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| Big Tuna | Jul 5 2014, 08:02 PM Post #41 |
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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 Survival of the Fittest 2011 November 18th, 2011 Dayton, OH Match #1: The Briscoes vs. The Bravado Brothers [Qualifying Match] This is basically a gimme for the Briscoes to get into the main event, which is a good call. It also allows them to get their win back from the fluke loss to the Bravados over the summer going into the big title match. The Briscoes look awesome again and beat the Bravados with the Doomsday Device. **1/4 Post-match, Jay gets on the mic. He says if y'all's a betting man, you would do well to bet on DEM BOYS being the last two in the ring in the main event, and while he loves his little brother, he ain't gonna hesitate to whip that ass. Mark nods and headbutts Jay. Jay headbutts him back, and they leave together. MAN UP. Match #2: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Andy Ridge [Qualifying Match] This happened. It wasn't bad or anything, but Ridge is still really new, so he's not going to make anything great against Kyle. This was only seven minutes though, so they had some nice action and then it was over before anything bad could really happen. Kyle does a lot of kicking and then wins with a Front Guillotine Choke. ** Match #3: Eddie Edwards vs. Mike Bennett w/ Bob Evans [Qualifying Match] Still not great because it's a Mike Bennett match but Eddie tries and at least makes parts of this interesting. Bennett's control segment is super boring and dull again with nothing really happening. Eddie has a pretty good finishing run as he gets 90% of it, and Bennett can at least bump competently. He flubs the few things he gets on offense, and Eddie puts on the Dragon Sleeper again for the victory. ** In the back, Davey and O'Reilly talk. Davey spoils the result of all the other matches by saying Elgin and Strong are the final two to make SOTF and talks about how Kyle can beat them and win tonight. Great editing work here. Really terrible production. Kyle thanks him and says he might be coming for his title sooner than he thought. In the back, The Embassy cuts a promo for Ciampa's qualifying match, BUT WHATEVER, WE ALREADY KNOW HE FUCKING LOSES. ANX ALSO PROMOS, BUT DAVEY SAID STRONG AND ELGIN WIN, SO HEY. Match #4: Michael Elgin vs. Kenny King vs. Adam Cole vs. Tomasso Ciampa [Qualifying Match] Truth and the Embassy are on the floor. Another awesome multi-man sprint that involves Elgin, Cole, and Ciampa. Everyone here has strong points and got to show them off. There were some minor flubs, but I liked this enough to overlook them. Cole got another great Tope Suicida in and Elgin did crazy power things. Ciampa hit King with a Spider German Suplex, but while he was hanging upside down after, ELGIN POWERBOMBED COLE INTO THE CORNER AND INTO CIAMPA'S DICK AND STOMACH. Elgin follows on Cole with the Spiral Bomb for the win. *** In the back, Eddie Edwards is still not great at speaking words and says he will be the first ever two time and back to back SOTF winner. Match #5: El Generico vs. Steve Corino w/ Jimmy Jacobs Corino finally gets real time against a good opponent and unsurprisingly, the match is great. They work the redemption angle more than usual here as Corino keeps almost doing cheap shots just on muscle memory or something, and then backs off. Generico refuses to trust him and even turns his back on Corino at a point to tell him to just get it over with but Corino steps around in front of him to continue. Corino hurts his arm on the floor and Jimmy tries to get him to stop the match, but he refuses. Corino waves him off when he wants to throw in the towel, and manages to hit the Old School Bomb, but the fifteen minute time limit runs out. *** Post-match, Corino demands more, but Jacobs and Cornette convince him not to. Corino at least offers the handshake, and Generico shakes his hand finally. Corino gets on the mic and says he has one more big fight in him and says on December 23rd, for one more night, his name is Steve Corino and he can be evil. In the back, Steve Corino cuts a promo. Jimmy says the only thing left now is facing the monster he created. Corino says on December 23rd, it's now Kill STEVE Kill. Way to spoil that match for TV, I guess. Match #6: Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini vs. Rhett Titus [Qualifying Match] This happened. It was generally average and they tried hard, but Rhett just isn't going to become any more than a decent singles wrestler for the most part, it seems. They don't stay too long, thankfully, so this is at least only like 13 minutes. Truth causes a distraction and Roddy wins with the sick Kick. There was no moment here where it felt like Roderick wouldn't win, so the crowd didn't care much. **1/2 Match #7: WGTT vs. Davey Richards/Jay Lethal This wasn't terrible but still not good. WGTT were trying, but they were trying for an epic, which may be just as bad when their opponents are Lethal and Davey. Lethal can still seemingly work in a sprint situation, but not a 23 minute match. Shelton was good early on again and individually, but then got dragged down by Davey's inherent shittiness. Haas is the worst dude and while Lethal didn't let him dominate him on the mat, he also didn't exactly reel him in during the finishing run either. This is another one of those terrible matches that basically just sees them fucking around in the first half and then doing a bunch of stuff that means nothing at the end. I'm not saying everything needs a deep story, but you need some sense of flow and escalation to make this kind of thing work. Haas makes Lethal tap to the Haas of Pain. ** Match #8: Eddie Edwards vs. Roderick Strong vs. Jay Briscoe vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Michael Elgin vs. Kyle O'Reilly [2011 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST FINALS] This takes a little long to get going and probably didn't need to be 30+ minutes, but after the first ten minutes or so, it picks up. They're sort of establishing themes, but not exactly. We already knew about Eddie/Kyle friction and House of Truth vs. Davey's friends. I always cite 2004's SOTF match as the gold standard because nothing was wasted there. Every pairing had some could of issue there and it never fell back on dullness for time killing. This doesn't have that excuse. But anyways, things eventually pick up nice and there's a great crazy run. The Briscoes kill it, but then Eddie eliminates Jay with the Die Hard, and catches Mark right after into the Dragon Sleeper to get rid of him. Eddie knocks Kyle off the apron through the timekeeper's table when he kicks Truth off the apron, so Eddie is alone. Eddie schoolboys Roddy to get rid of him and Elgin then Lariats Eddie to get rid of him. Super rushed. Elgin vs. Kyle at the end is pretty great in parts. They try to make it a big epic finishing run a la Danielson/Aries or Strong/Black, but Kyle's attempt at dramatic selling is really bad, so it falls short. All the action is pretty awesome though. This is something Cole would have been perfectly suited for, but ROH is insistent on Kyle being the star of the team. Funny how Cornette picks the wrong people with a 100% success rate in the 2010s. They couldn't fill a 10 minute run as they had 5 minutes of awesome stuff and then filler. This match is basically a failure of layout and time management, as they could have spaced out the eliminations much more and then had a shorter finishing run. Elgin wins with the Spiral Bomb. **3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 5 2014, 08:06 PM Post #42 |
