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Following an insanely good Dragon Gate Challenge II show, Ring of Honor held
their third annual Supercard of Honor in Orlando, FL on March 29, 2008 during
Wrestlemania weekend. It will be very hard to top the previous show, but
I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do to try.
Delirious vs. Go Shiozaki
Some shenanigans at the beginning of the match. They finally lock up and
Go shoves Delirious into the corner for a clean break. Side headlock by
Delirious. Go shoves him off, but neither budges when they run into each
other. Delirious bails when Go goes to chop him. More stalling.
Go with a side headlock. Delirious takes Go to the mat, then delivers an
arm drag, only to bail again when he is threatened by a chop. Delirious
throws the chair into the ring, but the ref quickly gets it out. Another
side headlock by Delirious. Delirious avoids a chop again. Go
finally chops him and Delirious sells it like he was shot for two. Go
boots Delirious in the corner and Delirious oversells another chop.
Delirious blocks a charge and hits a leaping lariat off the middle turnbuckle
for two. High angle back suplex for two.
Elbows to the back of Go's head. Go catches him on a charge and puts him
on the top turnbuckle, then chops him back down to the mat. Flying
shoulder tackle by Go for two. Go scoops Delirious up and throws him on
the ropes, then hits a knee drop for two. Snapmare and chop to the back by
Go. He uses some tassels to choke Delirious. Delirious gets up and
scores two with a sunset flip. Go charges Delirious in the corner and
delivers a Fisherman's Buster for two.
Scoop slam by Go and he climbs to the top. Moonsault by Go is blocked.
Delirious with a series of strikes and leaping lariat. Delirious lifts Go
on his shoulders, then throws him to the mat, scoring two with a back senton.
Go backs Delirious into the corner, but misses a charge, allowing Delirious to
score with a Panic Attack. Delirious climbs to the top , but gets kicked
when he goes for Shadows Over Hell. German Suplex by Go for two.
Roaring chop to Delirious. Go covers, but Delirious quickly applies the
Cobra Stretch. Go makes the ropes and forces the break. Delirious
ducks a kick and hits an enziguri, but Go no sells and hits a lariat for two.
Go Flasher ends the match.
Your winner, Go Shiozaki!
They show respect for each other after the match.
Larry Sweeney is in the back with Shane Hagadorn, who is checking on Pearce and
Albright. He continues to work on his hostile takeover, then goes to take
care of some business.
The YRR (Kenny King, Sal Rinauro, & Chasyn Rance) vs. Bushwhacker Luke,
Dingo, & Alex Payne
Dingo and Sal start out. Dingo with a waistlock. They trade
reversals. Leg lock on the mat by Dingo. Sal gets out and applies a
wristlock. He knees Dingo, but gets punched a few times. Sugarfoot
tags in and hits a scoop slam and knee drop. Sugarfoot slides out of the
ring and knocks King off the apron. The YRR return the favor as Rance and
King beat him up on the floor. Sal covers for two.
Rance tags in and snapmares Payne out of the corner for two. King tags in
and nails Payne with a clothesline for two. He quickly tags Sal in and
they double team Payne, King putting him down with a backbreaker for two.
Luke is late on the save. King hot shots Payne and Rance hits a spinning
heel kick, followed by a springboard leg drop by King. Rance covers for
two. Sal tags in with an elbow drop off the top rope. German suplex
by Rinauro for two. King comes on with a slingshot stomp to Sugarfoot's
back.
King kicks Payne on the mat. Payne tries for a backslide and succeeds for
two, but King kicks him in the face as soon as he gets up. King with a
delayed vertical suplex that gets countered into a DDT. Dingo tags in and
cleans house with forearms. Sal kicks him in the gut, but Dingo hits a
headscissors takedown out of the corner, then knees Sal in the back for two.
Payne dropkicks King and Rance. Bushwhacker Luke comes in and cleans
house. Human Battering Ram with Payne and they take down all YRR members
before doing the Bushwhacker schtick.
They turn their backs, and get cleared from the ring. Dingo rolls up Sal,
but gets kicked in the face by King and Rance. They triple team Dingo in
the corner and Sal delivers a springboard kick to the face for the win.
