Oh, I see..... based on Homicide's increasing role in TNA and the 'amicable split' with Jay Lethal...

That'll be the end of The Rottweilers if Homicide were to go, then.

Surely war was declared ages ago?

From reading the DVDVR board, it seems Joe cut “The promo of his life” flipping out on CZW and warning them ROH’s big guns where ready to get involved in the war. He also called Zandig a fat, useless piece of shit, so that proves his eye sight wasn’t permanently damaged in Ultimate X...

That show sounds great. Can't wait to see the dragon gate six man. The reviews on DVDVR are full of praise so well worth watching hopefully.

Two thing's.

I cant wait to see Joe beat the shit out of Czw .

Please give Colt a win over Homicide!!!

Seriously i cant really afford ROH dvd's at the moment but these two fueds make me desperate to keep up with it.

What happened in Ultimate X?

Joe had some sort of eye injury going into Ultimate X, and during the match the injury got pretty bad, and i think he lost sight in his eye for a while or something

What DVD should I get...

Steel Cage Warfare
or
Final Battle 2005
???

Final Battle.

Last nights results -



Wow, 56 minute main event...BJ Whitmer injured his ankle the night before so couldn't wrestle...Delirious has one more chance tonight...Hooray for having Flash Flanagan on the roster...

That bloke that was in TNA and on Survivor or something like it was there apparently.

Good to hear the Dragon Gate stuff went down well. Not that surpised, really, but I was pretty disappointed with CIMA's match last time round.

Anyone know when they usually release the videos?

And now, my review of Tag Wars! Gasp as I like different stuff!

ROH – Tag Wars!

W00t! What a shocking show name, must be shit, eh? If they’d called it, ROH – Crisis Of Infinite Niggers LOL, they’d still be the legit~ hottest fed in THE AMERICA. But anyway…

We open with an AmDrag/Lethal promo. AmDrag calls Roderick Strong “Metzler’s Favourite Wrestler” which is pretty gay, but other than that, solid stuff.
We then get an Embassy promo…man, these guys are great. There’s a bit of tension between Rave and Shelley as they’re both after the ROH World Title. Shelley says he’s died his hair gold to match the belt, Rave points out that it’s silver. “Everyone makes mistakes” Good stuff. Also, Daizee Haze is hot as hell in her heel gear.
One of those cool little video packages for the top five rankings airs. Those things are neat.

Lacey’s Angels and Adam Pearce Vs Matt Sydal, Jack Evans and Jimmy Yang

A-ha! This show begins the awesome Jimmy loves Lacey storyline! For those who’ve missed it, ROH are slowly transforming former pint sized Brody tribute Jimmy Jacobs into Americas first Emo wrestler, by having him fall in love with his manager, Lacey. So as his team make their entrance, he’s following behind her, trying to smell her hair. And if you haven’t gone over to ROHwrestling.com and watched the music video of the song he wrote for her, do it now. It’s the best thing ever.
Matt Sydal is an IWA-MS guy, which means he feels some sick compulsion to slap hands with every fan in the goddamn building. Easy enough at IWA-MS shows…
Last years Trios Tournament sucked a huge amount of balls, too many matches featuring too many big names. Luckily, this year it’s been shrunk to four teams, with some mid card guys getting the good opportunities.
This match starts fucking fast, and soon Team High Spot are flipping all over the place. Evans rounds off the dive fest with a Space Flying Tiger Drop into a Rana…Nuts.
Match of two halves really. Firstly, we get plenty of heat on Sydal, who can take a kicking and look, erm, helpless whilst doing so. Secondly, we get the hot tags then the huge sprint section with the big offence. Pearce makes me happy by doing a simple top rope splash in the midst of all the nonsense, that guy is really growing on me. He and Whitmer look so much better as a team then Whitmer and Jacobs ever did. Yang is the standout for his side, his stuff is just as flashy but he works it in better. He also does a great false injury spot off of a German escape.
Finish comes when Evans puts his hands on Lacey and Jacobs is too busy worrying about her, leading to him getting hit with a Here It Is Driver and a 630 for the three.
Decent match for what it was, plenty of insane spots at a breakneck pace, but still made an effort to get the story over.

