First Tiger Mask & Gran Hamada vs. Solar & Ultraman

[4.0] "I'm not knowledgeable about Mexican lucha but Solar and Ultraman are WAY past their prime: Solar is 49, Ultraman is nearly 60. Because of the nature of lucha bumping they can go better than you'd think they could at their respective ages, but still. Solar and Hamada have some okish mat exchanges and fast paced work at times, even if it isn't anything you haven't seen before. Hamada does "carry" Solar to a degree in terms of bumping around for him and making his stuff look better than it would have otherwise. The main issue with the match is that there's a lot of awkward pauses between sequences: the lads don't really share a common language between each other so they kinda have to guess what the other is trying to do and go along. Hamada and Solar can do this fairly well even if Solar is insanely over the top, but Ultraman and Sayama aren't as lucky together and end up repeating spots: like Ultraman literally at one point just repeats doing a bunch of kicks into a neckbreaker bit for bit because they don't know what to do otherwise. Doesn't help Ultraman's kicks look pretty shit as well. Eventually he gets his arm worked over a fair bit until he escapes into a arm wrench flip sequence and tags in Hamada. Seeing the old lucha duo hit solid dives to the outside was probably the spot of the match overall. Eventually they kinda just stumble around until Mask lands his Tiger DDT and a bizarre Tiger Suplex variation where he's like, kneeled over into more of a rollup than a actual big slam? It looked weird as fuck yet gets the pin anyway. All in all, for Tiger Mask in particular, this does nothing for him whatsoever. It's a nothing showing against a old lucha guy who can't work well at all with him. Hamada puts on a quite good performance against Solar, however, with him still having a ton of agility even in his older age. Solar has some eccentric mannerisms (like he plays to the crowd here a lot) but he can still move very well for his age and combined with a legendary figure like Hamada, you get some fast-paced exchanges and lucha work that really gets going after the slow start. If you wanna watch a good showing by him here, this would be worth your time: outside of that, I would say this definitely isn't worth checking out."

[3.0] "Sadly, that was not good. It's heartwarming Sayama and Hamada wrestle as a team and some of the moves were even done properly, but most of this match is just boring. Wrestlers could not only do they moves well, but also can't really communicate with each other. That was sad. *1/2"