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#283 ·
You should include London/Generico vs. Steen/Kendrick as a bonus.
 
#286 ·
PWG Uncanny X-Mas

I love Christmas, PWG, and I got new headphones as well as a new laptop. Seems like a pretty obvious choice on what I should do.


Ronin And Human Tornado vs. Excalibur and Top Gun Talwar
Pretty damn funny. Whether it be Tornado luring Top Gun out of the ring with some food from Chipolte or Top Gun running outside the building and sneaking in on the other side. Excalibur's general annoyance with his partner the whole time was a nice dynamic. I love Tornado at this stage. Watching him get pissed off at the antics of opponents and just pimp slapping them is always a blast. Oh and Ronin was in the match too... Nothing against him, he's a pretty solid worker I guess but he really didn't have the personality to be in this match.

While it was funny the action itself was really pretty average. A pretty basic match structure with Tornado being isolated most of the match and plenty of the usual cool indy moves. Good enough match however.
**1/4



Tony Stradlin vs. Christopher Daniels
Now you might not be too familar with Tony Stradlin and I will quote Colt Cabana on commentary to explain it, "He's like a combination of Billy Kidman and Scott Baio"

This actually ended up being a pretty decent match and it really was all because of the stipulation where Stradlin was fired if he lost. I would have been bored if he was getting his ass kicked the whole time but it worked here but it furthered the story. You got the impression that Stradlin was out of his league in PWG. He would get in a little bit of offense but it always seemed that Daniels would soon end up in control of the match. The ending worked very well. Nothing too great but a solid match.
**1/4



Chris Hero vs. Austin Aries
I'm surprised at how long this ended up being. For the third match on the card this seemed to be far too long. Good match though. Really good technical wrestling all throughout and some good spots thrown in to break things up. I liked the ending too because it kept both guys looking strong. It was more of bad luck than anything that Aries ending up tapping out.

Still would have liked this 5 minutes shorter or so but it was still a very good match that was entertaining the entire time.
***1/4



El Generico and Kevin Steen vs. Quicksilver and Scorpio Sky
After seeing Steen and Generico nearly kill each other it was nice to see them team together in their younger days. I loved the dynamic they had going at the time with Steen being a pure heel and Generico being a face.

The match itself was very entertaining, good job of Generico by teasing the brain buster multiple times and when he hit finally it the move really meant something. Maybe a little more of a spotfest than it had to be but fun to watch none the less.
***1/4


PWG World Championship Match:
Super Dragon(c) vs. Johnny Storm
This match could have been amazing. They executed so many moves perfectly and Super Dragon played the badass unstoppable monster really well. Now what stopped this match from being so damn good? Selling. All of the awesome mat work that we saw early on in the match didn't mean anything because Storm and Dragon didn't make it mean anything. Storm needed some type of focus on his offense instead of just random big moves and trying to be more of a badass than Super Dragon.

It was still a very good and enjoyable match, much better than I was expecting. A good David vs. Goliath type match that was easy to watch. It just could have been great.
***1/4



Spanky vs. Colth Cabana
Very weird match. I liked it but it was just odd that they went from a basic technical match to more of a comedy match at the end. Kind of the opposite way that I would have expected it to go but I can't complain. They didn't blow me away in the ring at all but these guys are good enough that they were able to execute all their moves very well. Solid beginning and the ending sequence was pretty funny.
**3/4



PWG World Tag Team Championship Match:

Chris Bosh and Scott Lost (c) vs. Rocky Romero and Rickey Reyes
You've got to love the fact that the Pit-Bulls just hate Bosh. They really just beat the shit out of him but he had it coming for calling them filthy Mexicans before the match got underway. In fact a good portion of this match was just Bosh getting beat up. It was entertaining though. To Bosh's credit he sold the fact that he was nearly killed by the Pit-Bulls very well. I loved then Lost went to make a hot tag but Bosh looked like he was barley conscious as he got into the ring.

So I've seen a lot of indy wrestling and I thought I had this one figured out before it ended. It seemed that they were building for what I was hoping would be an awesome finishing sequence. We never got there and the match ended with a DQ finisher just as it was getting to that next level. What we got was very well done though and the plus side to the finsish was that it reminded me that PWG used to have storylines. To sum it all up, I enjoyed a racist Chris Bosh getting stiffed by angry Cubans.
***


Samoa Joe vs. Bryan Danielson
Just crisp and clean wrestling from 2 of the best indy wrestlers at the time this match took place. Everything they did looked good and they really nailed the main event feel that this match was supposed to have. I liked the pace of the match that wasn't too slow but they never went to the overkill mode but still had a good finishing stretch.

