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**Obfuscation** · 12-01-2011, 04:26 PM

He grew to be a quality worker if you ask me. It's too bad what happened.

ROH ~ Final Battle 2007

1) Jigsaw/Ruckus vs Matt Cross/Bobby Fish ~ **

2) Claudio Castagnoli vs Larry Sweeney ~ *

3) No DQ Match ~ Necro Butcher vs Jack Evans ~ ***

4) Naomichi Marufuji vs Davey Richards ~ **3/4

5) Tables Are Legal ~ Adam Pearce/Brent Albright/BJ Whitmer vs Delirious/El Generico/Kevin Steen ~ **3/4

6) Rocky Romero vs Ernie Osiris ~ 1/4*

7) FIP Championship ~ Roderick Strong(c) vs Erick Stevens ~ ****

8) Four Way Elimination Match ~ Bryan Danielson vs Austin Aries vs Chris Hero vs Takeshi Morishima ~ ***3/4

9) ROH World Tag Team Championship ~ The Briscoes(c) vs Jimmy Jacobs/Tyler Black ~ ***3/4

Some more of my two cents on another ROH 2007 show. Much like GBH VI Night One, this crowd lacked. Which baffles me. Cheer. Boo. You're at a wrestling show. It wasn't a stellar show, but it was still entertaining. A pet peeve of mine. That's just me. Anyways...I liked 2007. Some might not hold it in the same level that 2005/2006 brought, which makes sense, although I think this year thrived in the aspects that it had. Morishima's title run, establishing new guys as main eventers since top workers Joe, Homicide, Daniels, & Colt all left, FACTION WARFARE, Sweet N' Sour Inc., etc.

SuperDuperSonic · 12-01-2011, 05:42 PM

2007 had neither the peak streches nor the shitty stretches of 2006.

**Obfuscation** · 12-01-2011, 05:57 PM

I thought it stayed consistent with the quality of shows. Fifth Year Festival shows came off strong. I'd say that was the best string of shows in a row from 2007 off the top of my head. Toss in All Star Extravaganza & Supercard of Honor II with them as they followed. Now that I ponder it, Race To The Top shows, DBD weekend, Caged Rage, & Manhatten Mayhem II was a nice stretch too.

enlightenedone9 · 12-01-2011, 08:00 PM

Just finished AIW's They Live and it was a pretty awesome show. The opener was as awesome as I was hoping for. Davey works so much better when he isn't trying to bring the intensity. The 6-way was a match that started pretty decent but started getting really sloppy really quickly. Other notable matches were Kyle O'Reilly vs Sonjay Dutt that you kinda have to see why it makes no sense but still good. AR Fox vs. Uhaa Nation was another good match. Never saw Uhaa Nation and if I were ever in a dark alley I would never want to see him again but in the ring I thought he was quite talented. Aeroform vs. Gargano and Donst was a match that kind of put me over the edge on whether to buy this show and it did not disappoint. Donst deserves a big push in CHIKARA. He a ton of talent for a young guy and doesn't work the same style as most. The main event was the end to a great show. Shiima Xion vs. Ricky Shane Page was yet another very good match. I feel I am being repetitive but whatever. Never seen RSP and all I can say is his looks are deceiving in the fact that he is more talented than you would think. Overall They Live was an extemely consistent show. All the matches I listed besides the 6-Way I thought were *** or above.

**Obfuscation** · 12-01-2011, 08:10 PM

A non-Chikara Donst match was a big appeal to me too when I saw that show to purchase on SMV. I'd say he's been getting a good push for years now. And considering what went down at High Noon, he might be the new leader of the BDK like how he has referred to many time during his great promos over the last few months.

**Kid Kamikaze10** · 12-01-2011, 10:39 PM

I've started to watch CZW as of late, and I have a random question.

Who is this Adam Cole, and why isn't he in ROH instead of the Futureshock one?

I mean jeez, I've been watching his title reign, and it's like he's another wrestler.

SuperDuperSonic · 12-01-2011, 10:44 PM

I haven't seen his work outside of ROH or PWG, but I'm sure he'll bring his persona from elsewhere to the indy's grand stage by WM29 weekend.

**KingCrash** · 12-01-2011, 11:32 PM

While I would love heel Cole in ROH first they have to build up FutureShock into something so people will care about Cole's heel turn and feud with O'Reilly. Cole's Junior Hwt. title reign has easily been the best thing about CZW in 2011, sucks they couldn't have him vs. Sami on their biggest show of the year.

**TaylorFitz** · 12-01-2011, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by KingCrash

While I would love heel Cole in ROH first they have to build up FutureShock into something so people will care about Cole's heel turn and feud with O'Reilly. Cole's Junior Hwt. title reign has easily been the best thing about CZW in 2011, sucks they couldn't have him vs. Sami on their biggest show of the year.

I kind of like that their last match wasn't at COD. I mean that card is stacked but at Night of Infamy they were THE main event. That match was the one everyone came to see. I think it was better doing it that way then having their huge match go on right before intermission or something like that.

Cole is an awesome heel and it's something to look forward to in ROH. I agree with everyone else so far saying that he needs to get over as a face first with O'Reilly so when they do split it's a huge deal and both guys are able to make it up to the main event scene, which is something I really think they both can do in the future.

**KingCrash** · 12-02-2011, 12:30 AM

I could see Cole/Callihan in the COD as the main event since it was the second most build up feud and the one people want to see and the cage would keep Mia and Hyde out (for awhile anyway.) Only reasons why it wouldn't be is because of ippv and that people expect some vicious bumps in the cage and I don't know if Cole would take those.