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  • ROH TV results: Cheeseburger shines in holiday ten-man tag

    A holiday-themed episode of Ring of Honor television from the Nashville Fairgrounds featured a “Christmas surprise” ten-man tag team match. Elsewhere on the show, ANX have a showcase match while Truth Martini displays his holiday cheer and his dastardly side. Also, Prince Nana hands out another envelope.

    Prince Nana joined Kevin Kelly on commentary. Nana himself would actually be involved in the story of the first match. The backstory is for several months Nana has handed out envelopes to both Caprice Coleman and Will Ferrera, but the contents of the envelopes are unknown.

    Before the opening match, Caprice Coleman cut a promo on Ferrera using a play on words talking about getting the mail. He said he and Ferrera had the same mailman. However, Coleman went on to say no matter what mail Ferrera or any other “jive turkeys” receive, his stack of mail is bigger. He cackled and said all of his mail will always come priority.

    Will Ferrera vs. Caprice Coleman ended in a no contest

    After a tense handshake, a slugfest ensued. Kelly noted on commentary how these two technical wrestlers with seemingly no issues between them were brawling. The only connection was the mysterious envelopes and Nana was gleefully watching the violence escalate.

    Ferrera did a tope to the outside, where he grabbed a chair. Coleman rammed Ferrera into the guardrail then dropkicked him into it as well. Caprice executed his “Trinity” which is his trifecta of northern lights suplexes. Ferrera cut him off and slammed him off the top turnbuckle.

    Ferrera brought a chair into the ring as did Coleman. They began dueling with the chairs and the referee called for the bell, throwing out the match and ruling it a no contest. Officials poured into the ring to separate the two.

    Backstage, ROH world champion Jay Lethal was joined by Truth Martini and Taeler Hendrix. Martini wore Santa hat complete with a fake white beard and they all were surrounded by Christmas presents. Lethal was excited to open a present. Martini cautioned him this was serious. Lethal was the team captain of the upcoming Christmas surprise tag team match. Opening one box would reveal a member of Lethal’s team.

    Lethal picked the biggest box because he was confident that signified Moose. He allowed Taeler to open the envelope. She looked disgusted at what it revealed. She would not say who it was so Lethal snatched it away from her. He freaked out when discovering it was Cheeseburger. Lethal threw a tantrum and stormed off.

    After a commercial break, Turth Martini was in the ring with Donovan Dijak and “Outlaw” Ken Phoenix. Truth was cheerful and referenced the holidays. He said he bummed a cigarette from Phoenix earlier in the day. In return, he would consider letting Phoenix join the House of Truth if he impressed Martini in what he described as “the right way.”

    ANX (Kenny King & Rhett Titus) beat Donovan Dijak & Ken Phoenix (with Truth Martini)

    Titus had the early advantage until Dijak low-bridged the top rope and Titus spilled to the outside. Dijack jumped him, allowing his team to start getting heat on Titus. Phoenix was in the ring but refused to tag out even when ordered to do so. This allowed Titus to escape the clutches of the heels and make a hot tag to King.

    King came in running wild and Dijak made the save on a pin attempt. Moments later King did a dive to the outside after Titus made a blind tag. Titus dove off the top rope and Dijack caught him then did a chokeslam into a backbreaker. Phoenix tagged himself back in the match. He and Dijak argued over it, allowing the ANX to do some double team moves and eventually to finish off Phoenix. King pinned him for the win.

    Afterwards, Truth teased giving a thumbs up to Phoenix only to swerve him and give him the thumbs down. So, Dijak executed the “feast your eyes” on Phoenix and left him laying. Prince Nana gave Dijak an envelope and he took it although Martini was unaware.

    Kevin Kelly interviewed Steve Corino. Wearing a neck brace, Corino talked briefly about his surgery and not letting it get him down. He thanked the fans for their support. He then warned BJ Whitmer that one day he will pay for the torment he caused Corino.

    For the Christmas surprise ten-man tag main event, the team captains were ROH world champion Jay Lethal and ROH TV champion Roderick Strong. Everyone got a full entrance as that was part of the surprise revealing of the teammates. Cheeseburger was the only name revealed beforehand except for the respective team captains.

    Veda Scott, Stokely Hathaway, Nick Jackson, Truth Martini, Taeler Hendrix, BJ Whitmer and Colby Corino all appeared as seconds but were all ordered to the back during a commercial break.  

    Roderick Strong & Mark Briscoe & Cedric Alexander & Moose & Matt Jackson beat Jay Lethal & Jay Briscoe & Cliff Compton & Adam Page & Cheeseburger

    This was quite action packed. There was a great series of exchanges by Lethal and Alexander followed by a brawl involving Compton and Mark Briscoe. Mark suggested they take it to the floor so they did. They began to brawl at ringside. When a chair and table became involved, referee Todd Sinclair broke it up and ordered them back into the ring before a commercial.

    After the break, Cheeseburger (the smallest) squared off with Moose (the largest), which didn’t end well for Cheeseburger. Roddy Strong bodyslammed his entire team one-by-one to top of Cheeseburger. Eventually somehow the underdog Cheeseburger made a comeback and countered three consecutive back suplexes to make a hot tag to Jay Briscoe.

    Following some exchanges with Moose where Briscoe gave him a death valley driver, Jay squared off with brother Mark. They had a short but great slugfest. By this point, the crowd started chanting “this is awesome.” Adam Page did a shooting star press off the apron to the floor. Matt Jackson and Moose double-teamed Page then gave him a double superkick before another commercial break.

    When the show returned from break, Moose was giving Page a Liger bomb and Matt did a 450 splash off the top rope. Cheeseburger made the save on the subsequent pin attempt. Cheeseburger was surrounded with five-on-one odds. He smacked Moose and dove under some legs to miraculously escape. Then, Cheeseburger was a house of fire with a flurry of offense. He hit several balm strikes only for Moose to cut him off with a spear.

    Lethal jumped in to hit Moose with the lethal injection. Things got crazy from there with superkicks, a lariat, a sick kick, more kinds of kicks, a brainbuster, a Michinoku Driver and more. Compton climbed to the top turnbuckle but was superkicked and fell through a table at ringside.

    For the finish, Strong did his falling backbreaker and Mark Briscoe jumped off with the froggybow on Page to score the pinfall. Afterwards, the winning team all offered a handshake to Cheeseburger and the announcers put him over.     

  • WWE RAW live results: The Slammy Awards, plus post-show notes

    The Big Takeaway: 

    Slammies were given out. Only major news item on the show was John Cena is returning next week. The show was focused on getting the League of Nations over as a heel group. 

    Show Recap:

    Stephanie McMahon started the show smiling. She said McMahons don’t wallow in their self-pity, so she won’t let Roman Reigns get her down tonight. Reigns showed up smiling because he was the new champion. He suspected that McMahon had something up her sleeve, but he doesn’t sweat any of the McMahons or HHH. Roman said he hasn’t seen HHH since he laid him out at TLC, but he told her to tell HHH he wasn’t hard to find, he was the one wearing the gold. 

