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ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes, Since 12/23/2011
ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

ROH Wrestling
January 7th, 2011
Spartanburg, SC


Jay Lethal vs. TJ Perkins from Southern Defiance is shown in full.

A highlight video airs of this show showing clips from some other matches and showing fans interacting with wrestlers and buying merch. This episode and next week's are basically like some mid 90s ECW TV in that it's just taken from the big live shows and serve as advertisements to go to future shows.

The ending moments of Cole/Bennett air, followed by the post-match segment backstage with Edwards taking Cole under his wing.

WGTT vs. House of Truth then airs.
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ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

ROH Wrestling
January 14th, 2012
Charlotte, NC


This week, we're going with matches from "Northern Aggression".

The entire show is actually the eight man elimination tag in clipped form. I'm not going to watch it again, but I have to assume that it was much better cut down around 45 minutes and not 80.
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ROH VIDEO WIRE - 1/11/2012:

In the back, Eddie Edwards says things haven't gone his way in the last half of 2011, but he's getting back to the top in 2012. Roderick Strong comes over and says he lives in a fantasy land and 2012 is his year to get back the ROH World Championship. Eddie says to think back to last year when he beat him three or four times in a row. The title switch, two of three falls, the 80 minute match, he can pick one. Roderick says he remembers none of that because the past is the past. Roddy says he's gotten lucky and he thinks they need to fight and challenges him to a No Holds Barred match. Eddie says he'll beat the shit out of him and they get separated.

In the back, The Embassy speaks. RD Evans says they know ROH's most storied faction and says this is The Embassy Ltd. A multinational organization has used him to broker a deal to invest in The Embassy and now he protects their interests. He says "The Dominant Male" Tomasso Ciampa is their big money maker and Nana says the more things change, the more they stay the same. RD says the investors want to make sure that it's less about Prince Nana and more about Tomasso Ciampa, and it's all about him. Ciampa says it's about the TV Title and says he has a Proving Ground match in Norfolk, and he can't take his title yet, but he can take his confidence. RD says the undefeated dominant male has nothing left to prove to the fans or ROH, but this match will prove that the investment was right. Nana sings that they're in the money.

In the back, ANX cuts a promo and Rhett is on crutches. Rhett says they've put people out left and right and now that they're the heir apparents, two Young Bucks want to come and take their spots. Rhett says all he needs is one leg, and King says he was pissed off at first. But he realized that the Bucks tried to take them out to make their name like they made theirs, but when little boys get out of line, they get their ass beat. He's gonna be their Papa Jackson. Better yet, he'll be their Joe Jackson until his man is back and they can beat that ass together. King says in Philadelphia, he gets the first match with Kevin Steen. He says he has no beef with him, but he can't let him bring down ROH because this is where he makes his paper and nobody takes food out of his mouth.

Clips air of Hero's matches vs. Davey and Eddie in 2011 air to hype up Hero/Elgin in Philadelphia on 1/20.

In the back, Veda Scott interviews Future Shock. Kyle says next time, they're going to beat WGTT in Philly and says they have a different attitude but it doesn't matter to him. Kyle says he and Davey have been training more in amateur wrestling, so he's going to dump them on their heads. Kyle says Davey and he have also been working on kickboxing, and Cole rolls his eyes. Kyle says they got their ass kicked a lot in 2011 but they always hung tough, and now things have changed. Cole says their only goal is to be the Tag Team Champions, and they will achieve that goal by any means necessary. Kyle looks bored when Cole talks.

In the back, Veda interviews Jay Lethal and announces Davey/Lethal as the main event for Philadelphia. Lethal says he can picture in his head him with both titles, and he's said since August that this TV Title is the gateway to the World Title, and he's sped up the process by winning the Honor Rumble. Lethal says he hopes this sinks in, and says he has momentum on his side. In true Lethal fashion, he just stares at the camera for like ten seconds after saying that, and the video wire just kind of ends.


PLUS - THIS AMAZING BRISCOES PROMO WHERE THEY ALMOST GET IN A KNIFE FIGHT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMvvuf8lmkI
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ROH VIDEO WIRE - 1/17/2012:

In the back, Veda Scott interviews Truth and Roddy and asks about Eddie/Strong in Philly. Truth says they feel like she looks and that's loose and easy. Truth says it's a new year for them, and Strong says Eddie talks about all he did in 2011 and how he beat him numerous times, but this is a new year and new ROH and new Roderick Strong. Roddy asks if Eddie has any idea what he can do in these matches. Fight Without Honor, Steel Cage Warfare, all of that. In the end, only the Roderick Strong will survive.

In the back, WGTT talk. Haas says they have Future Shock in Philadelphia, and they're a little bit more pissed off these days. So come Philadelphia, they better be on their A game. Shelton tells them to get their crap together because they're done taking prisoners and they're going to be the first victims of the new WGTT.

In the back, Davey Richards says this show is called Homecoming 2012 because they're going back to their roots. He remembers his first ROH match in Philadelphia, against AJ Styles at Death Before Dishonor IV. How times have changed. He says he's coming back as champion to fight another champion. He says Jay Lethal is the best wrestler on television, but he's the best wrestler in the world. He says the Lethal Injection has beaten everyone, but he's collecting heads and Jay is next. He might want to duck, because he's Davey Richards, and he's coming for your head.

In the back, Veda interviews Caprice and Cedric and says they have a Tag Title shot on 1/21 in Norfolk. Cedric says they got the best of them in December, but they've got the measure of them now, and they can beat them. Coleman says they've got their bearings now and it's no accident they get the first Tag Title shot of 2012, and they're going to take this as far as they can take it. He's got the gold trim ready on his gear to accent the belts, and says to shine them up for them.

In a pretape, Davey and Kyle talk about the House of Truth, and an advert on the bottom says it's them vs. Strong and Elgin on 1/21. Kyle says Elgin barely beat him to win Survival of the Fittest, but he he beat him a year ago in the Top Prospect Tournament, and he can't wait to kick him again and again. He says Roderick doesn't see him as a challenge whatsoever, but that just means it's going to be so much sweeter when he kicks his head off. Davey says he's taught him well and says he's seen Elgin eyeballing him now that he's got a title shot. Davey says it's a long line and he's burying everyone in that line. Ask Roddy or Eddie, and says their reputation speaks for itself. He says these boys right here are collecting heads, and they're first on the list. He dubs them Team Ambition, and they leave. Horribad.
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ROH The Homecoming 2012
January 20th, 2012
Philadelphia, PA


The show opens with the announcement that Eddie Edwards has a staph infection. He comes out with his arm taped up and in a sling and says he's not happy about this because he wanted his No Holds Barred match against Roderick Strong, and the crowd chants FUCK THE DOCTOR and Eddie encourages it with his free arm and hypes up the crowd before he leaves.

Match #1: WGTT vs. Future Shock
This was better than I feel good about admitting. WGTT are still not great, but they're doing basic punch and kick stuff as heels, and they're at least good at that. It also allows the faces to actually shine, and Cole and Kyle again make a great team. Cole has a fun hot tag and WGTT keep their stuff confined to their finisher and the Superkick deal. Kyle accidentally hits Cole and Shelton hits him with Black Finisher, and they beat Cole with the double Powerbomb.
**1/2

Post-match, Cole and Kyle look upset with each other, but they bump knuckles and leave together. I'm weirdly invested in this split for a thing with one guy I think is the worst wrestler on the indies in 2014 and a guy I'm real ambivalent towards.

Match #2: Tomasso Ciampa vs. Mike Bennett vs. Andy Ridge vs. Grizzly Redwood
Embassy is on the floor. This is generally alright. It's not amazing, but Ciampa/Ridge is again fun, and the match seemed dedicated to getting Ciampa over more. Bennett doesn't get to to do much, but there's still too much Grizzly. Ciampa beats Grizzly with Project Ciampa for the win.
*3/4

In the back, Adam Cole asks Kyle O'Reilly if he couldn't have stopped himself in the corner from hitting him and says what frustrates him the most is that he knows and everyone knows their potential as a tag team, but something always keeps us from reaching that. Kyle says they've been through a lot together and he's sorry things are different tonight. Cole says he's not mad at him, he's just frustrated, and they need to re-focus. Kyle says he is focused, and leaves.

In the back, The Embassy cuts a promo. Nana talks about partying and RD Evans says the investors want Ciampa to start winning matches that matter. Nana says he has the Proving Ground match tomorrow, and Ciampa says if Jay Lethal wins tonight, he gets a Proving Ground match for the World Title too. RD says that would make the investors very happy.

