[2013-09-15-OZ Academy Yokohama Dreams] Carlos Amano vs Kana

[Ma Stump Puller]

Even when mercilessly cut (to 5 minutes, no less) this was pretty cool as a epilogue to their incredible 2011 tag match. Amano had to contend with getting kicked in the head a lot by a relentless Kana who ultimately felt more confident standing up than grappling, so she used that as a clutch to basically try to balance things out by turning this into a grapplefest whenever she could. It definitely feels like a Bati-Bati match by nature as most of this came down to just who could stand to throw the sickest strikes to counter the other with the suplexes being used as a big punctuation mark whenever a breakthrough was made and one of them wanted to try to settle things quick. There's no polite lame forearm exchanges or patient waiting for the next moment to strike, it's just these two basically finding different ways to mangle the other while not trying to die themselves in the process.

Of course in the end this is fruitless as the two simply are too violent with each other and are incapable of meeting the count of 10 after a particularly nasty headbutt/kick exchange between the two leaves them incapable of standing, thus making this a draw. Annoying finish, yes, but given we've seen what a long match between the two essentially looks like I'm not complaining that much. Really awesome burst of nastiness that cut deep and quick for how little of this was left on the table. Fast-food violence I'd say describes this well.

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