[GenerationNeXt]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Because we love you and it's for the best.

This is true, and maybe these matches will make me want to watch wrestling again considering that anytime I pop in a DVD, I instantly turn it off.

Edit - Just got done watching Kawada Vs Misawa from 10/21/92 and I loved the match. ****1/4

[Seabs]

ROH: Fifth Year Festival: New York City

The show opens with some woman outside the arena with the fans waiting to get in and hypes the whole show up. Jimmy Rave then cuts a meh promo talking bout his ROH World Title main event match against Homicide.

Pelle opens the show up trying to sound hard and issuing an open challenge to anyone in the locker room. He’s soon piped back down though when Morishima comes out to Joe’s music! Morishima then OWNS him and pins in somet like 5 seconds.

After the match Morishima kinda cuts a promo in Japanese, probably to do with his opponent later in the night, Samoa Joe.

Match One: Adam Pearce vs Delirious

Obviously I’m not counting Pelle getting squashed as a match and I doubt most people will. Just to start off I don’t like Delirious at all k.

Pearce plays a great heel in this match, some nice action in and out of the ring. Delirious gets the win when he puts some brass knucks in his mask and headbutts Pearce. I think I just proved my point about Delirious there. Decent opener

*3/4

Daniels and Sydal then cut a promo for their upcoming match wit Aries and Strong. Daniels can really work the whole looking away from the camera thing, Sydal not so though. Daniels talks about how they’re the new team in ROH but they have the tag titles and they’re out to prove themselves to everyone by beating the best teams in ROH. Sydal ends it with some cockiness about his tow belts and success in Japan.

Match Two: Sara Del Ray & Allison Danger vs Daizee Haze & Alexa Thatcher

Great Shimmer match here but sadly too short. Daizee carries most of the match up for her team with Alexa being the newbie so to speak. Looks pretty good for someone new in the ring and defiantly does out of it!

Daizee is as awesome as ever. Lacey however turns up midway through the match and starts brawling with Daizee as part of their feud at the time. Them two go to the back brawling whilst Del Ray picks up the win for her team with an awesome finishing sequence on Thatcher.

**

Between these matches Joe comes out and cuts a great promo on how this will be his farewell tour and goes onto thank ROH and all their fans for everything. You get the idea. He then goes onto Morishima and bad mouth him bout their match later and calls him out right then. McGuiness however comes out again to try and restore peace between the two but obviously fails. Him and Joe then end up brawling and have to be separated.

Match Three: Shingo vs Jimmy Jacobs vs Jack Evans vs Xavier – Four Way Fray

First of all lmao at Jacobs entrance with the phones! You can hear someone before he comes out go get ya phones ready! Great stuff. Four very talented men in this match so it defiantly had the potential and thankfully defiantly lived up to it also. Jack Evans annoys the fuck out of me at times though. Yes we know you can street dance and do backflips etc but spending ten minutes during your entrance doing them fuckin annoys me.

Xavier goes out reasonably early. No surprise with him being a late replacement to Davey Andrews in the match. Jacobs goes next after some double teaming by Shingo and Evans who end up as the final duo in the match. From there some good wrestling and finishes with Evans winning with a 630 splash. That move never fails to impress me tbh.

First I’d seen of Shingo in this match before. Pretty impressed with him tbh. The other 3 were great as always.

***

Match Four: BJ Whitmer vs Brent Albright – Tables Are Legal

Yes it’s a spotfest and all but it’s a bloody awesome spotfest! So many tables are used in this match I lost count. They certainly make the most of the Tables are Legal stipulation. I marked out for two awesome spots in this match. 1) Albrights Awesome Bomb on BJ over the top rope through two stacked tables on the outside. 2) This was the better one. Albrights sets a table down on the top rope and gets BJ up there too planning some crazy shit but Whitmer turns it round and hits an EXPLODER THROUGH TWO TABLES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING~!!! I literally marked the fuck out for that and I admittedly don’t mark out that much. It takes an awesome match/spot for me to mark the fuck out for. That was an awesome spot.

Sure it’s not that great of a match. Its mostly spots, but the spots are awesome in it and definaly more than make up for it imo.

***3/4

Match Five: Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal vs Austin Aries & Roderick Strong – ROH Tag Team Championships

The match starts off much slower than the high paced, adrenaline rushed match before it. Good tag work between the two teams from the get go. Everyone knows that Sydal and Daniels are incredibly talented and unbelievably athletic and it shows yet again in this match. Sydal’s SSP never fails to amaze me, either when he does it in the Indys or now on ECW. Best SSP ever imo. Oh and Daniels has the best moonsault ever just incase ya didn’t know.
Aries takes an awkward knock towards the end damages his leg but carries on with the rest of the match. Pace speeds up much faster towards the end with Daniels and Sydal getting the pin to retain their titles.