Steve Corino comes out to the ring in street clothes, and he gets on the mic. His name is Steve Corino, and he WAS an evil man. In 2011, it was a year of transition and he's not used to being the good guy, but he wrestled his ass off at Final Battle and lost to let the monster back into ROH. He realized when he got up the next say that after 18 years, he'd won the battle for respect. He says he's not done yet and he wants that respect from the Davey Richards and Jay Lethals, BUT KEVIN STEEN COMES OUT! YEAH! He says he was in the ring with him at Final Battle, and Steve Corino IS an evil man, and it's in his blood. He says Final Battle was painful for him, because Steve was his idol. Philadelphia is where the King of Old School was born and he can't let him kill that, so he's bringing him back to reality. He asks who he needs to earn respect from, and the people and the boys should have respected him for years. Respect from the office? The office now is one fat miserable man named Jim Cornette and he spent a year with him loathing that man. Steen asks what is so great about Jim Cornette that makes everyone admire him. He ran a hick company in hick towns that was awful and went nowhere. He managed Vader through the worst US run of Vader's career. He slapped Santino and got fired. He threatened death on his former boss because they had a disagreement on wrestling, and that's who he wants respect from? Steen says 99% of these people respected them more when he was stabbing Homicide with a fork than when he was kissing Cornette's ass, and the crowd cheers. Steen asks where Jimmy Jacobs is now and says he's at home hiding, but he's here and he's here for him. He says to listen to his heart and help him burn this place to the ground and dares him to do something. Corino just walks away, and Steen has his match.

Match #3: Kevin Steen vs. Kenny King w/ Rhett Titus
Rhett is still on crutches. This is mostly a showcase for Steen, but it's only like 10 minutes so they don't really get to have the great match they may or may not be capable of. Some good stuff though. The crowd didn't really give a shit about Kenny King due to how over Steen is as a babyface despite being booked as the top heel. The commentators spend most of the match saying Steen is a fat disrespectful piece of shit and disrespects pro wrestling because he's wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Yeah, fuck Homicide too, I guess. And John Cena. You know, the top drawing star of a fucking generation. Steen eventually wins with an F5.
**1/2

Post-match, Steen drags Rhett in and he puts on the Sharpshooter before Kenny gets back in and Steen leaves.

Match #4: Chris Hero vs. Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini
This is more like it and was pretty great. Hero shows up now in great shape in his last match before going to FCW/NXT. They have a good technique/power deal to start where Hero can't handle Elgin's power until he starts outmaneuvering him. He starts to throw elbows then and it becomes the amazing slugfest it was always going to be. Tons of awesome awesome exchanges and counters, and Elgin eventually catches the Cyclone Kill. He muscles Hero up into the Buckle Bomb, and then hits the Spiral Bomb for the win.
***

Post-match, Truth and Elgin leave, and Hero gets up. Shane Hagadorn comes out and says that wouldn't have happened if he let him be in his corner. Hero tries to calm him down and Hagadorn says he was the only reason why he was ever successful in ROH, and says he's the only reason he and Claudio ever did anything and were the longest reigning champions ever, SO HERO KNOCKS HIM OUT WITH THE ROLLING ELBOW! YEAH! Hero then gets the big ovation on the way out the door.

In the back, Kevin Steen cuts a promo. He says what really matters is what's said about 2012 as far as Kevin Steen goes, and says he's been the talk of ROH for the last two years, and he's going to finish 2012 and maybe end the world as the ROH World Champion. He says Kenny King needs to drop the dead weight if he ever wants to be the man just like he did, and tells him to study Final Battle 2009. He says he was just in the way tonight, that's all, same thing with Adam Cole tomorrow and everyone else until he gets what he wants. He says everybody knows he loves animals and zoos, and all he wants in 2012 is a Wolf. Get him, Jim?

Roderick Strong and Truth Martini come out and get the mic. Roddy says Eddie's faking an injury to get out of getting his ass kicked and calls for a ten count so the referee can call him the winner by forfeit. The ref gets near ten, but Adam Cole comes out! Cole says he's been learning a lot from Eddie Edwards, and he thinks he'll be a fine replacement tonight and he'll even keep the No Holds Barred stipulation. Truth says if he does that, he'll also have to deal with him and he can't stop him from interfering or even able to shut him up, SO COLE SUPERKICKS TRUTH AND IT'S ON! FUCK YEAH?!

Match #5: Adam Cole vs. Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini [No Holds Barred]
This is great. Strong is both annoyed at having to actually wrestle and totally disregards Cole as a threat, so he goes with general torture instead of a body part focus. This somehow gives the best Roderick Strong performance in at least a year, probably longer than that, as he gets mean and nasty like some of those Erick Stevens brawls. Cole is such a great babyface at drawing sympathy and making fiery comebacks. Elgin interferes, but Eddie Edwards come out to fight him off with one arm. Truth is finally up to distract Cole, and it lets Strong come back, and he hits the End of Heartache to win. They could have done a lot more with this, but it was still a fairly big step for Cole.
***

In the back, Veda interviews The Briscoes. Jay asks when she got here and she says for a few weeks, and Mark checks her out all nonchalant like. Mark says they've got Hallowicked and Jigsaw tonight and they got no daggone sense running around like that. Jay says this ain't no comic book factory and CHIKARA's from Philly, but this is ROH and it's the Briscoes' house.

Match #6: The Briscoes vs. Jigsaw/Hallowicked
This is great. They only have 14 minutes, so there's nothing in the way of wasted time and the crowd is super hot and split between the fans of the two companies. The Briscoes get pretty nasty and violent after the CHIKARA guys really push them and a bunch of CHIKARA babyfaces come to ringside to do the classic CHIKARA thing of cheering a face on at ringside. Quackenbush, The Colony, Frightmare, Saturyne, Hatfield, and UMB all come out, and The Briscoes are distracted despite the CHIKARA guys not really interfering or making any motion to. Hallowicked has a sweet comeback and the finishing run rules. The Briscoes go after the masks and manage to turn the split crowd mostly pro-CHIKARA. Jay gets pissed and punches out Dasher Hatfield. He throws Saturyne in the ring to beat her up, but Fire Ant jumps over his head off the top. Fire Ant rolls out, AND JIGSAW SUPERKICKS JAY AND GETS A ROLL UP FOR THE HUGE UPSET!
***

Jay Briscoe gets the mic on the floor and says this is some bullshit and they didn't sign up to fight baseball players and fucking Looney Tunes and says they'll put these belts on the line against them at the joint ROH/CHIKARA double shot in Chicago, and them bitches are gonna die. The Briscoes run off, and UMB gets on the mic. He says The Briscoes tried to take Hallowicked's mask, which is sacred to them, and if they want to try that, they'll take something sacred to them, in the ROH Tag Titles!

Match #7: Davey Richards [c] vs. Jay Lethal [ROH World Championship]
This is easily the best of all the Richards title defenses yet. It's not great because it's 25 minutes of basically just moves happening and you could have lost 5 or so and had the same match. But it was an attempt at an epic match that actually got the time and layout to earn a kind of sense of that at the end. The crowd didn't really give a shit because they gave them no reason to care, but it was the least offensive kind of a shitty match style, so there's a weird sense of achievement in them getting an average match. Stuff happens, and Davey wins with a series of head kicks again, so I guess that's his new fetish.
**1/2
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January 21st, 2012
Norfolk, VA


This is Corino's debut as a full show commentator.

Match #1: Kenny King vs. Andy Ridge
This generally happens for a while, and is a decent enough showcase for King while Rhett is hurt. Kenny wins with the Coronation, because Ridge is a jobber.
*3/4

Before the next match, which was supposed to be Edwards/PRODIGY, Bennett gets on the mic and says Eddie is afraid of him.

Match #2: Mike Bennett vs. Grizzly Redwood
This is a Bennett squash and showcase, so it's horrible. PRODIGY wins with a TKO, which is still a better finisher than the Box Office Smash.
3/4*

Match #3: Kevin Steen vs. Adam Cole

Awesome. It's another 10 minutes one so it's not the stuff PWG 2012 showed them to be capable of, but it is really good for the opportunity they get. Cole dies on everything and is an awesome comeback guy. Steen is mean and violent and does lots of cool stuff before he hits the F5 for the win. They call it the F-Cinq, but fuck French. The number is still five. They finally illuminate this and mention that Cornette has banned the Package Piledriver after it injured three guys at Final Battle.
**3/4

Post-match, Steen goes to hit Cole with the Package Piledriver, but Eddie Edwards runs out to save and runs him off.

Match #4: The Briscoes [c] vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander [ROH World Tag Team Championship]
This is another good one that was too short at only like 10 minutes, so this feels pretty rushed. The Briscoes do their thing in control of the match, but it doesn't get to really develop to an organic comeback and hot tag so much ad feeling like this is where the finishing run begins. Finishing run was good, and I'm super sure at this point that these two have a great 15 minute tag match in them. The Briscoes get the win with the Doomsday Device.
**3/4

Before their match, WGTT get on the mic. Shelton says they've wrestled in a lot of great places and Haas says that's why it's a shame they're here in Norfolk tonight.

Match #5: WGTT vs. Team A1
A1 are local guys who are pretty green, but they might have been able to produce something if WGTT seemed remotely interested in making them look good both in maycabe and in terms of how the match goes. They basically just work a terrible squash match, but it goes on for like ten minutes instead of five or less, and drags more and more as it passes, until Haas throws the referee down for the DQ.
1/2*

WGTT keep beating on the jobbers, but The Briscoes run out. They fight, and the Briscoes run off WGTT. So that's still a feud that's happening. Awesome.

