Don Fujii vs. Masaaki Mochizuki

[7.0] "Fuji didn't seem to have a lot of ideas during his heat stretch, his work on top was a bit basic. Mochizuki always felt like he was winning this to me so there wasn't much suspense in the finishing stretch and the finish itself felt anti-climactic. The scoop powerslam counter was a highlight."

[9.0] "Masaaki Mochizuki vs Don Fujii 5.11.05-The match fucking rocks. Vastly different from the other matches to this point Don just destroys mochi in quick fashion for a majority of the match and gives him color early on. He really was the star of this match but the ending was clunky."

[9.0] "A tremendous match. Big time strikes to start things up even with big replays to add to the presentation and then a great match of a bloody Mochizuki fighting back with his strikes while Fuji pounds him hard. I don't think the finish stretch came off necessarily sloppy. It wasn't clean but was also not obviously cooperative and you can easily accept it as two warriors being on their limits."

[8.0] "One of the least DG-ish Dream Gate match there is and for sure the great one. 15 minutes of gruesome wrestling with a wonderful feeling of good old 90s j-indy. Two good friends did not hesitate for a moment and just beat the living thing out of each other. Lovely fight and one of the best Fujii's singles I've seen. ****"

[8.0] "While this had too much sloppiness at the end for a climatic finish, this was a worthy main event accompanied by a great Mochizuki selling performance, blood and hard hitting action. Mochzuki opens the match by blasting Fujii with a kick to the stomach but got a his head thrown into the ring spot and then hit with a weight for his trouble, which busted him open (Mochy came in with a bandage on his head so I assume Fujii cut him open on a house show). Fujii did the best thing and began working the cut with punches and headbutts. Mochizuki was great at working from beneath, throwing his kicks in a more desperate way than usual while being unable to follow them up on any momentum he had gained. Fujii cut him off well with his Tenryu-inspired offence and was able to draw enough heat to contrast Mochizuki? s popularity. The aforementioned closing stretch had too many hesitations and stops in action because someone was out of place but the wrestling was still solid enough to end the match on. While it wasn? t the smoothest rolling pin ever, Mochizuki pulled it off in a way that made sense despite it? s clunky execution. Then comes the celebrations; Mochizuki cuts a promo then out comes TAKA MICHINOKU! And it looks like they are about to have a match scheduled until Susumu takes the key mid-air (Mochi threw it towards Taka) and puts himself in the picture to a massive pop. A #1 Contender's match is set instead between Susumu and Taka Michinoku for the next Korakuen Hall show and the winner will face Mochizuki for the Dream Gate Championship. ***3/4"