Hands down the best match on the card and I can't say I was surprised by this. Probably the only match that I can say anyone should really go out of their way to see but that being said they have had better matches.
***3/4

I really can't say that this was all that great of a show. Plenty of stand alone good matches but this was a chore to watch at times. It just seemed that so many of this matches just dragged on too much. Far too many matches going 15 minutes when 10 would have been fine.

I also want to comment on how much indy wrestling has changed. This show was 6 years old, which really isn't that long but the product was so different then the stuff that we get today. A lot of it had to do with the finishes. It might be that I'm so used to the awesome finishing sequences we get today but I felt unsatisfied with the way most of the matches ended. I think that was a mix of some of the finishes just not being that good and me being used to how indy matches end today.
 
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#288 · (Edited)

ROH Fifth Year Festival Liverpool

Davey Richards vs. Homicide - ***1/2

Sara Del Rey vs. Allison Danger - ***

Jimmy Rave & Jimmy Jacobs vs. BJ Whitmer & Colt Cabana - **3/4

Delirious vs. Matt Sydal - 2/3 Falls Match - ***3/4

Roderick Strong vs. PAC - FIP World Heavyweight Championship - ****1/4

Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe vs. Naruki Doi & Shingo - ROH World Tag Team Championship - ****1/2

Nigel McGuinness vs. Samoa Joe - ****1/4

Overall: Outstanding show, one of the bests I've ever seen. Truly recomended for all PW fans.

 
#295 ·

ROH Fifth Year Festival Liverpool

Davey Richards vs. Homicide - ***1/2

Sara Del Rey vs. Allison Danger - ***

Jimmy Rave & Jimmy Jacobs vs. BJ Whitmer & Colt Cabana - **3/4

Delirious vs. Matt Sydal - 2/3 Falls Match - ***3/4

Roderick Strong vs. PAC - FIP World Heavyweight Championship - ****1/4

Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe vs. Naruki Doi & Shingo - ROH World Tag Team Championship - ****1/2

Nigel McGuinness vs. Samoa Joe - ****1/4

Overall: 7.5/10
Outstanding show, one of the bests I've ever seen. Truly recomended for all PW fans.

You said it's outstanding and one of the best you've ever seen, but yet, it's only 7.5???
 
#289 ·
ROH - Survival Of The Fittest 2010


Colt Cabana vs. Rhett Titus - **

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Grizzly Redwood - *1/2

Kevin Steen vs. Kyle O’Reilly - ***

Steve Corino vs. Adam Cole - **1/4

Chris Hero vs. Eddie Edwards - ***1/4

Kenny King vs. El Generico - **

Trial Series - Match 3
Andy "Right Leg" Ridge vs. Homicide - **

Christopher Daniels and The Briscoes vs. The House of Truth (Roderick Strong, Michael Elgin & Zach Gowen) - ***

Survival of the Fittest Finals - Elimination
Rhett Titus vs. Claudio Castagnoli vs. Kevin Steen vs. Adam Cole vs. Eddie Edwards vs. Kenny King - ***1/4


Bonus Disc - The Best Of Nigel McGuinness

Undeniable - 10/06/07 - ROH World Title
Nigel McGuinness vs. Takeshi Morishima - ****1/4

Rising Above - 12/29/07 - ROH World Title
Nigel McGuinness vs. Austin Aries - ****1/2

6th Anniversary Show - 2/23/08 - ROH World Title
Nigel McGuinness vs. Bryan Danielson - ****1/2

Northern Navigation - 7/25/08 - ROH World Title
Nigel McGuinness vs. Kevin Steen - ****1/4

Age Of Insanity - 8/15/08 - ROH World Title
Nigel McGuinness vs. El Generico - ****1/4

Driven 2008 - 9/19/08 - ROH World Title
Nigel McGuinness vs. Roderick Strong - ****

Final Battle 2008 - 12/27/08 - ROH World Title
Nigel McGuinness vs. Naomichi Marufuji - ***3/4


As with the last couple of SOTF shows and the recent Friday shows, boring to average matches until the main, which only picked up during Claudio/King when Eddie left.
 