In the back, Jay Lethal says the only reason Tomasso Ciampa has been so successful is because not only has he yet to face much in the way of real competition, but he has four people on the floor running interference for him. Lethal says between his past career somewhere else and Brutal Bob Evans for the last few months, he's used to ignoring people on the floor though, and tonight, Ciampa will fall to the Lethal Injection.

Match #6: Jay Lethal vs. Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy
Again, if Ciampa can beat Lethal or last 15 minutes for the draw, he gets a TV Title shot. This is another one of those matches that was generally just a series of moves and strikes without a ton of story. Ciampa kept stalling and never really took over, but they seem to have some good ideas of stuff between the two in the finishing run. I would love to see this match in front of a better crowd with a better layout, because that's really all this needs. There is Embassy interference at the end, and Ciampa wins with Project Ciampa. The match took 15:20, which answers the question of how long it would take ROH to ignore the time limit or stipulations of the Proving Ground series entirely at about four months.
**1/2

Ciampa holds up the title post-match.

Match #7: Team Ambition vs. Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini
Total house show match. Nobody involved really seems to be putting forth their best effort, which means that this going 30 minutes is a huge mistake and the first half REALLY fucking drags before it starts to pick up when Kyle is isolated. Elgin throws a wicked Enzuiguri. It drags on too, and then Davey makes the hot tag. Some good stuff with Davey/Elgin again, but then Roddy and Kyle get in for the final run of the match. Strong again takes Kyle lightly and Kyle gets a roll up for the win. Again it's super awesome and amusing how they positioned Kyle as the golden boy and future of the company, and he got totally surpassed by Cole and Elgin.
**1/2
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ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes, Since 12/23/2011
ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

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January 21st, 2013
Baltimore, MD


A recap of Davey/Eddie at Final Battle opens the show.

In the ring, Kelly and Nigel announce Kenny King vs. Matt Jackson as the main event tonight.

In a pretape, Eddie Edwards cuts a promo. He says he won't cry about what happened at Final Battle, but he'll pick himself up and work hard and push harder and get back in the title picture and get another shot. It's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you get hit and keep moving forward, and Mike Mondo is in the wrong place tonight.

Match #1: Eddie Edwards vs. Mike Mondo
UGH. Eddie manages to carry Mondo to a decent showcase match for himself. This is helped by only being six or seven minutes, so Mondo can't grind it to a fucking halt with his super boring stuff. Eddie gets to show off all his cool offense and chops Mondo around. He gives him a few things and whatever. Eddie hits a Double Stomp off the top to the back and then hits the Die Hard to win.
**

ROH SHOWDOWN IN THE SUN: MARCH 30TH AND 31ST ON IPPV!

A recap of Briscoes/WGTT at Final Battle airs.

In a pretape, WGTT talk about it. Shelton says they did exactly what they said they were going to do, and he doesn't get it. The fans cheered the Briscoes when they did that in June, but they're bad guys now. Haas says ROH fans don't appreciate them at all and they don't appreciate also being fined $5,000. Shelton says this is an insult and Haas says anyone who doesn't recognize how great they are can go straight to hell.

In the ring, Jim Cornette brings out The Briscoes. Wide angle shot, so Jim's not hard. Jay asks why ROH gets the fine money when they're the ones that got hit with the chairs and says they could use $5,000. Jay says if they get five grand for getting hit in the head with a chair, they can line up the locker room to take turns on the both 'em and they'll have one hell of a retirement fund. FUCK YEAH BRISCOES. Cornette asks about the crowd booing WGTT, and Jay says they can't tell people how to think, but people just love dem boys for keeping it real with them and being here since day one. They've been wrestling in Baltimore since they were teenagers. Cornette asks about challengers and Mark says to line em up so they can knock em down. Jay says if anyone wants these belts from Dem Boys, you better be ready to MAN UP.

Match #2: Roderick Strong w/ The House of Truth vs. Ricky Reyes
OH, FUCK YOU. FUCKING GO AWAY, GOD DAMNIT. Reyes is still terrible and Strong has to get a roll up with the tights to win. Great booking there, your #2 heel can barely beat a fucking jobber without cheating. Why would anyone buy him as a threat to anyone else now? I mean, that's not how indy booking works, but if Cornette wants to be old school, he should book in a logical manner.
*1/2

INSIDE ROH:
-Clips air of Steen's victory at Final Battle and the post-match
-Kevin Steen says a lot of people got hurt at Final Battle and says that was only one night. He says he'll be on ROH TV in two weeks and he's going to show the world what to expect from pro wrestling's worst nightmare and he'll tell everyone why he belongs here despite not being Jim Cornette's ideal unlike the puppet champion Davey Richards. He says for what this company did to him in 2011, he's going to take it hostage until he gets exactly what he wants.
-They go over the Embassy's new investors storyline and how they're now The Embassy Ltd.
-Kelly announces the next iPPV as the 10th Anniversary Show on March 4th

In the back, Veda interviews Team Ambition and announces that they have a match against Coleman and Alexander next week. Davey says he hasn't been in tag matches lately because he's busy with his title, but he made his name in tag team wrestling and he's excited to team with Kyle. She asks Kyle about Future Shock and Kyle says that Adam is cool with it and asks Davey about after next week, if there's a new American Wolves. Davey says it's one step at a time and laughs it off, BECAUSE KYLE IS FUCKING CANADIAN.

Match #3: Kenny King vs. Matt Jackson
Both partners are ringside. This was generally pretty fun, while not being much storywise besides two athletic guys doing cool stuff. They do low level athletic things but clearly hold back because it's a singles match between two tag specialist type guys. Jackson starts breaking out crazy stuff near the end. Nick Jackson steals Rhett's crutch near the end and knocks Kenny off the top with it. Matt covers for the win.
**1/4
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ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes, Since 12/23/2011
ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

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January 28th, 2012
Baltimore, MD

Match #1: Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy Ltd. vs. TJ Perkins

Really good six minues. TJ does some cool stuff and seems to push Ciampa more than anyone else on TV has. But Ciampa comes back to dominate with his corner knees and hits Project Ciampa for the win.
**1/4

Fucking Devon Storm is supposed to wrestle Grizzly Redwood next, but Truth Martini and Michael Elgin comes out. Truth offers Crowbar $500 to leave right now and give his spot to Michael Elgin, or he could destroy him and take it. Storm takes the money, and Elgin is in.

Match #2: Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini vs. Grizzly Redwood
Awesome squash by Elgin. Grizzly dies on everything before Elgin wins with the Spiral Bomb.
**

In the back, Kevin Steen cuts a promo from behind the usual cage backdrop in the promo set. Steen says everyone at one point feels like they're in a cage and he felt like that for a year, since ROH tried to keep him out from doing what he does. He says he's unleashed on this new ROH TV show that Jim Cornette is so proud of next week. He says this show lacks some unpredictability and chaos and fear, but that's all here now because he's here now. His plan in 2012 is to beat Jim's boy toy champion Davey Richards and take the title, and then he's in charge. 7 days until everything changes.

INSIDE ROH:
-A really good video airs with separate interviews from Eddie and Kyle. Eddie Edwards said he never had problems with Kyle O'Reilly until Best in the World after he demanded the title. Kyle says he put Davey in an awkward position with that match, and he didn't like that. Eddie says he'd rather fight and lose than not know who deserved to be champion. Kyle says if not for Davey, Eddie never would be in ROH to begin with. Eddie says Kyle stooged him out about Dan Severn and Kyle says that showed a lack of loyalty. Eddie says he couldn't wait to stooge him out to score points. Kyle says Eddie should show loyalty like he does, and Eddie asks where Kyle's loyalty to Adam Cole is, and he dropped him like a bad habit once he convinced Davey to team with him.
-Davey Richards says it's a lose-lose for him, and gets asked who he trusts more to be his partner, and Davey says Kyle. You son of a bitch.
-Lethal/PRODIGY for the TV Title in a no time limit match is announced for next week

Match #3: Team Ambition vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander
This was better than I expected. Davey generally gets out of the way and lets Cedric and Coleman really show off all that they have. They're again a pretty nice white black-meat babyface team with some cool highspots and they do nothing wrong. Kyle doesn't do anything wrong either, but is still just kind of whatever. Some questionable stuff happens near the end, and Davey hits Cedric with a Double Stomp to the back while Kyle has him in a Front Guillotine. Somehow Kyle is not harmed at all despite being underneath Cedric for that, and he rolls Cedric over in it and gets the tap out.
**3/4

Post-match, Eddie Edwards comes out to applaud.
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011
ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes, Since 12/23/2011
ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

ROH Wrestling
February 4th, 2012
Baltimore, MD


A recap of Lethal/Generico/Bennett at Final Battle opens the show.

