That was the loudest I've heard the tv crowd except for the Tables Title Match and the 6 man with KENTA. Roddy's promo earlier in the show wasn't bad either. Unfortunately I can't see Cary wanting Strong as champ so he'll continue to be the reliable workhorse he's always been. Rest of the show was meh with it revolving around Jerry Lynn but I did like the Steenerico squash and Prince Nana's shirt.
Colt Cabana, Necro Butcher and Grizzly Redwood vs. Jimmy Rave, Claudio Castagnoli and Ernie Osiris Even though I've not really cared for the feud, this match was just good fun from start to finish.**½
Shawn Spears vs. Alex Payne *
Bryan Danielson vs. Kenny King Again great fun watching this.***¼
Kevin Steen and El Generico vs. The Young Bucks ROH is going to need to book the Young Bucks as much as possible. One appearance and the crowd just loved everything they did.****
Four Corner Survival
Austin Aries vs. Roderick Strong vs. Eddie Edwards vs. D-Lo Brown ***¼
Jimmy Jacobs vs. Sonjay Dutt This was the only thing on the show I didn't enjoy.**
Jay Briscoe vs. Davey Richards ***¼-***½
Non-Title Match
Jerry Lynn vs. Tyler Black ***½
Damn, seriously fun show. Everything except Jacobs/Dutt was enjoyable (even the Spears/Payne had a couple of enjoyable moments), I'd actually say this was one of the most enjoyable overall shows ROH have done all year.
Prince Mustafa Ali vs. Egotistico Fantastico - ***
Dave Taylor vs. Tracy Smothers - **1/4
Bobby Fish vs. Too Cold Scorpio - **
Sara Del Rey vs. Trik Davis - **1/4
Drake Younger vs. Too Tuff Tony - *1/2
Chuck Taylor vs. Cassandro - **
Sami Callihan vs. Chris Hero - ***
Necro Butcher vs. Eddie Kingston - ***
Josh Raymond vs. Tyler Black - ***1/4
Ace Steel vs. Are$ - **1/2
Michael Elgin vs. Ricochet - **3/4
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Jimmy Jacobs - ***
IWA Heavyweight Title - Loser Leaves For A Year
Dingo vs. Jaysin Strife - ***1/2
Night Two
Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black vs. The Soul Touchaz - **1/2
Egotistico Fantastico vs. Josh Raymond - **1/4
Drake Younger vs. Michael Elgin - **
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Dave Taylor - ***1/4
Sara Del Rey vs. Cassandro - **1/2
2 Cold Scorpio vs. Ace Steel - **1/4
Sami Callihan vs. Eddie Kingston - ***
Steel Cage Match
Jason Hades vs. Jayson Quick - ***1/4
Drake Younger vs. Egotistico Fantastico - ***
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Sara Del Rey - ***
Sami Callihan vs. 2 Cold Scorpio - **1/4
Dingo, Ricochet, & Bobby Fish vs. Too Tuff Tony, Prince Ali, & Are$ - **1/4
Falls Count Anywhere
Chris Hero vs. Trik Davis - ***1/2 - ***3/4
Drake Younger vs. Claudio Castagnoli vs. Sami Callihan - ***1/4
Overall this might be the worst TPI since they renamed it in 2002, and even that had Styles/Daniels and Hero/Punk. Except for a couple of matches everything just seemed off.
Mark says it right before it fades away. Yes, it made me sad, too. They were so close. I actually really liked the promo a lot, outside of some stumbling.
The Young Bucks vs. Rhett Titus and Kenny King Perfect opener in terms of getting the crowd hyped for the rest of the show. Just a great fast paced tag match.***¼-***½
Necro Butcher vs. Jimmy Rave *½
Roderick Strong vs. Sonjay Dutt Easily Sonjay's best match since coming back to ROH and with Danielson now leaving, it's the perfect fucking time to push Strong into a proper main event position. The crowd just gets behind him so easily.***½
First Blood Match
Jimmy Jacobs vs. Tyler Black The match only lasted like 10 seconds so...N/A
Four Corner Survival
Bryan Danielson vs. Colt Cabana vs. D-Lo Brown vs. Claudio Castagnoli Big waste of Danielson.**¼
Submission Match for the ROH World Tag Team Titles
The American Wolves vs. Kevin Steen and El Generico ***¾
Jay Briscoe vs. Guido Maritato Meh at Guido. The most interesting thing in this was his spit hitting some guy in the crowd :lmao*½
3 Way Elimination Match for the ROH World Title
Jerry Lynn vs. Austin Aries vs. Tyler Black Hard to get into until Lynn got eliminated then it was pretty awesome.***½-***¾
Overall: As an overall show, I enjoyed it quite alot more then 7th Anniversary Show but Nigel/KENTA, Wolves/Steenerico and Colt/Rave's returns were better then anything on this show. A few ways I would of fixed this show up is scrapped the First Blood match and Guido, added Danielson vs. Jacobs with Danielson finally getting the win and put Jay Briscoe in Danielson's spot in the 4 way.
And the sad thing was is if he could have actually gotten everyone he promised (unlikely as that was) it would have been at least a good event, even with Ian's booking and numerous promos. I guess Ol' Pedo's money didn't go as far as he thought. Or Ian scammed him too.
