Daisuke Ikeda Doesn't Want to Hear It He Knows You're Full of Shit

Daisuke Ikeda vs. Katsumi Usuda BML 9/11/05 - FUN

ER: This is just 5 minutes, a condensed version of these men doing what they do. Usuda gains almost all of his advantage by jumping Ikeda with a knee before the bell, then kicking him around the ring, into the crowd, and back into the ring for awhile, until Ikeda gets sick of it and punches him in the face a couple of times, and then throws the hardest lariat he possibly can. Usuda's comeback rear naked choke is great. He really drags Ikeda down to the mat with it, but Ikeda tries to reshape Usuda's leg with a half crab. There's a shot of Usuda finally reaching the bottom rope after being stuck in that nasty half crab, and as he drapes his arm over the bottom rope his face reads like a man who has made poor decisions. Ikeda manages to hit an even bigger lariat than before, smashing Usuda into the ropes so hard that it probably felt like being run into a wall. The brainbuster is as finisher worthy as a brainbuster should be.

PAS: A WCW Pro version of this match is always going to be worth watching. Although it doesn't have nearly the meat of better versions of this match. I absolutely loved Ikeda's straight right hand, about as nasty a version of that as you are ever going to see in a worked fight. I did think however this had a bit too much no-selling and fighting spirt stuff. I supposed if you can legitimately stand up after some of the shots that vicious, it isn't really no-selling, but the better BattlArts and FUTEN matches don't need those kind of shortcuts to be great.


COMPLETE AND ACCURATE DAISUKE IKEDA