Antonio Honda & Masahiro Takanashi vs. Shota & Soma Takao

[5.0] "Decent bout to kick off such a long show. Honda did the most of the stuff and he surely was the main charachter. Not the best Comedy wrestling 'll ever see at all but fine for what it was; they couldn't with 8 minutes that at the end of the day was the correct choice. **1/2"

[3.0] "Soma Takao pinned Antonio Honda for the win after the Gin & Tonic. There really wasn't a lot going on in this match. You obviously got Antonio Honda tripping over a lot and telling a dirty joke. It would be good if the English commentary tried to translate it as best they could rather than giggling there way through it. There was some nice action from the champs but other than that, there wasn't much to this one."

[4.0] "I will hand it to Honda, he is really very good at visual comedy in pro wrestling. I am happy to pop in once a year or watch a gif or two as the match never holds my attention."

[6.0] "It was a good match that had the opportunity to become something more, it's enough just to see how the audience reacted to Honda and his stuff, I don't understand what the problem was for DDT to give Honda this triumph and blow up the crowd. But okay, even without that, it was a decent opener (***)."

[6.0] "Honda was playing his greatest hits, Takao/Shota were JAGs and Takanashi was doing his thing, but somehow it felt like a thematically perfect opener for this show: four long-time DDT regulars warming up the crowd by giving the crowd a familiar feeling to set the tone for the rest of the show."