#290 ·
As The Worm Turns

Johnny Goodtime & Jerome "LTP" Jackson vs. Malachi "CK" Jackson & Ryan Taylor ***1/4

Brandon Gatson vs. Scott Lost ***

Chris Sabin vs. Roderick Strong ****

The Cutler Brothers & Christine Von Eerie vs. Brandon Bonham, Joey Ryan & Candice LeRae ***

Alex Shelley vs. Chris Hero ***3/4

PWG World Tag Team Championships:
Young Bucks vs. El Generico & Chuck Taylor ***1/2

PWG World Championship:
Davey Richards vs. Kenny Omega - ****1/2​

Absolutely amazing show.
 
#291 ·
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#292 ·

ROH Fifth Year Festival Finale

Colt Cabana vs. Delirious - **1/2

Sara Del Ray & Allison Danger vs. Jetta & Eden Black - **

Jimmy Jacobs vs. BJ Whitmer - Falls Count Anywhere Match - ***1/2

Matt Sydal vs. PAC - ***1/2

Jay Briscoe vs. Mark Briscoe - ****1/4

Naruki Doi & Shingo vs. Roderick Strong & Davey Richards - ROH World Tag Team Championships - ****1/2

Nigel McGuinness vs. Jimmy Rave - Fight Without Honor - ****

Samoa Joe vs. Homicide -
***3/4

Overall: not nearly good as FYF Liverpool, but still a good show. Maint Event disappointing if you consider that was Joe's last match.

 
#294 ·
James Gibson
 
#296 ·
Pablo, 7.5 it's the average of the ratings of all matches on the show.
 
#299 ·
Evolve 5 - Danielson vs Sawa

1. Mike Quackenbush vs Chuck Taylor
***

2. Aeroform vs Up In Smoke
**3/4

3. Adam Cole vs Jimmy Jacobs
***

4. Drake Younger vs Sami Callihan
***

5. Rich Swann vs Frightmare vs Jon Moxley vs Gran Akuma vs Johnny Gargano vs Brad Allen
**1/2

6. WSU World Title Match
Mercedes Martinez vs Amazing Kong
*3/4

7. Ricochet vs Kyle O'Reilly
***1/4

8. Munenori Sawa vs Bryan Danielson
****​
 
#300 ·
We have one final big sale for you in 2010. You can now get any 3 DGUSA DVDs you want for just $45. This includes new releases like "Enter The Dragon" and the pre-orders of our red hot "Untouchable 2010" and "Way Of The Ronin" titles.

Act now in the DGUSA.tv Store or by calling 267-519-9744. This sale only lasts from Dec. 26th to Jan. 1st. You can pick any titles in the DGUSA.tv Store except Infinity DVDs are not included.

The Post-Xmas Blowout Sale is the first item listed in the Store. This will be our last major DVD sale for a while so please take advantage by January 1st!!!
May take advantage of this sale and the ROH sale.
 
#302 ·
Survival of the Fittest 2010

1. Colt Cabana vs. Rhett Titus 4/10
Ok match, not much too it, not a fan of the ending either.

2. Claudio Castagnoli vs. Grizzly Redwood 3.5/10
Not much to the match again, as expected pretty much a squash, but was expecting this to be a lot more fun.

3. Kevin Steen vs. Kyle O’Reilly 5/10
Pretty good match, nothing special about it, was expecting this to be a lot better.

4. Steve Corino vs. Adam Cole 3.5/10
Once again nothing much to the match, did not really care for anything in this match.

5. Chris Hero vs. Eddie Edwards 6/10
This was a good match and compared to the stuff before this was really good. Good action throughout, sucks Eddie got injured though.

6. Kenny King vs. El Generico 4.5/10
Decent match, they did some nice stuff, but was not really long enough to be anything special.

7. Andy "Right Leg" Ridge vs. Homicide 4.5/10
Average match, Ridge did some nice things, but not really a fan of him screaming was sort of over the top.

8. Christopher Daniels and Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. The House of Truth 6.5/10
Good 6 man tag match. Good action throughout, I enjoyed this match.

9. Survival of the Fittest Finals 6/10
Really sucks Eddie got hurt or this might have been better, but just seemed to really drag in parts. Really disappointed in the match, but the final parts of the match were pretty good especially some of the exchanges between Claudio and King.

