Ring of Honor his West Virginia for the very first time on June 15th and as part of our debut there we will tape “Road Rage” for future episodes of “Ring of Honor Wrestling” TV! Several matches were set over the weekend for this huge debut including the World Title match we alluded to last week…
- ROH World Title Match - “Wrestling’s Worst Nightmare” Kevin Steen defends “Die Hard” Eddie Edwards
It was announced in the May 17th Newswire that the World Title would be on the line in Charleston with three former World champions names in the hat: Davey Richards, Roderick Strong, and Eddie Edwards. The selection was made and it will be “Die Hard” who will get the very first shot at dethroning Kevin Steen! When these two met one-on-one at “Final Countdown: Boston”, it resulted in Eddie suffering a fractured elbow and at "Showdown in the Sun - Day 2", Steen beat Eddie via a roll-up. With the World Title on the line, what will Eddie risk to regain it and what will Steen risk to keep it?
- Texas Death Match - The Final Encounter - Jay Briscoe vs. Charlie Haas
Using the rules of the game, Charlie Haas managed to squeak out another win over Jay Briscoe on Saturday night in Richmond during their unsanctioned fight. After the loss, Jay challenged Charlie to one last match between the two men, a Texas Death match, and ROH officials immediately signed this final encounter for Charleston. He can’t win the tag titles back, but will Jay finally make Charlie pay for everything he’s done in the last few months?
- Jay Lethal vs. “Unbreakable” Michael Elgin with Truth Martini
Michael Elgin has had a banner year in 2012, so was Jay Lethal before the combined machinations of The House of Truth & The Embassy conspired to cost him the ROH TV Title. Now in Charleston, Lethal and Elgin will lock horns as the former TV Champion looks to gain a measure of revenge against the HoT. Lethal is on a heck of a hot streak after ending Tommaso Ciampa’s undefeated streak & beating Roderick in their 2/3 Falls contest in Dayton, will “Unbreakable” be the man to bring a stop to Lethal’s run?
Also Signed To Appear:
- Current ROH World Television Champion Roderick Strong with Truth Martini
- BJ Whitmer
- Mark Briscoe
- Davey Richards
- The All Night Express (Rhett Titus & Kenny King)
- Steve Corino
- Kyle O’Reilly
- Adam Cole
- “No Fear” Mike Mondo
- Caprice Coleman & Cedric Alexander
Keep an eye on ROHWrestling.com for more details and match announcements as we get closer to Friday night June 15th and our highly-anticipated debut in Charleston, WV! Get your tickets now!
I count two: One in West Virginia, one in NYC. And I think the more title defenses, the better. One thing I hated about Davey's reign was if you did the math, he didn't even defend the strap once a month. Ten defenses in 320+ days is inexcusable and hurts the prestige of the championship. The best way to build up the title, in my opinion, is by making it a hot commodity everyone in the locker room wants and is gunning for. I wasn't an ROH fan during Nigel's reign, but when I started watching, I looked up his reign and saw he defended the thing 38 times. That showed me how great a champion he was, how important the title was and how much ROH trusted McGuinness himself to carry it.3 titles defenses in 1 month are too many in short amount of time for my taste
I say three counting that Strong earns a title match in Pittsburgh. The problem with the Richards´reign was that coincided with the beginning of the SBG era and was a period without an iPPV for 4 months. Is a personal opinion but i don´t like the pointless defenses without promoting only for the sake of defend the title, i think that with a TV show they should defense the title in every iPPV and sometines in TV, defend it 1/2 per month, more in my opinion is overbooking, look at Joe & Dragon reign for example, both reigns had been equal awesome with less defenses.I count two: One in West Virginia, one in NYC. And I think the more title defenses, the better. One thing I hated about Davey's reign was if you did the math, he didn't even defend the strap once a month. Ten defenses in 320+ days is inexcusable and hurts the prestige of the championship. The best way to build up the title, in my opinion, is by making it a hot commodity everyone in the locker room wants and is gunning for. I wasn't an ROH fan during Nigel's reign, but when I started watching, I looked up his reign and saw he defended the thing 38 times. That showed me how great a champion he was, how important the title was and how much ROH trusted McGuinness himself to carry it.
I always find title matches more compelling than random main event tag matches, most of which hold no importance and tell little story. Pitting the champ against whomever guarantees you at least some sort of story, even if that's just "I want the title and will do whatever it takes to win it."
THIS.I find it interesting that Haas is getting a lot of single matches. I think most people realize Shelton is the weak link. Haas is definitely one of the best heels in the company at the moment and pretty damn great at it.
Warning: this is not a TNA vs. ROH rant; I find it funny how TNA fans are excited Roode is about to break AJ Styles record of 210 days or something like that when Davey Richards hold the title for 320 days and actually produce MOYT type matches(Roode hasn't) but ROH fans think Richards suck as champion. 10 defenses is enough, I hate the unwritten rule in wrestling of defending the title every 30 days. Title matches should feel special and like events, having too many defenses can take away that special feeling. Tanahashi defended the IWGP title 11 times in 404 days and every single one was a big deal.
YEAH, BUT FLIPS, ATHLETICISM AND STUFF.I find it interesting that Haas is getting a lot of single matches. I think most people realize Shelton is the weak link. Haas is definitely one of the best heels in the company at the moment and pretty damn great at it.
Warning: this is not a TNA vs. ROH rant; I find it funny how TNA fans are excited Roode is about to break AJ Styles record of 210 days or something like that when Davey Richards hold the title for 320 days and actually produce MOYT type matches(Roode hasn't) but ROH fans think Richards suck as champion. 10 defenses is enough, I hate the unwritten rule in wrestling of defending the title every 30 days. Title matches should feel special and like events, having too many defenses can take away that special feeling. Tanahashi defended the IWGP title 11 times in 404 days and every single one was a big deal.
So these matches will air on TV right? Presuming after BITW but yeah Eddie/Steen for the title doesn't make much sense after Davey/Steen was announced for a later date.Ring of Honor his West Virginia for the very first time on June 15th and as part of our debut there we will tape “Road Rage” for future episodes of “Ring of Honor Wrestling” TV!
What was so bad on Elgin - Haas? it was a **1/2 match.. Nothing wrong.Haas had one of the worst matches in ROH last year with Elgin. Right up there with WGTT-Cabana/Generico and all the WGTT-Briscoes matches. Sensing a trend? Also, he's the worst bumper in ROH and can't make his opponents look good for shit. I'm comfortable calling him the worst worker in ROH, and Shelton sucks too.
Haven't saw his match with Davey, but i heard some great reviews about it, some guys gave it ****...It was an ugly clumsy nine-minute botchfest full of terrible bumping in which Elgin barely got any offense and got pinned after a clothesline. It was a waste of time that accomplished nothing and destroyed any monster cred Elgin had built up to that point.
And yeah he had a shit match with Davey too. That was when people started to realize that WGTT were bad.