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#5,101 ·
Just picked up Shimmer Vol 30 and Buffalo Stampede II/Death Before Dishonor VIII..

Cant wait for Davey/Tyler.

EDIT

Shimmer - Volume 29

1. Kellie Skater vs Neveah
**

2. Annie Social & Melanie Cruise vs Nikki Roxx & Ariel
**1/4

3. Rachel Summerlyn vs LuFisto
*1/2

4. Jamilia Craft vs Mercedes Martinez
*3/4

5. Rayna Von Tash vs Allison Danger
*3/4

6. Sassy Stephie vs Madison Eagles
**1/4

7. Cat Power vs Jessie McKay
**1/2

8. Sara Del Rey vs Tenille
**3/4

9. Misaki Ohata vs Daizee Haze
**3/4

10. Tomoka Nakagawa vs Ayumi Kurihara
***1/4-***1/2

11. Shimmer Tag Team Title Match
Cheerleader Melissa & MsChif vs Portia Perez & Nicole Matthews
***-***1/4

Disappointing show.. To many short matches and to many women booked..
 
#5,102 ·
ROH on HDNet Volume 1

Episode #1
Tyler Black vs. Jimmy Jacobs **

Episode #3

Bryan Danielson vs. Austin Aries ***¼

Episode #4

Austin Aries vs. Kenny Omega ***

Episode #6

Bryan Danielson vs. Tyler Black ***¾

Episode #7

Roderick Strong vs. Austin Aries ***¼

Episode #8

Bryan Danielson vs. Tyler Black ***½

Episode #9
ROH World Tag Team Title Match

Kevin Steen and El Generico vs. Rhett Titus and Kenny King ***-***¼

Episode #10

Jay Briscoe vs. Kenny Omega vs. Kenny King ***-***¼

Episode #11
Tables Match for the ROH World Tag Team Titles

Kevin Steen and El Generico vs. The American Wolves ****

Episode #12

Four Corner Survival for the ROH World Title
Jerry Lynn vs. Bryan Danielson vs. Austin Aries vs. Tyler Black ****-****¼

Good DVD. Same feelings on most of the matches as when I first watched them. Went slightly lower on Lynn/Black/Danielson/Aries and the second Danielson/Black match.
 
#5,104 ·
SHIMMER Vol. 28:

1. Portuguese Princess Ariel vs. Malia Hosaka - *3/4
2. Kimberly Kash vs. Melanie Cruise - SQUASH
3. Ashley Lane & Nevaeh vs. Kacey Diamond & Sassy Stephie - **1/2
4. Nikki Roxx vs. Wesna Busic - ***
5. Rachel Summerlyn vs. Daffney - ANGLE
6. Jessie McKay & Tenille vs. Rain & Jetta /w Lacey - **1/4
7. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Kellie Skater - MELISSA KILLS AUSSIES DEAD
8. Mercedez Martinez vs. Cat Power - **3/4
9. Allison Danger vs. Nicole Matthews - **1/4
10. Ayako Hamada vs. Sara Del Rey - ****
11. SHIMMER Title Match: MsChif vs. Amazing Kong vs. LuFisto - ***1/2

If you haven't seen Hamada vs Del Rey yet, you owe it to yourself as a wrestling fan to see it since it's legit one of the top women's matches ever in the US. Also on this volume is a very competitive Busic/Roxx match and an entertaining if very spotty main event. Finally, check out the Melissa squash for pure awesomeness.
 
#5,105 ·
ROH From The Ashes

Colt Cabana vs. Johnny Goodtime vs. Rasche Brown vs. Joey Ryan vs. Human Tornado vs. Shawn Daivari
**

Kings of Wrestling vs. Scott Lost & Scorpio Sky
***

Alex Koslov vs. Rocky Romero
**
(Suprised at how short it was given they were special guest for the show)


Kenny Omega vs. Kevin Steen
***1/4

Steve Corino vs. El Generico
***1/2

Tyler Black vs. Austin Aries
***1/4

Tyler Black vs. Roderick Strong
**1/2

Jerry Lynn vs. Kenny King - No DQ
**
(Awful attempt at a hardcore match. No emotion or intensity.)


Briscoes vs. American Wolves - ROH World Tag Team Championships
***3/4

Overall:
Really solid show from top to bottom and a good watch.
 
