[watts63]

CHIKARA King of Trios '08 Night One

2nd Round Matches

Delirious, Hallowicked & Helios vs. Martin Stone, Sha Samuels & Terry Frazier ***1/2

Mike Quackenbush, Skayde & Shane Storm vs. Cheech, Cloudy & m.c. KZ ***1/4

Eddie Kingston, Ruckus & Joker vs. UltraMantis Black, Hydra & Crossbones ***1/4

Worker, Solider & Fire Ant vs. Chiva II, III & IV ***1/4 ("Decption in The Animal Kingdom. We Got Goats vs. Ants, It Doesn't Get Any Bigger Than This Bitch" Jimmy Olsen Rules!)

1st Round Matches

Drake Younger, Diehard Dustin Lee & Scotty Vortekz vs. Martin Stone, Sha Samuels & Terry Frazier ***1/4

Jimmy Olsen, Brodie Lee & Retail Dragon vs. Cheech, Cloudy & m.c. KZ ***-***1/4

Mike Quackenbush, Skayde & Shane Storm vs. Mecha Mummy, Ophidian & Amasis ***1/2-***3/4 (CAN YOU DIG IT~?!; Gotta Love The Quackenbush/Mummy Encounters)

UltraMantis Black, Hydra & Crossbones vs. Call-Me-Kevin, Unibouzo & DW Cycloptopuss III *1/2

Worker, Solider & Fire Ant vs. Michael Nakazawa (SOMEONE PUT SOME SAND ON THAT GUY~! PLEASE~!), Mototsugu Shimiu & Go *** (Kingston's Hate For The Colony is Great)

Chiva II, III & IV vs. Shane Hagadorn, Rhett Titus & Alex Payne **1/4

[PulseGlazer]

Originally Posted by Mr. Wanderlei

So folks, I need a bit of help. Finally became interested again in the Independent scene but I'm fairly out of date with all the occurances that have taken place in ROH this year. Who wants to compile a list of the best RoH 2008 DVD's available for me?

Easily done sir.

1. 6th Anniversary
2. Breakout
3. Proving Ground
4. Eye of the Storm
5. Without Remorse
6. Transform

Enjoy. If you need anything else, feel free to ask.

[watts63]

CHIKARA King of Trios '08 Night Two

2nd Round Matches

El Pantera, Lince Dorado & Incognito vs. El Generico, Player Uno & Stupified ***1/4

Demolition Ax, Demolition Smash & One Man Gang vs. Mitch Ryder, Larry Sweeney & Shayne Hawke **3/4 (LEGENDARY STRUT-OFF BETWEEN SWEENEY & ONE MAN GANG)

Icarus, Gran Akuma & Chuck Taylor vs. Willie Richardson, Acid Jaz & Marshe Rockett ***1/2-***3/4(Like To See Soul Touchaz Back in CHIKARA)

MIYAWAKI, SUSUMU & KUDO vs. AkuA, Immortal Black & Immortal White **1/4-**1/2

1st Round Matches

El Pantera, Lince Dorado & Incognito vs. Glacier & El Hijo Ice Cream & Ice Cream, Jr. **3/4 (Los Ice Creams Went To The Extreme & Dorado Wasn't Safe)

El Generico, Player Uno & Stupified vs. Arik Cannon, Darin Corbin & Ryan Cruz ***3/4

Mitch Ryder, Larry Sweeney & Shayne Hawke vs. Tim Donst, Drew Gulak & Andy Sumner ***

Icarus, Gran Akuma & Chuck Taylor vs. Bobby Dempsey, Sara Del Rey & Tank Toland ***1/4

Willie Richardson, Acid Jaz & Marshe Rockett vs. Kobra Kai, Super Xtremo & Sombra Canadienese ***

MIYAWAKI, SUSUMU & KUDO vs. Shaun Reed, Reno Diamond & Marcus O'Neill *** (Is It Weird That The Two Black Guys Dressed Like They're The KKK & The White Guy Dressed Like He's Homicide?)

[WillTheBloody]

ROH: Eye of the Storm

1. Block A Round 1 - Bryan Danielson vs Rocky Romero - **3/4
2. Block A Round 1 - Kevin Steen vs Delirious - ***1/4
3. Block B Round 1 - Austin Aries vs El Generico - ***1/2
4. Block B Round 1 - Go Shiozaki vs Necro Butcher - ***3/4
The Larry Sweeney Show - Mediocre segment. Sweeney running down the crowd was good. This would turn out to be a very important segment a few shows later.
5. Block A Finals - ***1/4
6. Block B Finals - ***3/4
7. Mitch Franklin vs Pelle Primeau vs Human Tornado vs Jason Blade - **1/4
8. AOTF (Jacobs/Gowen) vs The Vulture Squad (Ruckus/Jigsaw) - **3/4
9. Tournament Finals - ***3/4

OVERALL: 7/10. Pretty good show top to bottom. Aside from Romero, I'm a big fan of everyone in the tournament, so I could be a little bias. A full, spoilerific review should be on my blog and in my sig soon.

