i loved papa briscoe, and i think in any city other than New York the 6 man tag would've been better recieved by the crowd. NYC was still pissed about the Briscoes ruining the Kings of Wrestling/Machine Guns match.
I agree, when they did that run in ROH basically forced itself to turn them heel or they would keep getting mixed reactions in NYC. At GBH when they did that run in they had to blast their music after they ran in or else there would have been a loud "Fuck the Briscoes" chant that everyone would have heard on the DVD.
It all worked out for the best though. The Briscoes have been awesome heels and they have done a great job at getting ANX over as faces. People are fucking cheering for Rhett Titus now thanks to them.
Daniels treating the TV Title like the Million Dollar Title and not defending it ever but still continuing to brag about being a huge TV star has gold written all over. Hell ROH should not even sanction it. Old school heat. Daniels as the unofficial tv champ is good stuff.
Got $5 Wrestling Live from 'Mania weekend in the mail today. Fun to go back and rewatch the show, which was just tons of fun. The crowd interaction really separates this from the other two volumes.
I'm in favor of keeping the TV title around forever, even if its not defended on television. There are cameras at every ROH show. They can always put the footage on YouTube. The lines between internet and broadcast television are pretty blurred nowadays anyway.
Ya'll are way too caught up in a fake belt's name. They should just rename it "ROH Secondary Title".
'Champions vs. All-Stars' - Don't judge a DVD by it's cover.
- Cabana-Coleman was the best match. They actually felt the crowd and got them into it.
- King-O'Reilly was a nice athletic match.
- Mike Bennett is better than people give him credit for.
- Good Corino promo.
- I'm starting to realise that I hate multi-man matches. The main event did nothing for me and having your top eight guys in one match kills the rest of the card.
- The Wolves disc makes the whole thing worth buying but I wouldn't get excited for the actual show. Total B-show.
Ask Kenta Kobashi. He did it and laughed until it pissed itself and ran away. Speaking of Kobashi I see more Fighting Spirit in Eddie Edwards than any Gaijin. He works harder than every ROH Champion since Nigel.
FIP World Heavyweight Championship
Erick Stevens(c) vs. Austin Aries vs. Davey Richards - **3/4
No DQ
BJ Whitmer & Brent Albright vs. Delirious & El Generico - ***1/2 Pretty awesome match that Pearce had to come out and ruin the ending for,
Lacey vs. Daizee Haze - *3/4
Roderick Strong & Rocky Romero vs. Jimmy Jacobs & Joey Matthews - ***1/4
Bryan Danielson vs. Tyler Black - ****
ROH World Championship - Steel Cage Match
Nigel McGuinness(c) vs. Chris Hero - ***3/4 The first half was eh, but once Hero really took control of Nigel's knee the rest of the match was great. Still a fairly random steel cage match though.
I really liked the 6 man tags they used to do on HDNet, but the ones this year havn't been anything special apart from the Worlds Greatest one which I thought was awesome.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I can fully understand why he'd book them. It's a good way to give a B-market a "big" match without giving away your money one-on-one matches but they really don't translate well to DVD and, as a long-time fan, I don't need to be seeing those kind of "here's a quick sampler of every main eventer's stuff" matches.
They dont really make sense to book atm though. Their roster is really limited currently and sticking 6 or 8 men in one match which you could get like 3 matches out of is really stupid. All the same it's not the fact that they're doing these type of matches that I really dont like it's the way that the matches are laid out where they just have 6 men wrestle for 30 minutes with no purpose.
Disagree on this, haven't seen SO MUCH of him to be honest, but if you check out his 2008 stuff and then what he did in Japan the last time he went there you can't tell me you didn't see any difference. He clearly evolved his style and is looking more remarkable now. (Not like Daveys little boy anymore)
True. He is the same human being as he was when he was 3, but like us all he has aged and matured. Eddie's already almost unrecognisable since he's won the strap. Eddie Edwards will have match of the night in every one of his singles matches, that's the new Eddie Edwards. He will not be outworked. You're not going to et a mediocre Title run out of the man. Eddie is already better than Davey and I stand behind that.
If you don't get Eddie Edwards I'd recommend watching his HDNet stuff (from day one of the show). If you still don't like him after that then you'll never like him. For whatever reason, he made more of that opportunity than anyone on the roster.
Might be a good idea to learn to love him because him and Davey are, probably, going to be feuding over the belt for the next 6 months.
I watched every episode of the HDNet show up until about February of this year, I've seen every ROH show since mid-08, and I've seen some of his recent Japan stuff too. He has gotten a much better sense of timing in just the last few months, and his execution of moves is a lot more crisp, but he still can't pace a match and I haven't seen a very good match from him where he wasn't in there with someone who is good at pacing. His match with Sonjay at Final Battle was garbage, the Daivari match at GBH sucked (though that could have just been them not getting any time), his match with Black at Champions Challenge was pretty bad, and I didn't like either of the Daniels matches as much as everyone else did. About to watch the King match from World's Greatest, not sure if I'll like that one any better.
Having seen brief highlights of the Hero match I think it might be good, but apart from that I can't think of any Edwards singles matches I've seen that I've particularly liked, and I know it's not a case of not having watched his good stuff.
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