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  • ROH Best In The World live results: Jay Lethal vs. Jay Briscoe; Addiction vs. MCMG

    H returns to traditional PPV Friday night for Best In The World, the seventh such event in company history. The event emanates from Concord, NC, the first time BITW has been held there. 

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    Headlining the show is ROH World Champion Jay Lethal vs. Jay Briscoe, a rematch from last year’s BITW event where Lethal downed Briscoe for the belt in a winner takes all match.

    KYLE O’REILLY VS. KAMAITACHI

    O’Reilly won with a brainbuster and armbar.  Very good technically.  The crowd reacted but didn’t go wild.  Kamaitachi reufsed to shake hands and left.  The crowd isn’t mic’d well as you can see them reactingbut dont’ hear it that well.   Kamaitachi didn’t look as impressive as he usually does.  But his role was to put O’Reilly over as the whole thing they pushed was how O’Reilly gets a shot at the winner of the main event tomorrow.

    SILAS YOUNG VS. ACH

    Yeah, we’ve got the same problem with the bad crowd micing whicnh hurts the matches.  You can see people are into it and hear it lightly.  This was a good match.  ACH did a great springobard flip dive.  Young missed a springboard move, and ACH won with jumping double knees, a brainbuster and a 450 splash.

    They just introudced Jay White at ringside.  He looks like a teenager in the crowd.

    Mark Briscoe was hilarious on his pre-match interview. 

    MARK BRISCOE VS. RODERICK STRONG

    With Strong leaving, Mark got the pin after a brainbuster and fisherman buster in a really good match.  Strong  was excellent here and Mark hung with him.   Mark has shaved his head but came out with a wig to surprise Strong.  Both worked at a hard pace, with Mark doing all kinds of cool stuff and Strong solid with everything he did.  Mark survived the sick kick and gutbuster.  Mark used a sick kick on Strong.  I think if the crowd was mic’d this would have come across as excellent.  Fans were chanting “Thank you Roddy” and he was shaking hands on the way out.  

    WAR MACHINE & MOOSE VS. YOUNG BUCKS & ADAM COLE IN A TORNADO MATCH

    Excellent match.  Non stop action and the crowd was pretty hot.  Finish saw them use the Meltzer driver on Moose and all three kissed each other after winning.  We’ll update this later because it was a crazy match with all kinds of big spots and a ton of superkicks.  Once again it was hurt by the crowd micing.  Hanson in particular did crazy stuff for a guy his size. 

    CHRISTOPHER DANIELS & FRANKIE KAZARIAN VS. CHRIS SABIN & ALEX SHELLEY FOR THE TAG TITLES

    Another good match.  Actually this at first had a hard time following the previous match.  Kamaitachi came out and attacked Jay White at ringside.  They were brawling and distracted ref Paul Turner and Daniels hit Shelley with a low blow and he was out of commission.  Daniels & Kazarian then pinned Sabin after the Best Meltzer ever.  You’d think at this point I was the booker and had an ego twice the size of Dusty Rhodes.  Daniels & Kazarian & Kamaitachi left together so they are forming a group.

    STEVE CORINO VS. B.J. WHITMER IN AN UNSACNTIONED FIGHT WITHOUT HONOR

    Corino came out to Shinya Hashimoto’s theme music.  Corino bleached his hair blond.  The commentators said this is a match that nobody wanted to see happen.  This match was crazy.  It came from another era as Whitmer went to hardway him.  Corino bled like crazy.  Whitmer juiced and it was a bloodbath.  The crowd loved it.  Whitmer put Corino through a table with an exploder suplex.  They beat each other with broken pieces of the table.  The lights went out and Kevin Sullivan showed up, teased hitting Whitmer with the spike but instead spiked Corino and Whitmer pinned him.  Because nobody does this kind of match, it really worked.  They saved things like tables, never do blood like this and used rolls of quarters but didn’t over do the foreign objects like in TNA where the shots meant nothing.

    BOBBY FISH VS. DALTON CASTLE FOR THE TV TITLE

    Another good match.  Castle dominated.  Castle suplexed Fish on his head and they teased Fish being hurt, but he then went for the bang a rang and Fish turned it into a front rolling cradle for the pin. 

    The All Night Express and Caprice Coleman came out.  They came out to Presidential music.  Coleman noted they were never defeated for the titles.  He claimed they had to pay for this segment.  Said each watched each others back and said all three are underrated and underpaid and now they are uniting and are now the group is called The Cabinet.  Coleman is the Minister of Information.  Rhett Titus said this whole show has been young punks flip flying around and nobody looks like pro wrestlers, said guys need to do bench presses and squats, how the tag champs have no abs and how the Young Bucks skip leg day and keep doing superkicks.  Said there is an Olympic gold medalist is selling T-shirts to make wrestling great again.  The Cabinet will will make wrestling great, won’t skip leg day and will win all the gold.

