Ryouji Sai & Zeus vs. Shuji Ishikawa & Suwama

[6.0] "A decent match but one of those that I'm not going to remember. All four did well but Zeus & Sai as a team don't show much chemistry and as much as I liked Sai it was Zeus who did much of the heavy lifting of the team. I get the impression they held back for a future encounter in October."

[7.0] "I was hoping for a blow-away match and I sadly didn't get that, but this still ended up being quite good. We started off with a very bland crowd brawl before the story became centred around Violent Giants beating Zeus down, and I liked that. Suwama and Ishikawa got to show off their monstrous offence while Zeus got to show great babyface fire while still having an exciting and credible offence in his comebacks. I barely remember anything Sai did here. I remember he had a few sweet kicks, but that was it. Same thing with Suwama actually. I remember him showing really good fire towards the end, but nothing else. The best and most heavily focussed upon interactions were between Zeus and Ishikawa, harkening back to their awesome CC match earlier in the year, and they both looked great. Just massive strikes and power moves all over the place. This did admittedly end up being a bit repetitive without any majorly interesting developments, but I enjoyed it all the same, and it was great to see Zeus bounce back from his loss to Miyahara and get the pin to win the titles. Maybe teaming with Sai instead of Bodyguard will allow him to have a decently long reign. ***1/4"

[8.0] "Unexpected dynamic during this match which was more dynamic than expected, not fell into the easy hoss fight way. Good story and good structure of the match to put over the team beween Zeus & Ryouji Sai. Very good match overall. (****)"

[6.0] "A hell of a start with the Violent Giants attacking Sai and Zeus during the ring announcements and brawling briefly in the crowd. It was something different. And different is cool. Ishikawa throws Zeus around and into the guardrails back first which transitioned into the Giants double teaming Zeus well. Ishikawa was the life of the match early on. Compared to Suwama who looked really disinterested both facially and offensively, Ishikawa was very energetic - moving around quickly, putting some urgency into his offence. Suwama starts getting onto the match more once he works off Ishikawa, doing their tandem offence, and he had a pretty nice chop/counter sequence with Sai, who was pretty much a non factor if I? m honest. The match really shines when it's Zeus against Ishikawa and they produce magic when they are just colliding together. The match is good but it's hard to really figure out how good it was when only 2 out of the 4 wrestlers are consistently good from start to finish. Sai might as well have not been in the match, he really did nothing substantial. Even his brief FIP section was dull and nondescript.. ***1/4"