[2007-02-25-BattlARTS] Daisuke Ikeda & Daisuke Sekimoto vs Kazunari Murakami & Yuki Ishikawa

[cactus]

Daisuke Sekimoto fits into Battlarts just fine. He adds a bit of pro-style to the mix with his strike exchanges, but they don't look too out of place and they work as a perfect foil for Kazunari Murakami. Murakami starts off much more reserve than usual, although it's not long until we see the utter bastard side of him that we all know and love after a couple of strike offs with Sekimoto helps him loosen up.

 

Ikeda and Ishikawa having wrestled against each other countless times over the past decade, predictably have great chemistry. They have had better encounters against each other and it's usually more interesting to see them mix it up with the other team mate than with each other.

 

With Murakami being involved, you can expect a bit of crowd brawling and thankfully what we got here didn't detract from the match.

 

After a brief Ishikawa hot tag segment, the match reaches a satisfying conclusion. I particularly loved the spot where Ishikawa ducked to allow Murakami to strike Sekimoto, who was attempting to German Suplex his partner.

 

★★★½