I actually have no problems with Evolve's production. The video is clear and aside from the in ring promos (which I have a hard time hearing for just about every indy company) the sounds is great as well. The lighting is never annoying and the venues they run in usually make a nice back drop (The Ace is awesome and The Rec Center when it has a good number of fans is good venue as well).
I've seen very little Evolve but I do remember thinking that actually now that you mention it. Any DGUSA I've seen I find looks kinda crappy though. Also, I'm always turned off by sound issues, since by trade, I'm an audio engineer.
EVOLVE would be better if Gabe could actually figure out what he wants to do with it. The shows are good and easy to get through but without a title or focus for something for the wins leaders to do it just seems like Gabe's going through the motions of running a indy fed. I will say the video promos are nice so if nothing else that should keep Flip Kendrick employed.
DGUSA - Mercury Rising: Open The Ultimate Gate 2011 PPV
Johnny Gargano vs. Jimmy Rave - ***
Six-Way Freestyle
AR Fox vs. Sami Callihan vs. Lince Dorado vs. Arik Cannon vs. Rich Swann vs. Silas Young - **1/2
Brodie Lee vs. Stalker Ichikawa - Squash
Brodie Lee vs. Chuck Taylor - ***1/4
Open The United Gate Titles
Masato Yoshino & PAC vs. Blood Warriors (CIMA & Naruki Doi) - ****
No Disqualification
Jon Moxley vs. Akira Tozawa - N/A
Open The Freedom Gate
YAMATO vs. Akira Tozawa - ****
The title matches are definitely the reason to see this show, though Brodie and Chuck put on a good show and Lee killing Ichikawa was fantastic. And at least they showed a video package of Moxley/Tozawa before Tozawa dismissed him in quick fashion.
Chikara - Engulfed In A Fever Of Spite
The Throwbacks (Dasher Hatfield & Sugar Dunkerton) vs. Los Ice Creams - N/A
Kamikaze Kid vs. Tim Donst - *1/2
Grizzly Redwood vs. Daizee Haze - DUD
Ophidian vs. Will O’ The Wisp II - *
UltraMantis Black vs. Tursas - **
Hallowicked vs. Delirious - **1/2
F.I.S.T. (Johnny Gargano & Icarus) vs. Mike Quackenbush and Frightmare - ***1/4
Eddie Kingston vs. Jakob Hammermeier- **1/4
The Colony vs. The Batiri - ***1/4
Unfortunately the follow-up show to the great three nights of King Of Trios is the worst Chikara show in a long time. While the tag match & the trios main event was good most of the undercard seemed to not matter at all. Hope the next North Carolina show is better.
Evolve needs Heels/Faces or big stars bought in each show because its fucking painful to watch. Watching Plain Chucky T is really boring as well. DGUSA is a joke as well. Gabe seems stuck between it being a Supercard show and actually putting together consecutive shows with meaningful storylines. He needs to communicate with the Japan office more and figure out where they are going before he goes and books a heap of matches that don't make sense for the regular DG.
Peter Avalon vs. Johnny Yuma - **3/4 Really surprised by how much I enjoyed this. Great opener.
Candice LeRae vs. Portia Perez - **1/2 Real solid women's match. Hilarious commentary too.
Roderick Strong vs. Willie Mack - **** Willie Mack, where the hell did you come from? I'd honestly never even heard of the guy before DDT4 and now he's legitly trading chops with one of the best in the world. Fantastic match highlighted by Mack becoming a star. Literally everything he did in this match was great. He sold all of Roddy's chops and backbreakers like a champ, and when he returned fire he did it with such force that it really looked like he was retaliating after getting an ass whipping. Fantastic underdog performance from Willie and clearly Roddy is just gonna do what he does and be great. Extremely excited to see more of Mack.
Low Ki vs. Akira Tozawa - ***1/2 Well early on they had that really great looking exchange, but once Ki decided to grab the mic and make a joke it pretty much just ruined the flow of the entire match and they had to get back into the groove of things. But it just never kicked into second gear. It was a good watch but nowhere near what it could've been and was overshadowed by half the card.
Johnny Goodtime vs. Ryan Taylor - **1/2 This was decent, but I don't think it needed to be this high on the card or needed to be as long as it was. It felt like it dragged on for most of Taylor's control segments with all the submissions he applied.
PWG World Championship
Claudio Castagnoli(c) vs. Joey Ryan - **** Psychologically, this was great. Technically, this was great. Selling wise, damn near perfect. I really couldn't have asked for anymore from the match. Incredible performance from Claudio as he continues to make me wonder why he's not currently employed by Vince McMahon. The first several minutes where he displayed his technical prowess were just ridiculous. Joey's armwork was great and made perfect sense, and him telling the fans he would wrestle clean and then eventually poking Claudio in the eyes was great too. Although the finish was a bit rushed, it looked ok because Joey looked to be in quite a bit of pain. Awesome match.
