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| Big Tuna | Jul 18 2014, 11:42 PM Post #41 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Roderick Strong, Since 3/31/2012 ROH Wrestling June 16th, 2012 Baltimore, MD In the back, Eddie Edwards says he's seen the tapes and he now thinks Jimmy Jacobs did enough last week to give him the opening to beat Davey Richards, and he's declining to accept the victory, and says it's a no contest in his mind. TONIGHT: STRONG/CIAMPA FOR THE TV TITLE Match #1: Mike Bennett w/ Maria & Bob Evans vs. Adam Page Bennett squash. Horrible. I like Page alright, but he's not good enough to overcome PORDIGY. Bennett wins with the TKO. 1/2* They stay on the attack, but Eddie Edwards runs out to save. Bennett bails and he gets on the mic. He says he couldn't beat him or any former champion and says he can't even beat Brutal Bob and challenges him to fight Bob next week, and Eddie accepts. Steen, Corino, and Jacobs come out, and Corino has the mic. He says there's nothing more upsetting than a company that doesn't treat their World Champion right. BELIEVE HIM, HE SHOULD KNOW. Corino says it's not a problem exclusive to ROH and it's going on everywhere right now and it's a GOSH DARN shame that Cornette ignores Kevin Steen's requests. He passes the mic off to Steen and says Cornette listens a little bit, because he's at least got himself and Jimmy Jacobs against Team Ambition next week, but that won't soften him up. Steen says he wants his Piledriver legal in NYC after Davey's said to bring whatever he wants. Steen says he also wants that Anything Goes stipulation. He says once he takes Davey Richards out for good, Cornette will realize that this isn't about being the best in the world, it's about a hostage crisis. Gotta fit in that tagline, I guess. Match #2: The Briscoes vs. Jobbers Good Briscoes showcase, at least, even if they're being wasted for the most part. Truth Martini comes on commentary and they ask if Roddy was ever supposed to wrestle Ciampa and Nigel says there's a rumor that Strong asked him to make sure he never wrestles Ciampa. Truth denies it and hypes up his Guardians of Truth. Jay hits his awesome Chokeslam again. Doomsday Device ends it. *1/2 Post-match, Truth gets on the mic and says he won't be ignored. They accept his horrible challenge. In the back, Veda asks Nana and RD Evans about recent Embassy/HoT dealings. Evans says Ciampa is very rigid as to his career goals and says his very busy client has another place to be, and quickly leads Nana off as she tries to ask about the House of Truth. INSIDE ROH: -Fit Finlay says he's heard that Mike Elgin is so powerful and unstoppable, but everything stops when Fit Finlay gets in his face, and he's going to find out what he's made of -Jay Lethal says this is ridiculous and everyone knows both Nana and Truth are crooked. He's not worried about managers though, he's worried about his two opponents and he's going to become the new Television Champion. -Davey Richards says he's thinking about revenge and he won't whine about Toronto, but he wants Steen to feel like he felt when he loses everything. He then points to Kyle O'Reilly next to him and says he needs to think about redemption because he's become a whiner lately. He says next week, they make them pay with action, and Kyle says he's with him. Match #3: Roderick Strong [c] vs. Tommaso Ciampa [ROH World Television Championship] Embassy Ltd. and Truth are ringside. This is heel vs. heel, so the crowd is kind of dead. They do a back and forth slugfest and while they're clearly saving for a future match or something, it's still good enough to break the two star barrier barely. Ciampa hits hard and Strong is good enough to be average. RD Evans distracts the ref as Nana gets in. Strong pushes him away and it lets Ciampa hit him with Project Ciampa. He has the cover, but Nana then attacks Strong for the DQ. ** Ciampa is livid and they again tease collusion with the House of Truth paying off The Embassy to keep the belt on Strong, unbeknownst to Ciampa. I am not looking forward to the matches, but the storyline is good. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 19 2014, 12:39 AM Post #42 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Roderick Strong, Since 3/31/2012 ROH Wrestling June 23rd, 2012 Baltimore, MD Match #1: Eddie Edwards vs. Bob Evans w/ Mike Bennett & Maria This sure happens. Bob does a bunch of basic stuff that's whatever and you can totally see now why PORDIGY is horrible if this is his trainer. Eddie eventually puts on the Achilles Lock, but Bennett interferes to break it. Eddie wins with a backslide anyways. 3/4* Bennett attacks Eddie post-match and Evans helps. Homicide runs out to help and he runs off Bennett and company. Eddie is pissed at the save, and they shake hands. BUT HOMICIDE KICKS HIM AND HITS THE COP KILLA. FUCK YEAH THE OLD HOMICIDE. A hype video airs for Strong/Lethal/Ciampa. Match #2: Jay Lethal vs. Chris Silvio Silvio is again one of the top five worst wrestlers that regularly works for ROH and this goes on forever. Truth Martini comes out to watch, and then Prince Nana and RD Evans do too, and all three talk at points. Lethal finally ends this fucking match with the Lethal Injection. 1/2* Post-match, Tommaso Ciampa comes out and he shoves Truth out of the way. Roderick Strong comes out after that and they start to fight. Both men come in and Lethal joins the fight and it cuts away. INSIDE ROH: -Truth teases the Guardians of Truth again -The Briscoes say Truth is a Willy Wonka looking bitch and he's queerer than a three dollar belt. Mark says they ain't scared and Jay says in New York City, they're gonna whoop them some ass, no matter what -There will be a live PRODIGY SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT -It's announced that the Anything Goes and Piledriver stipulations will be legal for Best in the World Match #3: Team Ambition vs. Kevin Steen/Jimmy Jacobs Steve Corino again joins commentary, and again destroys this body image issue by mentioning that Samoa Joe is beloved as an ROH icon and former champion. He again comes off as a face by saying he won't call Steen the best champion ever, but he's different than any other champion and gives props to Nigel, Joe, Danielson, Punk, etc., AND SAYS THE TITLE HASN'T MEANT THIS MUCH SINCE NIGEL DROPPED IT. THE CORINO/LYNN FEUD WILL NEVER DIE. They do a slightly out of control tag to put over the title match, and it's pretty good. Steen and Davey tumble onto the timekeeper's table and then Kyle and Jimmy fall off the top through it, and the ref calls it a no contest. **3/4 Post-match, Steen and Davey have a pull apart. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 19 2014, 06:02 PM Post #43 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: WGTT, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Roderick Strong, Since 3/31/2012 ![]() ROH BEST IN THE WORLD: SAUSAGE CRISIS JUNE 24TH, 2012 HAMMERSTEEN BALLROOM NEW YORK, NY Match #1: The Briscoes vs. The Headbangers w/ Truth Martini They're under masks as the Guardians of Truth, sure. But I don't want anyone reading this to forget that Jim Cornette tried to bring in the fucking Headbangers in 2012. The crowd knows it because the news broke before the show and chant "MOSH AND THRASHER". They are AWFUL. The kind of awful that you rarely see where they're both old AND there's no quality there mentally or experience wise. It's two awful guys who then got old and slower and sloppier to complement their natural badness. The Briscoes don't even get to run through them, instead getting a victory roll for the win. The Briscoes' punishment for their destruction of Cornette's dream of WGTT as top faces continues. 3/4* Truth runs away before the Briscoes can get him. Match #2: Eddie Edwards vs. Homicide This is great! In his prime, Homicide was great at under 15 minute sprints and was really good at escalation and laying out matches to build up well even if there wasn't a lot more to them than a bunch of cool moves. Eddie in the 2010s is the same way, and Homicide seems to try and they have a great 12-13 minute movefest. Homicide peppers in some work on the taped up arm of Eddie and he sells well. Homicide goes back to it with an elbow at the end, AND HITS THE COP KILLA FOR THE WIN WHOA! *** Match #3: Adam Cole vs. Kyle O'Reilly [HYBRID FIGHTING RULES] Kyle has a knee taped up and they say he tweaked it training with Davey. It becomes a thing in the match and Cole has some good work on the knee, including the Missile Dropkick to the knee, which is always such a cool spot. Kyle goes for the arm, but then the match changes when Adam's mouth is busted up and he loses a tooth and it becomes a bloodbath. The crowd wakes the fuck up in a major way as Cole shows a bunch of toughness and shit. This is what I meant with the Mondo thing, where you can't manufacture a breakout moment like this. Cole does a super cool thing too when he comes back. ![]() Kyle steals Hero's kick/forearm/Saito Suplex spot, but he sort of sells the leg enough for me. The blood is enough that it makes sense as kind of a "restart" spot where the match totally changes. Kyle obviously would abandon