The Embassy Vs Sal Rinauro, Tony Mameluke and Jay Fury

Heh, heh, heh…I love the Rave toilet paper thing. I know people on these boards complain, but it’s more funny than geeky and at least it’s not a respectful round of applause for well done heel work.
This incarnation of the Embassy is a riot. Nana is a great heel manager, he’s got an annoying voice, says dumb things and does a silly dance on the apron when he wins. Plus his facial expressions are brilliant. They should also bring Haze in more often, she fits the group really well and can take big bumps if need be. Abyss in ROH was really cool while it lasted (This was his last show) no-one else in the company is working the style he does, and the fans really respond to his slightly goofy character. Plus, I’m convinced there is big money in an Abyss/Samoa Joe program sometime down the line.
But Rave and Shelley both look great here. Rave has become a great heel worker, I mentioned in another review how he’s worked out that a shit wrestler who needs to cheat to win is the role he was born to play. He throws awesome punches now, to go with his sneering facials and heel shtick. He might not have sixty minute, five star, L~MOTYC matches…but he’s learnt to work. Shelley is on form as always, playing the dick head heel who’s bullshit comes back to haunt him after he taunts Jay Fury once too often.
With better opponents, this would’ve been great. But Team Wildside (As I began to think of them) just couldn’t quite get there. Rinauro is sloppy and unconvincing, Fury is vanilla and Mameluke’s “World’s smallest shooter” gimmick is even worse as a face. So the match was more about watching the Embassy’s fun shenanigans than hoping the babyfaces pound them for it. Hopefully the final will be more like that when Yang~! Is back in.
Some nice stuff though. Haze hits a great crossbody on Sal as part of a chase spot, Rave and Shelley both biting their opponents same hand must have been done somewhere before, it’s too good otherwise. Oh, and I did kind’ve like how they used Fury. Most of the ROH crowd has never been exposed to him, and he is a bit limited. So he spent most of the match on the apron, then when he made a hot tag immediately hit the Enzifury and his coolest dive, instantly getting over.
All in all, slightly weaker than the first semi, but still good fun.

Recap video of the Cabana Vs Homicide feud. I don’t like it.

Claudio Castagnoli Vs Chad Collyer

Confession time. I really like Chad Collyer. His mix of Malenko style crisp matwork and so-wacky-it’s-so-shit-it’s so-good promos just do it for me. They have a pretty good match, lots of decent mat work…and there’s a bunch of mutant fans chanting boring. Weird, that’s not like ROH fans. And it takes me a while to notice that it’s Chris Hero and Necro Butcher doing the heckling! Good stuff, that was worked in very organically. The match end when Collyer goes for a chair and Ace Steel stops him using it (Collyer gave Steel a 8 on the Muta scale with a chair a while back) and Claudio wins with a complicated roll up.
Ace runs Collyer off and cuts a great crazy man promo (Steel is a very underrated mike worker) before asking to get his match started right now, which gives us…

Ace Steel Vs Sterling James Keenan

Ace Steel calls Keenan a CM Punk clone. Saves me doing it. Pretty standard match, Keenan is a below average Indy guy, Ace Steel is an above average Indy guy, they have an average Indy match. The real story here is the continued heckling form Hero and Necro. It gets to the point where Steel breaks off a submission move on Keenan to get on the mike and tell them to fuck off. And…all hell proceeds to break loose! Awesome chaotic scenes as the locker room empties and clears Necro and Hero out. During the course of it, Cornette loses a tooth a gets in the ring to cut a furious promo on CZW. Guess if that was any good? Fuck Chris Hero’s live journal entries, it’s Cornette’s promos that made this feud.

Nigel McGuinness Vs Delirious

Fun little match between two very over guys. This was a showcase for Nigel and wasn’t anything special as a result. The Brit wins with his Tower Of London cutter variation.

Christopher Daniels Vs Low Ki

Daniels is godly over in ROH since his comeback. Which is weird, because his performances haven’t been that great. Personally I’d happily watch him wrestle The Yeti every show as long as Alison Danger in a vinyl Nun’s outfit is with him. She’s by god gorgeous.
Better match than I expected. It suffered from Daniels’ usual failing, in that for the renewal of a bitter grudge it was all a little too smooth and flashy. But Daniels is making an OK face at the moment, and while Low Ki wasn’t as heelish as he was against, say, Jay Lethal, he did reign in his more annoying excesses a bit. In fact, for those playing the Low Ki drinking game, he only hit two double stomps all match. Wow. He also puts his hands on Alison Danger, earning my eternal hatred (Although it did mean we got a quick flash of panties…I’m worrying myself now) It’s easy to forget that Danger is a really good valet, she does just enough to get the fans involved without stealing the focus (of anyone but me, anyway) and you really get the feeling she cares about the outcome of the match.
Both guys have had better matches I ROH, but this could’ve been a lot worse. I think given a main event spot it would’ve been, but as a mid card attraction it did it’s job fine.
After Low Ki wins with a Angel Wings cut back into a bridge, Daniels tries to break the habit of a lifetime and shake hands, only for Low Ki to tell him to go fuck himself, in a mirror image of the first ROH show. thank god for that, the gayness might’ve been to much for me to handle. And that’s Low Ki done with ROH. For now. Probably.

