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Post by Error on Nov 30, 2007 23:47:51 GMT -5
Aries wins 4-3 via knockout. knee to the head.
Jack pinned Mark Briscoe to win the scramble.
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Post by skiller on Nov 30, 2007 23:49:21 GMT -5
Not surprising. The Briscoes always lose non title matches.
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Post by imnotbooked on Dec 1, 2007 0:06:12 GMT -5
Not surprising. The Briscoes always lose non title matches. I'm shocked that the Vulture Squad pulled this one out! Outta' the 4 teams involved, they would of been my last pick the way bookin' has been lately. I guess they gotta' win sometime....
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Post by Error on Dec 1, 2007 0:12:08 GMT -5
Complete results for those that don't want to dig around:
-Claudio Castagnoli defeated Seth Skyfire
-Delirious defeated Adam Pearce in a Falls Count Anywhere Match
-Chris Hero defeated Jigsaw
-The Briscoes defeated Davey Richards and Rocky Romero to retain the tag titles after Jay Briscoe pinned Richards with a Springboard Doomsday Device; said to be a "great match;" this match was taped for PPV
-Bryan Danielson defeated Necro Butcher by submission to the Cattle Mutilation in a Relaxed Rules match
-Nigel McGuinness defeated Sylas Young in a non-title match; post-match McGuinness cut a promo, but was interrupted and attacked by Chris Hero; Claudio Castagnoli ran out to save McGuinness; Hero will fight McGuinness at the next Dayton show
-Davey Richards was added to Erick Stevens Vs. Human Tornado, making it a threeway; Richards won the threeway pinning Human Tornado;
-Austin Aries defeated Roderick Strong 4-3 in a 30-minute Iron Man Match; Aries got the final fall by knockout with a knee to the head.
-Jack Evans & Ruckus won the four team scramble when Jack pinned Mark Briscoe; Brent Alright & BJ Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black were the other two teams involved.
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Post by Panda Bear on Dec 1, 2007 0:21:44 GMT -5
The night sounds good, but why does Jigsaw always have to job?
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Post by YouStayClassy on Dec 1, 2007 1:53:54 GMT -5
The night sounds good, but why does Jigsaw always have to job? He's gotta pay his dues, especially now that he's apparently full time ROH.
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Post by honsou on Dec 1, 2007 1:57:13 GMT -5
I have to wonder...i don't think Necro has ever tapped, they always just had him pass out. Well if he had to tap at least its to American Dragon.
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Post by salsashark on Dec 1, 2007 2:12:24 GMT -5
Tonight was my first wrestling show EVER and holy shit, what a good time! Some of the highlights for me: -Passing Gabe Sapolsky! This happened right after I entered. The mark in me went nuts thinking this man was partially responsible for the ECW I loved so much. -The Briscoes are an amazing team. I have never seen them wrestled before and they are such a tight pair. The moves they would pull off were fantastic. They were my favorites of the night. The splashes were gold. -When one of the Briscoes did a Tazplex, I went f***ing bonkers for a moment. I love the Tazplex, and finally getting to see someone do it live was so great. -Jack Evans = A+. Man, you never really understand how much of a spectacle pro wrestling can be until you witness the shit people pull off live. -Chris Hero really has such a bright future. He was so smooth live. -The sequences of kicks in the tag team scramble... Holy crap!! -Aimlessly chanting "We Want Mantaur" and "USA, USA!" with my row and the row behind me. -The whole ROH atmosphere was so intimate and like a small concert. It was almost impossible to have bad seats. Lowlights: -The Roderick Strong/Austin Aries match was really badly placed on the card. People were kind of tired at this point and the Iron Man really should have had some extra stipulation to keep people's attention (such as maybe making it Relaxed or Falls Count Anywhere). Sorry to say, it was kind of boring (until the finish). -The Delirious match was Falls Count Anywhere, and the match was basically on one side of the room that was opposite our view (We were what the camera picked up), so I never got to see the finish. I'm sure there were more to add to each category that I can't remember right now. Overall, I now officially adore ROH's shows. I am really considering going back in January for another one.
