A match on paper that looks like it should tear the house down and instead of getting a classic we get awkwardness mixed in with bewilderment that only resulted in a lacklustre contest. There is no focus so there is prolonged mat work that goes nowhere, no structure with the referee getting confused by the non-tags and a pace that didn't help anything.
It is a long match in front of a respectfully quiet Tokyo Dome crowd so when we get a cool spot such as Mutoh and Scott hitting frankensteiners on their opponents at the same time there is no crowd reaction, which annoys Scott. And understandably so but instead of standing around the momentum should have been used to do something else to help draw the crowd in, which by that point have been treated to some very boring action and needed more spots to help them care.
The non-legal man problem we see in tag matches became very annoying towards the end as no-one could keep track who was and wasn't legal resulting in a very obvious 3 count on Hase being waved off due to the confusion.
Meltzer gave this ****1/4 stars. It doesn't hold up well at all and I feel it was underwhelming and overall a clumsy contest though having just enough to deliver a match that wasn't bad but not good either, meaning I would say its around that **1/2 star range.