Your winners, the YRR!
Davey Richards and Rocky Romero, the ROH Tag Team Champions (who had just taped
a match for a PPV that is not included here) are in the ring when Larry Sweeney
comes to the ring. He's here to make some green for the NRC. He
calls Strong a hard head and tries to reason with the other two members.
Strong comes to the ring and says he made it clear that he created the NRC and
for the last time, they have no interest. Stevens runs in and goes after
the NRC with Jigsaw and Ruckus. They take the tag champs to the back and
Stevens chops Strong in the aisle. He goes for a suplex on the ramp, but
Strong fights it off. Stevens' chops have busted open Strong's chest.
Stevens throws Strong into the ring and it looks like their match is about to
start. Stevens punches Strong in the corner. Strong hits Stevens
while his back is turned and then punches the ref to the mat.
FIP World Heavyweight Title Match: Roderick Strong (c) vs. Erick
Stevens
No bell yet. Stevens and Strong agree on one thing...they want to hit the
ref. So they do. Strong kicks Stevens low and slaps him in the face.
They go to the floor. Strong with more stiff chops and forearms.
Strong puts the chair around Stevens' head and shoves him into the ringpost.
Stevens is busted open and Strong continues to assault him. Hey, I thought
that fan said he'd quit wearing Green Lantern gear. And how can he time
the match if no bell has been rung? Curse you, ROH!
They come back in the ring and Strong props the chair up between two
turnbuckles. Stevens avoids the chair and sends Strong into it HARD.
Stevens with some chops on the ropes. Strong falls to the mat and Stevens
stomps him. Stevens gets a chair and sets it up in the middle of the ring.
Strong chops him in the face, then chest before laying in with a forearm.
Strong goes for a half nelson backbreaker on the chair, but Stevens elbows out
of trouble and drops Strong's face off the seat of the set up chair with a TKO.
Nasty!
FIP chant for Stevens. Stevens goes to work on the floor and blood is
flying out of Strong's forehead. This is disgusting in a good way.
Stevens throws him back in the ring and goes after the open wound, even biting
it. Sick! More chops to Strong's chest. Strong gets the boot
up on a choo choo and gets out of the corner with a clothesline. Chops and
a forearm from Strong. Release German Suplex by Stevens and he hits the
choo choo, followed by a hard lariat. Strong blocks a charge with an
enziguri, then nails a running boot.
Strong waits on Stevens to get up. He kicks him, but it only makes Stevens
angrier. Forearm exchange. Brutal. They knock each other to
the mat with simultaneous forearms. Strong has the steel chair and he
nails Stevens with it. Richards and Romero come out. Richards hands
Roddy a pair of scissors and clippers. They start to take off the mohawk
of Stevens. They are raping him of his dignity!
The bell never rung, so technically this wasn't really a match, but Strong
clearly comes out on top.
Recap of the Age of the Fall vs. Briscoes feud. From one blood bath to
another.
Before the match, Jimmy takes the mic and says the revolution is here. He
calls the group a voice for the voiceless. Hey, maybe AOTF aren't so
bad...they bought a homeless guy a ticket.
Relaxed Rules Grudge Match: Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler
Black) vs. The Briscoes
Jay and Mark waste no time in getting things started. Mark superkicks
Black and works him over in the corner. Mark blocks a charge and hits a
springboard cross body. Jay and Mark double team shouldertackle Jimmy,
then kick his head off. AOTF bail. Jay dives onto Jimmy, then Mark
moonsaults off the top rope to the floor. Jay and Mark pound AOTF on the
floor. They toss AOTF into the crowd. Mark flips onto Black and
Jimmy over the guardrail. Jimmy fights back against Jay and takes a fan's
alcohol.
Mark gets back dropped into some chairs by Black. Jimmy and Black throw
chairs at Jay and Mark respectively. Mark throws Black into the chairs.
Jimmy uses a rolling case to spear Jay. He tries to do it again, but Jay
kicks him in the head. Mark is once again back dropped onto chairs.