[ROH]

Originally Posted by watts63

CHIKARA King of Trios '08 Night One

2nd Round Matches

Delirious, Hallowicked & Helios vs. Martin Stone, Sha Samuels & Terry Frazier ***1/2

Mike Quackenbush, Skayde & Shane Storm vs. Cheech, Cloudy & m.c. KZ ***1/4

Eddie Kingston, Ruckus & Joker vs. UltraMantis Black, Hydra & Crossbones ***1/4

Worker, Solider & Fire Ant vs. Chiva II, III & IV ***1/4 ("Decption in The Animal Kingdom. We Got Goats vs. Ants, It Doesn't Get Any Bigger Than This Bitch" Jimmy Olsen Rules!)

1st Round Matches

Drake Younger, Diehard Dustin Lee & Scotty Vortekz vs. Martin Stone, Sha Samuels & Terry Frazier ***1/4

Jimmy Olsen, Brodie Lee & Retail Dragon vs. Cheech, Cloudy & m.c. KZ ***-***1/4

Mike Quackenbush, Skayde & Shane Storm vs. Mecha Mummy, Ophidian & Amasis ***1/2-***3/4 (CAN YOU DIG IT~?!; Gotta Love The Quackenbush/Mummy Encounters)

UltraMantis Black, Hydra & Crossbones vs. Call-Me-Kevin, Unibouzo & DW Cycloptopuss III *1/2

Worker, Solider & Fire Ant vs. Michael Nakazawa (SOMEONE PUT SOME SAND ON THAT GUY~! PLEASE~!), Mototsugu Shimiu & Go *** (Kingston's Hate For The Colony is Great)

Chiva II, III & IV vs. Shane Hagadorn, Rhett Titus & Alex Payne **1/4

Ugh, I wrote a review of this comparing live to DVD alot but forgot to put it on USB for today.

It'll be up soon though. And good ratings Watts, I agree on pretty much everything (give or take some 1/2s and 1/4s).

[watts63]

CHIKARA King of Trios '08 Night Three

Finals
Eddie Kingston , Ruckus & Joker vs. Lince Dorado, El Pantera & Incognito ***3/4 (Does Anybody Get Really Nervous Like Me Everytime Dorado is on That Top Rope?; Kingston Mocking Dorado Was Just Wrong lol)

Tim Donst, Create-A-Wrestler, Chiva II & Arik Cannon vs. Ophidian, Amasis, El Hijo Ice Cream & Ice Cream Jr. ** (LOL At The Ending)

The Only Singles Match
Michael Nakazawa (Once Again...SOMEONE PUT SOME SAND ON THAT GUY~!) vs. m.c. KZ **1/2 (Bring Back Nakazawa)

Vin Gerard vs. Glacier vs. Martin Stone vs. Reno Diamond **1/2-**3/4

Semi-Final Matches

Worker, Solider & Fire Ant vs. Lince Dorado, El Pantera & Incognito ***1/4

Eddie Kingston, Ruckus & Joker vs. Delirous, Hallowicked & Helios **** (Genius Ending)

Tag Team Gauntlet Match
Sara Del Rey & Bobby Dempsey vs. Sha Samuels & Terry Frazier vs. Darin Corbin & Ryan Cruz vs. Player Uno & Stupidified vs. Ax & Smash vs. Mototsugu Shimiu & Go vs. Las Chivas III & IV vs. Crossbone & Hydra vs. Shaun Reed & Marcus O'Neill vs. Immortal Black & White **1/4 (Dempsey was Impressive)

Quarter-Final Matches

Delirious, Hallowicked & Helios vs. Mitch Ryder, Larry Sweeney & Shayne Hawke ***1/4

Eddie Kingston, Ruckus & Joker vs. MIYAWAKI, SUSUMU & KUDO ***1/2-***3/4

Mike Quackenbush, Skayde & Shane Storm vs. Lince Dorado, El Pantera & Incognito ***1/2

Icarus, Gran Akuma & Chuck Taylor vs. Worker, Solider & Fire Ant ***1/4

Disappointed That Their Wasn't No Soul Touchaz & Naptown Dragons

MVPs of KOT '08: BLK OUT

[vivalabrave]

Originally Posted by King_Kash

does anyone know where can I find best of CM Punk vol DVD from FIP? is it same as BVE verison or different? cuz I wanna have every Best of CM Punk DVD (I already have all vols from ROH, soon get vol 2 of FIP and many more)

The BVE version is WAY better. It comes with 2 Punk matches in ROH (vs. Danielson at Reborn and vs. Strong at Future is Now) and it has a 45 minute career feature from Punk in IWA. You can find it on Amazon for $5.

