The Hunt Begins
Tyler Black vs. Jimmy Jacobs ***1/2
Austin Aries vs. Roderick Strong vs. Jay Briscoe vs. Kenny Omega ***1/4
Claudio Castagnoli & Jimmy Rave vs. Colt Cabana & Brent Albright **3/4
Kevin Steen, El Generico, & Bryan Danielson vs. The American Wolves & Sylvain Grenier ***1/4
Tag Title Classic
Colt Cabana vs. Claudio Castagnoli **1/2
Austin Aries, Rhett Titus, & Kenny King vs. Kevin Steen, Generio Dos, & Kenny Omega ***
Jimmy Jacobs vs. Delirious (Markham Street Fight)***1/4
Roderick Strong vs. Jay Briscoe ***1/2-***3/4
The American Wolves vs. Bryan Danielson & Tyler Black (World Tag Team Title Match)****1/2
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TOP 10 MOTY WWE-Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels - Wrestlemania 25 - ****3/4 NOAH-Go Shiozaki & KENTA vs Kensuke Sasaki & Nakajima – Southern Navigation 22/06/09 - ****3/4 ROH-Nigel McGuinness vs Bryan Danielson – Rising Above 2008/09 - ****1/2+ ROH-The American Wolves vs Bryan Danielson & Tyler Black - Double Feature II Tag Title Classic - ****1/2 KO-KENTA vs Nakajima – Kensuke Office 11/2/09 - ****1/2 PWG-Chris Hero vs Low Ki – BOLA 2008/09 N.2 - ****1/2 NOAH-Nakajima vs KENTA – Second Navigation 1/3/09 - ****1/2 TNA-Kurt Angle vs Jeff Jarret – Genesis 2009 - ****1/2 PWG-The Young Bucks vs Bryan Danielson & Roderick Strong – DDT4 2009 - ****1/2 NOAH-KENTA vs Kotaro Suzuki – NOAH 25/1/09 - ****1/4+
Six Man Mayhem
Angel Dust vs. Ace Steel vs. Trent Acid vs. Izzy vs. Fast Eddie vs. Kahagas Usual 04/05 6MM. A couple of nice spots but all in all nothing that good.*¾
CM Punk vs. Austin Aries Good match. The return of Corino after the match and the confrontation with Homicide was great fun though.***¼
Dan Maff and BJ Whitmer vs. Slash Venom and Chicano The only note worthy thing about this is Foley's ROH debut after the match. It's funny seeing the difference between him and Flair in ROH.¾*
Alex Shelley vs. Bryan Danielson Very good match. Nice psychology with Shelley targeting Danielson's neck to soften him up for the Shellshock and Border City Stretch, while Danielson targets the arm of Shelley that he had injured earlier in the night. If not for a couple of mistakes by Shelley then I'd go slightly higher.***¾-****
ROH Pure Title Match
John Walters vs. Nigel McGuinness By no means a bad match, but I found it very difficult to get into.**½
ROH World Title Match
Samoa Joe vs. Doug Williams Good title match with Joe using his strikes to stop Doug's unique submissions rather then trying to reverse the holds. ***¼-***½
Ultimate Endurance Match for the ROH Tag Team Championship
Ricky Reyes and Rocky Romero vs. The Carnage Crew vs. Dan Maff and BJ Whitmer vs. Roderick Strong **¼
Overall: Show was pretty much what I was expecting. Punk/Aries, Shelley/Dragon, Joe/Doug were all good with the rest of the show (except Walters/Nigel) being pretty meh.
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Back to watching the 450 matches on my HDD Last Match Watched: Vader vs. Cactus Jack (WCW Halloween Havoc 1993) - ****
OK I'm uber-impressed with ROH's shipping right now. I ordered on Wednesday afternoon, and my DVDs arrived this morning [Saturday]. 4 days for international airmail is fantastic. Bravo, ROH! Now if you'll excuse me, I have a wrestling binge to attend to, with SCOH IV, 7th Anniversary and Double Feature lined up!
OK I'm uber-impressed with ROH's shipping right now. I ordered on Wednesday afternoon, and my DVDs arrived this morning [Saturday]. 4 days for international airmail is fantastic. Bravo, ROH! Now if you'll excuse me, I have a wrestling binge to attend to, with SCOH IV, 7th Anniversary and Double Feature lined up!