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Glory by Honor X is the only ROH show from 2011 I can't in some way find without paying for, and FUCK THAT. Here's results. Glory By Honor X - Chicago Ridge, IL - Frontier Fieldhouse - November 19, 2011 Kevin Kelly & Dave Prazak provided commentary for the show: Michael Elgin (w/ Truth Martini) defeated Mike Bennett, Adam Cole, and Grizzly Redwood at 9:25 by pinning Cole with a lariat and the spinning sit-down powerbomb; Martini came to the ring in possession of Elgin's Survival of the Fittest trophy, won the previous night; following the ring entrances, Redwood shook Elgin and Cole's hand, with Bennett refusing to shake hands; Kevin Steen was shown in the front row wearing a Colt Cabana T-shirt during Bennett's entrance Tommaso Ciampa (w/ Prince Nana, Barrister RD Evans, Ernesto Osiris, & Princess Mia) fought Jimmy Jacobs (w/ Steve Corino) to a no contest at around the 5-minute mark when, after Kevin Steen dumped his drink on Jacobs on the floor, Corino attacked Steen in the crowd; during Jacobs and Corino's entrance, they confronted Steen in the front row, with Steen showing the ticket he bought to get in the show; following their entrance, Jacobs took the mic, noted Steen was in the building, and said he and the fans wanted to see Steen fight, then telling Steen to provoke him so he could legally beat up Steen since he couldn't get him in the ring; prior to the bout, Jacobs extended his hand to Ciampa, then gave him a middle finger when Ciampa wouldn't shake it; after the bout, Steen was forced out of the building by security, with Jim Cornette following him out and throwing a drink at him; moments later, as Jacobs brawled with Steen outside the arena, Nana and Evans took the mic and issued an open challenge to anyone else backstage so Ciampa could finish a match; Harlem Bravado then came out to accept the challenge as a split screen showed Corino having to be held back outside from facing Steen Tommaso Ciampa (w/ Prince Nana, Barrister RD Evans, Ernesto Osiris, & Princess Mia) pinned Harlem Bravado with Project Ciampa at the 17-second mark in an impromptu match; after the bout, Lancelot Bravado came out to help his brother from the ring Eddie Edwards defeated Kyle O'Reilly via submission with a dragon sleeper at 15:22 after twice hitting the Die Hard; the two men shook hands to start the bout; just prior to the finish, Edwards yelled "Davey" as a message to ROH World Champion Davey Richards; after Edwards left the ring, the crowd chanted O'Reilly's name Mark & Jay Briscoe defeated Matt & Nick Jackson at 11:17 when Jay pinned Matt following the Doomsday Device; following the ring entrances, the Jacksons acted like they wanted to shake the hands of the Briscoes, then mocked them before being jumped from behind ROH TV Champion Jay Lethal pinned Roderick Strong (w/ Truth Martini) in a non-title match at 19:58 with the Lethal Injection; the match originally went to a 15-minute time-limit draw as a Proving Ground contest, with stipulations stating Strong would earn a future title shot if he defeated Lethal or lasted the 15-minute time limit; late in the bout, there were dueling chants for both men; Strong was caught in a figure-4 for the last 30 seconds of the match and tapped out just as the bell rang; after the Proving Ground match, the crowd chanted "Five more minutes," with Jim Cornette coming ringside, taking the mic and offering Strong 5 more minutes since Lethal and the fans wanted it; Cornette, after clarifying that Strong had earned his future title shot, then questioned if Strong wanted to walk out of the building as a "pussy," with Strong immediately getting back in the ring for the continuation ROH Tag Team Champions Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas defeated Kenny King & Rhett Titus at 22:04 when Haas pinned King with a double powerbomb after the Leap of Faith; prior to and after the bout, the two teams shook hands; Benjamin's ribs were taped for the match; after the contest, all four men held their arms up together ROH World Champion Davey Richards pinned El Generico at 30:02 with two standing kicks to the head and a running dropkick; Richards came to the ring also in possession of his IWGP Jr. Tag Team Title; the two shook hands to start the bout; late in the contest, the crowd chanted "This is wrestling;" after the match, Kevin Steen came through the crowd and fought with Richards in the ring until officials came out to try to break them apart; the crowd chanted "Let them fight" as Richards briefly broke free and landed several shots on Steen; Jim Cornette then appeared and was questioned by Richards, with Steve Corino jumping Steen in the aisle; Corino and Jimmy Jacobs then fought with Steen on the floor, during which Corino dove from the apron onto several officials and Steen at ringside before Steen was eventually dragged away; moments later, Richards took the mic and said he wouldn't aknowledge "that piece of shit" other than to say if he wanted a fight, all he would have to do is ask; Richards then praised Generico, with Generico hugging Richards as the crowd chanted "Thank you, both;" Richards then led a chant of "Ole" before praising Corino, alongside Jacobs; an outdoor cameraman then caught Steen trying to get back into the arena but finding a locked door; Richards then got down on one knee and shook Corino's hand after saying Corino earned his respect and was proof that people can change |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 5 2014, 09:22 PM Post #43 |
