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I will never ever order directly from DGUSA there service is pathetic. I am still waiting for the last 3 DVDs released to arrive. I emailed them asking when they were sent and they said they didn't get sent till the 5th, considering I had pre-ordered them the first day available and that they first started sending them out to people on the 28th of last month that's just terrible service.
 
#2,365 ·
Those NOAH shows look awesome. Makes me we wish I'd had the money to attend the first night.

ROH HATE: Chapter II

The Bravado Brothers vs. The House of Truth **

Grizzly Redwood vs. Erick Stevens

Necro Butcher vs. Rasche Brown N/A

Pick 6 Series
Roderick Strong vs. Colt Cabana

The American Wolves vs. Generation Me ***½

Tyler Black, Jerry Lynn and Delirious vs. Austin Aries, Rhett Titus and Kenny King **

Kevin Steen vs. El Generico ***½

Jay and Mark Briscoe and Amazing Kong vs. The Kings of Wrestling and Sara Del Rey ***¼-***½

  • The opener was actually pretty enjoyable. Such ashame that the original HoT retired as I could have seen them as tag champions at some point
  • The first half of Wolves/Bucks felt a little meh to me but the last 10 minutes were pretty damn good, though it's probably the weakest match I've seen between the two teams (the first HDNet match is still my favourite and I still need to see the PWG match)
  • Steen/Generico was pretty enjoyable as well. Felt like more of a brawl then the DBD match (which makes sense)
  • Like Wolves/Bucks, the main event took a good while for me to get into. However the last 5 minutes were a lot of fun
  • Overall an okay show with the three matches I was expecting to deliver, doing just that with Wolves/Bucks being the only match I would consider a disappointment
 
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ANX re-sign...

Ring of Honor officials are very happy to announce that both Rhett Titus and Kenny King, collectively known as The All Night Express, have re-signed deals to remain with ROH!

Titus & King have been evolving into a force in the ROH tag team division over the past few years but 2011has seen them explode on the scene. From a career changing Tag Title bout at the “9th Anniversary Show” against the Kings of Wrestling to a brutal series of bouts against Jay & Mark Briscoe that exposed a whole new side of the ANX, Titus & King have truly come into their own.

“Rhett Titus & Kenny King have emerged as true stars in the last 6 months.” stated ROH Executive Producer Jim Cornette, “They’ve matured and that maturity has seen them move into the upper echelon of the tag team wrestling. Tag team gold is most certainly in their future, and I truly think by the end of 2011, the wrestling world will look at the ANX as the breakout stars of the year.”

Rhett Titus & Kenny King will be in action on August 13th when Ring of Honor hits Chicago Ridge, IL for our very 1st TV Tapings under the Sinclair Broadcasting banner! Who will the duo take on at the Frontier Fieldhouse? Keep an eye on ROHWrestling.com for all the details on that historic day, and be a part of it by getting your tickets here: http://www.rohstore.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=201!
 
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So I'm thinking of getting a PWG anthology, those volumes that have 9 or 10 dvds for like $40. What I've seen is basically limited to the PWG dvds I own; Kee_ The _ Out of our Poo_, 88 Miles Per Hour, and PWG Sells Out Vol 1, so I'm looking for all around great shows.

Based on the ROH stuff I've seen from these guys (who have also done PWG) I'm a big fan of Bryan Danielson, AJ Styles, Davey Richards, Alex Shelley, the Kings of Wrestling, Steenerico, Austin Aries, probably some more I can't think of. I'm also open to checking out shows with guys I haven't seen much of, I'm just looking for great over all cards.
 
#2,453 ·
I was gonna watch that DVD soon. Sounds much better than I thought it would be.

WSU is like SHIMMER's skanky sister. I can't really watch it because it's too scuzzy.

I watched some of Hybrid's TV show once and the production values were horrendous. They have some good talent but the overall product is crap.
 
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Yeah I was really surprised it was that good. The Jacobs/Boz match was much better than I was expecting. Just be warned that the production is pretty low rate.

And an all women's wrestling company that's based in New Jersey I think would have to be scuzzy by definition.
 
