This looked like a straight up real mma fight more than anything, yet still has the wrestling magic that suspends our disbelief and named it all believable. This is the beauty of professional wrestling!
Around the early 2000's NOAH was hot as hell, and you had Kenta, Takayama, Kobosha, Kawada, Shibata, Mitsuharu Misawa. Mix in the ROH guys back in the day, NOAH was on par, or better then New Japan. I am glad to see this match because early year Kenta was a beast. No if's, ands or buts about it.