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| Big Tuna | Jun 13 2014, 11:09 PM Post #21 |
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ROH VIDEO WIRE - 3/30/2011: In a pretape, WGTT cuts a promo. Shelton says it's April Fools' Day soon when they face the Kings of Wrestling in the title match on iPPV. On April 3rd, it's the Kings' one year anniversary as champion. Guess what? APRIL FOOLS. THEY'RE NOT MAKING IT A YEAR. The World's Greatest Tag Team is taking them out in the rubber match. Haas says he's excited for the rubber match and they're going to beat them for the titles. Great talk, Chuck. In the back, Kyle O'Reilly and Adam Cole talk. Cole says they take center stage and this weekend, they'll prove that they can be an elite team. They have The Briscoes and the Kings of Wrestling on back to back nights. Kyle says for the first eight years, he was an outsider and saw everything The Briscoes did and now they add their names to the Briscoes' legacy, and they won't disappoint. Cole says night two is even bigger because they'll face the World Tag Team Champions, the best tag team in the world, and opportunities like this don't come often. The Kings of Wrestling come over and say they got that right. Hero says they're here with the best and they haven't earned the privilege of mentioning their names. He's been in the ring with both of them, and they're not ready. Claudio throws off Kyle's hat and Adam's bandanna and says this is like church when you mention the Kings and to be respectable. They then take over the promo time and Hero says they have combined to form a dynasty and royalty is coming to Atlanta. Claudio says they're like the monsoon because YOU CAN NEVER STOP THEIR REIGN. They'll still be champions walking out of Atlanta. Hero says it'll be a torrential downpour of elbows and uppercuts. Long live the Kings. In a pretape from his house, Davey Richards cuts a promo. He says it hurts a little bit that people think Eddie beating him to the title would piss him off, and it goes to show how little people know. He says he couldn't be more proud of Eddie Edwards and he's everything ROH is about, outworking everyone every night. He says he's not bitter or jealous, but he's proud. He moves forward and on April 2nd, he and Eddie have the World's Greatest Tag Team. Davey claims he and Eddie used to be known as that, which no. Never. Not even once. Davey says they've run through everyone but the American Wolves are something different and special. It's the reason people chant BEST IN THE WORLD at him and Eddie is ROH Champion. Not because they promote it, but because they wrestle with their hearts. He says if they're going to be the greatest, they better bring their hearts first. |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 14 2014, 07:01 PM Post #22 |
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ROH World Champion: Eddie Edwards, Since 3/19/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Kings of Wrestling, Since 4/3/2010 ROH World Television Champion: Christopher Daniels, Since 1/31/2011 ![]() ROH Honor Takes Center Stage - Chapter One April 1st, 2011 Center Stage Atlanta, GA Match #1: El Generico vs. Michael Elgin This kills again, and ALSO gets a criminally short timeslot of nine minutes. Lots of hard hitting and power vs. speed spots. Every time Elgin cuts Generico off, it's with his insane strength. Every time Generico finds an opening, it's because he's quicker and he takes to the air. They do a lot more big stuff here as it has opening match duty on a huge show. Great nearfalls, and a masked man comes out to distract Generico, AND ELGIN PULLS OFF THE UPSET WITH THE SPIRAL BOMB! YEAH! *** By the way, the Center Stage venue STILL looks absolutely amazing and there's no reason this venue isn't used more. Match #2: Homicide vs. Colt Cabana vs. Caleb Konley w/ Truth Martini vs. Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy Konley is also getting a tryout as I guess they're going after the blandest possible guys as new HoT members. This is helped out again by being a short one. Homicide is best in short bursts and Cabana does what he can to guide the other two, but when they're against each other, it's not very good and that's a large chunk of this. Homicide beats Konley with the Cop Killa. ** Post-match, Elgin comes out and hits Konley with the Spiral Bomb. Match #3: Sara Del Rey/Serena Deeb vs. Hiroyo Matsumoto/Ayumi Kurihara I have no idea who these women are, but they come in for another good nine minute spotfest. Really just a showcase of awesome holds and strikes and moves and dives, and it's another success as far as foreign talent on Mania weekend. Serena gets hit with a Hase-style Uranage by Ayumi and then a brutal Backdrop Driver from the other one for the win. This is sliding scale great. *** Match #4: The Briscoes vs. Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly HEEL BRISCOES DO IT AGAIN. Cole does well again as the white meat babyface and Kyle isn't allowed to do enough to be bad. The Briscoes are stiff and violent again and have a pair of great control segments. Cole has a good hot tag before he's cut off, and has an impressive Tope Suicida. It's a safe one, but he hits them with his chest and stomach to achieve that safety, so it works. He's a good FIP too. Finishing run happens, and they beat Cole with the springboard Doomsday Device. *** Post-match, and ANX come out through the crowd in street clothes and they have another great pull apart. Match #5: Davey Richards vs. Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini This gets 27 minutes because ROH still hates me, the viewer. The first maybe 20 minutes were good. I liked their matwork a lot and they moved into other stuff well. Davey's dive actually looked reckless for once, and not practiced, and Strong had some decent control work. They came back and while there wasn't any kind of egregious kickouts, it went from a strikefest into Davey randomly doing ankle locks when the story of the match was a slugfest. So naturally, Davey wins with a grapevine Ankle Lock after a Falcon Arrow. **1/2 Match #6: The Kings of Wrestling [c] w/ Shane Hagadorn & Sara Del Rey vs. WGTT [ROH World Tag Team Championship] This is the end. Beautiful friend. After an amazing yearlong reign that was probably the last bastion of hope for ROH's tag team division and among Aries/Strong and The Briscoes' 2007 for the best ROH tag title runs ever, it ends here against a team nobody wanted to beat them in a match that was a foregone conclusion. WGTT enters to a massive KINGS OF WRESTLING chant. WGTT is about the same as all their other ROH stuff. Shelton looks good at everything, and Haas is slow and sloppy and looks super old. Kevin Kelly is an idiot and claims the Andersons, RNRX, Midnights, and Arn/Tully fought in this building in their classics because he thinks the TBS studios and Center Stage are the same building. This is the least of all three matches by far. The first half is wasted on WGTT in control which is boring and more upsettingly, goes nowhere. This would be fine for a few minutes, but this is a 20 minute match and Haas (mostly) and Benjamin ate half of it up doing routine bullshit that has no impact on anything and only made the champions look bad. They take control briefly and that's great, but then they have to go into a finishing run so the control seg doesn't get to breath. Finishing run is good and they basically do the same finish as in January and Claudio taps to the Haas of Pain. God DAMNIT. **1/2 Match #7: Eddie Edwards [c] vs. Christopher Daniels [ROH World Championship] I again liked a 30 minute Eddie/Daniels match for reasons that escape me. This was very clearly a movefest, but Daniels is great about laying these things out in a way that makes sense. When these matches make sense and specifically aren't offensive, they stand out above a lot of these other failed epics on a show like this. Daniels throws in some callbacks to their past matches too and there's some nice basic storytelling. Great transition spot with the Uranage off the apron through the timekeeper's table. They do CLEARLY go too long at the end it shows when they start to lose momentum around 25 minutes but they recover by the actual final moments. Eddie hits a Super 2K1 Bomb, and then a 2K1 Driver to win. Kind of an illogical progression, but whatever. This is sliding scale great, not actual great like their three fall match. *** Post-match, Daniels refuses to shake hands. |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 15 2014, 12:32 AM Post #23 |
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ROH World Champion: Eddie Edwards, Since 3/19/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Christopher Daniels, Since 1/31/2011 ![]() ROH Honor Takes Center Stage - Chapter Two April 2nd, 2011 Center Stage Atlanta, GA Match #1: The Kings of Wrestling w/ Sara Del Rey vs. Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly This is probably the high point of the show. It's short and simple at nine minutes. The Kings are livid and want to kill everything after losing the belts, and the young punks are in the wrong place at the wrong time, but want to make their names. The kids save all their cool stuff for the finishing run for once and you can clearly tell Hero and Claudio's fingerprints are all over that. Claudio ends up blocking Kyle's Front Guillotine into the Pop Up European, and they then beat him with the Bicycle Knee/Cyclone Kill combo. *** Match #2: Colt Cabana vs. Dave Taylor w/ The Embassy This was WAY WAY WAY WAY too short. This could have stolen the entire show if they got time, but instead ROH confines a master to six minutes and they just sort of do their thing for the time they get. Dave dominates on the mat and cuts off all Cabana's stuff with brutal uppercuts, but then Cabana gets a flash Flying Asshole and then gets a schoolboy for the win. Still very good, but disappointing because of another boneheaded ROH call. **1/2 Post-match, The Embassy stays and Homicide comes out to fight Ciampa. Match #3: Homicide vs. Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy Oh my god, this was terrible. Homicide does not give a single solitary fuck about putting this asshole over or making him look at all good, so he sleepwalks his way through a nine minute match. He dominates Ciampa and does stuff. Mia Yim keeps interfering and Ciampa eventually wins with a fucking Northern Lights Suplex, because I guess Homicide didn't want to take his finisher. *1/2 Post-match, Homicide runs them all off and hits RD Evans with a chair. Match #4: Christopher Daniels vs. Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini This is a better one. Not great, but also kind of short at ten minutes. Elgin and Daniels both have some good stuff, but it never really clicks like it probably should have. It was a nice touch that Elgin dominated Daniels like nobody in ROH in a while and Daniels' routine neck work failed to get any traction as Elgin kept cutting it off. Daniels gets a low blow in though, and wins with the Best Moonsault Ever. **1/2 Jim Cornette brings out Davey Richards for an interview next. He basically repeats the points he made in the video wire promo about how he's not jealous of Eddie and he's proud and all that. Cornette is filmed from the waist up again at points, so he's disturbingly hard. Cornette tries to get Davey to challenge Eddie Edwards for the ROH Title and says it's a match everyone wants to see and it would make both of them and ROH a lot of money. Davey says he doesn't want to destroy Eddie's dream, and Eddie Edwards comes out, obviously upset about that. He asks what that means and says he's the one who beat Davey in their only singles match. Davey says he didn't mean anything by it, and cools it down and says they're the world's greatest tag team, and they'd prove it tonight. Match #5: Daizee Haze/Tomoka Nakagawa vs Hiroyo Matsumoto/Ayumi Kurihara Another really short one here as they do a lot of spots. This is six or seven minutes, so they don't really get to make anything work long term. Haze hits Matsumoto with the heart punch and Yakuza Kick, and her partner follows that with a Tiger Suplex to win. Nothing but "stuff" here, but that at least made it the second best match out of five so far on account of interesting things happening. **3/4 Match #6: The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express FINALLY! The matches are a miracle in 2011 ROH. They're short and to the point, violent, heated, etc. All the things good pro wrestling can be and that are usually absent from ROH. Titus hits a gusher early on and it makes for another great control segment. Kenny King has a great hot tag, and then Jay hits his own gusher. Dramatic brawling parts and you get the great visual of blood spraying everywhere during a Rhett/Jay punch off. ANX almost has it, but Mark pushes Rhett off the top and Jay can hit King with the Jay Driller to win. ***1/4 Match #7: El Generico vs. Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini Again, El Generico tries his best, but Roderick Strong is broken. Instead of chops and backbreaker, he's doing a lot of generic stomping and forearm stuff in what seems like a weird attempt to appease Jim Cornette and appeal to him more. I can't imagine why else he would deviate so much from what people loved him for. Generico does his thing, but the middle of this just DIED. Elgin comes out to interfere and they do nearfalls, but Generico fights through, and he hits the Brainbuster for the win. **3/4 Post-match, it's a 3 on 1, but Colt Cabana runs out to save. He has to fight both Elgin and Strong though. Christopher Daniels runs out with the stolen Book of Truth, but he hits Cabana and Generico with it and joins the House of Truth. Well that makes no god damned sense. I don't even have to explain why that's horrible, anybody could figure it out. Match #8: The American Wolves vs. WGTT This was a hot pile of garbage and if not for Ciampa/Homicide, would be the worst match of the night and weekend. There's a lot of problems here. The first and most obvious one is that this goes 32 minutes. Bad decision all around when Eddie had trouble doing 30 last night in a match without one or two shitty wrestlers. Shelton has proven that he can't carry Haas all the time either, and Davey does a lot of his usual bullshit here. The second problem is a total lack of coherency and focus. At different points, Charlie's arm, Davey's ribs, and Eddie's knee are worked on. Eddie is the only one of the three who even bothers a little selling, and even he gives that up after a little bit. Finishing run has some good points, but is overly long and whatever. Shelton sends Davey into Edwards, and then hits Eddie with Black Finisher for the win. *3/4 Davey looks upset after the match, but all Cornette's crushes make up because respect and blowjobs. Fuck off. |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 20 2014, 07:42 PM Post #24 |
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ROH World Champion: Eddie Edwards, Since 3/19/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Christopher Daniels, Since 1/31/2011 ROH Wrestling - Final HDNet Episode April 4th, 2011 Philadelphia, PA There's a ton of recaps of recent events to open the show and kill time before the sole match. Match #1: Davey Richards/The Briscoes vs. Roderick Strong/the Kings of Wrestling This is another of those 30 minute six man tags that would be great 15-20 minute matches if they didn't try and do long epics. Davey and Strong have ZERO idea how to fill time, and The Briscoes struggle to some extent too, so if a King isn't in there, it's rough until they get some focus maybe 10 minutes in. Control segs are good. Davey is a poor FIP, but Mark Briscoe is a good one. Finishing run has some good spots as long as the tag teams are involved, but then because this is ROH, it ends with Davey vs. Strong. Davey wins with an Indian Death Lock style Ankle Lock. **1/2 A video then airs on the "best" of the HDNet show. |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 21 2014, 01:52 AM Post #25 |
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ROH World Champion: Eddie Edwards, Since 3/19/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Christopher Daniels, Since 1/31/2011 ![]() ROH Revolution USA May 6th, 2011 Dearborn, MI Eric Santamaria is replacing Dave Prazak on this release, possibly for good. This is one of the classic bad Cornette moves to piss off everyone by replacing fundamental things about ROH, slowly stripping away everything about it with changes that make the place worse to watch denying any new fans really AND alienates the entire existing fanbase. Like, why not just get your own company? It's like taking over ECW and making them tone down the violence and replacing Joey and Gertner. It's like taking over Mid-South and telling them to cool it on the stiffness and punching and getting rid of JR, etc. Match #1: Homicide vs. Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy This is again very much a match that takes place. It's under ten minutes, Homicide isn't trying because it's both 2011 and a match where he loses, and there's a ton of Embassy interference. Ciampa fails to do a whole lot that's interesting or good, but he hits Homicide with Nana's crown to win. *1/2 Post-match, The Embassy gets in. Nana says to finish him, and Ciampa tries his own Cop Killa, but Homicide gets out. Ciampa, Nana, and Yim bail. RD Evans throws the weakest chair throw of all time at Homicide. He celebrates, but Homicide no-sells it, so RD throws Ernesto into Homicide, and poor Ernesto eats the Cop Killa. Match #2: Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini vs. Andy Ridge Elgin is the best squash guy in ROH, but this still didn't need seven minutes. It's wasted time again. Not as much as other times in 2011 so far, but it's 7 minutes that could be done in 4-5 and having Elgin look like even more of a killer. Ridge is alright again, and Elgin wins with the Spiral Bomb. *3/4 In the back earlier, Grizzly Redwood cut a promo. He says he doesn't want Steve Corino's guidance or to fight his battles for him, and he's going after Mike Bennett tonight for his own revenge, not Steve's. Steve Corino comes out to the ring in normal people clothes, and he gets on the mic. His name is Steve Corino, and he is an evil person, and he has been for the last 17 years. He says day by day, he tries to change his ways by helping the young guys and he spent two hours trying to find a Detroit Tigers shirt for a cheap pop before someone finally convinced him people would cheer him without the cheap pop. He says after the last time he was in this ring, he took a month off in Puerto Rico to recover and he was in contact with someone like him. His friend was exiled from ROH and WAS an evil man, and this man is on a road to recovery and wants back in ROH. He says the name of his man is -- but Mike Bennett comes out to interrupt. Corino says his beef is over and there's nothing more he can say or do to send him down the right path unless he wants to ditch Brutal Bob. Mike says Bob Evans is helping him be a star and if Corino won't willingly fall off the wagon for good, he'll push him off. He wants to fight, and Corino takes off his jacket, but Grizzly Redwood runs out to attack Bennett instead for their match. GROSS. Match #3: Mike Bennett w/ Bob Evans vs. Grizzly Redwood ANOTHER horrible boring as shit squash from PRODIGY. Corino stays ringside to keep Evans out of it, but that's not necessary because it's a squash. He hits a Piledriver now for the win, which is a much better finish than the half-assed Side Effect. 3/4* Post-match, Corino checks on Redwood, but PRODIGY sneak attacks him and then hits his horrible half-assed Side Effect. Outside the building, The Embassy tends to Ernie. Nana tells RD to sue that man, and RD notices that Ernesto is in a lot of pain and says he has an idea. Match #4: The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express [First Blood Match] On SOME level, this makes sense seeing as their match in April was a total bloodbath. Except that it's the 2010s and anyone who is going to be watching ROH knows that first blood matches fucking blow. This is the best one I can ever remember because this is suddenly the best match up ROH possesses, but it's still a first blood match. They worked the stip really well with almost everything targeting the face, and they kept the great chaotic feel from the last match they had. They do stuff to weaken each other and then go back to biting and weapon use. The Briscoes using the sheet metal signs because of how many people have accidentally been busted open on them in the past was a great touch. Both Mark and Rhett were busted open on the floor, but Mark hid and the referee saw Rhett getting back in with blood on his face, so he called it! *** ANX hit Jay with the One Night Stand, and Mark pulls him out. King challenges them to a Chicago Street Fight in two weeks, and they nod on the stage. King says he'll take that as a yes, faggots. Before the next match, Christopher Daniels gets on the mic. He says seeing as they DON'T HAVE A TELEVISION SHOW, he doesn't have to defend this title unless he wants to anymore either they give him a legitimate television star to fight or until they get TV. But he won't give up the belt, BECAUSE HE'S STILL ON TELEVISION EVERY WEEK. FUCK YEAH SMART CHEAP HEAT. Truth Martini then does his schtick about the Book of Truth and says this angel FELL into the House of Truth. The highlight is a "FUCK THE TRUTH" chant. Daniels says he came back to be the best in the world and told the truth, but they didn't like it because they thought it was Davey Richards. Nobody cheers. He says he's done trying to make them happy, etc. And then Cabana comes out for the match. Match #5: Christopher Daniels w/ Truth Martini vs. Colt Cabana This is a nine minute Daniels showcase, which is a letdown considering they're two of the better guys ROH employs. Still, they do some solid stuff that shows off Daniels' new heel work and Truth's interference. Cabana has a good little comeback and then he gets hit with the Book of Truth. Daniels follows with Angel's Wings for the win. **1/4 Match #6: WGTT vs. Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly This was not good! This was mostly bad! Haas is in for like 80% of the body, so there's a ton of really slow and awkward stuff. Cole does good high flying, but his comeback punches are dog shit. Haas' are equally as bad. Kyle has an alright hot tag, but he does the embarassing overplayed intense rookie with closed fists and pointing type deal. Cole and Kyle showed some good offense off which might be better suited against teams who are interested in putting forward something resembling effort, which even Shelton can't do for this one. They easily cut off the flurry to do their leapfrog spot and Shelton beats Kyle with Black Finisher. *1/2 Match #7: El Generico vs. Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini [No Disqualification Match] Strong attacks Generico from the crowd to start when only Truth comes out during the entrance. This took a little to get going, but they got to do a lot of cool stuff with the stipulation, and it's a big El Generico match, so it was great. They held back some because it's post-2010 Cornette ROH so Generico is always handcuffed a little after he and Steen "stole" the company's fans away from Jim's chosen ones in 2010. Elgin and Daniels do run ins to save Strong, and Cabana comes out to help Generico again. Generico goes back in, but Strong low blows him on the top and hits a Back Superplex through a table to win. *** Match #8: The American Wolves vs. The Kings of Wrestling w/ Shane Hagadorn & Sara Del Rey This one is MUCH more reasonably timed at 22-23 minutes. It's also like 85-90% Eddie in there, and he's becoming leaps and bounds better than Davey. He does basically the same style, but does this thing with his face called selling, which makes everything seem more credible and his main strikes are much smoother and more natural than Davey's. Kings get a control seg on him for a while, then Davey has a brief run, and then Eddie gets back in. Long Hero/Eddie run before their title match tomorrow, and yeah. Davey accidentally kicks Eddie when Claudio moves, and it breaks up Eddie's Achilles Lock on Hero. CC gets rid of Davey, and Hero hits Eddie with the Death Blow to win. ***1/2 Post-match, they try the KRS-ONE, but Davey runs them off with the World Title belt. He apologizes to Eddie getting up, and Eddie just takes his title back. He gets the mic and asks if this is Davey getting even for Atlanta and says they might be "brothers", but he's not his little brother and he doesn't need to save him. HE'S THE GOD DAMNED CHAMP IN CASE HE HASN'T REALIZED IT. He says he can handle himself and walks off. |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 21 2014, 07:07 PM Post #26 |