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EVOLVE 5: DANIELSON vs SAWA​

Chuck Taylor vs Mike Quackenbush
Your Basic match. Good for an opener nothing very impressive. Good chemistry between the two.
**3/4

Up in Smoke vs Flip Kendrick and Luis Lyndon
Average tag match, lots of standard action. Both teams working high-flying style and Kendrick\Lyndon being less comical than their previous matches.Which is a bad thing, but logical if you thing that they are 1-3, they have to get serious.
**1/2


Jimmy Jacobs vs Adam Cole
I saw that more of a storyline promoting match. Jacobs and Cole are very good in the ring, but the wrestling, man I just didn't feel it. The hatred and stuff was all good but imo they couldn't connect.
**1/2

Sami Callihan vs Drake Younger
First of all, I am a big fan of Sami. Having watches Callihan's promo you were really pumped up for this. The match itself was a hard hitting brawl as you'd expect. Few flaws that didn't hurt the flow. Callihan bad blading made him bleed a gallon from a ring post collision.
***

Jon Moxley vs Frigthmare vs Johnny Gargano vs Rich Swann vs Brad Allen vs Gran Akuma
I had high expectations for this one. They weren't of course fulfilled but it doesn't mean it was a bad match. It was very fast from the start. with good flow. Very enjoyable actually. The negatives, it was too spotty and too sloppy especially Frightmare.
***1/4

WSU World Title match: Mercedez Martinez (c) vs Amazing Kong.
Wasn't impressed with that either. Mercedez squashed all her previous opponents and Kong was her first serious challenger. It had the potential, but Evolve didn't take it seriously so it was a glorified squash to my eyes.

Kyle O'Reily vs Ricochet
Wow. Really liked the match. I was afraid that the styles clash between them would be a negative factor, but i was wrong thank god. Quality match, with a combination of hard kicks and submissions from Kyle and exceptional resilience and aerial ability from Ricochet. Could be the MOTN
****

Bryan Danielson vs Munenori Sawa
Standar Danielson main event match, Very stiff and lots of technical skill by Bryan who carried Sawa along the match. Brutal match, not very long.
***3/4

Above average show, a fun way to spend 2 hours of your summer spare time. DVD Rating:3+/5
 
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ROH Final Battle 2010

The All Night Express vs. Kyle o’Reily and Adam Cole ***½

TJ Perkins vs. Colt Cabana **¼

Sara Del Rey and Serena Deeb vs. Daizee Haze and Awesome Kong **¼

Sonjay Dutt vs. Eddie Edwards

Christopher Daniels vs. Homicide

The Kings of Wrestling and Shane Hagadorn vs. The Briscoe Family ***¼

ROH World Title Match

Roderick Strong vs. Davey Richards ****½

Fight Without Honor

Kevin Steen vs. El Generico ****¾

* What a perfect way to open the show. I'd actually go as far as to say that the opener on this show is one of the best in ROH history. It just ticks all the boxes for what you want to open the biggest show of the year for the company.

* TJP/Cabana reminded me of the undercard matches Cabana had in 2005. A lot of fun to watch with the crowd into the majority of the match.

* Daniels/Homicide sucked. I thought it was bad the first time I watched it but this time it just felt even worse, and the finish? throwing a shirt at your opponent to set up the finish? :confused:

* The six man tag is just so much fun and I still have to give props to Papa Briscoe. He did more in the match then he even needed to.

* I had a feeling I was going to enjoy Davey/Strong a little less this time around but I was wrong. The last 15 minutes feels like the two trying to kill each other, and some of the nearfalls that Davey gets (the SSP and Stronghold roll-up come to mind) were excellent. I'm still not 100% sure about the ending, I mean I love it and it kept Davey looking strong (no pun intended) while Strong looked like a massive prick but was the concussion legit? obviously the problem with Davey's ear was because the new camera angle used on the DVD shows the blood appearing right after Davey's head is lifted off the mat during the post-match. Still an excellent match.

* I don't really know what more can be said about the main event. Intense...Brutal...Insane...Incredible...just a perfect way to cap off the year for ROH really and it takes the spot as my 2010 Match of the Year.

* Overall I loved the show more on my second watch then watching it live. The double main event is excellent, the opener is perfect in getting the fans revved up for the rest of the show and there is fun stuff in between like TJP/Cabana, KOW/Briscoes and the women's tag match. The only two matches I either disliked or didn't care for were Dutt/Edwards and Homicide/Daniels.
 
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Man, the more I think about it as a whole, the Steen-Generico feud was by far the best feud ROH has ever crafted. In fact, when you look at everything that sprung from it (the Corino Recovery storyline, Steen as the Antichrist, and Generico as a viable singles champion) nothing in the companies history save for the Summer of Punk even comes close.
 
