Posted May 4, 20187 yr comment_5846890 Eh, remember when shootstyle was fucking great? Kanehara brings a nice unusual to RINGS stiffness to his matches and when he was throwing kicks and knees he was walloping Illioukhine. He was also veteran enough to be competitive on the mat with the russian. Illiokhine's holds were absolutely clinical. Finish wasn't amazing, but solid enough and everything else here was a highly enjoyable grappler vs. Striker matchup.
August 13, 20205 yr comment_5925860 Nothing super fancy here but a good, competitive match-up with Hiromitsu bringing the heavy strikes and Ilioukhine holding his ground on the mat. By the end of it, Hiromitsu is on E but I liked that he was still trying to slap Mikhail as he’s being dragged down into the final submission hold, to which he taps out in anticlimactic fashion.
March 28, 20241 yr comment_6019646 One of the more underrated and under-discussed matches in RINGS. This was worked in the realistic house style that RINGS adopted during the late 1997-1999 period, and the result was a very fluid match with incredible grappling and counterwork by both. This match asks for some patience and attention to detail for a 14-minute match, but the award is a very good technical battle between a SAMBO specialist and one of the best shoot-style workers from UWFi and KINGDOM. Lots of nice reversals and a good finish where Ilyukhin catches Kanehara off-guard. This looked like a modern MMA contest in some ways. Ilyukhin was really good, and his name doesn't get mentioned enough in terms of great shoot-style workers. The same applies to Kanehara. ****3/4
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