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The most reliable place to watch the famous exchange is Evo Events’ official YouTube highlight, “Evo Moment 37: The Daigo Parry.” It shows the celebrated moment 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 Evo Moment 37

Official highlight

Watch the Evo Events YouTube highlight for the parry sequence. The official listing names the players and game, making it the clearest verified source for the moment itself.

What about the full match?

A Vimeo listing by Craig Keller describes its video as the full fight. The listing alone does not establish whether the upload is authorized or official, and an official full-match archive was not verified here.

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What happened in the match

Evo Moment 37 is the nickname for a decisive passage in the Evo 2004 losers-bracket match between Daigo Umehara, playing Ken, and Justin Wong, playing Chun-Li, in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Guinness World Records identifies it as a losers-bracket match; Shacknews describes the relevant round as a semifinal, so “losers-bracket semifinal” is a reasonable qualified description rather than a universally consistent bracket label.

With Daigo’s character down to a sliver of health, Wong launched Chun-Li’s Super Art. Daigo parried all 15 hits, then counterattacked and won the match, according to Guinness World Records.

Why the parry was so difficult

In Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, a parry absorbs an incoming hit without damage, but it requires a precisely timed input toward the attacker. Blocking instead requires a backward input. As Shacknews explains, Daigo had to execute a series of timed defensive inputs through the Super Art rather than simply hold a block direction, then respond with an attack.

The movement before the Super

Capcom’s 2012 article quotes Seth Killian describing Daigo’s movement immediately before Wong launched the Super. Killian says Daigo mirrored Wong as Wong moved back and forth across the screen, and interprets that mirroring as deliberate preparation. This is Killian’s analysis as reported by Capcom, not a statement attributed to Daigo himself. Read Capcom’s account.

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How many people watched it?

Guinness World Records recorded 9,095,836 YouTube views as of 3 March 2020, when it listed the match as the most-viewed competitive fighting videogame bout on YouTube. That is a dated record figure, not the current view count. Guinness notes that records can change and are not published online immediately.

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Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection includes Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Capcom announced the collection for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC; its announcement and platform information are available through Capcom, Nintendo, and PlayStation. This collection is a way to play the game, not a source for the historical match video; availability depends on platform and region.

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