Match #1: Jay Lethal [c] vs. Mike Bennett w/ Maria & Bob Evans [ROH World Television Championship - No Time Limit]
SUP MARIA. As always with no time limit matches, this is the shortest of their matches at only 11 minutes. I am in no way complaining. This was super shitty. Lethal does some really shitty punches and chops and they try and work this kind of a slugfest but neither man can throw a strike, so the first seven or eight minutes is horrible. They have a decent finishing run, and then instead of culminating this in a real victory or anything, Maria pushes Bennett off the ropes while he's dazed and onto a cover on Jay, but Jay kicks out into a crucifix pin to win.
*3/4

In the back, Veda asks Eddie Edwards about the end of the show last week. Eddie says he's proud of Kyle for finally getting what he wants and says now he can be an American Wolf and replace him like he always wanted. Kyle preaches loyalty, but he couldn't give two shits about Adam Cole or Future Shock as long as he gets to ride Davey's coattails. Kyle comes in and challenges him next week, and Eddie accepts.

Another recap of Steen/Corino airs.

In the ring, Kevin Kelly brings out Kevin Steen for an interview. He comes out in the Steenerico t-shirt and literally nobody is booing. Steen grabs the mic and says he's waited for this for a year and says to get out of here, but makes Kelly hold his gum first, and spit is into Kelly's hand. Steen says he's asked himself for a year what kind of promotion keeps their top guy at home for a year. What kind of company says they have the best product when their best wrestler is gone for 12 months? Other promotions let their top guys get away with a lot worst, and in some places, you can almost get away with murder, but he's "hard to control" and a "liability". No. He was kept away for a year because unlike 95% of this roster, he didn't give a shit about Cornette's approval and wouldn't suck up to him like his golden boys. He says he's gonna rip Jim's little champion apart and then as ROH Champion, he'll hold this company hostage like he was held hostage for a year. Jim Cornette comes out with a mic and security. Cornette says he's looked forward to this to look him in his fat face and say what he has to say, and Cornette says if he spent more time in the gym working muscles besides his mouth, he might like him better. Steen says he'd rather be in a wrestling ring being the best at what he does. Steen asks if Jim would love him suddenly if he went to an MMA gym once. Cornette says he has an announcement and says he injured three guys with his Piledriver. He talks about Austin being crippled because of SummerSlam 97 and says he managed Owen and Owen was always sorry for that, but Steen has no remorse for Final Battle. Steen says they'll all get better and Cornette says he can't have that and bans the Piledriver in any form in ROH. Biggest boos of the night. Steen says he's such a fucking hypocrite and this is only for his boy Davey and he knows that WHEN he gets that match, if he hits Davey with it, that title is his. Steen says he can't ban HIM and he'll come up with something else and he'll thwart every little plan he has. In 2012, he's going to destroy Davey Richards, win the title, and become the nightmare Cornette never recovers from. 3 for 3 in retrospect!

INSIDE ROH:
-Kelly says The Briscoes and House of Truth have begun blaming each other behind the scene for the eight man tag loss, and they'll have a Proving Ground match next week
-The House of Truth says The Briscoes are putting up $5,000 against their $5,000. Why? I get the stip, but that seems more suited to Briscoes/WGTT with all the fines levied in the feud.
-Kelly says it's Richards/Lethal II in three weeks
-Davey Richards says he kicks heads off and basically repeats his promo from the Video Wire
-ANX says they just won a title shot before Rhett's knee injury and The Young Bucks took everything away from them. Rhett says he doesn't blame the referee for stopping the match because he couldn't stand. Rhett says he's supposed to be out for four months but he's going to be back in two. Kenny say the Bucks are going to the hospital next.
-Kelly announces Briscoes/Bucks for the Tag Titles on 3/4 on iPPV

WGTT come out for their match against the Bravados. They refuse to wrestle until they get their title shot and Haas says Jim Cornette says they're running late because Kevin Steen ate up too much TV time. Shelton takes the mic and asks why the people are booing now, since all they did was do what the Briscoes did to them. This creates an awkward logical conundrum because the crowds have been pro-Briscoes for this entire feud, and you wonder why it took six to nine months before WGTT actually realized that. Cornette and referees come out and says they don't have enough TV time for the match, but the Briscoes come out and fight!

Match #2: The Briscoes [c] vs. WGTT [ROH World Tag Team Championship]
This is all of like four minutes before Shelton hits the Briscoes with a chair to the head for the DQ.
*1/2
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011
ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes, Since 12/23/2011
ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

ROH Wrestling
February 11th, 2012
Baltimore, MD


Comments air for Eddie/Kyle. Kyle says he's going to prove to Eddie Edwards tonight that he's not a sidekick or a stooge and he's just as much of a man as he is. Eddie says he never said he wanted to fight Kyle, but Kyle's the one who got hot when the truth got revealed about how Kyle caused this split. If Davey wants to believe Kyle instead of him, that's fine, and he's going to knock some sense into Kyle, who should be careful what he wishes for.

Match #1: Eddie Edwards vs. Kyle O'Reilly
This was the best Kyle singles match in like a year, and it's because Eddie is the best carry guy in ROH at this moment. He manages to reign in Kyle pretty easily and puts a sense of struggle into things. He seems to know Kyle isn't going to do a lot of interesting stuff story wise and just wants to do cool stuff, so Eddie uses escalation and slow build to crazier stuff to actually earn the epic feeling. He also breaks out a perfect Scott Lost style suicide suplex. Davey Richards comes out to watch and openly cheers on Kyle. I really feel bad for Eddie Edwards as a character. Eddie hurts his knee and Kyle works on it, BUT ADAM COLE COMES OUT TO CHEER ON EDDIE! Eddie has some decent selling but fades it out when Kyle stops working it. Good finishing run and Kyle tries a cradle out of the Achilles Lock. Eddie reverses into one of his own and actually hooks his legs around Kyle's leg for a better inside cradle and gets the win.
***

Post-match, Eddie gets on the mic. He says he sees Davey has a new tag team partner, but he doesn't anymore. Eddie asks Adam Cole if he has a tag team partner anymore and Cole looks sad. Eddie proposes that he becomes his tag team partner AND ADAM SHAKES HIS HAND! YEAH, AMAZING TEAM. Eddie says they can have a match any time anywhere.

Steve Corino joins commentary for a moment and says he's slowly recovering from Final Battle, and he's never been hurt this much for this long after a big match, and says he's excited for be Kelly's new partner on DVD commentary from now on.

Match #2: Mike Mondo vs. Matt Taven
GROSS. This is before Taven became another shitty ROH pet project and at least this is only three minutes. Real bad though. Kevin Steen comes out with the mic and asks why they get TV time when he has to wait another week to wrestle, and says Taven has the kind of look Cornette loves, but man, is he awful in the ring. He says that doesn't matter in Cornette's ROH, BUT THIS IS HIS ROH NOW AND HITS TAVEN WITH THE F5 FOR THE DQ.
KILL STEEN KILL

Post-match, Mondo hugs him, BUT STEEN BITES HIS EAR AND HITS HIM WITH THE F5 TOO. Steve Corino takes off the headset and gets in to try and stop Steen. Referees come out, but Steen doesn't want to hurt Corino, so he leaves.

INSIDE ROH:
-WGTT say they won't pay another $5,000 and Shelton says to sue them if they want it. Haas says anyone backing those losers The Briscoes is a loser too
-Jim Cornette says nobody is above the law and suspends Shelton Benjamin until he pays the fine
-The Briscoes say they gotta whoop those boys again, and says nobody can call them losers when they beat that ass for these belts. They got other fish to fry like the Young Bucks, and they don't know if they want to whip their asses or buy them flowers.
-Kelly announces Lethal/Ciampa for the TV Title for the 10YA.

Jim Cornette comes out to join commentary for the main event, and he books Team Ambition vs. Eddie/Cole for 10YA.

Match #3: The Briscoes vs. Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini [$5000 vs. $5000]
These money matches have got to stop, or at least be more spaced out. The best money angles ever have money up against something else, like Jerry Lawler putting up money for a title shot or Jerry Lawler agreeing to pay $500 per punch thrown against Nick Bockwinkel or whatever the price was. Basically, it only works in Memphis, because Lawler and Dutch were the only ones who could book it properly. ANYWAYS, this has three of the best guys in ROH, and Strong is also solid enough, so this is great. Briscoes have their awesome energy and fire, and Elgin's power is the best. Strong/Jay Briscoe continues to be a really great pairing too. After Mark's hot tag, Truth blinds Jay with powder/cocaine, and he is taken to the back. Mark tries to fight both guys, BUT JAY COMES BACK OUT WITH A FUCKING BAT AND BEATS ELGIN AND STRONG WITH IT FOR THE DQ!
***

Post-match, The Briscoes steal both checks and celebrate with them and leave. The Briscoes are the absolute greatest of all time.
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PROMO INTERLUDE - "TERRY FUNK AIN'T WEAR NO MOUTHPIECE"

