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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Don't Be Afraid of Those Who Kill the Body but Cannot Kill the Soul, Instead Be Afraid of Yoshiaki Fujiwara

Yoshiaki Fujiwara/Tiger Mask IV v. Carl Greco/Yuki Ishikawa BattlArts 5/5/01-EPIC

Fujiwara v. Ishikawa is the on paper highlight of this match, and their brief showdown is pretty great. Still the blow away awesome part of this is the Carl Greco v. Fujiwara matchup. Greco is an awesome agressive matworker and it is great to see Fujiwara countering his counters. Fujiwara would grab a limb, Greco would have this great fast counter, and before he could sink it in, Fujiwara would counter again. Such beautiful grappling. TMIV was more of a bruiser, landing kicks and jumping knees to the gut, and they had some nice back and forth striking with Ishikawa. Finish was a Fujiwara classic. Greco gets a hot tag and comes in house of fire, overwhelming Fujiwara with punches and kicks in the corner. Fujiwara does a great dazed sell and the ref backs Greco out, and as he charges again Fujiwara quickly catches him in a leg trap armbar for the tap. Such an awesome possum job, just love watching the old master pull one out.

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