Before the event really gets underway, there's a tag team grappling tournament that is sorta interesting to watch and better to fast forward through.
GP TIME~
1) Ken Orihashi vs. Shinsuke Inoue: Inoue still has the terrible hair.
FIGHT: Inoue Submission Rnd 1. Complete domination from Inoue, who wins by straight armbar coming out of the mount. Orihashi's attempt at a takedown or just pushing Inoue to the corner went nowhere and he nearly got guillotined. He absorbed more shots standing than you might expect given that it was his forte (though he does suck at it). The takedown was a nice sweep where Inoue took a headlock and then stepped over Orihashi's lead foot and put him down. (0)
2) Shunji Kosaka vs. Yusuke Kawaguchi: This could be ugly.
FIGHT: Kawaguchi TKO Rnd 1. Interesting thing that I see here is that Kawaguchi gets hit with two right hands coming in with hands down. This would be a problem when he upgraded the competition. Of course, he gets a body lock takedown and rapes Kosaka with shots. All of 45 seconds, mostly of GNP. (0)
3) Mamoru Nakamura vs. Wakaarashi: Sumo takes on Nakamura, a brawler, in this alternate bout for the Megaton GP.
FIGHT: Wakaarashi TKO Rnd 1. Bad stop; after both men had been trading, Nakamura gets hit with a couple right hands and falls down. Wakaarashi goes after him and nearly gets caught in a omaplata. Of course, the ref had already jumped in, so.... (0)
At this point, we get a Oyaji Grappling Rules match between Samio Kimura and Shinchiro Eguchi. What does that mean? I guess it means they have shirts. Someone wins and I fast forwarded.
4) Sotaro Yamada vs. Ryoji Suzuki: No idea who either is. Its a welterweight contest.
FIGHT: Draw. Fight is clipped a bit, so its not 100% certain who should win in my mind. I will say that it looks like Yamada took the first and Suzuki the second round of the two round fight. Yamada's game was to get the fight down, and he pulled guard a number of times. Jump guard too. Suzuki was better standing for sure and a better wrestler, but he got suckered into that grappling stuff in round 1 and I don't think that he came away looking better from what was shown. In round two, he doesn't let Yamada get him down without staying on top and looking dominant. (0)
MIKA and some other girl are then in a submission grappling match I fast forward through.
At this point, the show flashes over to ClubDEEP Kyoto 8/30/2008.
5) Yasuaki Kishimoto vs. Tetsuya Fukunaga: Uhhh....
FIGHT: Kishimoto Submission Rnd 2. Squash. Kishimoto throws Fukunaga early and exhibits a huge gap in grappling talent. He runs shit on Fukunaga, who has some skill at defense and not much else. And that's assumed only because he wasn't instantly choked out. (0)
6) Ricardo Algusto vs. Atsushi Kondo:
FIGHT: Kondo TKO Rnd 1. The gaijin here gets taken down rather quickly and taps out to a kimura from side control. Not much of a fight. Kondo dumped him with a nice headlock sorta move. (0)
7) Makoto Kamaya vs. Hiroto Hattori: featherweight bout.
FIGHT: Kamaya Majority Decision. Again, this is clipped so you don't know with total certainty what happened. What I saw was this: Hattori is a pretty standard box-n-wrestle MMA fighter. Kamaya uses a karate stance and loves lead high kicks. And he's not easy to take down because Hattori can't figure out how to properly close the distance with him. In short: Kamaya is pretty rad. (0)
8) Marcelo Nakamura vs. Bum Chan Kang: Korean fights random pseudobrazilian?
FIGHT: Kang TKO Rnd 2. Clipped fight in which we see Nakamura, who might be 45, looking for takedowns constantly and getting thrown and or punched very often and or swept. Kang also looks huge in comparison. Eventually Nakamura gets bashed out after eating a knee and freezing up while looking for an ankle pick. (0)
9) Miya Mo vs. Yoshiyume Chodo: Japanese people who fight!
FIGHT: Chodo Submission Rnd 1. Lots of wild swinging to start. It is apparent quickly that Mo wants to be awesome at submission and goes for all sorts of wild stuff like Saku Kimuras. And it is also apparently that Chodo is stronger and can hold him down and work for stuff himself. He gets to side control after some badly planned submission attempts go awry for Mo and ends up cranking a kimura for a submission win. (0)
Seichi Ikemoto and Dokonjonosuke Mishma then perform in a exhibition for the crowd and there are lots of funny submissions and belts being waived around.
10) Ken Hamamura vs. Hyun Joo Kim: Kim is another CMA Korea product, as it seems everyone there is.
FIGHT: Hamamura TKO Rnd 1. The corner for Kim throws in the towel as Hamamura, having acquired the takedown, wrenches back an arm and punches him hard over and over and over. (0)
11) Takahiro Kajita vs. Tomoyuki Fukami: Lightweight journeymen.
FIGHT: Draw. Fukami I actually feel wins the fight because he does something in the standup game and Kajita rarely gets takedowns. When he does, they certainly don't seem to have the value Fukami's clean boxing does, but again - its clipped, its two rounds. If Kajita deserves the first, he deserves the fight. Fukami is 9-1-6 but rarely fought in ZST, which is pretty amazing. Hasn't fought in 15 months or so. Kajita, meanwhile, seems to be a basic wrestler with some really middling punching and doesn't rush to pass the guard. (0)
12) Yusuke Kawaguchi vs. Shinsuke Inoue: Inoue comes out to ridiculous video game music. The national anthem plays in this tiny ass nightclub before the fight. There's like 500 people there. Maybe. Somewhere a baby screams as the belt is displayed. I can't make this shit up.
FIGHT: Kawaguchi Split Decision. You can't ask for a lot more than this. Yeah, its sloppy pier six brawl stuff at times, but both guys throw hard, and Inoue actually lands better single shots. He almost sits down Kawaguchi early in round one and gets a throw on him. He also gets out from under him after absorbing a ton of shots late in the second to try and rally. Tons of heart. In fact, his technique is much better. But Kawaguchi is a much larger man. He's athletic, he can wrestle, he can force guys down to the mat. He pushes badly with his shots, he's easy to hit, and he's not explosive shooting or rushing to the clinch, but here, against Inoue, he's well matched and we get an entertaining contest. Inoue is in tears after losing and Kawaguchi is equally enthused as Inoue is depressed. Wonderful but terrible stuff. (2)
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Kawaguchi/Inoue (8/28/08)
KO OF THE NIGHT: Hamamura/Kim (8/30/08)
SUBMISSION OF THE NIGHT: Orihashi/Inoue (8/28/08)
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT(S): 2,5 out of 10. I'm kinda glad to be done with these, because so much of it was filler from ClubDEEP and those shows suck. The Megaton stuff was all stupid but entertaining in its simplicity. The finals of the tournament was a great success and I wouldn't be upset to see them try this all again one day.
D&R Rating: 3% (2/60)
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