in order to break the bridge, only to have Chihiro hold up. I’ve seen that spot hundreds of times, and it will never not be impressive. After that, the two women jockey for position on the mat for a little while longer until Oikawa goes back to the rear naked choke, which is apparently her standby. Satomura quickly rolls across the mat and to the ropes to escape, and she makes Oikawa pay by IMMEDIATELY hitting a high kick to the younger wrestler’s ear. Needless to say, Oikawa is rocked, allowing Satomura to hit an avalanche style suplex before applying a keylock. Oikawa is too close to the ropes, though, as she immediately forces a break. A gut wrench suplex gets two for Satomura, and, after that, Oikawa lands a flurry of kicks out of nowhere that stun Satomura for just long enough that Chihiro is able to get the tag.

Mini Mori is in, and she immediately bulls Satomura down to the mat, though it’s not long before the veteran has reversed her hold and tagged in Ishino. Mini Mori avalanches her but eats two dropkicks right after, and that sets up another Satomura run. She SMACKS Mini Mori with a European uppercut and lands a snap suplex before applying the abdominal stretch. Oikawa saves with a series of kicks to the thigh but is IMMEDIATELY punished by eating Satomura’s boot to her face. The distraction allows Mini Mori to take over, though, hitting a suplex before slapping on her own version of the abdominal stretch.

When that doesn’t get a submission, Oikawa is tagged back in. She tries to respond to Satomura’s kicks but is BRUTALLY shown up. Eventually Chihiro grabs Satomura’s leg in mid-kick and throws her in to the corner, finally getting an opportunity to unleash some boots of her own. Those are all a setup for a cross armbreaker, though Satomura gets out of that rather easily by turning it in to a pinning combination. She goes back to the kicks after that, with a roundhouse in the corner leading in to a spinning heel kick and a tag to Ishino. Ishino hits her 500th dropkick in this match, and, before long, the two women are trading slaps. Guess how that sequence ends . . . yes, Ishino throws yet another dropkick. Oikawa retaliates with many strikes to the chest but again finds herself dropkicked shortly thereafter. Oh, and just to keep the cliches going, Oikawa heads back to her rear naked choke.

Satomura breaks that up so that Ishino can go for still more dropkicks, which don’t do that much good since they just lead in to Oikawa hitting a nice leaping knee to the face to set up the latest tag to Mini Mori. She goes for a cross arm breaker but fails, and now we’re trading shoulderblocks again. Ishino caps that off with a spear and tags in Satomura, who gives both Mini Mori and Oikawa big forearm shots to set up a backdrop driver on Mori. Ishino tags back in and hits MORE GODDAMN DROPKICKS. Give me a break, already. Fortunately, when she attempts to lift Mini Mori in to a fireman’s carry, Oikawa intervenes with a soul to the gut, setting up a Mori ab stretch. A Superfly Splash from the shrunken NOAH star looks to finish the match but only gets two. The heels again try to double team Ishino, but Satomora cuts that off, and she and Ishino land stereo Samoan drops on their foes. That fails to end the match, so Ishino goes up top and hits – what else – a missile dropkick. That gives her the opportunity to hoist Mini Mori up in to an airplane spin capped off with another Samoan drop. There’s your finish, kids.

Match Thoughts: With all due respect to everybody involved, this was a match that had absolutely no business going twenty minutes. Ishino, and to a lesser extent Oikawa, seemed to have no idea of what to do with themselves in the ring after about eight minutes to the point that they were repeating spots ad naseum. If I saw another dropkick thrown in this contest, I was going to begin pulling my hair out of my head, and I was almost as frustrated with the rear naked choke. I’m sure that the two women themselves are not to blame because they’re most likely not the ones who determined how long the match was going to run, but somebody needed to exercise better judgment in either keeping the bell to bell time down or structuring the bout to better hide the women’s limitations. Also, as briefly alluded to in my thoughts on the prior match, the offense here was not just repetitive of what we saw earlier in this match, but it was also highly repetitive of what we saw in the earlier two matches on the card, particularly when Ishino was in the ring. I almost felt like I was watching an old GLOW card in which all of the women were trained in about three weeks to do the same five or six basic spots regardless of their level of ability, physique, or gimmick.

