Yuki Ishikawa & Nobuyuki Kurashima vs Masao Ando & Takahiro Tababa, Tatsuo Nakano Anniversary Show 3/23
Tatsuo Nakano just casually books everyones dream match. I think every since I found out about Tababa and Ando existing I've fantasy booked them showing up in BattlARTS, so now we got this crossover finally and it's really cool. This is mostly cool grappling although Ando and Tababa still lay in some vicious kicks here and there. Ishikawa is still a superstar at grappling and he does pick some cool submissions from the big boys. And he is not afraid to get kicked really hard by Tababa. Kurashima looks good as always - I mean, I guess he is around Andos age and not as old as Ishikawa, but since he is such a perennial undercarder I keep being surprised what a fine wrestler he is. Tababa just bowling into people with reckless shoulder blocks was highly amusing. Overall nothing mindblowing here but a good ~12ish minutes of indy shootstyle action from our heroes which is more than one can ask for in 2025. Still, one has to wonder how good Yuki Ishikawa vs Masao Ando in 2001 could have been.
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