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ROH The Hunt For Gold

1) BJ Whitmer & Rhett Titus vs Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly ~ DUD


2) Steve Corino vs Jay Lethal ~ *


3) Roderick Strong vs Silas Young ~ *3/4


4) ROH World Championship
Kevin Steen(c) vs Tadarius Thomas ~ **


5) Handicap Match
Charlie Haas vs Trey Miguel & Brent Daniels ~ DUD


6) Proving Ground Match
Jimmy Jacobs vs Adam Cole ~ ***3/4


7) Rhino vs Michael Elgin ~ 1/4*


8) ROH Tag Team Championship
The Briscoe Brothers(c) vs American Wolves (Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards) ~ DUD


~ Opener was a mess. Sloppy work by all involved. Uninteresting work over segments by Fish & O'Reilly. O'Reilly is beyond terrible. Only time he can be tolerated is generally when he's vs or teaming with Adam Cole. There is nothing good to say about this match. Sadly, it would be a sign of things to come.

~ Uninspired and just there. Much like most Jay Lethal matches seem to be nowadays. Hopefully he dukes it out with Jacobs next since he's on that road of beating everyone in S.C.U.M. before he locks up vs Steen. Maybe Jimmy can get him to something passable.

~ Roddy in ROH is so vanilla now. Breaks my heart. I know some have always thought that, but I got the Dean Malenko type deal with him for many years. Nothing exciting from a personality, but turned it on in the ring enough to be enthralling at the right time. Now he's in these over 10 minute strike fests that don't do much but make you say "that was ok. nothing special." I'm almost certain Silas Young is better than this too. Never seen a breakout match from him so I can't really pass much judgment just yet. (which is weird b/c I am familiar with the guy on a decent level...) Young looked good with that quick series of moves at the end. Got me to go "wow". I was expecting more from this. Like I said - vanilla bout.

~ Steen carries random indie chump #246 to a decent affair. I see nothing about Tadarius Thomas that sticks out. At all.

~ Hey Charlie Haas: you suck, pal.

~ Woah. A really really good match on this show? It's about time. YES at this. I was excited the moment Cole vs Jacobs was signed and I was equally excited the moment it finished. Loved it. Loved the competitive nature behind the match. That was the story - pure competition. Even with a member of S.C.U.M. involved. All 3 on commentary (Corino being the third - he was hilarious per usual) plugged how Jimmy was on the backburner in a singles capacity for about a year in ROH and how this match he was proving how he can jump right back in the scene with the best of them. (tbhayley, he IS one of the best currently employeed by the company. I'd say next to Cole & Steen, that is the top 3. Easily) Cole was his usual awesome self. That man can seemingly do no wrong. His consistent string of good - great matches rolls on here. If ROH put these guys in the ring every few shows I won't complain. In fact I'm wanting Delirious to do so right now. Best of 7 series it asap. This was fun. A lot of fun. It could hold up as my favorite match from ROH in 2013 at this rate.

~ And just like that the status quo of SHIT comes back. Fuck you Michael Elgin. You're horrible. I can't think of a reason why I didn't give this a DUD. It's awful. Maybe I'm trying to be nice. Oh yeah Rhino was here too. You'd forget about a minute after it ended.

~ Regardless if this show would have been good the entire way through this main event came as no surprise. It was trash. Same ol crap you'd expect from both teams and it was put on full display here. Jay & Eddie in singles aren't half bad. Maybe Jay is now, but some years ago I liked him. Why they allow their partners to drag them down to nonsense like this leaves me a bit confused. This goes for about 10 minutes till they say "fuck it" lets start doing moves and have no structure. Match slows down for a hair when the Wolves work on Mark's knee. Oh hey, something of substance that may lead to a hot tag sequence. Oh wait, nevermind. Jay gets tagged in, does some things, Mark is back in FLYING ALL OVER THE PLACE. How's that knee feeling buddy? I guess perfectly fine b/c I don't see a single hint of selling going on. Ah dang. That's too bad. This sucked.


Calling this a one match show is an understatement. It's bad. Can't give enough praise to how much I liked Cole vs Jacobs though. I'll choose to look at the only positive here. ROH delivered with the match I cared about. So does that count as a win? In a weird way through all of the tripe, I really think it does.

[Srdjan99]

Maybe it's just me, but i liked Rhino/Elgin and the main-event.

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I'm going to have a great life b/c I know I'll never have to sit through those poor matches ever again.

Defy or Deny has to be a better show. Fingers crossed it's at least decent or fun.

[Platt]

Damn PWG still waiting for Failure To Communicate & Mystery Vortex and they won't answer any of my emails. First and last time I'll be ordering direct from them.

[Russian Hooligan]

Nonconformists, nonconformists everywhere.

[KingCrash]

To say the two Hunt For Gold reviews differ is an understatement. At least Cole vs. Jacobs sounds like fun.

[Obfuscation]

Cole vs Jacobs was a blast.

[JoeRulz]

BERIED

[KingCrash]

BTW, did anyone watch the National Pro Wrestling day shows? Wondering how Fox/Strickland, the Chikara 8-man & ACH/2 Cold Scorpio went.

[Obfuscation]

It is what it is.

And some people thought Reckless Abandon was a bad ROH show...ha.