Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-74.104.206.83-20130730235710/@comment-11188061-20140220011126

It is. If you've played Street Fighter before (or you can go and check it on YouTube), you'll realize that Chun Li's Ultimate executes rapid kicks in succession. To block it, you'll need to tap the move joystick at the absolute right timing, and one mistake means GG, since Ken (Or Ryu? I don't remember) was down to his absolute last drop of HP.

While it's not actually too hard for a SF professional to block it, Daigo not only did it under pressure in THE SF Semi Final tournament against his rival, he completely predicted the pattern and did a cool ass counter to break Chun Li's Ultimate, then counter with his own Ultimate as the epic finisher. I don't think such an epic moment was ever re-enacted in any SF competition since.