[Platt]

Damn you all for still doing star ratings while I was away it's going to take me hours to catch up

But to stay on topic go with the BVE version of the Punk DVD more content for lower price.

[Spartanlax]

I MUST get KOT Night 3, just so I can make a gif of Kingston mocking Lince's seizure. It sounds tremendous.

[ROH]

1. ROH Students vs Las Chivas – Ugh, really didn’t like this. Came off about the same as it did live – just utterly average with nothing special except Sugarfoot’s hilarious flipping senton botch. The ROH Students doing the workover period that NEVER ENDS really didn’t help this as an opener, also. Ended strongly (w/ the moonsault), at least. *1/2.

2. The Colony vs Team El DoradoDDT – Awesome match! Came off much better than live, as I thought you could see all the little details a lot better, espec. Team Japan’s antics. The match was more focused around general fun than wrestling, which turned out really well. Team Japan were so unique – pure comedy with Michael, the odd, odd man in Shimizu and the SRS BIZNESS ‘rassla in Go; I loved them. Anyways, great stuff that should have been the opener IMO. ***1/4.

3. Kaiju Sea Amigos vs The Order of The Neo Solar Temple – Overall, this was a lot better than expected. The ring introductions were certainly better on DVD because my ears weren’t getting destroyed by Louden’s super loud announcing. The Sea Amigos were pretty cool, especially DW Cycloptocus (sp?) with his spinning tentacle massacre as the hot tag. Entertaining stuff on the whole, that didn’t go too long or anything. **1/2.

4. Team Egypt vs QuackenStormSkayde – WOW did this come off better on DVD than live. I don’t remember an awful lot from live outside of some fun stuff scattered, but on DVD I was loving every minute. We got pretty much everything; Mecha-metal hand palm strikes, Skayde schooling young Ophidian, Amasis doing a 450 (which felt much less awkward than live), Quack hitting a superkick, and loads more. Cool underlying story with the Portal trying to get the big win of their careers over the vets too. Best first round match of Night 1. ***1/2.

5. Team WTF vs Team Dr. Keith – Wasn’t as good as live on DVD, mostly because pretty much all of the spots were a lot less ‘HOLY SH*T!’ I could hear myself marking out when they announced Colin Deleany as Colin Olsen’s replacement, but sadly it was not to be. At least we had Jimmy yell ‘Who?! I have no idea who that guy is!” at Chikarason. Thankfully Retail didn’t botch anything big and KZ looked real good in his debut, I hope we can see him back one day in the almighty future. Super fun match here. ***.

6. Team IPW-UK vs The Naptown Dragons – Unfortunately, this came off far worse on DVD. Live it was f*cking electric, but on DVD the buzz seemed absent. I liked the brawling at the start as opposed to the usual feeling out process, and the workover on Diehard was pretty good. A few off parts in the finishing stretch, but it’s the first time these guys have met so it’s understandable. Solid stuff, but nothing awesome like live, . ***.

7. Las Chivas vs The Colony – The crowd was pretty dead for this one, as it was post-intermission. I don’t have much to say about this, it was fine for what it was I guess. The height Worker got on his (missed) moonsault near the end was crazy. **.

8. BLKOUT vs TONST – Live this was great due to the pleasant surprise of the Order generally being more awesome than usual, while on tape it was less…special. Still, we had a nice underdog story going and the BLKOUT were super, super rudos. Eddie Kingston is awesome. I also loved how Ruckus was laughing at Mantis when he tried to hit the Praying Mantis Bomb on Joker. And, holy sh*t, what a sick finish. **3/4.

9. Team WTF vs QuackenSkaydeStorm – WAY too much Shane Storm. Everything where it was just him from his team in the ring sucked, while everything else ruled. I really liked the early feeling out process parts (especially KZ and Quack’s exchanges), but the workover stages kinda blew. I blame Shane Storm, mostly. It picked up when the finishing stretch hit – Quack’s Yoshi Tonic ---> sitout powerbomb move ruled my soul. Shane Storm’s fighting spirit was comically bad, but at least the match ended good with Skayde schooling young KZ. Very good stuff, but too much Storm to be great. ***1/2.

10. Team IPW-UK vs IncoHelios – Just MOTN. I think IncoHelios were the perfect opponents for the IPW lads, as the Firm were completely hated after their first round match while IncoHelios were like, the super babyface (but not underdog) team against them in an epic battle. Helios did a good face-in-peril, leading onto a great finishing sequence with lots of big moves and nearfalls. I still bought the double submissions from the Kartel at the finish, before the awesome finish with the most over hold ever. Quality main event. ***3/4.

Overall: I’d say the weakest show of the weekend; if only because the crowd on Nights 2 and 3 were much, much better. This show was still good though, with loads of fun stuff throughout and nothing too similar/repetitive. For an overall score I’d say 7/10, I really enjoyed it.