I can't remember finishing it, nor getting too far into the match. I closed it around where they're messing about in the front row after I couldn't take the "backyard-level" offence that was happening.
That's exactly what I meant, too, but without any wording to say so. So, thanks for mentioning it. By cross-promotion I meant by having their EVOLVE athletes (because EVOLVE is promoting a real sport, brah) mix in with DG:USA guys - not to the extent where they're not only sister companies but leeching, siamese twins. I suppose PWG has the added advantage over the RoH/Gabe dispute, but I do feel Gabe is missing a good window by the manner in which he runs his shows. Perhaps it's just me, but I wouldn't guess it is judging by their attendance, but the names they bill aren't big enough, nor exciting enough, to pack into multiple-shots across two promotions.
I'll always have a special place in my heart for DG:USA (despite not having had a chance to get any of their shows in a long, long while) but EVOLVE? A very biased disliking that's probably not solidified by much fact but rather by personal preference.
Jimmy Jacobs Vs Matt Taven Vs Jay Lethal ROH World Television Championship: *1/2
reDRagon Vs C and C Wrestle Factory Vs S.C.U.M. ROH Tag Team Championship: DUD
Matt Hardy Vs Kevin Steen: ***
Jay Briscoe (c) Vs Mark Briscoe: **
- Opener was okay for the time it got but definitely not PPV quality. I like the finish and the angle they are going with Bennett, Maria and Brutal Bob. As long as Bob stays away from the ring then it should be interesting.
- Tag match was a decent match and did its job on the placement of the card. But it did have its usual overkill moments with the wolves. Nice pacing to it throughout. The finish was bad and I did not like it at all. Felt super cheap.
- Cole vs Strong was the second best match of the night. It wasn't as good as it could have been on paper. Both men have good chemistry and this had some good storytelling and psychology throughout. The finish was really well done and I really like how they are handling this slow burn heel turn for Cole.
- Elgin vs Ciampa was the match of the night. These two guys beat the living hell out of each other. Stiff match. I liked the story with Ciampa trying to use his big moves early to put Elgin away. Elgin working the back of Ciampa throughout. The commentary played a real great role in this talking up Ciampa's knee injury which was strange at first with Elgin working on the back instead but played a pivotal role once Ciampa hit the project ciampa which effected the previously injured leg which Ciampa sold well on. This would have been even better than it was have it not for the typical ROH overkill finish. Still very good.
- The triple threat TV title match was going along okay, it wasn't that good and felt very middle of the road TV quality until the finish which was an absolute clusterfuck. Completely overbooked and not in a good way either. Lethal superkicking the hoopla hottie when Jacobs was going to take her out anyway? Just completely nonsensical. Just another overbooked finish to have Taven keep a hold of the title. Don't understand why this had to be done, this was garbage.
- Speaking of garbage....jesus christ was this bad. The 3 way tag match actually started out logically somewhat with the two ROH teams taking out SCUM before reDragon took advantage of C and C. But this felt extremely rushed and was only given around 6 or 7 minutes for a 3 way tag team title match in ROH. And the finish was fucking awful. One of the worst I've seen in a long while. It has to be seen to be believed. Most intelligence insulting bullshit I've seen perhaps this year thus far. Gets a DUD from me.
- Steen vs Hardy was surprisingly very enjoyable. The no DQ stipulation helped it for sure. Good storytelling and psychology throughout with Hardy working on the back and neck of Steen. The repeated side effects this time had a purpose to them which effected the finish of the match. The overbooking in this match actually made sense this time with SCUM stacking the deck against Steen with Steen fighting through till Compton nails him with the chair on the back which Hardy had worked on. They booked it in a way where Hardy getting the win was definitely very acceptable to give him momentum for his title shot and in a way which didn't hurt Steen too much. I would have liked Steen to have given a bit more during the match, but thats about it as far as detractions go. Good match.
- The world title match....you know what? I didn't like it and it went pretty much how I expected. Jay is a great worker and can get the best out of people but with Mark it just didn't work. It was very dull throughout and dragged a lot. Mark's gimmick held this match down and made it such a pain to watch. It's supposed to be a world title main event match and Mark is doing antics which made the match feel so unimportant and made it feel like a mid card match. His gimmick works in the context of the off kilter Briscoe Brothers tag team but as a singles competitor in the main event of a PPV felt ridiculously silly and out of place. The selling point of this match of "nobody fights like family" also didn't nearly enough live up to the hype due to the match not really being aggressive and stiff enough. It never really felt like a big fight between brothers for the title except for a few moments. Nigel even put it best: "I forgot this was even a world title match". Thats how I felt. Not a good main event.
Aside from 3 matches, this PPV was bad. Definitely the worst of the year for ROH.
I don't know if I'd agree on that. It could lead to them severing ties with Gabe and Gabe needing to re-brand, but I think they have enough solid non-DGJ talent to continue if DGJ was to say that Gabe couldn't use their guys anymore.
EVOLVE just feels like a placeholder until DGUSA shows so I don't know if Gabe could or would want to continue it if DGJ pulled out or just wanted to do one supershow a year and then let talent decide if they wanted to come over for other promotions. Almost no one goes to non-WM EVOLVE shows, there's never any buzz about them and there's not EVOVLE-only talent you can't see anywhere else.
And boy does the second half of Best In The World look terrible from that review.
I knew Mark's stupid gimmick would fuck up the main event, and I still think that show should've been the TV taping and today's taping should've been the iPPV. Briscoe vs. Hardy & Steel Cage Warfare >>>
Kinda ridiculous they've ran Cole vs. Strong three times in one month now. Sounds like some WWE booking.
