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[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

So, I'm guessing one of the ROH guys will get hurt before or during the Steel Cage Warfare match and be replaced by Steen.

[mcmahonfan85]

ROH Throwback:

Delirious vs. Matt Sydal
"Epic Encounter II"
St. Paul, MN
August 25, 2006

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[mcmahonfan85]

RING OF HONOR COMES TO TENNESSEE & ALABAMA!
Read inside for details...



The summer hasn't officially started yet but things are already heating up for Ring of Honor as we tour the country with the best professional wrestling on the planet!

And now we have two brand new dates to add to our schedule as we return to Tennessee for the first time since 2008 and make our debut in Alabama! First up, on Friday night September 6th Ring of Honor will hit the Camp Jordan Arena in East Ridge, TN and the following night we head to Birmingham, AL for our debut at the legendary Boutwell Auditorium!

Tickets for both events will go on-sale starting THIS Wednesday, June 19th, for Ringside Members and on Friday June 21st for the General Public. Tickets for each will be on-sale at ROHWrestling.com and, for the Birmingham event only, also at www.magiccitytix.com. If you want the first opportunity to score your tickets, sign up now for Ringside Membership to get pre-sale access as well as 15% off your merchandise orders, exclusive video content, and more!

If you're in the area, this is your chance to see the finest pro wrestling on the planet so don't miss out!

Ticket On-Sale Info:

Ringside Members: Wednesday June 19th @ 10AM EST
General Public: Friday June 21st @ 10AM EST

Friday, September 6, 2013
Bell time - 7:30 pm
Camp Jordan Arena
323 Camp Jordan Pkwy
East Ridge, TN 37412
Tickets available at rohwrestling.com

Saturday, September 7, 2013
Bell time - 7:30 pm
Boutwell Auditorium
1930 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Blvd
Birmingham, AL 35203
Tickets at rohwrestling.com, magiccitytix.com, and the Boutwell Box Office

[mcmahonfan85]

STEEL CAGE WARFARE RULES ARE SET!
How will the future of Ring of Honor be determined?



THIS Sunday afternoon, as part of the biggest “Ring of Honor Wrestling” TV tapings yet, Steel Cage Warfare returns to ROH for the first time since January 2009's “Caged Collision” event. That night, as with the first ever SCW in 2005, the battle was about pride, about rivalries, and about settling scores. And while all those elements are a factor in June 23rd's Steel Cage Warfare, when Team ROH takes on S.C.U.M, it is also about the fate of Ring of Honor.

If the team of Elgin, Lethal, BJ Whitmer, and either Mark or Jay Briscoe are victorious then Suffering, Chaos, Ugliness, & Mayhem will cease to be and Steve Corino will apologize for his actions as well as bend to the will of Match Maker Nigel McGuinness. If it is Jacobs, Titus, Rhino, and Compton who are the victors though, then the future of ROH will rest in the hands of Corino as he assumes McGuinness' position and becomes the official Match Maker for Ring of Honor. Essentially the power to kill honor will become his...

With our most important night in 11 years looming THIS Sunday, ROHWrestling.com was informed that, just this morning, the rules for this Steel Cage Warfare match have been finalized and are as follows:

- Elimination Rules
- Eliminations can occur at any time by pinfall or submission.
- Coin flip before the match to determine the advantage.
- 2 men start and will wrestle for 5 minutes.
- After 5 minutes a member from the team who won the coin flip enters.
- Entrants then alternate between teams every 2 minutes.

This Sunday afternoon it's ROH (Whitmer, Elgin, Lethal, & Briscoe) versus S.C.U.M (Jacobs, Titus, Rhino, & Compton) in STEEL CAGE WARFARE!!! To say the future of ROH is at stake here would be an understatement...

Tickets for June 23rd are available now in the ROH Store or at the door this weekend at the Du Burns Arena in Baltimore.