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ROH World Champion: Eddie Edwards, Since 3/19/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Christopher Daniels, Since 1/31/2011 ![]() ROH Revolution Canada May 7th, 2011 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Match #1: Claudio Castagnoli w/ Shane Hagadorn & Sara Del Rey vs. Kyle O'Reilly Claudio carries Kyle to his best match yet. It's a classic formula Claudio match against a smaller guy, just with strikes replacing high flying for the comeback. Kyle basically does only the things he's good at because Claudio is too smart to get bogged down in his rookie bullshit. Awesome power spots and offense and cut offs, and Claudio does an honest goodness Giant-style running Chokeslam. He then hits a Ricola Jackknife Powerbomb for the win. Fuck bumping for this goon, even when beating him. ***1/4 In the back, The House of Truth cuts a promo, and they say words. Elgin says five men find out that they can't handle the truth tonight. Daniels says this is a special night and he's going to beat El Generico in his home country. Does Daniels think they're in Mexico? He says he's ROH's only television star and he will destroy El Generico tonight because the truth and gospel run side by side. Before the next match, Corino basically repeats his promo from last night. Match #2: Steve Corino vs. Mike Bennett w/ Bob Evans THIS IS SIXTEEN MINUTES FOR SOME FUCKING REASON. This is super super fucking middling and Corino doesn't do the brawling here that made the NYC match not a total waste. He's working the storyline again so I can't blame him, but holy shit, this is way too long and the wrong kind of match. Decent finishing run, and Bennett wins with two shitty Side Effects and then a Piledriver. YEAH, WIN EVERYTHING SO MAYBE YOU CAN GET OVER. EVEN THOUGH THIS ISN'T HOW ANYONE GETS HEEL HEAT IN A SMARK COMPANY EVER. IF IT DIDN'T WORK WITH JUSTIN CREDIBLE, HOW THE FUCK IS IT SUPPOSED TO WORK HERE? *3/4 Post-match, Bennett hits another Piledriver, and asks where Corino's sponsor is now. Match #3: Michael Elgin vs. Adam Cole vs. Rhett Titus vs. Tomasso Ciampa vs. Andy Ridge vs. Grizzly Redwood [Double Danger Scramble Match] This stupid ass stipulation means you have to win twice to win. And yeah, Truth and The Embassy are ringside with their dudes. This is surprisingly well laid out for a match with like one and a half great wrestlers. Ciampa catches Adam trying to dive on Elgin and schoolboys him for the first fall. Ciampa shows some bright flashes of something for once. Rhett gets a fall on Ridge with his sort of cut-throat reverse Overdrive deal. It's contrived, but less so than it sounds. They get into some really awesome spots now and 95% of them are hit clean. Elgin just goes apeshit at the end with cool power stuff. ELGIN POWERBOMBS RIDGE OVER THE TOP AND ONTO CIAMPA AND RHETT ON THE FLOOR! DOUBLE ALABAMA SLAM TO COLE AND GRIZZLY! HE PINS GRIZZLY FOR ONE, AND THEN COLE TO WIN THE MATCH! *** Match #4: Davey Richards vs. Kenny King[/b] OH GOD WHY. They do shitty matwork and then it becomes a movefest. There's not a lot of rhyme or reason and their transitions are super fucking sloppy and there's virtually no flow. It's again Davey trying to have an epic match without really understanding what makes a match epic besides huge moves and kickouts. They do stuff and kind of lose the crowd because it's not very good. Davey wins with an Ankle Lock. *1/2 There's a Bravados segment next. Fuck them. Cole and O'Reilly run them off. Match #5: Colt Cabana vs. Delirious [Larry Sweeney Tribute Match] . This is a killer eight minute comedy deal to honor Larry, and it's so enjoyable. They have a strut off to "Don't Bring Me Down", and make referee Todd Sinclair get in on it. They all strut to "More, More, More" and I have a sad. The amazing comedy happens and it's the best. Cabana wins with the 12 Large Elbow. 12 LARGE, BROTHER. Post-match, Cabana pays his respects and they have a big Sweeney chant. R.I.P. Match #6: El Generico vs. Christopher Daniels w/ Truth Martini Not the best that ever happened or anything, but it's great for ROH 2011. Really simple fifteen minute heel/face thing here, and Daniels is a great in-ring heel and Generico is the best babyface in wrestling, so there you go. Lots of cool stuff throughout and the finishing run rules. Michael Elgin comes to interfere, BUT STEVE CORINO COMES OUT TO SAVE AND EVEN IT UP! YEAH! Generico hits Daniels with the Helluva Kick and Brainbuster to pin the champ! *** Post-match, Corino offers a handshake to Generico. El Generico still doesn't trust him and he walks out. Elgin is back up and he attacks Corino, before laying him out with the Spiral Bomb. Match #7: WGTT [c] vs. The Briscoes [ROH World Tag Team Championship] This is somehow worse with less time. WGTT dominate heels for the first half of a match again and again it's like 98% Haas doing it, so it's fucking TERRIBLE. Super slow basic matwork that goes nowhere and accomplishes nothing story-wise or cool stuff wise. The Briscoes cheat to take over and then barely get to do anything before the comeback. The finishing run is good enough because Shelton is finally in it and the Briscoes can do stuff. ANX come out to stop the Briscoes from using the belts and Shelton hits Mark with Black Finisher to win. Shameful performance once again from WGTT, already pretty much set as the worst tag team champions in ROH history. *1/2 Match #8: Eddie Edwards [c] vs. Chris Hero w/ Shane Hagadorn & Sara Del Rey [ROH World Championship] This was almost really great and nearly on the level of some of the better 2007-8 title matches. Great matwork, since Eddie is more than capable of being led on the mat, and Hero is Hero. Hero works on the arm, and does some really cool offense on it. He targets his elbows and kicks to the arm too, AND EDDIE SELLS REALLY WELL! YEAH! He holds his arm like all match, doesn't use it, and it impacts the match because he can't hang onto stuff and it causes a fall through a table after an elbow on the top rope. Great exhaustion selling also, and he evens it up with a Fisherman's Buster on the apron! They go into a tired finishing run now, and this is where it jumps the shark, since they had like 5 more good minutes, but it went another 10 to be like 40 minutes. Claudio comes out to interfere, but Davey then chases him away. Too many kick outs, and Eddie finally wins with the Achilles Lock with head stomping for a KO. So close to being genuinely amazing, but still mostly great. ***1/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 21 2014, 11:33 PM Post #27 |
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ROH World Champion: Eddie Edwards, Since 3/19/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Christopher Daniels, Since 1/31/2011 Before this show, it was announced online that Sinclair Broadcasting had bought ROH. This is probably a good place to put a bookmark on the "real" ROH. TV tapings were announced for August, and the terrible new logo is also coming soon. ![]() ROH Supercard of Honor VI May 21st, 2011 Chicago Ridge, IL Match #1: Homicide vs. Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini Decent 10 minute opener. Homicide still isn't what he was, but Elgin is able to get something good from him by making is a straight ahead movefest. Elgin has some great catches and power spots, but it still comes off as a waste of him as he's there with a guy who's not interested in much more than his own stuff. Also, Elgin loses, which is dumb. Like, Elgin's the one of the new guys that you're NOT just pushing over everyone? What the fuck? Homicide wins with an Ace Crusher. **1/4 In the back, Cole and O'Reilly cut a promo. Cole says all the Bravados have done is talk and talk and they've shown ow hard they work and how good they are, and they want the titles. It means running through them, and that's what they'll do. Match #2: Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly vs. The Bravado Brothers This is okay. The Bravados are still super hit and miss because they're basically fresh out of wrestling school. You can't blame them entirely, because it's super fucking stupid to throw them out there and expect anything at this point. Cole and O'Reilly are alright and have a decent finishing run. They win with the Wheelbarrow Codebreaker/Lungblower deal. *3/4 Steve Corino comes out before his match and says his name is Steve Corino, and he is an evil person, but he's trying to get better each day. He says he didn't expect people to accept him like they have, and it means a lot to this old fat man and he thanks everyone. He says it's easy to be a bad guy in pro wrestling and it's tough to be a good guy, especially when you're like him and only have five moves. As a good guy, you need seven, so he's trying to learn. He says he took April off because Mike Bennett took him off the wagon. He says he connected with someone from the past that everyone here knows, and he was evil just like him, maybe even a little more. He's looking for redemption and in the best physical and mental shape in his life, and he wants back in ROH and tonight, it's time to reveal his sponsor. Mike Bennett comes out instead and says there is no sponsor and he has nobody wants to be in his corner, and he's burned every bridge he had. Nobody likes him. Corino says Mike's head is so far up his ass it's almost like his thumb is there. Bennett goes for cheap heat, BUT JIMMY JACOBS COMES DOWN IN A SUIT AND HUGS CORINO! FUCK YEAH! Corino introduces him as his sponsor and Jimmy says his name and that he's an evil person. He says he walked out that door in this building and out of ROH two years ago, and everyone in ROH was happy to see him go, because he's the most evil person in the history of this company. He's cleaned up his life and overcome personal issues, and he's in the best mental health of his life. If ROH will allow him back, he'll be there to support Steve Corino so he doesn't fall off the wagon. He says he's fought everyone great in this building, he's fought for what he thought was love, he's fought for hate, but now he wants to fight for honor. Referees and management come to make him leave, and he leaves peacefully. Match #3: Steve Corino vs. Mike Bennett This sucks again! It's basically the same match as in Canada on the last show, but ten minutes and not sixteen. Still, it's not very good at all, and Bennett gets most of the offense. Nobody really seems to care about anything he does when he tries to get cheap heat with slaps and cheating, and everything else he does is disgustingly cookie cutter and bland. The ref stops the thumb in the bum, and Bennett hits a Piledriver for the win. *3/4 Match #4: El Generico vs. Chris Hero w/ Shane Hagadorn This is actually upsetting. You have the two obvious best wrestlers employed by ROH, but they only get ten minutes and it's very clearly held back when neither man usually does that. Cornette's finger prints feel all over this one. They still end up having a great finishing run in spite of the obvious shackles. Hero gets the Cyclone Kill with his feet on the ropes for three, but Sinclair supposedly sees it after fans point it out, and he restarts it. Since when? Since when can that fucking happen? Generico immediately follows with the Helluva Kick and Half n' Half to win. Bad