    Stephanie ordered him to get out of her ring. Reigns just laughed at her. Stephanie shrieked as Reigns kept laughing and the fans chanted “no.’ Reigns said the fans didn’t want him to leave. Roman asked the fans if they wanted to see her get really mad, and he turned his back to her. Stephanie screamed at him to get back in the ring, saying “How dare you turn your back to me!” They love taking lines from “Gladiator.” 

    Reigns kept smiling and walked back up through the crowd. Fans were cheering as he made his way up the crowd as Stephanie ordered him to get back in the ring. Roman ignored repeated threats. Stephanie got so mad that she ordered Reigns’ cousins, the Usos, to wrestle the New Day. Reigns no sold that.  Then she ordered Dean Ambrose to wrestle Sheamus in a steel cage. 

    Dolph Ziggler came out for the first Slammy Award for the “Breakout Star of the Year.” The nominees were Kevin Owens, Neville, Charlotte, Tyler Breeze and Braun Strowman. 

    The winner was Neville. His acceptance speech was interrupted by Owens, who said he should have won. Owens got cheered. He ordered Neville to take a walk. Neville complied. What the hell kind of booking was that? They should have handed Neville a shovel so he can bury himself. Owens turned his ire to Ziggler, claiming that the only way Ziggler could win a Slammy was if they awarded “Has-Been of the Year.” That led to a pull-apart brawl with Ziggler fighting in his tuxedo. 

    Kane defeated Bray Wyatt by DQ (:53)

    They spilled over to the floor where Luke Harper, Erick Rowan and Strowman jumped Kane for the DQ. The Dudley Boyz and Tommy Dreamer ran out for the save, starting up yet another eight man between these teams. 

    The Wyatt Family defeated Kane, Tommy Dreamer and the Dudley Boyz (2:47) 

    Harper pinned Devon Dudley with a lariat. The Dudley Boyz gave Harper Wazzup, but Strowman clothesline do both Dudleys. Kane clotheslined Strowman over the top rope before the finish. 

    Santino Marella came out for the “LOL Moment of the Year.” Crowd was happy to see Marella. Nominees were the New Day and it’s showdown with Edge and Christian; the Bushwackers being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame; the Miz world premiere of his erectile dysfunction commercial where he turned out the Miz was the one who got over; R-Trtuh cutting a promo for the Money in the Bank match he wasn’t even competing in; and the New Day dancing with Stephanie, while HHH reluctantly joined in.

    R-Truth was the winner. Santino accepted the award for R-Truth because he’s never won a Slammy before, which the audience kind of groaned at. R-Truth came out and demanded the award. Santino took off running with the Slammy and R-Truth chased him. 

    Santa Claus cut a promo wishing everyone a Merry Chirstmas. Of course, it was Mick Foley. His daughter Noelle and son Dewey were dressed as elves. 

    Paul Heyman came out to present a Slammy. He said aside from LOL and Diva of the Year, every Slammy should go to Brock Lesnar. The award was the “OMG Shocking Moment of the Year.” Nominees were Seth Rollins cashing in the briefcase at WrestleMania; Lesnar giving Michael Cole and a random cameraman F-5s the night after WrestleMania; Kalisto delivering Solina del Sol on Jimmy Uso at TLC off the top of a ladder onto another ladder; Sheamus cashing in the briefcase and pinning Reigns at Survivor Series, ending Reigns 1st world title reign after 5:15; and the Wyatt Family jumping the Undertaker at the end of their Hell in a Cell match. 

    Kalisto was the winner. He came out wearing a mask in a three-piece suit, which reminded me of Mil Mascaras in the dying days of World Class Wrestling. Crowd didn’t really react to him. Weird to see Kalisto and Heyman out there together. There was a photo tweeted of Owens waiting in the ring taking a nap against a turnbuckle as Kalisto did the promo. 

    Kevin Owens defeated Dolph Ziggler (12:05)

    More good stuff from Ziggler. Owens won with the Pop-Up Power Bomb after Ziggler tried to give him a Zig Zag. Ziggler had just hit a Famouser for a two count. Ziggler has really upped his game over the last six months. Nothing new regarding an Ambrose-Owens program tonight, so it remains to be seen if that’s a program that fell through the cracks or if it’s on a one week sabbatical. 

    Stephanie came out to present the Superstar of the Year Slammy. Everyone on the roster was nominated. Reigns, Sheamus, John Cena, Owens, Ambrose, Wyatt, The New Day, Lesnar, the Undertaker, Kane, Rollins, and Sting were highlighted in an excellent video package. 

    Stephanie announced Rollins as the winner. Rollins came out on crutches to a good babyface reaction, and the announcers put him over like he was a face. There was even a “Thank you, Seth” chant. Rollins wasn’t shilling a bit, going full arrogant saying there was no other option for Superstar of the Year. He brought up his performance at the Royal Rumble in the three-way against Cena and Lesnar, winning the championship at WrestleMania, etc. As quickly as the success came, one wrong landing made it all disappear. 

    Rollins turned serious and said in 2016, he would redesign Seth Rollins, he would rebuild himself and he will reclaim a championship he never lost. 

    Alberto Del Rio (C) defeated Jack Swagger in a nontitle match (7:07) 

    Alberto Del Rio won with the Double Stomp on the Tree of Woe. Afterwards, Sheamus gave Jack Swagger the Brogue Kick. 

    Mark Hery came out to present the “Hero in All of Us” Award. This was an award presented to various wrestlers who help out with charity. Nominees were: Natalya for her work with the Special Olympics and the USO; Reigns for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and the Dosomething.org campaign; the Big Show for the U.S. Armed Forces and the Special Olympics; Titus O’Neal for his commitment to help the homeless; Cena for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 

    Cena was the winner to wide cheers. Fans weren’t as happy when it was announced he wasn’t there. Henry accepted the award for Cena and appeared a little choked up, perhaps knowing this was the last time he would be at a Slammy presentation as an active wrestler. 

    They announced non televised Slammy Winners, including Lesnar vs. Undertaker as Rivalry of the Year; the Stone Cold Podcast as Best WWE Network Show; Damien Mizdow winning Double Cross of the Year (knocking off Del Rio in an upset); and Reigns leveling HHH as Extreme Moment of the Year. 

    Supposedly, Santa Claus came out to present the award for Surprise Return of the Year. It was Bo Dallas under the outfit. Nominees were the Dudleys, Chris Jericho, Del Rio (with Zeb Coulter not mentioned or even shown), Kane (?), and Sting. 

    The winner was Sting, who was also absent. Crowd wasn’t happy about that one either. 

    New Day were out and unhappy that they didn’t get the Slammy for Tag Team of the Year. As revenge, Big E. Was going to ruin the ending to the latest Star Wars movie, but Kofi Kingston didn’t want that because his son hadn’t seen the film yet. The Usos came out with new music. 