    JAY LETHAL VS. JAY BRISCOE FOR THE ROH TITLE

    Great match.  Shorter than you’d think but time got out of control.  The crowd loved it, chanting “That was awesome” after the finish.  Lethal retained with a diamond cutter and Lethal iinjection.  So right after the match ended, they turned up the crowd mic and you could hear how loud they were.  If they’d done that during the show every match would have come across better.  Both shook hands after the match.  Briscoe nearly go the pin earlier with the Lethal injection and Jay driller.  Lethal did two tope’s in a row and Briscoe came back with two of his own and a running flip dive.  A lot of near falls.  Crowd may have been hottest in this match.

  • Silas Young on #BITW, WWE developmental deal, Beer City Bruiser friendship

    Before Ring of Honor’s annual Best in the World PPV takes place tonight in Concord, North Carolina, I talked with ROH’s “Last Real Man” Silas Young about his career, what makes him a man’s man in the wrestling world, and why he doesn’t think ACH measures up to that standard.

    Here are a few transcripted highlights:

    On how he almost wound up in WWE in the late 2000’s:

    I started in 2002 up in the Wisconsin area, and then in 2007, I got offered a developmental deal. I did like a week long training thing at OVW and did a handful of house shows with them. About a month later, I got offered a job in WWE. In the hiring process I was just finishing up getting all of my paperwork and stuff done. I had done all of the drug and cardiovascular testing that they do and all of that stuff had come back fine.

    I was just waiting for my passport to come in so I could send that because you have to have a passport when you work for WWE. I was waiting for that to come in and I saw online that OVW’s developmental deal had ended with WWE. I thought ‘Oh boy, that’s not good news. That’s where I’m supposed to be going.’ The next day I got a call that said, ‘We’re not going to be forward with your contract.’ So I kind of got a job there but never really worked there.

    On how that didn’t crush his pro wrestling aspirations:

    Maybe not so much then, but nowadays, wrestling is so hot right now. There’s so many good places to work. It used to be the big two you know, WWE and WCW (and) maybe ECW. Now you got WWE, TNA, Ring of Honor, you have Lucha Underground, that’s just in the states. You also have places over in Europe – WXW is on par to have 80 shows this year. Rev Pro UK, Preston City Wrestling, tons of really good talent and a lot of work over in Europe, then along with New Japan Pro Wrestling there’s a lot of places to work so it’s awesome right now.

    On his time away from Ring of Honor from 2009-2012:

    (I was) just doing smaller indie stuff, just trying to wrestle, make a name for myself – that’s about it. You know in wrestling, there’s so many guys trying to get a spot and there’s (only) so many spots. I was just wrestling mainly around the Midwest area and I had occasionally done a few things here and there for EVOLVE at the time but it was mostly just Midwest stuff.

    On his friendship with the Beer City Bruiser:

    Ring of Honor is built a lot on athletic prowess, the athletic ability of the guys in the ring. You look at Bruiser, and Bruiser is about 6’2″ and probably about 300 pounds. He’s not 300 pounds of muscle, but for being a guy his size, he can really move. People are always really impressed, but he’s not a guy that’s out there trying to impress people. He’s a guy that’s gonna grind someone into the mat and pound them. Plain and simple he’s just going to beat you like a man. You look at the Ring of Honor locker room and he’s the only guy that makes sense to be my tag partner.

    On how well received his feud with Dalton Castle was:

    I thought that whole thing me and Dalton did together was done really well. I thought everybody came out of it looking really good and the fans enjoyed it. I think Dave Meltzer or Bryan Alvarez was talking about how it was the most entertaining storyline that was going on in wrestling at the time. With all the wrestling in the world to have guys like that say that about what you’re doing is pretty cool.

    On why he trying to bring back “real manhood” in wrestling:

    I talk a lot about how men aren’t real men nowadays. Right now, the whole superhero movie (thing), I don’t know whether it’s DC or Marvel or maybe both of them are putting out movies, it’s a real hot subject right now. People love it. You can’t go anywhere without seeing some dude wearing a Spider-Man or a Batman t-shirt. That’s been my gripe – men don’t wear superhero t-shirts. Men don’t sit and argue about what superhero would beat what superhero in a fight.

    On how he plans to teach that lesson to ACH at ROH Best in the World:

    Basically, what’s going to happen with ACH is he’s just going to learn it’s not all fun and games. Life isn’t all about video games and action hero movies, and we’re going to see how far his video games get him when he steps in the ring with me at Best in the World.

    On what’s next if he defeats ACH on Friday in Concord:

    “For the rest of the year, I’m looking to just get out and wrestle as many places as possible. In the last few months, I’ve been fortunate enough to get to go over and wrestle in Germany, England and Canada, so just keep traveling, keep having good matches, get to wrestle as many new places as possible. I’m getting to go to Newfoundland in a month and a half, I’ve never been there before, so that should be cool. That’s about it. Get out, work, grind, meet different people work different guys, that’s the goal for me.”

    See what happens with Silas Friday night at ROH’s Best In The World ppv. Our live coverage begins at 8 PM EST.