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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 19th, 2011 Louisville, KY TONIGHT: DAVEY VS. O'REILLY GROSS A video airs on Mike Mondo, who is still the worst. Match #1: Mike Mondo vs. Alex Silva This is horrible, as it's a Mondo showcase, and isn't very good. They try a PWG undercard style all action sprint, but neither of them is good at anything (in Silva's case because he's a rookie, in Mondo's because he's terrible), so it's really bad stuff. He wins with a fucking Implant DDT because he's a jobber. 3/4* In the back, Jim Cornette says says he'll have an official offer next week to Kevin Steen, but personally, he denies everything that he was accused of. This is America and you can sue anyone for anything, but promises a response as to what he'll do with his litigation next week. NEXT WEEK: LETHAL/GENERICO II FOR THE TV TITLE! In the back, Jay Lethal talks. He says he took both El Generico and Mike Bennett to time limit draws, but Generico had the guts to go for more time, and that's how he beat him for the title. Mike Bennett ran away from more time, and now he's trying to discredit his title reign, but Generico deserves the title shot more. He says until Bennett holds a title belt, he's not a champ, he's a chump. Before his match, Mike Bennett calls himself the TV Champion and says this is for the title that Jay Lethal stole from him. Match #2: Mike Bennett w/ Bob Evans vs. Some Jobber With a Jobber Name Another really bad squash by a bad wrestler. This episode is pretty terrible so far. Box Office Smash ends it, which I keep forgetting is the name for his bullshit almost Side Effect. 1/2* INSIDE ROH: -Apparently on Twitter, Davey Richards revealed that Eddie's new trainer is Dan Severn. The tweet reads - ![]() -Love it when people reveal themselves as horrible people by using this kind of grammar on twitter. Just use multiple tweets, bro. -Davey Richards says he's not anger but he's confused and says he was hurt. He says he wanted to train with Severn and he knew that and told Eddie in confidence. Davey says he doesn't care about that and then randomly talks about not caring about the title or anything but fighting Eddie and being the best. -The real villain here is Kyle, who basically stooged off something that isn't his business at all so he could get Eddie out of the picture and have his own tag team with Davey, also basically abandoning Adam Cole at the same time. -The Briscoes say it took them six months to get a title shot or even a match with the champs, and it took WGTT 13 damn minutes to beat dem boys Cedric and the other one. They can put down a fifth of Jim Beam and a case of beer in 13 damn minutes, and they challenge them dudes to fight them next week and Mark says they can beat them in three minutes. Jay says maybe three and a half, depending on how long it takes them to pull their foot out they ass. -Cedric and Coleman talk. Coleman does some HORRIBLE preacher style stuff to accept. Before the main event, Davey gets on the mic and says he doesn't care about feuds and came here to compete and says to do this American strong-style. OH MY GOD, YOU'RE THE WORST. THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING FOR YOU. Match #3: Davey Richards vs. Kyle O'Reilly I hate both of these wrestlers. They take a style that I love in the whole 2000s Japanese junior heavyweight deal with lots of kicking and submissions and completely pervert it and make it awful while stupid US indy fans love it, so it's a horrible circle of them never bothering to improve and actually getting worse because they give their fans what they want and nothing else. This is both logical and terrible. It's exactly the kind of match it should be. They know each other super well, but Davey is able to take over and eventually win because of experience. It is also terrible because it's a bunch of practiced stuff that is intended to feel "legit", but ends up looking faker than anything else. This is another one of those matches that tries for epic and leaves me super cold because they don't lay ground work and escalate it properly and instead just kind of flip a switch. They trade submissions at the end and Tony Kozina throws in the towel when Kyle won't tap to an Ankle Lock. *3/4 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 6 2014, 12:26 AM Post #44 |
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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 26th, 2011 Louisville, KY TONIGHT: LETHAL/GENERICO II Match #1: The Briscoes vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander This is more of a set up to an angle than a match, but the few minutes it gets is decent enough. The Briscoes beat the shit out of the new guys and throw the ref out of the ring. WGTT then come out and chase them away with steel chairs. They run out the back door into the parking lot and WGTT follow, and a bell finally sounds, so this is a no contest. *1/2 Match #2: Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini vs. Two Jobbers DEATH. MURDER. FUCK YEAH ELGIN. He lets them get offense, but then totally no sells it to show off and throws them into each other, and it's wonderful. Elgin breaks out the insane Double Alabama Slam to win. ** In the back, Jim Cornette says he thinks he can offer something to Kevin Steen to make this go away. He says he may never have had this idea if it wasn't for two old friends of Steen's in Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs, so he invites Kevin Steen and his lawyers and Corino and Jacobs to meet him in the ring next week so he can make his offer. INSIDE ROH: -This week it's a long MMA jerk off session as we talk about training and Dan Severn -Eddie Edwards says Davey invited him to come with him to Dan Severn's camp with him to learn something, and Davey had to cancel to go to Japan, and he wasn't just going to drop out because of that. Dan Severn says he told him to keep this a secret and Davey knew him too well in the last match. Eddie blames Kyle for causing this problem. -A video airs from Roderick Strong's training camp. It's him at the bar talking to women and says he hears all about Team Richards and Team Edwards. This is Camp Strong in Tampa, and says he has the Roderick Strong Invitational for Final Battle so he can steal the show. He says he's got jabronis, has-beens, and jokes signing up so far, and he doesn't need the training right now. Match #3: Jay Lethal [c] vs. El Generico [ROH World Television Championship] This is another draw. Lethal doesn't seem to be trying as much here, so it's again not great. Mike Bennett comes out to watch. They do a better job here than the actual title switch as they manage to escalate slowly instead of all at once, but there's really just not a lot of chemistry here. Super dead crowd also hurt somewhat. Cornette still finds a way to fuck Generico when he doesn't lose, as Bennett distracts the ref after Lethal hits the Flying Elbow as time runs out, so they sell it as Generico having really lost. **1/2 Lethal and PRODIGY brawl on the floor, and Generico dives onto both of them. |
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| Big Evil | Jul 6 2014, 02:34 AM Post #45 |
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On TBS. Very Funny.
