Chris Brookes & Kazuma Sumi vs. Kazusada Higuchi & Yuya Koroku

[7.0] "A match that probably would've been the main event were it not for the show's focus on MAO and 37Kamina. Brookes vs. Koroku is magnetic and the main attraction of DDT right now, so of course all their interactions were fascinating (and credit to Brookes, who does a great job selling and highlighting how lethal Koroku's arm game is), but, this match also secretly kind of inserts Higuchi into the title picture, as hind sight reveals. Sumi is the fall guy here and no one is surprised, but Higuchi kind of secretly steals the show with his hard hitting offense and brief comedy spots, such as his interactions with the Schadenfreude rubber band."