For the second week in a row the 2 colour guys have opened the show in front of a green screen with the ring behind them pretending they are in the arena presenting live, surely they know they aren't fooling anyone in this media savvy world.
Claudio Castagnoli vs Brent Albright - You have to wonder exactly why we are seeing these 2 guys go at it again if their last match on tv was only a month ago. Why not give some of the other ROH guys some tv time? A pretty boring match that was FAR too long by at least 5 minutes, it was pretty even until Prince Nana & Ernie Osiris distracted the ref by throwing a shoe at Albright which allowed Castagnoli to kick Albright with a deliberate low blow taking the win off the roll-up. P**s poor finish in a very s**tty match.
Dark City Fight Club vs Alex Payne & Grizzly Redwood - Redwood has already jobbed to DCFC on tv (back on 16th May), Payne had jobbed to Nigel McGuinness in a singles match on the same show so both these guys are seriously demoted to jobber status. I don't like Fight Club as they are overly stiff & extremely boring to watch, they need decent evenly matched opponants which neither of these 2 guys are. Fight Club took the win off a double teamed slam on Payne and although it was short it couldn't have been short enough for my liking. Quite frankly Fight Club are s**t unless they meet someone decent.
Buzz words video insert from Necro Butcher & Delirious. Possibly the funniest thing ROH have ever aired on tv, it wasn't supposed to be funny but it was hilarious! Necro Butcher "What he said!".
Ric Flair comes out to talk about who should get the title shot against Jerry Lynn (who comes out to learn who he will face), Tyler Black comes out as does Bryan Danielson as does Austin Aries for some unexplained reason as he wasn't even in the title shot match last week. I was pretty close (I guessed it'd be a 3 way dance) as Flair announces Lynn will face all 3 of the other guys in a 4 way match (I have zero clue how the f**k Aries got into a title match that he wasn't even contesting in).
Sami Callahan vs Jay Briscoe - It's bizarre having 2 guys like this work each other as Callahan isn't even in the same league of talent or ability as Briscoe. Callahan had an ok match but Briscoe was substandard for him, Briscoe took the win off an inverted Piledriver.
Kenny King & Rhett Titus vs El Generico & Kevin Steen - Yep, yet again its one of ROH's "however long we have on tv" matches that are always s**t and only have any action in the last few minutes so I don't expect this to be any different. As expected this was 10 minutes of f**k all with the action coming in the last 2 minutes, Steen took the pin off King after Generico hit the Brainbuster.
The post match beatdown by The American Wolves only demonstrated exactly how low ROH has sunk as it is now copying its rivals with s**t run-ins and s**ttier storyline lead matches. Despite them pushing the support from Flair (who it appears is still working for WWE anyway) and the title to be defended on tv (well its about f**king time too!) I still predict ROH is going to die on its arse if it doesn't improve its matches.
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