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Been watching ROH SoCal Showdown II today and want to weigh in on TJ Perkins vs Davey Richards. I think I may have set my expectations too high on this one since they are both two of my favorite performers and I have seen it ranked highly on here, but I think I can only go as high as ***3/4 on it. Still a very good match, and a rewatch will certainly be in order since my lackluster mood today may very well account for why I was not as into it as I had hoped.

I then took a break from that show and just watched CM Punk vs Austin Aries from Weekend of Thunder Night One...and I just have to say how much I would kill to see these two go at it today, as they are two of the best in the world right now.
 
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Chikara A Demon In His Pocket

1. Gregory Iron vs. Icarus- **

2. Gavin Quinn & The H3RD (Tommy Treznik & Ded Vaughn) vs. Cameron Sky & Too Sweet (Bryce Benjamin & Joey Marx)- **1/2

3. Vin Gerard vs. Hieracon- **1/4

4. The Throwbacks (Sugar Dunkerton & Dasher Hatfield) vs. The BDK (Tim Donst & Jakob Hammermeir)- ***

5. FIST (Johnny Gargano & Chuck Taylor) vs. Hallowicked & Frightmare- ***1/4

6. Mike Quackenbush vs. Ophidian- ***3/4

7. Ultramantis Black vs. Eddie Kingston- **3/4

8. The Colony (Green Ant, Soldier Ant and Fire Ant) vs. (Claudio Castagnoli, Tursas & Sara del Rey)- ***1/4

Overall: 7.25/10 a pretty fun show, started out rather dull, but throwbacks match was a whole lot of fun, fist vs incoherence was really good, and quack vs ophidian was really an awesome match, the main event event was good, but i thought was a little slow in the middle. I would not really recommend this show for any non chikara fan, but people should try to check out the quack match.



The Evil That Lies Within Part 4

1. Los Ice Creams vs. The Olsen Twins vs. Aeroform vs. Kobald & Obariyon- **3/4

2. Tursas vs. Dasher Hatfield- **

3. Cheech Hernandez vs. Shiima Xion- **3/4

4. Sugar Dunkerton vs. Ophidian- **3/4

5. Hieracon vs. Eddie Kingston- ***

6. The BDK (Jakob Hammermeier & Tim Donst) vs. Hallowicked & UltraMantis Black- **3/4

7. Frightmare vs. Kodama- **3/4

8. Vin Gerard & FIST (Icarus, Chuck Taylor & Johnny Gargano) vs. Mike Quackenbush & The Colony ( Green Ant, Soldier Ant & Fire Ant)- ***1/2

Overall: 6.75/10 not a very good show, main event was really good, but everything else wasnt really that great, a very skippable show
 
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wXw - 16 Carat Gold 2011 - Day 1

- The Bonus stuff is ok. Kotaro Suzukis response to his thoughts about Batista was hilarious. Big van Walter playing Football was even funnier and Callihan was awful at Football.

1. Karsten Beck vs Marty Scurll vs Axeman vs Kyle O'Reilly
***

2. Carnage vs Yoshihito Sasaki
**1/2

3. Colt Cabana vs Zack Sabre Jr
***

4. Adam Cole vs Mark Haskins
***1/4

5. Go Shiozaki vs Johnny Moss
***1/2

6. Big van Walter vs Rico Bushido
**

7. Davey Richards vs Jon Ryan
***1/2

8. Sami Callihan vs Tommy End
***1/4

9. El Generico vs Kotaro Suzuki
****

10. wXw Unified World Wrestling Title
Daisuke Sekimoto vs Bad Bones
***3/4​
 
#2,596 ·
Use those gift cards to get something better than wrestling. Such as the upcoming Pulp Fiction blu ray.
 
#2,645 ·
It was a tedious main event without the extra oomph of previous fourways such as Redemption and Man Up. ROH has much of the same problem in WWE in terms of decreased star power compared to several years ago.
 
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Watched a little bit of Tag Team Turmoil 2011, updated more when I've watched the rest.

ROH: Tag Team Turmoil 2011

Interview with NEW World Champion Davey Richards:
This was effective in putting over the main event, nothing blow away but effective.

Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly vs. Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander: ***¼-***½
Sign Alexander and Coleman ASAP; both guys are great and their a real good tag team as well. This one was non stop bell to bell and both teams worked really well together.

