[5.0] "Not a good match, an average contest to be fair. There was some technical touch to it with the grappling but maybe too extended and prolonged. Then, the botches didn't contribute positively either. Really didn't care much toward the end but Fujita won. There were some good strike exchanges but that's all I can say and he made Saito submit with the guillotine choke so that was cool. **3/4"
[5.0] "I'm not going to be too harsh on this but I felt like it was a decent outing. Yes, Saito is pretty old at this point and doesn't really have the stamina for a gauntlet of matches like these, which is probably why Fujita was essentially sitting on the guy for the first few minutes before they actually started throwing stuff out, but it kinda plays on that by having Fujita walk all over him. Saito can't really do his kicks anymore and his knee joints have like zero explosive power in them, so suplexes and even basic shit like knee strikes don't look very good at all. It's not a Fujita thing either because he's bumped incredibly well for stuff almost all the time when he has needed to do so. This means that Fujita trying for a German suplex looks like ass as well for the same exact reasons. Fujita brings some good intensity to this despite the drab atmosphere and sells about as well as he can for the guy. Saito does eventually get decent when hurling out Death Cloaks but it's naturally short-lived as Fujita just spams out headbutts for about 5 minutes (dead serious it lasts that long) before choking him out with a front-face lock. Saito's dye had all ran out during the match, so Fujita at the end looks like a pudgy Sliver Surfer with all the sliver on him. It's not a great match and Saito's limitations are obvious, but Fujita drags out a fairly good exchange that inevitably ends in him destroying the NOAH vet. It's about as good as Saito is going to get and by far his best N-1 performance this year (the other matches sucked, for the record) which says a lot about Fujita's work here."
[4.0] "Two 50+ guys, the procession is sound but most executions the basics were shoddy like Saito's attempt at vertical suplexing, or whatever, Fujita & Fujita's back suplex on Saito. The white dye in Saito's hair was dripping midway through. The bout had more twists than expected, but the climax was the oh-so-simple & thankfully not-often-seen of one, Saito, getting headbutted to death. 2"
[6.0] "This was a big improvement from Saito's previous tournament match. While he did have a few sloppy moments, Saito generally looked alright throughout the match. Fujita on the other hand looked fantastic throughout. Lots of good strikes and hard-hitting headbutts."
[7.0] "Saito managed to show convincing competitiveness by surviving a match with a monster like Kazuyuki Fujita. I thought many times that the match would end, but Akitoshi survived time after time and every turning point was perceived as a very desirable change of initiative. Strikes and headbutts were frenzied, very tense and angry exchanges. The ending is brutal, and the winner is natural. I don't understand why everyone didn't like this match so much (***1/2)."
[3.0] "Damn, that was incredibly boring, it was horrbile and Saito shouldn't be in such a tournament honestly, while Fujita's in a grey zone. I mean, it was quite dull when Saito dominated. However, I liked the finish with Fujita just repeatedly headbutting the shit of Saito. Saito should also get better dye for his hair btw."
[2.0] "Peinlicher Altherren Catch: Akitoshi Saito gehört eigentlich in den Ruhestand oder zu mindestens nicht in ein wichtiges Turnier. Fujita kann man sich 2021 auch nur noch in kleinen Dosen antun."
[8.0] "Incredibly raw match, this felt like a fight from the word go, and the finish with Fujita hitting like 50 sick worked headbutts with some cringe inducing shoot ones thrown throughout was almost surreal."
[5.0] "They tried a lot in this match, but it was sloppy and had several botches in it. I cannot fault the effort Fujita and Saito put into the match, but it wasn't that good. Saito at this stage is good for the opening matches and against younger wrestlers, but not against old guys like Fujita. Still I did kinda like parts of the match, but not everything. 6/10"
[6.0] "Saito is working hard this N-1, similar to his match with Funaki but a different style, a hard hitting, strike heavy match, were Saito is only there to see how long he can survive, not getting much offense in, the match was what it had to be and it was good at it."
[6.0] "This was a bit sloppy and disjointed, but I loved it. Felt gritty and raw. Felt like they were fighting to win the tournament with this one match. The finishing bit with death by headbutt ran for too long but I really enjoyed this match. 6/10"
[3.0] "This was truly a bad match to me, and it's painful to say that about a match of someone like Kazuyuki Fujita. The in ring action was very sloppy and the execution was bad. Moreover, the match was very empty, and it felt like almost nothing happened. The sequence of Fujita's Headbutts was truly too long. *1/4"
