Quote Originally Posted by Yukimura
I must agree with imbtd, though that reference is ridiculously old. If I hadn't recently seen it on the US dub airing I would have completely forgotten about that habit of Itachi's. If that's how the fight ends it's sort of lame, but hey, this is how Garaa vs Kimmimaru ended too so it's not like it's unprecedented. Countering your opponent until they exhaust themselves is a legitimate strategy too.
From the looks of the spoiler pics, I was right for once. Looks like Itachi just kind of taps him on the forehead like he used to do. Kind of funny how they were able to get that back in there within the context of him trying to steal his brothers' eyes. Nice tie-in I would say.