Japanese region, Yokohama subregion, 2nd round: (5) Molly Holly vs (13) Ayako Hamada

I dont know what to do here. Start doing some convincing people.

 

I have no idea who the Asian girl is.

Still, I'd pick Molly because she has super powers and wears a cape.

 

While Molly did have two title reigns totaling about 10 months in one of the stronger Divas divisions that the WWE has had in the 2000s, she has done very little outside of those runs, including a limited non-WWE career and a generally pathetic overall win/loss record in total over her WWE run(only receiving strong booking from spring of '02 through the end of '03).

Hamada on the other hand is one of the most decorated women in all of Japan and Mexico post-2000, is arguably one of the greatest tag specialists in the history of women's wrestling, and has defeated a pretty impressive list of performers.

And just to avoid her being lumped in as another competitor in this tourney who didn't get a chance to show herself on the National TV stage, it should be noted that she was also booked relatively strongly in TNA despite not having won the KOs title, owning a above .500 record with wins against the likes of Daffney, Sarita, Taylor Wilde, and Madison Rayne; and two runs as KOs tag champ with two different partners, never being defeated for those belts on either occasion.

Hamada is the stronger worker with the more complete body of work, her career easily trumps one strong 18-month run that represents all of Molly's toutable success.

 

I did love Hamada in her time in TNA and hate that she joined at a time when the division was about to go into a WWe-esque slump.

Having said that, Molly was always one of my weaknesses from back in her Miss Madness days in WCW. An extremely talented in-ring performer whose career was marred by not having enough of a super-model shape for the WWe so that she was lumped with being a Holly and having a big arse. Despite this, she still put on great matches, was devoted enough to her task to have her head sheared, fully deserved her two runs with the title and my vote.

 

Yeah, but Molly has a cape & comes from the same honorable warrior lineage as Crash Holly. That is impressive.


Ugh. Decisions, decisions.

 

Was torn on who to vote for, so I voted for the person behind the poll to make things closer. There for my vote was for Hamada.