Dragon Lee vs. SHO
Started off in a very nice, sprint'ish fashion. The match remained hard hitting w/ a very good pace for the first half or so of it, but then it just went on & went on. A potentially very good sprint ruined by getting stretched big time. **
El Desperado vs. Ryusuke Taguchi
Despy's work on top was very enjoyable, but it's the awesome, very hype offensive outbursts of Taguchi that make this match so, so good. There's some usual Taguchi ass-related comedy in it, but other than that, this was a very good time. ***1/4
Chris Sabin vs. KUSHIDA
Coming into the tournament, I thought this was one of the most intriguing looking match ups on paper. Sadly it wasn't a very interesting one. Very awkwardly structured & there wasn't much of a flow, I thought. I still enjoyed it though, I thought overall it was pretty good, but I definitely wanted it to be better than it ended up being. **1/2
Hiromu Takahashi vs. Marty Scurll
Well goddamn. I thought their RevPro & NJPW (did not watch the ROH one) matches from 2017 were trash, so I definitely didn't have positive expectations of any kind going into this. I am very positively surprised by what they put together here though - a really good match! Really liked Marty on top in the first half of the match, he was pretty damn awesome on control & Hiromu was good fighting from underneath - LOVED that sunset flip powerbomb to the outside comeback of his. After that the match becomes more of a bombfest, but doesn't drift into the overkill at all & remains very enjoyable in it's structure & the way they continued to tell the story they had been telling since the start of it. Loved the finish, too. MOTN. ***1/2
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