This is weird yet awesome, basically japanese wrestling in a nutshell, it's an exhibition match for some reason so it has a ten minute time limit and a fall doesn't end the match, it's mostly Takada kicking the shit out of Miyato, Miyato is really perfect as a guy who will sell vulnerability and struggle to win but also throw everything at someone higher than him in the pecking order, there was some neat grappling mixed in but this was mostly Takada kicking the shit out of Miyato and I will watch Takada kick the shit out of someone any time, especially when a guy can sell as great as Miyato, any time Takada would connect with a bigger combo I'd get flashbacks to Rambo being electrocuted.

 

 

 

Haha shit. I screwed the date up. But the match is in the correct subforum, it's from 1988. If a mod sees it please edit the thread title since I can't.

Very fun match with stiff strikes, cool matwork and great selling from Miyato but this was essentially a squash. The 7/89 match is much better and way more "competitive" (even though realistically Miyato had no chance of winning in either one).