[7.0] "Gotta build to that Mura/Ishikawa feud brother, so we get another tag between the two. Ishikawa early on throws a headbutt and jumping kick to the gut to start things off. Mura is PISSED and comes in with the death-glare before running down the guy with a sequence of stiff kicks. Malenko is once again the lad working the side-stuff to the both of them with Nagai, and the two have a similar dynamic to the Naoyuki Taira stuff where Nagai just wrecks him with a great spinning back kick for a knockdown and whatnot, so he's having to play more to the ground game. I felt like this improved on that as we actually get Malenko interacting with Mura as well here, the two having a nice scrappy pace to them as Malenko isn't taking his shit and refuses to be a afterthought, even if he still is structure-wise. Ishikawa gets to be his usual great self, noticeably being more aggressive here against Mura as he has to duck and block his crazy stand-up strikes and answer with whatever holds he can grab on, even using the ropes at one point as leverage as a babyface spot, somehow. Good spot near the end where Malenko keeps spamming submissions, gets too lax with Nagai with slaps before getting completely wrecked with a big German suplex out of nowhere. Seeing a attempted murder afterwards with a ugly head-snap powerbomb was the icing on the cake there. Malenko struggles, but when Mura comes back in and starts throwing head kicks and making the poor lad bounce around, you already know this isn't ending well. Mura gets into full mount and hurls haymakers at a unconscious Malenko, getting him the win. Post-match has him and Ishikawa brawl, with the latter looking confident as anything now that he seemingly has Mura figured out....of course this won't exactly be the case but that's for next month. Short and sweet: again the Malenko/Nagai sub-work is fairly solid, Nagai is a fairly sharp worker and Malenko is tremendous as always. The pacing was sharp and never really dragged despite a lot of holds. Even if Mura's involvement is somewhat dulled here it's still felt whenever he gets in or throws a cheap shot. Either way, a good B-show tag."