In their chicken farm, The Briscoes talk. Mark is sharpening his knife on a rock with an empty bottle of Jim Beam nearby and Jay is drinking beer. He says this Friday in Cincinnati, they're putting the titles up against Davey and Kyle. Team Jiu Jitsu. Team MMA. MMA done took over the world and is the biggest shit going now. He's got all the respect in the world for the people who do that, but the shit that pisses him off is when you've got Johnny Badass with a little Tapout shirt and he went to the gym for two weeks, so he's got his little muscles popping out a bit, and he thinks he's God's gift to women. He walks around like his shit don't stink. He ain't saying y'all that type of people, but Davey and Kyle are walking around in mouthpieces. This is pro wrestling, son. Mark yells "AY, TERRY FUNK AIN'T WEAR NO MOUTHPIECE". TERRY FUNK AIN'T WEAR NO MOUTHPIECE. BRUISER BRODY AIN'T WEAR NO DAMN MOUTH PIECE. Anyways, all they walk about is how they're focused and shit. They ain't got time to be focused, they gotta get shit done. DOES IT LOOK LIKE STABLE THOUGHTS GO THROUGH HIS MIND? DOES HE LOOK LIKE A RATIONAL THINKER TO YOU? As if on cue, Mark Briscoe shoots his rifle to destroy the empty bottle of Jim and says he thought he was done. Jay says the last time they got in a fight with the Tapout boys at a bar, they tried to put on an arm bar and doing UFC moves in the damn bar, but a beer mug to the back of the head cuts that shit right off, and their girlfriends talking like they cheated. All he knows is them boys were going to the hospital and they were sitting back down and drinking Yeungling and waving bye. Jay starts smoking a blunt and says Davey and Kyle can run a few laps, but he's gonna sit back and smoke this and then on Friday, they were gonna whip that ass, and there's not a damn thing they can do about it.
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011
ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes, Since 12/23/2011
ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

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ROH Rise and Prove
February 17th, 2012
Cincinnati, OH


This is the b-show of all fucking b-shows with a meaningless tag tournament and the most restrained "No DQ" style match in ROH history, so fuck it.

Michael Elgin vs. Adam Cole - **3/4
-Elgin wins after some interference. This was criminally short

Shiloh Jonez/Rudy Switchblade vs. Sean Casey/Chris Silvio - 1/2*
-They are holding a jobber tag tournament to see who gets a Proving Ground match vs. The Briscoes on a later show, for some reason.

Alabama Attitude vs. Shane Haste/Mikey Nicholls - *3/4

Eddie Edwards vs. Roderick Strong [No Holds Barred] - **3/4
-This is basically just a normal match with a table spot and minor chair use. Strong isn't trying particularly hard and Eddie is content to just have this match. Elgin comes out to interfere, and Adam Cole comes out to fight him off. The distraction allows Roddy to hit Eddie with the Book of Truth though, and that gets the win.

Mike Mondo vs. Samson - 1/4*

Shane Haste/Mikey Nicholls vs. Shilioh Jonez/Rudy Switchblade - *3/4

Jay Lethal vs. BJ Whitmer - ***
-BJ came super motivated to get his job back and they got 14:30. Good escalation and build and then an awesome finishing run. BJ even did a flip dive. Lethal wins with the Lethal Injection and then gets on the mic and says he thinks BJ's earned a job.

The Briscoes [c] vs. Team Ambition [ROH World Tag Team Championship] - **3/4
-The Briscoes again pull off an good match against a team with obvious flaws. Too much Davey/Kyle bullshit at the end, but Briscoes made it better than usual. Doomsday Device beats Kyle.
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ROH World Champion: Davey Richards, Since 6/26/2011
ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes, Since 12/23/2011
ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

ROH Wrestling
February 18th, 2012
Baltimore, MD


In the ring, Nigel and Kelly say it was supposed to be WGTT vs. The Young Bucks tonight, but it's up in the air with Shelton Benjamin's suspension. Charlie Haas comes out and he says this is unfair and demands one of the Briscoes one on one. The Briscoes come out to accept and say they don't care which one it is. Jim Cornette comes out and books Haas vs. Mark Briscoe and to make sure it's fair, he has Jay handcuffed to the post during the main event. Or just ban him from ringside? No, not SMW enough. Jay says this sounds like some bullshit for Jim's boys to get them, and Cornette says he knows Shelton is in Texas at home, because he talked to him today on Skype. Oh, bullshit. He then says more stuff and tells them to settle it.

Match #1: Kevin Steen vs. Andy Ridge
Corino is on commentary again, so something will happen post-match. This was an awesome three minute squash. Ridge will die to get people over as a great jobber (although he's no Pelle). Steen wins with the F5.
**

Post-match, Steen keeps beating on him but Steve Corino gets into the ring again. Steen dares him to hit him, but Jimmy Jacobs runs out and attacks Steen! They get pulled apart before they can have an awesome brawl unfortunately, but it's coming. Steen leaves, and Jimmy gets on the mic. He says he's been beaten up, beaten down, and bled more times than he can count and his Piledriver isn't going to keep him down. Jimmy says he wants the two most evil men in the history of ROH to fight and he wants the match.

In the back, Veda interviews Team Ambition about the 10YA match. Davey says they're really jumping into the deep end against them. He says he's over all this friendship and brotherhood crap, and all he sees now is four arms and legs to break and Kyle says two heads to kick off. Kyle says he told everyone how Eddie Edwards really is and says not to expect loyalty from him. Davey says not to expect mercy from them.

Match #2: Eddie Edwards/Adam Cole vs. Mike Mondo/Matt Taven
Alright showcase for the superior face team. Cole and Eddie both look great and show more actual teamwork than we've seen in multiple matches from Davey and Kyle. Cole debuts the Florida Key, his X-Plex, in ROH for the win.
**

Post-match, Mondo lays out Taven for losing. Don't care.

INSIDE ROH:
-Truth Martini says he stopped payment on those checks because they rightfully won that match. Strong says their check probably wasn't good either, and they can call a collection agency at 1-800-BLOW ME.
-The Young Bucks says they're the rock stars of pro wrestling against DEM BOYS. It's all about them now and they want those pretty belts. They're going to buy Mark some new teeth and then Superkick them down his throat.
-Jay Lethal says next week, the title is going to change hands for the first time on TV when he beats Jay Lethal. He says if he wins next week, he'll also defend his World Title against Tomasso Ciampa. He says Ciampa has an undefeated streak, and he's going to lose that to him and he also won't lose his titles.
-Tomasso Ciampa says he's going to strip Lethal of his confidence and his title and will remain undefeated.

Match #3: Charlie Haas vs. Mark Briscoe w/ Jay Briscoe [Jay Briscoes Handcuffed to the Post]
With his first singles match of the year, Mark takes his first step towards being the first two-time ROH WOTY winner since Samoa Joe maybe. This is another five minute set up for an angle, but this was a little better of a match. Haas keeps it basic with punches and clubs and Mark Briscoe does his thing and it's awesome. Mark wins with a roll up.
*3/4

Post-match, Haas hits the Angle Slam. He steals the handcuff key from Todd, and then hits another angle Slam to Mark. Haas hits Mark in the head with the chair in a super weak chair shot as they sell it like it's some vile act. If you're going to do it and make it mean something, at least swing it so it looks like you're trying to hurt someone, you illiterate motherfucker. Haas goes up to the production area and drops $10,000 on the table. He says that's for his fine and Shelton's fine, and he's been planning to do that all week.
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ROH VIDEO WIRE - 2/22/2012:

In the back, Jimmy Jacobs cuts a promo. He says people call Kevin Steen an evil genius, and while he'll grant him evil, he's no genius. It's foolish the way he underestimates him, like so many other people do, and treats him like a joke. Because of how he dresses or whatever, he's less of a man and he's not tough. He doesn't need to look or talk like he's tough, because he's shown that Jimmy Jacobs is a tough son of a bitch. If he wants to put on a tutu and call himself a princess, he'll still be a tough son of a bitch. He's won more Tag Titles here than anyone without the last name Briscoe, and he beat them for one of them. He's pinned CM Punk in the middle of an ROH ring. He's made Daniel Bryan pass out in the middle of an ROH ring. ROH might not want people to remember it, or like how he beat Davey Richards in an ROH ring too. Somewhere along the way, people think he and Steve Corino gone soft. Don't mistake maturity for softness. He says Kevin Steen wants to drag him to hell, BUT THEN PULLS OUT THE RAILROAD SPIKE! YEAH! He says he'll go there to stop Kevin Steen, and says nobody can stop him. He's supposed to have died a million times now, but he's a zombie. Laugh at him, but on March 4th, he'll get his ass handed to him by the motherfucking zombie princess.

Clips air of the Young Bucks in action.

In the back, Veda interviews the Young Bucks. They say the Briscoes have also lost the belts six times and they're about to lose a seventh time to the rock stars, you stupid chicken farmers. They say the place will be sold out to see them win the titles, because The Young Bucks are on the marquee.

