Kosei Fujita vs. SHO

[6.0] "Once again this was much more fun than I expected. The Sho vs Fujita match was not very good but it had some clever cheating moments from Sho. The followup Robbie vs Kanemaru match was even better so as a combined rating for both matches (since I can't review Nobu vs Robbie) I'll give it a 6."

[5.0] "[2.5 Stars] I liked the story they told here with Kosei finally using House of Torture's own tactics against them, disqualification be damned. They have made his life difficult for far too long, so who cares about wins, losses, whatever, beating down SHO was worth it for Fujita. The in ring action preceding the climax wasn't amazing, admittedly, SHO is a shadow of the wrestler he once was thanks to his HoT character, but it was short enough that it's hard to consider this a bad match"

[3.0] "It's a shame that sho's matches always end up like this, you have some talent with fujita and sho and instead they do this, i understand the building to their tag match, but the could have done that without the same shenanigans sho always do."

[4.0] "Both this match and the one that followed it were more like segments to build to the tag title match. They're adequate for that reason alone. It was weird to have two DQ finishes in one night though."

[3.0] "About three minutes of decent action sandwiched betwen six minutes of the usual slop. At least Fujita wasn't made to look like a total dork ahead of his defence."

[6.0] "A pretty fun match, let's wait for the real SHO vs. Fujita experience in year or two when SHO turns face. Those two can have a banger shoot-style match, but their cheating encounter was entertaining too. ***"

[7.0] "I like heel nonsense when done properly and this was a very good, very logical application of heel nonsense. The crowd was hot for Fujita and SHO used his bastardry to slip some cheap tactics in and pick Fujita's arm apart. I dunno if this one match in particular just hit right for me or if SHO and Fujita have great chemistry but this was probably the best singles match I've seen outta SHO since joining House of Torture. Fujita snapping and bashing his skull in was great comeuppance."

[3.0] "This match is really empty with SHO's control segments were extremely boring and lasted the majority of the match until Kosei Fujita got disqualified after hitting SHO with the black mirror which was the best thing of this match - *1/2"

[5.0] "Very HoT business heavy as you'd expect, I at least liked the fiery offense of Fujita beating the hell out of SHO for the beginning portion of this match but it kinda stalled a lot with the cheating spots, eventually ending with a DQ after Fujita just gives up and hits SHO in front of the ref"

[4.0] "Another DQ finish with more House of Torture shenanigans involved. They don't even do anything clever with it, it just happens and your supposed to enjoy it for some unforsaken reason. Another underwhelming match. I was expecting a lot more from this. [**.25]"

[5.0] "This might har been decent, but we will never know because as per usual the nonsense kicked off. Up until that point this was a solid match, decent pacing. None of the ring work was below standard, but as I mentioned this was story match so I should just accept that. My kingdom! My kingdom for a straight match!"

[5.0] "This was never going to be a decisive match with the combination of the House of Torture stuff as well as the fact that they have a tag title match on the following show, I did like the way they segued into the next match, it kept this whole endeavor short and easy to watch. 2.75 stars"

[5.0] "Unsurprisingly, there were an absolute ton of shenanigans here. There was also some fairly decent wrestling and solid striking from both. SHO's selling was on point here, too. For what it was, this was pretty entertaining. The lead in to the next match was fun, too. **3/4."