    The Usos defeated the New Day in a 2-on-3 handicap match (10:57) 

    Jey Uso pinned Xaiver Woods after reversing an Rolling Reverse Cradle. Pretty good match but the fans were getting worn out by this point. Fans chanted for Bayley. How about we keep that one quiet before she’s called up to the main roster and buried faster than you can say “Miss Universe is Miss Colombia?” 

    R-Truth, who retrieved his Slammy from Santino, came out to present the Diva of the Year. Nominees were: Nikki Bella, Naomi, Paige, Sasha Banks, and Charlotte. 

    Paige was announced as the winner. Paige and R-Truth embraced. It appeared R-Truth tried to put his handprint on her ass because she had to push him off. Paige acted like a heel. Did she tun again since TLC? Of course, this was the Steve Harvey spot that you knew was coming. R-Truth said he had made a mistake and Paige was the runner-up. The winner was announced as Nikki Bella. Nikki came out and asked Paige to stick around. Nikki did a total babyface speech, dedicated the award to everyone. She and Paige embraced. 

    Rusev defeated Neville via submission (8:02) 

    Rusev got almost all the offense and got the submission win with the Accoldate. Neville attempted the Red Arrow but Rusev moved, Neville jumped off right into a thrust kick by Rusev. Post match, Sheamus gave Neville another Brogue Kick. 

    Miz, who was on commentary for the Neville match, presented the Slammy for the This is Awesome Moment of the Year: Nominees were Lesnar destroying J&J Security’s car; Randy Orton’s RKO of Rollins at WrestleMania; Stephanie McMahon starting the Divas Revolution; Ronda Rousey showing up at WrestleMania and the Shield reforming to power bomb Orton through an announcers table. 

    The Rock and Rousey at WrestleMania. No one reacted because they knew Rock nor Rousey wasn’t within 1,000 miles of the place. 

    Becky Lynch defeated Brie Bella via submission (5:11) 

    Becky Lynch won with Disarm-her after blocking Brie Bella’s La Magistral cradle. Charlotte was at ringside but didn’t interfere. Crowd has faded out. 

    Ric Flair came out to award the Slammy for Match of the Year. Nominees were Lesnar vs. Cena vs. Rollins at Royal Rumble: HHH vs. Sting at WrestleMania; Owens vs. Cena at the Elimination Chamber; Reings vs. Ziggler vs. Owens vs. Delp Rio in a Fatal Four Way #1 Contenders Match on Raw from November and Lesnar vs. Undertaker at Hell in a Cell. Why Cesaro vs. Cena in July wasn’t nominated is beyond me. 

    The winner was Undetaker vs. Lesnar. Lesnar’s music played, but of course he didn’t come out. Heyman did and got booed. Quite funny to see Flair and Heyman shake hands since Flair fired Heyman from WCW in 1990 over a promo Heyman gave where he went against Flair’s orders and basically put himself over. Fans chanted for Lesnar. Heyman said Lesnar has no desire to accept awards, he wants to show up for a fight. He said while the fans want Lesnar, no one in the locker room is man enough to want Lesnar. Heyman said the Undertaker stood toe-to-toe with Lesnar in a Hell in a Cell, and he paid tribute to Undertaker. Heyman tried to rally the fans with a babyface interview, but they wanted stars at this point. 

    The League of Nations jumped the Usos in the back. Rusev put Jimmy in the Accolade while Del Rio but Jey in the cross armbreaker. Sheamus gave them both Brogue kicks and said “2 down, one to go.” 

    Dean Ambrose (C) defeated Sheamus in a cage match (10:45) 

    Ambrose won by climbing over the cage when he and Sheamus had climbed over and slugged it out. After Sheamus hit a head butt, Ambrose fell to the floor. Once Sheamus hit the floor, Reigns hit him with a spear. Both men made several attempts to climb over the cage. Sheamus gave Ambrose White Noise off the top rope for a two count. Not even that spot could get the crowd buzzing. They fought again on the top rope where Sheamus crouched himself. Ambrose tried to climb over, but Rusev and Del Rio stopped him. So Ambrose jumped off the top of the cage with a hooking clothesline for a good near fall. Ambrose tried to get out of the cage, but Del Rio slammed the cage door into his face. Amazing to see something that drew millions in Dallas in the 80s used as a transition spot here. Reigns ran out of the crowd and gave Del Rio a spear, and hit Rusev with a Superman Punch. Sheamus tried to climb out, but Reigns met him at the top, had a staredown with him and threw a chair into the ring. Ambrose used the chair for several shots across the back, then hit Dirty Deeds. There was a very audible “Sheamus is boring” chant. Stephanie watched from the back. As Ambrose climbed in the ring, Sheamus gave him a Brogue Kick. Rusev and Del Rio put the boots to Ambrose before the match even started. 

    SUMMARY: 

    Show ran out of steam about 90 minutes in. The good news was Reigns got a good reaction the week after winning the strap. 

    Post-Show Notes from Eric Thibault:

    WWE returns on Friday March 4th for a Road To Wrestlemania house show.  The presale password is WWEPRE.

    Kids loved chanting New Day Rocks before the show. Definitely not as full as last Raw in August featuring Undertaker and Lesnar. 3/4 of upper level curtained off. 

    Pre-Show dark match:  Lucha Dragons vs. The Acension.  They went straight to big moves, Acension double teamed Kalisto for the heat one minute in. Hot tag to Sin Cara two minutes in. Kalisto and Sin Cara hit topes, then the Salida del sol and the Swanton for the victory in 3:30.

    Roman Reigns was cheered loudly during the opening video package.

    Nikki and Paige were really over. The League of Nations received little to no reaction during entrances, its matches or post match angles.

    Becky Lynch had a really cool, smoke filled entrance during the commercial break.

    This was the second time on RAW in Minneapolis in the last couple years that they teased Lesnar but didn’t deliver.

    Fans chanted “This is boring” during the cage match but flipped after Ambrose dove off the cage.  Ambrose and Roman celebrated on the ramp after the match.  No post match angle or match.

  • ROH Final Battle Reader Feedback

    Thumbs way up!
    Best match: Jay Lethal vs AJ Styles
    Worst match: By default, The Kingdom vs War Machine

    Everything on this show was good to great, except for the tag match which was obviously hindered by Taven’s leg injury.  I’ve become a ROH fan in 2015 after never really watching them before and I have no reservations about continuing to give them my money for their top-notch professional wrestling product.

    Jon

    -Thumbs up for the show

    – Best Match: AJ Styles vs Jay Lethal

    – Worst Match: 6 Man Tag Match

    Interesting show when it’s all put together. The opener was great and got the crowd pumped (still shocked at the ANX heat). Castle vs Young & the six man tag match felt a little flat. The Cole & O’Reilly match tore the house down along with the AJ & Lethal match. Fish vs Roddy and Elgin vs Moose were very solid matches.

    The crowd was very hit and miss. I was there live and a portion of the crowd (10-20 people all lumped together) were absolutely putting out garbage chants for attention that took away from some matches. Other parts of the crowd were surprisingly quiet, which let the obnoxious ones sound loud. At times the crowd got it together and really supported the in-ring work. Far cry from the amazing crowd at War of The Worlds night 2.

