Michael Elgin vs. Minoru Suzuki
Most of the match is with Suzuki on top, with him delivering deadly strikes & nasty arm work to Elgin, while Big Mike delivers some hard hitting comebacks. Very good stuff. ***1/2
EVIL vs. Hangman Page
This felt like it went on for forever, and at no point during it did I think it was good and/or interesting at all. *
Bad Luck Fale vs. Jay White
Most of the match is with Suzuki on top, with him delivering deadly strikes & nasty arm work to Elgin, while Big Mike delivers some hard hitting comebacks. Very good stuff. ***1/2
EVIL vs. Hangman Page
This felt like it went on for forever, and at no point during it did I think it was good and/or interesting at all. *
Bad Luck Fale vs. Jay White
Some good stuff in here; Switchblade delivered some very nice chops to Fale, and while most of Fale's work on top was disappointing, he did have a few moments of his usual goodness in there. The match had it's positive moments, but it also had it's super boring moments. An OK one overall. **
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Togi Makabe
Well this was disappointing. I usually really like these two together, but here they dropped the dynamic that works the best with their matches against each other, and had a more basic, soulless bout. **
Kazuchika Okada vs. YOSHI-HASHI
Okada was really great in the beginning stages of the match - he employed the "cocky ace taking on the stablemate of his that isn't really a big deal at all" -character wonderfully. YOSHI-HASHI was very good in the beginning stages as well; loved the aggression he showed right away after Okada threw his shirt at him. Sadly after a while, it becomes a more "normal" affair rather than a character driven bout it could've been; YH went back to showing no charisma or personality, and Okada wasn't much better either. **
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