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* At ''Wrestle Marinepiad '89'', a quartet of rookies in the opening match stole the show from the veterans. The match? Manami Toyota and Mima Shimoda vs Toshiyo Yamada and Etsuko Mita, who would go on to become four of the biggest names in ''joshi'' in the next decade (and ironically, wrestlers who were opponents in this match would go on to form top tag teams - Toyota/Yamada and, as you'll see below, Shimoda/Mita). This was also the match that kicked off...

* ...the epic three-year feud between Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada, which came to its finale in a ''Hair vs. Hair'' match. The match itself was brilliant, but the CMoA came after Toyota finally pulled off the win: Toyota declared that Yamada had earned her respect, and pleaded with officials not to subject Yamada to the humiliation of having her head shaved, even offering to have her own head shaved instead (and going so far as to start ''cutting her own hair'' to prove the point). Toyota had to be physically restrained while the shaving of Yamada's hair took place.