Unlike HDNet, the weekly broadcasts will air at different times and for those of us abroad, we'll be seeing it at all different times online too, so I guess we can discuss events/happenings here.
Here's the preview for this week.
SBG have brought some great technical leaps since HDNet. The Haas/Benjamin segment with them holding the belts looks real clear, for instance.
One of the best ROH ppv's i have ever seen and the ending was so awesome i cant wait till the next tv show this weekend to see what the fallout of this ppv is.
Tuned in right in time for the Adam Cole party:mark:
Not a fan of this Bullet Club stuff but I guess it's a big deal for him so I'm happy about it. Very entertaining end of the show.
The announcing was pretty sweet too, the masked guy is hilarious and one Buck dropping that "bah gawd look at the package on Cole, his gf got a family" deaded me:lol.
Omega & The Young Bucks vs. Tanahashi, Elgin, & Yoshitatsu (WTF, Tatsu in ROH??? Could this be for the NEVER 6 man titles!?)
Ishii vs. Ferrara (... why is this happening?)
In NYC:
Tag Team Title 3 Way: War Machine (c) vs. reDRagon vs. The Addiction
Mark Briscoe vs. Jushin Liger
RPG Vice vs. The Machine Guns
Moose vs. Lio Rush vs. Dalton Castle vs. Michael Elgin
KUSHIDA vs. Silas Young
ANX vs. Guerrillas of Destiny
I think they should really shake up the booking of Roh and each time NJPW come to play they are the stars of the event usually the most over and go over the Roh guys 9/10 times it just makes all the guys from Roh look bad.
Yeah, that just hit me. Perhaps these joint shows show really pit ROH against NJPW where every match is one company against the other and there's a scoreboard of who wins more matches at the end of the night. Kinda like WWE's Bragging Rights.
For example, if Ishii wins the ROH TV Title then O'Reilly should get the Junior Heavyweight Title at the same time, even if it's for short amount of time. But that's just me. The whole ordeal is alarming now that it's becoming more apparent.
Cedric Alexander has been announced as returning to EVOLVE. Wonder if he is totally done with ROH? He had unfortunately hit a bit of a standstill there, but I always enjoyed his work.
The entire New York card changed. Here's the card for tonight:
Ring of Honor & New Japan Pro-Wrestling present
"War of The Worlds Tour"
Saturday, May 14th
Terminal 5
610 West 56th Street
New York, NY
DOORS OPEN 6:00PM / 7:00PM BELL TIME
**MAIN EVENT**
BULLET CLUB vs NEW JAPAN vs RING OF HONOR
Bullet Club (Adam Cole & Matt Jackson) vs “Rainmaker” Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii vs ROH World Champion Jay Lethal & Roderick Strong
NON TITLE
IWGP Heavyweight Champion Tetsuya Naito vs ACH
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs Reborn Matt Sydal
ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP RE-MATCH
Addiction vs War Machine
Cedric Alexander vs Donovan Dijak w/ Prince Nana
Jushin “Thunder” Liger & the Briscoes vs Guerrillas of Destiny & “Hangman” Adam Page
CHOAS (Beretta & Gedo) w/ Rocky Romero vs Motor City Machine Guns
NON TITLE
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion KUSHIDA vs “Pro Wrestling’s Last Real Man” Silas Young
FOUR CORNER SURVIVAL
Michael Elgin vs Moose w/ Stokely Hathaway vs Dalton Caslte w/ the Boys vs Lio Rush
reDRagon vs All Night Express
*Card Subject to Change*
Live Event
Local Time:
Saturday, May 14, 2016 07:00pm EDT
On another topic, to the guy who went to the Toronto TV tapings...how long did it last? Curious, because I assume the Lowell TV taping will be the same length.
Also, did the ROH/NJPW guys sign autographs & do photos? Oddly they're not advertising this for the NY show. So mad I missed out on that last time.
Such an incredible rematch raises huge questions equal in size to its huge stakes! Can Taeler Hendrix help limit Lethal’s outside distractions in preparation for this bout? Has Briscoe’s recent battles in the deepest tag team division in the world taken too much out of him? Will Adam Cole and Bullet Club attempt to alter the fate of one or both of these men between now and Best in the World? And just who will leave Concord as ROH World Champion? Join us live and on pay-per-view to find out!
One reason Cole might not be listed for BITW, is because I read he & Page are going to be working for New Japan next month.
Also, looks like ROH is looking to move their main NYC shows. They want somewhere so they can use their own production, unlike the Hammerstein Ballroom from what I read. But for me, the Hammerstein is the best venue in NYC.
If that's the real card for Best in the World... yikes. Weak sauce across the board. World Title match coming off virtually no build, TV Title match with no build and no heel/face dynamic, a Tag Team Title match that we've already seen on TV and they ran on another house show somewhere, and then some other random matches.
Of course, if Shibata shows up then that changes everything.
I guess I find the lack of build surrounding the matches to be a good thing. As of late ROH puts on better house shows than big cards so if that house show freedom is brought to BITW it'll make me quite excited. I absolutely love when ROH's wrestlers have no/low stakes matches.
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