Jay and Mark Briscoe vs. The Bravado Brothers: **
Briscoe beat down for 6 minutes with about 20 seconds of Bravado offense thrown in; Shelton kicks a chair in Briscoes face and the Bravados win; Builds to a rematch with WGTT and The Briscoes so it wasn't so bad the Bravados got a Win on the Brisceos; still wish they would disappear though.

Kenny King vs. Mike Bennett:

Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team vs. El Generico and Colt Cabana

Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly vs. The Bravado Brothers

Rhett Titus vs. Mike Bennett:


Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards vs. Roderick Strong and Michael Elgin: ****¼
Awesome. Elgin needs to fight Richards for the belt now. Elgin looked like a beast in this match and proved he belonged in there with the top guys. Brutal back and forth exchanges and the last 10 minutes is excellent; outside of truth getting in the ring and Sinclair not calling for a DQ; I'm glad he didnt but it was unncessary. Chops, kicks, forearms power moves from Elgin; you want intensity this has got it.
 
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ROH Tag Team Turmoil 2011. Man this was a frustrating show to watch.

Opening segment did it's job. Set up the main event of the show and Strong/Davey for the tapings too. At the end of the day though it really showed up how unnatural and awkward Davey, Eddie and Strong all sound on the mic.

Cole/O'Reilly vs Coleman/Alexander was an ok match. Coleman and Alexander both look very choreographed and unnatural in what they do. Looked like they were really nervous too so maybe I'll give them another chance. I swear if you put these two, King and Benjamin all in the ring in matching gear I wouldn't have a clue who was who. - **1/4

Bravados vs Briscoes was really average. Heel vs heel matches generally don't work and this one didn't either. Bravado's came off as underdog babyfaces taking a brutal beating by the nasty heels and they way them and the commentators sold the finish really made them look like babyfaces. Odd dynamic and not all that good of a match either - *1/2

Bennett vs King was a decent match. King really needs to start stepping up now and move on from being the guy with loads of potential. He's been the potential guy for years now yet he never really seems to breakthrough into a great performer. I'd love to see him have a singles match with Hero before he leaves as he'd more than likely have a breakthrough match with him right now. Do that and Claudio vs Edwards on one night and then KOW vs Cole/O'Reilly the next on the their last double shot. Bennett didn't have a long control segment which helped but he still didn't look all that great. He looked really lost in the ring at points towards the end of the match too. Finish was completely and utterly retarded. Sinclair not only changing a decision based on the fans telling him to do so and not only reversing his decision but then deciding King won the match was so fucking stupid and I'm talking TNA levels of stupidity. Shit like this that makes them seem minor leagues sometimes. - **1/2

WGTT vs Generico/Cabana. Hmmm. Was trying to figure out during this match if it was a title match or not. Still not sure now. Commentators never really mentioned if they were on the line or not. Anyway Generico was fine in this and prevented it from being a negative stars match. Cabana and Haas were pretty bad and Benjamin was flat out atrocious. The transition spot might have been the worst transition spot I've ever seen. Generico hits a moonsault cleanly and it leads to an FIP segment from Generico. Presuming Haas was supposed to get the knees up to block but it definitely didn't happen. You would have though a guy like Haas would improvise a little though but no. Had to rewind this spot I couldn't believe it. Again the face/heel dynamic was awful here. WGTT had a heat segment on Generico which made them come off looking like heels which really didn't help them after they interfered in a match earlier and caused another team to lose a match. Imagine a new fan was watching this as their first show. How the fuck are they supposed to know that Haas and Benjamin are babyfaces. In the same way how are they supposed to know after the first match that the Bravados are heels.
Once Cabana gets the tag the match derails so badly. Him and Haas had zero chemistry and everything they did together look arkward. It's from this point that Benjamin must have started sniffing something on the apron because he just fell to pieces. Generico goes for a dive to the outside and it looked like Benjamin completely missed the spot and Generico hit nothing. Camera shot didn't allow you to see the landing. Might have been shoddy camera work (and lets face it their cameramen have been missing spots lately on the iPPVs) or they might have actually edited it so you couldn't see it. Then there's the horribly botched leaping kick to the top rope and the leapfrog. Damn right he should have apologised afterwards to the fans for this debacle. It got edited out and that was probably a wise move in their defense. So much awful shit in this match but thankfully Generico was in there to try and salvage a little something from it. - *