The match wasn’t all bad, though. There were some entertaining moments peppered throughout. Satomura threw some beautiful kicks, and perhaps as beautiful as the kicks themselves were Oikawa’s reactions as she was taking them. She had perfect heel facials for the situation, as she simultaneously got across that she was in pain and that she was rather indignant about having been placed in this position by her opponent. She also threw a few decent kicks of her own, and, at least in my opinion, generally showed the most promise of anybody in the match. She would be even better off if she could drop her over-reliance on that rear naked choke, though . . . *3/4


Match Numero Cuatro: Sendai Sachiko vs. Ryo Mizunami

Here we are in the tournament finals. We’re trading forearms as soon as the match starts, and then it’s a battle of dropkicks versus lariats. Sachiko double legs her opponent and clamps down on the Boston crab, which she has the good sense to drag in to the middle of the ring before synching in. Naturally, Mizunami gets to the ropes, and the two women fight over who will be the first to bodyslam the other. Miz, being the larger of the two, wins that battle but loses the war, as Sachiko kicks her in the face and slaps on a submission hold. She lets go of that one and lands her front flip senton before heading in to a side headlock. This time, when it looks like Miz might make the ropes, Sendai makes the smart move and rolls in to the more difficult to escape camel clutch. Of course, she immediately negates that by changing the move in to a crossface, which frees up Mizunami’s arm and allows her to force the break. A tornado DDT is next from Sachiko, and they either screwed that move up or tried to do a spot in which Mizunami was trying to block it but did the spot so badly that it looked like a non-blocked version of the move was screwed up. In any event, Mizunami follows with a legdrop from the second rope and attempts a uranagi, but Sachiko somehow reverses that in to a victory roll in what may have been the coolest spot of the show. Sendai plants her opponent with a missile dropkick after that and then goes in to a bridging Northern lights suplex for two. She runs in to a NASTY head and shoulder suplex, though, and Mizunami hooks her with the rolling Anaconda Vice from the earlier match. Sachiko survives in it for quite some time before making the ropes, and Mizunami decides in response that it’s time to climb the ropes again. Sendai cuts her off, though, landing a GERMAN SUPLEX from the middle strand. Surprisingly little crowd reaction to that one. A DDT comes after that move, but Mizunami is quickly back up to her feet for a spear. She hits her shoulderbreaker on Sendai and goes up top again, missing her legdrop this time around. Sachiko gives her a German after that, but it’s only good for a two count in this match. A moonsault press also can only get too. Mizunami tries to rally, but she makes the mistake of running in to two consecutive superkicks, and that sets up German number two for the three count.

After the bell, we get footage of Sendai Sachiko posing with the prizes that she received as a result of winning the tournament, namely a crystal trophy, a certificate, a flag, and what appears to be a bag of rice. Well, at least the last one is a practical reward.

Match Thoughts: The first three quarters or so of the match once gave me cause to complain about the offense and match pacing techniques being taught to SENDAI trainees being too similar across the board. This earlier portion of the fight felt like it was an almost direct copy of various portions of the prior two tournament matches, with over-reliance on the ropes in getting out of submission holds, tornado DDTs, missile dropkicks, Boston crabs, forearm battles, crossfaces, shoulderblock battles, and numerous other holds that were overused throughout the card. With that being said, I thought that when the two women got to the point that they were trading potentially match-ending nearfalls in the last several minutes of the bout, it was the best wrestling on the show. Sachiko and Mizunami executed all of those maneuvers very well, and they timed them in such a way that I felt that they had their maximum impact. The only thing that surprised me was the fact that the crowd was not reacting to these beautiful, well-timed moves as I expected them to. They were fairly quiet throughout, despite the fact that they reacted very well earlier to what I thought was less impressive wrestling. Oh well, I suppose there’s no accounting for taste. *3/4

Overall

Part of me feels bad for condemning this show because, after all, the majority of the wrestlers on it were relatively experienced, so perhaps not too much should be expected from them. However, on the other hand, I can’t help how entertained I am by a particular wrestling card. Unfortunately, in this instance, I was not very entertained at all. There were some fleeting enjoyable moments as indicated above, but, by and large, the in-ring action here was repetitive and largely not designed to hide the weaknesses of the SENDAI girls. Oddly enough, this SENDAI show wound up making the girls who did not come out of that dojo look significantly better than the girls who did come out of that dojo. Oikawa, Makiba, and Esui showed significantly more potential and Sachiko, Mizunami, and Ishino. Chances are good that I will seek out matches with the former group of three with other opponents, though I cannot say that I will be doing the same for the latter group of three. I would suggest that everybody out there do the same, unless several years have passed to give the SENDAI women more time in which to improve.


FRENZY OF FEEDBACK~!

Last week we took a look at HUSTLE, and a fair amount of feedback came in. Let’s take a look at some of those comments and give ’em a response, in what I hope will be able to become a regular feature.

Guest #7452 kicks us off with a question about how HUSTLE even got here:

HUSTLE is the second biggest Japanese fed behind NJPW . . . how in the shit is it an indy?

The answer is that HUSTLE isn’t actually the second largest promotion in Japan. There was a brief period of time right after HUSTLE switched over to its all-comedy format that it had an insane spike in popularity. Around the same time, promotions like NOAH, NJPW, and AJPW were having severe financial difficulties. During that brief period, HUSTLE was probably the most popular promotion in the country, even topping New Japan. However, things have significantly changed since then, as HUSTLE’s mainstream popularity proved to be a fad and their attendance numbers dropped off. Combine that with the fact that HUSTLE only runs three or four shows per month whereas NJPW, NOAH, Dragon Gate, and AJPW still tour regularly and bring in more fans (and therefore money) on a consistent basis, and I would position HUSTLE as at best being in fifth place in Japan’s wrestling hierarchy.