Kenny King and Rhett Titus vs. The Super Smash Brothers **
Jay Briscoe vs. Necro Butcher *
Davey Richards vs. Kevin Steen - Anything Goes Match ***1/2
Wasn't feeling this as much as others. Spots were good but it seemed to be spot and then set another up, spot and so on.
Bryan Danielson vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Eddie Edwards ***
Colt Cabana, Erick Stevens and Brent Albright vs. Jimmy Rave, Claudio Castagnoli and Joey Ryan **
Jerry Lynn vs. Chris Hero - ROH World Championship ***3/4+
Loved this
Overall: Decent show but nothing more. Hero/Lynn was really good and Hero's promo on the show is amazing.
I'm pretty bummed that PWG hasn't officially released Secret of Guerrilla Island yet, because it's just making it that much longer til Threemendous II arrives in my mailbox.
It might have cost them too much money to run there. They'll probably run Burbank for BOLA again this year since it looks like they save that for the biggest shows now.
Jimmy Jacobs vs. Tyler Black - First Blood Match DUD
Bryan Danielson vs. Colt Cabana vs. D-Lo Brown vs. Claudio Castagnoli **1/4
American Wolves vs. Kevin Steen and El Generico - Submission Match - ROH World Tag Team Championships ****
Jay Briscoe vs. Guido Maritato **1/2
Jerry Lynn vs. Austin Aries vs. Tyler Black - 3 Way Elimination Match - ROH World Championship ***3/4
Overall: Hammerstein shows are always good and whereas this was no exeption it wasnt on the level of previous Hammerstein shows. Like most recent shows some good stuff mixed in with some really bad stuff.
Since IWA:MS has closed, is there any matches you guys recomend to check out from them since I havent seen alot of their stuff and I have heard the company was crap before it died.
Check out TPI 2004 that was one of their best shows and had a great lineup and check out any of the Hero/Punk matches that they had you can find the TLC match in the Indy section somewhere
I also liked the two Whitmer/Jacobs matches from last year; their Barbwire rope match at April Bloodshowers 2008 was fantastic and they had a great I Quit match at the 500th show.
Non-Title Match
Colt Cabana and Nigel McGuinness vs. Dan Maff and BJ Whitmer **¼
Best of Five Series
Falls Count Anywhere
Bryan Danielson vs. Homicide I'd forgotten just how great the brawls between these two were.***¾
Spanky vs. Jimmy Jacobs ***¼
James Gibson vs. Puma ***¼
Special Challenge Match
Jimmy Rave vs. CM Punk ***¼
ROH World Title Match
Austin Aries vs. Samoa Joe ***¾
Very fun show. Nothing really bad on it, hell the worst thing was Maff and Whitmer/Cabana and McGuinness and that's only because it was kept basic with Cornette and Heenan ringside
ROH Back To Basics
Colt Cabana vs. Delirious *¾
Dunn and Marcos vs. Alex Law and Ricky Landell *
Spanky vs. Jack Evans **½
Winner Gets Special K Name
Azrieal and Dixie vs. Deranged and Izzy **¼
Homicide vs. Roderick Strong ***¼-***½
Four Corner Survival
Allison Danger vs. Cindy Rogers vs. Daizee Haze vs. Lacey *¾
ROH Tag Team Title Match
Dan Maff and BJ Whitmer vs. Colt Cabana and Nigel McGuinness ***¼
James Gibson vs. Rocky Romero ***½
#1 Contenders Tag Team Match
CM Punk and Spanky vs. Samoa Joe and Jay Lethal ****-****¼
Much better show then I remember it being. Strong/Cide and Gibson/Romero are pretty damn good and the main event is a match that never gets talked about despite being awesome.
IWA-MS Heavyweight Title
Chuck Taylor vs. Jimmy Jacobs - **** - ****1/4
Night Two
Josh Abercrombie vs. Devon Moore - **
Joker vs. Brent Albright - ***1/2
Human Tornado vs. Nate Webb - **
Joey Ryan vs. Mike Quackenbush - **1/2
Davey Richards vs. Claudio Castagnoli - **1/2
IWA-MS Heavyweight Title
Chuck Taylor vs. Too Cold Scorpio - ***1/4
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brent Albright - ***1/4
IWA-MS Heavyweight Title
Human Tornado vs. Chuck Taylor - ***1/2
Josh Abercrombie vs. Mike Quackenbush - ***1/4
Non-Tournament - No DQ, Last Man Standing
Chris Hero vs Eddie Kingston - ****1/4
Non-Tournament - IWA-MS Tag Team Titles
The Iron Saints (Sal & Vito Thomasseli) vs. Nigel McGuiness & BJ Whitmer - **1/2
IWA-MS Heavyweight Title
Claudio Castagnoli vs. Mike Quackenbush vs. Chuck Taylor - ****1/4
Quack coming back from injury and Hero/Kingston continuing the rivalry are the highlights here. Some solid matches and a couple of great ones but not what people came to expect from the TPI. Still it's better then 08 and miles better then the Sweet Science garbage.
About time you got some PWG 09 shows under your belt Benjo™. Every show this year has been amazing and nearly every match has been over *** bar two or three I think which is phenomenal when you think about it.
I only have one match from PWG this year rated under ***, and it was an unplanned filler match.
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