finish all around. **3/4 Match #5: Davey Richards vs. Charlie Haas Before the bell, Kevin Kelly tries to claim WGTT are second in popularity in ROH to Davey Richards. Because he is to Jim Cornette as Michael Cole, JBL, and Lawler are to Vince McMahon, and Jim Cornette lives in an ROH where the Kings of Wrestling, Briscoes, ANX, El Generico, Daniels, Cabana, etc. don't exist and WGTT are actually over like they should be. This is around the time people start to realize WGTT are pretty shitty now, and it's a fantastic revolt over the summer and fall. This is one of the worst big ROH singles matches I can recall. It's hilarious and a little sad that this is the one time Haas remembers that good wrestlers and matches have this thing called focus and storytelling, as he targets the midsection. It's not very good, but it is an attempt. Of course, it's Davey Richards in a 20 minute Davey Richards Match, so OF COURSE he's not selling a god damned thing. Davey debuts his terrible Superplex followed by a Falcon Arrow sequence here, thinking he's SHINGO or something. They do slow stuff because Haas cannot go in this style, especially on his own. Davey does a bunch of intense stuff and then we're supposed to buy Haas' tepid ass bullshit as being on that level. If this show was your first insight into ROH, you'd swear Charlie Haas was booking. Davey wins with a Buzzsaw Kick. *1/2 Match #6: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Shelton Benjamin This is another match that's weirdly held back for two guys who usually try super hard, but it's at least good because Claudio literally cannot have a bad match against anyone decent. A lot of matwork here that goes nowhere as Claudio just sort of does holds to kill time. Hero and Haas both come down to cheer each other on. The finishing run is a little better, but it's also very abrupt for a finish as Shelton hits the Super Belly to Belly, and that's just kind of the end of the match. **1/4 Post-match, the two teams have a pull-apart. Before the next match, Truth Martini is sent to the back. Match #7: Christopher Daniels vs. Colt Cabana This is another fun one, but very short again. They do their basic thing for eight or nine minutes, before Michael Elgin comes out to interfere since Truth isn't there to do it. Steve Corino comes out again to cut him off, and Cabana gets the win with his Fireman's Carry Drop thing onto the top ropes in the corner. **1/2 Post-match, Cabana refuses to shake Corino's hand. Daniels and Elgin attack him from behind, and Elgin hits the Spiral Bomb. Daniels gets on the mic and says Steve Corino is an evil man, and he knows from experience that there's no way he's ever going to recover. Now I'm excited for Corino vs. House of Truth, especially Elgin. Amazing what you can do when there's good wrestlers and an interesting story! Match #8: The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express [Chicago Street Fight] RULES AGAIN. This doesn't quite have the out of control chaotic vibe as it's more of a well laid out gimmicky spotfest, but not too many teams do that better than The Briscoes, and ANX are fine at going along for the ride. People bleed and there's some awesomely dangerous table and ladder bumps for transitions. Lots of nasty chair shots too and they used chains to beat the shit out of King in the control segment. The finish is the only shitty part here. Rhett is hit with the Doomsday Device, but King throws a chair into Jay's face. He tackles Mark out but Jay stumbles and falls on Rhett for the win, with Rhett just kicking out after three. On one hand, it's completely dissatisfying and doesn't fit the match on one level, but on the other, it helps out ANX a lot and clearly nothing's been settled. *** Match #9: Eddie Edwards [c] vs. Roderick Strong [ROH World Championship] This was great again. Eddie is low key one of the best recent ROH World Champions since the post-Nigel era. He only defends the title three times, but they're all great matches and he had a memorable title win, so on a consistency level, he's got Tyler and Lynn and Strong and probably Davey beat. Strong starts off hot after the upset, and they go 22-23 minutes here with no real wasted time. It gradually turned into a huge bombfest, but they built to it well and the bombs actually felt huge, like a Gibson Driver on the apron. Strong hit a series of Basement Superkicks, but Eddie caught one. He got on the Achilles Lock out of nowhere and began stomping Roddy's head to cause the tap out. *** Post-match, Elgin and Daniels come out to attack, but Davey Richards runs out to help Eddie run them off. Eddie looks upset and he gets the mic. He says he's the World Champion, but he still feels like he has to prove himself as his own man all the time and he knows Davey doesn't want that, but he needs to beat him. Davey refuses again, and Eddie says to show him the respect to face him for once and if he can't fight the best challenger, this title is bullshit and he's quitting. That gets Davey to accept, and it's on for the next show in June. BEST IN DA WURLD. |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 22 2014, 05:57 PM Post #28 |
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ROH World Champion: Eddie Edwards, Since 3/19/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Christopher Daniels, Since 1/31/2011 ![]() ROH BEST IN THE WORLD JUNE 26TH, 2011 NEW YORK, NY Match #1: Colt Cabana vs. Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy Decent opener. Cabana does his solid deal to guide Ciampa before eventually going down. Not surprisingly, Cabana is the one guy Ciampa can really beat clean. He dodges the Flying Asshole, but Cabana lands on his feet on the middle rope. Ciampa lifts him out and into Project Ciampa to win. **1/4 Match #2: Jay Lethal vs. Mike Bennett w/ Bob Evans Good return for Lethal. This is a pedestrian showcase because Mike Bennett is in there, but Jay looked good on offense. I'm pretty sure this goes away soon as he becomes another average dude and his one great enthusiastic showing is totally wasted on PRODIGY, but ROH gonna ROH. He wins with a Flying Elbow Drop, since Savage died recently. ** Match #3: Homicide vs. Rhino w/ The Embassy [Street Fight] YEAH RHINO! This has a lot of gimmicky stuff to help them out, so this is good. There's some low level ladder spots and many tables are broken. Rhino kicks out of the Ace Crusher and sets up Homicide for the table Gore, but Homicide jumps over into a sunset flip for the win! **1/2 Post-match, Nana distracts Homicide, AND RHINO GORES HOMICIDE THROUGH THE TABLE FUCK YEAH! SAY HIS FUCKING NAME. Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs come out and commentary says ROH has allowed Jacobs back. Corino says he's an evil person, but each day, they're both trying to get better. He's tried to do the right things for six months and he never imagined people would cheer for him, and he thanks them. Six months ago, Jimmy Jacobs told him it was time to change, and he did, and there's someone else that wants to make a change. Someone else looking for redemption. He says he bought Kevin Steen a plane ticket to come here with his own money, but Jim Cornette and the new owners said no. He says he's sorry, but people deserve a second chance, and he introduces Kevin Steen! He comes through the crowd, but security and Cornette come to stop him. The crowd boos louder than anything so far but Steen shakes Cornette's hand and agrees to leave peacefully. Match #4: Michael Elgin vs. Steve Corino Truth and Jacobs are on the floor. Unsurprisingly, this was the best Corino match of 2011 so far. It's only eight minutes but there's a cleat story of Corino struggling to handle Elgin's power without cheating or getting evil/violent. Elgin has some awesome power spots. Jacobs tries to cut off Martini, but it's all for naught as Elgin is a fucking juggernaut. He hits a Buckle Bomb on Corino and follows with the Spiral Bomb for the win. **1/2 Elgin attacks Jacobs when he checks on Corino, and hits him with a Spiral Bomb too. BUT KEVIN STEEN HITS THE RING AND RUNS OFF ELGIN. POWERBOMB ON ELGIN AND A SUPERKICK TO TRUTH. FUCK YEAH! Officials and Cornette come out to make him leave, and Corino pleads to let him talk. He says Kevin Steen deserves to talk. Corino starts a "LET KEVIN TALK" chant, so Cornette listens to the people for once this year. Kevin gets the mic and says he won't take long and he knows he's not supposed to be here. He says he's said for months that all he wants is to make things right and apologize. He says he told Steve that so he could be here tonight and say to him, the crowd, Cornette, the new owners, and everyone watching. "MY NAME IS KEVIN STEEN... ...AND FUCK RING OF HONOR!" AND IT GETS THE BIGGEST POP OF THE FUCKING YEAR. AMAZING. HE HITS JIMMY WITH THE MIC AND PACKAGE PILEDRIVES CORINO. STEEN IS CARRIED OUT BY SECURITY IN A JESUS POSE WITH HIS FINGERS UP. Cornette thought this would make Steen the biggest heel in ROH history, not realizing that a lot of the ROH fanbase echos Steen's sentiments. Cornette says this is the last they'll ever see of Kevin Steen, and the fans chant "WE WANT STEEN". Match #5: Christopher Daniels [c] w/ Truth Martini vs. El Generico [ROH World Television Championship] This is the sole great match of the show. Daniels does his basic routine with good heeling and neck work and Generico does his thing. It's not at all complicated, but it's the only match on the show with great wrestlers on all sides, a story that they stick to, and ends around when it should. Good finishing run and Daniels is so confident in his win that he puts the belt on. He misses the BME after that, and Generico hits the Helluva Kick and BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAAAH to win the title. This is what ROH considers El Generico's thank you for being one of the guys to carry the company, and that's bullshit because he's yet another guy that should have been World Champion. *** Match #6: WGTT [c] vs. The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express vs. The Kings of Wrestling [ROH World Tag Team Championship - Elimination Match] Another TERRIBLE WGTT tag titles defense as they become the worst champions of all time. This could have been great, as you have the two best tag teams in the world at this point probably in the Kings and Briscoes and the ANX have been improving and ANX/Briscoes is a super hot issue. However, WGTT are so bad that they can drag down everyone as they try and do a 40 minute mat based affair. It would be fine enough if they were good or if it was all Shelton, BUT CHARLIE HAAS IS A SHITTY FUCKING WRESTLER. THERE'S NO WAY HE DOESN'T HAVE A HAND IN BOOKING THIS, BECAUSE HE DOMINATES EVERYONE ON THE MAT AND BARTE-0ERUGJOPHERIG PRG G-=URGOPJ ERGHIO ERG ERHOGO ERJPGMDFLGVKNMPO[WE-] WDCPNEO P FUCK WGTT. GOD DAMNIT, THEY'RE SO BAD. This never really goes up a level either, and they effectively murder the crowd with 20 minutes of dull dog shit matwork before anything happens. The Briscoes bring it up a notch FINALLY but then because ROH has no recognition of what anyone watching their shows genuinely wants, The Briscoes are out almost immediately after that when ANX hits the One Night Stand. WGTT then slows it waaaaaaay the fuck down again. Hero eventually gets Rhett out with the loaded elbow, and then WGTT ruin the Kings again. Hero and Claudio have some quality stuff, but the crowd is almost totally silent and WGTT are tired and lifeless. HEY MAYBE IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE CARDIO TO WORK A 40 MINUTE MATCH, DON'T FORCE US TO WATCH A 40 MINUTE MATCH. OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE ACTUAL WORST. WGTT beat Hero with a double Spinebuster. *1/4 Post-match, The Briscoes attack WGTT with chairs AND IT GETS THE BIGGEST POP SINCE STEEN LEFT. HEY MAYBE THERE'S A FUCKING THEME HERE. EVERYBODY HATES CORNETTE'S BULLSHIT PROJECTS AND ARE REBELLING AGAINST THIS FUCKING TAKEOVER. ANX comes out to run off The Briscoes. Match #7: Eddie Edwards [c] vs. Davey Richards [ROH World Championship] This match is like an empty