411’s own Jasper Gerretsen asks:

Are Team 3D still the HUSTLE tag champs?

Yes and no. The Dudleys won the HUSTLE Super Tag Team Title on October 9, 2006 in a three-way match which also featured the defending champions Erica & Margaret (Aja Kong & Amazing Kong) and Sodom & Gomorrah (Mark Jindrak & Matt Morgan). They have technically never lost the titles, but they have also made it clear that they do not intend to return to HUSTLE at any point. Thus, the tag titles have almost been abandoned by default, though, with a promotion like this one, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Duds return out of nowhere with the championship should they ever come to terms with the company again.

Guest #5353 has decided to get a little bit nasty:

It’s funny how just yesterday in the Wrestler Of The Week you were defending yourself saying you “do have a life” despite being an indy mark nerd… and then you go and prove beyond a doubt that you don’t by posting this. You clearly spend all day every day sat at your keyboard watching obscure nobodies wrestling on youtube and then talking about with your butt-buddies on the ‘net and posting garbage articles about it for geek kudos. Absolutely pitiful. You should try going outside once in a while, it’s not that scary!

For those of you who do not understand the backstory to this message from our anonymous friend, an individual going by the name of “joe” posted a comment on last week’s Wrestler of the Week column noting that there are currently eight hours of free television on American networks in any given week. He went on to ask how anybody could watch those eight hours of television in addition to Japanese and independent promotions and still “have a life.” I quickly responded, and gave a simple, honest answer: I am able to pursue interests outside of wrestling while still watching shows from Japanese promotions because I do not watch all eight hours of American wrestling that airs on television. That’s the same explanation that I will offer to Guest #5353 here.

Furthermore, I would like to point out that, if you are a professional wrestling fan to the extent that you are not just watching the shows but also visiting internet websites like this one to read about professional wrestling, you’re a bit of a nerd . . . but that’s fine, and it’s a class I include myself in. There is nothing “pitiful” about having a hobby that you devote a fair amount of your free time to so long as the hobby does not interfere with your work life or with your personal relationships. I am certainly not in that category, and I would hope that nobody reading this is either. Short of a person’s leisure activities harming that person’s work life, personal relationships, or other people, that person does not need to justify how he or she spends his or her time to any other individual. That includes Guest #5353.

Not quite as nasty but still a bit judgmental is Guest #8665:

Wait a second . . . smarks everywhere still complain about Mae Young giving birth to a hand in the 90s, yet they embrace a company where this is actually a storyline:

“Muta, known for spraying mist in to the eyes of his opponents, sprayed mist in to the crotch of Yinling, a valet of the Monster Army. Somehow, Muta’s mist impregnated Yinling, and she gave birth to “Monster Bono,” (also known as Bono-kun), which in reality was Akebono sucking on a pacifier and otherwise pretending to have various infantile predilections. Eventually, Bono matured from being baby Bono-kun to the childish Bono-chan, and, in the process, he left the Monster Army to fight for HUSTLE.”

Hypocrisy anyone?

I do not think that there is any hypocrisy involved for a few different reasons.

First of all, you are speaking in very broad generalities here. You do not necessarily know that the same people who complained about Mae Young giving birth to a hand are the same people that are cheering on HUSTLE. It is equally likely that the people who detest one detest the other or that people who enjoyed one enjoyed the other. If you can find comments by one person who does both of those things, perhaps you should take your issues up with that person.

Furthermore, one of the important things that you are forgetting about here is context. Though there are comedic angles and characters in WWE, by and large they still present their product as a “serious” one. Fans are supposed to tune in to television shows and buy pay per views because they want to see heated personal issues resolved between wrestlers, not because they want to watch a poor man’s version of Saturday Night Live. HUSTLE on the other hand, does not claim at all to be serious. It is, without a doubt, an entire promotion that from top to bottom focuses on comedy and parodying traditional professional wrestling as well as other aspects of popular culture.

Finally, one of the big issues that you have to keep in mind is that, when the Mae Young angle occurred, MANY people who watched it when they were in their teenage years or their early twenties did not understand the joke at all because it was referencing events from several decades earlier. In fact, when I filled for Matthew Sforcina in writing Ask 411 earlier this month, one of the questions I was asked was what the rationale behind the introduction of the hand was. When I answered the question, I received feedback from a fair number of readers indicating that it was the first time that they had heard any explanation of the hand whatsoever. They thought that it was just a complete non sequitur, whereas if they had understood the punchline they may have reacted a bit more positively. HUSTLE, meanwhile, does generally not go over the head of its audience if you are able to get around the language barrier.


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