the minimal arm stuff he did to go after the new weak point, and Cole is pissed about the blood and fired up and wants to kill. Some awesome strike stuff and Cole brings the Superkickery. They then go back to submission stuff weirdly, and Cole wins with the Figure Four. This was flawed because of the weird switch back at the end, but when the match doesn't allow for pins, they didn't have a lot of choice. The blood that made this also kind of held it back too, but I liked this JUST enough to drop three, because it's a fairly important thing and great moment. *** In the back earlier, Michael Elgin tells Truth and Strong to stay in the back and says he doesn't need them out there tonight. Match #4: Fit Finlay vs, Michael Elgin This is another weird Finlay match. Based on what I've read from Elgin's interviews about it since, Finlay refuses to work a slugfest with someone this much thicker and bigger than him because he doesn't think it makes a lot of sense. So he spends a lot of the match on the mat trying to break Elgin down instead of what the fans wanted from this. This also had to follow a total spectacle and be in front of shitty ROH fans, so it got "BORING" chants. Finlay grounds him for the first half, so Elgin's breaking through to hit power stuff feels like a victory. Finlay then gets mean and nasty with control. They then do stuff and Elgin hits the Buckle Bomb and Spiral Bomb for the win. **3/4 Post-match, Truth comes out to celebrate and Finlay and Elgin shake hands. Truth is mad at this, but Elgin stares him down, so he shuts up. Mike Bennett & Co. come out to the ring to say stuff. He talks bad about New York and glorifies Boston because he's the worst. Mike Mondo comes out to turn face. They have a terrible brawl and a match breaks out. Match #5: Mike Mondo vs. Mike Bennett This happens for maybe fiveish minutes and is not good. Bennett takes over and it's another really terrible PORDIGY control segment. The crowd does not give even a little bit of a fuck about this, despite the entire angle being about someone standing up for NYC. Mondo gets a cradle to win. Terrible terrible match. 1/2* Match #6: Roderick Strong [c] vs. Tommaso Ciampa vs. Jay Lethal [ROH World Television Championship - Three Way Dance] Truth and The Embassy ltd. are both there. This was the Strong/Lethal special, as it was very good and a solid match, but not quite great. Ciampa tries hard too, but isn't really good enough to overcome it when Strong and Lethal don't really feel like having a great match and are just doing stuff until the booking happens. Lethal is on the floor and scares Nana and Nana rolls in to escape, but accidentally rolls into Ciampa's legs to trip him and Strong cradles Ciampa to eliminate him! Martini then hits Lethal with the book and Strong hits the Death by Roderick for the win. **3/4 Match #7: WGTT [c] vs. The All Night Express [ROH World Tag Team Championship] This is where ANX finally win the belts and it's roughly 6-12 months overdue. That doesn't mean it's good though, BECAUSE HOLY FUCK, IT'S A 23 MINUTE WGTT MATCH. Haas and Benjamin are good at non-wrestling heeling and basic cheating and don't seem to care about the actual work again, so this really just fucking blows. They even fuck up the only way this might be good, as they isolate King and then fucking Rhett has to do the hot tag and it's really bad. He gets busted open with the title and they tease another stoppage finish, but Rhett refuses. It drags on again and King is back in to take out Shelton, and Rhett awkwardly schoolboys Haas to win the titles. In a classic piece of what Cornette era ROH was all about, they gave the fans what they wanted a year ago, but now nobody cares about ANX because Rhett's knee injury ruined him and they were kneecapped by horrible booking for the last nine months, and then on top of that, gave them the titles in the most boring and non-definitive way ever with a fluke roll up. This is the worst ROH Tag Title switch ever. 3/4* Steve Corino comes out to the ringside area and he sits down for commentary, and Jim Cornette then comes out to sit ringside too. Kyle isn't with Davey Richards, but he comes out to the ring and he gets the mic. Kyle says apparently Davey didn't like how he handled losing to Adam Cole, and says he's the reason Adam is getting stitches and he broke his pretty little fact. He says he's not stabbing Davey in the back, but he's stabbing him in the fucking eye because he respects him. All he'll ever look like is Davey's bitch if he stays at his side, but he's nobody's fucking lackey. No more Team Ambition, and he tells NYC to kiss his ass. Corino yells and asks if he kisses Davey with that mouth. Match #8: Kevin Steen [c] w/ Jimmy Jacobs vs. Davey Richards [ROH World Championship - Anything Goes] This is awesome, since Davey is surprisingly good at brawls and Steen is Steen. They do a bunch of cool stuff that builds up well, and Corino is incredible on commentary airing out just about every piece of dirty laundry he can, talking about how Grizzly Redwood was quietly let go, how they wouldn't let Nigel have a retirement match, how Corino and Jacobs are the only two without contracts in ROH, etc. They play up that Davey is basically the heel to everyone as he antagonizes the crowd and is more brutal than Steen at points. He snaps after he can't win AND HITS THE SPIN KICK SINCLAIR'S GUT. FUCK YEAH? Steen comes back with the F5 and another ref comes out, but Davey kicks out, AND STEEN HITS THE SECOND REF WITH THE PACKAGE PILEDRIVER. Davey fights back again, and Jacobs comes in with the spike. Cornette stops him and takes it, BUT CORINO GETS UP AND LOW BLOWS CORNETTE. CORINO STARTS STOMPING THE SHIT OUT OF CORNETTE ON THE FLOOR. Steen grabs that spike, and Jimmy gets a second. Davey cuts him off and grabs it, BUT STEEN USES THE FIRST SPIKE ON DAVEY'S GROIN. PACKAGE PILEDRIVER FOR THE WIN. ***1/4 Post-match, Steen gets the microphone. He says he's been waiting a long time to be in this building as the ROH World Champion and says he can't stand hypocritical people like Jim Cornette. Steen says he's been a hypocrite too and he needed to be in order to get a match with him, so he could win this. Steen says all the stuff he said about him was a lie and says he works harder than anyone knows, and the most hypocritical people are the fans. The crowd cheers. God damnit. Steen says New York has turned on every champion since Nigel McGuinness and now they love him, but it can't last, and they can't turn on him because he doesn't give a shit and he used them. He says he's going to be the last ROH Champion because they're going to kill ROH and when he said "fuck ROH", what he meant was "fuck New York City". So basically, they did that to try and force people to boo Steen, and the crowd saw through it and kept cheering for everything. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 19 2014, 06:04 PM Post #44 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Roderick Strong, Since 3/31/2012 ROH Wrestling June 30th, 2012 Charlottesburg, WV Davey vs. Mondo is shown. They advertise a 7/27-28 weekend in the Carolinas that got canceled due to low ticket sales. Again, that touring plan is failing magnificently. Clips air of Cole winning the four way and winning a TV Title shot. Jay vs. Haas closes the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 19 2014, 09:22 PM Post #45 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Roderick Strong, Since 3/31/2012 ![]() ROH Live Strong June 30th, 2012 Belle Vernon, PA Before the opener, Kyle takes the mic. He says he did NOT tap out to Adam Cole and that couldn't ever happen. He says he broke his face and sent him to the hospital and he's proud of that, and that means he's the real winner. Match #1: Jay Lethal vs. Kyle O'Reilly Corino is on commentary with someone who isn't Kevin Kelly, so this is the best commentary since 2010 when Kelly showed up and we got some Prazak action. This is neither great nor horrible, because it is a Jay Lethal match. Kyle has some good arm work and cool counters into holds, but Jay doesn't give a fuck about selling. They do more stuff, and Lethal wins with the Lethal Injection. **1/2 That cocksucker ROH CEO/president/whatever Joe Koff comes out and brings out Bruno Sammartino to get a standing ovation and get a plaque or something. They had him do autographs before the show and it's pretty much an attendance grab that worked out alright. Koff then puts over the sponsors and gets booed. Awesome. Match #2: Adam Cole vs. Pepper Parks What the fuck, Parks is still a thing? Cole does stuff with him and this is like ten minutes and probably five too long. Parks isn't really anything special or a guy who will stay around, and with Adam Cole on the rise, he should have easily handled him. Whatever, at least he wins. Cole finally puts him away with the Florida Key. *3/4 Match #3: Kenny King vs. Mike Mondo vs. Mike Sydal vs. Mike Bennett w/ Maria Disappointingly, ROH fans don't start a LETS GO MIKE chant. Mike Sydal still sucks, but he's about as good as Bennett, which is a sad commentary. Mondo tries way too hard, and King is a guy. They do some stuff, and Mondo/King was at least solid. Mondo