[1996-09-01-BattlARTS] Daisuke Ikeda vs Katsumi Usuda

[Jetlag]

The two most relentless strikers BattlARTS had in 1996 face in a big deciding match, so this was a quality match up. There was some shootstyle matwork but this was mostly brutally violent standup, Usuda may have out-Ikeda'd Ikeda here. Ikeda's selling was absolutely fantastic. He got in some good shots, but Usuda was just relentless sending Ikeda into desperation mode and you got the sense the match was a hair away from being done. This was a brutal and great sub-10 minute war.