[8.0] "I really liked this match and it felt more like the final than the final. Would have like to see a pinfall but I guess Hara is finally out of the doghouse. You wouldn't know Gordy was missing ligaments in his knee by watching this match and his pairing with Hansen seemed to really click."
[7.0] "The last 5 or 6 minutes were really fun, especially when Gordy came in and the pace got quicker but the 25 minutes before kinda just happend. There were some nice moves or stiff strikes but it felt really spaced out and slow."
[7.0] "It was a really nice finishing stretch, but the twenty-minute lead-up fell flat. The absence of Ted DiBiase was noticeable when you compare this to some of the RWTL matches from 1985 and 1986. DiBiase was much more suited to dragging matches out than his replacement Terry Gordy. Without him, it feels long for the sake of being long, especially with Hara and Gordy both having limited styles."
[8.0] "This is your prototypical slow All Japan build into a chaotic finish. The match first starts to really pick up when Stan Hansen hits a piledriver to the floor. From there things build into a chaotic down stretch where all 4 are involved, the action is constantly spilling to the outside, and eventually both teams are counted out. If you can get through the early stretch it pays off in the end. ****1/4"
[7.0] "The penultimate match of the 1987 Real World Tag League is probably the best of the tournament. It's not quite the MOTDC that three of these people will have (with Toshiaki Kawada in Hara's place) in the next year's final, and I'm not quite as high on this as Dave was, but it's a very good match that looks ahead to the Tenryu/Hansen rivalry that will define much of 1988. Everybody delivers good performances. We end in double countout, but the finishing run as a whole was still really nice. ***3/4"
