... but I thought the spots and pacing of Cole vs. Black were better, even if Jericho's overall performance was probably the single best part of either match.

I certainly don't think Jericho-Omega was bad by any stretch, but it suffered from NJPW's tendency to have matches go super-long for the sake of length alone. If they kept it to 20 minutes or so I might agree with Meltzer's ***** but as is it feels a bit like Omega/NJPW stannery.