Best ROH TV Match of the Year?

[chazraps]

Since Kevin Kelly became the producer of the show, I think ROH has made a pretty great use of their hour, and it communicates/compliments Delirious' booking perfectly.

That said, prior to the Anniversary Show, we got some really fun matches too.

What were your favorite ROH TV matches (non-PPV, just the TV show) from 2016?

Three stick out for me:

Young Bucks vs. Kingdom vs reDRagon street fight (from January, just everything a fun and completely insane brawl should be)

Kyle O'Reilly vs. Jay Lethal (maybe ROH's best storytelling in one match this year. The beginning of Kyle being rebuilt, the subtle start of Lethal's face turn, and reaffirming what makes Bullet Club such a vile threat)

The Addiction vs. The Briscoes (might get overlooked due to its proximity to Final Battle, but both teams had something to prove here and as far as veteran vs veteran skermishes go, you don't find many with as complex level of telling a story as this one)

How about y'all?

[魔界5号]

Back in February, there was a really good Adam Cole vs Matt Sydal match that kind of came out of nowhere. Like I wasn't expecting it to be that good at all but it was and it shocked me.

[Ultimo Gallos]

I remember a really good War Machine vs PBK match from ROH tv this year.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

Dec 20, 2016 19:41:48 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Kyle O'Reilly vs. Jay Lethal (maybe ROH's best storytelling in one match this year. The beginning of Kyle being rebuilt, the subtle start of Lethal's face turn, and reaffirming what makes Bullet Club such a vile threat)

This, this right here. The TV show is clearly more about building the storylines and furthering the PPV angles than putting on great matches which is fair enough but Lethal/O'Reilly was a fantastic combination of both. Aside from being a great match from a ring psychology perspective think about what they managed to convey story-wise in that match from furthering the Bullet Club/O'Reilly and more specifically Cole/O'Reilly feud to cementing Lethal's face turn to the cracks starting to appear in Nigel's leadership as a "planned" show long match was almost completely ruined to pushing O'Reilly as this badass, never-say-die babyface. This had everything and deserves to be held in a higher regard by most people. There were some other great matches on TV this year but for me, this was ROH's best TV effort by some margin.

[corndog]

Will the Kushida/Ospreay/Dragon Lee match air before the end of the year? I can definitely see that making an argument for it.

[Urethra Franklin]

I'm biased because I was there live, but O'Reilly vs. KUSHIDA in May was pretty solid.