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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

ROH Wrestling 23rd May 09 reviewed

3 Way Match, Kenny King vs Kenny Omega vs Jay Briscoe - Omega was no more than a jobber at the start in this one as King & Briscoe constantly kept throwing him back out of the ring but his double Hurricanrana was impressive, I think Briscoes cut eye was an accident ( I watched several times and still can't see where or how it happened, some time after the double cross bodyblock) so they finished this one up early with Omega taking the win off King with a Sunset Flip into a Bridging Suplex.

Tag Match, Irish Airborne (Jake & David Crist) vs Dark City Fight Club - Oh my god how I hate DFC with a passion, they have f**k all talent, are overly stiff yet ROH push them like their s**t don't smell. I expect I'll be watching yet another boring squash match & was pleased at the fans chant of "F**k you Fight Club" so I'm not the only one who hates them. As predicted Irish Airborne got to display almost no offence at all and DFC took the boring predictable win & its about time ROH either put them in a title match or fired them as their boring as hell and will never be over.

Chris Hero (with Sara Del Rey) vs Eddie Kingston - Kingston just dived right in working Hero until Del Rey gave him an opening off a distraction & Hero was on top doing just enough to get by until Kingston got his 2nd wind and started whaling on Hero in the corner failing to respond to a 5 count to break (and pushing the ref away), the ref generously gave Kingston a 2nd 5 count to break from Hero then called for the bell and tried to get Kingston to break again and got piefaced under the bottom rope for his troubles so the win went to Hero off a DQ.

Tag Match, Jimmy Jacobs & Brody Lee vs Delirious & Necro Butcher - This one started on the floor and stayed there a fair while too with Delirious eventually dragging Jacobs into the ring getting the match officially started whilst Necro threw some of the worst looking punches at Lee I've ever seen any wrestler do. Lee & Necro had a run in the ring (more awful looking punches, both Necro & Lee could seriously use some training on how to punch & sell one too). Delirious went for a top turnbuckle Suicide Flip on Lee, Jacobs & Necro & totally flubbed the landing overshooting all 3 guys taking a VERY hard landing on the concrete floor missing the mats completely but amazingly Delirious got up and carried on fighting with Lee.

Necro took a nice double suplex off Lee & Jacobs out of the ring (onto the handy pile of mats Jacobs had positioned earlier) but it was a hard enough bump that the ref went and checked on him leaving Delirious to work Jacobs & Lee alone. It actually evolved into a proper match all be it a handicap match as far as Delirious was concerned with Necro Butcher laid flat on his back outside the ring having pretty much not moved at all after his bump.

Lee had a nearfall and Necro actually made it back into the ring after about 10 minutes (I wouldn't be surprised if he was concussed though), Jacobs slowed him down by throwing thumbtacks onto the canvas as Delirious covered his back by clotheslining Jacobs out of the ring which allowed Necro to get a handfull of the thumbtacks and threw them into Lee's face. Necro hit a bodyslam and Delirious took the win off Shadows Over Hell (a frogsplash onto the back).
This was possibly THE best match ROH have had since starting on tv but it took a guy getting virtually injured out of the match to produce it.

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