Akito, Kaisei Takechi & Yuki Ueno vs. DOUKI, SANADA & SHO

[7.0] "This was probably the best "workrate" match on the card, and the damage done to DOUKI's leg from Akito was a good sequence to watch. HoT were heels, but the crowd was cheering for them over the DDT guys, which was interesting. All of the workers here did a great job, and this was probably one of the better matches on the card"

[4.0] "One of the most frustrating matches of the year. Not only because it was a generic HoT multimen tag stretched for more 15 minutes but because every single time it was picking up a shenigan killed the pacing and in the end they went full blown. An incredible waste of talent. *3/4"

[7.0] "Was a nice match probably the best workrate elements were int his match and it was kinda fun to watch in this format."

[7.0] "In terms of wrestling, best match of the night. Match was fun and seeing the DDT guys wrestle the NJPW guys is always fun."

[7.0] "Pretty good match here, again crowd was really hot and all the DDT guys looked great. I was especially impressed by Yuki Ueno"

[8.0] "I really, really dug this. I become more impressed with SHO and DOUKI as a tandem every time I see them together - they ABSOLUTELY understand the assignment of their role of weaker but resourceful heels, they play a great duo of DOUKI being in peril from a babyface's main submission and SHO saving him by running interference in various ways to get the weapons involved. They do an awesome job of making it seem like DOUKI is barely hanging on by the skin of his teeth. SANADA was a net positive add to their act, and add in a trio of VERY able and exciting DDT wrestlers included the mega talented Ueno and a very game Akito who was awesome in picking DOUKI's leg apart and you got yourself a very good trios match. I really liked this. ****"

[7.0] "Very good trios match, proof that you can do the HoT stuff and still have a match that's fun and offers good in-ring action, unfortunately for me there are some flaws like the presence of dead moments or small details like SHO which gives a significantly lower performance than in the previous match, but overall it was a fun match to watch."