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Post by The Scuba Guy on Dec 1, 2007 8:10:16 GMT -5
I heard the next ROH show in Dayton will be January 25th, so I am so (hopefully) going to that
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Post by Overly large testicles on Dec 1, 2007 9:31:19 GMT -5
Man, Aries is white hot.
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Post by The Lodger on Dec 1, 2007 9:31:59 GMT -5
Sounds like a great show.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Dec 1, 2007 12:38:09 GMT -5
IT was a blast. Didn't see any part of the Delirious/Pearce match until the end on the scaffolding.
Also, I was underwhelmed by Jigaw, but Hero was a doing a gymnatics routine so he couldn't do much.
Got to high five the lariat when he was signing autographs during intermission, and the Briscoes of course but on two great matches.
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Post by Jimichiro Likes Erick Rowan on Dec 1, 2007 13:44:58 GMT -5
Of all the wrestling events I've been to, this was one of the best. - There was a jobber match in the beginning, I missed half of it (some guy called "Dingo" and a guy that looked like Stevie Richards). Wasn't all that great. Dingo won with a sloppy Dragon Suplex. - Claudio/Skyfire was pretty good. Claudio's got that look like he could go places someday. I liked how the sportsmanship was a recurring theme through the match. - Delirious/Barry Dars- erm - Adam Pearce was okay, from what I could see at least. The big spot was Delirious diving off the scaffold, which was RIGHT in front of me. It was funny, because of all the chairs in the 4th & 3rd rows, my chair was the only one in the section that wasn't even grazed, everyone else's got knocked over & out of place. And either following or during the match, somebody threw a chair. Well, it came within centimeters of knocking one of my friend's out. He then looked over at me & yelled "I almost got hit by a chair! THAT WAS AWESOME!" - Hero/Jigsaw was great. I loved how Hero kept doing these little acrobatic manuevers & tried to get the crowd to cheer only to get "THAT WAS GAY" chanted at him. Jigsaw didn't seem to get alot of offense in. I was really impressed by Hero, you can consider me a Hero mark now. - Broscoes/NRC was INCREDIBLE! I knew the Briscoes were going to be good, but I was blown away. Just as well, I really liked Rocky Romero's work & enthralled by Davey Richards. - Danielson/Necro was pretty good. Short & sweet. And, I dunno, maybe it was some of the guys sitting in front of me or what but Necro Butcher smells really bad. C'mon, even Charles Manson takes a shower, I don't think it'd hurt the character. - Intermission! In one of the most random sightings ever, I saw Jimmy Wang Yang. I said to one of my friend's "Dude, it's Jimmy Yang over there." "Who?" "C'mon, he's on Smackdown!" "What's his name again?" "Jimmy Wang Yang. Akio. Former Cruiserweight Champion." "Doesn't ring a bell." One of the funnier moments of the night for me. Picked up Death Before Dishonor V (which I watched when I got home, great show). I was about to ask the girl at the table for DBDV, then it hit me - "she's wearing tights and is signing autographs. I don't think she works the merchandise table"." Turns out it was Sara Del Ray (WHat? I've never seen her before). - McGuiness/Silas Young was next as a "suprise bonus match." McGuiness looked pretty good, Silas didn't impress me much though. Then Nigel cut a nice little promo about how he liked working in Dayton, but Larry Sweeney interrupted & arranged for a title match between McGuiness & Chris Hero at the Manhattan Center. Then Tank Toland &... this really fat guy (I said to my friend "Man, when did Super Crazy start bleaching his hair") & McGuiness roughed them up. Then Hero came out, Hero, Toland & the fat guy roughed up McGuiness but Claudio came out to the rescue. - Stevens/Tornado wound up being Stevens/Tornado/Davey Richards in a great triple threat. Tornado had us cracking up with his blind antics & outright asking Erick "Can I get some?" when Erick had Davey in the corner. Erick Stevens, I like him. But I don't like his name or wrestling attire. He's supposed to be a metalhead, but that's a very not-metal name . - Aeris/ Strong ironman match was okay. It was probably a lot better then what it was, but it just felt like it kept dragging on. Now, this was one of