beats Sydal with a Butterfly Implant DDT. *1/2 Match #4: Eddie Edwards vs. Tommaso Ciampa w/ The Embassy Ltd. This finally rules. Ciampa is also only with RD and Mia, so no Nana tonight. Ciampa is not a complete wrestler (neither is Eddie, but he's closer), but he can hit really hard and has some nice offense, and Eddie builds a quality fifteen minutes around that and makes a nice slugfest happen. Eddie's really taken over the old Daniels/Claudio/Generico/Sydal type role as the most consistent wrestler in ROH. Mia is digging on Evans with Nana gone. Ciampa gets to show off some new stuff and has Eddie's finishers scouted, so Eddie breaks out a Gedo Clutch for the win. *** In the back, Veda interviews BJ Whitmer. He says he's best known for a long and bloody feud with Jimmy Jacobs, but he doesn't like what that feud brought out of either of them and who Jimmy Jacobs has become since then. He says that feud took years off his career, and he had to take a few years off to recover, and he can't do it again. He says he's back now for good, and this feud has to be behind him once and for all. Match #5: Jimmy Jacobs vs. BJ Whitmer So naturally upon the reignition of one of the best feuds of all time and top 3 in ROH history, ROH totally fails to capitalize and runs a 10 minute held back normal match with a non-finish and then they barely meet until the present day. Corino officially dubs them all as SCUM here. They still do well in a normal kind of match, and BJ escapes the Front Guillotine by tumbling over the top in a nasty bump on the apron and to the floor. They get up and Jimmy slides in at 18, but Steen comes out to stop BJ, so Jacobs wins by count out. **1/2 Post-match, the heels leave and BJ says he's not done. Apparently he is. Match #6: Rhett Titus vs. Charlie Haas This is TERRIBLE. These two somehow get 15 minutes and Haas wastes all of it by being the most boring man that ever wrestled. He does nothing and somehow makes it even worse than you might think, and Rhett still sucks. It's made worse against Haas who does nothing interesting and makes no attempt to help Rhett out with his problems. Haas tries to use the tag title belt and a chair and when the ref gets rid of the belt, Haas hits a DDT on the chair to win. Right, fuck actually making the champs look strong, I guess. 3/4* Match #7: The Briscoes vs. Michael Elgin/Rhino w/ Truth Martini The Briscoes finally get to have a great match again after like 2-3 months. The Briscoes start hot with flying around and trying to avoid the power, and then get caught. Rhino looks pretty good, but Elgin does the bulk of the work and shows off all his cool power spots. Mark has a sweet hot tag and they do more cool stuff, like Elgin's insane Double Alabama Slam. Rhino blindsides Mark Briscoe with the Gore for the win! YEAH! *** Match #8: Kevin Steen [c] vs. Roderick Strong [ROH World Championship] Jacobs and Truth are both on the floor. This is awesome and Strong immediately goes after Steen, but he goes after Roddy's hand. Strong sells the hand really well when he comes back and they have the fun finishing run that this match up usually produces. Strong hits his flurry of the Death by Roderick and Sick Kick, but Steen kicks out. He tries the End of Heartache, but Steen lifts him up instead and hits the F5 to win. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 19 2014, 09:27 PM Post #46 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Roderick Strong, Since 3/31/2012 ROH Wrestling July 7th, 2012 Charleston, WV Jay Lethal vs. Michael Elgin airs. DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR X: SEPTEMBER 15TH ON IPPV! Steen vs. Edwards closes the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 19 2014, 10:51 PM Post #47 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Roderick Strong, Since 3/31/2012 ROH Wrestling July 14th, 2012 New York, NY Elgin vs. Finlay airs first. The TV Title match is next. Highlights of Steen/Davey II air to end the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 20 2014, 12:59 AM Post #48 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Roderick Strong, Since 3/31/2012 ![]() ROH Brew City Beatdown July 14th, 2012 Milwaukee, WI Match #1: Rhett Titus vs. Mike Sydal Kenny King has left by this point to go to TNA, but it hasn't happened on TV yet, so I'm not acknowledging it because I like the proper order. Anyways, Sydal is now wearing leather and is "Rock and Roll" Mike Sydal. He is still horrible, and Rhett is also the shits. This goes like ten fucking minutes and is so boring and dull and awkward. Rhett wins with a Brainbuster. 3/4* Match #2: Jay Lethal vs. Mike Mondo "Mr. Two Stars" Jay Lethal strikes again with a super average match. But in 2012, that puts him in the top half of ROH talents, sadly. Mondo does alright and they have a match that happens and consists of professional wrestling. Mondo tries the fake knee injury thing that doesn't work and means nothing again, and Lethal wins with the Lethal Injection shortly thereafter. Which again, why even bother if it means nothing to the match or result? **1/4 Match #3: Tony Kozina/Shiloh Jones/Adam Revolver vs. Samson Walker/Chris Silvio/Mohamad Ali Vaez You could hear a pin drop during this. All Cornette's bland OVW favorites get to be in a match together for like fifteen minutes, and Tony Kozina is the sole decent wrestler in the ring and -- actually, nah. Fuck this match. Before the next match, Kyle again gets on the mic. He repeats his points from Live Strong on how he never tapped out, now adding that he was slapping his knee to try and get the circulation back, and he did what he came to New York City to do, and that's send Adam Cole to the hospital. Match #4: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Tadarius Thomas This is TD's debut, and while he eventually looks better, I thought this kind of sucked. Thomas has some good matwork but this is basically a PWG match, in a bad way. They do good mat stuff but abandon it to do super even strike exchanges and highspots, disregarding much of a flow or story. I know Tadarius can do high flying stuff too, but this match makes him look like a Kyle clone, and Kyle's already a shitty clone of Davey. Generic kicking and hard striking and armbar type stuff. Thomas had cool punch and kick combos to the body and legs and did Kyle's thing, but did it properly and in a way that looked like actual fighting and not a dude trying to look like a MMA fighter. Kyle wins with a Fujiwara Armbar. ** Post-match, Kyle refuses to let go. Referees and Tony Kozina come out to break it and Kyle lets go. He then puts Tony Kozina in the armbar for a while. This does more harm than good to his heel reaction, since nobody really likes Kozina. This would be a great heel turn if Kyle didn't fucking suck. Match #5: BJ Whitmer vs. Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini Whitmer continues his weird sort of hot streak by dragging out the old Roddy for 12 minutes. They have a huge slugfest with lots of chopping and forearming that's all really great. Strong takes over, but they jump back into the finishing run a little early and this doesn't really get to develop as organically as I might have liked. Still, lots of good stuff happening and BJ still has some great high impact stuff. Truth hits BJ with the book to the back and Roddy hits the Sick Kick for the win. **3/4 Before the next match, Elgin sends Truth to the back. In the back, Silas Young says he's the last real man in professional wrestling. He has a great look with the mustache and the crazy eyes and unkempt chest hair and really looks the part. But he has a pretty bad lisp that ruins it. It's unfortunate, it'd be great otherwise. And also if he was more than an average wrestler. Match #6: Michael Elgin vs. Silas Young This is the best Silas match I've ever seen. They basically just do a bunch of stuff, but Elgin manages to build up Silas throughout the match so by the end, it's actually almost believable that Silas could pull off the huge upset. Both guys hit really hard and yeah. When I talk about WGTT or whoever not really giving the local guys anything, this is the opposite as Elgin goes out of his way to try and help Silas get a job. Elgin eventually hits the Buckle Bomb and then the Spiral Bomb for the win. *** Post-match, Truth comes out to celebrate, and sends Elgin off before bringing Rhino out. Match #7: Eddie Edwards vs. Rhino w/ Truth Martini Corino does an awesome hype job for Rhino on commentary and says he knows Rhino better than anyone including Rhino himself, and says he can say he's a hired gun, but what Rhino wants most is a fresh group of bodies to destroy and things to win and conquer. He also says he made sure even as a fan favorite away from The Network to stay away from Rhino, and Rhino is the one man he ever feared in ECW and is the one man he's worried about Kevin Steen facing, because while he knows how to plan for Rhino after studying him for 13 years, it might result in permanent injury to Steen. Corino is basically talking Rhino into being the most dangerous man in wrestling AGAIN. Anyways, this ruled. Rhino controlled well, and Eddie again has a great match. Finishing run