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No, his trainer was Bill Kazmier. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 8 2014, 11:03 PM Post #46 |
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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 Southern Defiance December 3rd, 2011 Spartanburg, SC Match #1: Adam Cole vs. Mike Bennett GROSS JIM CORNETTE IS ON COMMENTARY. Young Cole does what he can, but PRODIGY sure does blow. Cole does generic indy stuff to make it interesting after Bennett nearly kills the crowd with his control segment. He avoids the Box Office Smash in some fun ways before Bennett eventually hits it for the infuriatingly clean win. **1/4 In the back, The Bravado Brothers cut a promo. They say ROH has told them that they need to win if they want to keep their jobs, so they're going to win tonight and then one of them is going to win the Honor Rumble. Oh god damnit, that's back then? Fuck this. Match #2: The Bravado Brothers vs. Los Ben Dejos The Bravados have a showcase against locals, and it's much more even that it should be. I know the Bravados are jobbers, but the other guys don't work for ROH, so it would make the Bravados look great to dominate them, thus also making everyone who beats the Bravados even better. They get a cheating roll up with help from the other Bravado on the floor to win. *1/2 Match #3: Jay Lethal vs. TJ Perkins Another really good sprint from Jay, as he continues to be great in non-title house show matches and super plain and average in his title defenses on TV. He does cool flippity things and then Perkins dominates on the mat. Lethal comes back and they do stuff, and Jay hits the Lethal Injection for the win. **3/4 Match #4: The Young Bucks vs. The All Night Express This could have been great in another promotion or even pre-Cornette takeover ROH. As it was, they tried to force them into a logical old school match based on limb work. Rhett's knee is a focus, but the Bucks blow at working a limb and Rhett blows at selling one. Cornette is fucking in love with this on commentary as he's forced maybe the best pure spotfest team in the world into trying to be the Andersons and it obviously never connects. Finishing run is kind of whatever too, because Rhett's trying to sell, despite being bad at it, and it slows everything down. King has a good hot tag, but he misses a Doomsday Blockbuster when Rhett's knee gives out. They then hit King with More Bang For Your Buck to win. **1/4 Match #5: The Briscoes vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander This got around nine or ten minutes now to make up for their TV match becoming more of an angle. It's very clearly a Briscoes showcase, but they do a good job letting the kid and veteran have some nice stuff before the obvious result. Briscoes rule in control and then Coleman has the big hot tag. The Briscoes put him down with the Doomsday Device. **3/4 Match #6: WGTT vs. Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini This sucked. Shelton has his ribs taped up, and the House of Truth works on it. It's not amazing or anything and it seems like Strong and Elgin are both holding back in the control segment based on what most people have seen them do, as far as brutality and stiffness. Shelton also decides not to really sell any damage to his ribs, which is such bullshit when he bothered to tape them up. Haas is again the worst hot tag of all time and the finishing run is slow and bad. They keep trying to do these WWE style dramatic finishing runs with selling breaks, except everyone involved always sucks at that and the matches never actually earn it. Shelton hits a Super German Superplex on Elgin and Haas covers to win. They almost had me here with the rib work, but then it meant nothing and it was the same old terrible WGTT match. *3/4 Match #7: Eddie Edwards vs. El Generico A great match finally happens! These two would probably do much better in PWG with an actual crowd and not a building full of hostages and silent ghosts, but this was still sliding scale great. Slow start, but they actually EARNED their big finishing run through the use of slow escalation. The match picks up and becomes great after a Generico dive, and they do a lot of cool counters and kickouts and shit. Eddie gets the Achilles Lock and turns it into kind of an Achilles Lock Stronghold/Liontamer for the win. *** Match #8: HONOR RUMBLE II FUCK THIS MATCH. ROH tries to do a Rumble and still has no fucking idea how to really lay it out correctly or how to do it to get anyone over and maximize anyone. Nobody really gets an endurance run or gets to stand out apart from The Briscoes who stand out by force of personality. The Briscoes/WGTT and ANX/Bucks issues were continued well enough, and there was a good Strong/Lethal run at the end. They have an apron battle and Lethal Superkicks him off to the floor for the win and a future title shot. **1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 9 2014, 01:07 AM Post #47 |
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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 December 3rd, 2011 Louisville, KY Match #1: Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy vs. Shiloh Jonze Another really good Ciampa squash. Project Ciampa ends it. *1/2 TONIGHT: YOUNG BUCKS VS. FUTURE SHOCK In a pretape, The Briscoes cut a promo. They ask why it's alright when WGTT chase after them with chairs, but when they rough them up a little, it's this big god damned scandal and they get frozen out of the title shots for half a damn year. Mark says they in their heads now, and Jay says they already promised Papa Briscoe that they're bringing the tag titles back to Sandy Fork BY GAWD Delaware. MAN UP. NEXT WEEK: WGTT/ANX In the ring. Kelly and Nigel are in the ring with Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs, and they bring out Kevin Steen and his legal team. MASSIVE pop as Steen is back inside the barriers legally for the first time in a year. Cornette says it's against his better judgment to be in here with them and he shits on one of the lawyers to get a cheap local pop. Cornette says he hasn't talked to Kevin in a while and says he's a great wrestler and he'd like to have him in ROH, except that he's crazy. He never knows what he'll say or do or if he'll get arrested or get them kicked off TV and he might see him some day in a jail picture with numbers across his chest. Also, he's an asshole and he's impossible to deal with and after what he's done for two years, that's why he's not here. Steen says the only numbers on his chest will be a tattoo of the date Jim Cornette dies. FUCK YEAH. Steen says he IS a great wrestler and some might say he's crazy and an asshole, but at least he's not a liar and a hypocrite. He says he carried this company on his back for a year while Jim was busy grooming his stupid champion Davey Richards. He doesn't like him because he can't control him and because he didn't need his help to become a star here. Cornette says this settlement offer is Steve