"God's In His Heaven, All Is Right With The World." As well all know, Katsuyori Shibata almost dies in the aftermath of this match, this was his personal heaven. It's a match that has been talked about a lot recently, largely due to Joseph Montecillo reviewing this as a commission and seeing him write and talk about it made me want to rewatch it for the year, initially I didn't plan to write about it, but there's so much that this match makes me feel that I just had to. Firstly, even just the presentation of this match makes it feel like the biggest thing in the universe. Ryogoku Sumo Hall is absolutely electric for everything, Masahiro Chono makes a rare commentary appearance for this and everyone in the arena is fully behind Shibata for this, even with Okada being made to feel like the most important being in the world at this point, Shibata is the one in the hearts of the people. I mentioned Joseph's review earlier and he makes a point to the shot of ...
Ryuji Hijakata is in hell, unfortunately for him, he is alone with the devil. Little side note before we start, I was initially planning on writing about Sareee vs Ranna Yagami from the 08/06/2025 Stardom show and I still am going to be! Expect that over the weekend at some point, I've got a few other projects I'm working on as well as that so it'll take a little longer, I just saw this match for the first time a couple of hours ago and felt immediately compelled to write about it so I did, as always I would recommend seeking this match out afterwards, it is easily available on YouTube so it is not difficult to find. Enough yapping though, lets actually talk about this. Yuki Ishikawa is someone who I know a bit about but someone who I want to learn and dive into way more. I already recognise from what I have seen that he's one the rawest and straight up best wrestlers of all time, so him coming up against a BattlArts trainee, one who had left to join A...