The Crush Gals, who combined youthfulness and an exciting wrestling style with pop music, became teen idols and developed a cult following amongst teenage girls in Japan.

Helping the Crush Gals to achieve their initial success was AJW pitting them against contrasting antagonists such as Dump Matsumoto and her Atrocious Alliance stable; a group made up of slightly older women portraying violent, imitating face-painted characters inspired by the Sukeban subculture.

Individually, both Asuka and Nagayo would have long, tenured runs in professional wrestling, but their time as the Crush Gals represented the most popular era of their careers.

[6] Within days of the release of the single, on 25 August 1984 the Crush Gals defeated early rivals the Dynamite Girls (Jumbo Hori and Yukari Omori) to win the WWWA World Tag Team Championship at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

Matches between the Crush Gals and the Atrocious Alliance would regularly attract a 12.0 rating on Fuji TV, the station AJW broadcast on in Japan.

[1][2][3][4] On 25 February 1985, the Crush Gals would lose their WWWA World tag team championship to Matsumoto and Crane Yu of the Atrocious Alliance.

[5][7] The feud with the Atrocious Alliance would continue into 1986, with the Crush Gals winning the WWWA World Tag Team Championship for a third time in March 1986, only to lose the titles to Matsumoto and her new partner Bull Nakano.

[5] The Crush Gals' time spent feuding with the Atrocious Alliance had seen both Asuka and Nagayo rise to the top level of AJW, and resulted in major singles victories over the likes of Dump Matsumoto and Bull Nakano.

[5] Thereafter, the Crush Gals would reunite a few more times to once again face the united force of Matsumoto and Omori, but inevitably, a match between the champion Nagayo and Asuka was due to take place.

In February 1989, the pair would win the WWWA World tag team championship for a fourth and final time, defeating the Calgary Typhoons (Mika Komatsu and Yumi Ogura).