This was just as good, if not a little better, than their G1 match from few months before. Loved the grappling in the early stages - that set the pace for rest of the match. Speaking of pace, I really enjoyed the pacing of this one; I thought it did a great job building the match to the finishing stretch, which was really good & had a nice feel of urgency to it. Great match. ****

I thought this was, by a lot, worse than the G1 match. Granted this also had to follow the Ishii/Goto war and nothing could have really followed that, it just kinda felt like a lifeless by the numbers Nakamura match to get his win back from the G1.