Jay throws chairs at Jimmy. Black puts a chair on Mark's head. Jimmy
regains the advantage and punches Jay. He sits him on a chair and jumps
off the bleachers with a clothesline. Mark tosses a chair at Black, then
suplexes him onto chairs. Jay with some stiff shots to Jacobs, and he
tosses a sign on to him. Mark bulldogs Black onto a set up chair.
Jimmy throws a garbage can at Jay. Jay dumps Jimmy onto some chairs.
They elevate Jimmy and toss him onto chairs again.
The Briscoes proceed to work on Black, then they go behind the curtain.
They return with a table and move through the crowd. The table is put on
the floor. Jimmy and Mark brawl above an entranceway and jockey for
position. Jay puts Black on the table. The homeless guy isn't
handicapped! He gets up and pushes Black off, but for his trouble he gets
put on the table. Mark dives onto the table from the entranceway.
Jay puts Jacobs in the apron. Black distracts him and Jimmy starts to
choke him with a plastic bag. Black pounds Jay in the head. Black
puts Jay in the tree of woe and AOTF dropkick him. Black covers for two.
Black with an inverted DDT. Jimmy off the top with a back senton for two.
AOTF pound Jay in the corner. Jay blocks a charge from Black and sends
Jimmy into the turnbuckle. Yakuza Kick to Black and a Falcon Arrow to
Jimmy for two. Black and Jay trade punches. Black runs into a DVD
for two. He gets ready for a Jay Driller, but Jacobs hits a low blow and
Black rolls Jay up for two. AOTF combine for the Super Contra Code, but
Jay somehow kicks out. Jimmy literally pulls his hair out over this.
Black climbs up top, but Mark is back and he pushes him to the floor. Jay
puts Jacobs on the canvas. They go for the Springboard Doomsday Device,
but Jimmy reverses into the End Time (!) and Mark is out.
Your winners, the Age of the Fall!
Erick Stevens is in the back, and he looks like a madman with dried up blood and
his mohawk messed up, He says the war is just beginning.
Jimmy vows that the next step is to get the tag titles back. Lacey says
she has a backup plan if it doesn't work out. Foreshadowing!
ROH vs. Dragon Gate Challenge Match: BxB Hulk & Shingo vs. El
Generico & Kevin Steen
If this is half as good as last night's Steen and Generico tag, it will still be
excellent. Hulk shows off his dancing skills before Steen and Generico
come out. Steen and Generico show they can dance, too. Hulk and
Generico begin with some reversals, going hold for hold.
Side headlock on the mat by Hulk. Generico escapes and puts on a front
facelock. Hulk trips Generico. Arm drags by Hulk. Hulk with a
dropkick. Steen tags in. Steen with some shoulderblocks to the much
smaller Hulk. Hulk back with some kicks. Shingo tags in.
Shingo and Steen shove each other. Neither budges on shoulderblocks.
They shoulderblock each other for a solid minute. Shingo goes to the floor
and Generico hits an insane double springboard front flip senton onto Shingo on
the floor. Steen covers in the ring for two.
Generico tags in with a double axe handle to the back of Shingo. Fighting
spirit from Shingo and Generico is chopped to the mat. Hulk tags in.
DDT by Shingo, BB Star Press for two. Knee drop by Shingo. He
applies a chinlock on the mat. Generico is double teamed, but he reaches
Steen. Steen takes down Hulk with a charge for two. Generico puts
his boot up and Steen throws Hulk into it. Generico tags in and gets two
with a standing moonsault. Generico kicks Hulk. Steen tags back in.
Drop toe hold, front flip leg drop to the back of Hulk's head for two.
Backbreaker by Steen to Hulk for two.
Steen pounds Hulk to the mat and tags Generico back in. Generico with a
forearm. Hulk chops back. They trade knees. Leg lariat by
Generico for two. Steen back in and he continues to work on Hulk with some
strikes. He makes like he is going to allow the tag, then he hilariously
imitates Hulk reaching for a tag. Scoop slam and cover by Steen for two.
