Posted May 8May 8 comment_6029816 Kurasawa vs Sgt. Craig Pittman - WCW Nitro 9/25/95 Kurasawa is Manabu Nakanishi, who I have seen a smattering of and have no strong opinion. I think was an attempt by Bischoff to have a more martial arts-based match on the card as the rise of UFC was running parallel at this time. You see more submissions here than in other Nitro matches. This match exceeded my expectations. This is one of those perfect bowling shoe ugly type of matches where a scrappy guy like Pittman takes on an Inoki Strong-Style wrestler and magic just happens. Pittman comes out with these Zinedine Zidane style launching head butts. Nakanishi dumps him hard back first on the exposed concrete. Nakanishi basically tries to rip Pittman's arm off and take it home with him. Some really strong arm work. Pittman comes roaring back with another Zidane-esque headbutt through the ropes. Then he just starts destroying Nakanishi's arm. He applies the Code Arm, but Nakanishi gets to the ropes. Pittman counters the Fujiwara armbar takedown with a gutwrench suplex, which popped me huge! Nakanishi ultimately wins with a German Suplex, but it looked like Nick Patrick only counted to two. No one will confuse this with Volk Han vs Kiyoshi Tamura, BUT this would be a good addition to a modern day Bloodsport card. A breath of fresh air. I might be a Sgt. Craig Pittman guy. *** 1/4
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