    Taven’s injury looked bad when it happened. When he was being helped out you could see him crying, the man was devastated, thinking its a nasty injury. 

    Luis Gonzalez

    I was there live, sitting on the camera side in the 6th row. 

    Thumbs up!

    Best match: AJ Styles VS Jay Lethal, but O’Reilly/Cole was great
    Worst match: Kingdom VS War Machine, poor Matt Taven

    Crowd was into everything. Biggest pops were for the Young Bucks, the entire finish of Lethal/Styles, Dalton Castle and the Boys reuniting, Roderick Strong was actually very very over as a babyface, little to no boos, Adam Cole was very over, even cheating to win he got a huge pop. It’s crazy how well ROH can put on an entertaining show, everyone looks good, everyone gets over, and they have great wrestling matches. It’s ridiculous how much talent is on this roster and the kind of guys that I saw tonight, the promos I saw tonight, and the fact that WWE or TNA reject these guys and won’t even take a flyer on them when they’re better talkers or workers than 90% of the WWE roster. Guys like Adam Cole, Jay Lethal, the Briscoes, Fish/O’Reilly, Roderick Strong, not even mentioning AJ Styles. Just crazy. 

    Richard Kelly

    Best matches were a tie between the main event and Cole / O’Reilly.  Moose & Elgin was very good too.

    Six man, TV title, and Tag title matches were all disappointing, but I guess it’s understandable in the tag title match given the injuries.  For the Six Man, the reveal of Alex Shelley as the man in the mask was a good angle but poorly delivered.  There was no buildup to Sabin coming out for the segment and Shelley just walks out and unmasks and that’s it.  For the TV title, I just didn’t care.  I’m blaming Fish, since Roddy was my favourite wrestler this year probably.

    I had actually thought the main event would have some sort of referee screwup since Sinclair was the official.  Wonder if that goes anywhere.

    I have no interest in Lethal vs. Lynn if it happens.

    Overall thumbs up, but not as good as my expectations (though they were sky high).

    Kevin Elliott

    ROH Final Battle feedback

    Thumbs up

    Best match: Adam Cole vs Kyle O’Reilly

    Worst match: Rhett TItus and Kenny King vs The Briscoes vs The Young Bucks

    The three-way tag match was fine but was the low end of stuff on the show for me. The bell-to-bell stuff in the tag title change was short but I really like War Machine and could never dislike this match.

    Cole and O’Reilly had an incredible match, doing state-of-the-art working style with strikes and submissions.

    There was lots of other great stuff to. Strong and Fish had a good match and I was actually ok with the finish. And Elgin going over Moose was good by me too.

    The world title match delivered in my mind. Given some people’s contract statuses it is hard to know what is coming at the Dome show but I do think some freshening up of the roster would be good. But to be positive everything was quite good on this and it caps off a great year for the company

    Dave Musgrave
    Oshawa, Ontario

  • ROH Final Battle 2015 live results: Jay Lethal vs. AJ Styles, Roderick Strong vs. Bobby Fish

    Welcome to live coverage of ROH Final Battle, the company’s last major event of 2015. The show is available on traditional PPV starting at 9 PM EST, emanating from 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, PA.

    We’re looking for your thoughts on tonight’s show so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to Dave Meltzer

    We’re also looking for your thoughts on Wednesday’s NXT Takeover show and tomorrow nightt’s UFC on FOX shows.

    Steve Corino is announcing the show under a mask as Mr. Wrestling III, doing a tongue in cheek pretending he’s not Steve Corino.

    YOUNG BUCKS VS. ALL NIGHT EXPRESS VS. MARK & JAY BRISCOE FOR THE NO 1 CONTENDER SPOT

    The All Night Express won with a Super One Night stand (combination superplex by Titus and blockbuster by Kenny King) on Mark Briscoe.  The match was shorter than you’d think, all big moves and about 200 superkicks by the Bucks.  The crowd early on booed whenever Titus & King would tag in as they only wanted to see the Bucks vs. Briscoes.  Lots of dives, Matt & Nick both did 450s on Titus but King saved, there was a Meltzer driver in there as well.  Crowd was really into it.

    DALTON CASTLE VS. SILAS YOUNG

    Young won again when Castle accidentally knocked down one of the boys, which distracted Castle, and Young used the TKO, called Misery, for the pin.  Crowd was into the match.  Match was solid.

    Young after the match said I’ve already taken your boys and beaten you twice and told him to do the right thing and admit that I’m the real man.  Crowd wasn’t happy with that.  He didn’t and Young put the boots to him and told him to admit it.  Castle refused and Young kicked him some more.  Young brought in a chair.  The boys each had a chair.  He told Young to call him the real man or he’s going to sic the boys on him.  The Boys were about to hit him with chair shots.  Castle said, “You’re a man, but you’re a foolish man.”  The Boys then turned on Young and Castle spun him around and slammed him.  So they all reunited.  They all posed together.

    MICHAEL ELGIN VS. MOOSE

    Elgin won clean with a burning hammer after crotching him.  Both shook hands and raised each others hands when it was over.  Before Elgin hit the burning hammer, he said, “Lethal, I’m coming,” talking about their match at the Tokyo Dome.  The Dome match was mentioned several times with the idea that Elgin faces Lethal no matter what happens in the title match.  Moose is still green but for a huge guy he was flying around.  Elgin did some good power moves including a two German suplex spot.  Moose did a plancha over the post and a couple of high dropkicks.  No controversy on the finish.

    Adam Cole did a promo on tape talking about triceps, elbow and shoulder surgery.  Kyle O’Reilly said maybe Cole will go farther in the sport than me but this match isn’t about this.   Cole said tha O’Reilly was a lesser version of Cole.

    ADAM COLE VS. KYLE O’REILLY

    This match was great.  The finish saw O’Reilly catch Cole in the triangle, but Cole got his feet on the ropes and pinned him.  O’Reilly attacked him after twice putting him in armbars.  Crowd was chanting “O’Reilly” when this was over.  Mostly O’Reilly doing all kinds of submissions and Cole escaping and hitting big moves including a number of superkicks.  We may need a moratorium of those the rest of the night.  This match had flying, submissions, kicks, knees, palms, a Frye-Takayama spot, dropkicks off the apron by O’Reilly knocking Cole off a chair.    

    ACH & MATT SYDAL & ALEX SHELLEY VS. CHRIS SABIN & CHRISTOPHER DANIELS & FRANKIE KAZARIAN

    There were a few rough spots but overall this was really good.  The story of the match was that Sabin would never get in with Shelley, even at the end they never had that spot.  The finish saw ACH use the 450 on Sabin followed by Sydal doing the shooting star on him for the pin.  Shelley had given Kazarian a DDT on the apron.  At one time they lost the crowd but they got them back.  Sydal is really good.  Everyone in this match was.  Sabin isn’t what he once was but after all the injuries he was still very good.