Cole/O'Reilly vs Bravados was a good little match. Not on the level of their SCOH match though but for a sub 10 minute match this was good. There's an AWESOME spot early on when Cole and O'Reilly go for the stereo kicks which gave Lancealot a concussion and Harlem jumps in there to save his brother like he was fucking fucking DEATH. Bravado's a far better than I expected them to be from their early criticisms. I think they got jobbed out so much and made to like jobbers early on that a lot of people's basic instinct of them is "lol, the Bravado's" and they don't take them seriously even though they're actually really good in the ring and they're legit good workers, not just spotty machines like Coleman/Alexander. I wish ROH would do something from these prize money matches that they do too. Maybe have the winners of one of them come out in swanky new gear next time or make some kind of gimmick out of it. That's one thing that ROH is useless at, not following up on shit. So many times throughout they're history they've set the roots for something and then done nothing from it. The timekeeper from Injustice II rings a bell (no pun intended) - ***

If there's one guy on the ROH roster that all the fans want to see pull double duty I bet it's Mike Bennett. Yeah he's been so entertaining and having great match after great match, one match per show just isn't enough for me. This probably could have been a lot worse in fairness given it's Bennett and Titus and both are guys who still need a lot of working on. Again Bennett looked really lost in the ring during some spots. Bennett really needs to stop throwing those closed fist punches too. Either that or people need to start fucking selling them though. He hit three of them in succession at two points during this match and Rhett totally no sold every single one of them. Oh yeah and they're illegal too btw. Makes Bennett look like a total geek when he's throwing these punches and they have no effect. Three straight unprotected knuckle shots and ZERO EFFECT on his opponent. Fuck me. So much stupid shit on this show. Bennett going for the tights again was a neat spot but they should have had Sinclair as the ref for it as he was the one who didn't spot it first time round. Then you could have him check after he missed it last time and catch the wiley little punk. - **1/2

Maybe the thing that I hate most about these B shows with a lack of talent is that they always end up with a main event that has to go 30 minutes. I don't know if Cornette and Delirious look at the card and think "sheeeet this is pretty weak, maybe we'll give them 30 minutes of wrestling in the main event to make up for it". Now I don't mind long matches but when they're so dragged out and as aimless as they've been on a regular basis in ROH this year I fucking hate them. It's not like there was any bad wrestling in this one or illogical booking. It's just aimless wrestling for 30 minutes with no focus, story or direction. Fine if it's half the time but jesus this was so hard to sit through. Last 5 minutes were good yeah but by time they got to that point I'd lost all interest in it so it was all irrelevant. Elgin looked really good for what it was worth and there wasn't anything that was bad or annoyed me like the rest of the card besides the length and the laziness of the layout for it. Long tag matches without a heat segment can work sometimes but they need a clear story and exceptional wrestling. This was just good wrestling with no story for half an hour. Thought it was funny how the announcer didn't announce the time for this match but he did for all the others. On a side not I fucking hope Bobby Cruise doesn't miss another show when that guy's in town. Can't remember his name but he just drives me up the loony wall with his stupid faces and stupid fake announcer voice. This is still probably the MOTN I guess although that's not saying much. I probably enjoyed the Bravados vs Cole/O'Reilly match a little but it was like 22 minutes shorter than this one - ***

Really average show and even worse than it looked on paper which wasn't much. Really showed up how weak their roster is right now. Corino and Jacobs will probably be regulars on shows and I guess Lethal will too but that's only 3 guys you've got to add to this lineup. Maybe Steen too in a while. Richards, Edwards and Strong are the only legit main event guys they have as well. So badly need to work on their roster and cut the stupid booking shit out. Stuff like Sinclair changing decisions based on nothing but the crowd cheering for the babyface needs to stop right now.
 
#2,701 ·
The Bravados aren't phenomenal, but their matches actually have structure and they don't botch all over the place.

BTW, the more I think about Cole and O'Reilly, the more convinced I am that they are the best team in ROH, and that Adam Cole will be world champ someday.
 
#2,704 ·
Well to be fair in ROH they really haven't had the chance to do much more then that. Seeing them elsewhere lets you know they're more then capable of carrying a match and deserve a chance see if they're the team that can carry the division.

The Bravados aren't phenomenal, but their matches actually have structure and they don't botch all over the place.
As much as WGTT has gone down in terms of in-ring action and as much as I'm not looking forward to WGTT/Briscoes, they're still better then the Bravados. Besides the matches with FutureShock (meh name) the Bravado matches usually fall flat and they look like the students they were instead of a decent team.
 
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