CIMA, Dragon Kid & Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Eita, Flamita & T-Hawk vs. Jimmy Susumu, Mr. Kyu Kyu Naoki Tanizaki Toyonaka Dolphin & Ryo Jimmy Saito

[7.0] "It went nearly 30 minutes but at no point during this match I told myself "it starts to get long" because I was invested in the action all long and all I can say about this match is that, this was great with everyone having his bright spots and the sequences when everyone performed a dive outside the ring showed that, it was so fun. Not only the action and workrate was great but we had some good storytelling, especially T-Hawk and Mochizuki with Mocchy bullying the young T-Hawk, and the story around Eita's arm with everyone working on it was great and led to something, in this case it was his downfall and got eliminated because of all the work done on his arm. Team Veteran and Jimmyz cooked at the end with some many good sequences and suspense. Loved this match - ***3/4 +"

[7.0] "I'm genuinely shocked to read on here, and then go back and confirm based on the file I have, that this match was indeed almost 30 minutes. I guess it goes to the credit of the wrestlers here that I could've sworn this was only 20 minutes. I didn't see this as any sort of great match or anything, but I did think it was pretty good. They had lot of multi-man spots and sequences to start, with each team and individual wrestler getting time to show off their stuff. They didn't have the typical break-neck DG pacing in this first period, but the work was still decent, given everyone had solid technique with their offence and selling. Eita was especially good with how sympathetic he was as the face in peril, and then he and Flamita did really well with their speedy and flashy offence in their respective comeback and hot tag. That kicked off the other wrestlers likewise finally picking up the pace and going for more creative and exciting spots and sequences, which was very welcome at that point. This eventually led to the match becoming the standard chaotic car-crash that DG multi-man matches are known for. All 3 teams also then began going for their 2-man and 3-man spots, with the Millenials being the most creative and impressive. Eita remained the most impressive worker for me, just because of how damn slick and energetic everything he did was, though you also still had Mochizuki impressing with all his trademark great kicks and no-nonsense attitude, and everyone else was impressing and working hard as well. Millenials -- and especially Eita himself -- getting eliminated first was really disappointing. I find the dorky Jimmyz charming and all, but they didn't have the 'fresh' factor that Eita, T-Hawk, and Flamita had. I guess it made sense for them to finally start taking some losses after being booked so strong immediately following their debuts, though. The Jimmyz and Team Veteran teams both still did well with their fast-paced exchanges and near falls anyways, excluding one unfortunate and completely out-of-character botch from Kid when he went for his hurricanrana (it was maybe the first botch I've actually seen from Kid ever, which goes to show how great of a high-flyer he is). Anyways, all the run-on exchanges and spots ended up going quite overkill in typical DG fashion, but it was difficult to not still enjoy it all because of just how speedy everyone was plus how strong everyone's technique (mostly) was. Susumu unfortunately had to finish the match with the World Liner -- one of the worst finishers/super-finishers ever because it always clearly looks like he gets hurricanrana'd, but then he just rolls through and pretends he actually did a sick flip powerbomb. It's a fantastic move in theory, but I'm yet to see him ever hit it properly (I havent seen all of the Toryumon years of the earlier DG years, to be fair, so many he used to do it well). Pretty good match but not comparable to DG's better Triangle Gate matches. ***1/4"