The Embassy Vs Team High Spot

Have to mention this – When the Embassy get their toilet paper barrage, Shelley tries to persuade Abyss to throw some back at the crowd. Abyss doesn’t quite understand, and when he eventually gets it right, jumps on the spot and claps like a school girl. Abyss as Alex Shelley’s idiot monster = Gold.
Jimmy Yang is just the coolest mother fucker in the world. I was a little disappointed he didn’t change into another of his pimp ring outfits in between matches though.
This was a pretty ace match. The Embassy take the majority of the control, first isolating Sydal and then Yang. Alex Shelley has wholesale stolen Brother YASHHI’s tag spot, where he gets tagged in, circles the fallen opponent cussing them out, then tags out without touching them. If you’re going to steal…
This match gets Abyss over huge. They really build the sense that there’s just no way to beat him, as pretty much everything Team High Spot tries just bounces off him. Eventually, he gets knocked out of contention by a Yang Springboard Thrust Kick, I’m not sure, but that might be the only thing he sells all night.
In a great spot Abyss teases going for a dive, and the crowd go nuts for the idea. Then as he runs the ropes, Shelley tags in and stops him. Great heat for Shelley, and they tease Abyss turning face, which the crowd goes mental for.
Plenty of crazy spots and shit, but I was disappointed we didn’t see more of Shelley/Evans. Shelley gave Evans his best ever singles match on a ROH show, and I look forward to their interaction in tags. Evans still annoys me with his over elaborate kicks that never seem to make contact, but he’s bearable in this environment.
The end comes when Shelley spikes Evans with Sliced Bread Number 2, only for Rave to steal in a hit a Pedigree to get the pin himself. More rumblings of dissension in the Embassy, but I really, really don’t want this stable to break up, they are far too entertaining as the dickhead heel faction.

Bryan Danielson And Jay Lethal Vs Austin Aries and Roderick Strong

Jay Lethal wears Sunglasses to show he’s a heel. This is why faces shouldn’t have beards, they can’t grow them when they turn so have to buy sunglasses instead. Beards cost nothing, sun specs do.
Very good match. Starts out with Lethal and AmDrag dodging Strong because they fear his chops. AmDrag refusing to tag in as Strong brutalises Lethal is hilarious, mainly due to Lethal screaming “Bryan! Bryan!” in a high pitched voice. AmDrag and Lethal isolate Strong for a while, and do an awesome sequence where they do nothing but tag in and out and hit bodyslams for about five minutes. Generation Next do something similar when they keep passing AmDrag to each other for Aeroplane spins as a way of not getting dizzy.
Generation Next work well as a tag team. They have a load of shtick to fill matches with, such as their spots based around Aries not being able to chop as hard as Strong. I also love the old school feel of a team who have matching gear, hopefully they’ll be around for a while. If they lose the tag belts to AJ and Sydal I might cry.
Danielson as dickhead heel lately has been great, and he’s his usual ref baiting self in this match up. Lethal is having a go at slimy heel as well, he nicks a few Samoa Joe spots to build their feud when Joe’s out injured.
In a strange way, Strong has sort of surpassed Aries as the top man in Generation Next. Personally I much prefer Aries, and he shows in this match that he is the much better rounded competitor. He also wipes Lethal out with his cool as fuck tope, the best in America no doubt.
Hot finish, as Strong hits Danielson with a string of manoeuvres before locking in his “Strong Hold” to tap the champion out. This leads to Strong getting another title shot (Which, confusingly happen last night in “Real Time”)

All in all, a very good show from ROH, the most consistent I’ve seen in a while. Next stop, Dissension, and an AmDrag/AJ Styles match. Oo-err.

The DVD of the Februry 25 show and the VHS of the March 11 show have just been released, so 4-6 weeks.

Delirious only has one more shot at getting the elusive win he needs come ON Delirious.

Nice review Lantern. I'm half way into Dissension at the moment, can't wait to see Danielson do his dick heel act against Styles.

The buy 3 get 1 free sale is on now. Just ordered the 16 dvds i need to get up to date (25/2/06). 10 pound a pop, loving it.

Last night's results...

Sounds good except for the Cabana/Cide handshake.

Delirious won!!!! HAZZAH!

Agreed. I may change my mind when I see the tape, but I'm not loving it.

Hooray for Delirious! I knew he could do it!

Why did Genki have to drop the fall?

Any word on how good Danielson vs Storm was?

General consensus seems to be good but not spectacular.

sdknhknfisfmsd, svjlmkjhswkfmwejw ding ding ding Delirious wins

Huzzah. Victory for Delirious

That is fucking embarrassing. Homicide tries to KILL Colt, to end his life, and now they're best friends because Gabe thinks it's cool and hip to have "honour" in his booking? Ugh, just fucking ugh.

From the ROH Board -
I'm not crazy baout this, but I'm going to wait to see it on tape before I make a final decision.

Many people are saying that Saturday's show was the best ROH show ever, by the way...