totally rules. Eddie has a great Tope Suicida and they had great nearfalls and shit. Eddie gets the Achilles Lock on, but he lets go to Superkick Truth down to the floor, and he turns around into the Gore, and Rhino wins in kind of an upset. *** In the back, Kevin Steen and Jimmy Jacobs cut a promo. Jacobs does a killer Jay Briscoe impression and keeps yelling SINCE DAY ONE. Steen says they have a lot of history with the Briscoes and says he remembers Jay bleeding all over Jimmy after he hung him, and Jimmy yells SINCE DAY ONE SIXTY ONE. AMAZING CALLBACK. Steen says it doesn't matter what day it started, and says they were all born to fight each other. Steen says he doesn't know how to end it and tells Jimmy to show them his balls. Jimmy lifts his kilt/skirt/dress up to reveal his trunks and pulls the camera into his dick before it cuts out. Match #8: The Briscoes vs. Kevin Steen/Jimmy Jacobs This ruled too! Surprisingly good show in the second half. They basically spend the first five minutes on a crazy brawl that becomes too much for the referee to handle, so it gets thrown out as a double count out when they won't get back in the ring. Cornette comes out and makes it an Anything Goes match. Then it's two of the best singles brawlers in ROH history vs. the best brawling tag team in ROH history. Of course that's not fair, the Briscoes can be the best anything team in ROH history as the possible best tag team of their generation. MARK IMMEDIATELY HITS A FUCKING KILLER FLIP DIVE AND THE MATCH IS INSANE. Mark and Jimmy fight off to the back AND THEN MARK SHOWS BACK UP IN THE BALCONY. JAY PUTS STEEN ON A TABLE, AND MARK JUMPS OFF AND INTO THE RING WITH A SPLASH THROUGH THE TABLE HOLY SHIT. Jacobs comes back out with the spike, but Jay hits the Jay Driller for the win, which is okay because anything goes means Piledrivers are fair. *** Post-match, Steen hits them both with the title belt. He goes for the Package Piledriver on Mark, but Rhett Titus of all people runs out to save, and the faces run off SCUM. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 20 2014, 01:37 AM Post #49 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Roderick Strong, Since 3/31/2012 ROH Wrestling July 21st, 2012 Baltimore, MD Match #1: Eddie Edwards/Adam Cole vs. Mike Bennett/Bob Evans w/ Maria During the introductions, they announce that Cole gets his TV Title shot next week. This is very much a thing that happens and Cole beats Bob with his Crossbody off the top. *1/2 Post-match, Maria slaps Cole, and Sara Del Rey runs out to return and run off Maria! TONIGHT: STEEN DEFENDS THE TITLE AGAINST AN UNNAMED OPPONENT! That's hardly fair and another booking thing that makes Steen come off as even more of a babyface up against a corrupt machine. A recap of Cole/Kyle at BITW airs. In two weeks, Bennett/Storm III happens and it's the final time. Okay. Match #2: WGTT vs. Matt Saigon/Damien Dragon Terrible WGTT squash again. Haas beats one of them with the Angle Slam. 1/2* Post-match, Haas gets the mic and says that was a fluke at Best in the World, and demands a rematch. In the back, Veda asks Jim Cornette who the challenger is. Cornette says he's also been going outside ROH for challengers and says Homicide will get a shot soon, but not tonight, because he wants people with killer instinct. He says he's bringing someone for August 11th to face Steen that he knows real well too, but he can't announce it just yet. Mike Mondo comes over and wants the shot and yells cliches and Cornette starts cackling. Important to note that you can't see his hands and the shot is from the chest up, so given his super crush on Mondo, something's happening. ![]() Cornette gives him the shot. On the way to the ring, Steen takes the mic and says Mondo hasn't beaten anyone who matters and he went to a draw with the guy he beat twice, but Cornette is so desperate that you don't even have to win matches to get a title shot anymore. Match #3: Kevin Steen [c] w/ Jimmy Jacobs vs. Mike Mondo [ROH World Championship] Steen does the best he can, and this isn't bad. It's pretty basic as they try SUPER hard to get the crowd into Mondo by having him do the countout tease to total silence and he SHOWS HEART~ and BRINGS THE FIRE~ and it just...whatever. It's super obvious and forced and it's again Cornette totally misunderstanding what will work and what won't with his crowd. Steen wins with the F5. **3/4 Steen and Jacobs keep on the attack, BUT EDDIE KINGSTON COMES OUT TO SAVE WHAT?! He gets into a pull apart with Jacobs and Steen, and when they leave, he runs off and hits a wonderful fat man Tope Suicida to end the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 20 2014, 02:11 AM Post #50 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Roderick Strong, Since 3/31/2012 ROH Wrestling July 28th, 2012 Baltimore, MD TONIGHT: STRONG/COLE FOR THE TV TITLE! Match #1: Rhino w/ Truth Martini vs. Rocco Abruzzi RHINO KILLS. LARIATS. BELLY TO BELLY. GORE. * Post-match, Tommaso Ciampa storms out and The Embassy Ltd. tries to stop him. He throws RD Evans and Nana into the ring. He keeps Truth in the ring too, and he grabs the mic and says he wants his answers now and he knows something's up. Truth tells Nana he'll tell him and reveals that part of the Rhino's contract purchase was also him buying off Ciampa's refusal to challenge Strong for the TV Title. Ciampa is livid and Rhino and Truth quickly leave. Ciampa said they screwed him and RD says it was all Nana and he told him not to! OH FUCK. BETRAYAL. CIAMPA GRABS NANA AND HITS HIM WITH PROJECT CIAMPA, AND EVANS STAYS IN HIS CORNER FOR THE NEXT MATCH. So many WCW ideas from this. ![]() Coming back, Nana is taken to the back. Match #2: Tommaso Ciampa w/ RD Evans vs. Mike Sydal Another quality Ciampa squashing. He unloads with DEM KNEES and forearms and wins with Project Ciampa. *3/4 featured Kelly conducting an in-ring interview with ROH Tag Team Champions Kenny King & Rhett Titus regarding the recent comments of Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas, with King saying they were cowards that tried to kill Titus at Best in the World; Titus then said their celebration was cut short in New York City but he was bringing it to Baltimore; moments later, Benjamin & Haas interrupted and took the mic from Kelly, with Benjamin saying their title win was a fluke and offered them a rematch or a chance to just hand the belts to them; King then said they had 10 minutes to spare and challenged them then and there, with Benjamin immediately backing off, citing it wouldn't be a sanctioned title match; moments later, Haas jumped Titus, with King fighting him off until Benjamin hit King over the head with a steel chair and then assaulted Titus with the chair as well; security soon followed but Benjamin laid them out one by one; Benjamin then attempted to hit Titus with the chair before Haas pulled him away, with Haas then yelling at Titus as the show went to commercial INSIDE ROH: -Steen vs. Kingston is officially made for 8/11 at Boiling Point -They do a big thing building up Kingston and say he's a former dockworker and union labor guy who was originally suspended from ROH in early 2010 following a number of incidents. They show clips from the super violent Kingston/Hero blowoff at Final Battle 2009. -Eddie Edwards & SDR vs. Bennett & Maria is also booked for Boiling Point -With all this build, it's turned into an iPPV Match #3: Roderick Strong [c] w/ Truth Martini vs. Adam Cole [ROH World Television Championship] This was great too, but more on a sliding scale. There's no wasted time and Strong does a bunch of super painful stuff to Cole on the apron and on the floor and hits super hard with dem chops and a few nice knees. Cole's selling could be better, but they also managed to get a bunch of really dramatic nearfalls in that I loved and had a killer finishing run. Truth waves Elgin out from the back, but he refuses to help. Cole hits a Superkick and then the Florida Key, and he wins the title! *** |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 20 2014, 02:50 PM Post #51 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling August 4th, 2012 Baltimore, MD Match #1: The Briscoes vs. The Headbangers w/ Truth Martini Part of being out of touch with your audience is not fully understanding when they hate something. Which means that OF COURSE Cornette brought back the fucking Headbangers. The Briscoes take enough crazy bumps and are great enough on offense to make this good enough to at least get on the board. That's honestly upsetting, because that means the Headbangers get points for the first time since like 1999. the best part of this is ROH finally doing a scroll on screen listing upcoming live events. The Briscoes still need a cradle to beat THE FUCKING HEADBANGERS. *1/4 Post-match, Roderick Strong and Rhino come out to attack and it's 4 on 2. Jay Lethal, Adam Cole, and Cedric/Caprice run down and run off the House of Truth. In a pretape, SCUM cuts a promo. Steen says he and Eddie Kingston are a lot alike and he was also ran out of ROH for being fat and aggressive and not what Cornette wants, but he actually did change, and turned down his offer. I LOVE the idea that