Mark Coleman vs. Toshiaki Kawada

[6.0] "Solid strong style-ish quick matchup. It's over too quickly to fully build, and neither does quite the damage for a shockingly brutal type matchup, but they do look like they're trying to beat each other up, which is a nice thing on this show."

[5.0] "This match starts with some good fast paced action, and the ground grappling is good stuff too. Coleman didn't seem completely comfortable in the ring, and it showed at a few points. The ending submission just felt abrupt and the match never really gets to any high points."

[5.0] "Unlike a lot of the other MMA talent on the card, The Hammer could actually work matches, and while Kawada was in a weird stage of his career where he wasn't the MVP/big name talent he was in the 90's, he could still work when pushed. Needless to say, Coleman pushed. This is worked as a weird PRIDE/wrestling hybrid, so a lot of shoot-style alongside some goofy spots and tropes. Coleman you can tell is a bit shaky in places: the two noticeably pause and stutter in the ring a fair bit, so you have awkward bits where the two are waiting for the other to do something, which is probably due to a obvious language barrier alongside Coleman still being fairly green. The mat stuff is mostly fine though as Kawada is obviously got a good bit of experience working shoot-stuff there, so he's comfortable slapping stuff on. Coleman going full Albright with crazy belly to belly suplexes was a treat, as was Kawada's scrappy strikes whenever he could go. Sadly Coleman is infamously known to gas up hard, so this is cut short after Kawada reverses a German suplex into a fancy kneebar and manages to wangle for position for a Achilles Tendon for the submission win. This isn't great or even MOTN, but a fun and quick Inoki-Ism fest that doesn't offend anywhere but also doesn't really do anything out of the blue. Dangerous K has had better versions of this match but he and Coleman do have at least decent chemistry and know what they are doing."