This was a pretty great "big boy" tag team match with plenty of clunky, hard-hitting blows and Nakanoue especially standing out with his interactions with Okabayashi. He's a guy who makes the most out of a simple set of moves. He does a terrific job of selling the double chickenwing struggle and the crowd eats it up. Okabayashi's hot tag charisma is always off the charts and the chemistry between he and Hama never gets old. Hama makes one of the best "out of nowhere" saves and the finishing stretch saw some real hard elbows from Nakanoue before he falls to Yuji's Golem Splash. Just a really good tag match from bell to bell and one of the better Japanese tag matches of the year, barely behind Strong BJ's title defense against Twin Towers in January.

Concurred with the analysis on Burning Spirits that this is slightly behind the January tag but still really good stuff. Hama in particular really impressed me as he just looks more and more grossly fat and yet he still is able to go out there and move around and bump. Him and Okabayashi in particular had fun interactions here. Just a really strong beefy tag match that never overstayed its welcome and didn't devolve into ridiculousness. ***3/4