[EmbassyForever]

Originally Posted by KingCrash

ROH - The Nightmare Begins


Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander vs. All Night Express (Kenny King & Rhett Titus) - **1/4

Davey Richards vs. Mike Mondo - **1/4

Proving Ground - Four Corner Survival
Roderick Strong vs. BJ Whitmer vs. Adam Cole vs. Kyle O'Reilly - ***1/4

Radio Wars
The Briscoes vs. Totally Awesome (Chris Silvio & Paredyse) - DUD

Jay Lethal vs. Michael Elgin - **3/4

ROH World Title
Kevin Steen vs. Eddie Edwards - ***3/4

Texas Death Match
Charlie Haas vs. Jay Briscoe - **1/4


Nothing much to see here if you’ve watched the SBG Road Rage episodes, Steen/Edwards was better then the SITS matchup and the FCS was pretty fun while it lasted.

How was the production for this DVD? because last time when they did a road rage edition to house show the DVD was as good as it was on TV (the Carolinas' double-shot).

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This is just awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fiTI...layer_embedded

[KingCrash]

The look was the same as the TV episodes, they just use the footage they film for the DVD and then cut it up for TV without any changes.

[JoeRulz]

Originally Posted by Cactus

It's no secret that I really don't enjoy Davey Richard's matches and I try to avoid them when possible (I only watch them when he's wrestling on a full show that I'm watching), however AAW has booked him against my two current favorite indy talents so I'm checking them out. Just try and keep that in mind and don't try and think I'm watching the matches just to solely hate on Richards.

Davey Richards vs Fit Finlay - AAW Scars and Stripes
This was structured much better than any Richards match I've seen before. The match felt very 'sectioned' as apposed to randomly throwing things like comebacks and reversals together and seeing what sticks with the crowd. However, that doesn't mean it's an instant classic. The opening matwork section was decent enough but Finlay's control section felt surprisingly dull and Richard's comeback was full of no-selling and that DAVEYTENSITY which we have grown to hate.
**

Davey Richards vs Sami Callihan - AAW Bound By Hate
This got off to a god-awful start with both men trading elbows in indywank fashion. The announcers hype up how Callihan doesn't want to wrestle, he wants to fight. This would be all fine and dandy if Callihan wasn't going for stretch mufflers and other complicated submission holds right of the bat. There really was no sense of structure until the mid-point of the match when Davey got his leg worked over and to his credit, he keeps selling it until the end of the match and his injured leg is a consistent theme in this match right until the bell rings. He does need to realize however, there is much more to selling than holding your leg and limping. He would limp, kick with perfect technique and then go back to limping around the ring. I do appreciate that Davey made an effort here to sell but if tearing your leg to shit isn't going to stop your pulling out your moves, where the threat? Davey was limping all over the place but never really showed signs that he was in serious peril.

I will also give this match credit that it's finishing stretch was quite captivating and didn't insult my intelligence like a lot of Richard's match do with their overabundance of near-falls and what not. The ending of this match was pretty exciting stuff but it's a shame the rest of the match is tainted by a horrendous opening section and Davey's weak selling (but hey, at least he wasn't no selling).
**3/4

Your avatar is still GOATworthy, though.

[smitlick]

Chikara - Hot Off The Griddle

1. Jigsaw & The Colony vs The Shard & The Swarm
***1/2

2. Archibald Peck vs Kobald
AMAZING.. Archie is just fantastic

3. The Throwbacks vs The Batiri
**3/4

4. Tianlong vs 17
N/A

5. The Young Bucks vs Darin Corbin & Arik Cannon
***1/4

6. 3.0 & The Spectral Envoy vs Tim Donst, Jakob Hammermeier & The Bravado Brothers
**3/4

7. Grand Championship
Eddie Kingston vs Kevin Steen
***1/2

8. Gran Akuma vs F.I.S.T.
**

9. El Generico vs Sara Del Rey
***3/4

[Platt]

Highspots are just working through the ROH roster lol.

[KingCrash]

Those can't be the most exciting/interesting clips they had to sell that.

[Cactus]

Originally Posted by KingCrash

Those can't be the most exciting/interesting clips they had to sell that.

It's Roderick Strong, what do you expect?

[KingCrash]

You got a point there.

And SmartMark finally released the Hero interview they did in 2011 with him when he was first going to WWE and they also have an AR Fox Best Of The Indies comp already out.

[Lane]

Orderd the Hero comp. Close to ten hours overall. Ill probably do a review of the shoot(s)

[Jack Evans 187]

Anyone seen JAPW Wild Card 4?