[2010-05-04-DDT-Max Bump] Daisuke Sekimoto vs Kota Ibushi

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Jmare007]

First minutes are kinda slow but the match starts building in intensity until Daisuke decides to slap Kota...from then on these 2 went BATSHIT CRAZY, from elbows to stomps to the absolutely brutal headbutts. Man, I wish this had one last Ibushi comeback before getting killed by the champ, but given that Sekimoto had to wrestle a few hours earlier for Big Japan, I was more than pleased with this.

[aaeo_]

I think Ibushi is at his best when he gets to work like an angry underdog, so he can kick out at 1 and throw the extra-stiff strikes while yelling and stumbling all over the ring. This match is great because of that, although it's less one-sided than I remembered. The first part is slow and ends up not mattering much, but the string of near falls, and the back half in general, were very good in this one. Sekimoto getting up with the look on his face after Ibushi spends a minute stomping on him in the cornet is great. I had no clue Sekimoto worked another match on this day, that's interesting.

[WrestlingFan]

It's never slow. Very intense match. There are too many kick outs.