Friday, September 15, 2017

Masahito Kakihara vs. Gary Albright (UWFi, 5/17/95)

Remember the Sano match? Well, this borrows that same template of Kakihara getting dominated for about 80% of the match and Kaki sneaking a submission win out, via the same roll up kneebar nonetheless. Gary is being Gary here, taking Kaki down with a belly-to-belly suplex and then just trying to wear him out with the grounded full nelson. Albright uses his girth to essentially smother Kakihara on the mat, and Kaki doesn’t have much to answer with. When he tries striking, Albright snatches a leg and takes him back down or at one point, counters with an awesome leg-catch throw. He folds Kaki up with a big boy German suplex but when he catches another kick, Kaki levels up, blasting Gary with an enziguri. Copy-and-paste finish from the Sano match and Kaki with perhaps one of the biggest upset victories of his career.

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