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Watch the official Evo Events YouTube highlight, “Evo Moment 37: The Daigo Parry”. It captures the famous exchange from Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong’s Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike match at Evo 2004; it is a highlight, not the complete match.
Where to watch the famous exchange
The most reliable viewing option is Evo Events’ official YouTube highlight, titled “Evo Moment 37: The Daigo Parry.” It shows the celebrated sequence in which Daigo’s Ken defends against Chun-Li’s Super Art and counters. Use it to see the moment itself, rather than as a record of the entire match.
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A Vimeo listing by Craig Keller describes its video as the full fight. The listing does not establish whether the upload is authorized or official, and no official full-match archive is established here.
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What happened in Evo Moment 37?
The match was Daigo Umehara’s Ken against Justin Wong’s Chun-Li in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike at Evo 2004. It was a losers-bracket match; Shacknews calls the relevant round a semifinal, so “losers-bracket semifinal” is a cautious description rather than a universally consistent bracket label.
With Daigo’s character reduced to a sliver of health, Wong launched Chun-Li’s Super Art. Guinness World Records says Daigo parried all 15 hits and then won the match.
Why the parry was difficult
Parrying is not the same as blocking. As Shacknews explains, a parry absorbs a hit without damage and requires an input toward the attacker; blocking uses a backward command. Against Chun-Li’s multi-hit Super Art, Daigo had to time a series of defensive inputs, then counterattack. The sequence was a precise defensive play, not simply holding a block.
What happened just before the Super?
Capcom’s 2012 article quotes Seth Killian describing Daigo’s movement as he tracked Wong immediately before the Super. Killian said Daigo was “mirroring his actions” as Wong moved back and forth, and characterized that movement as deliberate. This is Killian’s analysis as quoted by Capcom, not a statement attributed to Daigo.
How widely was the match viewed?
Guinness World Records recorded 9,095,836 YouTube views for the match as of 3 March 2020, describing it in that record entry as the most-viewed competitive fighting videogame bout on YouTube. That is a historical figure, not the current view count. Guinness notes that records can change and may not be published online immediately.
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Sources
- Evo Events: “Evo Moment 37: The Daigo Parry”
- Craig Keller’s Vimeo listing described as the full fight
- Guinness World Records: most-viewed competitive fighting videogame bout on YouTube
- Shacknews: Evo Moment 37 and the parry
- Capcom: Evo Moment 37, including Seth Killian’s analysis
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