In the back, Eddie Edwards and Adam Cole cut a promo. Eddie says over the last six months, while he and Davey's friendship has gone by the wayside, Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly went through the same thing. As he loses his World Title and loses at Final Battle, he pays attention to Future Shock and what they were becoming. They reminded him of a young American Wolves, but then he looked even closer. He looked at them separately, and Adam Cole reminded him of Eddie Edwards three years ago. Kyle got all the attention and praise, but Adam Cole was working his ass off to no respect. He's been there and he knows how it feels, so when Adam Cole decided to support him, he was all for that. Cole says that's the thing and what he's thought about is Kyle O'Reilly deciding to form a team with Davey. Initially, it upset him and confused him and he didn't understand it, but then he remembered that they never formed Future Shock for friendship. They did it it because they wanted to become the best, so he can't blame him for forming a team with the World Champion, and now he's glad he did, because now he's teamed up with the only Triple Crown winner in ROH history. This isn't about wolves or settling scores or ambition, it's about who's the best, and they're the best.

An awesome video airs on ROH history.

A promo airs from Team Ambition, with Kozina there too. IT's not on the Video Wire, but was released on the same day. Davey Richards says he's a world traveler and he's come to realize that he has no place in wrestling because hard work and diligence are no longer valued anymore, and this is barely a sport anymore. Running your mouth is valued now. He doesn't like to run his mouth when he can put in work like he has. 14, 24, 34 hour car rides. Living in a dojo for three months. But no, shock rock is in now. Someone can have a big gut and eat whatever they want and not train, but the protocol of wrestling says he has to treat them as an athletic fighter. He says he's going to crush them if they get in the ring with him because he's the best in the world. He says until someone shows him up -- and he means really, not some character bullshit or storyline, but actually shows him up (HOLY SHIT, WHAT?). Kozina says he's tired of being passed over and at 41 years old, he can still go, and yells out "GIVE ME YOUR 20 YEAR OLDS". Kyle says they say there's no more realism in pro wrestling and asks what's more real than this. He left everything and traveled 30 hours to get his ass kicked by these two so he can say that he earned his place. He has ambition, and they are ambition. Davey Richards says if you don't bring the fight to him, he'll kick your head off.

This is one of the worst promos I've ever seen. Kozina's hilariously bad part, Kyle doing whatever, and Davey complaining about how fans don't like him as much as Kevin Steen right before making thinly veiled shoot comments about how nobody is actually better than him even if he loses. Check it out yourself, if you're bold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6rbb4y_wRE
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ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes, Since 12/23/2011
ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

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February 25th, 2012
Baltimore, MD


In the back, The Young Bucks say HEY, NERDS and says they're the best and these kids tonight are a stepping stone to the Briscoes, but they'll take it easy with only 60% so they don't make them look too bad.

Match #1: The Young Bucks vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander
Fun five minutes, but they were kind of handicapped by the time. Bucks do their thing, Coleman has an exciting hot tag, but then it ends before this can become anything of note or really great or memorable. Bucks beat Coleman with More Bang For Your Buck.
**

In the back, Veda interviews The Embassy and asks about tonight. Ciampa cuts Nana off and says on March 4th, he'll take whatever gold Jay Lethal has, and he challenges Jay tonight to overachieve and be better than he's ever been before, because he wants the World Title. He will be the first ever undefeated champion in ROH history.

In the ring, Kelly brings out The Briscoes. He asks about the Bucks, and Jay says the titles are on the line with Dem Boys vs. Dem Lady Boys. Jay says they're not underestimating them, but they're gonna make them their bitches. Kelly asks about the House of Truth and Jay says they got a nice fat check for $5000 but that sumbitch bounced and ruined a lot of their big plans. Jay says if Truth Martini doesn't give him $5000, Papa Briscoe's coming with them to beat it out of his ass. Kelly announces Briscoes/WGTT for Showdown in the Sun, and The Briscoes says it ain't about the belts and someone's leaving there on a bodybag. When you mess with dem boys, you better be ready to man up.

INSIDE ROH:
-The Steen/Jacobs angle is recapped
-Jimmy does a shorter version of his promo from the video wire
-Kevin Steen says Jimmy cut his balls off in the hopes he could come back, then he hoped Steve Corino could beat him, and now he hopes he can do it. Steen says he hopes Jimmy makes him bleed and remembers how great he was and remembers that his future as a company man is bleak and his future as an evil man is still unlimited.
-WGTT vs. ANX is announced for 10YA in Rhett's return
-Next week, it's Strong/Edwards AGAIN for a title shot in Florida

Match #2: Davey Richards [c] vs. Jay Lethal [ROH World Championship]
During this, Tomasso Ciampa comes out to watch. Others also come out to watch, like Cole, Eddie, Kyle, Strong, Elgin, and Truth. This is a lot like their first match in that it works better than Davey's usual deal because Jay understands escalation if not so much understanding the idea of effort, but there's nothing to get invested in with no real story or quality layout or anything. A floor brawl breaks out, and Elgin shoves Cole into Lethal as he tries the Lethal Injection and Davey hits a head kick to win.
**1/4

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ROH VIDEO WIRE - 3/1/2012:

In a bathroom somewhere, Kevin Steen looks in the mirror. He says he wonders how Jimmy Jacobs can look himself in the mirror after he counted three at Final Battle and got him his job back. He's actually wondered that for a while and says for a year or more, he's been playing this character so ROH would give him his job back. When he looks in the mirror, he feels pride because he never changed to come back. He's willing to bet that Jimmy hates what he sees in the mirror. He says Jimmy's the one who chose sides, and he picked the wrong one. He knows he loves ROH just like he does, but he knows that Jimmy loves the REAL Ring of Honor, not this bullshit that Jim Cornette created in the last year and a half. He doesn't blame him for what he's done to come back, but the fact that he had to do all this just to get a job back is pathetic and sad. He'll gladly fight him, but if he had things his way, he, Jimmy, and Steve would tear this whole place down and rebuild it like it was.

Clips air of Tomasso Ciampa's undefeated streak.

In the back, Jay Lethal says he's putting this to an end on March 4th, and he's coming after the one thing he has. He's coming after the one thing that Tomasso Ciampa has too, and that's his undefeated streak. That's all he knows about him, that he's undefeated, and that puts him ill at ease. He wrestles best when he's uneasy, and everyone falls to the Lethal Injection.

In the back, Team Ambition cuts a promo. Davey says he and Eddie have fought and they'll fight again, but Kyle and Adam hadn't. Kyle says he has so much respect for Eddie Edwards as a wrestler, and makes a terrible point that nobody knows Davey better than he does, but Eddie went behind their backs and trained with Severn. WHY THE FUCK WOULD HE TRAIN WITH YOU GUYS GOING INTO A MATCH *AGAINST* DAVEY? Kyle says he doesn't like Eddie Edwards and he's going to prove to him that he can hit just as hard as anyone else, and quotes Eddie's quote about getting hit and getting up. Kyle says he's a little confused about how Adam Cole got involved and says he's his friend and now former tag partner. In NYC, all he is is another obstacle. Davey says he can't say it much better than that, which is sad.
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ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes, Since 12/23/2011
ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

ROH Wrestling
March 3rd, 2012
Baltimore, MD


In a pretape, Mike Bennett says Jim Cornette called him the other day and said Lance Storm called him and said he has no respect for ROH and told Lance to come shut his mouth on March 30th, and he says he's better than the best.

In the back, TJ Perkins says all Bennett can talk about is Lance Storm. Bob Evans can show him 10 ways out of the Half Boston Crab for his match against Lance Storm, but what Bennett apparently can't learn is ten ways out of the "YOU CAN'T WRESTLE" chant he gets every time he goes to the ring. After that, it is not surprising TJ isn't around for much longer.

Match #1: TJ Perkins vs. Mike Bennett w/ Maria & Bob Evans
TJ again tries his best to make a match work before he puts over someone horrible. Bennett's timing is the worst and he's still pretty awkward and not exactly good at anything. TJ's stuff all looks awesome though. Maria distracts TJ with dat everything, and PRODIGY hits a TKO to win. Boo.
*3/4

In the back, Veda interviews The Embassy Ltd. She asks about the Jay Lethal match this weekend, and Ciampa says nothing is on the line. Nothing is at risk, and he has nothing to lose, but Jay Lethal has everything to lose. His confidence, his TV Title, his health, and his career are all in his hands, and he will leave still undefeated.