They continue with the quick tags and Generico is back in. He chops Hulk
in the corner, but his charge is blocked. Hulk with a missile dropkick off
the second rope. Steen runs in, but Hulk hits a dropsault and gets out of
the way so Steen sentons Generico. Shingo tags in, but Generico
interferes. Steen is pushed into Generico. He plants both on the
mat, then suplexes Steen.
Sunset flip by Generico, but Shingo rolls through with a sit out spinebuster for
two. Standing SSP by Hulk for two when Steen breaks the pin up.
Steen powerbombs Hulk for two. Pumphandle neckbreaker to the knee for two.
Steen climbs to the top. Shingo tries to push him off, but Steen shoves
him off. Hulk leaps up and kicks Steen. Shingo tries to suplex Steen
off the top, but he can't do it. Generico comes in and DDTs Shingo out of
the corner.
Hulk runs in and kicks Steen off the top. Capture suplex by Shingo and
Hulk kicks Generico. Shingo slams Generico to the mat for two. Hulk
does the same, but Steen breaks the pin up. Hulk floats over a package
piledriver, but Steen hits a Lariat. Shingo with a lariat to Steen.
Generico hits a crossbody off the top and all men are down.
Steen with a Cactus Clothesline to Shingo. Hulk kicks Generico and charges
in the corner, but Generico nails a running big boot. Steen with a Swanton
and Generico covers for two. Steen scoop slams Hulk and climbs to the top,
but he misses a moonsault. Blood Fall from Shingo to Steen for two when
Generico breaks the pin up. EVO from Hulk to Generico for two as Steen is
able to break the pin up.
Shingo lifts Generico on his shoulders and Hulk springboards off the top rope
with a Spinning Heel Kick for two as Steen again breaks the pin up. Hulk
avoids a charge and Steen spears the ringpost. Hulk with a moonsault press
off the top to the floor to Steen. Shingo charges Generico in the corner,
then climbs to the top and hits a DVD off the second turnbuckle for two.
Generico no sells a clothesline. Shingo no sells a big boot. Lariat
by Shingo, followed by Last Falconry for the win as Dragon Gate close the
deficit to 3-2.
Your winners, BxB Hulk & Shingo!
Stevens is in the back evening out the new haircut.
ROH World Heavyweight Championship Match: Nigel McGuinness (c) vs.
Austin Aries
Nigel shoves Aries into the corner and they break. Aries pushes Nigel into
the corner with a hammerlock. Nigel works the arm to set up for his
finisher. Aries reverses and takes Nigel to the mat by working the arm.
Nigel with a front facelock. He forces McGuinness to the mat again by the
arm. Nigel reaches the ropes and elbows Aries off.
Nigel forces Aries to the mat for a couple of pins. Aries goes for some
knee strikes to the head, but Nigel gets out of the ring. Aries gets ready
to dive out, but Nigel sees him. They shove each other. Aries with a
Lou Thesz press. He goes for the knee strikes again, but Nigel makes the
ropes once more. Aries dropkicks him in the head, then knees Nigel's head
on the apron from the floor. Aries slingshots to the floor to hit Nigel in
the back of the head. He then slingshots Nigel throat first into the
bottom rope.
Elbow to the back of Nigel's head. Modified STO and swinging elbow drop
for two. More strikes to the back of Nigel's head. Knee to Nigel's
back and he puts some pressure on a chinlock. Aries ties up Nigel on the
mat. Nigel gets out and claws Aries in the face. Nigel whips Aries
hard into the corner, then throws his shoulder into the ringpost. He pulls
the arm down on the top rope. Nigel continues to work on that arm in
anticipation of the London Dungeon.
Nigel goes for the pin, but Aries easily kicks out. More pressure is pit
on the left arm. Aries throws Nigel off, but he gets clubbed in the arm.
Nigel uses Aries' arm to choke him. Aries gets two with a roll up, then
bounces off the ropes with a knee to Nigel's chest. Fireman's carry into a
forward roll. Aries comes off the top with a chop and covers for two.
McGuinness avoids a charge in the corner and slaps Aries to the mat for one.
