Giulia & Thekla vs. MIRAI & Syuri

[8.0] "The ending bit here was cool but Syuri and Giulia had their positive and negative moments during their exchanges. Opposingly, every Thekla and Mirai exchange was absolutely fantastic and I want that one on one match for yesterday. That being said, a solid match to build up on Syuri and Giulia's rivalry and eventual split."

[5.0] "Exchanges between Giulia and Syuri had their moments (some moves and spots that would look great on a GIF or in a short clip), but there wasn't anything that you should go out of your way to see. February 23rd show had a better and more interesting DDM vs. DDM match compared to this. MIRAI and Thekla were there to just killing time for the longest time. Post-match cleverly tried to make Prominence one of the reasons for this DDM 'break-up' angle, which is funny, because ever since her match against Mayu Iwatani for the World of STARDOM title, Syuri was simply carrying herself like a Main Eventer, consistently delivering when it counted and winning matches (do cool moves and act like a badass, what a novel concept), and eventually found herself at the top of the mountain simply because she was better+fresher than everyone. Syuri breaks a lot of things that STARDOM tries to do simply she is a great pro-wrestler, and her matches are great. She surpassed everyone that STARDOM tried to push ever since Iwatani lost the Red Belt, and seemingly didn't break a sweat while doing it, which makes all these mental gymnastics very exhausting and results in me losing interest in STARDOM. I just want to see two top wrestlers that are hungry to win the biggest prize go at it, that's all."

[4.0] "It sometimes seems to me that constant time limit draws are a prank that got out of control. It was a terrible match without anything interesting or exciting. Giulia and Syuri usually can do emotional and cool exchanges and interactions with their opponents, for example, Giulia-Nakano and Syuri-Utami, but here all their work was, maybe, lazy. At least that's how I felt. It was just a veeeeeery dragged out match. Thekla was boring, and for her it's unusual. Mirai was Mirai, uninteresting and awkward as always. Only in the final Giulia and Syuri started doing stiff moves, but it was like they could do only this stretch instead of this nothing during the whole match. Segment with Risa was more emotional than the match."

[7.0] "DDM vs. DDM usually bores me but the current story is interesting and I was surprisingly into this match. It was rather good despite the incredibly obvious time limit draw. Giulia really headbutted Syuri hard. Ouch!"

[7.0] "The match lasted for the 20 minutes, so there were many parts I liked and didn't like, but overall It was nice preview fight for Syuri and Giulia. It really looked like their tension was at its peak, which is important before the title match."

[7.0] "Obvious Time Limit Draw with a lot of good in-ring action and amazing building for Ryogoku Kokugikan. This match as a whole, ruled so hard, but the last five minutes are purely insane and it looks like a classic AJPW Tag Team Match. The tensions between Giulia and Syuri are rising a lot, and this means only one thing: A fucking classic at 26/03. ***3/4"

[7.0] "Loved the work in this match between Syuri and Giulia but it felt a little exhibitiony as we all know these tags are gonna end in draws at this point."

[6.0] "A serious-minded intra-factional tag featuring champions and challengers for the two-night Ryogoku stand in late-March. Does anyone actively following Stardom think this match would Not end-in-a-draw? The throwdown & headbutt Giulia delivered to Syuri late was quite something. I also liked the visual of Giulia covering Syuri as-the-bell-rang. 3 1/5"

[8.0] "I wasn't going to give it an 8 but the last minutes with Syuri and Giulia were so awesome I just have to. Best friends always hit each other the hardest but for a house show this was brutal, they even did a shoot headbutt. MIRAI and Thekla played their background roles well. ***3/4"