#5,106 ·
DBD VIII is out now at ROHwrestling.com

IMO I'd buy it soon because Davey/Tyler has had big hype around it and ROH dont exactly make as many copies of DVDs like they used to.

Also RF Video have 40% off if you spend over $25

They just released this as well with Dreamer & Raven doing commentary for the matches
http://www.rfvideo.com/faceoffvol10-ravenvsdreamer.aspx
 
#5,109 ·
ROH on HDNet Volume 2

Episode #13
Jerry Lynn vs. Chris Hero **¾

Episode #14

Kenny King vs. Kenny Omega ***¼-***½

Episode #14

KENTA vs. Roderick Strong ***¾-****

Episode #15
Fight Without Honor

Jimmy Jacobs vs. Delirious **¾

Episode #15
ROH World Tag Team Title Match

The American Wolves vs. Bryan Danielson and Tyler Black ***¾

Episode #16

Austin Aries, Kenny King and Rhett Titus vs. Jerry Lynn, Kenny Omega and Erick Stevens **¼

Episode #16

Roderick Strong vs. Jay Briscoe **¼

Episode #17

Kevin Steen, El Generico and KENTA vs. The American Wolves and Chris Hero ***¾-****

Episode #18

Bryan Danielson vs. Tyler Black ****-****¼

Despite a couple weak matches, I personally enjoyed this over the first volume.
King/Omega was a pleasant surprise as I couldn't remember a thing about the match and yet it turned out to be a seriously fun match. KENTA/Strong and the KENTA six man tag were also better then I remember them being.
 
#5,110 ·
ROH Phoenix Rising

Rocky Romero vs Kenny Omega
***

Shawn Daivari vs Human Tornado
**

Kevin Steen vs Scott Lost
***1/4

Claudio Castagnoli, Bison Smith, Joey Ryan & Prince Nana vs The Necro Butcher, Rasche Brown & Briscoe Brothers
**1/2

Scorpio Sky vs Kenny King
**3/4

Steve Corino vs Jerry Lynn - Hardcore Match
***1/2

American Wolves vs Colt Cabana & El Generico
***1/2+

Overall:
Yeah I'm not counting the whole Aries/Black/Strong thing at the end of the show. Thought it was a really cheap main event offering at your WrestleMania weekend show. On TV fine but not here. Show was solid for the second night in a row but nothing stood out over the weekend for the first time in years.
 
#5,115 ·
ROH Supercard Of Honor V

Briscoes vs Kenny King & Rhett Titus
Ideal opener for the show. Gets the crowd hot and it sets the mark for the great action thats to come. King impresses me every time I see him and he does so again here. I can definitely see him a year from now benefiting from a major face turn and establishing himself as a credible top guy in the company. I could totally see him doing well with a mainstream TV company too. Titus still looks really arkward at times like going for pins when he's not the legal man and taking too long to set double teams up. I dont know why but he looks really lost whenever I see him in tag matches. Good opener even for the Briscoes.

***1/4

Erick Stevens vs Grizzly Redwood
I'm gonna say something now that you may think is a touch crazy but Grizzly's actually a better worker than about a third of the roster is atm. Seriously. He works his role perfectly as the tiny guy that stands no chance of winning and his offense is perfect for his role and he's a great guy for the crowd to get behind as an underdog. Plus he's great to toss around the ring and make the big heel look great. Stevens has just lost all momentum now and it's clear by the fact that he's wrestling Grizzly, no offense to the little guy btw. Nana is borderline unbearable as well now. Really enjoyed this match though. Stevens' power offense matched well with Grizzly's short comebacks and it was really good fun to watch I thought. Oh yeah Balls Mahoney made the save after the match. I dont know either.

**1/2

Amazing Kong vs Sara Del Ray
I'm not one of those guys who watches SHIMMER or womens wrestling but jesus christ if theys two girls wanted to make people a fan then they did a near perfect job of it here. Crowd is electric for this one and if they weren't so into it I doubt it would have even been good. It's kinda on the short side but thinking about it that was probably ideal. Insane atmosphere and both girls are on form in the ring. Nice set up to Del Ray's suplex on Kong and they did a fantastic job of making both women look great in the little time they had. Loved the finish with Del Ray using Hero's loaded elbow pad for the win too.