Kingston was able to actually rehab himself because he didn't have to deal with Jim Cornette all the time and while CHIKARA is bullshit, it's a much more healthy atmosphere. Kevin Steen says he's going to kick his ass and send him back to CHIKARA to cry for all his fake animal friends. In the ring, Kevin Kelly brings out Eddie Kingston for an interview. He asks Kevin to leave the ring and takes the mic. He says for ten years, he's struggled to become a World Champion and he's hurt everyone in his family and women who he's loved to eventually become a champion. On August 11th on Rhode Island, he will have his opportunity to make it all worthwhile. The CHIKARA belt is defended in just as many places as the ROH Title, so this is kind of bullshit. ROH hasn't had it defended in Japan since 2008, so that part hardly counts. I'm fairly open to the idea of this and as long as it's defended around the country and maybe in Canada or Mexico, you can call it a world title. CHIKARA doesn't have the word "world" in it, but if they did, it would be okay. Anyways, Eddie says he's going to show off the belt to his family who told him he was an idiot for going after wrestling. He's going to show it to his ex-wife who he when she tried to make him choose, and say he still loves her, but this is what it was for. AND HE'S GOING TO DO IT FOR LARRY SWEENEY. FUCK YEAH. And then he's bringing the title to his son, show him his two titles, and say if you sacrifice and fight, you can accomplish any dream. Eddie Kingston is the best fucking promo. INSIDE ROH: -A recap of the Ciampa/Embassy stuff, and Kelly says RD Evans is now officially the sole manager of Ciampa -RIP The Embassy/The Embassy Ltd. -After last week, Shelton Benjamin has been suspended and fined, and a third offense will see his firing -A recap of the TV Title switch airs -Next week will see SCUM vs. Lethal & ANX Match #2: Lance Storm vs. Mike Bennett w/ Maria & Bob Evans This absolutely happens again. I have the same complaints about this that I did about their other matches. It doesn't matter how smooth and crisp Storm still is or how good his ideas are, because he's not a good enough babyface seller to make a PORDIGY control segment anything but the fucking death of a match personified. He works on the arm and Storm isn't a very good seller. Bennett wins with the TKO onto a chair to no response. It's been a year and a half and STILL nobody cares. *3/4 Post-match, Team PORDIGY keeps attacking but Eddie Edwards and Sara Del Rey run out to save. I'm not excited for the tag, and now all I'm thinking is how great Eddie/Lance would have been for one of these last matches. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 20 2014, 03:40 PM Post #52 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling August 11th, 2012 Baltimore, MD The show opens with video of Kyle's speech at BITW. Match #1: Kyle O'Reilly vs. Matt Taven Basic showcase for the new heelish Kyle. Some good stuff, some bad, but Kyle's begun his real slide towards being one of the worst in the world, as he is possibly in 2014. He wins with a Fujiwara Armbar. *1/4 On commentary, they discuss Davey's absence and Nigel says he had to step away too after losing the title, as did Bryan Danielson and other champions in the past, so that's what Davey is doing. Match #2: Rhino w/ Truth Martini vs. Todd Sople Rhino squashes are once again the best. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE ends it in about a minute again. * Post-match, Truth gets on the mic and says these rumblings are all rumors and Elgin and Strong still work together, and he will prove it next. Match #3: Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini vs. The Bravado Brothers This is more of a story than a match, but they did a solid job with it. Strong tries to make Elgin do all the work and Elgin then tags out. Strong has some trouble, but he eventually handles it, and now Elgin refuses the tag and walks down the apron. Strong is distracted, and a Bravado rolls him up for the upset. *3/4 INSIDE ROH: -Jay Briscoe says last week was some horse shit and says they sent the whole crew after them. Jay says he didn't see Elgin there, so he ain't got a problem with him and can respect that, but they're gonna knock on that bitch and blow the damn House of Truth down. -A recap airs of last week's main event post-match -Next week, Kelly promises World Title action Match #4: Kevin Steen/Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino vs. Jay Lethal/The All Night Express This is King's final televised ROH match. Match is good enough, and Rhett is the weak link again, so this isn't quite great. All three heels looked awesome, and it makes ROH look pretty fucking dumb for this being Corino's first ROH match of 2012 and Jimmy rarely getting to wrestle on TV or outside a DVD here and there. They make Rhett look better than anyone else in 2012 so far. Lethal had a good hot tag and beats Jimmy with the Lethal Injection. **3/4 Post-match, Steen attacks Lethal and the brawl continues. They get rid of Rhett and Corino takes out Kenny King with the Old School Bomb through an open chair. Jimmy and Corino then hold up the Tag Titles. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 20 2014, 05:33 PM Post #53 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ![]() ROH Boiling Point August 11th, 2012 Providence, RI Match #1: Roderick Strong w/ Truth Martini vs. Mike Mondo Thank god for Mondo, because if Roderick Strong had another really good to great match in a row, I was going to probably get confused and think someone brought in 2000s Roderick Strong and killed the current one. Mondo again tries hard and is probably capable of being a good wrestler at points, but isn't able to get to that next level. He's trying harder to actually get over than any Cornette project, I'll give him that. Strong does his thing and wins with the Death by Roderick and Sick Kick. **1/2 Match #2: Matt Taven vs. Antonio Thomas vs. QT Marshall vs. Vinny Marseglia [Winner Gets an ROH Contract] This sure happens. Taven and Marshall are probably the best of the bunch, but all these dudes are super bland and not more than average in the ring. Marshall is a generic heel with a vaguely flashy robe. Great looks, though! Fucking Cornette. Marshall vs. Taven at the end is okay at least, and QT breaks out AJ Styles' old Cliffhanger move (the Dominator lift down into a DDT) for the win and a contract. *3/4 Match #3: Adam Cole vs. Bob Evans This inexplicably goes ten minutes. Evans is a jobber and a manager and he should NOT be pushing the TV Champion to this extent. His control segment is super dull and Cole goes after the knee, and wins with the Figure Four. *1/4 Mike Bennett comes out to attack Cole, but Eddie Edwards runs out and makes the save and runs him off. The House of Truth comes out, and Truth says he predicts Kevin Steen will win tonight and then lose the title to Michael Elgin in Toronto. He talks about the tag title tournament and says they're going to win and prove that there is no friction. Elgin says he sat with ROH officials all week and signed the papers to wrestle the World Champion in Toronto in October, and Strong is pissed and says he should get Elgin's title shot in Toronto and Truth promised him that title shot. He says Truth lied to him, and says he's on strike. He goes to sit in the front row instead of ringside. Match #4: Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini vs. Charlie Haas This whole thing is about the Elgin/Strong split, which is fine, but then Haas is dragging down someone great again. This would have been a fine match and angle with ANYONE else. Strong spends the match distracting Elgin while he drinks in the front row. Haas is again super slow and awkward. Strong cheers for Haas and Elgin is pissed. Elgin pours beer on Strong in the crowd and goes back in, so Strong hops the railing. He spits beer in Elgin's eyes and Haas gets a roll up to win. YEAH, LET'S ANNOUNCE SOMEONE AS GETTING A TITLE SHOT AND THEN HAVE HIM LOSE TO THE MOST UNOVER MAN OF ALL TIME. THAT'LL GET HIM MOMENTUM. *3/4 Match #5: The Briscoes vs. Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino Hey, this ruled! SCUM gets to show off their wonderful old school heel act in a basic tag, and The Briscoes can basically do no wrong with competent opponents by now. Everybody here is insane to some extent and can throw a good to great punch, so the brawling parts were all awesome. The Mark Briscoe hot tag is super awesome and has a lot in common with the general flow of the awesome Bryan hot tags in 2013 with the punches, dropkicks, lots of running, kip up, etc. It's not totally the same as Bryan does his dropkicks differently and uses more chest kicks, but Bryan owes a lot to Mark's hot tag thing, I guess. Lots of cool counters and ideas, and the Briscoes beat Jacobs with the Doomsday Device for the win. *** Match #6: Jay Lethal vs. Tommaso Ciampa w/ RD Evans [Best Two of Three Falls] They get the jump on it and Lethal gets the quick one in with the Lethal Combination to go 1-0 about 90 seconds in. Ciampa hurts his knee in the first fall, and this is the injury that kept him out after this match until the summer of 2013, I think. Which is a shame, because he was coming along really nicely. So this isn't quite what it could be, despite Ciampa gutting it out. There's a lot of covering for the injury, and Ciampa still manages to hit Project Ciampa to go 1-1. The final fall is the best and they have some good stuff again. Nana comes out to attack RD Evans, but when the ref is distracted, Lethal kicks Ciampa in the dick and hits the Lethal Injection to win. **3/4 Match #7: Eddie Edwards/Sara Del Rey vs. Mike Bennett/Maria This is SDR's ROH farewell before becoming a trainer. Bennett basically works all of this and they don't go the obvious way with Maria being a sneaky little bitch before SDR corners her at the end and kills her, and just do a match where PORDIGY does basically all the wrestling. Which, hey, he's supposed to be a rich guy sort of, why not pay and bring in like Awesome Kong or someone intimidating to fight SDR instead of Maria? Still, Eddie does the best he can and SDR is even better than Bennett when she gets in. Eddie makes PORDIGY tap to the Achilles Lock. ** Match #8: Kevin Steen [c] vs. Eddie Kingston [ROH World Championship - Anything Goes] Rules. Both guys are awesome with weapon stuff and then Steen powerbombs Kingston through a table bridge over the apron and railing. He's hurt due to a history of back problems and they start to stretcher him out. Steen gets on the mic and says Cornette is smart, because if he cripples guys not in ROH, then Cornette doesn't have to pay hospital bills or be accountable. He then says Kingston dedicated this match to Larry Sweeney, AND SAYS SWEENEY WOULD CALL KINGSTON A PUSSY RIGHT NOW. KINGSTON GETS UP AND COMES BACK IN! YEAH! They do some more stuff, and Kingston hits a Saito Suplex through a table and then one through a chair and it seems like he might actually have this. Awesome back selling throughout too. Corino comes out, but Rhett Titus comes and fights him to the back. Jimmy Jacobs comes out, but Kingston takes him out. Steen gets a low blow and the F5, but Kingston kicks out! Steen then hits the F5 onto two open chairs for the win. This was great, but Kingston could have shown off a lot more of what he has, so this felt still kind of restrained compared to what they're capable of. ***1/2 |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 20 2014, 06:24 PM Post #54 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: The All Night Express, Since 6/24/2012 ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestlng August 18th, 2012 Baltimore, MD In a pretape, Jim Cornette says Kenny King has left, so the titles are vacant. He announces and eight team tournament, and says Rhett Titus can pick any partner he wants and has an automatic spot, and the tournament will begin next week and culminate on iPPV at Death Before Dishonor X on September 15th. Match #1: Sara Del Rey vs. Mia Yim SDR also gets a nice send off on TV, as she basically runs through Yim and SDR wins with a head stomp. *1/2 Post-match, Bennett and Maria attack. Great way to send SDR out! Truth Martini and Rhino come out, and he calls out Jim Cornette. He comes out and Truth says he has a solution for him and he's all stressed and flustered because of Kevin Steen and SCUM. He says the House of Truth is greater than SCUM and he should use them, and not outsiders like Kingston and Homicide and says he needs RHINO! FUCK YEAH. DO IT. Cornette says he has a very good point, and Eddie Edwards comes out. He wants a title shot too, and says he and Rhino are 1-1, and he challenges him to a rubber match for the title shot at Death Before Dishonor. Cornette says if Homicide fails tonight, he needs a challenger then, and he sanctions the match IN AN ANYTHING GOES MATCH, LIKE IT WILL BE AGAINST STEEN, RIGHT NOW! Match #2: Eddie Edwards vs. Rhino w/ Truth Martini [Anything Goes #1 Contender's Match] Eddie has another great match. Rhino's weird resurgence continues as they basically just do a sprint of everything they both have to offer in terms of offense. Rhino does all his great power spots and Eddie brings the quality flow and a great Tope Suicida. Some great nearfalls and Rhino hits the Gore through the table. The referee stops the match for some reason and awards it to Rhino DESPITE THAT IT'S HIS FUCKING FINISHING MOVE AND HE WOULD HAVE PROBABLY GONE FOR THE PIN ANYWAYS AND WON. The matches are consistently ruling lately more so than they have in a few years, but then shit like this happens and it reminds you that Jim Cornette is the worst. *** INSIDE ROH: -It is now Death Before Dishonor X: STATE OF EMERGENCY -The tournament bracket for the Tag Titles is as follows: -The Young Bucks vs. C&C -The Bravado Brothers vs. Charlie Haas & ? -The Guardians of Truth vs. Rhett Titus & ? -The Briscoes vs. Ruckus and Sabian -Rhett Titus says Kenny King made his own decision and he's not about give up the titles and he's just going to win them back with a new tag team partner. -Charlie Haas says this is bullshit just like Shelton's suspension, and Kenny King is afraid of them and couldn't even be a man and hand over the Tag Titles to them. -There will be a six way match next week for a TV Title shot at DBD10. Match #3: Kevin Steen [c] w/ Jimmy Jacobs vs. Homicide [ROH World Championship] Corino is on commentary again and says he can't wait and says he usually just roots for Steen to win, BUT HE HOPES KEVIN STEEN KILLS HOMICIDE. THE FEUD LIVES FOREVER. They have an awesome normal match and it really seems like Homicide is trying super hard again when he gets ROH shots, but they refuse to bring him back full-time. Steen distracts the ref, AND JACOBS RUNS TO KICK HOMICIDE IN THE EAR AND HE POINTS UP TO CORINO AT COMMENTARY. ALL THESE FUCKING CALLBACKS. Steen controlls, BUT HOMICIDE BITES THE EAR TO COME BACK! FUCK YEAH! They have a fun finishing run and obviously this would be a better brawl, but they still do a great job. Jacobs causes distractions, and Steen gets a low blow and then the F5 to win. *** |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 21 2014, 02:26 PM Post #55 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Vacant ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling August 25th, 2012 Baltimore, MD Match #1: The Young Bucks vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander [Tag Team Title Tournament - Quarterfinals] Not quite a Dynamic Duumvirate, but they have the T4 down. The Young Bucks come in for the T4 and to job to C&C who ROH has apparently remembered work for them and are actually pretty good. Great 12 minute spotfest yet again, like their match late last year. C&C pulls off the upset with a Frankensteiner followed by a Flying Splash. *** included Kelly conducting an in-ring interview with Charlie Haas, with Haas taking the mic and saying the ROH Tag Team Tournament was "bullshit," which was bleeped out, and called for Jim Cornette to come out; Cornette then appeared, with Haas telling him to shut up and listen to him, going on to say the All Night Express ruined the tag division and Rhett Titus was a joke; Haas went on to say he and Shelton Benjamin hit Kenny King with a chair, forcing King to leave ROH, but it should be him against Titus to determine the real champions; before Cornette could respond, Titus interrupted and reminded Haas that he pinned him to win the belts; Titus then said he would find a new tag team partner while Haas complained that Benjamin should be reinstated; moments later, Haas dared Titus to pick him as his partner so that it would eventually come down to the two of them fighting over who would control the championship after they win the tournament; Titus then said he didn't like Haas but liked his idea Match #2: QT Marshall vs. Tadarius Thomas They sell QT on commentary as another highly touted pick up by ROH a la Mike Bennett, and he is slightly better, but still super dull and generic as a heel. Tadarius is much better, and has a lot of early Low Ki to him, in terms of lots of acrobatic martial arts. I always say that it's insane how Low Ki vs. Red happened in 2002, and nobody's ever come close to that kind of insane martial arts movie fight type vibe again, and while Thomas isn't there yet, he at least makes the attempt, and I like that. At this point, a new guy in ROH who actually stands out and is interesting is a godsend. Really good bumping too. QT reminds me a lot of Simon Diamond, which whatever. QT wins with an Alabama Slam. ** INSIDE ROH: -In the back, SCUM cuts a promo. Steen says in 1999, Steve Corino discovered someone and introduced them to ECW and in 2004, he discovered someone else named Kevin Steen. Jimmy says the fans yell GORE at Rhino, and Steen says when they wrestle in Chicago, the fans will yell "OH MY GOD CALL THE HOSPITAL, RHINO'S DEAD. HE'S DEAD." -They say Eddie Edwards was injured last week and will be out for a month -It will now be The Headbangers vs. Haas and Titus next week in the tournament -There will be a wild card team too Match #3: Jay Lethal vs. Roderick Strong vs. Tommaso Ciampa vs. TJ Perkins vs. Mike Mondo vs. Mike Bennett [TV Title #1 Contender's Match] All the various peoples are on the floor. This is almost pretty good due to the various