house. It's a brand new state of the art house. It's sleek and pretty and the architecture is smart, but then you get inside and there's nothing there and it's all a lie. On the outside, this match is perfect. It has a classic story of Davey having to get more and more violent because he underestimated what it would take to beat Eddie. Davey works on Eddie's arm and Eddie works on Davey's leg. There's some incredible spots. It ticks off so many of my boxes between cool offense, a great slow building story, and double limbwork, but then nobody sells anything and the flow is all weird and they just sort of have a match at points in the middle, forgetting the whole story. So by the end, they're supposed to be super emotional and shit, but it's not earned. It's 36 minutes with maybe 20-25 great ones. Davey hits a lot of head kicks for two counts, but then hits a running one to the chest and somehow that gets the win. Weird finish on top of everything. **3/4 Post-match, they blow each other on the mic and Davey Richards walks into the new era of ROH as champion, just to make sure you know this is going to be terrible. |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 28 2014, 02:06 AM Post #29 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: El Generico, Since 6/26/2011 ![]() ROH Tag Team Turmoil July 8th, 2011 Manassas, VA Jim Cornette comes out and says Hero ran into travel issues, so he's not here tonight. He brings out Davey Richards both to blow him and for the ROH customary interview of the new champion. Davey thanks everyone and puts over Eddie and is happy to reunite the American Wolves now. Roderick Strong and Truth Martini come out and insincerely congratulate him. Davey says he knows Roddy missed the show because he was in Japan, but he'll take him on anywhere. Roddy mocks Davey for crying after the match, and Davey wants to fight. Elgin comes out to back up Strong, but Eddie then comes out to save Davey, and the House of Truth backs off. They're holding a mini tag contender tournament this show. The winners also get $5,000 because Cornette is in full control now and is bringing back all the terrible cliched things like that that everyone knows are bullshit and rolls their eyes at. We all know ROH doesn't have $5000 to give away like that when these dudes are working for under $1000 a show. Match #1: Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander [Semi-Finals] Dave Prazak is back on commentary for the time being. Good enough face/face opening match. Kyle is the worst one in this by a mile, as both of the C&C guys are at least solid and do nothing bad. Team Black ROH has a good control segment on Kyle, and that means a Cole hot tag! It's not the best thing ever, but it means Kyle doesn't get to do the hot tag, which is good news. Finishing run is solid, and Cedric is beaten after a Rolling Lariat total elimination. **1/2 Match #2: The Briscoes vs. The Bravado Brothers [Semi-Finals] Oh cool, we're getting another Briscoes/Cole'Reilly match! The Briscoes basically squash the Bravados, and it's good times. Jay tries to use a chair for fun, and WGTT come down to be the worst of all time yet again. Charlie distracts the ref and Mark, and Shelton Superkicks the chair into Jay's face. They bail and one of the Bravado shitheads covers Jay to win. GOD DAMNIT. UGH. JUST GIVE THEM THE TITLE ALREADY. ** Match #3: Kenny King vs. Mike Bennett King looked pretty good here, and this was better than I expected. I wouldn't call it good exactly because there were a lot of parts where PRODIGY was clearly lost outside of his cool Spinebuster, since he can't fill time at all outside of his terrible punches and some stomps. King had good comebacks though and hit all his stuff on target and in a logical order. Bennett had a good clothesline off the apron, and then avoided the Royal Flush into a schoolboy with the tights to win. **1/4 Post-match, Rhett Titus comes out to tell the ref what happened and he just randomly believes him so he reverses the decision. What the fuck? ANX leaves, and Bennett is mad. Jim Cornette comes out and says he needs a replacement to fight Rhett Titus tonight since Hero is absent, and he wants PRODIGY to do it. Why? Why would you want him to wrestle again? Bennett obviously says no, and Cornette threatens him with a suspension if he doesn't, so Bennett has to. Gross. Before the tag title match, The Briscoes try to get down to attack WGTT in revenge, but they're held back by referees. Match #4: WGTT [c] vs. El Generico/Colt Cabana [ROH World Tag Team Championship] This may be the worst El Generico match I've ever seen in ROH in a while, and certainly the worst since the Hangmen 3 feud. The crowd is usually molten hot for Generico, but this is such a foregone conclusion that nobody gives a shit. Nobody buys into anything because it's such an obvious result, and there's a lot of resentment about that at the same time. Generico tries to get something good out of Haas on the mat, but it doesn't work. Generico is FIP until Cabana has a good hot tag. The best thing about this is that it's only 14 minutes, so it's harder for them to kill time. Cabana does great stuff and Generico does too. Then Cabana is beaten with Black Finisher. ** Match #5: Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly vs. The Bravado Brothers [Finals] As previously stated, the winners get a future title shot and five grand. This is a match that happens again. They try and make the Bravados into serious players by giving them a ton of offense, but Cornette still doesn't understand that you can't really force stars on a 2000s or 2010s indy crowd. It doesn't work because they're still really inexperienced. Finishing run has some bright spots. Kyle makes one of them tap to a Front Guilloutine Choke after Cole and Kyle do the high kick/Brainbuster spot. ** Match #6: Rhett Titus vs. Mike Bennett Rhett has a great offensive early on, but then Bennett takes over and it brings this down. The referee catches Bennett using the tights this time. Bennett decides to use a fucking body slam as one of his finishing run nearfalls. They try a big epic one and it is not very good. King stops Bennett from using a chain at the end, and Rhett debuts a Bloody Sunday as his new finish. Kelly says he calls it the Rhett-tribution. *3/4 In the back, Cole and O'Reilly celebrate with the novelty check and they say their hard work paid off and they got the money, revenge on the Bravados, and finally have a Tag Team Title shot. Match #7: The American Wolves vs. Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini This match has two goals and accomplishes them super well, so despite being overly long and not being a great match, it does the job it needs to do. #1, the friction between Davey and Eddie is NOT over. #2, Michael Elgin is established as being on the level of the three others. The problem is that it goes 31 minutes and nobody here ever considers that maybe they shouldn't start off at a million miles an hour when everyone will be burned out of that 10 minutes in. This is also the kind of match that might rule with a crowd and not a building full of mutes. Elgin is beaten by Davey with a running head kick. **1/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 28 2014, 04:26 PM Post #30 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: El Generico, Since 6/26/2011 ![]() ROH No Escape July 9th, 2011 Charlotte, NC Match #1: Mike Bennett vs. Andy Ridge Meh. Showcase for PRODIGY, so whatever. He wins with the Piledriver, having seemingly abandoned his horrible Side Effect. *1/2 Match #2: Kenny King vs. Mark Briscoe [Rhett Titus & Jay Briscoe Handcuffed To Ring Posts] This is is solid. It's only eight minutes, but they did some cool stuff in that time. King is improving to the point where he's at least crisp, if not incredibly smart about his match layouts. Still, it's hard to have a bad movefest with a Briscoe since they're part of the mid 2000s indy crew that mastered how to do this style without compromising their own greatness. They don't always show it and allow themselves to get dragged down by lesser foes sometimes, but the skill is there. Kenny King wins with the Coronation. **1/2 Match #3: Jay Briscoe vs. Rhett Titus [King & Mark Handcuffed to Ring Posts] Same general idea, but it breaks down more here. Jay is more of a brawler and forces it into a fight, so this is a little bit better since there's more hate and chaos. Jay eventually gets upset, AND PUNCHES OUT THE REF. EAT SHIT, SINCLAIR. Jay gets bolt cutters, AND HE CUTS MARK FREE FROM THE POST! YEAH! KING CAN'T GET FREE, AND THEY BEAT UP TITUS. SPIKE JAY DRILLER! MARK TAKES OFF HIS BELT AND STARTS WHIPPING RHETT'S BACK WITH IT UNTIL THE REF RECOVERS AND CALLS A DQ! **3/4 They stop the ref from cutting King free too, but WGTT come out to make the save. Match #4: The American Wolves vs. Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly This is another one of those "empty house" type matches, except the house has a few things inside. They run perfectly with a top guys vs. promising young guys deal, made up by Kyle being Davey's apprentice and all. The early Davey/Kyle stuff is better than it should be, given that it's Davey Richards vs. Kyle O'Reilly. They work the basic story well through normal tag structure and the Wolves have a good control segment. They do the big finishing run and I liked it a lot more this time because it was done well and there wasn't that much that made me roll my eyes. Eddie trapped Kyle in the Achilles Lock and the ref stopped it after Eddie knocked him out with head stomps. The bell doesn't ring for a while, so Eddie keeps it on for another 10-15 seconds before being pulled off. *** Post-match, Davey is mad at Eddie for hurting his kid, and Eddie is annoyed with Davey for being like that when Eddie is clearly in the right since there was no bell. Match #5: Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander vs. Michael Elgin/Chase Owens w/ Truth Martini Another one of those House of Truth tryouts. This is the best one because the C&C team is gun, and they're great dudes for Elgin to show off his insane power against. Chase is useless if not actually bad, and Cedric ends up beating him with a sweet looking Frog Splash. **1/4 Post-match, Elgin hits Chase with the Spiral Bomb, and Truth/Elgin walk out on him. Match #6: Chris Hero w/ Shane Hagadorn vs. Colt Cabana This is Cabana's final ROH match to date as the show after this is the TV tapings, and that's when he's gone. Fucking Cornette. This is fantastic though. They do a lot of cool matwork and European trickery, and then move into Hero's awesome strike based attack. Awesome awesome finishing run, and a great finish as Cabana tries the Flying Asshole, but Hero hits the Cyclone Kill to the back of the head to stop it and get the pin. *** Match #7: WGTT vs. The Bravado Brothers This is awful. It's a squash that goes six minutes, basically. They give the Bravados a little, but it's all horrible because HEY THE BRAVADOS STILL KINDA SUCK. Haas and Benjamin aren't trying either, and they bury the Bravados as not even worthy of a real finish, since their leapfrog attack thing gets a win for once. 3/4* The Briscoes immediately come out and asks if the people came here for this shit from a "superstar" tag team holding THEIR belts. He says thinks dem boys should man up right now and take on the Briscoes, and they have a fight. The crowd is 100% pro-Briscoes and they get a table out. They whip Haas through the table in the corner, and Kenny King runs out with a chair to fight them off. Match #8: El Generico vs. Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini [Steel Cage Match] This feud comes to an end. It wasn't a bad feud, but House of Truth are pretty heatless because Truth is horrible and ROH has no TV for the duration of this feud. Pretty simple too, as Strong cheats and throws Generico into the cage a lot and Generico comes back. Big spots happen. They don't really use the cage a lot, because it's flimsy as hell and the bottom part of the fencing isn't even connected to the bottom of the cage. Generico Helluva Kicks Truth off the cage wall, and then eventually beats Roddy with the BRAINBUSTAAAAAAAH. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 28 2014, 09:08 PM Post #31 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: El Generico, Since 6/26/2011 ![]() ROH Death Before Dishonor IX September 17th, 2011 New York, NY Match #1: Jay Lethal/Homicide vs. Tomasso Ciampa/Rhino w/ The Embassy No shortcuts here to aid him this time, so Homicide was the worst guy in this. Rhino had a decent power game still, and Lethal was generally good. Ciampa had just enough to not be worse than Homicide, which is upsetting. I liked Lethal vs. Ciampa more than I feel comfortable with. Ciampa beats Homicide with Project Ciampa. **1/4 Match #2: Shelton Benjamin vs. Mike Bennett w/ Bob Evans This was a match. Bennett brings all the super basic shitty heel stuff to a crowd that refuses to give into his cheap heat attempts with a Red Sox style B on his trunks and wearing of a Red Sox jersey to the ring. Which is fantastic, I really commend the NYC fans for not falling for the attempt to make it look like he's actually over. Shelton makes a half-assed comeback, and he wins with Black Finisher. *3/4 Match #3: Future Shock vs. The Young Bucks vs. The Bravado Brothers [Three Way Dance] Cole and O'Reilly have been officially named now. This is a cool 10-11 minutes of spots, and I'm glad the Young Bucks are here now. They have their obvious flaws, but they're at least exciting. They decided to fuck right off with that slow nonsense and did an insane fireworks show. Bravados are out first from the Superkick/Brainbuster combo from Cole and O'Reilly, and Future Shock vs. Bucks is amazing as a spotfest. SUPERKICKMANIA happens and the Bucks win with More Bang For Your Buck. The best Bucks matches are when they don't try to pretend to be anything else, and that includes this. ***1/4 Match #4: El Generico vs. Jimmy Jacobs This is a set up for an angle, but the 11 minutes they get before that is really good. Since it's face/face, Jimmy lets loose a HUSS for the first time in 6 years. There's not a ton of rhyme here, just them doing stuff to kill the time and get over Jimmy as Corino's sponsor by having him do a lot of the same refusal to take cheap shots. They got into a lot of cool stuff and Jimmy countered the top rope Brainbuster into a Super Tornado DDT, but then it stopped being a match WHEN KEVIN STEEN HOPPED OVER THE RAILING! **3/4 "HEY GENERICO! LOOK WHO'S BACK BITCH! I'M NEVER GOING AWAY! COME ON EVERYBODY, ROH! ROH! ROH! ROH!" Cornette and referees come down to try and stop him and Steen tells him to tell Corino he's a fucking pussy for not being here. Steen's mic is cut, AND HE YELLS THAT WHILE CORINO IS IN JAPAN, HE CAN ASK DAVEY WHY HE'S NOT HERE DEFENDING THE TITLE. FUCK YEAH. Steen goes to leave, BUT JACOBS JUMPS OUT AFTER HIM AND THEY FIGHT. BUT STEEN POWERBOMBS HIM ON THE APRON! GENERICO RUNS AND DOES A FLIP DIVE, BUT STEEN SLIDES IN AND GENERICO JUST WIPES OUT SECURITY! STEEN TRIES TO PACKAGE PILEDRIVER CARY SILKIN BEFORE SECURITY FINALLY PULLS HIM AWAY. AMAZING. Steen then cuts this promo outside the building during intermission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utuoB2PDcrc Match #5: Charlie Haas vs. Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini This sucks. First outright bad Elgin match because Haas tries to dominate it because Charlie Haas doesn't understand pro wrestling structure. The crowd doesn't give a shit about this ESPECIALLY after a super hot Steen angle. Elgin tries to then do back work when he finally gets to try stuff. Haas no sells it and tries to pretend this is an even power vs. power match, because holy shit, Charlie Haas has to be phantom booking ROH, right? He wins with a Lariat, just to put a terrible cap on this. *1/2 Match #6: Eddie Edwards vs. Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini [RINGMASTER'S CHALLENGE] This is dog shit and a terrible stipulation. First fall is pinfall only, second is submission, and the third is a 15 minute Iron Man Match. This was not nearly as good as the title switch. Not a ton of story, just a long match of dudes hitting each other hard. The first match had a semblance of a story, but they can't run that again after Eddie's won the big one and Roddy knows how good he is. After like 14 minutes, Roddy wins fall #1 with his Suplex Reverse Death by Roderick deal. They do stuff in Fall #2, and it lacks the focus you need in a submission only match. Roddy works the back, but Eddie doesn't feel like selling and wins with the Achilles Lock around 20 minutes. Final fall is decent stuff, but they waited like 20+ minutes to do that. Fuck this. They go crazy and go to a time limit draw with zero falls in that period. UGH. FUCK THIS. NOBODY IN THIS COMPANY IS GOOD ENOUGH TO GO THIS LONG ANYMORE. Cornette comes out and books a sudden death, AND THAT GOES ANOTHER 7 MINUTES TO SEND THIS TO A SOLID 45 MINUTES BEFORE EDDIE WINS WITH THE DIEHARD. FUCK THIS MATCH. This is two good workers putting on pretty much the worst match they were capable of. ** Match #7: The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express [LADDER WAR III - #1 Contender's Match] The winners get a title shot at the only ROH show in 2011 that I don't have and can't find. This is supposed to be the blowoff, which is bullshit because this is the only feud people actually care about and doesn't feel like it needs to end yet. Give the Briscoes the titles like everyone wants and have them eventually drop to ANX at Final Battle or whenever. But no, we've gotta pretend WGTT matter. Anyways, this is great because this match up is a gold mine in 2011. Rhett hits another gusher, Jay hits another gusher, they space out big spots well, and everything makes sense. They basically just work another street fight and never really try and climb until the end, which is both a nice bit of logic and makes sense with all the hate. Mark jumps off a super ladder with a splash to put Rhett through a table in the aisle. Finish kind of blows though as Kenny and Jay have a slugfest on top of that same ladder in the ring. King wins and knocks Jay off...and then grabs the contract. That's the actual finish. This feud was perfect in every way until the finish, because the finish happened on the first event of the "new" ROH, and they fuck up 95% of things. God damnit. ***1/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 28 2014, 09:56 PM Post #32 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: El Generico, Since 6/26/2011 ROH Wrestling September 24th, 2011 Chicago Ridge, IL The opening video shows you how bad this show will get at points before ROH eventually starts to improve in 2014, as it's mostly shots of ugly fans sort of having fun, the ring with a logo, and then WGTT and Davey Richards putting their kick pads, mouth pieces, and wrist tape on in super INTENSE~ fashion before hitting an ROH logo. Nevermind spotlighting the actual cool wrestling or other personalities like The Briscoes, Edwards, Lethal, Embassy, ANX, Future Shock, Generico, Strong, Elgin, Corino/Jacobs, etc. Nope, all about Davey and WGTT. TONIGHT: WGTT/KINGS FOR THE TITLES Nigel McGuinness debuts as color commentator on this show. A video airs on Future Shock. Match #1: Future Shock vs. The Bravado Brothers These tapings are basically just a greatest hits of ROH 2011, or at least what Jim Cornette thinks the greatest hits were. This is probably their best match together, as Cole and Kyle are really meshing into a surprisingly great babyface team. The Bravados have a few nice double teams now and don't stick to a control segment for too long, and make with a great finishing run. I like spotty wrestling a lot, but a lot of times it's just done poorly. This is done well. Lots of cool stuff and counters and only one contrived thing that was still kind of cool. Future Shock beats a Bravado with the Ride the Lightning, which is the name for their Total Elimination style thing. *** In a pretape, Kevin Kelly and Davey Richards shill live events and it is the most cringeworthy thing in ROH history. A recap video airs of Best in the World. For some reason, we're recapping a PPV from six months ago. A featured called "Inside ROH" airs. Cornette recaps the Code of Honor, and they announce Generico/Lethal for the TV Title next week. Lethal says he's come back to ROH as a grown up man now. They air the last few minutes of the Tag Title match at BITW and the Briscoes' post-match attack. Match #2: WGTT [c] vs. The Kings of Wrestling w/ Sara Del Rey [ROH World Tag Team Championship] This is the last KOW match in ROH, and they put on one last carryjob. They guide WGTT through matwork, and the Hero/Shelton run is especially great. The Kings do their thing and isolate Shelton. Either ROH's lighting is super dark or Shelton's gotten blacker. Good control seg, and then Haas has a terrible hot tag. They shut down Haas and do stuff, and basically the key to a great WGTT match in the 2010s is not letting them do anything and taking over. They have a 30 second comeback and beat Hero with a Hart Attack. LOLROH. *** I know the HDNet show wasn't amazing, but this is the show with the worst production values I've ever seen. The light/dark contrast is blinding at points and then pitch black at other points when they go into a less lit area, in addition to pretty grainy video stuff otherwise. Bad all around. |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 29 2014, 12:32 AM Post #33 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: El Generico, Since 6/26/2011 ROH Wrestling October 1st, 2011 Chicago Ridge, IL TONIGHT: GENERICO/LETHAL FOR THE TV TITLE! In the ring, Jim Cornette brings out WGTT for an interview and is probably jerking off. Cornette says they proved their total dominance over the Kings of Wrestling. Fuck off. Cornette says The Briscoes want at them and the fans chant for the Briscoes. Cornette brings up the attack in NYC and says they were fined $5,000 and Shelton says he doesn't care. Haas says his dad beat him up worse than that as a kid. Cornette says he doesn't want to reward the Briscoes for bad behavior, and Shelton says they'll get it however they have to. A video airs on PRODIGY, with Cornette repeating all the lies they told on HDNet on how every company wanted Bennett. Match #1: Jimmy Jacobs vs. Mike Bennett Corino and Bob Evans are at ringside, and ugh. I already know how this ends, and I hate it. They do the same thing as the Bennett/Corino matches, except that Jimmy is younger and in better shape than Corino, so he can go a little faster and more at an "ROH" pace to carry this faggot. They do the thing where Jimmy and Corino refuse to take cheap shots and whatever. The point was established in like March, and they're basically refusing to do anything new with it because they don't actually want to do anything with Corino and Jacobs and just want to use their overness and skill to put over Cornette's bullshit pet projects. Jimmy is basically everything PRODIGY should be in that he does nothing fancy, but draws reactions all the time through charisma and selling, etc. It helps that he's actually good at the basics he does, unlike this sideways asshol. PRODIGY wins with his bullshit Side Effect. God damnit. ** Bennett tries to goad Corino again, but he refuses. A video airs on Eddie Edwards. The thinking that this show would reach a bunch of new fans is admirable, but it's just not true, and these videos are bullshit time wasters. NEXT WEEK: Davey Richards vs. Roderick Strong for the ROH Title. In comments, Davey Richards says Truth gave Roderick the confidence to win the title that he didn't have before, and he fights Roderick because they don't like each other. Roddy says Davey can't beat him because he's a dick. Roddy says he's a real smart ass and because he doesn't take all this seriously and he loves partying and women. Oh my god, this is so cringeworthy and forced. Strong says he's gonna dick him out of the title. Match #2: El Generico [c] vs. Jay Lethal [ROH World Television Championship] This is an infuriating decision, but the match is good because El Generico doesn't have bad matches. It's no more than good though because Lethal doesn't feel like trying hard for some reason, and they went to a fifteen minute draw. Generico and Lethal both want more time, and Cornette says they only have three minutes left, so they can have three. DID SOME -- eh, not worth it. Fuck Cornette. They have a crazy good final three minutes, which both rules and is infuriating because they could have done this for the last 15 minutes. Lethal wins the title with the Lethal Combination, because Generico's had his pity run and now it's time for the REAL stars to shine! Fuck you, Jim. **1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Jun 29 2014, 11:04 PM Post #34 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011 ROH Wrestling October 8th, 2011 Chicago Ridge, IL TONIGHT: DAVEY/STRONG FOR THE BELT Jim Cornette is in the ring and he brings out The Briscoes. Cornette says the last time he saw either of them was in New York where they were fined $5,000. Holy shit, Jim Cornette hasn't been to an ROH show in four months. Mark says that money could have bought a lot of beer and bullets and Jay says that's fine, but they want Haas and Benjamin and their title shot. Cornette says ROH won't reward them for their stunt and Jay says they've been here since day one. The mic keeps going in and out. Cornette says there can be ANX/Briscoes next week for a title shot. EXCUSE ME, THEY JUST RAN AN IPPV WHERE ANX WON A TITLE SHOT. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING? Briscoes says they own the All Night Express and they've beat them everywhere. Jay says nobody's gonna have a choice but to give them a title shot. MAN UP. A generic ad for ROH on tour airs. On the HDNet show, they actually told you the dates and what matches would be on those shows, instead of making you visit the website to find out. This is all so fucking sloppy. A video airs on Tomasso Ciampa. Cornette talks about how he's undefeated and in The Embassy. NAna says he has royalty in his blood, so that's why he's made Ciampa his project. Match #1: Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy vs. Andy Ridge Steve Corino does commentary and continues his interest in young talent. This is the best Ciampa has ever looked, as he throws Ridge around and hits super hard and looks like an actual top prospect, and not Tomasso Ciampa. He wins with Project Ciampa. ** At ringside, Nigel tries to interview fans about the title main event, and one fan starts shouting to bring back Kevin Steen, so Nigel awkwardly walks away. Another hype video on Strong/Davey airs. Davey talks about his grandparents and death and bullshit. Strong says winning the title back would be better than sex, even better than sex with him, and trust him because he knows, it's pretty good. Match #2: Davey Richards [c] vs. Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini [ROH World Championship] Good news, Roddy gets back his "THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT" intro. Bad news, this match happens. Kevin Kelly spends the match blowing Davey Richards and talking about how he's revolutionizing wrestling by doing MMA stuff. Yeah, nobody else in the world has ever used armbars and kicks. They have decent matwork early on and then this becomes the match everyone knew it would be. Some cool stuff, and then more infuriating stuff. Roddy kicks out of a bunch of head kicks and then taps out to an Ankle Lock, because that's Davey's most recent move fetish. **1/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 3 2014, 11:51 PM Post #35 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011 ROH Wrestling October 15th, 2011 Chicago Ridge, IL TONIGHT: ELGIN/EDWARDS! BRISCOES/ANX IN A #1 CONTENDERS MATCH! A video airs on the Briscoes. Jay is mad and says ANX used to ask them for autographs back in the day and now they're trying to threaten them. They then talk about working on the family chicken farm and it's infinitely more entertaining to see them yell about dead chickens. Mark says you earn their respect by whipping their ass, and nobody whips their ass. Match #1: The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express [#1 Contenders Match] This is the least of all their tag matches in 2011 because the crowd is dead after the long ass TV taping. They keep having this problem which leads me to believe that maybe this is a flawed system and taping hours and hours of TV in one sitting is a terrible fucking idea. 95-99 ECW had the best TV taping idea for an indy of all time, as they basically just cherrypicked the best stuff from events or broke up big events into hours of TV without telling the crowd it'd be a TV taping. Anyways, this is still pretty good, it's just not a crazy ass brawl because Cornette has this bullshit idea of the first month being introductions to characters and setting the table for things to break down. Still though, it's a quality formula tag. It breaks down for a good finishing run, and Kevin Kelly throws a fit over Mark and Titus fighting on the apron near the announce table. The ref is distracted by trying to break it up, and Jay punts King in the dick and gets an inside cradle to win. **3/4 Rhett tells the ref, but the Briscoes try to leave before the ref can change the decision again. Rhett attacks, but they beat him down until referees come out to stop them. A video now airs on WGTT. Terrible. HNGH. AMATEUR BACKGROUNDS. REAL ATHLETES. MUSCLES. THE LOOK. HIGH SPOTS. VAGUE REAL SPORTS OVERTONES. TENNIS RACKET. MATT MORGAN. At ringside, Kelly asks Jim Cornette about the last match. Cornette says the referee's decision is final but neither team are the #1 Contenders right now. God damnit. INSIDE ROH: -They say Elgin's goal tonight is to sidetrack Eddie Edwards from his goal of a rematch for the title so Strong can slip in -Eddie Edwards says he and Davey are 1-1, and the loss hasn't stopped him and now Davey is the hunted for once -Davey says he knows it's not over and there has to be one winner and one loser in a rubber match and then some inane babble about the hunt and pure competition Match #2: Eddie Edwards vs. Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini I am positive that these two have a great match in them, but this was not it. Really rushed match tonight. They had 10-15 minutes but failed to do that in a proper way and basically went right at each other and then skipped the middle, so there was a distinct beginning and then a big finishing run that they never really earned. Some cool stuff, but whatever. Eddie also yells "ELGIN" before maybe a quarter of his offense and that bothers me a lot. Eddie wins with the Die Hard. **1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 4 2014, 12:54 AM Post #36 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011 ROH Wrestling October 22nd, 2011 Louisville, KY TONIGHT: LETHAL/PRODIGY FOR THE TV TITLE! Match #1: TJ Perkins vs. Mike Mondo God DAMNIT. TJ gets brought back for a run in late 2011-early 2012 so he can do a lot of jobs. TJ does the best he can with matwork and lucha stuff. The match is laid out to have Mondo be more powerful and he looks more powerful, but TJ is killing him with his strikes and Mondo looks like he barely connects, but TJ dies on everything because he's a pro, so it doesn't work at all. TJ GETS A LA MAGISTRAL FOR THE WIN HOLY SHIT! YEAH! Still not great, but good result. ** FINAL BATTLE 2011: DECEMBER 23RD! ON IPPV! A recap of the tag match from last week airs. In the ring, Jim Cornette brings out The Briscoes and talks about the match last week. Cornette says ROH has made a decision and says he thinks those boys deserve another chance, and it'll be the Briscoes vs. ANX one more time for a title shot at Final Battle. Jay asks why they gotta beat them sumbitches one more time and says they've whopped their ass all over the country, so they'll do it again. Cornette says to watch his language and Jay says he knows he and ROH officials don't want them as champions, but they won't have a damn choice. Cornette says they don't want another attack with chairs and they have to earn it and Jay asks if they ain't proved themselves yet in the last nine years. Jay says they want their belts back. MAN UP. MAN UP. MAN UP. A video airs from WGTT and they say they want the Briscoes. Well that about telegraphs it. Great work again. The production is looking much better this week as well as abandoning the useless segments, but this is still not a great decision to have them make this even more obvious. NEXT WEEK: STRONG/KYLE O'REILLY A video airs with Davey talking about TEAM RICHARDS with Kyle and his training methods and I can't get past his new hairstyle. In a nice bit, they show footage of him in NJPW. Davey then says he doesn't care who he faces at Final Battle, because he wants the best challenger. ![]() Match #2: Jay Lethal [c] vs. Mike Bennett w/ Bob Evans [ROH World Television Championship] This sure happens. There are super obvious and cringeworthy front row plants holding Kevin Steen signs. This has crossed the line into an obvious work and solely Cornette led ROH is really shitty at making anything feel authentic. Lethal tries sort of here but since this is a fifteen minute draw, Bennett controls a bunch of stuff and it is not very good. They then try a big finishing run and Bennett's big match offense falls super short. Body slams! Swinging neckbreakers! I'm all for the basics, but know your crowd, man. Anyways, yeah, time limit draw. ** Post-match, Lethal challenges the dickhead to more time, but he refuses and leaves. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 4 2014, 02:14 AM Post #37 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011 ROH Wrestling October 29th, 2011 Louisville, KY A video airs on Strong/Kyle that is actually pretty good. Strong says he's going to embarrass Davey's young boy and says this whole Team Richards thing is a joke, and it's stupid. Kyle says he might not win, but if Strong tries to embarrass him, he's going to get into something he's not ready for. Match #1: Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini vs. Kyle O'Reilly This isn't great, but they continue the story from the promo well enough. Truth joins commentary and says Roderick Strong will have an open challenge at Final Battle. And forget what I said as it becomes a generic low ROH style match with lots of shitty strike exchanges and submission counters and that nonsense. Roderick wins with the Sick Kick. ** They call Elgin out, and he and Strong hit Kyle with the Alabama Slam/Lungblower spot. Tony Kozina comes to save and also gets beaten down. Davey Richards comes down to save and almost does it, but Truth causes a distraction. He gets stomped on by Strong and Elgin, until Eddie Edwards runs out to help Davey. Nobody involved in this can throw a half decent punch. The House of Truth is run off, and Truth does the all time worst well of a kick to roll out. After the break, Cornette fines Strong, Truth, and Elgin $2500 a piece. Come on, no you're not. You don't even pay them that much. Cornette gets distracted by a "WE WANT STEEN" chant and he says Kevin Steen is a great wrestler but the fans don't have to deal with Kevin like he does. He's an insurance nightmare and public relations disaster and ROH won't do business with him. They try to give the fans what they want, but ROH is not going to do business with Kevin Steen, and he can sue him if he doesn't like that. INSIDE ROH: -Kelly says it will be Davey vs. either Eddie Edwards or Jay Lethal at Final Battle -Jay Lethal says he hasn't been back too long, but he hasn't been beaten by anyone since he's been back. He says he came back for the World Title and even a wolf can get a lethal injection. -Eddie Edwards talks about training and preparation and ugh. