Kiyoshi Tamura vs Josh Barnett (U-Style - 11/23/2005)
Dec 7, 2017 1:25:07 GMT -5
Post by elliott on Dec 7, 2017 1:25:07 GMT -5
Kiyoshi Tamura vs Josh Barnett (U-Style - 11/23/05)
My review from the Tamura Complete and Accurate:
They go right to the mat for back and forth grappling. It’s all really good stuff and Barnett surprisingly is able to keep up with Tamura down there. This is so much better than you’d expect early on. Really fun mat work from both guys with cool counters and submission attempts. Tamura hits one of the greatest knees to the face in wrestling history for a knockdown. Barnett has one of Tamura’s legs and is going for a takedown and Tamura jumps up and just destroys Barnett with the other knee. It is so fast and so brutal. Just amazing. Barnett is furious and decides to come back with some of the best suplexes you’ve ever seen. Tamura is an awesome bumper and light enough that Barnett can do these incredible dead lift throws. Tamura has to fight back with strikes which Barnett is awesome selling or submission attempts, but Barnett shows himself to be a competent grappler capable of defending himself and using his strength and technique to put Tamura in peril on the mat. Tamura is really good at choosing when to sell one of Barnett’s throws as a knockout sort of throw and when to react as thought it was a takedown. Obviously the knockout throws probably hurt him way more, but I’m glad Tamura didn’t really sell the gut wrench suplex as a knockout because it didn’t really look all that devastating. Smart shit. The ensuing back and forth mat work is really good stuff. Their standing exchanges are super exciting too but Barnett starts to blow up a little bit as the match goes on. Tamura’s dead weight defense and rolling leg lock counter to a german suplex attempt was a fantastic spot. As was Barnett’s tribute to Maeda capture suplex. The finish is so so so so so so so good. Instantly one of my favorite finishes. Holy shit. This was really this great. Easy EPIC.
My review from the Tamura Complete and Accurate:
They go right to the mat for back and forth grappling. It’s all really good stuff and Barnett surprisingly is able to keep up with Tamura down there. This is so much better than you’d expect early on. Really fun mat work from both guys with cool counters and submission attempts. Tamura hits one of the greatest knees to the face in wrestling history for a knockdown. Barnett has one of Tamura’s legs and is going for a takedown and Tamura jumps up and just destroys Barnett with the other knee. It is so fast and so brutal. Just amazing. Barnett is furious and decides to come back with some of the best suplexes you’ve ever seen. Tamura is an awesome bumper and light enough that Barnett can do these incredible dead lift throws. Tamura has to fight back with strikes which Barnett is awesome selling or submission attempts, but Barnett shows himself to be a competent grappler capable of defending himself and using his strength and technique to put Tamura in peril on the mat. Tamura is really good at choosing when to sell one of Barnett’s throws as a knockout sort of throw and when to react as thought it was a takedown. Obviously the knockout throws probably hurt him way more, but I’m glad Tamura didn’t really sell the gut wrench suplex as a knockout because it didn’t really look all that devastating. Smart shit. The ensuing back and forth mat work is really good stuff. Their standing exchanges are super exciting too but Barnett starts to blow up a little bit as the match goes on. Tamura’s dead weight defense and rolling leg lock counter to a german suplex attempt was a fantastic spot. As was Barnett’s tribute to Maeda capture suplex. The finish is so so so so so so so good. Instantly one of my favorite finishes. Holy shit. This was really this great. Easy EPIC.
