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Post by microstatistics on Feb 14, 2018 14:50:19 GMT -5
A sensational established champion vs. up and coming challenger bout. Amano launches a very impressive assault on Hyuga's leg and Hyuga does an amazing job selling. Great attention to detail as well.
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Post by jetlag on Jan 16, 2019 10:57:30 GMT -5
2nd. Probably best singles match I've seen for either of them.
WOW! This was a super fun match. It was distinctly joshi and a nice contrast to the matches Mariko Yoshida was having the same year. Carlos Amano, while not a complete worker yet, was really fun just diving for leg submissions all over the place and using her size and agility to survive. To my surprise, Hyuga made this match. I've never really noticed her before but she blew me away here with her performance. She did a great job controlling her opponent. She did a great job selling. And she did a great job getting the story of the match over. Amano would try using her submission skills to her advantage, but Hyuga wasn't having it and decided to put her in her place with a couple submissions of her own, resulting in a few great spots. This includes a couple of nifty armbar counters and an angry Hyuga raining punches to Amano's head from the back mount. Neat structure here where Hyuga controls the match early on, while Amano tries attacking her legs like a rabid dog with a few different strategies. Hyuga keeps cutting her off while selling the accumulating damage on her legs in very believable fashion.Totally out of left field great selling performance. Perfect finish too. I think Hyuga may deserve a closer look after this.
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Post by KB8 on Oct 17, 2020 10:23:30 GMT -5
This wasn't my favourite match of this little project. Then again it wasn't my least favourite either. By the end I was fairly into what they were doing and I liked the story they told, it just took me a little while to get properly hooked. Maybe going to this after watching so much ARSION/Mariko Yoshida lately was always going to be a bit jarring. Maybe being a little more familiar with Hyuga might've helped as well, because I think this is the first time I've ever actually seen her (last time I saw Amano was against yes you are very correct it was Mariko Yoshida). She impressed me, mostly with her selling, but beyond that it felt like she carried herself as an ace and yet I have no idea whether or not she actually was or would become one. Amano went after the leg most of the way while Hyuga had to kick and claw her off. Usually the kicking her off part meant full force booting her in the mouth and some of the early shots were especially nasty. The longer the match went the more focused Amano's attacks became, the more obvious Hyuga was in favouring that leg, and even if some of the selling might've been spotty I thought she was largely consistent with it, which at this point will do me fine. There were also times where it looked like Hyuga would go after Amano's arm. It only came in short spurts so it was looking like it wouldn't really amount to much, but they circled back to it at the end and it made for a cool finish (one I thought was sort of abrupt before engaging in some very deep and meaningful critical reflection and ultimately coming around to it). I think I'd enjoy this more if I watched some more Hyuga and then came back to it again later. So I suppose I'll watch some more Hyuga.
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Post by elliott on Sept 18, 2023 12:42:42 GMT -5
Not crazy about this one. It's fine.
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