This was so goddamn entertaining from start to finish. I like the carefulness in the grappling early on. Tons of feel out and careful thought put into each step both took. Both were careful of the other’s grappling skills and it showed. Takada began throwing more kicks as he switched gears once Fujiwara got multiple advantages on the mat. He threw some wild kicks with Fujiwara barely covering up for them until he got caught with a nasty heel hook. I loved the off the cuff bouncing around and the grunts Fujiwara did, and the crowd responding to it was pretty damn cool I must say. Fujiwara’s charisma was on total show in those small things. The match got pretty great after that with more all or nothing strikes being thrown. Fujiwara caught Takada flush on the nose with a brutal shoot headbutt which got an exciting near KO. Then this turned into a battle of Takada’s strikes against Fujiwara’s matwork with Takada on the offence with some germans and head kicks before Fujiwara, the master of counter wrestling, catches Takada with a nasty toehold that’s all crooked. Awesome match. Fujiwara celebrating over a shock victory against Takada was elating. ****1/4
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