It's one thing for someone to earn their respect through a vicious feud, but when the feud involves one man trying to take the other man's life, then I just cannot buy a respectful embrace when all is said and done.

It's like Rock/Hogan all over again.

"Sorry about that whole trying to kill you thing, brother!"

theyll have to find some one else for homicide to beat the shit out of for the next 6 months

http://www.rohwrestling.com/latestnews.asp...ntArticleID=354

Just a quick heads up that ROH have a 25% off sale, with no minimum purchase required, for today only.

First they had New Frontiers, now they're having Weekend Of Champions.

They had Vendetta in November 2005 also.

Holy ambiguous show names Batman!

Matt Sydal cuts a really shitty promo, ya know. Luckily the Embassy do a great one, and Daizee Haze is smoking hot.
Oh my god, we’re in Ohio. I hate the shows from here, the front rows are crammed full of disgusting mouth breathers shouting stupid shite. Honestly, you should see this mutants, makes Green Lantern Fan look like a Homo Sapien.

Adam Pearce Vs Jay Fury

Decent. Jay is OK as an athletic lower card guy, he can do some neat stuff to pop the crowd and eats offence well. Pearce is a cool throwback of a wrestler, definitely growing on me since he’s showed up in ROH. As a sub-ten minute opener you can’t fault this match. Oh, and Pearce won with a top rope splash.

After the match, Cornette comes out to cut a typically incendiary promo on the ROH/CZW war, when Necro appears at ringside. Cornette dares him to get in the ring and fight him, but Pearce takes over and drags the butcher over the rail to give him a kicking. The locker room empties and tosses out Necro, as Cornette officially welcomes Pearce to the side of angels with a handshake. The CZW war angle is red hot, mostly because of Cornette.

Jimmy Yang Vs Jay Lethal

Yang is the coolest motherfucker walking the planet. Lethal’s Bono sunglasses make him look like a nonce. This was another good one, Lethal is really over as a heel. Early on he makes arrogant mistakes and gets punished for it by Yang’s nifty offence, he takes over with some cheap shots and works the crowd with annoying heel spots, then yang fights back to take the win with a Yang Time moonsault after a hot closing section. Simple, but effective.

We get a quick glimpse of AJ Styles and Matt Sydal chatting backstage with no sound. The idea is to build the intrigue and tension between Sydal and his Gen Next team mates, but it just looks like they’re discussing what the safety word is going to be tonight.

Low Ki cuts a promo in his Barry White voice. What a silly man.

The Embassy Vs Sal Rinauro, Tony Mameluke and Delirious

This was only OK. The Embassy are all kinds of awesome; Shelley is the worker of the group, Nana makes a fine manager, ROH NEED to bring Daizee Haze in more often, Rave has great heat and Abyss stands out a mile. Pretty much the most entertaining package on the roster. Unfortunately, Sal and Tony are all over the place. Sal was really untidy all match (Actually, he fell over on his way to the ring) and made Shelley look stupid at numerous points by being late for things. Tony had one really nice moment (A superplex into a front choke that I would steal if I was a wrestler) but is still labouring the most mismatched gimmick of all time. I realise that Gabe wants to take the emphasis off wrestlers who work TNA, but man, losing Abyss was a mistake. The guy works a style no-one else on the roster can, he got over very quickly and a face turn would’ve worked. And I know I say this every time, but there is so much mileage in a Joe/Abyss feud.
The point of this match is to get across that the Embassy is having problems due to Shelley and Rave both lusting after the ROH Title. This leads to the end, as Sal and Tony roll them up as they bicker. Hmm, a Shelley/Rave bitchfest might be nice…

Low-Ki Vs Jack Evans

This was a nightmare on paper. In reality…nightmare. Evans looked even more goofy and unwrestler-like than usual. The match was booked as bully heel/flashy face, but the crowd were going mad for Low-Ki, begging him to brutalise the dumb wigga. And Evan’s flashy comebacks consisted of awful, slow motion kicks that never look in the least dangerous, especially when his chimp like opponent has been kicking his spine into pieces all match. Low Ki won with his stupid, contrived, tree of woe double stomp. Bad.

Ace Steel and Claudio Castagnoli Vs Chad Collyer and Nigel McGuinness

Meh. Nice idea, but not really appropriate. The fans have cooled a little on Nigel/Double C, and the Steel/Collyer feud never gets enough time to become interesting, especially as neither guy gets on many shows. So while they produced an energetic brawl around the arena, and then a decent section with Steel isolated in the ring, the fans attentions are never grabbed. A shame, I’m a fan of all four guys and they could do better. It seemed to go a long time, I guess it’s the pre-interval match. Nothing particularly wrong or right with this, just there.

Another silent voyeur shot of Sydal, this time being shouted at by Aries. He probably ate the last Jaffa cake or something.

