History Awesome / KenganAshura

[[caption-width-right:350:Say goodbye to your organs]]

** Jurota being the second man to defeat Agito. Despite a Dragon Shot to the chest and flying knee to the face Jurota is able to do one last throw where he forces all the force on Agito's head, knocking him out. This doesn't stop Agito as he can fight though concussion who then grabs and mounts Jurota, in a position similar to when Masaki pounded the judoka unconscious. Jurota uses his last bit of strength to lunge for a choke, which is broken when Agito knocks Jurota and himself out, and recovers a few moment before the Kengan champion.

--> '''Agito:''' ''[[VillainRespect Brilliant. You're simply brilliant, Arashiyama.]]''

** Lihito then handily wins the final against Koga. While Koga was the one that got off worse from their previous fight the ease with which Lihito feinted his Fist Eye for a quick knock out solidifies his evolution. Like with Saw Paing he wins not by using what Gensai taught him or his instincts but by understanding his opponent weakness and adding things outside his usual moveset.

--> '''TheNarrator:''' '''Two great stars collided, and one star fell... The star that shone bright, shone fiercer and shone stronger remained. The name of that star was...'''

* Gensai vs. the Fang of Metsudo. Against all odds, Gensai ''wins'', in one of the most protracted and intense fights in the series.

* Ohma vs. Cosmo Imai. Cosmo earns points by, quite literally, wiping the floor with Ohma during the first part of the match, combining his own reaction time and newly-developed Foresight to completely exhaust Ohma. Ohma, for his part, escapes every single joint lock and choke Cosmo throws at him, while showing some incredible grappling prowess of his own (including the utterly ridiculous, and completely awesome, Water Dragon's Vein.)

* Ohma vs. Raian.
** Ohma starts the fight unveiling his newfound strength and progress from training for round 2, overwhelming on Raian with a series of strikes while the latter just barely able to touch him (and gave him a nasty kick to the jewels when he did!) This manages to shock every fighter watching him...

* Suekichi Kaneda vs Kaolan Wongsawat. At first, Kaolan didn't expect much of him, disappointed by most of the tournaments' roster so far. While he's very much justified in being assured of victory, he's surprised by Kaneda's ability to read him. He's barely able to block most of the boxer's strikes, but the fact that he was able to react to those incredibly quick strikes in the first place is impressive on its own.

* Terashi vs Okubo: Terashi starts off the fight by just being so goddamn ''weird'' that he utterly unnerves Okubo. From his [[StealthyColossus completely silent]] entrance to easily nullifying some of Okubo's most powerful punches, Terashi leaves the normally-boisterous Okubo in a cautious approach while also nullifying his formidable grappling ''and'' causing his hands to spurt blood.

** Once the fight kicks off, Donaire closes the distance and launches off a barrage of punches. Ohma, showing impressive growth, easily dodges them by reading the "perception of intent", a technique which even the likes of Gensai and Medel took decades to accomplish. Even then, it only takes a few seconds for Donaire to outpace Ohma and send him flying due to him outpredicting Ohma's Pre-Intative.

* Ohma vs. Imai Cosmo. Cosmo earns points by, quite literally, wiping the floor with Ohma during the first part of the match, combining his own reaction time and newly-developed Foresight to completely exhaust Ohma. Ohma, for his part, escapes every single joint lock and choke Cosmo throws at him, while showing some incredible grappling prowess of his own (including the utterly ridiculous, and completely awesome, Water Dragon's Vein.)

* Agito vs. Lu Tian. Both are survivors of the Gu Ritual and students of "The Other Tokita Niko". While Agito was able to prevent Lu Tian from even landing a hit on him. Lu Tian revealing his perfected Formless and capable of outmatching Agito's Formless which is later revealed to be incomplete and "Marital Arts" individually forcing the latter to use a combo of both styles at once to overwhelm him. Before Lu Tian revealed he is capable of using Removal at a WHOPPING 96% PERCENT. Then Agito defeats him with a Dragon Shot.

* Cosmo Vs. Akoya. After Akira intercepted Hiyama, Akoya goes into a murderous frenzy and starts brutally torturing Cosmo, sending the young fighter into a HeroicBSOD faced with an opponent who wants to kill him for the first time in his life. Then he gets a second wind and breaks out of the hold, having realized he likes about fighting: Winning. He puts Akoya into tight hold, never letting go even as Akoya smashes him against the wall with his body and thrashes around until the Executioner is unconscious.

* Hatusmi vs Fang of Metsudo. We get both of them at their respective peak. However, Kanoh changed his style now fighting to win, showing the extent of his skills, intercepting all of Hatsumi's moves and utterly '''crushing''' Hatsumi with a few strikes total. Kanoh emerges from the unscathed.

* Fei vs Wakatsuki, full stop. Even [[WordOfGod the author]] called it a true battle of superhumans in an author's note for the release of the full volume.

* Ohma vs Rolón Donaire: After a long, ''long'' buildup, we finally get to hear a bit more about Donaire, namely that he has an astounding '''422-0''' win record in Purgatory. Even more amazingly, he apparently fought ''Gensai'' to a draw.

* Edward Wu and his clan vs Erioh Kure, Wu Xing and Raian Kure.

* While also demonstrating a fair bit of NightmareFuel, Masaki Hayami finally confronting his abusive father has its moments. Not only does he easily take down Koi Yamagata, the leader of the newly-reformed Guardians by ''fully spinning his head 180 degrees'', he also tricks his Hayami into not activating the bombs inside of him before killing the old man. Admittedly, he does reveal his insanity in the process.

* Okubo vs. Kanoh Agito, the Fang of Metsudo. In spite of being the unbeatable champion of the Kengan matches, it is ''not'' a one-sided curb-stomp. The entire time, Okubo puts up a good fight, even turning the tables on the Fang at one point with a mix up of throws, holds, locks and blows. Then the Fang decides to get serious and knocks him out with a blow to the head.

* Ohma vs. Wakatsuki Takeshi. The semifinal match and both fighters realize whoever wins will have a fight they both know [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption they will be defeated.]]

* Hayami Masaki vs. Jurota Arashiyama. Jurota is an undisputed master of Judo, having developed a technique which allows him to throw opponents with no lag and basically zero movement on his part. Hayami, for his part, simply ''refuses'' to stay down, popping up faster and faster after each throw. Turns out that his TrainingFromHell with Meguro has made him nearly impervious to Judo throws, and his use of striking gives him an upper hand on the older Jurota. As Hayami notes, Jurota might be stronger, but he's faced ''much'' scarier opponents before.

* Ohma vs Rolón Donaire :
** After a long, ''long'' buildup, we finally get to hear a bit more about Donaire, namely that he has an astounding '''422-0''' win record in Purgatory. Even more amazingly, he apparently fought ''Gensai'' to a draw.

* Lihito breaking his losing streak against top tier fighter by defeating Saw Paing. As Kuroki explained Lihito was still trying to integrate what his master taught him with what comes naturally and what he saw others do, resulting sharp dodges of Saw Paing attack before getting him in a front choke like Cosmo did. Having seen the fight with Cosmo though Lihito add his own merits by using his great strength to lift Saw Paing off the ground, stopping him from getting out with a slam like he did with Cosmo.

* When Xia Ji attempts to kill Kazuo, he's intercepted by Ryo Himuro, who proceeds to beat the everloving hell out of him, casually dismantling a half-dozen of Xia Ji's attempts to deploy hidden weapons. It's such a CurbStompBattle, Ji is left in utter disbelief as to how a "second-string" fighter like Himuro could pummel him so easily.