Match #2: Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy Ltd. vs. Guy Alexander
Another good Ciampa squash. Lots of painful looking offense and good strikes, and the ref stops it after repeated knee strikes in the corner.
*1/2

INSIDE ROH:
-The Briscoes says the Bucks are quick and do a lot of fancy moves, but they're also in for a long night and they're coming to take care of business.
-Kevin Steen says the 10th Anniversary is a big deal and he's bringing his party hat. He says he's excited to spend the night with Jimmy Jacobs and they're going to let the champagne flow, but only after the blood flows first.
-Briscoes/WGTT is formally announced for 3/31
-The Young Bucks vs. ANX will face on both Showdown in the Sun shows, and each team can pick a stipulation.
-The Young Bucks say they want one of them in a Texas Tornado match on Saturday
-ANX say they want a Street Fight on Friday

Match #3: Eddie Edwards vs. Roderick Strong w/ The House of Truth [#1 Contender's Match]
I like both of these guys, but after a year of this match fairly frequently, I hate this pairing. I hate the Davey/Strong/Eddie main event round robin, but that's thankfully coming to a close soon. They hit hard and do things but this is very clearly a house show version of their match. Strong hits Eddie with a Sick Kick with a foreign object strapped to his boot, but another ref comes out to restart it. Eddie hits the Die Hard to win, and there's an argument, and oh my god, whatever.
**1/4

Post-match, Cornette comes out and books a three way with Davey vs. Strong vs. Eddie at Showdown in the Sun on night one. This brings to a close the horrible era of the ROH Title from 2010-2012 centered around the different chases and title wins of all three.
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ROH 10TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW
MARCH 4TH, 2012
HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM
NEW YORK, NY


Since this is iPPV, we get a black screen for a few minutes to open. They play some music, and "Momma Said Knock You Out" is one of the songs. The crowd goes APESHIT like Kevin Steen showed up or something, because while it's a great song, it's also Samoa Joe's music. They then boo horribly at levels not really seen since Age of the Fall or Summer of Punk stuff. Mistake.

A video airs on WGTT/ANX, but the sound is super low, so you can't hear anything but the fans.

Match #1: The All Night Express vs. WGTT
Kevin Kelly says WGTT's attack on the Briscoes was an unprecedented level of violence in ROH. Not HOMICIDE POURING DRAINO DOWN CABANA'S MOUTH, TRYING TO CUT HIS TONGUE OUT, OR STRANGLING HIM WITH A COAT HANGER. NOT JIMMY RAVE BLINDING CM PUNK WITH BUG SPRAY OR TRYING TO GRATE OFF HIS TATTOO WITH A CHEESE GRATER. NOT JIMMY JACOBS STABBING DUDES OR FUCKING HANGING JAY BRISCOE 20 FEET ABOVE THE RING AND SHOWERING IN HIS BLOOD. NOT BARBED WIRE MATCHES OR ANYTHING NECRO DID. NOT HOMICIDE SLAPPING CORINO SO HARD HE STILL CAN'T HEAR OUT OF THAT EAR 11 GOD DAMNED YEARS LATER. NOT NIGEL MCGUINNESS BREAKING HIS BRAIN ON THE RINGPOST. NOT EVEN LIKE JOE VS. KI. Chair shots! Oh no! Fuck you. Anyways, this match generally happens. The crowd chants "KINGS OF WRESTLING". Rhett's knee is focused on a lot, and that's generally good enough while not being exciting or anything beyond just logical. Rhett then totally ignores it, so he's contributing just as much to this being awful as WGTT. Haas and Benjamin are better as heels, but still don't seem super interested in having good matches when they lose. Which, yeah. They lose. King and Shelton trade roll ups after King's hot tag and King wins with one.
*3/4

They show replays, but ROH is so bush league that they can't isolate the video itself and have to replay the clips with commentary, so Kevin Kelly and Nigel are talking over their own commentary when recapping the match.

Match #2: Homicide vs. Mike Bennett w/ Bob Evans & Maria
FUCK YEAH HOMICIDE. They give him some metal bullshit, but he wears the navy blue prison jumpsuit to the ring a la Natural Born Sinners. Homicide brought the effort with some awesome punching combos and solid bumping. Even at half his best, Homicide is worlds better than PRODIGY, who is still the worst wrestler employed by ROH. Stuff happens and Bennett eventually wins with a cheap roll up holding onto Homicide's gear to steal it. This is 2012, and that doesn't draw him any heat in any positive way. God damnit, Jim.
*3/4

Post-match, Homicide punches out Bob, but Bennett and Maria bail.

In the ring, Bobby Cruise brings out CHIKARA Grand Champion Eddie Kingston. He comes out and starts to promote the ROH/CHIKARA double shot in April. He says as a nice little thing, he'd like to call out ROH's World Champion Davey Richards right now to shake his hand and says he has an idea for him and for ROH. The wolf call sounds, BUT THEN KEVIN STEEN'S THEME HITS INSTEAD AND HE COMES OUT! Steen is in a tuxedo t-shirt with the sleeves cut off and brandishing a tennis racket with Davey's picture on it. Steen says it's good to see him and asks what happened and when he became such a bitch. Steen says he heard him put over ROH and the crowd, and says he can't mean that because they're a lot alike. Steen says they can rebuild both ROH and CHIKARA together and Eddie says he can't let anyone destroy CHIKARA, and he doesn't want to destroy ROH and says this is a great company and one of the best. Steen says it WAS the best until Jim Cornette ruined it, but since he mentioned his home, he thinks CHIKARA is a bullshit Mickey Mouse promotion. Eddie says he will beat his ass like he doesn't know him and says that company means everything to him and says to watch his fucking mouth. Steen says he's not one to start trouble and he didn't come here to fight him, BUT PLANS CHANGE. STEEN AND KINGSTON FIGHT AND IT RULES. Referees try and break it up AND STEEN TRIES TO PISS ON THE CHIKARA BELT BEFORE THE COLONY AND JIGSAW RUN OUT TO ATTACK! The pull apart goes to the floor, and Fire Ant flips onto everyone and they get taken to the back.

Match #3: Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini vs. Amazing Red/TJ Perkins
Awesome spotfest again from Elgin and TJ. Red comes to fight like it's 2002-3 here for a night and tries as much as his beat up body will allow. Strong and Elgin are solid bases too, and TJ is able to carry the bulk of the match so Red can come in and just do his awesome highspots. AWESOME finishing run of dives and flips and cool shit and double teams. Some great double teams from the House of Truth, and they hit Red with an Alabama Slam Lungblower for the win.
***

Match #4: Jay Lethal [c] vs. Tomasso Ciampa w/ The Embassy Ltd. [ROH World Television Championship]

Another good but not great Lethal match. This was kind of slow, but I dug the story. Ciampa is used to slowly decimating people. It takes him shorter with jobbers, but he's not really prepared for the time limit here, so he takes too long trying to soften up Lethal. when he realizes he only has five minutes or less, he kind of panics and Jay comes back. Good finishing run including A FUCKING AIR RAID CRASH ON THE APRON, and they have this amazing frantic strike exchange in the final thirty seconds before the fifteen minute time limit expires in sixteen minutes. I assume that on the big anniversary show, this is sort of a tribute to the Nigel/Black 47 minute time limit draw.
**3/4

Post-match, Ciampa hits Project Ciampa and he leaves with the TV Title.

Match #5: The Briscoes [c] vs. The Young Bucks [ROH World Tag Team Championship]
This rules, because it can't not. Two of the best teams in the world doing crazy ass spots for 13 minutes. Bucks do their control stuff, Mark has an awesome hot tag, and everything breaks down wonderfully. They've worked together a few times by now, so they have a set match and it's awesome. Not as great as their 2010 PWG brawl, but whatever. The Briscoes avoid More Bang For Your Buck, and hit the Doomsday Device to win.
***

Kevin Steen and Jimmy Jacobs come out for the match, but Steve Corino comes out before the bell can ring. He says this has gone on way too long and too far. He beat his ass at Final Battle and he hasn't wrestled since and he can't allow him to continue the madness with Jimmy Jacobs. He says it's time to move on and tells the fans that cheering Steen only makes this worse. He goes to Jimmy and says he has to stop too and there won't be a No DQ match tonight. Steen takes the microphone and says the Steve Corino he knew would have just punched his mouth for taking the mic, but he's sulking like a little girl, BUT JIMMY SUCKER PUNCHES STEEN! HE TAKES OFF HIS FUR COAT AND PANTS TO REVEAL THE BLOOD SOAKED WHITE COAT AND PANTS FROM THE AOTF DEBUT. FUCK YEAH EVIL. Corino yells at him to stop, but the bell rings, and Corino leaves.

