To Daisuke Ikeda Life is a Rivalry Keep a Step Ahead of Me.

Daisuke Ikeda/Takeshi Ono vs. Satoshi Yoneyama/Alexander Otsuka Inoki Festival 12/1/96 - EPIC

Your BattlArts boys show up on a supercard and show it how its done. Yoneyama is a pre-NOI conversion Mohammed Yone and is pretty great here, he takes a nasty beating, pastes Ikeda in the face with a koppo kick and drops him with nasty german. The Ikeda/Ono tag team maybe my all time favorite tag team (they would certainly be the team I would be most excited to see live, or have a hidden gem show up for), and they are killing it here. Both guys throw some of the nastiest cheap shots ever, every time Otsuka or Yoneyama put on a half crab, Ikeda and Ono are coming it to whip kick them in the temple. Anytime either of them ended up in the corner, Ono would be running over to liver punch them. They also absorbed some gross suplexes, Ikeda ate a capture suplex on his forehead like Necro took Samoa Joe's powerslam. Finish was pretty great with Yoneyama taking a jaw dislocating kick to the face, only to get up at 9, big mistake as Ikeda strafes him three more times for the KO, stay down kid, it isn't worth it.



COMPLETE AND ACCURATE DAISUKE IKEDA