    RODERICK STRONG VS. BOBBY FISH FOR THE TV TITLE

    They did a total screwjob finish.  Fish got Strong in a heel hook and Strong tapped out but ref Todd Sinclair was positioned badly and he didn’t see it.  Fish got up and celebrated the win and fans chanted “You tapped out.”  Strong gave him a flying knee to the chin and got the pin.  This was a very well wrestled match from start to finish.  The crowd was with it but not over the top with it.  Strong had a lot of cool backbreaker type spots and Fish’s big spot was a falcon arrow off the top rope.  

    Veda Scott came out with Cedric Alexander.  She wanted Nigel McGuinness to come out.  She claimed Cedric Alexander was subject to unsafe working conditinos.  The crowd was chanting “Shut the fuck up” at her.  She announced an agreement was reached and a settlement was confidential but we’re happy with it and 2016 will see more of us.  Alexander showed an expensive watch from a supposed settlement from ROH.

    MICHAEL BENNETT & MATT TAVEN VS. RAY ROWE & HANSON FOR TAG TITLES 

    Hanson & Rowe won the belts in 3:00.  Bennett came in with a cracked rib and Taven may have blown out his knee, plus Bennett & Taven’s future in ROH was in question since they haven’t signed a new deal.  Taven gave Rowe a spike piledriver off the middle rope to the floor before the match started.  He came back and stopped selling that way too fast.

    Taven was being helped out of the ring. 

    We just got word Taven has a right knee injury from he spike piledriver spot before the match even started.  Until he’s examined there’s no word how serious it is, but it’s never a good time for such an injury and this is probably a really bad time.

    JAY LETHAL VS. A.J. STYLES FOR ROH TITLE

    Nigel McGuiness and Jerry Lynn are announcing the match.  Lynn may be an angle. 

    Excellent match.  Most of the match was Lethal working on Styles’ lower back.  Styles took a lot of punishment.  He took whips into the guard rail.  Lethal did two topes but on the third, Styles did a springboard off the guard rail into an elbow.  Lethal also threw Styles over the top rope through a table.  Styles kicked out of the first Lethal injection.  The finish came when Styles missed the Pele kick.  After some reverses Lethal got out of the Styles clash, hit the Gotch piledriver and Lethal injection for the clean win.  They pushed hard how he beat Styles using Jerry Lynn’s finisher right in front of Jerry Lynn, since Lynn’s finish was the Gotch piledriver.

  • Ring of Honor TV results: Jerry Lynn confronts Jay Lethal

    The go-home show leading to Final Battle was the second installment in the current series of Ring of Honor television episodes from the Nashville Fairgrounds. The focus was on building the pay-per-view and every match had some purpose in an upcoming PPV match. Jerry Lynn returned to ROH for an interview segment and a confrontation with ROH world champion Jay Lethal. After this show aired, ROH announced Lynn would also appear at Final Battle.

    The show opened with the entrance of Adam Cole. The announcers, Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuiness, talked about Cole’s upcoming match at Final Battle against Kyle O’Reilly.

    Adam Cole beat Corey Hollis

    Cole began squashing him while showcasing a variety a moves like a fireman’s carry into a neckbreaker and a shining wizard. Hollis made a comeback but Cole quickly cut him off. Though he was over with the crowd, the villainous Cole mocked some ringside fans. Hollis sidestepped an attempted superkick and used a schoolboy to roll up Cole for a nearfall.

    Moments later, Cole hit a bicycle kick that they had teased earlier in the match. Hollis countered a suplex into a stunner then did a fireman’s carry into a spinebuster. Hollis jumped off the top rope and ate a superkick. Cole picked him up for a suplex into a neckbreaker for the pinfall. Afterwards, Cole remained in the ring to cut a promo. He promised to keep it short and said when he makes a promise he means it. He promised to beat O’Reilly at Final Battle and “end” him in Ring of Honor.

    Last week on ROH TV, the show ended with three tag teams brawling. In a follow-up, Kevin joined Nigel (who is also the matchmaker in storyline) in announcing a three-way tag match at Final Battle with the Briscoes vs. Young Bucks vs. ANX.

    Related to the tag team picture, the next match on the go-home show showcased War Machine as they readied to challenge the Kingdom on the PPV for the tag team titles.

    War Machine (Hanson & Raymond Rowe) beat the Washington Bullets (Jon & Trey Williams)

    In an updated version of a Road Warriors squash match, Hanson and Rowe wrecked shop on the Bullets. They did power moves all over the place and manhandled their opponents. Rowe held one Bullet over his knee while Hanson jumped off the ropes with flying legdrop for the pin. War Machine looked impressive and menacing.

    Before the next match, Mike Posey from “the hood” in Trussville, Alabama, marched to the ring with a posse. His five-person entourage included three dudes and two women. In doing a white rapper gimmick, Posey began rapping badly and dissing Dalton Castle. Poesy’s entourage encouraged his behavior.

    Dalton Castle beat Mike Posey

    The announcers talked up Castle’s return grudge match at Final Battle with Silas Young over who should rightly have custody of The Boys. Castle took most of the offense in this match with Posey. At one point, the entourage caused a distraction allowing Posey some offense. Posey dove off the top rope into the arms of Castle, who caught him and tossed him over the ropes on to the posse at ringside. Castle gave Posey his finish, the Bang-a-Rang, to score the pin.

    In a post-match promo, Castle eloquently compared himself to the Aurora Borealis and vowed to kick Silas Young’s ass before calling him out right then. Instead of Silas confronting him, The Boys sauntered to the ring and confronted Dalton.

    With Dalton distracted by The Boys and their newfound attitudes, Silas attacks him from behind and gives him the Misery finisher to leave Castle down and out. The Boys raised the hands of Silas and acted as if their time with the “Last Real Man” truly has transformed them, creating another layer to the drama that will play out at Final Battle.

    In an in-ring interview segment, Kevin Kelly brought out Jerry Lynn. Kelly asked Lynn about his recent surgery and Lynn thanked the fans for their support during his recovery. Kevin brought up the upcoming ROH world title match at Final Battle and asked for Jerry to predict a winner.

    Though he tried to avoid directly answering the question, Kelly pressed him while Lynn dodged the question putting over both guys in the process. Cue House of Truth theme music and Jay Lethal emerges carrying his ROH world title belt while also accompanied by Truth Martini and Taeler Hendrix.

    Lethal confronted Lynn, who offered a friendly handshake. Lethal no-sold the handshake and said he was out there for one reason, which was he really wanted to hear the answer to the question. Lethal instructed Lynn to “turn your hearing aid up because he asked you a question.”

    The expression on Lynn’s face immediately changed. Lynn said he knew Lethal and his family for years.

    “You are not the Jay Lethal that I knew back then,” Lynn said. “You’re an arrogant prick!”

    Lynn then basically said that overconfidence would be Lethal’s downfall and AJ Styles will beat him to become the champion. The crowd chanted for AJ in response. Lethal ordered the audience to shut up before saying Lynn and everybody else blindly follows AJ and Lethal said he “don’t give a damn” what Lynn thought. He threatened to kick Lynn’s ass.

