[1996-10-02-BattlARTS] Daisuke Ikeda & Takeshi Ono vs Yuki Ishikawa & Naohiro Hoshikawa

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

This is long and boring. I don't think the BattlARTS stuff came into its own for another year or two, as most of the praise I hear is for '98-'01 matches. Ikeda and Ishikawa both have awesome kicks, but that's not really a revelation. Nice finish.

[Ditch]

I assume that's Naohiro Hoshikawa.

[Loss]

I assume that's Naohiro Hoshikawa.

Fixed.

[PeteF3]

I'm with Loss. I couldn't get into this and I really liked the earlier BattlArts stuff. The pure wrasslin' stuff (suplexes, spin kicks, etc.) was a lot more compelling than the shootstyle work.

[soup23]

I would be interested in Loss revisiting this as while it certainly isn't top of the line BattlARTS, I thought it was fine as a spot show style match. Yuki and Ikeda going after each other is always entertaining and this was more grapple heavy stuff between them. Finish was a little anticlimatic but it put over Ikeda's kicks well and the shot was brutal. ***