Neither guy is particular exciting on the mat and unfortunately, this match sees them spending quite a bit of time on the ground. Nakano, whose usually a pissy little warthog, seemed to be playing nice with Takada here. He does connect with a few headbutts and tries to choke him out, dumping Takada on his head with a German when that doesn't work and then unloading on him in the corner. But Takada quickly shuts him down with a flurry of strikes. Nakano doesn't want to stay down for Takada but by the end of the match, despite the crowd cheering him on, it's obvious Nakano's optimal match length is less than 15 minutes. He's barely hanging on in the final minutes, firing off a last gasp spurt of slaps, before Takada wears him down on the mat...slowly...finally submitting him without much of a struggle from Nakano. Meh.

This just never comes together at all. Takada doesn't seem to be in the mood to do fuckall with Nakano, a far cry from what Yamazaki did with a few weeks before. Nakano hits a huge German and Takada just leaps to his feet and starts blasting him with kicks to show everyone who the man really is. 18 minutes for these two was just way too long, they could have chopped this down to six or seven and probably not lost much.