He places Aries on the top rope for the Tower of London, but Aries elbows out,
followed by repeated elbows with his injured arm. Nigel blocks the
brainbuster with a Divorce Court. The London Dungeon is cinched in, but
Aries makes the ropes easily. European Uppercuts and chops in the corner.
Aries follows Nigel across the ring and applies Last Chancery, but he can't put
Nigel away.
More uppercuts and chops, followed by a running European in the corner.
Aries again blocks the Tower of London and hits a Missile Dropkick off the top.
Nigel gets his boot up on the running dropkick. He goes for the Tower of
London again and connects for two.
Nigel crotches Aries on the top rope, but Aries ducks a lariat and applies
headscissors in the ropes. Nigel goes outside the ring and Aries jumps off
the top rope. He whips Nigel into the guardrail and charges with the
running dropkick. Back in the ring, Aries gets multiple dropkicks in the
corner and covers for two. Nigel drives Aries into the corner, but the
corner mule kick is blocked. Aries runs right into a lariat, taking both
men down.
Aries and Nigel slap each other. Roaring elbow from Aries, and he avoids a
Lariat with a clothesline, then hits a brainbuster. Nigel rolls away from
the 450 and again locks in the London Dungeon. Aries tries to back up to
the ropes and Nigel puts him in the center of the ring. Aries counters
with a roll up for two. Knee strikes to the head and he gets over for Last
Chancery. Nigel escapes and goes back to the London Dungeon. Aries
kicks Nigel in the head and blocks a Jawbreaker Lariat with a back slide for
two. Kick to the head by Aries. He hits another Brainbuster and once
again goes to the top. He nails the 450 Splash that won him his first
title, but Nigel gets his boot on the rope.
Nigel bails, then gets out of the way when Aries dives out of the ring.
Aries hits the guardrail and collapses. Nigel takes advantage and sits
Aries on the guardrail before giving him a Lariat to the floor. Nigel
retrieves Aries from the crowd and gets the dead weight into the ring, covering
for two. Nigel pulls Aries up and traps the arm, then connects with a
short arm lariat. Aries kicks out at two, even though McGuinness has a
handful of tights. Nigel tells Aries to get up. Nigel blocks a
lariat and delivers a Crucifix Bomb, but Nigel rolls through and finally hits
the Jawbreaker Lariat to win.
Your winner, Nigel McGuinness!
After the match, Nigel leaves and the Age of the Fall come to the ring.
Jacobs says its time for them to talk face to face. Jimmy says it is the
lowest moment of his life, and it was his destiny to lose so AOTF could pick him
up. Jacobs says he can be Aries' own personal Jesus. Jacobs demands
that Aries make a decision. Lacey grabs the mic and says obviously Jimmy's
words mean nothing to Austin. She says Aries is a man of action, just like
AOTF members. She is prepared to take Aries off on his own to show him why
he belongs with them. She takes Aries by the hand and leads him away.
Jimmy tries to stop her, but she assures him she knows what she is doing.
Just as they are about to leave Tammy returns to make her pitch. She says
Aries must have a concussion if he is leaving with that skank. Tammy says
she has offered him everything and wants to know if Lacey has more. Aries
doesn't answer, but instead just walks away with Aries. Jimmy and Tyler
hold Tammy so Rain can clap her. The Briscoes make the save. Pivotal
segment for Ring of Honor in 2008.
Nigel is in the back and he says Austin Aries is done, and he is the ace of Ring
of Honor. He tells anyone who thinks they have a chance to bring it on
because he'll break their jaw.
Dragon Gate Six Man Tag Match: Dragon Kid, CIMA, & Ryo Saito vs.
Genki Horiguchi, Naruki Doi, & Masato Yoshino
Saito and Genki start with a quick series of reversals, then a stand off.
Knuckle lock. Genki takes Ryo to the mat, then works a wristlock.
More reversals and another stand off. CIMA and Doi tag in. Doi kicks
him in the gut and hits a shoulderblock, then stomps CIMA in the back. Arm
drag exchange and another stalemate. Bear in mind there is a lot of
transitional stuff I'm not recapping.