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[mcmahonfan85]

WORLD TV TITLE MATCH SIGNED FOR SUNDAY!
Can Eddie Edwards become the first 2-Time Champ?



On June 1st, Ring of Honor traveled to San Antonio for “Honor In The Heart of Texas”. That night Davey Richards gave Jay Briscoe the fight of his life in a World Title bout, ACH went toe-to-toe with Jay Lethal and nearly bested one of his idols, and, most importantly for this announcement, “Die Hard” Eddie Edwards defeated World TV Champion Matt Taven in a Proving Ground battle and earned himself a future shot at said championship.

ROHWrestling.com was informed this morning that Edwards' opportunity will come THIS Sunday afternoon in Baltimore as part of what is no doubt the most important “Ring of Honor Wrestling” TV Taping yet!

“I was the first.” said Eddie Edwards via e-mail, “I know the pressure and expectations that come with holding that championship, and as a former World Champion I know what it's like to follow in the footsteps of the men who held the title before you. Matt Taven, after Texas I can also say that I know first-hand that you've got the potential to be great but not when you've got Truth Martini in your ear. He is poison, he will make you think you need him to achieve that greatness, just go ask Roderick, go ask Elgin what having Truth at their side did to them. You won't see it, not surrounded by the women and the hoopla that comes with the House of Truth but maybe if you lose that title to Lethal or Jimmy Jacobs on Saturday, maybe if I take it from you Sunday and become the first ever 2-Time TV Champ, maybe then you'll figure out the real truth of the matter. Either way, if it's Taven who steps into the ring across from me in Baltimore or if I go one-on-one with Jay Lethal for the first time in an ROH ring or Jimmy Jacobs for the first time anywhere, know you are in for a fight boys. The Wolves are hungry like never before and the only thing that whets our appetite is championships.”

June 23rd, “Ring of Honor Wrestling” TV Taping, the very first TV Champion “Die Hard” Eddie Edwards challenges for the title he helped build and attempts to become the first ever 2-Time TV Champion in ROH history!! The only downside for Edwards is that he has no idea who he will face until after the Taven/Lethal/Jacobs Triple Threat title match at “Best in the World 2013” the night before.

Will it be Taven looking to even the score and cement his spot alongside the previous TV Title holders or it will be a first-time collision with either Lethal or Jacobs? Check out “BITW '13” to see for yourself and then make sure you are in attendance the next day for our biggest TV Tapings yet! Not only will the TV Title be on the line, as well as Steel Cage Warfare, but Matt Hardy looks to shock the world by becoming the new ROH World Champion when he challenges the winner of Saturday's Briscoe versus Briscoe World Title bout! Hardy would no doubt be the most controversial champion in ROH history if he is able to bring the belt back into the S.C.U.M fold!

Tickets for both huge live events THIS Saturday and Sunday are available now in the ROH Store or you will be able to purchase them at the door at The Du Burns Arena in Baltimore!

[mcmahonfan85]

[kingoftheindies]

is it just me or has Taven's TV title run been a bit of a flop? It seems like recent months Hoopla has been more about Truth Martini than anything else.

And as much as I like people like Scarlet and Truth... not a fan of Hoopla

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Jun 19, 2013 8:03:54 GMT -5 kingoftheindies said:

is it just me or has Taven's TV title run been a bit of a flop? It seems like recent months Hoopla has been more about Truth Martini than anything else.

And as much as I like people like Scarlet and Truth... not a fan of Hoopla

I think they have a solid act. I agree Taven hasn't been given as much focus as he should but a few proper adjustments could easily fix that. He's in a better place now than he was before, he seems to play the skeevy degenerate role pretty well.

[kingoftheindies]

Jun 19, 2013 8:49:36 GMT -5 @nichotine said:

Jun 19, 2013 8:03:54 GMT -5 kingoftheindies said:

is it just me or has Taven's TV title run been a bit of a flop? It seems like recent months Hoopla has been more about Truth Martini than anything else.

