[2003-06-29-U-STYLE] Kiyoshi Tamura vs Takaku Fuke

[GOTNW]

Fuke walks away from a handshake and goes after Tamura as soon as the match starts, he doesn't really do much damage to Tamura. After that Tamura just completely shuts him down, easily blocking all of his big swings, just slapping and kicking the shit out of him and knocking him down until he ran out of points. Really cool structure and a neat atmosphere with a very responsive crowd. ***-***1/4

[MikeCampbell]

This was just complete domination by Tamura. He shuts down Fuke with middle kicks and quickly burns through all of his points, despite strikes not even being Tamura's primary strength. After two matches against lower card workers, where he genuinely found a way to work with them and make them look good, Tamura wrestles one of his contemporaries, with a decently long run in Pacrase, and just decimates him.

 

Ideally, Fuke should have pushed Tamura further than Sakata and Mishima were able to, and possibly set himself up to be the U-STYLE version of Yamazaki, the guy who the upstarts go through before they can challenge The Ace. But, if anything, this makes Fuke look no different than the likes of Naoki Kimura or Kazuki Okubo.