Kid and Yoshino, the two fastest, come in. Arm drag by Kid, followed by
Deja Vu and Yoshino bails. Genki comes in, but is met with a boot to the
gut. Saito tags in and takes down Genki with a back elbow for one.
Genki goes to the eyes and Doi comes in. Chinlock by Doi. Saito
blocks a scoop slam and hits one of his own. Kid tags in and teams with
CIMA to double team Doi for two.
Snapmare and knee drop by Kid for two. CIMA tags in and comes off the top
with an axe handle to Doi. CIMA stretches his opponent. Yoshino
comes in and breaks it up. Snapmare and leg drop to CIMA for two.
CIMA gets Yoshino in the corner and Kid comes in. Saito knocks Doi off the
apron and the Typhoon Team triple team Yoshino with stereo dropkicks for two.
Dragon Kid with a standing dropkick in the corner. Yoshino goes for the
eyes. The Muscle Outlawz with a triple team dropkick to Kid. Kid
back with some kicks to knock Doi down. Saito tags in and slams Doi, then
drops an elbow for one. CIMA tags in and double stomps Doi as Saito holds
the legs up across the ropes. CIMA dumps Doi on the mat and ties him up,
elevating him off the canvas with a bow and arrow type maneuver. CIMA
rolls it over for a two count. Kid gags in and he and CIMA deliver back
sentons for two, Kid coming off CIMA's shoulders.
Doi picks Kid up and puts him up top, bringing in Genki. He tosses Kid off
the top. Vertical suplex by Kid for two. The Muscle Outlawz take
turns coming off the top onto Kid's arm. Double Stomp by Doi. He
takes Kid to the mat with a rolling hammerlock and puts him in a submission,
then rolls Kid up for two.
Bulldog from Genki. Genki and Yoshino hold Kid up and Doi runs off the
ropes with a front flip senton for two. Doi trips Saito into his partner
and puts him in the Tree of Woe over his opponent. Doi then sandwiches
them with a cannonball in the corner. Genki comes in and stomps Kid in the
corner. Axe handles from Genki. He takes Kid down with a leaping
back elbow, then gets two with a sit out powerbomb when CIMA makes the save.
Yoshino tags in and keeps Kid in the mat. Genki and Yoshino go for a
double team, but Kid fights them off. Leg Lariat to Genki. Saito
tags in and trades shots with Doi. Rana by Saito. CIMA tags in and
slaps Genki off the top, then hits Iconoclasm. Saito gives Doi a vertical
suplex while snapping back on Genki's leg. Kid runs in and delivers a
satellite headscissors takedown to Yoshino.
Springboard moonsault press by Kid to the floor. CIMA rolls through a DDT
and hits a springboard double stomp on Genki for two. Genki blocks a
splash and gives CIMA a Brainbuster. Saito trips Genki in the corner.
Typhoon charges Doi in the corner. Saito and Kid hold Doi up for the
double stomp from CIMA, then CIMA runs to the other corner and gives Genki a
backcracker.
Doi blocks a charge with a kick, but runs into an overhead belly to belly by
Saito. Charge in the corner by Do and he is driven to the mat with a
modified Vertebreaker for two. The Outlawz charge Saito in the corner.
Kid is put in the Fireman's Carry position on Doi's shoulders. Yoshino
climbs to the top and hits Kid in the head with a missile dropkick before
falling on Saito with a back senton. The dropkick turns into a TKO from
Doi. It looks like a lot, but this whole sequence lasts a few seconds and
it is insane.
Kid gets dropkicked by Yoshino as he is hanging off Doi. Yoshino elevates
Kid to the apron. Kid slingshots over the ropes with a chinbreaker.
Yoshino drives Kid to the mat with a neckbreaker. Kid with a Standing
Dragonrana for two. Kid and Yoshino get Octopus Stretches on Doi and CIMA
respectively. They then go after each other with punches. Genki and
Saito break it up with dropkicks.