    Lynn countered by bringing up he has known Lethal’s parents for as long as he has known Lethal. Lynn said Lethal wanted to make them proud, but by attacking him they would be ashamed instead. Lethal thought it over for a moment before snapping.

    Lethal yelled at Lynn saying he was standing in the ring with the ROH champion and claimed he was the greatest wrestler in the world. Lethal shouted about climbing a ladder this past year to get where he is while AJ only climbed a step stool. With just a touch of trepidation in his voice Lethal continued screaming about AJ being pushed to the main events and the title picture unfairly.

    Lethal went on to say he would not attack Lynn because he needed Lynn healthy so Jerry could console AJ when Lethal beats him at Final Battle. Lethal said that is when AJ will learn Lethal himself is the greatest just like he claims. Before storming off, Lethal concluded with the proclamation, “I am professional wrestling.”

    Following an announcement of Moose vs. Michael Elgin being signed for Final Battle, a video package highlighted their feud. Their story is they both want a shot at the ROH world title and each stands in the other’s way on their journey to a title shot.

    Alex Shelley came to ringside to provide guest commentary for the main event tag match. They quickly recapped the scene from last week in which Shelley unveiled himself as the mysterious masked character that had been causing grief for Chris Sabin and the Addiction. Shelley is set to team with Matt Sydal and ACH in a six-man tag match at against the Addiction at Final Battle.

    Matt Sydal & ACH beat Roppongi Vice (Rocky Romero & Trent Baretta)

    Sydal and Romero start slow but quickly picked up the pace with Sydal executing a monkey flip and later a hurricanrana on Romero, who begged off. ACH and Baretta squared off. At one point, ACH did a backflip then immediately sprung up with a dropkick.

    After a commercial break, Roppongi Vice were in control with Romero getting heat on Sydal. ACH came in off the hot tag. He does a crossbody off the top, an enzuigiri on Romero and catches Baretta on the outside with a soccer kick. ACH then runs across the ring, springs off the middle rope with one foot and does his crazy flip dive over the ropes to the outside.

    Romero and Baretta cut off ACH with a series of great double team moves. Sydal makes a bling tag only to get caught with sliced bread from Romero. However, ACH jumps off the top with a double foot stomp on Romero. Sydal and Baretta exchange strikes with Sydal gaining the advantage. Romero jumped in to make the save for Baretta and ACH jumps in to make the save for Sydal moments later.

    ACH did a handspring over the ropes into a dive on the floor. Sydal went for the shooting star press but Baretta got his knees up. Roppongi Vice went for their finisher. As Romero did a springboard off the top rope, ACH flew in out of nowhere off a springboard to wipe out Romero. Sydal executed a code red on Baretta to score the pin.

  • AJ Styles says he’ll work Ring of Honor Final Battle and Tokyo Dome

    By John Pozarowski

    These are highlights from an AJ Styles interview on the Two Man Power Trip radio show.

    TMPToW: Do you plan on wrestling at both Ring Of Honor’s upcoming Final Battle & New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 10:

    AJ: As far as right now I definitely plan on doing both events. I’ve just been rehabbing a little bit on the back, I don’t know if it’s a slipped disc or a herniated disc it was very minimal which is good. The Doctor says it looks like it mostly seems like it is muscle so basically that’s just rehabbing that and I am feeling pretty good. I just got into DDPY. He (Diamond Dallas Page) doesn’t like it being called yoga. It is a little bit different and man, this thing has done wonders for me and everyday you do DDPY and you get your heart rate up to 150 just stretching and it just awesome. 

    TMPToW: Does potentially favoring a back issue hamper your preparation for such a big match vs. Jay Lethal at Final Battle:

    AJ: Well I don’t plan on favoring it. If it’s something that I have to favor than I am not 100% and if it’s not 100% it’s just going to get worse. I believe by next week I’ll be ready and I don’t see anything messing with me and I’m not in a lot of pain. For starters I was and I didn’t want to make it worse and that’s why I came home from the (NJPW Tag League) tag tournament. After rehabbing it I feel like I’ll definitely be ready to go next week and be 100%. 

    TMPToW: Has there been a pursued interest by WWE to get you into NXT and join both Samoa Joe and James Storm:

    AJ: I haven’t had a call from someone who wants to hire me so nothing really and I’m okay with that and that’s not a big deal to me. I think it’s more of the fans wanting something like this to happen than what I am wanting to happen. I want to be able to retire in a couple of years so I am going to go wherever that takes me. But I have no problem doing the Independents, I love it. I have a great time on the Indies. I’ve had a lot of great opportunities to wrestle a lot of great wrestlers.  Also doing Ring of Honor and Japan that’s a good combination. 

    TMPToW: Before you retire do you even want a full time spot in NXT since that seems to be the gateway to superstardom in the WWE: 

    AJ: Like I said before, I want to support my family and I am going to go wherever that takes me. Would I like to have a “WrestleMania moment”? Sure. But I am very content with having a “Wrestle Kingdom moment” in front of 60,000 fans. I think that is pretty awesome walking down that long ramp of the Tokyo Dome in probably one of the bigger matches on the show. There is probably a couple other people out there that want to do the same thing.

  • Ring of Honor TV results: Young Bucks vs. The Briscoes

    Ring of Honor television continues on the road to Final Battle with the first in a series of episodes from the Nashville. Tag Teams were the focus of most of this episode as the main event featured Young Bucks vs. Briscoes. Also, a surprise unmasking by Alex Shelley, a TV title defense and The Boys declining to rejoin Dalton Castle round out the events taking place on the show. Another theme from the show was guest commentators featured in every match.

    reDRagon (Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly) beat Silas Young & Beer City Bruiser (with The Boys)

    The Boys carried the Bruiser’s keg to the ring. Fish and O’Reilly carried the IWGP jr. tag team titles. Fish and Bruiser start the match. Bruiser tries to be a bully but Fish makes a blind tag and reDRagon chop down Bruiser with a series of kicks. Silas tagged in and they double team him and make quick tags. O’Reilly gets cuts off leading to Silas and Bruiser doing a flurry of moves. Adam Cole strolled out to ringside before a commercial to provide impromptu guest commentary.

    After the break, O’Reilly breaks free and tags Fish. Bobby came in off the hot tag and ran wild. Fish and Young traded strikes as the crowd did the yay/boo chants. There was action all over the place in the closing moments. Bruiser missed a frog splash off the top. One of the Boys jumped on the apron and O’Reilly kicked him off to send him flying before O’Reilly did a plancha. The other Boy snapped Fish on the top rope allowing Silas to use his Misery finisher (fireman’s carry into a diamond cutter). However, the Boys kept distracting the referee, causing him to be late to count the pin attempt and Fish kicked out. Moments later, O’Reilly tagged in and applied a guillotine on Bruiser. Silas broke up the submission and they did a series of double team moves on him leading to O’Reilly hitting a knee drop off the middle rope as Fish held Young for a backbreaker. They then executed the Chasing the Dragon finisher as best they could on the larger Bruiser and pinned him.   

