Imagine if the anime had the quality of the manga. They left out 50% of the cool stuff. Seki is actually an EXTREMELY technical fighter, he doesnt just take the hits, he can micro-dodge in order to minimize damage and even counter. Also hes one of the most wholesome guys in the series.

They didn't cover this in the fight but there is a method to Seki's madness. In the manga, they explain that Seki's style of not blocking is actually something else. Instead of just eating hits like nothing, Seki will turn his body in ways that make it so his opponent's hurt themselves while fighting him. The biggest example was why Takeru fell after giving Seki his spear. Seki tightened his abs and then thrust his chest downwards in order to protect his guts and slam his chest into the back of Takeru's head. So not only did he get feedback from his own headbutt, but also the force on back of the head as well. Seki also does it for blocking punches to the face and blows to the body. It's better explained in the manga!

This fight is criminally underrated.

Seki is easily in my top 5 favourite fighters in this series. Kiozan is great as well, I've never seen a delinquent sumo wrestler before, love how angry he is.

Can we get some appreciation for Mana Hirata? Her delivery as Sayaka is so hype, she brings the whole tournament together.

So, theres a little something youre not getting from just the anime. Seki moves in a way, when he receives hits that softens the blows by alot. When kiozan headbutted him, seki pushed down his chest, retracting his stomach at the same time, pushing kiozans head down as he impacted. That made a lot of the force go into the back of his head and neck. Its not that seki won just because of his conviction, its that through his conviction he perfected his style of wrestlng, while kiozan didnt do the same with sumo. Thats what in the end kata said that seki won through his efforts.

What I understood from Takeru (Sumo) is that he wanted to go to the roots of sumo, when the martial art was created, yes, the bodies were big but small enough to throw kicks without an issue, overtime sumo transformed into a short very explosive fight but with the downside that anyone with good reflexes to evade the tackle can win against a sumo, that's what Takeru didn't liked and saw modern sumo as weak in comparison to other martial arts that for sure are outdated but could still win a few matches against other martial arts.

I really want a spin off with Hell's Angel as the MC. I need more Jun.

One of my favorite fights in the series. The art in the manga is SO GOOD at this point in the Annihilation Tournament.

Seki is easily my favorite character in Kengan. I even got a shirt signed by the Author at AX when the anime first came out with him also signing the name of our favorite characters. I obviously choose Seki

After he gets backstage he actually throws up blood

Yes, Kick are allowed in the ancient sumo. We have Kehaya II and Sukune II in baki, who prove it.

In the manga they show sekibayashi motivation to why he never defend a hit, is like a HNK moment made to bring manly tears outa you and it work, this a man that gonna die before betray his fighinting style. And you gonna love him for that.

I wanna just say that Pro-Wrestling isn't *fake*, it's *scripted*. Half of your training is how to do a move safely, the other half is how to *take* a move safely. Seki's style is the second half cranked up to 11 - taking the bump as safely as possible while still looking like a solid hit to a casual observer, and then in Kengan matches, doing it in such a way that the attacker takes damage.

So Takeru doesnt follow the rules of MODERN Sumo. He follows Ancient sumo, back to where it all began. It was a much more rounded and brutal sport.

There's a scene after the fight where Seki collapses to his knees and coughs up blood, he can't let the audience see how much damage he actually received.

That power bomb was so Quentin Rampage Jackson style I loved it

I love this format! I've watched a lot of your other shorter videos and always wished that you start commentating for the whole fight ( less editing in longer form content, what's not to love? ) so this was a treat! Thank you for the always Entertaining infotainment.

7:57 it is in ancient sumo which is what his doing his using the original ancient sumo which did allow kicks i belive he did explain this in the anime its possible this was removed from the anime

I think Seki was about to faint in the backroom and coughing up blood. He was making the face as an entertainer, but he was badly hurt

This is probably where seki coughs up blood after fight

This fight is my absolute favorite fight next to Ohma vs Raian.

while force (mass x acceleration) is important for strikes, what you measure is the impact and pressure of an attack. 1/2 *mass * velocity squared gives you the impact strength (im ignoring time as a factor here because its pretty much negligible for this system) still, with the force you have you accelerate your body and that over time gives you speed so they are pretty much related

