Damnnnnnnnn close fight is close. As requested I'm here to make the final ruling for the victor of this one. I've read this thread a few times over and just first off it was a really good one! But, actual critiquing is up to graders so I'm going to just go to the main bit. The winner of this fight, just barely, is Masato Fujikawa.
It was really tough, but I had to decided the level of damage each combatant had to take. The Shoryuken was brutal and so was all the fire spam but at the end Raury got the worst end of the bargain. Tanking a large chunk of Masato's overdrive as well as the point blank shots to the stomach are easily major wounds to say the least. It's because of this that I'm giving the -very- slight edge to Masato.
It was really tough, but I had to decided the level of damage each combatant had to take. The Shoryuken was brutal and so was all the fire spam but at the end Raury got the worst end of the bargain. Tanking a large chunk of Masato's overdrive as well as the point blank shots to the stomach are easily major wounds to say the least. It's because of this that I'm giving the -very- slight edge to Masato.