AJ and Danielson both cut promos on tonight’s match, intercut with clips from the last two matches they had in ROH, both of which AJ won. Good segment.

Austin Aries and Roderick Strong Vs BJ Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs

Mmmm, Lacey. I’m not the only one with amorous thoughts about her, as Jacobs spends the entirety of the match mooning over his manager. This is the main thread of the match, but it’s a very good affair on top of that. Aries and Strong are living large as the ROH Elite team; the booking and their performances makes them look invincible, they’re almost a sort of face Brainbusters. Whitmer and Jacobs are either really good or really shit depending on their mood, today they have their working boots on and it’s a cool little match. A throw away defence for Gen Next, as this is obviously just a vehicle to break the Angels up, but highly enjoyable.
The finish sees Jacobs too busy mugging for Lacey to hit a doomsday rana, allowing Roderick Strong to murder him with two sickening backbreakers and Aries to finish him off with a 450.
Post match, Whitmer spikes his diminutive partner with a Wrist Clutch Exploder and walks away. Poor little fella.

Christopher Daniels Vs Matt Sydal

Daizee Haze, Lacey and now Alison Danger. ROH simply has the best eye candy. I know I’m horribly biased by my scary stalker love, but Danger is a great valet. Not only is she dressed as a bondage Nun, she puts down a skank in the front row with her awesome filthy mouth, and she can look like she genuinely cares about her man. And she’s dressed as a bondage Nun.
You, know, this was so much better than I was expecting. It’s still not great, but it’s miles ahead of the indy dream match mess I was dreading. As opposed to Sydal/AJ, which was all about fifty-fifty offence and mirror sequences, here Daniels plays the old man of ROH who’s not impressed with the upstart, and Sydal is pushed into the only role he’s any good at; babyface in peril. He’s good at getting heat, even if he is as vanilla as the freezer of the worlds dullest Ice Cream Man. Daniels genuinely cracks his knee on an armdrag here, and it’s ages before he can get full use of it again. This is awesome, as it FORCES him to sell, and you believe in his no selling for once, because his knee really is buggered. Not being able to do much else, he contends himself with crippling Sydal’s neck horribly throughout the match. When Sydal gets his comeback, he’s got the moves, but his delivery is just a half step off, which numbs the crowd a little. Still, some nice stuff from both guys, and Sydal sells getting squeezed to death in the Koji Cutch nicely at the finish.

AJ Styles Vs Bryan Danielson

So, what do we know about AJ Styles? He’s athletic, he dishes it out and he doesn’t mind taking it, and with an opponent who can take advantage of these things he can produce something pretty good. And Bryan Danielson is what, 23? How come he’s so good? Anyway, this match was pretty fucking great.
There were three sections that contained the old “guy has a simple hold that other guy can’t escape from” routine going. AmDrag did one for a wristlock, AJ did one for a headlock, and AmDrag did an awesome sequence with a cravat, ending with him reversing AJ’s moonsault Reverse DDT into a Cravatplex KILLING AJ for daring to use such a gay move. He did hit it later on though. Bah.
Other great stuff involved Danielson working over AJ’s nose until it pissed blood and Danielson spitting into AJ’s face from three centimetres away (possibly making AJ into a homosexual in his twisted little mind) enraging the right wing nutbar awesomely. In fact, AmDrag’s dickhead heeling leading to AJ actually showing some proper piss fire for once is always a great feature of their matches together.
Both guys go all out, laying in hard shots and really cranking on submission holds. You, know, I have no idea how these two get on in real life, unlike so many indy guys who you know have each other added on My Space, I’m willing to believe these two actually hate each other. Now that’s a compliment you can’t give out to often.
Although the majority of the match is awesome strikes and matwork, they do fall into the typical trap of including the hot two counts towards the end, at least they’re actually hot though, the near fall from AJ’s Spiral Tap was particularly molten. The end comes on the tail of a cool sequence revolving around the Cattle Mutilation. AJ struggles manfully against AmDrag’s oldest weapon, getting two counts and nearly escaping, until Danielson resorts to his newest, the Chickenwing, to get the tap out. Best non-Joe AJ Styles match this year, and another very good defence from Danielson.

All in all, another ROH show where the good outweighed the bad. Whilst they may not be producing crazy MOTYC stuff in every show I’ve seen so far, I’m still interested in the stories and the characters for the most part. Next up, Unscripted 2, WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG.

Nice review Lantern, a little shorter than usual but it makes no difference. Looking forward to the Unscripted 2 one, and what you then make of Allison Danger's clothing by the time you get to the Fourth Anniversary Show.

It's a shame they have stopped using Jay Lethal, as his heel act was pretty entertaining for the two months he got to do it.