Corino's idea and gives him the floor. Corino says he's had this burden because he's the one who got him to turn on El Generico and created this monster. Corino says he realized how wrong he was, and it's not too late for him to make amends. Steen says he let them cut his balls off and Jimmy Jacobs, a man who made him bleed and should have come back for his blood again, cut his own balls off because that was the only way ROH would EVER let him back after all he did. Now they're both as pathetic as Jim Cornette. Corino says that hurts, but it's okay because he was just like him. Corino says here's the offer, and challenges him to a match at Final Battle and if he wins, he's back in. He won't face the guy who's been losing matches all year. HIS NAME IS STEVE CORINO AND FOR ONE LAST NIGHT, HE IS AN EVIL PERSON. Steen says he hopes that's true and that sounds great, and he accepts. Cornette says he doesn't want his people involved here and this one is his idea, and he makes Jimmy Jacobs the referee. Steen says that sounds great and he can't wait to see Jimmy's pretty little face when he has to count the pinfall, and challenges Cornette to watch from ringside. Cornette agrees, and Steen says this is his Ring of Honor now, and he shoves Corino. They get separated and pulled apart. INSIDE ROH: -It is now Lethal vs. Generico vs. Bennett for the TV Title at Final Battle -More training bullshit for the main event happens. Dan Severn somehow cuts the best promo of this build by saying a third match needed to happen. He says he went 1-1 with Ken Shamrock without ever finding out who the better man was. Even if he lost, he would have at least had closure, and it bothers him to this day, some fifteen years later, and says he's glad to help Eddie get ready for this match. -Davey complains that he's training for someone he doesn't even know anymore now that Severn's training him. He keeps acting like Eddie's turning heel or something when Eddie and Severn explained it clearly last week. -At Camp Strong, Roddy is now with three women and says he's about to embark on another marathon cardio session. Match #2: The Young Bucks vs. Future Shock I know this was probably scheduled around the same time PWG booked this match for their October 2011 show, but due to the airdate, ROH again comes off like they're piggybacking off a match or idea that worked first in PWG and now look second rate in a creative way and not just production wise. This is not nearly as good as their PWG match as the Bucks are working slower because Cornette has an antiquated view of heeling in the 2010s on the indies, and it's only like 10 minutes. Finishing run rules though once Cole is in. Bucks win with More Bang For Your Buck. **1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 9 2014, 01:41 PM Post #48 |
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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 Northern Aggression December 4th, 2011 Charlotte, NC Match #1: Mike Bennett vs. TJ Perkins Another bullshit PRODIGY showcase against a wrestler at least twice as good as him. TJ is one of the best utility players of his generation though, so he makes this sort of work. Anything in the ** range for Bennett is what I would consider a carryjob, so that's what this is. TJ keeps avoiding the Box Office Smash, but Bennett sits down on a sunset flip and grabs the ropes for the cheap pin. That is as close as TJ will get to a push in ROH. **1/4 ANX come out for the next match, but the Young Bucks attack them from behind and hit Rhett's "bad" knee with a chair. Referees make them leave and The Bravado Brothers come out for a match. Kenny King challenges one of them to a singles match, but they refuse and want the tag match, and the bell is rung with Rhett hurt and basically out on the floor. Match #2: The All Night Express vs. The Bravado Brothers This is whatever. King isn't as good as FIP and Rhett doesn't get back in until the final minute or so of the match. The Bravados have cool moves, but they're heels under Cornette, so that's abandoned tonight in favor of a boring ass control segment. I'm all in favor of slowing stuff down kind of, but these guys he's forcing into this role do NOT have the skill sets to do that. Rhett gets back in and the finishing run is decent before ANX wins with the One Night Stand. *1/2 Match #3: Jay Lethal vs. Adam Cole This is another of those ridiculous Proving Ground matches where if a guy pins or takes the champ to a draw, he gets a title shot. I think this is pretty stupid, and someone like Cole could benefit from a title shot. A lot of what originally gave the old ROH titles prestige was giving title shots out to people besides just top contenders (although this was taken too far in later years like when Ruckus got a title shot). Anyways, this was fun. Took a while to get going again, so it's not quite great, but there's promise here if Cole can get Lethal in a match in front of a good crowd where Lethal's trying or something. Lethal gets another win with the Lethal Injection. **3/4 In the back, Adam Cole cuts a promo. He says he knows he's better than this string of losses is showing, and Eddie Edwards comes over. He says he showed him something tonight and says to talk to him later, and they shake hands. Match #4: The Young Bucks vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander Awesome spotfest. The Bucks finally got to do their kind of match for the first time in a few months and it's the best match of the night so far. Coleman and Cedric have some good teamwork and manage to hang with the Bucks pretty well. This is what ROH should be doing with the Bucks. They're a huge attraction on the indies by this point and one of the only legit draws on the scene along with Steen and Generico, but their only problem is match length. But this is only 12 minutes, so it's just a blast. They hit Coleman with the Cutler Brothers Driver for the win. Cornette says he's never seen that before, despite it happening on ROH TV last week. *** Match #5: Andy Ridge vs. Samson This is terrible. Samson is a generic big dude that Cornette is jizzing over and says he impressed ROH during a tryout session. Ridge tries, but he's so inexperienced. He wins with a roll up after eight bad minutes. 1/4* Before the main event, Jim Cornette gets in the ring with the big $10,000 novelty check and has Cary sign it to make it legit. This is another one of those super hokey bullshit things that absolutely nobody buys or likes. His pitch was to bring old school elements to ROH, but ROH was already pretty old school during its peak. A company with multiple dynastic NWA style World Champions, many of them working broadways and long matches frequently (Joe, Danielson, Nigel). Tag team division that matters and produces actual star teams (Briscoes, Kings, Steeneric). Blood feuds based on actual believable issues like romance (Jimmy Loves Lacey), betrayal (Generation Next vs. Embassy, Steen/Generico), disrespect (Cabana vs. Homicide), etc. Strong heels on top like only Watts ever really did (Danielson in 2006, Nigel in 2008). Peak ROH was as old school as possible for a post-90s indy, and Cornette's actually made it LESS old school with all this bullshit about only defending titles against "top" challengers and these ridiculous check gimmicks. Match #6: Eddie Edwards/El Generico/WGTT vs. Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin/The Briscoes w/ Truth Martini [Elimination Match] This is a sort of infamous match and in this entire 2011 review, the match I was dreading the most. This is 80 minutes, which is a terrible idea. Bryan Danielson and Austin Aries BARELY pulled off 76 minutes, and that was a match with two incredible wrestlers in front of a white hot crowd. I will say though that they did a good job pacing themselves in the first 30 minutes, and the last 30 minutes was really awesome and great, so this is great in spite of itself. Eddie, Strong, Generico, and the Briscoes are all good enough at basic stuff to keep this slower. Elgin is able to be led, as is Shelton. Haas is the worst wrestler in the company though. They're able to keep WGTT out for a while early on as Eddie and Generico work against the good heel team. Still though, while nothing they do is offensive, there's no real point to any of this and it's obviously killing time. There's no substance here. It's like the empty house scenario, except without even bothering to put up anything but the frame of a house in a cube shape. It's long and epic but there's nothing inside really besides loosely building Final Battle matches. Danielson/Aries had multiple layers of psychology and storytelling to take them 76 minutes, and this is just sort of a match until the last 30 minutes when they get a nice story. They work Shelton's ribs and he sells nothing. Generico is isolated and that's great because he's the best babyface of a generation, but then it broke down a little bit. Jay hits Shelton with a chair to the ribs and then rolls him back in. Mark hits the Frog Elbow to finally eliminate someone at 47 minutes in, holy FUCK. Haas immediately then hits Mark with the Angle Slam to eliminate him. Jay distracts Haas, and Strong rolls him up for the elim. Haas hits Jay with a chair, and Generico gets rid of Jay with the Brainbuster. It's now House of Truth vs. Eddie/Generico for the last 30 minutes, and that's the great part. Generico is isolated and while he can't tag, because of the HoT, he does come back. Eddie is taken out with a Backbreaker on the apron, and Generico then has nobody to tag out to. Generico/Elgin is pretty awesome as they manage to both do cool stuff and sell exhaustion. Elgin eliminates Generico with the Spiral Bomb at like 62 minutes. Eddie is then isolated while he's hurt. Eddie does that great kind of Bret Hart sell of general pain in every step he takes, while not focusing as much on an individual body part. Eddie makes a big comeback and sends Elgin into Strong and rolls him up to get rid of him at 73. They have another good showing and Eddie takes a second huge bump, now through the timekeeper's table. He makes the big tired comeback a little later, and they actually DON'T get to a point where it goes longer than it should (relative to the final run of just the two of them, this entire match is longer than necessary). Eddie gets on the Dragon Sleeper to win. This is clearly done as a desperate stunt to try and get people to care about ROH again after the last 11 months of nobody giving a shit and to say it's the new longest ROH match ever, but worked in spite of all that. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 9 2014, 03:03 PM Post #49 |
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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 December 10th, 2011 Louisville, KY In the back, Coleman and Cedric cut a promo. Coleman says he never had a role model, so he's going to be the role model for Cedric that he wishes he had. He says the Briscoes tried to disrespect them and that didn't work out, and they're ready for a fight whenever they're ready. Match #1: Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander vs. The Bravado Brothers This is definitely a thing. The Bravados get too much offense and do more generic stomping nonsense as opposed to the improvement they showed briefly in the fall. The flippy guys don't really get to show off a lot either, and win with the MCMG's Dominator/Sliding Ace Crusher deal. *1/2 TONIGHT: WGTT/ANX Match #2: TJ Perkins vs. Chris Silvio Silvio is a jobber in tie dye, and is not very good. He gets way too much offense in here, as ROH manages to make TJ look kind of shitty for selling for this rube even when TJ eventually wins. Silvio is super green with awkward bumping and really terrible strikes, but he's got a great body so let's put him on TV because it's now WWE 2003-5 here in terms of who they bring in. TJ hits the fireman's carry dropped into a Pele that eventually is picked up by Ricochet and named the Benadryller. * INSIDE ROH: -A recap video airs of all the Lethal/Bennett/Generico stuff -Mike Bennett says he'll let these losers fight over who gets to lose to him and give him the title -Lethal says he's tired of draws and overtime, and he has to remove every doubt about who the rightful champion is at Final Battle -Eddie Edwards says with Team Richards, there's nobody there who can teach Davey anything, but he's learning a lot from Dan Severn. NEXT WEEK: DAVEY VS. ELGIN Match #3: WGTT vs. The All Night Express This isn't good, because it's a WGTT match. Rhett and Kenny try pretty hard again and they sort of work on Rhett's shoulder. Rhett again didn't really sell it, but King had a good hot tag. Haas looked AWFUL yet again and got most of the finishing run. The Briscoes come out to hit Shelton with a chair on the floor, and Haas goes down to the One Night Stand. *3/4 They sell it like it's this huge god damned injury or something, like he hasn't taken a million chair shots or ladders to the back in his WWE run over the last 8 years. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 9 2014, 10:48 PM Post #50 |
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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 December 17th, 2011 Louisville, KY In a pretape, Eddie Edwards says he's never going to be more ready. He knows how to reverse Davey's Ankle Lock now and knows the Dragon Sleeper, and he's not even thinking about anyone but Davey Richards this time. He says this is Richards/Edward III, but it ends with Edwards at 2. Match #1: Eddie Edwards vs. Andy Ridge Truth Martini comes on commentary and tries to openly recruit Eddie Edwards. He has a solid showcase match here. He dominates on the mat with some of the techniques in the training videos, because Eddie Edwards actually gets how stories work. He lets Ridge get in enough and then eventually shuts him down. Eddie wins with the Dragon Sleeper. ** Post-match, Truth applauds on the floor. They do a big thing about the condition of Shelton's back. He's fine, because it's fucking 2011 and wrestlers can handle a single steel chair shot. INSIDE ROH: -Kelly runs down the card -A hype video for Davey/Eddie airs Match #2: Davey Richards vs. Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini This was almost great and showed signs of greatness in the future. The Proving Ground bullshit limits them to 15 minutes or less, and they went about 14. They actually did a good job building the match up so when it kicked into another gear in the last segment of the match, it felt more earned than usual, if not all the way. Still, it wasn't their best and it showed because they left a ton in the tank and Davey wins with a roll up. **1/2 Post-match, Elgin attacks and Eddie Edwards comes out to save. Eddie holds the title and Davey goes to get it, but Eddie puts on the Dragon Sleeper and Davey's butt friends come down to break it up and they have a shitty pull apart. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 9 2014, 11:56 PM Post #51 |
