Tag Match - Grizzly Redwood & Andy "Right Leg" Ridge vs Dark City Fight Club (Kory Chavis & Jon Davis). Last time we saw Fight Club it was a short squash match against Cheech & Cloudy so hopefully we'll get to see a bit more of them this time. Ridge was selling like crazy for Chavis & Davis who were hitting every move making them all look as stiff as possible, Redwood had a short run where he was selling for Fight Club as well but if I'm honest you can only watch a team dominate a match for so long before it gets boring like it did here. Ridge came back in & was double teamed in a powerbomb where Davis took the win for Dark City Fight Club. These kinds of matches are pointless and don't help to get the more powerful team over unless there is some kind of opposition and don't do much good to ROH.
Alex Payne vs Nigel McGuinness - No introduction for either guy here and several minutes of McGuinness bad mouthing the fans, it seems that despite the fact that McGuinness needed time off for an arm injury he has only been off 3 weeks and that arm was still heavily taped here. Payne was on top from the get go & rather oddly enough the colour guys were saying they weren't impressed with him last time they saw him so clearly they don't have a f**king clue as he was far more entertaining than Claudio Castagnoli who he was working against and jobbed to in that match.
McGuinness made a predictable comeback with Payne selling well on the armholds, the 2nd of which slowed the match down a litttle too much for my liking. Payne got a 2 count off a roll-up which McGuinness responded to with a stiff looking Lariat clothesline, McGuinness took the win off the Tower Of London (ddt off the top turnbuckle). A fairly average match for both guys.
McGuinness made a predictable comeback with Payne selling well on the armholds, the 2nd of which slowed the match down a litttle too much for my liking. Payne got a 2 count off a roll-up which McGuinness responded to with a stiff looking Lariat clothesline, McGuinness took the win off the Tower Of London (ddt off the top turnbuckle). A fairly average match for both guys.
Tag Match - Chris Hero & Eddie Edwards (with Larry Sweeney) vs Jay Briscoe & Kevin Steen. Hero & Edwards preempted the bell & jumped Steen & Briscoe, Hero was given a sharp exit over the ropes curtesy of Briscoe leaving Edwards & Steen to start working a proper and fair match (although I noticed Sara Del Rey had come to the ring with the heels). Steen was owning Edwards & Heros attempt at a sneak attack earnt him a clothesline to the apron from Steen, Briscoe came in to give Steen a breather as Edwards was still getting worked over but eventually managed to get a tag to Chris Hero.
Hero didn't fare much better against Steen and was being seriously f**ked over by Briscoe when he tagged in until a foot grab from the floor by Larry Sweeney slowed Briscoe long enough for Hero to mount an offence taking Briscoe off the top turnbuckle with a sloppy looking dropkick which allowed Sweeney & Edwards to work over Briscoe outside the ring who was saved from a bigger beatdown by his brother Mark.
Briscoe was worked over by Edwards then Hero took charge getting a near fall, Briscoe managed to tag Steen back in who just missed getting the win from a great reverse Moonsault for such a big guy. Steen got double teamed for a fair while until Briscoe took Hero out of the equation by yanking the top rope and then hitting a clothesline off the apron, Steen took the eventual win off the Package Piledriver. A decent enough match for both teams but a little too long in terms of duration.
Briscoe was worked over by Edwards then Hero took charge getting a near fall, Briscoe managed to tag Steen back in who just missed getting the win from a great reverse Moonsault for such a big guy. Steen got double teamed for a fair while until Briscoe took Hero out of the equation by yanking the top rope and then hitting a clothesline off the apron, Steen took the eventual win off the Package Piledriver. A decent enough match for both teams but a little too long in terms of duration.
Tyler Black vs Bryan Danielson - So again ROH are firmly sticking to a long main event (20 minute time limit according to the guy doing the introductions), this hasn't worked in the previous 4 weeks of tv so it remains to be seen if it will work this week or not. The problems have been that everyone working the main event have been unable to fill the 20 minutes with solid action for the whole time, on the main it has been 15 minutes of padding with the only real action coming in the final 5 minutes of the match.
Yet again not much action from the start, mainly holds & mat work. I am not a big fan of technical wrestling at the best of times so generally find matches like this very boring indeed. The match did have a brief period of aerials and out of ring work but it only lasted a few minutes before they were both right back to slow holds and mat work again slowing the match down after a brief but entertaining interlude where both guys took it to the wire on weardown moves, the ref was laying a count on both men when the time limit expired and the match was called as a draw.
To whoever was commenting about Ric Flair appearing in ROH, it won't be on tv until next Saturday so I will reserve any judgements until I have seen what happens.
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