Heh, Barry White voice.

results form tonights show form the roh message board if theyre not in full ill edit later

Match 1: Christopher Daniels defeats Claudio Castagnoli via pin. Loud CZW-ROH dueling chants to begin the evening. Crowd: 15% CZW - 85% ROH. Daniels shakes Claudio's hand after the match, and cuts a pro-ROH promo. Chris Hero appears, cuts promo "Great atmosphere." Hero setting the stage for the main event.

Match 2: Delirious wins Four Corner Survival. Delirious forces Jimmy Jacobs to submit. With the win, thousands of young men and basement dwelling no-life losers began crying.

Match 3: Tag Team Champions Austin Aries & Roderick Strong defeat Homicide & Ricky Reyes after Aries pins Reyes via 450 Splash

Match 4: ROH World Champion defeats Colt Cabana with a rollup. Apparently, the pin came out of nowhere (common) and the match was short (uncommon).

July 15 Return. Intermission. Attendance estimate- near 1,000.

Match 5: Derrick Dempsey defeats Pelle Primuea with a spinebuster.

Everybody, prepare your $20, because you will want to get this DVD when it is available-

Bryan Danielson cuts a promo in the ring. Reall good, live. He told the CZW fans that he was a real world champion, and he'd prove it by taking all challenges...Bryan Danielson has accepted a title challenge from...DELIRIOUS.

Match 6: Bryan Danielson defeats Delirious via ref stoppage. During the match, Delirious "sliced his hand real bad". Delirious was bleeding from the hand. Danielson forced the ref to stop the match after beating Delirious repeatedly with elbows to the head.

Match 7: Briscoe Brothers defeat AJ Styles & Matty "Nice Try" Sydal after doubleteam Jay Driller. "great match, Briscoes over bigtime".

DEBATE: James E. Cornette vs John ZandigDetails sketchy. Apparently some messages from REACT weren't received. It's probably best for fan reviews to provide details into this debate later tonight.

Match 8: Team CZW defeats Team ROH During the end of the match, Claudio Castagnoli turns on ROH and aides Chris Hero in beating Samoa Joe.

Considering the problems that plagued Unscripted, I thought it was a decent show. It was a stand-alone event in that it didn't really fit into the storyline progression of previous shows but the matches were mostly fun.

Xavier entered an impressive performance against AmDrag (or maybe Danielson is so good that he made Xavier come across as being better than he really is), Jerrelle Clark was fun to watch in the four corners match, the Strong vs. Whitmer match was pretty solid and the main event was perfectly fine.

It's far from a must-see show, but under the circumstances, it was good for what it was.

The CZW/ROH match from last night was supposed to be insane.

Super Dragon apparently got into shoving matches with alot of the crowd and one fan threw water over him and SD grabbed his long hair and tried ripping him over the guard rail and security quickly had to break it up.

BJ Whitmer got taken out the match by a Psycho Driver off the ring apron through a table and in the end Claudio and Hero gave Joe two Hero's Welcomes for the win. Over at the ROH boards they are all super-pissed that Claduio turned heel, especially after he shook Daniels hand.

And also apparently about 15 of the CZW fans nearly ruined the show by just being annoying assholes.

The first post-100th show newswire is up, so here it is...



I was going to do it in spoiler tags, but I don't know how to do that.

All spoilers should be enclosed within squared brackets with 'spoiler' in the first and '/spoiler' in the second. Just like with quotes.


gadgetboy,

Have you watched the Fourth Anniversary show yet? I'm watching it later tonight. Any opinions on the event?

I have the main event tag to watch.

Danielson vs Rave is excellent. Homicide vs Cabana is vicious and brutal. I liked Joe vs Lethal too, Lethal's heel work is smart.

I've got 4th Anniversary on it's way *Winks* but haven't watched Unscripted II yet. My friend is making me wait until she can watch it with me, because her obsession with CM Punk verges on the frightening.

Bit of background to this one, in the days leading up to this show, Low-Ki had one of his fallings out with ROH, and left the company ‘for good’. Then, the sucky weather led to TNA pulling Alex Shelley, Jay Lethal and Homicide off the show, and Matt Sydal and Claudio missing flights. ROH promised fans they’d make it up to them, and if they didn’t like it, they could ask for a refund up until the third match on the card. That’s why the show is called…

ROH - Unscripted 2

Colt Cabana cuts a promo on Homicide, talking about how he’d tried to murder him, like Big Daddy murdered King Kong Kurt…umm, libel?

Match one is scheduled to be a students match up, but Adam Pearce comes out to interject himself into the ‘midgets’ match, squashing them both in awesome style and taking a seat at ringside to see what the surprise is, first hand.

Adam Pearce Vs Pelly Primaue Vs Mitch Franklin

Pearce takes them both out with piledrivers and a top rope splash onto them both. Shortest of squashes, Pearce is pretty cool at this kind of thing.

Nana cuts a typically great promo backstage, promising a huge surprise for AmDrag.

