[2010-09-26-FUTEN] Daisuke Ikeda vs Takeshi Ono

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Phil Schneider]

Pretty much the wrestling version of Hagler v. Hearns round 1. The bell rings and Ikeda runs right into an Ono right hand and it goes from there. The story of this match is that Ono is the lower ranked member of their tag team (Apparently called Team Taco, Japan is weird) and he is going to throw the kitchen sink to take out Ikeda. Ono is a buzzsaw, throwing vicious punches in bunches square into Ikeda face and body. Ikeda absorbs these shots and fires back with big punches and kicks of his own. The finish is amazing wrestling, they both quickly counte multiple submission attempts, with Ono slipping out and landing a hellacious knee to the back of Ikeda's head, I expected cerebral fluid to fly out of his nostrils. Ono gets mount and starts pounding out Ikeda but gets caught in an awesome armbar from the bottom and is forced to tap. The best under five minute match I have ever seen, even though it was short it was a complete satisfying. Everything I love about FUTEN in one intense blast, the wrestling equivalent of a Bad Brains song.

[cactus]

Here we have a brutal offering that doesn't even touch the five minute mark. I remember seeing Ono in BattlARTs as he was the only wrestler who wore MMA gloves and he loved throwing sloppy yet effective bombs. He throws plenty here and he eats a headbutt that even made me wince. A hidden gem that deserves a shoutout whenever the best short matches are discussed.
★★★★

[Superstar Sleeze]

Daisuke Ikeda vs Takeshi Ono - FUTEN 9/26/10

 

This reminded me a lot of Lucha Underground/Final Deletion in its production and the way they did the cuts. It felt like you were watching a movie. In terms of sub-5 minute explosive action I have this right there with Dungeon Match between Owen Hart vs Shamrock. Ikeda is a shoot style legend. Ono I have no clue who he is. I find out that he just throws punches with reckless abandon and really never stops moving forward. He really takes the fight to the superior Ikeda. Ikeda plays counterpuncher the whole match, first it is with headbutts that rock Ono, but Ono is like a Soviet at Stalingrad, he is still coming forward. He gets a double chickenwing and then just throws Ikeda with a Tiger suplex. He goes full mount reigning punches down but Ikeda always the counterwrestler in this match sees the opening in Ono's carelessness and makes him pay with an armbar. Simple story: Ono is going to crash through Ikeda and leaves himself open to counterpunching. Ikeda the veteran bides his time and ends up winning the match. Hard-hitting, good storytelling, unique production. ****

[GOTNW]

Third time I've watched this match and it only gets better. Ono taking it to Ikeda with brutal punches rules, but there are a couple of other things I've picked up as well. Ikeda firing back with shoot headbutts ruled and there was a moment where Ikeda was just starring at Ono and Ono was desperately punching away at Ikeda trying to knock him down and in those few seconds in which they battled over whether Ikeda was going to headbutt Ono or not I realised I truly do enjoy life and professional wrestling. Ikeda did Headbutt Ono, symbolically showing there is no escaping some things in life. Like the god damn Ankle Lock counter to the kick I've seen a million times in Battlarts matches. But Ono bravely fought back and only got Ankle Locked later in the match with a different set-up. And holy shit that knee to the back of the head. There's a reason PRIDE didn't allow those things. Then you have Ikeda doing a flip senton and an elbow drop for no reason, this just might be the most FUTEN-ish match of them all, and it rules so much. ****

[Microstatistics]

Definite contender for best <5 minute match of all time. ****1/8

[AlmostNinjaLike]

Astonishingly great match. Fantastic looking offense and a great, simple story. They even managed to squeeze in some really good selling! **** 1/2

[KB8]

Probably the best five minute match there's ever been. What a preposterously violent shitstorm of a thing. Ono starts throwing grenades right out the gate and drops Ikeda with an early knockdown, and I love how they managed to work a solid narrative into four and a half minutes. Ono is a whirlwind of punches and kicks, really going hell for leather, no beating about the bush. He's here for a good time not a long time, he doesn't get paid by the hour, etc. Ikeda is Ikeda, though. There's probably only a handful of wrestlers in history who can endure a more hellish beating than him and less than a handful who can dish it out even worse in return. So Ikeda survives the onslaught and just fucks Ono in the face with a headbutt. Ikeda's riposte is truly harrowing and yet Ono won't stop coming forward. The bit where Ikeda over-commits and Ono full force knees him in the back of the head is legit one of the most truculent things I've seen in a wrestling match. I've referenced this a few times as the bar for sub-five minute matches and every re-watch of it still leaves me sort of stunned.

[Jetlag]

4 MINUTES 27 SECONDS! I must've have watched this match a dozen times, and it never stops being awesome. They just THROW DOWN and the world explodes. Awesome savage punch exchanges, general recklessness, Ikeda going for any weird move he can think of, while still keeping a general sense of defensiveness/evading. The counterwork is just stellar. The selling is sublime, and kind of different - guys would get hit, and sell he trauma of getting hit, but straighten themselves out and stop themselves from buckling "DAMN he got me good... but I'm not going down now, fuck you", like you would when the adrenaline is rushing, and then swing back and try to crush the other guy. Most matches are lucky to have 1 or 2 great moments. I counted 4 great moments in the first 35 seconds of this.

[superkix]

More or less fives minutes of Ikeda getting rocked with headshots, trying to find a way to promptly submit Ono in order to put an end to the relentless barrage of punches and kicks. He’s able to catch a stray kick and plant Ono with a capture suplex early on but Ono’s back up and at ‘em with more brutal straight punches to the skull. Ikeda fires off the occasional kick and when he’s finally able to stun him with a headbutt, he’s unable to take advantage of it as Ono is a persistent little bastard. After a brutal spinning backfist, Ono throws Ikeda with a tiger suplex before kicking him directly in the face. Yikes. They trade hard strikes and Ikeda is able to get him on the mat, where there’s some jockeying for position and control. Ono shifts into a front mount and starts in with the punches but once Ikeda’s able to snag one of his arms, he puts on the Fujiawara armbar and it’s over just as quickly as it began. Short on time and like watching two dudes beat each other silly? Check this one out.