***

Christopher Daniels vs Eddie Edwards
Daniels might actually be the guy to save ROH ya know. He's just what they needed and he's already got the veteran role tied down to a tee. It was really nice to see his first two matches back be against two improving guys like Steen and Eddie but I was a bit sceptical about the quality of the matches. You've seen how much I loved the Steen match and whereas this isn't as good it's still really good. The structure of the match isn't quite as smooth as the night before but the working over a body part and Daniels selling is done really well again. Daniels rejected the "Fuck TNA" chants again and started his own "ROH" chant which I loved. Daniels put Eddie over big time in his promo afterwards. Eddie was the perfect guy to face Daniels in NYC because he's massively over with the NY crowd after wrestling Ladder War II with a broken arm. Nice to see Pearce remember that and let Eddie work the match as more of a tweener than his usual heel. Daniels followed the code of honor at the start of the match too and shook Eddie's hand which I thought was kinda a big deal. Stupid commentators didn't pick up on it though.

***1/4

Austin Aries vs Delirious
Not an actual match but a good angle and a nice little midway intermission type thing. Aries is golden on the mic, shame that he's gone off in the ring though but I could listen to him putting down crowds all day long.

Kevin Steen vs Colt Cabana - 34th Street Death Match
That's just a fancy name for a Last Man Standing match btw. From what I've seen on WF so far I've been lower than everyone on pretty much the majority of the matches this year but this is one that's a clear exception because I fucking loved this. Might even be better than their Street Fight with Generico and Corino. There isn't any massive OMG spots as such but there's some really nasty bumps. Colt takes two really bad bumps to the back of his head on a table and the ladder and the ladder bumps cuts the back of his head open. Sidetrack for a second but Paul Turner is such a stupid ref. Steen's beating on Cabana whilst he's on the mat and Turner just carries on counting to ten whilst Steen hits Cabana on the mat and Cabana kinda realises this at 9 and suddenly just jumps to his feet. Fucking idiot. Anyway the thumbtacks being thrown in there was an awesome addition to a ROH match and Steen took a nasty bump on them that messed his arm up pretty bad. The REALLY good stuff comes at the end when Generico's music hits and STEVE CORINO'S FUCKING SON comes charging down dressed as Generico. Corino then comes down in his sunday best suit and just gives him a pat on the head before directing traffic to Steen. I fucking adore Corino atm with the role he's playing in this feud acting as the evil leech on Steen's shoulder. He does the twisted sicko perfectly. Adored the finish too with Corino giving Steen the barbed wire baseball bat whilst Steen had Cabana in the crossface so he could get revenge for Cabana making Corino tap to the corssface with the barbed wire bat in the street fight. Brilliant to see an Indy hardcore match with no stupid spots and some great storytelling.

****1/4

Kings Of Wrestling vs Motor City Machine Guns - ROH World Tag Team Championships
Hero & Claudio have both improved dramatically since their first run as a team in ROH and they're a much better team now too for me. Before I wasn't getting all the love for them but they're really on ball now as a team. Sabin & Shelley are for me the best tag team going and when they're allowed on the Indies they never have a match together that isn't at least really fucking good. This is a step above what they normally come up with though. Both teams on are their A game and the action is awesome to watch throughout, like probably one of the best two on two regular tags in company history. Insane pace all the way and amazing back and forth action. I'm kinda a mark for the guns so I may be loving it a bit more than some but I dont think anyone will watch it and not think it was one hell of a match. Briscoes run in for the finish sucks yeah but it's to be expected when you have two guys from TNA challenge for the belts. TNA probably wont want MCMG to job and obviously the cant win the belts so it's either gonna be a run in or a time limit draw. Worked fine for me though cause it didn't cut the match short or ruin it in any way. I'm thinking possibly best ROH match so far this year.

