Daiki Nagai, OSKAR & Yuto-Ice vs. Masatora Yasuda, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura

[5.0] "Ein durchschnittliches Match zwischen den beiden Teams. Alle können im Ring kurz etwas von sich zeigen und am Ende muss ein Young Lion den Pin einstecken."

[5.0] "Pretty mediocre. Of course a Young Lion had to lay down in the end. We know the match at Osaka for the IWGP Tag Team Titles will be good, but this here was just a fluke win for the supposedly "good guys". If NJPW books it smart, Yuya and Uemura loose to KoB and then turn Shota finally heel, betraying his tag partner Yuya and punishing him for the loss they just received. Then he could join House of Torture becoming their Heavyweight Leader. With his "tortured" path he it would fit naturally in this group, and then just make the HoT faction more like old Suzuki-gun: vicious, nasty, but still good at wrestling. And most of the major problems of NJPW could be extinguished."

[4.0] "A very nothing burger opening. Nothing to write home about here with generic spots and sequences to dampen the show and just to have a match to build for Osaka. Didn't care for this one too much. [**.35]"

[5.0] "This was fine. nagai is a great young lion and has been demonstrating it further, but this match wasn't really anything to write home about"

[6.0] "This was alright, Nagai continues to be a highlight this tour and of course Knock Out Brothers are great. 3 stars"

[5.0] "Shota & Yuya finally get one over KOB. A fairly standard six man here, with Nagai there to take the pin but he looked good again. **3/4."