Katsumi Usuda vs. Kota Ibushi 9:29
Hiroyoshi Kotsubo vs. Takeshi Ono 4:54
Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita vs. Hajime Moriyama & Kyosuke Sasaki 14:28
Hiroyuki Ito vs. Manabu Hara 11:03
Yuki Ishikawa vs. Daisuke Ikeda 13:56
TAKA Michinoku vs. Shoichi Uchida 8:21
Kengo Mashimo vs. Shinjitsu Nohashi 11:02
Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu vs. Hajime Moriyama & Mitsuya Nagai 11:25
Fujita "Jr" Hayato vs. Koichiro Kimura 7:29
Daisuke Ikeda & Takeshi Ono vs. Manabu Suruga & Takahiro Oba 28:37
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Shoichi Uchida 6:58
Koichiro Kimura vs. Rui Hiugaji 6:18
Tamon Honda vs. Takahiro Oba 9:33
Makoto Hashi vs. Taro Nohashi 3:46
Brahman Dai (Daisuke Ikeda) & Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu vs. Hajime Moriyama & Manabu Suruga & Takeshi Ono 15:36
Shoichi Uchida vs. Kazuki Okubo 4:54
Makoto Hashi vs. Rui Hiugaji 8:51
Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu vs. Hajime Moriyama & Tamon Honda 13:21
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Taro Nohashi 4:56
Takahiro Oba & Takeshi Ono vs. Kengo Mashimo & Manabu Suruga 20:43
Daisuke Ikeda vs. Hajime Moriyama 11:22
Koichiro Kimura vs. Kazuki Okubo 9:27
Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu vs. Ryuichi Sekine & Takeshi Ono 12:50
Makoto Hashi vs. Manabu Suruga 11:27
Kengo Mashimo vs. Takahiro Oba 14:06
Manabu Suruga vs. Kazuki Okubo 8:33
Taro Nohashi vs. Peace Man 5:14
Koichiro Kimura vs. Makoto Hashi 8:49
Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu & Takahiro Oba vs. Kengo Mashimo & Ryuichi Sekine & Tamon Honda 15:47
Takeshi Ono vs. Mitsuya Nagai 12:11
Takahiro Oba vs. Ryuichi Sekine 11:20
Tamon Honda vs. Kazuki Okubo 7:52
Koichiro Kimura vs. Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu 8:33
Makoto Hashi & Manabu Suruga vs. Kengo Mashimo & Madoka 16:51
Daisuke Ikeda vs. Takeshi Ono 4:27
Manabu Suruga vs. Brahman Kei 8:55
Koichiro Kimura vs. Kazuki Okubo 7:03
Tamon Honda vs. Brahman Shu 9:24
Takeshi Ono vs. Ryuji Hijikata 10:20
Daisuke Ikeda & Takahiro Oba vs. Kengo Mashimo & Makoto Hashi 28:10. A truly badass match! The skill level was not that high, but they went so far above and beyond the necessary level of stiffness that it more than made up for it. There were basically two different singles matches here, as they didn't really mix the pairings. Ikeda vs. Hashi was just standing there bombing away. If you enjoy headbutt exchanges, this is certainly the match for you! It feels like that's half of what these two did, certainly the most headbutts I've ever seen in a match, with both busted open hardway. I found the Mashima vs. Oba pairing to be more interesting, as they actually remembered that something that's more or less of the worked shoot variety should have some movement and defense. They got some good footwork going, and tried to make each other miss. Mashima would enter and exit, throw combinations and use muay thai knees in a mostly realistic manner. This pairing was much more energetic and explosive, working in a more dynamic fashion. Ikeda versus Hashi was very intense to be certain, but was almost purely operating in the beatdown mode, with the exception of a few rolling sentons from Ikeda. It's odd that Hashi, who barely has any experience working shoot style, was the one that adhered most to purely striking, especially since Ikeda was the one who threw in the most puroresu offense to break up the endless headbutting. There was no wasted time here, but I was definitely hoping for the Ikeda versus Hashi pairing to expand beyond the headbutting down the stretch. The Ikeda vs. Mashima pairing late was quite interesting, but then the rest of the match was basically just the butting rams Ikeda and Hashi retreading the same old waters until someone finally succumbed to a headbutt. Mashima was the standout here, while Ikeda is the overall best worker participating in the match and has a lot of familiarity with Hashi from NOAH, so the pairings were the right ones to bring out what Mashima & Ikeda wanted to do today. Hashi is better than Oba overall, but was the worst today despite some goofiness from Oba because he practically only did one thing. That thing was what made the match memorable to a great extent, but at the same time, in a match that this long, they could have mixed things up and found more diversity and differentiation. For me, this started off as an excellent match that had a chance to be a classic, but decreased as time went on due to the diminishing returns of the constant ramming. ***3/4
Ryuji Hijikata vs. Kazuki Okubo 7:27
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Madoka 8:13
Daisuke Ikeda vs. Manabu Suruga 10:24
Takeshi Ono vs. Katsumi Usuda 12:41
Kengo Mashimo vs. Makoto Hashi 15:38
Taro Nohashi vs. NARITA 6:01
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Kazuki Okubo 10:00
Kengo Mashimo vs. Rui Hiugaji 12:37
Makoto Hashi vs. Manabu Suruga 16:16
Daisuke Ikeda & Katsumi Usuda vs. Takeshi Ono & Yuki Ishikawa 25:56
Takeshi Ono vs. Hajime Moriyama 13:48
Fujita Hayato vs. NARITA 9:57
Katsumi Usuda vs. Ryuichi Sekine 9:10
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Manabu Suruga 14:48
Daisuke Ikeda & Yuki Ishikawa vs. Kengo Mashimo & Makoto Hashi 21:48
Katsumi Usuda vs. Kotaro Nasu 9:44
Ryuji Hijikata vs. Bison TAGAI 7:50
Kengo Mashimo vs. SEIKEN by TKO 6:40
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Takeshi Ono 18:42
Daisuke Ikeda & Manabu Suruga vs. Munenori Sawa & Yuki Ishikawa 23:48
Ryuichi Sekine vs. Kotaro Nasu 7:20
Satoshi Kajiwara vs. Brahman Shu 9:29
Takuma Sano vs. Katsumi Usuda 9:43
The Great Sasuke & Yuki Ishikawa vs. Fujita "Jr." Hayato & Manabu Suruga 15:12
Hikaru Sato & Kengo Mashimo vs. Daisuke Ikeda & Takeshi Ono 20:15