The atmosphere around this is top-notch. Great heat and crowd reactions from the outset. It's a little hard to follow what's going on as far as the rules, but the intensity and the violence can't be denied. Some great heeling by Murakami early, and Iizuka comes out with the duke after getting illegally KO'd at the first. If you watch a lot of MMA, you can tell this is worked, but it's still great theater and highly entertaining. It made me want to seek out more of the Hashimoto-Ogawa feud.
Hard to imagine this won't be in my top half, at minimum.