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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 FINAL BATTLE 2011 DECEMBER 23RD, 2011 NEW YORK, NY Match #1: Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini vs. TJ Perkins Fantastic opening match sprint. TJ flies around hits super hard to stand a chance and it's very much a cat and mouse game. He takes insane bumps when Elgin catches him, and Elgin has some wonderful power spots. It's only seven minutes, but both men looked fantastic and it felt like the perfect culmination of the match when it ended. That shouldn't be a big deal because that's the goal of matches, but it's a 2010s indy, so that's a big deal. Elgin wins with the Spiral Bomb. *** Match #2: Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy vs. Jimmy Rave THE CROWN JEWEL IS BACK. He's jet lagged and kind of broken down from some truly horrific injuries in the late 2000s and 2010, but he still looks better than half the locker room and I have no idea why he never returned for long, besides the one SCUM thing. There was a great story here with Jimmy and The Embassy that I'll just save for WCW or something. Great punches and solid bumping, and Ciampa again holds up his end well. Project Ciampa gets the win for Ciampa in a kind of abrupt ending. **1/2 Before the three way, Mike Bennett finally gets a response by bringing out his new valet: ![]() Yeah... Match #3: Jay Lethal [c] vs. El Generico vs. Mike Bennett w/ Maria & Bob Evans [ROH World Television Championship - Three Way Dance] This was alright. It had no business going eighteen fucking minutes when Lethal still doesn't seem to give a fuck about match quality or understand the concept of effort besides just listlessly doing his spots, and Bennett is horrible. Generico does what he can, but at least as far as ROH is concerned, he cannot move mountains. Bennett eventually rolls up Generico with the tights to eliminate him because Cornette is STILL not over Generico, Steen, Corino, and Cabana stealing the shows from his projects in 2010 (spoiler, it happens again tonight). Jay follows immediately with the Lethal Injection on PRODIGY to win. ** Match #4: Kevin Steen vs. Steve Corino [No Disqualification Match - If Steen Wins, He's Reinstated - Special Referee: Jimmy Jacobs] Cornette is also ringside. In a great touch to sell the return to being EVIL, Corino has his hair dyed blond. This rules, and like a lot of matches with both men, they're incredible at spacing out huge spots and escalating the match throughout. This one is on youtube, bros, I don't wanna spoil it. They treated Steen like a force of nature here with all his super brutal offense and violence, and Corino was too old and beaten up to really beat him. He could contain him and briefly stop him and hurt him with insane things like a Superplex onto a guardrail and chairs and the Old School Bomb and the like, but couldn't keep him down and he destroys himself trying to kill Steen. So when Steen gets up, Corino is out of stuff to do, and he's a sitting duck. Steen hits a Package Piledriver through four open chairs for the win. ***1/4 STEEN GETS UP AND IMMEDIATELY HITS THE PACKAGE PILEDRIVER ON JACOBS TOO! STEEN BRINGS CORNETTE IN, BUT EL GENERICO RUNS OUT! FUCK. YES. GENERICO GETS THE BEST OF IT AND HITS THE HELLUVA KICK! BUT STEEN KICKS HIM IN THE DICK. STEEN TAKES HIM TO THE APRON AND HITS THE PACKAGE PILEDRIVER THROUGH THE TIMEKEEPER'S TABLE! Everyone is dead, and Steen goes back to the locker room. Match #5: The Young Bucks vs. The All Night Express vs. Future Shock vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander vs. The Bravado Brothers [Gauntlet Match] This starts with the blacks and Bravados. It's okay, but not super great or anything. Cedric rolls one of them up for the win about five minutes in. Future Shock is next and that's a fun five minute spotfest. Cole and O'Reilly get the win after their Total Elimination type deal. Young Bucks are in next and this is the best pairing of the match. Kyle misses his Missile Dropkick off the apron for the first time ever, and he's out so Cole can fall to More Bang For Your Buck. ANX is in next and this isn't very good. ANX are pretty ambitious in their attempt to prove that everyone thinking they actually improved was just some amazing trickery on the parts of Hero, Claudio, and the Briscoes. Rhett's knee is a thing again and he gets beat up enough that the ref stops it. UGH. AWFUL. **1/2 Roderick Strong comes out for his open challenge. On commentary, Nigel McGuinness says he wanted to be the mystery man (which would have been nice as he was doing his farewell tour around this time, and the fact that he never got a leg of that tour in ROH is pretty weird), but Roderick and Martini refused. Roderick gets on the mic and says nobody was good enough to get into the Roderick Strong Invitational, and demands a ten count and then to have his hand raised. The ref gets to 10, AND CHRIS HERO COMES OUT TO ACCEPT! FUCK YEAH! Match #6: Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini vs. Chris Hero This is one of the worst Hero matches in a while and the worst Hero/Strong match ever. They usually matched up super well, but that was with Roddy as a face. Hero is great enough to work just as well as a babyface in one of his two appearances in 2011-12 before finally officially heading to developmental. This never really clicks for whatever reason, and the crowd is super dead after the huge climax to the Steen stuff and the shitty ending to the gauntlet. Hero looks rusty, and Strong is super boring as a heel in the 2010s as we've discussed before. Strong wins with the Sick Kick after Truth causes a distraction. **1/4 Before the tag title match, WGTT jumps the Briscoes with chairs, and Jay again hits an insane gusher. Match #7: WGTT [c] vs. The Briscoes [ROH World Tag Team Championship] This is when ROH finally gets the fucking hint that's been obvious for 7 months, which is that legitimate old ROH cities like NYC, Philly, Chicago, Toronto, etc. fucking HATE WGTT and see them as a representation of Cornette's takeover and destruction of what was once the best wrestling company in the world. The Briscoes then work the match heel anyways and isolate Shelton for a little bit, but he gets taken to the back holding his ribs. Haas "valiantly" fights them by himself with some of the worst and most awkward offense ever. Shelton comes back with a fucking plank and breaks it on Mark's head. They use the chairs again and start to cheat. What the fuck is happening in this match? They try to steal the Doomsday Device from the Briscoes, but it fails and they beat Haas with the Doomsday Device. Holy shit, that was AWFUL. 