PWG World Tag Team Championship
El Generico & Ricochet(c) vs. The Young Bucks - ****+ As if the night couldn't get any better, you get this beauty of a tag match. Ricochet was a PERFECT replacement for London, and the Bucks are extremely entertaining as heels this year. Mainly when they're posing, which is all the time. So there you go. Everythiong was crisp and Ricochet didn't botch anything, so that's a big plus. Really it's just what you'd expect it to be. A fast paced, high flying tag match that's a lot of fun.
Overall: 8.25/10 Wow, for an impromptu show this was pretty damn great. Honestly, for my money, top to bottom this may just be the best show I've seen all year. Awesome stuff.
Revolution: USA is up for purchase. I'll be waiting for a % off sale.
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Elimination Match
Blood Warriors (Austin Aries, CIMA & Brodie Lee) vs. Johnny Gargano, Rich Swann & Masato Yoshino - ****
Open The Freedom Gate Title
YAMATO vs. PAC - ****
I've really enjoyed a lot of the matches that Bryan Danielson has put on in the wwe, so I picked up the Best in the World dvd at FYE. It had his match with Lance Storm on in, which was amazing.
What would be some good DVDs for me to pick up online that would showcase some of his best ROH matches.
He doesn't have bad matches. There are very few singles matches from him that I've seen that I would say aren't worth watching. I can't even think of one off the top of my head right now.
If you're looking for complication set with some of his matches I would say to go with either PWG Sells Out set. They each have a good amount of Danielson matches on them plus they are both awesome sets. I get the impression you are kind of new to indy wrestling and those, along with the ROH commercial DVD releases are probably the best things I can recommend to get in order to get into indy wrestling.
He doesn't have bad matches. There are very few singles matches from him that I've seen that I would say aren't worth watching. I can't even think of one off the top of my head right now.
If you're looking for complication set with some of his matches I would say to go with either PWG Sells Out set. They each have a good amount of Danielson matches on them plus they are both awesome sets. I get the impression you are kind of new to indy wrestling and those, along with the ROH commercial DVD releases are probably the best things I can recommend to get in order to get into indy wrestling.
Six Way Freestyle
Brodie Lee vs. Arik Cannon vs. Tony Nese vs. AR Fox vs. Alex Colon vs. Scott Reed - **1/2 They have one of these on every show it seems...
Susumu Yokosuka vs. Ricochet - ***1/4 I definitely liked this, but Ricochet's superman kickouts at the end got old.
Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Sami Callihan - *** Mochizuki kicks really hard.
Jon Davis vs. Pinkie Sanchez - *1/2 He's a Dirty Sanchez!
Austin Aries vs. Johnny Gargano - ***3/4 Great match, but if you've been reading my recent reviews of DGUSA shows, they keep doing these things at the end of matches where someone always kicks out of the pther guy's finisher and then they 4 more finshers to win. It's getting so ridiculous, it happened in about 3 matches just on this show. And what made the one in this match so bad was that it was the same exact sequence back to back to end the match. I don't like those kind of endings, and this company overdoes them. But other than that, an excellent match that told a good story and had some cool spots on the outside. Gargano's the future.
Open The United Gate Tag Team Championship
PAC & Masato Yoshino(c) vs. YAMATO & Akira Tozawa - ***3/4 I mean, it's your usual dragon gate tag match really. The style's just getting old to me. I hope I don't sound redundant, but I just wish they'd switch a lot of things up...
Overall: 7.5/10 Overall, it was a pretty good show but there were several problems with the audio and video. In a couple of matches the image would cut out for about ten seconds and you'd still hear sound. And the audio guy for the show probably got an ass whippin afterwards cause he screwed up with entrance music wayyy too many times. Wasn't a very hot crowd either, they just seemed to be more worried about their drinking.
In fact, here is the list of OOP ROH (as of 6/19/2011) available on highspots.com (only counting DVDs):
Best of Samoa Joe Vol. 1
Best of Christopher Daniels Vol. 2
Best of Roderick Strong
A Nighf of Appreciation (Takedown Masters)
Road to the Title (Takedown Masters)
All Star Extravaganza
Night of the Butcher
Expect the Unexpected
Night of Champions
Bitter Friends, Stiffer Enemies
Reborn Stage 1
Death Before Dishonor II Pt. 1
Glory By Honor III
Weekend of Thunder Night 1
Best of American Super Juniors Tournament
Manhattan Mayhem
Nowhere to Run
The Future is Now
Redemption
Unforgettable
This Means War
Steel Cage Warfare
Fourth Anniversary Show
Arena Warfare
Time to Man Up
Unified
The Epic Encounter II
Suffocation
Honor Reclaims Boston
Black Friday Fallout
Fifth Year Festival: Chicago
Fifth Year Festvial: Finale
This Means War II
Respect is Earned
Death Before Dishonor V Night 2
Manhattan Mayhem II
Undeniable
Reckless Abandon
Unscripted III
Final Battle 2007
Bedlam in Beantown
Northern Navigation
The Tokyo Summit
Glory By Honor VII
Rising Above 2008
A Cut Above
Never Say Die
SoCal Showdown
Bitter Friends, Stiffer Enemies II
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