Saito catches Genki and drives him to the mat for two. Genki blocks a
charge, but jumps into a German Suplex. Sunset Flip Powerbomb Combo with
CIMA's aid, then CIMA gives Genki a Perfect Driver for two. Superkick to
Genki. Genki floats out of the Schwein and hits a DDT. Kid with
another chinbreaker. Yoshino gets incredible height on a dropkick off the
top rope to Kid. At this point I have to pause to catch everything.
It's going that fast.
Saito plants Yoshino on the mat. Doi and Saito trade forearms.
Sitout spinebuster by Doi to Saito for two. The crowd goes wild as all men
are down. Doi goes to the top. CIMA meets him and puts him on his
shoulders. Kid jumps up for a rana, but Doi counters with a Superbomb for
two. Yoshino comes in and springboards into the ring to drive Kid off the
turnbuckle, followed by a Lightning Spiral for two. Genki with a rana to
Saito, followed by a dive over the top to Ryo on the floor. CIMA charges
Yoshino with double knees to the chest. CIMA hits a Super Perfect Driver
for two. Yikes.
Yoshino counters with a sunset flip for two, followed by a satellite armbar
takedown. CIMA hits the Schwein on Yoshino, followed by a Dragon Suplex by
Saito. Kid springboards off the top with a Rana, but Yoshino somehow kicks
out at two.
He goes for Doi gets Kid on his shoulders on the top. Kid fights him off
with elbows. Doi gets him back on the shoulders and hits Super Doi 555,
followed by a running kick to the head for two when Ryo makes the save.
Genki with a Beach Break to Kid. Doi plants Kid with a Muscular Bomb and
it's all over. All I can say is wow.
Your winners, Naruki Doi, Masato Yoshino, & Genki Horiguchi!
All the wrestlers get a well deserved round of applause after the match.
After the match, Sweeney is bragging about how well the weekend went in the
back, with all the contacts he made. He tells ROH the game is on and his
ducks are in a row.
Match thoughts:
The opener was kind of fun with Delirious acting scared of the chops. The
match itself was entertaining.
The first six man wasn't my thing, but the crowd seemed into it. It came
across as filler to me.
Strong and Stevens turned out to be more of an angle than anything, but when the
angle is that good, who can argue? It was a nasty, brutish bloodbath.
You could feel the hate with every chop and forearm. It was unlike
anything on Dragon Gate Challenge, so this was a really cool way to set this
show apart and make it stand alone. Definitely a brawl worth going out of
your way to watch,
The Briscoes and AOTF had the brawl that you'd expect them to. I thought
they were on the floor a little too long, but it built to Mark's dive.
Jimmy's counter of the Doomsday Device was insane and I had to re-watch it to
make sure I had seen it right. Wow! Great weekend for tag team
wrestling.
The Steen/Generico night two tag was not quite as good as their match against
SpeedMuscle, but it's still very entertaining. Once they got done with the
traditional dominate the small guy segment of the match, it really picked up and
delivered in a big way. Three straight matches worth seeing.
Aries and Nigel just went all out and put on a suspenseful title match to really
seal the deal and make this must see. The post match angle was came of as
well as could be expected.
If you've seen Dragon Gate six man tags before, you know how amazing that match
was. If you haven't, you have to see it to believe it. It's like
watching Hard Boiled for the first time. You just can't look at wrestling
the same after seeing such a spectacle.
I don't know how they did it, but once again, ROH managed to deliver five
straight must see matches in one night (with a major assist from Dragon Gate, of
course). Night one of Mania weekend was slightly better if only because
there was no filler match, but...
The ROH World Championship Match was the top of the line title match that would
have really put Dragon Gate Challenge over the top. Ring of Honor has done
a brilliant job of making the two nights stand on their own as major events.
Alone, they are strong. Together, it is one of the greatest, if not the
greatest, weekends in the company's six year history. These DVDs were a
thrill to watch, and I hope you'll add them to your collection. They could
edit both DVDs down to two hours and they would still be must buys at the full
price. I'm running out of positive things to say. I'll just end this
by saying I can't wait to find the time to watch these shows again.
Everything came of well on DVD. The cameramen really stepped up to make
sure every move was captured, and that's no easy feat when everything is going
over one hundred miles per hour.
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