People need to check out Squared Circle Revue on youtube. Run out of Michigan and the shows look like tons of fun. They have a stable of werewolves, a giant baby, Tadarius Thomas wrestles as a clown, a Bible Belt title, A lion that wrestles, Zach Gowen does a gimmick of almost toy come to life that feuds with a guy thats covered head to nut sack in black with his gimmick being he has the best legs in wrestling. Their next card features Ophidian vs Tadarius for the title. His a vid of the last show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOiFswhLAGE
People need to check out Squared Circle Revue on youtube. Run out of Michigan and the shows look like tons of fun. They have a stable of werewolves, a giant baby, Tadarius Thomas wrestles as a clown, a Bible Belt title, A lion that wrestles, Zach Gowen does a gimmick of almost toy come to life that feuds with a guy thats covered head to nut sack in black with his gimmick being he has the best legs in wrestling. Their next card features Ophidian vs Tadarius for the title. His a vid of the last show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOiFswhLAGE
The following review will be the first of many CZW reviews to come, as I've taken up a new project:
I will watch and review every CZW event from the first event of 2009 until the last one of 2011.
At the end of the project, I will rank the events according to their average value.
CZW Cage of Death X
13/12/2008
New Alhambra Arena, Philadelphia, PA.
CZW Jr. Heavyweight Championship: Sky's The Limit Ladder Match (w. Special Referee: Ric Blade)
Carter Gray vs. Dan Paysan vs. Ryan McBride vs. Egotistico Fantastico vs. Pinkie Sanchez - 3,00 / 5,00
Singles Match
Shun The Kabuki Kid vs. Jon Dahmer - DUD
6-Man Tag Team Match
E.M.O. & GNC vs. LJ Cruz, Tyler Veritas & Adam Cole - 1,75 / 5,00
Singles Match
B-Boy vs. Sonjay Dutt - 2,75 / 5,00
CZW World Tag Team Championship: Four-Way Tag Team Elimination Match
2 Girls, 1 Cup (c) vs. Cheech & Cloudy vs. Olsen Twins vs. Team AnDrew - DUD
Tag Team Match
BLKOUT vs. H8 Club - 2,00 / 5,00
Fans Bring The Weapons Match
DJ Hyde vs. Deranged - 2,00 / 5,00
$10,000 Cage Of Death Match
Devon Moore vs. Drake Younger vs. Sami Callihan vs. Danny Havoc vs. Zandig vs. Brain Damage - 2,25 / 5,00
Average Value = 1.8125
Next: CZW Open Book: Fan Appreciation Night (10/1/2009)
Checked out Paul London vs Akio Yang from FWE Welcome to the Rumble 2 iPPV. Not bad, they had a few nice callbacks to their series from Velocity, like London hitting the top rope DDT, and a nice spill to the outside reminiscent of London's nasty bump in their second encounter (the one from Japan if I remember correctly). But geez, what was up with all the racism from the crowd? Not cool, dude, not cool.
Glad to know I'm not the only one in that situation haha. Between DVDs from SMV, RF, etc, IVP, and the stuff I make myself; at the rate I watch I swear I'll die before I can finally watch it all.
Anyone know if that Wrestling Cares promotion is producing DVDs of their events? Heard about it recently and it seems intriguing.
Just listed a heap of crap and fixed my listings... for some reason I often forget to add shipping to Worldwide so for anyone that ever sees me listing and I haven't listed a DVD as worldwide, just PM here if your interested and I'll fix it.
The In The Ring w/Dustin Rhodes is actually my favourite In The Ring so far. He just has this interesting charisma about him that makes me enjoy the entire thing. Especially the Q&A at the start.
Although he's one miserable outdated cunt, and I strongly disagree in many things, Cornette's last PWInsider interview is fucking hilarious. I mean, REALLY hilarious. :show
My exact sentiments, although I haven't noticed near as many "lazy" moments like many others have. That's probably because I've only seen like 4 of his matches in the past 2 years.
Honestly didn't think it was too special of a match live. Seemed like RVD was going through his spots for the most part. Crowd was rocking though with 500+ people packed in American Legion Post 80. And to think the match prior may have gotten an even bigger reaction in the end. I'm already wondering what it'll be like for 2CW's iPPV in November.
I'm expecting something utterly lackluster for RVD. Color me intrigued to watch it anyways. One of Sami's last matches on the Indie scene and vs a guy who will always be one of my favorites despite being a lazy pile of nothing these days.
The only matches off the top of my head RVD seemed to put any effort in was the matches vs Jerry Lynn. His 2010 wasn't too bad, tbf. I actually managed to like matches he put out that year.
The iMPACT where he won the World Title is one I'll always remember. Becoming WWE Champ was cool and all (Edge interference kinda sucks) but that really felt like his career moment to me. Beating AJ Styles & Jeff Hardy in the same night. Kinda like the TNA version of Jericho's Vengeance '01.
But anyway, yeah. After 2010 the only standout match I remember from Rob was an impact main event against Austin Aries. Just thought it was a lot of fun. OH and his matches with Joe were pretty awesome.
Well, considering I liked RVD vs Styles about a million times more than RVD vs Cena (a match which I never liked), I'll agree. TNA made something on their show feel big and kind of must-see.
I remember not caring much for Aries vs RVD. So much that I totally forgot about till you mentioned it. That says it all. I remember liking one random Joe vs RVD match out there. Unsure when it happened.
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