    Afterwards, Silas ordered the Boys to attack the referee and they did so. They left him laying after a DDT. Dalton Castle came out to say he wanted his boys back. Bruiser confronted him and Dalton sent him packing. The Boys looked as if they would rejoin Dalton, but they instead left with Silas leaving Dalton bewildered and perplexed by their decision.

    In another angle, Chris Sabin was in the ring and said he was hijacking the show hostage until the imposter in the KRD mask revealed himself. The masked man sauntered to the ring, confronted Sabin and, much to the surprise of everyone, revealed himself as Alex Shelley. Sabin would join Dalton in the bewildered and perplexed department.

    ROH TV Champion Roderick Strong beat Samson Walker to retain

    This was part of a theme of Roddy vs. the world, as Roderick wants to be a fighting champion and had vowed to take on anyone. Bobby Fish provided guest commentary and played heel in building his TV title challenge at Final Battle against Strong. Roderick dominated until Walker caught him on a dive and rammed him into the ring post twice on the outside. Walker proceeded to get heat on Strong. At one point, Walker pulled out an asthma inhaler from his singlet. He took a puff from the inhaler, put it back and pulled his straps down. However, Roddy made a comeback with a flurry and he gave Walker a gutbuster to set up a sick kick for the pinfall.

    During the match, Fish grabbed the TV title belt. Following the match, Fish strapped on the belt and confronted Strong in the ring. Strong unsnapped the belt and took it back in his possession as they had a stare down with referees getting in between them.  

    “Inside ROH” with Mandy Leon highlighted the results from recent Survival of the Fittest tournament. Michael Elgin won the tournament and challenged Jay Lethal to a title match at the Tokyo Dome.

    The Young Bucks (Nick & Matt Jackson) beat The Briscoes (Mark & Jay)

    Calling this action packed would be a great understatement. There were moves and sequences all over the place. The All Night Express provided guest commentary. Eventually the action slowed just a bit and the Briscoes got heat on Nick. After a commercial break, the Bucks made a comeback and the pace quickened again with a hot tag to Matt. Mark cut him off with redneck kung fu only to get cut off himself with a superkick from Nick.

    A few moments later, Nick did a moonsault off the apron to the floor. Mark moved and Nick landed on his feet. He took a flying neckbreaker from Mark, who jumped off the apron. Mark signaled for the Cactus Jack elbow off the apron but he jumped down to eat a superkick instead. Jay did a dive to the outside. Back in the ring, Jay went for the Jay Driller on Matt and Nick made the save with a superkick. Jay then gave Nick a superkick. Mark delivered a froggybow and the Briscoes went for the doomsday device. However, in taking the move, Nick landed on his feet and hit a superkick. A superkick party began. Bucks used Indytaker for a nearfall before using More Bang For Your Buck to score the pinfall.

    Afterwards, ANX stormed into the ring and all three teams had a pull-apart brawl to close the show.

  • ROH 12/5 Ft. Lauderdale results: Roderick Strong vs. Delirious, Young Bucks vs. Jay Lethal & Dijak

    Submitted by Joe Onimus

    – Pre-show match: Colby Corino def. Martin Stone

    – Mark Briscoe defeated Will Ferrara (finished with frog splash elbow)

    – Kyle O’Reilly defeated Tim Hughes

    – Adam Cole defeated Kenny King

    – War Machine defeated Leo Brien & Mike Patrick

    Intermission

    TV Champion Roderick Strong defeated Delirious to retain

    – Moose defeated Rhett Titus, Dalton Castle, and Cheeseburger in a four-way

    – Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly defeated ACH & Alex Shelley

    – Jay Briscoe defeated Matt Sydal

    – The Young Bucks defeated ROH World Champion Jay Lethal and Donovan Dijak

  • Ring of Honor TV results: lots and lots of Adam Cole BAY-BAY

    Adam Cole dominated screen time on the last in a series of Ring of Honor episodes taped in Kalamazoo as the build towards Final Battle continues. In the main event of this show, Cole was set to face Dalton Castle, but that evolves into a six-man tag team match also involving the Kingdom and War Machine. Elsewhere on the show, challenger AJ Styles confronts champion Jay Lethal and another miscue causes more tension in the Decade.

    Mark Briscoe joined Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuiness on commentary for the first match, which would play into the aftermath of the match itself.

    Will Ferrara beat Adam Page (with BJ Whitmer & Colby Corino)

    Page attacked Ferrara before the bell. On commentary, the announcers mentioned Page would not be at Final Battle due to the recent twist in storyline tied to Steve Corino’s neck surgery. As Page was pummeling Ferrara, Will fired up and jumped off the middle rope into a hurricanrana. Page cut him off and rammed Ferrara into the ring post on the outside. Back in the ring, Page executed a pumphandle into a fallaway slam.

    Moments later, Ferrara started a comeback and used a sunset bomb for a nearfall. After clotheslining Page out to the floor, Ferrara did a dive through the ropes on to Page and Whitmer at ringside. Whitmer tried to toss his crutch to Page but Ferrara intercepted it. Ferrara hit Page with the crutch and covered him for the pin.

    Afterwards, Whitmer attacked Ferrara. Mark Briscoe wanted to make the save but Kevin Kelly noted he was on commentary so he was forbidden from doing so. Whitmer suplexed Ferrara then shoved down the referee, who crotched himself on the bottom rope. Not able to let such dastardly action continue, Briscoe left the announce table to make the save as Ferrara smirked at Page for having just scored an upset. Briscoe would not return to commentary.

    At ringside, Kevin Kelly interviewed the Addiction. Daniels said there is a bias in ROH against them. He gave various examples and mentioned being attacked recently by a woman (Maria) who instead belonged in a “nursery or the kitchen.” Daniels brought up the mysterious masked man also attacking them. He claimed it violated the rules of ROH saying “anytime an unknown quantity introduces himself into a match” then the match must end immediately.

    Kazarian said the conspiracy continued as they were not recognized by the company or the fans as the “global superstars” they really are so they were leaving for New Japan. They vowed to win the upcoming (or actually ongoing at present time) tag team tournament before they return to reclaim their world tag team championship… of the world.

    In his first (not counting a teaser of the main event in the open) and certainly not last appearance on this episode, a video package feature highlighted Adam Cole and his feud with Kyle O’Reilly. In another recap, a replay showed the angle where “Brutal” Bob Evans turned on Cheeseburger as he also tried to cut his head off (with a hacksaw no less), which led to a plug for their grudge match on the Final Battle pre-show airing on YouTube before the PPV.

    Adam Cole appeared again in a commercial plugging his new t-shirt along with shilling a Kingdom shirt as well. The promo for the shirt was probably better than most promos on the last episode of Raw.      

    The House of Truth made their way to the ring for a Jay Lethal promo. Truth Martini along his Book of Truth and Taeler Hendrix along with her notable cleavage were in tow. Lethal congratulated Roderick Strong on finally beating him after losing previously in what Lethal sarcastically estimated as 1,000 times. Lethal predicated he would be champion again by next week because Strong would be unable to handle the stress of being champion.