The end of the match isn’t the end of the drama though. After the match Strong turns on Aries! Pretty damn good heel turn out of nowhere too imo. Andrews then comes out and starts ranting at Aries and explains why him and Strong have turned on him to form the No Remorse Corps. Evans then comes out to assist Aries and offers to stick up for him if he needs. Aries brushes him off though.

***1/2

Homicide then cuts a typically awesome promo bout how he was at ROH’s first ever show and now he’s the champ at the Fifth Year Anniversary shows.

Match Six: Nigel McGuiness and Colt Cabana vs The Briscoes

Another solid tag match, just like the one before it but shorter. Nigel wins with an impressive lariat. Colt is awesome as always of course. After the match Samoa Joe comes out to attack McGuiness continuing from earlier. Colt tries to stop him attack his new tag partner but fails. Morishima then also comes out leading into …….

***1/4

Match Seven: Samoa Joe vs Takeshi Morishima

Seamless eh?

The first of two main events on the show. This is actually Morishima’s in ring debut in ROH. Morishima’s basically a larger version of Joe if you don’t know him kind of. Both men are incredibly athletic for their sizes. ROH definalty play up the fact that Morishima has the weight advantage over Joe early on in the match.

The match is pretty fun to watch and defiantly a more than solid match up for two reasonably big men. Joe gets the in on Morishima’s debut but he doesn’t come out of it looking weak at all.

****

Match Eight: Homicide vs Jimmy Rave – ROH World Championship

Not the best main event tbh. Never really been a fan of Jimmy Rave tbh which probably doesn’t help. Lots of hype put on Rave’s heel lock before the match but during the match I don’t really think it lived up to the hype given before it. He never really had it locked in for a substantial amount of time for it to cause any damage. Cide eventually gets the pin on Rave to retain the title. Decent main event but the show needed a better one imo to cap it off.

***1/2

Overall

All the matches were solid at least but there wasn’t really one match for me that fully delivered a worthy ****+ match. Main event needed to be better as well but overall as a show together it’s very good and well worth buying. The upper end of the card is all over *** and the two opening matches are both fun and defiantly watchable.

[T-C]

Does Alexa Thatcher get used at all anymore?

I mean she's pretty hot.

[McQueen]

Originally Posted by Seabs

Match Four: BJ Whitmer vs Brent Albright – Tables Are Legal

Yes it’s a spotfest and all but it’s a bloody awesome spotfest! So many tables are used in this match I lost count. They certainly make the most of the Tables are Legal stipulation. I marked out for two awesome spots in this match. 1) Albrights Awesome Bomb on BJ over the top rope through two stacked tables on the outside. 2) This was the better one. Albrights sets a table down on the top rope and gets BJ up there too planning some crazy shit but Whitmer turns it round and hits an EXPLODER THROUGH TWO TABLES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING~!!! I literally marked the fuck out for that and I admittedly don’t mark out that much. It takes an awesome match/spot for me to mark the fuck out for. That was an awesome spot.

Sure it’s not that great of a match. Its mostly spots, but the spots are awesome in it and definaly more than make up for it imo.

***3/4

Words cannot express how much I hate that match.

[Platt]

Originally Posted by T-C

Does Alexa Thatcher get used at all anymore?

I mean she's pretty hot.

She's out of wrestling at the moment.

[Seabs]

Originally Posted by McQueen

Words cannot express how much I hate that match.

I can understand why people wouldnt like it with it being a spotfest mainly, but I enjoyed it

[GP_Punk]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

The WWE one is good, but the Heroes of World Class documentary is just amazing. THE best wrestling documentary on dvd. It's heartfelt, sad, and endearing all at the same time. Kevin walking through the old Sportatorium at the end is worth it by itself.

QFT

"Heroes of World Class" is absolutely amazing. Definitely better than the WWE one (which is by no means bad btw)
I literaly got welled up towards the end...

[T-C]

Originally Posted by Platt

She's out of wrestling at the moment.

Good on her.

[Andy3000]

Am I the only one that prefers the Real World Tag League '96 final to 6/9/95? I think I prefer Jumbo/Misawa from 9/1/90 to it as well...

[Yon]

I am posting this here cos it is kinda considered Indy even though the WWE did make the DVD's, are these two DVD's any good and worth buying? The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class Championship Wrestling and The Spectacular Legacy of the AWA.