Hartley Jackson & Ryohei Oiwa vs. Taichi & Yuya Uemura

[6.0] "Finally, some good wrestling. This won't blow you away, but we finally get 4 competent guys all giving us something to get invested in. Never really got into high gear but some fun moments like the Taichi/Jackson sumo spot. ***1/4"

[6.0] "First good match of the night sees Uemura and Oiwa show off some nice blueprint work for their inevitable future main event bouts while Taichi and Jackson both put on surprisingly good performances for two old gals."

[6.0] "Very solid. The bulk of this is made up of some very cool interactions between Yuya and Oiwa while Hartley and Taichi sort of act like background characters, but do also have some fun interactions of their own. This was an undercard tag so they weren't gonna go all out here but this was still enjoyable for what it was. ***"

[8.0] "Very good bout in which every worker showed off their strengths. Oiwa and Yuya are future IWGP champs."

[7.0] "Despite the fact that Uemura and Oiwa were in this match, all my attention was focused on Taichi and Hartley was breathing down his back. Taichi showed a wonderful performance by a desperate hero and, probably for the first time in the show, truly breathed life into the audience. He's just damn good at it, and the sumo wrestling segment was damn funny. Ryohei was still able to show some exciting moments in conjunction with Taichi, but Uemura was criminally few here and he was an extremely faded part of the match, although still reliable. Honestly, it's an unexpectedly good and emotional match on the undercard."

[7.0] "JAG & Taichi in the same match? Sign me the fuck up. Give me ten minutes of those two beating the shit out of each other and it'd make my year. Yuya didn't stand out too much here but Taichi had great sequences with both JAG & Oiwa. JAG's powerbomb on Yuya was fucking awesome, too. ***3/4."

[7.0] "Ryohei Oiwa x Yuya Uemura minutes are just pure Wrestling, two of the most promising wrestlers in New Japan for their present and future."

[7.0] "Yuya and Oiwa did some great work together here, can't wait for whenever their next singles match is. Guys you build the promotion around. Taichi and Hartley bring a totally different vibe, but it's good too."

[5.0] "I wasn't really feeling this match as much as other people were, since I was much more interested in Yuya & Ryohei than their partners. Still, a solid enough match."

[6.0] "A really solid tag match, the best work on the card to this point with fantastic efforts from Taichi, Uemura and Oiwa, Hartley Jackson also looked really impressive. This was just pure good vibes and strong strikes to prepare for the upper half of the card, the crowd got really on board by the end of this one. Taichi got the win over Jackson with a big Black Mephisto, a very fun match."

[7.0] "The first good match of the night. Yuya and Oiwa kicked this one off. Yuya mostly had Oiwa's number before both men tagged out. The match was solid throughout but felt elevated whenever Yuya and Oiwa were in there together. Oiwa began to go for the left knee. Jackson and Taichi took turns to save their respective partners from difficult submission positions. After a strong style exchange, Taichi took Hartley down with a lariat. The younger members run in for a brief exhibition till the legal elders resumed, this time with Hartley taking Taichi down. Taichi won out a sumo style exchange with a hip toss and then ended it with a black mephisto. This match was well worked and very well thought out. 3.5*"