combinations. Bennett is still the worst, but at least he doesn't have to work an entire match or god forbid, a control segment, here. They do stuff and nothing really picks up as great because it's mostly Lethal and Strong based, and since neither gives a shit, this is super averagey. And then to punish us, Mondo vs. PORDIGY is the end run and Mondo wins with the Butterfly DDT. MONDO SPIKE. MONDO SPIKE. MONDO SPIKE. ** |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 21 2014, 03:34 PM Post #56 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Vacant ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling September 1st, 2012 Baltimore, MD Before the first match, Jimmy Jacobs and Steve Corino come out. Corino says they've been allowed to be the replacement team, but the only way Jim Cornette would agree to that is if they agreed that if they lost any match in this tournament, then they would both leave ROH. Way to telegraph the result of the entire tournament. Match #1: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino vs. The Bravado Brother [Tag Team Title Tournament - Quarterfinals] Truth joins commentary to talk up THE FUCKING HEADBANGERS. This is generally solid, but nobody believes the result is at all in question because of the stip on Corino and Jacobs, and because the Bravados are in it. They're improved, but they've still been booked as heels sort of, so it's heel/heel on top of that. Still, they eventually got into a really good match in the ending moments. Corino beats one of them with a Backdrop Driver. **1/4 Post-match, The Headbangers under masks come out to attack SCUM. Kevin Steen runs out to save, but then Rhino hits the ring and hits Steen with the Gore. NEXT WEEK: COLE VS. ELGIN FOR THE TV TITLE Jay Lethal comes out to wrestle Taven, and he takes the microphone before his match. Lethal says something happened backstage today and says he ran into Jim Cornette and asked why he hasn't been tapped to dethrone Kevin Steen yet. Jim said he knows he's a better wrestler and athlete than Kevin Steen, but he thinks he can't beat Kevin Steen and said he doesn't think Jay Lethal is mean enough and he doesn't have the killer instinct. LETHAL THEN KICKS TAVEN IN THE DICK. LETHAL COMBINATION ON THE REFEREE. Lethal asks how that was for killer instinct. Match #2: Rhett Titus/Charlie Haas vs. The Headbangers w/ Truth Martini [Tag Team Title Tournament - Quarterfinals] This has to be what Hell is like, right? This is one of the worst matches I've ever seen. Sloppy, slow, awkward -- it's like that joke about how old people drive like they fuck, you know? Except it's also boring. Maybe it's boring when old people fuck. I don't know. Titus eventually rolls one of them up to win. Andy's AWA Post-match, Jacobs and Corino come out to fight with the Guardians for some reason. SHOW. ENDING. BRAWL. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 21 2014, 05:41 PM Post #57 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Vacant ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling September 8th, 2012 Baltimore, MD Match #1: The Briscoes vs. Ruckus/BLK Jeez [Tag Team Title Tournament - Quarterfinals] That's the guy who used to be Sabian and then adopted a horrible new name. This rules though. BLK-OUT is consistently solid and deserved better in the 2000s than to only work CZW full time, as their great part-time CHIKARA run in 2005-8 showed. Lots of cool spots all done pretty well, and it's a sliding scale great match due to how well polished the entire package of the match is. Mark gets the win with the Froggy Bow. *** In the back, Veda is with Truth and asks about Steen vs. Rhino. Truth says the deal with the devil has been made, and the Man Beast is the solution to all Jim Cornette's problems. Veda asks about the Strong and Elgin problems and Truth says everyone wants to stir something up, but they both listen to him and he'll never steer them in the wrong direction. Match #2: Mike Bennett w/ Maria vs. Mike Sydal Sydal is still awful, but this is another bad PORDIGY squash until booking happens . Mike Mondo runs down to force a kiss on Maria, and Bennett obviously is mad about that. he chases Mondo around for a while and is counted out. Okay. 1/2* Match #3: Tommaso Ciampa w/ RD Evans vs. Mike Posey Another good Ciampa squash, and I do believe this is his last, since he hurt his knee on the show after this taping. Lots of awesome strikes and throws, and then Project Ciampa ends it. *3/4 INSIDE ROH: -It will be Briscoes vs. Haas/Titus and SCUM vs. C&C in the semi-finals at DBDX -Kelly announces that Shelton Benjamin will be in the corner of Haas and Titus in Chicago -Rhett is not happy -Jay Lethal vs. Homicide is added to the iPPV as Jay wants to prove his killer instinct Match #4: Adam Cole [c] vs. Michael Elgin w/ The House of Truth [ROH World Television Championship] This was good, but only ten minutes and a set up for an angle, so it's like two-thirds of a match. It being this way, they don't commit to a lot and clearly keep a lot in the tank. Cole has some brief good knee work, and Elgin's power stuff is awesome. Elgin accidentally throws Cole into the referee, and that ends the actual match. **1/2 Post-match, the Guardians/Headbangers come in and stomp on Cole. Elgin grabs Cole and throws him out, and argues with them. All three SCUM members come out and Jacobs and Corino fight away with the Headbangers. Steen and Elgin stare each other down, and Rhino comes out to fight Steen. Roderick Strong also comes out to fight him, but he and Elgin get in a shoving match to end the show as Steen and Rhino brawl away. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 22 2014, 12:11 AM Post #58 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Vacant ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ![]() ROH Caged Hostility September 8th, 2012 Charlotte, NC Before the match, Lethal says he wants the title shot at Kevin Steen on October 6th in Rahway, NJ near his hometown. Match #1: Jay Lethal vs. Adam Page This storyline with Lethal being more aggressive helps his matches a lot, because this kind of came out of nowhere to be great. Lethal was stiff and aggressive and put forth actual effort. Page is pretty good and hangs with him, and as a result, he comes out looking great in a loss. Lethal has a great control seg, Page fights back well, etc. Lethal wins with the Lethal Injection. Really spot heavy, but only thirteen minutes and everything hit super clean, so fuck it. *** Match #2: Mike Mondo vs. QT Marshall This was a thing that happened. Nobody cares about either of them, because Mondo stinks of desperation and QT is also pretty bland, although is at least a decent wrestler, since he is actually just Simon Diamond's kid or something, I swear. He needs a partner from Atlanta. They do stuff and whatever, and Mondo wins with the Butterfly DDT. *1/2 In the back, The Bravado Brothers say that the bandwagon will prevail tonight. HOP IN! Match #3: The Bravado Brothers vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander Corino kills it on commentary again, and in the middle of a rant, he takes the time out of nowhere to say that he hates Homicide. This is my favorite feud. Anyways, the match. They get a bunch of time and it is almost great. The Bravados look good again and have some surprisingly godo arm work on Coleman, but he totally ignores it and does sloppy spots. Cedric is awesome though, and the finishing run has some nice stuff before C&C win going into the tournament with the Frankensteiner and Frog Splash. **3/4 Match #4: Mike Posey vs. Jeff Lewis Neal OH MY GOD WHO CARES. They got like six minutes and it was whatever. Posey wins with pro wrestling offense. 1/2* Post-match, SCUM comes out and attacks both of them. Steen gets the mic and says since Jim Cornette isn't here and he has a World Title match against Rhino next week on iPPV, HE IS CANCELING TONIGHT'S SIX MAN STEEL CAGE MATCH! Steen says they're going to make an example and Rhett Titus runs out to attack them. The Briscoes come to help, and they run off SCUM and say they'll be fined $5,000 each if the main event doesn't happen, so the match will still happen. That was super super pointless. During intermission, Davey Richards makes his return and says he's coming to Death Before Dishonor. Match #5: WGTT vs. Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini God DAMNIT. This is another match where Elgin and Strong lose to sell the break up, and they lose to a horrible act that the fans hate and resent, so the booking never lands and is also resented because it's clearly and obviously a way to try and backdoor some momentum for Jim's boys WGTT while disguising it as the Strong/Elgin split. They could split at any point now and fans would buy it, so it doesn't need any more build. Strong is put in the Haas of Pain, and Elgin elects not to try and save, so Strong taps. Fuck Jim Cornette. *1/2 Match #6: Adam Cole vs. Kyle O'Reilly Davey Richards comes down to watch. Corino calls Adam Cole the sexiest champion in ROH history. This is kind of just a match where they trade moves, so whatever, and this is their worst match until their AWFUL recent match in PWG. Cole briefly goes for the knee but then bails on that and they trade a bunch of strikes aimlessly before a good run at the end. Davey accidentally distracts Cole when he gets up on the floor, and Kyle rolls up Cole to win a future title shot. Gross. Still, some really cool stuff down the stretch. **1/4 Match #7: Kevin Steen/Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino vs. The Briscoes/Rhett Titus [Steel Cage Match] SCUM get the jump and they fight on the floor to begin. Really wild stuff with Corino breaking a bottle on the cage and carving up Mark Briscoe with it, and then lots of biting and Jacobs taking ridiculous bumps into the railing and cage. They finally get inside, but keep Mark on the floor after the cage is shut, and keep him out for most of the match. They did the best possible thing with Rhett here by not letting him really do anything and Jay does all the hope spots. Mark finally manages to scale the cage, AND HITS ALL OF SCUM WITH A MOONSAULT OFF THE TOP! AWESOME! They come all the way back after that, and Rhett and Jay hit Jimmy with the Doomsday Device for the win. ***1/4 Post-match, SCUM attacks anyways, but Jay Lethal runs out to help run them off. Edited by Big Tuna, Jul 22 2014, 12:11 AM.