my main gripes about the show (and a reason I might not go to the next Dayton show). There were these 3 or 4 guys standing in the corner that were heckling & razzing Roderick. Not all that big a deal. But they were doing it the ALL NIGHT, especially in this match. It wasn't heckling for the sake of heckling, they were trying to get themselves over at the expense of the wrestlers. Which isn't cool at all. The wrestlers are there to perform for us, not 3 jackasses trying to get over at their expense. Like I said, I don't have a problem with heckling & booing/cheering for fun, I know I got a couple digs in last night. But don't try to get yourselves over. People just seem to forget that other people are trying to enjoy the show too & they were being very inconsiderate (Granted, some of their stuff was pretty funny, but for the most part they were pretty irritating). - Scramble Tag Match was really good. I was really excited to see Brent Albright & he delivered. Vulture Squad won, which was okay. As long as Age of the Fall didn't win & Brent and... um... his partner (I thought he was going to tag with BJ Whitmer, instead a guy that looked like Mr. Kennedy's & Shane Douglas' lovechild was with Brent). Really great match overall. Overall (outside of the jackasses trying to get themselves over & the spots we couldn't see) it was a great card & a great time. I wasn't all that familiar with RoH & two other guys with me had never even heard of Ring of Honor but they really loved it.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Dec 1, 2007 16:10:38 GMT -5
The Kennedy/Douglas lovechild WAS Whitmer.
Anyway...the first half of the show was golden, the second half was really disappointing.
Claudio/Skyfire got me really into Skyfire. He and Claudio worked really well together, and Skyfire seemed to have a lot of presence. Then, in the closing minutes, Skyfire went for a big top-rope springboard...but he slipped. However, the cool thing is that after slipping, Skyfire SOLD THE BOTCH LIKE DEATH and Claudio went to the finish. Fantastic ring instincts all around, really sold me on the new guy.
Pearce/Delirious was really fun, but then, it was right on my side of the building (Delirious actually bumped into me at one point to give you an idea of my up-close view). The finish was really cool. I'm liking the way ROH is booking these falls-count-anywhere matches, where the finish is some bizarre and otherwise impossible finisher use and the match ends quickly because of the severity of the punishment.
Hero/Jigsaw was friggin' sweet! The comedy at the beginning went on a bit long, but after that this was excellent back-and-forth face/heel action. I wish Jigsaw would replace some of those armdrags with...um...moves that AREN'T armdrags, but structurally this match was really, really good; Jigsaw made a very convincing underdog, with a lot of near-falls looking like convincing upsets. And all that without a hint of overkill. Plus, Jigsaw's new blue and gold gear is freakin' sweet.
Briscoes/NRC was just awesome. My buddy next to me pointed out that, for all of their spottiness, the Briscoes are very good at always looking like they're trying to win. Aside from that, there was some good selling by Jay when the NRC worked his arm (leading to a SWEET spot where Richards kicked Jay in the arm as he was going for his Military Press DVD) and awesome cutoffs from the NRC. Not a MOTYC or anything, but a very solid match that should come across well on PPV.
Danielson/Necro was awesome...if a bit short. I'm starting to wonder if Gabe is trying to raise Danielson to Joe levels of badassery, because the way that Danielson dismantled Necro was just intense. Necro didn't get totally slaughtered or anything, and it was a good match (if a bit too short), but man did Danielson look like a freakin' ass-kicker afterward.
Nigel/Silas...not exactly a great match, but an interesting watch. It seemed the main purpose was to put over Nigel's new arm submission finisher (FINALLY! THE ARM WORK WILL HAVE A DAMNED PURPOSE!). It did transition well into the awesome Sweet & Sour segment, which also did a great job putting over the new arm submission (Dempsey and Toland were sent running after a few seconds in it). Interestingly, Sweeney dismissed Del Rey at the beginning of the segment (saying that the beatdown on Nigel was "men's work"), and she walked off to the back at some point.
