We get our annual Twin Towers tag match to kick off the new year and of course, it delivers. Maybe not on the same level as last year's blood-spattering match against Strong BJ, but it was still a “banger”. Sekimoto gets stuck between a rock and a hard place…the rock being Sato’s kicks and elbows and the hard place being…well, Ishikawa’s elbows. When he gets the hot tag to Suzuki, Hideki comes in with a bunch of suplexes, including a big release German that folds the Big Dawg in half, before and Ishikawa take each other out when the knee meets the elbow. Poor Daisuke gets put back between the rock and hard place, as the Twin Towers lay into him with knees and sandwich elbows. Ishikawa neutralizes Hideki with another gnarly elbow, allowing Sato to pin Sekimoto following the piledriver. Can’t complain about a ten minute slugfest.

This was great. Started off w/ a fun little mat sequence between Hideki & Sato. We quickly move into Daisuke's FIP segment & it's really great - he shows the perfect amount of fire in it & Twin Towers' work over him was fantastic. Just clobbering him with forearms, knees, kicks. Lovely stuff. Hideki's hot tag was really good too & after that we move into the finishing gear of the match, and it's awesome. Hard hitting, great double team tactics by Shuji & Sato which really helped to tell the story of them completely outclassing Daisuke & Hideki in tag action because of their way superior experience tagging w/ one another. They told it wonderfully in just 10 minutes. Great match. ****

As fun as I thought it was going to be. Twin Towers make Daisuke their bitch, and he does a fantastic job as the face in peril (only Twin Towers can make such a massive dude look so vulnerable) trying to overcome the numbers game. Suzuki was a little disappointing as he was mostly used as the hot tag guy and it felt like was working a match made for somebody else, he still had a couple of bright spots but the suplex exchange with Shuji was the only part of the match didn't felt right with me. The rest is pretty much what you expect from a tag like this. A hot Korakuen crowd, a lot of stiff shots and fighting spirit, and people having to earn their shit or be destroyed.