Next up is a typically barking in ring promo from Julius Smokes, who says he’s got the truly awful Grim Reefer to fight Colt Cabana tonight…but instead they get CM Punk! That’s your surprise folks, the Straight Edge lady killer himself. The fans start chanting “Fuck The Refund”…Mission Accomplished.
Punk chases off the Rottweilers, and cuts a promo on how he has trouble making friends and his tattoos wont rub off. But before he can go any further, he gets jumped form behind by Pearce, until Cabana makes the save. Prince Nana comes out to take the opportunity to laugh at his former enemy, Punk.
Punk tells Colt he’s here to tell him to leave his feud with Homicide alone, before he gets killed. Colt says the days of Punk being his father figure are over, and Punk leaves, promising anyone who wants to jump him that he takes his gear with him everywhere, like any good worker…
Wow, that segment was just all over the place. It’s pretty understandable though, only something like Punk making a surprise appearance would mollify the fans, and they needed to set up a logical way to get him on the show. still, lots of run ins and promos and fighting in about ten minutes kind of made the fans’ heads spin.

Colt Cabana Vs The Grim Reefer

The purpose of this match is too get Colt over as a changed man, so he doesn’t crack a smile as he batters the indy job boy all over the arena. If anything, this was too long. Reefer isn’t coming back, Cabana needs momentum in his feud, so he should’ve just clobbered him for five minutes then put him away with something gross. Instead, Reefer is allowed to get some offence in, which is of course silly indy things like a Satellite Crossface and an avalanche DDT. Remember when that stuff was for finishers? Anyway, eventually Colt lariats the goon in the face for the win. Bit of a waste of time, that.

Ricky Reyes Vs Kid Mikaze

Mikaze is shiiiite, really, really bad. A skinny, flippy, Indy stereotype. Reyes is rocking his Taz gimmick at the moment, so this match is by the numbers – Mikaze makes the most of the depleted card tonight by pulling out every ghey move in his arsenal, and Reyes chucks him around a lot before tapping him out with his Dragon Sleeper finish. Average squash.

Austin Aries Vs Nigel McGuinness

The best ever Pure Title match was between Austin Aries and Samoa Joe. He can’t pull something that great out here, but it’s still a nice little match indeed. The problem with the Pure Title rules is that it encourages too many matches to follow the same formula of submission and rope break. This match kind of falls into that trap, but there’s enough else going on to keep you interested.
Nigel is a guy who really made a home for himself in ROH by marrying the granny baiting Dixon style (Which translates well to a crowd who fantasise about being a part of the show) to the current vogue in British Lightweight holds and reversals that was sparked by Hero and Williams. He gets a great heel reaction in most ROH venues, and simple stuff like giving people the V’s gets a great response. The V’s > Flipping the bird.
Aries is unfairly tagged as a Jerry Lynn type move machine. In reality, his character of elite wrestler is a simple but effective one, and he’s had many stand out matches beyond mirror spots and eight zillion near falls.
Some nice little stories in this one. Nigel is prepared for Aries and blocks a lot of his trademarked spots, until Aries finally scores with his (Best in North America) tope, then he goes for all his trademarks again twice as fast, as a big fuck you to Nigel for thinking him so easy to read.
The crowd were feeling an upset at points here, Aries eventually manages to hit his 450 for a red hot two count, but his injured ribs wouldn’t allow him to make an effective cover. Soon after Nigel locked in a arm submission in the ropes for the clean tap out. Great match, Aries continues his run of top quality singles matches in ROH and Nigel is dominant as ever in Pure matches. Hard to see who’ll take the belt from him.

Roderick Strong comes out to a good reception to talk about being the number one contender. This brings out BJ Whitmer, who tells Rodders that he is fed up of other people being put in spots he could easily fill…well, if you say so, Bud. Strong agrees to put his shot on the line tonight against Whitmer, should be clubbertastic. This brings out AmDrag who tells Strong to fuck off and leads to a struggle, whilst fat ROH Student and gimp mask ROH student separate them, Nana reappears with AmDrag’s mystery opponent; the man that no-one wanted to see back in ROH, Xavier! It’s Night Of The Honourable Former Champs Of No Respect…or something.

Xavier Vs Bryan Danielson

Not bad at all. Sure, Xavier is sloppy as you like, and towards the end when he gets nervous he’s into full on “What do I do next” mode, but this is Danielson’s match. And boy, if this guy isn’t the best young wrestler in America I’m not sure who is. He uses his dickhead heel persona to smooth over the rough edges in the match, and brings an intensity that nicely masks Xavier’s wacky bumping style. But my favourite moment of the match was Xavier’s tope, he looked like he really didn’t care what happened to him, he just wanted to blast AmDrag, lovely.
In the end (After the match started to fall to bits a little, thanks to Xavier choking) AmDrag has the Cattle Mutilation locked in when Rave jumps him for the DQ. Punk runs out to make the save, is quickly attacked by Pearce, and both heels quickly beat them down.
After a quick barrage of objects from the crowd (Including Nana hilariously bumping for some toilet roll to the face) and some back and forth on the mike between Danielson and Punk, the match is made for later in the evening – Punk and Danielson Vs Rave and Pearce.

