Callum Newman & Great-O-Khan vs. Ren Narita & Shota Umino

[5.0] "This had some good stuff but, the atmosphere felt like a peak covid show and Narita/O-Khan felt a bit dry here. I liked Newman and Narita's grappling in the beginning but, all of the matches on this tour have felt like Narita getting beat down for a while until Umino can get a hot tag and defeat Newman. **1/2"

[5.0] "It's not unusual in New Japan to have to use a proxy wrestler when you're building for an event because one of the individuals involved in the upcoming event isn't on the tour. In this case there are two individuals not on the tour - Will Ospreay (ahead of his match with Shota Umino) and Jon Moxley (who'll be wrestling Great-O-Khan). Anyway, the match itself was an entertaining one which started with some unexpected chain wrestling between Callum Newman and Ren Narita. Newman was always going to be the fall guy in this one but it's good that he's getting the opportunity to show a few extra layers."

[6.0] "Solid well worked undercard tag match. Had a good technical start featuring Newman and Narita which was enjoyable. Good action throughout although nothing spectacular. Solid enough to continue the build leading up to Power Struggle not sure how Narita fits into this though."

[3.0] "Did we need a second chapter of Umino vs Newman in forma of a generic multi man match? No, also because this little storyline was already over but since NJPW loves lazy booking here we got it. Bad bout but at least better than the match before, that unfortunately means a lot. *1/2"