****1/2

Tyler Black vs Roderick Strong - ROH World Championship
Wasn't expecting much from this going into because Tyler does nothing for me anymore and his singles work with Roddy beforehand has done nothing for me. Not suprised that I didn't enjoy it as much as others but it's still a very good main event. Has it's flaws for sure but Strong is more than good enough wrestling wise to make up for some of them. Strong's gradual heel turn has been really impressive to watch over the last few shows in his ring work. His aftermatch promo set up his siding with Martini perfectly too. Black does nothing for me again but I'll say this for him, he does step his game up for the big main events. He still throws all his usual moves out there and you can bet your house when he's gonna hit a flipp move and when it'll miss. The ref bump situation was really strange. Sinclair gets knocked down first and I'm thinking Roddy's gonna get a 3 count but there be no ref which would be absolutely perfect for his character. Turner running down in time for the count though was pretty smart to show that a ref bump doesn't mean that someone has to get screwed over in this company. Then he gets bumped off and it's pointless. Another ref runs down for the count and they do it all over again. The third ref tripping over whilst sprinting to the ring to make the count was hilarious. Even more so was the guy sitting right in front of him ripping into him after it. Then he gets bumped over and Roddy gets another pinfall only for Sinclair to make it back into the ring making the other two ref bumps totally pointless. Roddy getting screwed of a win more would have been perfect rather than Tyler just straight up beating him clean. This was very good but it didn't do that much for me and there was some really stupid shit going on. The only way I'd be interested in these two main eventing the next iPPV is if Strong stiffs the fuck out of Tyler. If Pearce ever wanted to put the belt on Strong then this would have been the ideal time because the NY crowd hated Tyler and would have gone ape shit if Roddy beat him for the belt.

***3/4

Overall
Might even consider this a top 5 show ever for the company. Undoubtedly the best show since Pearce took over and the only Pearce show that I've sta all the way though, watched in one go and liked from top to bottom. Really easy show to watch with some great matches too. Really impressive considering the talent that was missing (Davey, Generico, Omega). I definitely think that they benefited from having less matches on the card too. Loved it!
 
#5,117 · (Edited)
This is an awful time to be broke. I really want to give it a rewatch, but much rather on DVD. Guess I'm going to have to bid myself to death on ebay by the time I get money, because there's no way that stock is lasting for another month.

EDIT: For those who've already got it, did they keep it in widescreen or has it been cropped to 4:3?
 
#5,118 ·
Now that I have the hard copy in my hands, the cover for Supercard 5 is awesome. Everything flows together well (even if the back cover text is dark, but then again I'm sure you didn't think it'd result that way) without looking barren or too squashed in.
 
#5,119 ·
Glad you like it. :)

It came out pretty dark, but it's just fine if you look at it under good lighting. Right now I'm finishing a cover for Highspots' "Project: Paul London" DVD. Must say this was a difficult one considering the subject: how do you express London't madness in cover art? I'm afraid I might have made it too tame...
 
#5,120 ·
To know what would suit Paul London, one must become Paul London. My recommendation: smoke a blunt and open up Photoshop, whatever your end result is should fit the bill. Or you could knockoff a known stoner flick poster and alter it to fit the shoot, it's what I plan on doing for my DJ gigs with sci fi movie posters.
 
#5,125 ·
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No cover for Bluegrass Brawl yet
 
#5,127 ·
PWG - Titannica

1. Brandon Bonham vs Malachi Jackson
**3/4
WTF There was that was awesome chants after this...

2. Ryan Taylor vs Brandon Gatson
***

3. The Cutler Brothers vs Johnny Goodtime & Jerome "LTP" Robinson
***1/4

4. El Generico vs Paul London
***1/4

5. Joey Ryan vs Christina Von Eerie
**3/4

6. PWG World Title Match
Roderick Strong vs Davey Richards
****-****1/4

7. PWG World Tag Title Match
The Young Bucks vs The Briscoe Brothers
****
 
#5,130 ·
ROH Death Before Dishonor VIII

Kevin Steen vs El Generico
***1/4
(A regular match just felt like a step backward at this point the feud)


Kenny King & Rhett Titus vs Cheech & Cloudy
*

Toronto Gauntlet
**

Austin Aries vs Delirious
**1/2

Christopher Daniels vs Kenny Omega
***1/4

Kings Of Wrestling vs Briscoes - No DQ - ROH World Tag Team Championships
***

Tyler Black vs Davey Richards - ROH World Championship
***3/4
(I was ready to kill Cornette by the end of it)


Overall:
Clearly I wasn't feeling it anywhere near as much as others. Supercard blew it out of the water in every aspect imaginable for me.
 
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