How Low Can a Punk Get, How Low Can Daisuke Ikeda Get

Daisuke Ikeda v. Alexander Otsuka BattlArts 4/26/99-EPIC

Awesome match, probably the most off the wall legendary BattlArts match. First move is Otsuka landing a coconut headbutt which opens up Ikeda. A couple of minutes later Ikeda tries a Space Flying Tiger drop which had the look of the first and only time he tried that, Otsuka comes back with a rope walk armdrag and a giant swing, before they calm down and start killing each other with kicks and suplexes. Otsuka also has some beautiful take downs and submission attempts, he is one of the flashiest and trickest mat wrestlers in history. Finish run has all the neck compression and face kicking you want and all the early lunacy really adds to the deadly seriousness of the finish

Daisuke Ikeda/Takeshi Rikio/Takeshi Morishima/Takashi Sugiura v. Vader/Mike Modest/Donovan Morgan/2 Cold Scorpio NOAH 3/25/02-FUN

One of those matches which looks a lot better on paper then in execution. You have a murderers row of vicious fuckers in this match, but we mostly get the APW guys running through their comedy spots. Ikeda is pretty much a non entity here as was Scorpio, and that is the pair of guys I wanted to see hook up. Finish run is fun as Vader mercs Sugiara, but this was pretty throwaway.

COMPLETE AND ACCURATE IKEDA