    Besides, Lethal claimed all the people want to talk about was how great of a TV champion he was, and they keep talking about him as the great ROH champion he is now. According to Lethal, that is why he will beat AJ Styles at Final Battle. Lethal went on to say how much he used to admire Styles as the greatest. Now, Lethal said he himself is the greatest because AJ never became TV champion or ROH champion or “undisputed” champion like Lethal had accomplished. Lethal then called out Styles.

    AJ entered the scene to confront Lethal. Styles agreed that Lethal was one of the best in the world because of the bullseye on his back. Styles noted people keep calling him out and challenging Lethal. However, this time AJ pointed out it was Lethal instead that was calling out AJ. On losing the TV title, he said it was the best thing to happen to Lethal because he could now focus on AJ Styles.

    Styles vowed to win the title and wanted no complaining when he did so. AJ challenged Lethal to shake his hand and say “may the best man win.” They shook hands, and then in a scene reminiscent of Ronda Rousey crazily ranting on Holly Holm at the UFC 193 weigh-ins, Lethal snapped and shouted about winning the match. He ranted about being the greatest wrestler in the world. They then had a stare down to close out the segment.

    In yet another of his many appearances, it was “Story Time With Adam Cole”, which replaced what as Mandy Leon’s “Inside ROH” segment. Cole cut a marvelous promo on Kyle O’Reilly building up their upcoming match at Final Battle. That was definitely better than any promo on Raw.

    In more Final Battle hype, Kevin Kelly plugged all the matches announced so far on the card. Imagine that, advertising almost the entire lineup for a PPV weeks in advance on a show taped weeks ago.

    Dalton Castle beat Adam Cole (with the Kingdom) via disqualification

    Before the bell sounded and as the Kingdom stalked an alone Castle, the Boys suddenly emerged dashing through the crowd, hopped the guardrail and darted into the ring to back up Castle. They even had their drama masks again. An angry Silas Young marched out and ordered the Boys out of the ring and shooed them to the back. The Boys did as they were instructed because, as it was explained by the announce team, stipulations mean something in ROH so they had to adhere to the orders.     

    As the match began, Matt Taven and Michael Bennett interfered early on and tripped Castle. Nevertheless, Castle sent Cole sailing out over the ropes to the floor before diving through the ropes on to Bennett and Taven. Cole dove off the apron into the waiting arms of Castle. He caught him and gave him a suplex on the floor. Cole cut him off moments later with a superkick. At ringside, Bennett and Taven joined Cole in attacking and stomping on Castle in plain view of the referee leading to the DQ.

    The Kingdom looked to continue the beat down when War Machine made the save. Hansen and Raymond Rowe hit the ring to save Castle so Nigel booked an impromptu six-man tag team match.

    Adam Cole & Michael Bennett & Matt Taven (with Maria Kanellis) beat Dalton Castle & Raymond Rowe & Hansen

    They all brawled at the outset in and around the ring. Eventually, Cole and Hansen paired off in the ring. Behind the ref’s back, Bennett and Taven crotched Hansen and delivered a double dropkick. The Kingdom proceeded to get heat on Hansen as they proverbially cut the ring in half and made quick tags. Hansen got a hope spot and a few moments later fought off all three Kingdom members to tag out.

    Rowe came in off the hot tag running wild on the Kingdom. Cole cut him off but Castle tagged in and ran wild on Cole. Castle set up and delivered a missile dropkick off the top. Castle went to lift Taven up for a tombstone piledriver and he reserved it. They reversed each other’s reversals several times before Castle executed a tombstone. Bennett and Cole then took out Castle with a double team.

    Rowe jumped in the fray and cleaned house in emptying the ring. Rowe then did a dive to the outside. Hansen went to the top turnbuckle jumped off into a senton and wiped out everyone. Back in the ring, Rowe and Hansen went to set up their Path of Resistance finisher and Castle helped by giving Cole a German suplex. Then, Hansen did a splash off the top. Castle cradled Cole but Bennett and Taven broke up the pin.

    In jumping in the ring, Bennett and Taven dragged a load of used streamers behind them into the ring and the streamers hung from the ropes. Rowe and Hansen clotheslined Bennett and Taven over the top rope to the floor. Rowe held the ropes open for Hansen to do a dive. However, the streamers supposedly blocked his view so Hansen missed and crashed to the outside. Bennett gave Rowe a spear on the apron.

    In the ring, Castle went to give Cole his finisher but Bennett and Taven hit a double superkick to make the save. Cole followed that with a suplex into a neckbreaker to score the pinfall.

    On commentary, Kevin Kelly announced the return of Kyle O’Reilly for next week in the first episode of the new series of episodes taped in Nashville. They teased O’Reilly finally getting his hands on Cole. Despite that, the show closed with Adam Cole and the Kingdom standing victorious.       

  • PCW Supershow Of Honor 2 Show 4 results

    T Bone, Iestyn Rees, and Bubblegum beat Delirious, Kyle O’Reilly, and Bobby Fish

    Solid opener that ended with Bubblegum pinning Delirious who had part of his clothing caught in the turnbuckle. Bobby Fish really great with all his little comments throughout the match as usual.

    Noam Dar beat Lionheart

    After some fun and games revolving around Lionheart having only one diehard fan, he once again walked out taking a count out loss. After the match both Dar and Sha Samuels stated their claim to a Heavyweight title shot.

    Kenny King beat Cedric Alexander

    Ring announcer Richard Parker accidentally began to call Alexander “Kenny” during his intro with prompted much mirth and references to racism/Hulk Hogan. Decent match and Alexander always seems to over deliver in these sort of situations.

    Dalton Castle beat Silas Young

    Good match between two of the MVPs of the weekend.

    War Machine beat Roy Knight and T Bone

    Originally supposed to be both members of The Hooligans but Zak Knight legitimately got drunk last night and did his ankle ligaments falling over a kerb or something. Tremendously wild match, all sorts of chaos and big bumps around the ringside/chairs. Really good stuff, T Bone and Roy as warring tag team partners in the midst of a fight.

    Adam Cole beat Bubblegum to retain the PCW Cruiserweight Title Bubblegum answered Cole’s open challenge. At this point the crowd was so tired for the rest of the show, but they tried hard to get a reaction. Cole retaining presumably means he will be returning in 2016.

    Joey Hayes and Martin Kirby beat Charlie Garrett and Ashton Smith

    A good comedy outing. Hayes got the pin on Smith whilst holding the ropes.

    Roderick Strong beat Jay Lethal (non title match)

    Strong picked up the win via submission when Lethal tapped to the Stronghold. Good mixture of some comedy to draw the crowd in and more serious stuff. Both guys seemed to enjoy the weekend, Lethal cut a pre-match promo putting over PCW and describing the weekend as not just a wrestling show but an experience. Strong spoke positively after the match, and called the rest of the ROH guys out to share the ring.