3/4* Post-match, the crowd absolutely buries The Briscoes in streamers for ending the worst title reign of any kind in ROH history. Match #8: Davey Richards [c] vs. Eddie Edwards [ROH World Championship] This is a piece of shit match. Really awful stuff, and it's disappointing because by this point in 2011, we know Eddie is better than this. Eddie was fighting a stomach flu or something at the time, so he basically lets Davey take the lead, and they put on a match that was basically used to deride ROH's main event style and these two for a long time. There's the infamous gif that I'll get to later, but the match has no story. Not even passing limbwork or anything. Things are done, they hit each other hard, and then they move on. They arbitrarily decide to sell and no-sell certain moves and the crowd kind of just dies after like 20 minutes of this. So naturally, they go 41. Davey kicks out of all of Eddie's finishers in a row. Davey then hits a lot of kicks and knocks him out with one to the face after like 10-20 to the face and head, and finally pins him to win. *1/2 And yes, the gif that sums up the match: ![]() As the last two TV episodes of the year are recap shows and re-airing old matches, this is the end of this review and year. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 10 2014, 12:20 AM Post #52 |
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TOP 25 ROH MATCHES OF 2011 25. The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express, Revolution USA (May 6th) 24. Jay Briscoe vs. Kyle O'Reilly, Worlds Greatest (February 25th) 23. Roderick Strong [c] vs. Eddie Edwards, Manhattan Mayhem (March 19th) 22. Roderick Strong [c] vs. Jay Briscoe, Only the Strong Survive (January 15th) 21. The Briscoes vs. Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly, Honor Takes Center Stage N1 (April 1st) 20. Michael Elgin vs. Adam Cole vs. Rhett Titus vs. Tomasso Ciampa vs. Andy Ridge vs. Grizzly Redwood, Revolution Canada (May 7th) 19. El Generico vs. Michael Elgin, 9th Anniversary Show (February 26th) 18. The Kings of Wrestling vs. Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly, Honor Takes Center Stage N2 (April 2nd) 17. The American Wolves vs. Adam Cole/Kyle O'Reilly, No Escape (July 9th) 16. Davey Richards vs. TJ Perkins, SoCal Showdown II (January 28th) 15. Davey Richards vs. Christopher Daniels, Manhattan Mayhem IV (March 19th) 14. Eddie Edwards [c] vs. Roderick Strong, Supercard of Honor VI (May 21st) 13. The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express, Supercard of Honor VI (May 21st) 12. Kevin Steen vs. Steve Corino, Final Battle (December 23rd) 11. Claudio Castagnoli vs. Kyle O'Reilly, Revolution Canada (May 7th) 10. The Kings of Wrestling vs. LAX, Manhattan Mayhem (March 19th) 9. The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express, Death Before Dishonor IX (September 17th) 8. Future Shock vs. The Young Bucks vs. The Bravado Brothers, Death Before Dishonor IX (September 17th) 7. Chris Hero vs. TJ Perkins, Defy or Deny (March 18th) 6. Eddie Edwards [c] vs. Chris Hero, Revolution Canada (May 7th) 5. Christopher Daniels [c] vs. Eddie Edwards, 9th Anniversary Show (February 26th) 4. The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express, Manhattan Mayhem IV (March 19th) 3. The Briscoes vs. The All Night Express, Honor Takes Center Stage N2 (April 2nd) 2. The Kings of Wrestling [c] vs. The All Night Express, 9th Anniversary Show (February 26th) 1. The American Wolves vs. The Kings of Wrestling, Revolution USA (May 6th) |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 10 2014, 12:24 AM Post #53 |
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TAG TEAM OF THE YEAR: 2002: Da Hit Squad 2003: The Briscoes 2004: The Briscoes (2) 2005: Hillbilly JesHUSS 2006: The Briscoes (3) 2007: The Briscoes (4) 2008: D.I.F.H. 2009: Kevin Steen/El Generico 2010: The Kings of Wrestling This is a no brainer. After the Kings left halfway through the year, there was one sole great team remaining, and they were also involved in the feud of the year to rack up all these points. DEM BOYS MAN UP FOR A FIFTH FUCKING TIME. ![]() 1. THE BRISCOES - 44 POINTS 2. All Night Express 38 3. Future Shock 33 4. The Kings of Wrestling 32 5. The Bravado Brothers 29 6. WGTT 27 7. The Young Bucks 14 8. Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander 14 9. The American Wolves 13 10. Roderick Strong & Michael Elgin 6 11. LAX 3 12. Steve Corino & Jimmy Jacobs 2 13. The Cutler Brothers 1 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 10 2014, 12:29 AM Post #54 |
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WRESTLER OF THE YEAR: 2002: Low Ki 2003: Samoa Joe 2004: CM Punk 2005: Samoa Joe (2) 2006: Matt Sydal 2007: Claudio Castagnoli 2008: Jimmy Jacobs 2009: Kevin Steen 2010: Chris Hero Chris Hero had this totally locked up when he left, even through like mid-October. Of course, not wrestling for the last three months of the year tends to give away leads, so he does NOT pull the repeat and tie Joe's ROH record. El Generico could have also done it as he came close, but he was not only handcuffed by the booking he got from Cornette, but shackled to a fucking boulder, thrown into the ocean, and drowned by it. Eddie Edwards was too closely attached to Davey Richards to make much of a run before the end of the year. In the end, the ROH trend of someone winning both WOTY and TTOTY continues. Just... ...not with the Briscoe I expected. ![]() 1. MARK BRISCOE - 67 POINTS 2. Jay Briscoe 65 3. El Generico 60 4. Roderick Strong 58 5. Eddie Edwards 57 6. Kyle OReilly 55 7. Kenny King 53 8. Rhett Titus 52 9. Michael Elgin 53 10. Chris Hero 52 11. Adam Cole 50 12. Davey Richards 46 13. Claudio Castagnoli 45 14. Christopher Daniels 42 15. Colt Cabana 32 16. Mike Bennett 32 17. Shelton Benjamin 30 18. Charlie Haas 29 19. Homicide 29 20. The Bravado Brothers 29 21. TJ Perkins 22 22. Tomasso Ciampa 22 23. Jay Lethal 21 24. Steve Corino 19 25. Caprice Coleman 18 26. Cedric Alexander 16 27. Andy Ridge 15 28. The Young Bucks 14 29. Grizzly Redwood 11 30. Mike Mondo 7 31. Sara Del Rey 6 32. Jimmy Jacobs 6 33. Rhino 4 34. Caleb Konley 4 35. Daizee Haze 4 36. Kevin Steen 3 37. Serena Deeb 3 38. MsChif 3 39. Hernandez 3 40. Taeler Hendrix 2 41. Tony Kozina 2 42. Dave Taylor 2 43. Delirious 2 44. Bobby Dempsey 1 45. Alabama Attitude 1 46. The Cutler Brothers 1 47. Jonathon Gresham 1 |
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