Overall: 5.75/10 Really disappointed in this show as it looked really good on paper. Obviously Eddie’s injury hurt the finals somewhat, but it was not his fault. Not a great show and I would not recommend anybody watching it. You really do not need to see anything on this show. Of course the Nigel matches make the show a must buy if you have not seen those.

The Curse of Guerrilla Island

1. Brian Cage-Taylor vs. Johnny Yuma 6/10
Fun opening match, I have never seen Yuma before and he looked pretty good here.

2. "Pretty" Peter Avalon vs. Candice LeRae 5/10
Pretty good match between these 2, nothing really special though.

3. "Azcar" Rocky Romero vs. Ryan Taylor 5.5/10
Another pretty good match. There was some good action.

4. The Briscoes vs. The Cutlers 7/10
Very good tag team match. Good action throughout from both teams.

5. Johnny Goodtime vs. Chuck Taylor 6/10
Pretty good match between these 2.

6. El Generico vs. Ricochet 8/10
Awesome match. Some of the stuff ricochet does is really great. This was a match that everyone should check out.

7. Claudio Castagnoli vs. Brandon Gatson vs. Chris Hero vs. Joey Ryan 8/10
Wow this was great, just constant action throughout, I really enjoyed this.

Overall: 8/10 Another good show from PWG the final 2 matches were both great and nothing was really bad on the show, and was pretty fun to watch.
 
#304 · (Edited)
Just watching Final Battle '07. It must have the worst start of any ROH show ever.

- The Vulture Squad stink the place out, in the opener.
- This leads to a terrible promo segment, featuring the charisma vacuum that is Daniel Puder, as well as Claudio Castagnoli struggling with his English.
- This runs into a terrible Sweeney vs. Castagnoli match.
- This leads Jack Evans vs. Necro Butcher:rolleyes:.Evans nearly falls out of the ring backwards during his pre-match dance routine fpalm and then they proceed to have a botchtastic match.
- This leads to Mercedes Martinez shaking her ass awkwardly.
 
#306 · (Edited)
Davey-Marufuji was great. Roddy-Stevens was OK but they didn't sell anything.

Why ROH felt the need to allow a Hangmen 3 match, with run-ins from Bushwhacker Luke and Pelle Primeau, to happen, I'll never know. Then you have Romero vs. Osiris. What the fuck was that?

Nigel couldn't wrestle that night either, of course.

Watching the show, in full, made me realise why I felt as though I hadn't seen anything from it, other than the Main Event, before. The next time someone complains that 2010 ROH "isn't anywhere near as good as ROH was a few years ago", I'll send them my copy of this.
 
#309 ·
I'll take FB 07 over FB 09 easily, despite more important shit taking place on the latter show. Davey vs. Marufuji, Strong vs. Stevens, Aries vs. Danielson vs. Morishima vs. Hero, and Briscoes vs. AOTF were all in the ***1/2-**** range, and I actually enjoyed Evans vs. Necro.
 
#310 ·
Evolve 5: Danielson vs Sawa

1. Chuck Taylor vs Mike Quackenbush 6/10
Good opener here, really enjoyed what they were doing wish it could have gotten more time.

2. Up In Smoke vs Aeroform 5/10
Pretty good match here, some good action with both teams.

3. Jimmy Jacobs vs Adam Cole 6/10
Another good match, also loved the story of Cole the rookie against the veteran Jacobs

4. Sami Callihan vs Drake Younger 5.5/10
Not really a fan of these 2, but they put on a pretty good match.

5. Brad Allen vs Johnny Gargano vs Gran Akuma vs Jon Moxley vs Frightmare vs Rich Swann 6.5/10
Really fun match with good stuff throughout, I enjoyed this.

6. Mercedes Martinez vs Amazing Kong 1/10
Really hated this match, do not know why they had to do that shitty ending

7. Kyle O’Reilly vs Ricochet 7/10
Very good match some nice exchanges between both men.

8. Bryan Danielson vs Munenori Sawa 8/10
Awesome back and forth match with awesome action throughout.

Overall: 7.75/10 I have not really enjoyed Evolve that much, but this might be their best show in my opinion. I had really fun watching it, and other than the women’s match, nothing was bad.
 
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