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. He then repeats the thing about it being a rubber match Steve Corino comes out to commentary for the next match and says he wants to apologize for all the Steen problems. Kelly says not to talk about him. Match #2: Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy vs. Alex Silva This is the Silva that eventually Ric Flair forced TNA to hire in the hilarious Gut Check fiasco. This is another great Ciampa squash. Lots of brutal offense, and he wins with the Project Ciampa. *3/4 Match #3: The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express [#1 Contender's Match] Maybe the third time's the charm for the winners actually getting a title shot. This one is sliding scale great though, so that's nice. Chaotic start, then it settles into a good formula tag. Rhett Titus has a pretty decent hot tag and the finishing run ties it all together with some nice counters. They manage to keep changing stuff up throughout all their 2011 matches, which is impressive. Jay shoves King off the top to block a Doomsday Device and then he jumps off to push Mark down off Rhett's shoulders into a rana and pin for the win. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 4 2014, 05:17 PM Post #38 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011 ROH Wrestling November 5th, 2011 Louisville, KY In the ring, Jim Cornette announces the Final Battle main event as Richards/Edwards III and brings out Eddie Edwards. Eddie says he knows all about Davey Richards and his training, and says he has himself a brand new head trainer. Cornette is clearly in glee and mentally is jerking off over drama about training camps and other MMA nonsense. Eddie refuses to reveal who it is and says there can only be one beast. Davey Richards comes out and hypes it up by saying this is the era of the American Wolves and they fight for the only title that matters, etc. They shake hands and Davey wants them to reunite against the House of Truth, and Eddie says it's all well and good with him and this time if the fans chant "NEXT WORLD CHAMP" like before when they come out, he'll know that they're right again. In the back, Truth talks to Michael Elgin. He says his job is to tell the truth even when it hurts, and he knows it hurt him to let down people last week like Roderick Strong. If he had beaten Eddie Edwards, Roderick Strong may be the #1 Contender right now, and says to channel his guilt and he knows what he has to do. THEY SAY GOD CREATED ALL MEN EQUAL, THEY WERE WRONG. Super bad. Match #1: Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini vs. Shiloh Jonez With a name like that, I'm super happy that Elgin destroyed his life. Quality power spots against the terrible jobber and Elgin wins with the Spiral Bomb. *3/4 INSIDE ROH: -A video tape airs with Kevin Steen surrounded by lawyers. Basically, he's suing ROH and Jim Cornette. This is super terrible and Steen himself has said it's the worst segment he's ever been involved with. Basically, Cornette has four weeks to reinstate Steen or more charges will be filed. Steen says he's doing things Jim's way and now he's suing him in his hometown. He says he's coming back for Corino, Jacobs, Generico, and the ROH Title in that order. -Mike Bennett says he didn't run away from Jay Lethal and says he should have already won that match. He says he as TV Champion would triple the ratings, and he wants a rematch with a different referee. -Jay Lethal says Bennett is making stuff up and he never was pinned, he never gave up, and he wasn't hurt enough for the referee to stop the match Match #2: WGTT vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander The young guys did the best they could to stand out, but WGTT are the worst. There's a good Shelton/Coleman run of matwork and quick stuff early on, but otherwise, Shelton again lets Haas be terrible and jerk off. The champions basically dominate this and then barely gave C&C anything at the end of the match. They beat Coleman with a Double Powerbomb. *1/2 The Briscoes come out post-match, and Jay gets the mic. He congratulates them on beating the rookies and says at Final Battle, y'all boys gotta face the baddest tag team on the planet AKA DEM BOYS. MAN UP. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 4 2014, 11:03 PM Post #39 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011 ![]() ROH Gateway to Honor November 6th, 2011 Collinsville, IL Match #1: Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy vs. Andy Ridge Solid showcase for Ciampa, who I'm tentatively impressed by. He's had some terrible matches in PWG in 2014, but I'm enjoying him in 2011 right now. Ridge does his acceptable generic babyface stuff. Delirious comes out randomly to chase off the entire Embassy, but Ciampa still wins with Project Ciampa. ** Match #2: Jay Briscoe vs. TJ Perkins Really great sub ten minute match. Pretty much a spotfest, but they did everything really really well, so on a sliding scale like this, it's great. Lots of nasty strikes and offense, a hot crowd, and guys who are smooth on counters and flow and manage to not do anything too stupid. Jay wins with the Jay Driller. *** Match #3: Steve Corino/Jimmy Jacobs vs. The Bravado Brothers This was alright. Bravados don't mesh super well with the more old school stylings of Corino and Jacobs, and it was too short for them to really do anything of note at only seven or eight minutes. Jimmy and Corino do good face stuff, which makes sense, because they're both good at basically everything. Corino wins with the Sliding C. ** Match #4: Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini vs. Grizzly Redwood This goes on WAY too long at eightish minutes when it should be a total squash. It's okay for Ciampa sometimes, but Elgin is hanging with top guys as a powerhouse, so he should murder Grizzly in three minutes or less. All the comebacks are super unbelievable before Elgin finally ends it with the Spiral Bomb. *1/2 Match #5: WGTT [c] vs. Future Shock [ROH World Tag Team Championship] They finally get their title shot from four months prior. This is another match with WGTT totally going through the motions and even made Cole and O'Reilly likable as wrestlers for having to try and deal with this bullshit. Shelton vs. Cole is pretty fun on the mat early on, and then Haas comes in to smother Kyle and Cole and it's the worst. Finishing run is good when Shelton is in, as again, Haas is super fucking slow and awkward and can't do 75% of what he wants to do. They fuck up stuff at the end and Haas beats Kyle with the Haas of Pain. *3/4 Match #6: MsChif vs. Mia Yim w/ The Embassy This sucked. Mia did not look very good, and then MsChif isn't looking super great here either. She wins with the Desacrator. 3/4* Match #7: Jay Lethal vs. Mark Briscoe Finally another good match! And no way, there's a Briscoe in it! Almost like they're the only good thing in ROH at the moment who aren't handcuffed with booking or terrible opponents! This is super well laid out and Lethal puts in effort against someone who can actually do this stuff well. Mark gets mean and violent for his control segment, and then the finishing run is pretty good. Lethal hits the Lethal Combination and then the Flying Elbow for the win. *** Match #8: El Generico vs. Mike Bennett w/ Bob Evans Bennett gets the ultimate test in the early 2010s to determine an indy wrestler's value. It's like wrestling Bryan Danielson in the 2000s and determines one's value and even future value in the case of a Jon Moxley or Tyler Black. And guess what? Bennett falls incredibly short and while this isn't the worst Generco match, it is one of the most boring ones. Bennett PRODIGIES his way through a control seg before Generico had the killer finishing run AND THEN FUCKING PRODIGY GETS TO KICK OUT OF THE BRAINBUSTER. BULLSHIT. Another beats him, because even in winning, he has to look weaker than Cornette's favorites. Love how the two that Cornette hated and tried to drive out are now in NXT and successful and his favorites are still in ROH or rotting in TNA or basically retired. **1/4 Post-match, Bob distracts Generico, so Mike can lay him out with his bullshit Side Effect. God damnit. Match #9: the American Wolves vs. The All Night Express This totally didn't need 26 minutes. This matchis basically broken up into four parts, and one of them is totally unnecessary. There's your opening run, which is fine enough. Then the Wolves take over and that's done pretty well and fits the general main eventers vs. future stars deal this has going. Then ANX takes over, and it's not a good control segment really and breaks up both the flow and story. ANX are the underdogs, but this layout forces the hot tag to come from the Wolves, painting them more as babyfaces when that's unnecessary because everyone will cheer them anyways. They then go into a big epic finishing run without earning it, and it comes off really flat and is total bullshit. Eddie accidentally knocks Davey off the top and down through the timekeeper's table, and then they hit Eddie with a Frog Splash followed by an SSP for the win. **1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 5 2014, 01:54 AM Post #40 |
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 4/1/2011 ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011 ROH Wrestling November 12th, 2011 Louisville, KY Match #1: The Young Bucks vs. The Bravado Brothers Bucks have another good one. The Bravados still aren't perfect or anything and have some flaws, but they've improved so much since the beginning of the year. Still, it's mostly Bucks for a good reason, and they win with More Bang For Your Buck. **1/4 In the ring, Kelly brings out WGTT for an interview. Pretty sure he's hard too, since he is Jim's proxy. Haas again goes over the attack in June and says their asses are grass, without finishing the threat. Shelton says he never liked the Briscoes to begin with and they'll show them what real men look like, and until they get them, nothing matters. ANX come out and speak too and King says he was listening to the love affair with the Briscoes, and says someone along the way forgot about the ANX, and he doesn't need to remind anyone who the hottest tag team in ROH is. He says they've been hiding from them and until they beat them, they're Donald and Daffy for the way they've been ducking them. Rhett says they might have lost to the Briscoes, but they beat their asses too, and all they need is the opportunity. INSIDE ROH: -A video airs on Kevin Steen in ROH to "inform" "new fans" about the recent situation -Jay Lethal and Mike Bennett say more things about their draw a few weeks ago Steve Corino comes out with the mic and apologizes for breaking in. His name is Steve Corino, and he is an evil person, but he finally has a solution to a problem. He says for over a year, he's told people that he's sorry and says there's a monster among them. Jim Cornette won't return his calls or e-mails and all he wants is five minutes to give him his solution. Match #2: The American Wolves vs. Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini This had a lot of cool stuff from Elgin and Edwards, but it was again a flawed main event. They tried to do a 16 minute TV epic with the groundwork all clipped out in the commercial, so it was again something that felt unearned. They didn't run into this problem nearly as much with HDNet and if they did, it was usually because of a wrestler, but here it's happening to a lot of guys. So either Cornette is a fucking idiot and is instructing them to do this, or Cornette is a fucking idiot and is giving them too much time and then clipping out the important parts of the match that actually make the endings epic. Eddie chokes out Elgin with a Dragon Sleeper with a body scissors behind the ref's back, and Davey covers to win. **3/4 They make a huge deal about how Eddie's trainer probably taught him this. HOLY SHIT, HIS TRAINER IS LOW KI?! |
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. This is a killer eight minute comedy deal to honor Larry, and it's so enjoyable. They have a strut off to "Don't Bring Me Down", and make referee Todd Sinclair get in on it. They all strut to "More, More, More" and I have a sad. The amazing comedy happens and it's the best. Cabana wins with the 12 Large Elbow. 







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