Jimmy Yang Vs Jason Blade Vs Jerrel Clarke Vs Azriel

Bag Of Wank.

Roderick Strong Vs BJ Whitmer

Pretty solid match from two guys ROH are increasingly looking too to carry the promotion. Whitmer’s biggest selling point has always been his ability to shrug off serious head wounds, so it’s a credit to them both that this match isn’t based around him getting dumped on his turnip for once.
Strong needs a bit of work on facial expressions and in ring chatter, but apart form that he’s a pretty hot prospect in the US at the moment. He lays it in to BJ all match long, and only pulls out two backbreakers; I guess both guys wanted to prove there’s more to them than what it says on their respective tins.
I just have to point out (Because I never write a review without mentioning it) that the retard fans are out in FORCE tonight. What a bunch of fucking mutants. One guy in particular seems to have bought a front row ticket just to ruin everyone else’s night with his dumb comments. Must be a PWG fan.
Anyway, both guys give it their all, with plenty of stiff shots but no straying into ridiculous head dropping, puro finisher territory, like the last match. Strong puts him away with the Gibson Driver (He and Gibson had a mentor/student angle when they were both in ROH). My only critism of the match is the fans didn’t seem to think Whitmer had a chance. If TNA continue the way they are, they’ll have to learn…

CM Punk and Bryan Danielson Vs Jimmy Rave and Adam Pearce

This was FUN. Not going to break into anyone’s MOTYC list, but a much better goodbye match for Punk than the mess with Colt Cabana was. He’s forever been a wrestler who works his opponents match, put him in the ring with Chris Hero and Punk will produce a depressing Indy wank fest that’ll make you hate wrestling forever. But against guys like Pearce and Rave he’s incredibly watchable. The Rave feud was tons of fun the first time round, and the reprise of it here is great to see. Rave is still shit scared of Punk, but Punk beat Jimmy conclusively, so he starts off amused by the irony of them meeting again until he’s pushed too far and snaps.
Danielson is great, yet again. No-one has been more consistently awesome throughout the history of ROH than AmDrag, and his versatile style and grasp of crowd work make him perfect to carry the belt. He produces the moment of the night here with an RVD style somersault into the crowd, a move he hasn’t used in a match for about two years. That’s how you protect a spot.
Rave, Nana and Pearce are all heat machines as usual, Rave continues down the road to becoming a vital part of ROH (If he isn’t already) and Pearce is the guy I never knew I liked so much. I’m glad the TNA de-emphasising means bigger roles for both in ROH.
You know Punk isn’t going to be doing any jobs here, and it’s he who picks up the win, with an Anaconda Vise on Jimmy Rave. After the match, Danielson cuts a promo thanking Punk for turning up to save the day, and tells him if he ever wants to get back into the wrestling business, he can have a title shot.
Remember I mentioned that retarded guy in the front row above? He was also the only guy shouting “sell out” at Punk. And with the crowds blessing, Punk proceeds to destroy the guy on the mike, old school style, before thanking the fans for everything and running outside to makes snow angels. The crowd mill around him, throwing snowballs and laughing. It’s a surreal end to a crazy show, ROH managed to salvage what could’ve been a disaster and turn it into a memorable night for the fans. It’s not going to sell a ton of DVDs or go down in history as a night a line was crossed, but this could’ve easily killed the town for ROH if not for some quick thinking on the bookers part, and a big favour from an old hand.

just reading the newswire on the roh site one of the next shows joe vs necro 3

I doubt they'll top the first one.

me either its most likley going to deteriorate into a mass run in match

They should book Danielson vs Necro, now that would be great. And have Joe against SD. And Hero & CC against Aries & Strong.

That match NEEDS to happen at some point. I think sticking the Tag Belts on a CZW team would be great for the feud as well.

yeah that would be a good bunch of matches but ive got a feeling theyll be bringing more guys in form czw for a posile wargames like match or at least a cage match

Have The Masturbation Nation or BlackOut been involved yet?

team masturbation havent team blackout has kinda they lost to an roh team in czw

I'd love to see Kingston in ROH, but after watching the Chikara Tag Tournament for this year I have come to the conclusion that Sabian is the worst wrestler ever.

Ruckus is the CZW champ isnt he? Or did SD lose it to someone else?

Just read on the czw website Roderick Strong ,Austin Aries Matt Sydal and Christopher Daniels have all been enterd in this years best of the best tourney