10 Hardest Hitters In Wrestling Right Now
4. Tomohiro Ishii
'The Stone Pitbull' has supplied his typically-sublime summer selection of bruising battles since a gripping war with Minoru Suzuki at RevPro/NJPW's Strong Style Evolved event in Altrincham almost stole the show from a Kazuchika Okada/Zack Sabre Jr blockbuster, but Tomohiro Ishii's G1 Climax performances were a cavalcade of cranium-splitting creativity.
His contest with Kenny Omega stole many of the headlines as the tournament was in progress, but time will also be justifiably kind to his breathtaking brawls with Tetsuya Naito, Kota Ibushi and especially Hirooki Goto for how Ishii in particular donated his body, soul and (fighting) spirit to the cause.
Caving in chest cavities with his stunted chrome dome and brutally breaking opponent bodies with his own, Ishii was a violent assassin of the wrestling upper class. Aesthetically awesome in an entirely different way to some of the muscular and indulgent men of the modern era, Tomohiro Ishii's grasp of how to sell a violent attack enhances the power behind his delivery of one.