Match #6: Kevin Steen vs. Jimmy Jacobs [No Disqualification Match]
Awesome one. This is helped a lot by being only 15ish minutes, so unlike Steen/Corino, there's less time to kill. All killer, no filler. Also, as much as I love Corino, it's 2012 and Jimmy Jacobs is better at this than he is, since he's younger and less beat up, so he can do more crazy things befitting of this feud. I've made little secret that I think the Jimmy Jacobs character arc from 2004 - 2012/13 or so (when ROH being 2010s ROH kind of halted it, although there's still kind of a line there to the present day that makes sense) is the best character evolution in wrestling history, and this is a match kind of based around that. Steen's openly cheered on Jimmy to become evil again and unlike the Corino match, there's a real sense that Steen is in actual jeopardy the more Jimmy gets violent with him. Both men take some wonderfully reckless bumps. Jimmy finally gets the spike out and busts Steen open with it, but is shocked by it. There's an explanation for this later that I don't want to spoil, but it basically paralyzes Jimmy and Steen gets a desperate low blow and then A FUCKING F5 ONTO THE TOPS OF TWO OPEN CHAIR BACKS. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. That obviously gets the win.
***1/2

Match #7: Team Ambition vs. Eddie Edwards/Adam Cole

The Davey/Eddie/Strong era is coming to an end, and this is a great tribute to that with a needlessly long 40 minutes when 20 would have sufficed. That being said, it was so much less offensive than some of the others in the past because they actually built it up well and the tag environment gave them stuff to work with so that at least half of this was great. There were also some great little touches here that I liked a lot more knowing the full storyline. Eddie keeps taking shots at Kyle but respecting Davey enough not to do that to him, and Kyle keeps insisting on using American Wolves moves, with further enrages Eddie. Adam Cole gets kind of pissy when everyone treats him like the obvious fall guy. The problem here is that the finishing run was half the match, and the crowd didn't really care about anything happening or pop for anything but the big spots, so it fell totally flat. Some cool stuff, but just SO fucking long that it kills the match for me even on a second viewing. I wouldn't even remember that the first half was really good if I hadn't made a note in here of it. In an upset, Cole beats Davey with a Flying Crossbody.
**1/4

Post-match, everyone blows each other and whatever. Except for Kyle, who is pissed and says he doesn't shake the hands of people he doesn't respect, and he doesn't respect either of them. BUT KEVIN STEEN INTERRUPTS FROM THE BALCONY AND SAYS HE DOESN'T RESPECT ANY OF THEM AND THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW WON'T END WITH A DAVEY AND FRIEND BITCHFEST. SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH, NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR THEM, THIS IS KEVIN STEEN TIME. First of all, he wishes he had a Colt 45 to shoot him right now. GET IT? #2, Young Wolves Rising is the worst name he's ever heard, and this should have been subtitled Steen Steals The Show. He says Adam and Kyle are young and cute, but he's the fucking future and everyone knows the real main event should have been Davey Richards vs. Kevin Steen for the ROH Title. He knows Davey isn't scared, but Jim Cornette is TERRIFIED of him and he's protecting him. He tells Davey to change his biggest fan's mind and until he does that, he's going to be his worst nightmare. Until then, happy anniversary to the Jiu Jitsu Jackoff. The show ends with Steen's music playing and the crowd going nuts.
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ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

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March 10th, 2012
Baltimore, MD


In a pretape, Jim Cornette says the ROH Title will be defended on both days of Showdown in the Sun. He calls the Night Two thing the BLIND DESTINY CHALLENGE, proving he is somehow the worst namer of things in ROH history. Which is truly astounding when you look at some of Gabe's show titles. Anyways, the idea is that there's three singles matches tonight and the winners will face Davey, Eddie, and Strong on the second show. Whoever leaves night one with the ROH Title will defend it on night two against their opponent.

Match #1: Jay Lethal vs. Kyle O'Reilly [Blind Destiny Challenge - Winner Faces Strong]
This is pretty horrible booking, since Kenny King is already booked for SITS night two, and it's an obvious Lethal win. Only seven minutes, so at least it's not super wasted. They did generally athletic things that were pretty okay. Nothing wrong with this so much as that there wasn't a whole lot to take away from it. Kenny tries a bridging O'Connor roll, but Lethal kicks out into a bridging waistlock pin, and gets the win.
**

In a pretape, comments air for the next match. Adam Cole says he's been trying to make a reputation for himself, and now he's done that and possibly even has a title shot against Eddie Edwards on March 30th, and says Adam Cole will not back down. Training from Joey Matthews shining through. Steen says all Cole should worry about is rebuilding his career after he destroys him tonight, because his cute little face is all between him and a possible title shot.

Match #2: Kevin Steen vs. Adam Cole [Blind Destiny Challenge - Winner Faces Edwards]
Another really fun short one. Cole does really well as the young babyface against an unstoppable force and puts forth a ton of energy and fire, but has no real shot. He also has a Tope Suicida that I really admire, as it's a perfect halfway point between recklessness and safety. He's protecting himself on it, but it looks like an actual attack and not a practiced shitty dive. Steen eventually wins with the F5.
**1/2

Steen tries the Piledriver, but Eddie Edwards runs out to save.

INSIDE ROH:
-Roderick Strong says this three way dance sucks and he's the one who deserves the title shot. He says he can beat Davey, unlike Eddie, but he doesn't know if he can do that with Eddie on his back, so he has to eliminate Eddie first and get those morons to beat each other up.
-Eddie says this isn't called for and says they should have restarted the match to get a clear winner, but Cornette's a classic promoter and figured a triple threat equals box office
-Mike Bennett says he didn't know he was a star with the old folks too and Lance Storm must be a huge fan to come back just to face him. He challenges him to come shut his mouth on March 30th, and says he'll beat him so fast that he can still catch the Early Bird Special. Well, no, that match will probably be on midcard on a show starting around 7 or 8 pm.
-A Briscoes/WGTT recap video airs

Davey Richards comes to do commentary on the next match, and says he'd prefer to face Kyle.

In a pretape, Kyle says if he wins tonight and Davey retains the title on March 30th, he'll face him with honor and won't handle it like Eddie Edwards did. Truth says nobody bets past Unbreakable Michael Elgin, and Strong says just in case something goes wrong in the triple threat, he can face Davey for the title and he'll have a backup plan.

Match #3: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Michael Elgin w/ The House of Truth [Blind Destiny Challenge - Winner Faces Richards]
This is a thing. Elgin tries to do a power/technique match, but Kyle keeps trying to do strike exchanges and bullshit terrible submission spots that he is not very good at and don't really fit where he wants to put them, so this is the worst of all the matches tonight, sort of surprisingly. Strong interferes, so Davey comes down to run him off, but Elgin hits the Spiral Bomb anyways for the win.
*3/4
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ROH World Television Champion: Jay Lethal, Since 10/1/2011

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March 17th, 2012
Baltimore, MD


The show opens with footage from the end of 10YA including Cole's win, Kyle's sort of heel turn, and Steen's promo.

In the back, Adam Cole says he's the one who pinned Davey Richards on March 4th on iPPV, and maybe Kyle's jealous that he split the team up to try and get ahead, but he's the one who made the biggest impact of all. He says what's done is done now and it doesn't matter why he's mad, but he's going to make Kyle respect him.

Match #1: Adam Cole vs. Chris Silvio
Silvio is again terrible. Kyle O'Reilly comes to do commentary, and for some reason, he's getting a TV Title shot against Lethal on March 30th. Cole wins with the Florida Key.
*1/2

Post-match, Kyle gets on the mic and challenges Cole to face him on March 31st and if he beats HIM, he'll earn his respect. Cole accepts.

A recap of Steen/Jacobs airs.

In the ring, Kelly brings out Kevin Steen and he has the tennis racket again. Steen asks if he likes his tennis racket and says it doesn't matter and says this is what he assumes Cornette's racket would look like today if he was still allowed to carry around a weapon. Steen says this concept is ironic because Cornette might be going blind because he might just win the ROH Title on Saturday against Eddie Edwards. He says sooner or later, he will be the ROH World Champion and then he'll hold the company hostage like he said he would, and he'll make Jim Cornette pay for what he did to him. He's gonna make him kiss his ass, and Cornette comes out. Cornette says he doesn't mean to interrupt him and says he doesn't have an opponent for Friday March 30th yet. Cornette says he got a message from someone he hasn't seen in 2012 yet and all it said was "LA REVANCHA", meaning The Revenge. MEANING THAT EL GENERICO IS COMING BACK FOR KEVIN STEEN. He says either Generico gets rid of him again or Steen has to piledrive Generico to beat him, and then he gets rid of Steen and he doesn't make it another night. Steen asks if he's done yet and says all that's going to do is he's going to take out El Generico again. Steen says he'll take out anyone and everyone in his way, and that includes him, and he dick taps Cornette with the racket before leaving.

INSIDE ROH:
-Lance Storm accepts and says words
-Davey Richards says he used to team with both Strong and Eddie and he knows them better than anyone, and then he's got a special treat for Michael Elgin, and he's walking out of March still as the champion. Davey says in this sport, he's been perfect as champion, and someone will take this when they walk through hell and pry it from his cold dead fingers
-The Briscoes says they don't like WGTT and they don't like us. They used to wrestle makeshift tag teams to make money, but they came up a different path. Now they've seen what a real tag team is like and they couldn't handle that shot. The thing that gets them is the principle of the thing with the handcuffs and now somebody's getting carried out.

A video airs explaining the latest ROH gimmick. It's an eight man tournament called March Mayhem. There's four singles matches and then a four way in the finals. Each man put up $1500 and the winner will get all $24,000. This one makes the most sense of all the money angles, since it's not the company's money. Still though, it's horrible and clearly bullshit that nobody buys into and everyone kinda resents.

Match #2: Jay Lethal vs. Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini [March Mayhem]
This is absolutely a match. It's not offensive in any way, but it is in no way a standout match or features really anything notworthy. They do things and Roddy takes over with cheating and then Lethal comes back and they do moves. This feels like if ROH had agents to lay out matches, they would just write [PRO WRESTLING MATCH] underneath this. Elgin comes out to help, but Roddy accidentally runs into him on the apron, and Lethal rolls him up for the win.
**1/2
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