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| Big Tuna | Jul 22 2014, 12:21 AM Post #59 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Vacant ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ROH Wrestling September 15th, 2012 Providence, RI Haas vs. Elgin opens the show, along with the pre-match angle. INSIDE ROH: -Glory By Honor XI will be on October 13th in Mississauga, Ontario -Michael Elgin is finally cashing in his SOTF title shot here against Kevin Steen, not even pretending Rhino has a shot anymore, I guess. Although this airs during the iPPV or after it late at night in most markets, so whatever, I guess. -Kevin Steen says a lot of people have been waiting for this match and Elgin calls himself Unbreakable and a lot of people hope he can take this away from him. He doesn't need to break him though, all he needs to do is beat him, and he's going to leave Canada the same way he left last time, as ROH Champion. -Mike Mondo vs. Mike Bennett is also booked for the show -As is Cole vs. Eddie Edwards for the TV Title, which should rule -Adam Cole says he has to face a partner and a friend, and Eddie's taught him more than anyone else. He's instilled in him that he should never let what he's worked for go, and Eddie is the best ROH TV Champion ever, but he wants to surpass him and he can't let him take the title away from him now. -In October, ROH TV will air the Survival of the Fittest tournament The Briscoes vs. SCUM airs. Highlights of Steen/Kingston end the show. |
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| Big Tuna | Jul 22 2014, 08:57 PM Post #60 |
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ROH World Champion: Kevin Steen, Since 5/12/2012 ROH World Tag Team Champions: Vacant ROH World Television Champion: Adam Cole, Since 7/28/2012 ![]() ROH DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR X: STATE OF EMERGEN-C SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2012 THE FRONTIER FIELDHOUSE GOD'S COUNTRY CHICAGO RIDGE, IL Match #1: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino vs. Caprice Coleman/Cedric Alexander [Tag Team Title Tournament - Semi-Finals] Good stuff here. The super obvious stipulation on Jacobs and Corino also really doesn't help the crowd buy into anything C&C do, but the match was quality. Jacobs and Corino do their thing with all the old style basic heel stuff to emphasize the cool stuff of Cedric and theoretically cool stuff of Coleman. They end it seemingly right as the match is gaining momentum when Jimmy throws a chair into Cedric and Corino hits a Saito Suplex for the win. **1/2 Match #2: Tadarius Thomas vs. Silas Young They got six minutes, but didn't really do enough to be interesting or good and it felt pretty held back, considering you'd expect more out of a six minute match with dudes trying to earn jobs. This was kind of just a match and Thomas wins with a spin kick. *3/4 Match #3: Kyle O'Reilly vs. ACH ACH tried his best, but this was kinda shitty. Kyle is absolutely embracing being terrible now and taking over Davey's mantle of the worst in the world. He gets caught all the time standing around and waiting for spots and doing awkward looking MMA stuff with a vacant look in his eyes like he's thinking about what's next. Everything he does looks so practiced and self-aware and it really really bothers me. ACH is alright, but he's one of the more generic guys in the class of 2010s indy flippy black guys. Better than AR Fox at least. Kyle wins with a shitty Triangle Choke after a lot of disjointed spots with no flow. There is no future. Indy wrestling is doomed. I hate you, Kyle. *1/2 Match #4: The Briscoes vs. Rhett Titus/Charlie Haas w/ Shelton Benjamin [Tag Team Title Tournament - Semi-Finals] This absolutely happened. They got ten minutes and did stuff. The Briscoes tried their best, but Haas is terrible and Rhett is also quite bad by this point. There is some argument between Rhett and Shelton at points, but that's about it. Haas is sure to kill the match when he controls, and then whatever. Rhett rolls up Jay for the win. *1/4 In the ring, Kevin Kelly brings out Davey Richards for an interview. He says for the last year, he hasn't really been himself and he's not proud of who he was and whatever, and basically, he's back and he's entering himself into Survival of the Fittest. Match #5: Jay Lethal vs. Homicide Solid match. Not great because I guess eventually the fact that it's 2012 Homicide was bound to come out again. It's fitting that it would be against Lethal, as he seems to have lost his brief aggressive streak as Kelly and Nigel mention that he'll get the title shot on October 6th after all. The crowd is is also SUPER dead after the last match. They get into some quality nearfalls and counters and shit at the end. It's not their 2005 stuff, but it's still good. Lethal uses a new Cradle DDT for the win a la Teddy Hart. **1/2 Match #6: Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin w/ Truth Martini vs. The Irish Airborne Basically a showcase for the House of Truth. The Irish Airborne are now fatter and sloppier and I have no idea why they got this opportunity. Elgin does a lot of cool power stuff and looks awesome going into his title shot. Strong and Elgin are hostile again, and Roddy tags himself in after the Spiral Bomb and vultures the pin and the win. ** Matt Hardy returns to ROH to do commentary on the TV Title match. Nigel asks why he's here and Matt says it's an honor to be here and says he's here specifically to see this match. The attempt at putting the match is over is nice, but come on. Nobody goes to any show specifically to see a Mike Mondo match. Match #7: Adam Cole [c] vs. Mike Mondo [ROH World Television Championship] This was better than I expected, but still flawed. The first half is great, with Cole working on the knee with some great work and Mondo selling really well. He comes back with arm work, but then it falls apart in the second half. Both men start ignoring the build completely and no-selling before then bringing it back at the end. If the finish involves the damaged knee, then why not sell the knee throughout, instead of just forgetting it for half the match. Anyways, Cole wins with the Figure Four. **3/4 Post-match, Matt Hardy gets in and shakes both of their hands. He gets on the mic to put the match over and he says a lot of people have said Adam Cole reminds them of a young Matt Hardy (how?) but he's not. Matt says he was better than Adam Cole at this age, and he's still better than him, and leaves. Match #8: Jimmy Jacobs/Steve Corino vs. Rhett Titus/Charlie Haas w/ Shelton Benjamin [Vacant ROH World Tag Team Championship] Crowd now decides to care about a SCUM match despite the obvious stipulation, because fuck WGTT's existence. This also sucks, because it's heel vs. heel so they never really got a flow with nobody to make the comeback, and things just sort of happened. Rhett was sort of a babyface, but nobody cares about him, so he doesn't get babyface reactions or have any kind of real fire or energy. Shelton hits Rhett with Black Finisher behind the ref's back, and SCUM wins the belts. *1/2 Post-match, WGTT beat up Rhett. Match #9: Kevin Steen [c] vs. Rhino w/ Truth Martini [ROH World Championship - No Disqualification Match] At least this one match can deliver. They get to use chairs and tables and shit, and Steen is awesome about laying these matches out so each big spot has time to sink in and feels important. Truth interferes, and Corino and Jacobs also come out, along with Roderick Strong. Rhino takes out both Corino and Jacobs with Gores, but then misses one through a table, and Steen hits the F5 for the win. *** Post-match, Michael Elgin comes out. He stares down Steen and they fight. He goes to Powerbomb him, but Corino throws Strong into Elgin from behind. Elgin lets go and sees it's Strong, AND ELGIN FINALLY HITS STRONG WITH THE SPIRAL BOMB! FUCK YEAH! |
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