Something that's always irked me when it comes to fighting series like this talking about Sumo is that they always say Sumo wrestlers have no stamina. But that's not the case at all. When they're not fighting in a 15 day tournament every other month, they're training for those tournaments. They train upwards of 6 hours a day 6 days a week in order to build up their body to its absolute peak. By no means are these guys lacking in stamina. But due to the fact that a match can end in less than a second, they are trained to burn through all of that stamina as quickly as possible in order to secure the win. The way I compare it to try and get my friends to understand it is, try to push a 300 lb sack of potatoes 15 feet as quickly as you can. Literally burn every last ounce of strength in your body to move it that 15 feet in less than 3 seconds. And when you come back panting and out of breath, realize that in a sumo match that the sack of potatoes is gonna be pushing back. A sumo wrestler preparing to fight in an MMA match or something that lasts longer than a few seconds would obviously train differently. Also, given the strength training sumo wrestlers go through in order to be as powerful as they are. I'm kinda scared what a full power kick or elbow strike would be from one of them. Especially cause there are filmed cases of Wrestlers being knocked out cold from a single palm thrust.

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Im sure others have pointed it out but Seki isnt really "just taking" the blows. Every single blow is met by a micro dodge (moving just enough to throw off the impact some, or allowing the blow to push you while you are essentially shadowing it) which is what he does when he gets hit in the head, muscle deflection where he tightens certain muscle groups while relaxing others to again change the way impacts happen, or a combination of both.

Also I believe it was in Baki or was it in the manga of Kengan Ashura, that against that sumo tackle, the character on the receiving end angled it's belly so that on impact, the head of the sumo changed trayectory, diminishing the damage received by the fighter but the sumo received the same damage as if it were a normal sumo tackle, his neck suffered a lot of weight on impact. That might be what Sekibayashi did, still can't remember if it was on Baki or in Kengan where they showed this explanation, if it was in Kengan then that explains it, Skibayashi was prepared for the tackle but Takeru didn't expected Seki's plan.

I love this series. Love how I got know about all these different fighting styles. I had no idea Liethway or Silat even existed.

Gotta remember bro. Traditional sumo used fists and kicks, they allowed stomping too! Just a little info too. There are way more details for traditional sumo. What's his face even states that it was ancient sumo, at the end

I’m late but here’s the math: suppose we take the visuals to heart and say Takeru moved faster than the human eye could see, this means he closed a distance of about 20 meters in 13 milliseconds. And taking his mass of 159kg(351lbs), Takeru’s headbutt struck with a force of 244,615.3846 Newton’s of Force.

I would suggest any of the Sumo fights from Hinamaru Sumo

I think Sekibayashi Jun is the fighter with the strongest endurance and charisma in the tournament. receiving all attacks from the opponent is an attraction and at the same time jun's weakness, well jun is like Wolverine lunging at the enemy like a bullet. 😂

One of the best fights in the series

When I saw this episode and heard about the thing with the topknot, the first thing that crossed my mind was "You can't use that hair! Only _we_ can use that hair!"

If I remember my Manga correctly Sekibiashi is a dual type wrestler. He is a superstar wrestler (like the uses WWE) but he is also a hardcore wrestler where they don't fake shit and sometimes wrestle in not so safe places so he is fucking durable!

These are the Top Ranks of Sumo Yokuzuna Ozeki Sekiwake Komusubi Maegashira

Oh man! Max was able to upload it here! This fight was seriously brutal and it shows what happens when you lie about your record, your opponent will know if they are that experienced. Hope to see Apachai Vs the Elder from Kenichi OVA: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/er1hjLd2sJuoe2w.html

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Its actually has addition to the finale of this battle. its not only about the faith and all that stuff. Sekibayashi made a counter-move to Kiozan when he get this final hit which result was - the heavy head-trauma of Kiozan and why he falls. There was told that this is the Sekibayashi unique style - recieve blows in special way to damage attacker even more. And all that stuff. Also he almost crushed when he was out of the arena. But he is a pro-wrestler so he was playing that "walking" while in reality he was damaged beyond belief. Good fight good anime and manga is good too. All that stuff that i mentioned before was in manga. I am not sure if it was in anime.

5:45 "Pro-Wrestling may be fake, but the stunts are 100% real"

2:36 Seki looks like Jack Torrance in Shining!

actually, a Straight Jacket is when trap the arms across the opposite side of the body so a Straight Jacket Germen Suplex would be when you are taking the Back and have the opponent Left wrist in your right hand and his Right wrist in you left hand, then you drop your hips below your opponent's when you lift you push out with hips trying to get your Pelvis under theirs so you have the lower center of gravity and the more stable base when you arch back you lead with using your chest, shoulders, and upper back, you never lift with your back it is a good way to throw it and you don't want to be taking to much damage to your lower back as you are bumping (Falling) onto solid wooden boards with only a thin peace of padding and a canvas. I trained to be a Pro Wrestler it is no joke how much those ring Pumps can cause major damage over time

I love sekibayashi.