Stevens vs. Richards vs. Tornado...eh. Tornado seemed to be getting in the way of a big moment for Stevens, but he was very entertaining. Richards yelling "PLEASE...I HAVE MONEY!" while the other two prepared to double-team him was GOLD, up there with "I'm winnng!" Tornado did his splits-kick to Richards' nuts...and then the match kinda fell apart. From the looks of things, Tornado hurt his groin/leg legit on the move, and he lay in the ring wincing in pain the rest of the match until Richards came in; Tornado then did a small package hope spot before tapping to the Kimura in a nanosecond.
Aries/Strong...UGH! Sorry, this match felt like "every reason why Iron Man matches are stupid." Boring, stall-tastic mat wrestling leading into a few random falls...some of which were cool, but they still didn't feel too believable (as in, if this weren't an Iron Man there's no way they should have won the match). Honestly, it was just long...and long...and long, with pretty much no strategy from either man. Roderick barely worked the back, Aries barely sold anything long-term and didn't seem to have a gameplan of his own...honestly, 30-minute matches just don't work without some kind of layered storytelling to keep the whole thing compelling.
Finally, the scramble...well, it was certainly different. Basically, two guys would get a huge advantage on two other guys, then two other guys would come in and get and advantage, and it kept repeating at a breakneck pace. I think the lack of a real "start" hurt the match - it went right into crazy brawling and flying, when really it could've stood to start slowish and end insanely. Not bad or anything, but hardly a main event. I marked for the Vulture Squad win, though.
Overall, a very average show...probably would have been better if the matches were shuffled around a little (putting Tornado/Stevens on earlier and Danielson/Necro later, for example).
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Post by Dave the Dave on Dec 1, 2007 17:09:07 GMT -5
That jobbers name was B-I-N-G-O...AND BINGO WAS HIS NAME-O.
That was how he was announced. I loved it.
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Post by Jimichiro Likes Erick Rowan on Dec 1, 2007 19:02:45 GMT -5
The Kennedy/Douglas lovechild WAS Whitmer. Really? I hadn't seen him since he had his longer hair.
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Post by Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h on Dec 1, 2007 19:16:26 GMT -5
That jobbers name was B-I-N-G-O...AND BINGO WAS HIS NAME-O. That was how he was announced. I loved it. actually D-I-N-G-O and Dingo was his Name-o Also, i'm really tired so I'll add more to this trehat tommorow or monday... but Jimmy Yang was there just enjoying the show. I actually talked to him for a minute... he was drinking pretty heavy and reeked of alcohol. But he was like "Dude, you're a big guy...you ever thought abut gettin into wrestling... I"m opening a school" haha. But eh talked ot my buddy and me about teh distance we travleded and then posed for a picture before we left. Well here is my picture with Jimmy yang from last night, sorry bout the hair, I'd just removed the Hoodie
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Post by emoney3265 on Dec 1, 2007 19:49:35 GMT -5
I loved how Delirious and Pearce(?) went outside. 3 Sides of the place couldn't see much of it. A huge chant of "WE CAN'T SEE S***!" started. It was great.
Overall it was a fun show but the June show in Dayton was better. I'm definately going to the Dayton show on January 25th.
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Post by hollywood on Dec 1, 2007 19:54:14 GMT -5
Just got home (it was a six hour drive there and back for me!). I figure it may not have been their best showing, but I had the best time for a first-time live viewer. Delirious and Pearce ended their match right in front of me. That suplex onto the sign was wild!
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Post by Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h on Dec 1, 2007 20:05:11 GMT -5
Just got home (it was a six hour drive there and back for me!). I figure it may not have been their best showing, but I had the best time for a first-time live viewer. Delirious and Pearce ended their match right in front of me. That suplex onto the sign was wild! Dude, I totally saw you there. I told my buddy that it looked like the Ultraman guy from the crap boards, but wasn't sure. We were sitting in the 3rd row right in front of the Section A sign taht got destroyed.
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