That is quick. I've never had an ROH DVD order take less then 6 days.
Tickets are usually quick though.
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Back to watching the 450 matches on my HDD Last Match Watched: Vader vs. Cactus Jack (WCW Halloween Havoc 1993) - ****
Falls Count Anywhere
Adam Pearce vs. Delirious - **1/4
Chris Hero vs. Jigsaw - ***
Relaxed Rules
Bryan Danielson vs. Necro Butcher - **1/2
Nigel McGuinness vs. Silas Young - **
Human Tornado vs. Erick Stevens vs. Davey Richards - ***
30 Minute Iron Man Match
Roderick Strong vs. Austin Aries - ***1/4
Tag Team Scramble
The Briscoes vs. The Vulture Squad vs. Hangmen 3 vs. Age Of The Fall - **3/4
Flat show with nothing to go out of your way to see.
PWG – All Star Weekend V
Night One
Disco Machine vs. NOSAWA - **
Rocky Romero vs. Roderick Strong - ***3/4
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Human Tornado - ***
Kikutaro vs. Matt Classic - **1/4
Jack Evans vs. Kevin Steen - ***1/4
Chris Bosh, Scott Lost, Joey Ryan & Karl Anderson vs. Frankie Kazarian, TJ Perkins, Ronin, & Top Gun Talwar - ***
Kaz Hayashi vs. Alex Shelley - ****
Low Ki vs. Davey Richards - ****
PWG World Title
El Generico vs. PAC - ****1/4 - ****1/2
Night Two
No Disqualification
Joey Ryan vs. Kevin Steen - ***1/4
Karl Anderson, Lil' Cholo, & NOSAWA vs. TJ Perkins, Rocky Romero, & Ronin - **1/4
Chris Hero vs. Davey Richards - ***
Colt Cabana & Top Gun Talwar vs. Disco Machine & Kikutaro - **1/2
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Alex Shelley - ***1/2
Kaz Hayashi vs. PAC - ***1/2 - ***3/4
Chris Bosh & Scott Lost vs. Jack Evans & Roderick Strong - ***1/4
PWG World Title
El Generico vs. Human Tornado - ***1/2
Low Ki vs. Samoa Joe - ****
Very good weekend of shows just like most All Star Weekends with Night One surpassing Night Two with the three straight excellent matches to close the show. Don’t know why the Shelley/Hayashi match isn’t on PWG Sells Out instead of PAC/Hayashi.
That is quick. I've never had an ROH DVD order take less then 6 days.
Really. I live in the US and I have never had one take less than six days. They must not like me.
__________________ A wrestling match is like a balanced diet. The basics are carbs, keeping you going. Armdrags may not be the highlight, but they're key to the development. Dairy is emotion and crowd interaction, like bones, they strengthen the match, and in there absense, the it will fall apart. Meat is moves like suplexes and finishers. They’re cool, but if you rely on them you’d be unhealthy, and the matches unwatchable. Mat work is fruits and vegetables. We may not like them, but some is sweet chain wrestling. Last is spots and indy MoVEz~!, your sugars and fats. You can't just eat chocolate, and thus you need to do more than flips and head drops to get above ****.
Karl Anderson, Bino Gambino & Scott Lost vs. Nemesis, TJ Perkins & Disco Machine ***
Kevin Steen vs. Chris Bosh ***3/4 Some cool spots in this one. It was pretty brutal, especially the finisher Steen used.
Super Dragon vs. Ronin ***1/4 This one kinda surprised me. Pretty good match.
PWG World Tag Team Championship
El Generico & Quicksilver (c) vs. Phoenix Star & Zokre ****
Guerrilla Warfare Match for the PWG World Championship
Joey Ryan (c) vs. Human Tornado ****1/4 This was pretty awesome. There were some pretty sick spots also. It was really good. Though, at the beginning, it was pretty hard to get into. It got a lot better though.
Overall, it was a pretty great show. One of the best overall shows that I have, to be honest. Worth picking up.
Guerrilla Warfare Match
Super Dragon vs. Kevin Steen ****3/4 Wow, what a war. Fucking extremely epic, intense and emotional match. They legitimately brutalized each other. The thumbtacks in Steen's head is fuckin sick.
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I pay for the subscription package and since then everyone seems to get there orders before me.