In the English dub they explain that the sumo wrestler is being disrespectful by wearing that garb he didn't earn the right to wear.

Pro-wrestlers have to learn how to receive hits and Seki showed that often. He moves just a bit before the hit lands. Reminds me of Thorfinn tanking 100 punches by rolling very slightly.

I would recommend reading the Kengan Ashura manga and it's ongoing sequel series, Kengan Omega. It is unsure if this anime series is continuing or not but the manga has the whole tournament in it.

You should do the new season because your reactions are cool

I know it is kinda on the older side but I would love a reaction to Kenichi, World's Mightiest Deciple. High school getting to have special training from 5 world class martial arts masters, while he is lacking any ennate talent.

i swear sekibayashi's body looks so weird in the anime, he feels like he got squashed down a little compared to his manga counterpart

Sekibayashi believe in his pro wrestling not in himself in winning.

Do not know this series yet... not by name at least. Maybe the fight will remind me.

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Max, the third rank you're searching for is "sekiwake". You're welcome 😊!

Can I request your reaction for Kengan Ashura muay thai fighter Saw Paing vs Karo. would love to hear your analysis

7:05 While obviously they aren't QUITE as athletic as the animated wrestler, this video is pretty good to see big men move: "10 WWE Super heavyweights Who Did Flippy Cruiserweight Moves"

I have a very important question. One I’ve been pounding my head against for years. I get what your saying, you have to sacrifice what seems practical to stay within the rules, even so, they are still good at what they do. But my question is that I really really hope you or someone else can help me answer…. What happens when your practicing a vary underdeveloped or not very practised martial art. Like there is forms and stances and all that. But if it’s so underdeveloped technique wise, do I still stick to the rules and train for a typical match in that martial art, or do I only take inspiration for it and in a way, sacrifice it to better suit a MMA sort of match? Do I sacrifice my conviction to to the sport in order for it to be practical and able to fight other fighters, or do I believe in it more and be patient with it till I can finally fight another same practitioner? I know this question is complicated but as I said, I really really would appreciate any answer. Thank you and grate video.

I do like the message of this fight like while you need to be well rounded to fight in MMA there’s nothing wrong with being a specialist. A fighter with a Taekwondo Background will add in all the techniques from Poomsae and look like an MMA fighter but might barely kick anymore. It loses the beauty of what Taekwondo is. Compared to the pro wrestlers approach who has adapted the combat philosophy and techniques of pro wrestling for a well rounded ruleset.

Still waiting for season 3

There are big men that can move like this in a way Brock lesnar as a prime example

Seki one of the best characters in Kengan Ashura

Sekibayashi vs raian would be a decent fight

Read the manga it is soo good

If my Baki knowledge is correct you can kick in ancient sumo

Well self belief and strong willpower can do miracles. But there's a limit where the mind can overcome damage and fatigue. That's a limit that is taken away in anime, but very well present in reality. Take some morals from these animations but don't believe the very same applies to actual humans, kids XD

I lived to see a sumo wrestler with a six pack. Meanwhile I got 50ish kg and don't have it lmao

Metal.....gear?

Old sumo kicking and punching was allowed

Netflix did this series dirty.. Manga is waaaaayy better. And not to mention that they cut off lots of scenes

That's my disadvantage I'm Tall I have Strenght smole people know I'm stronger than most of them I'm faster but I'm slower and I lose energy way faster than they do if I have a fught I have to end it in 10 minutes max I can't prolong it or I will lose of exoscion I'm the type of fighter like this Pro Restler or the other one ho takes hits and cunter attacks I take hits than I also analyze than hit back I'm kind of a mix of 5 caracters from here Yoroizuka Sekibayashi Ohma Cosmo Seishu I'm a mix of all of them in 1

If that was Baki, Sumo would’ve won, 100% guaranteed.

WRONG. You absolutely can kick in sumo. you can't kick above the mawashi. Kicking is generally disadvantageous in sumo

This fight was quite boring tho watch some baki fights or different Kengan ashura ones u haven’t seen yet

you should read baki manga baki is far beyond than kengan ashura

man, that anime fight was terrible...just pure plot armor...basically that wrestler dude was just face blocking everything until sumo guy got tired of beating the crap out of him ...why in anime /cartoons 95% of fights has to be written in a super lazy way like that, ,so sad...guys responsible for writing fight scenes are as competent as one of these ``social media or mainstream doctors`` or 90% of fitness influencers.