And as much as I like people like Scarlet and Truth... not a fan of Hoopla

I think they have a solid act. I agree Taven hasn't been given as much focus as he should but a few proper adjustments could easily fix that. He's in a better place now than he was before, he seems to play the skeevy degenerate role pretty well.

I thought they were doing a good job in the build up to Taven becoming TV champ (though ROH is late to the Panama City Playboy party, and I think heel AC would've been gold as TV champ) but ever since that first segment where the Hotties took their pants off it seems like they've kind of lost focus.

Cours another problem could be that their putting Taven in matches against people that are WAY more over than him. That's not a knock on him but guys like Adam Cole, Eddie Edwards, and Mark Briscoe just outshine him so much

[mcmahonfan85]

so he's like Erick Stevens right after winning the FIP title, beating Bryan Danielson and Austin Aries on back-to-back nights

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[brettappedout (BLM)]

Jun 19, 2013 13:28:58 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

That...that was.... f***ING AWESOME!

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Jun 19, 2013 13:28:58 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

As far as cheap heat goes, putting a video of yourself laying in a bed of cash getting blown by a hot (if somewhat vacuous) woman out there is tough to beat. Matt's basically a low-rent Douchetista and I'm loving every minute of it.

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[Steveweiser]

Congratulations to Michael Elgin and MsChif, who got engaged a few weeks ago. Guess that explains Elgin's recent move to St. Louis...

[mcmahonfan85]

THE END... BY STEVE CORINO
posted on : Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 08:55am EDT
by : Steve Corino


The END

I can not be blamed for what I am. I am evil. YOU made me this way.

YOU, the ROH office.
YOU, the ROH fans.
YOU, Nigel McGuinness.
YOU, pro-wrestling.

I remember when I was a small boy, I liked fires. I would get excited when the firetrucks would blare their sirens. It was peaceful. Poetic.

I would run to the scene. See the destruction. Smell the sweet smell of destruction. It was peaceful. Poetic.

Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure!
Joseph Kallinger

Society told me that setting fires was wrong, so I put it away. I put away the voices in my head that told me that to burn was to heal. Years and years of abuse through professional wrestlers, fans, and the system, built a fire in that I could not contain any longer.

SCUM was formed to burn down the company that hurts the industry that I loved since I was 8 years old. ROH was created on a concept of honor, but 11 years later continues on a concept of beating each other half to death for unappreciative fans and even more unappreciative management. It has to go.

The ROH system of bullying would not allow Jimmy Jacobs and myself to rehabilitate ourselves two years ago. We were called names of all sorts, even though we were trying to be "ROH".

The ROH system of bullying crapped on Rhett Titus when his partner couldn't take it anymore and jumped ship. What did Rhett get for his loyalty A doomed partnership with the "martyr" BJ Whitmer.

The ROH system of bullying lied to Cliff Compton. While he sat at home starving and waiting for a chance to re-invent himself, he was told "just wait, you'll be next to come in."

The ROH system of bullying did everything it could to keep Rhino and I away from each other.

And the ROH system of bullying showed their "appreciation" for a true television superstar named Matt Hardy, by chanting "Fatt Hardy", "Matt Will Not Diet", and "Feed Matt Less", while 99.9% of the fans base wouldn't know what a treadmill looked like if it punched them in the face.

Courage is FIRE, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli

ROH management are the bullies.
The fans are the bullies.
The wrestlers are immature and incompetent robots that only want to please the management and fans.
It must burn.

Now we could take this battle and rage it all the way to Final Battle 2013, but we won't. A war can last 6 days or 6 years. We chose to end it once and for all on June 23 in Baltimore because the time is right. SCUM is truly ALL IN.

We lose, we disband.
We win, and we will win, I become the matchmaker of ROH and this place burns.

No matter the outcome on Sunday, no one will ever be the same. Not you, not me, not SCUM, not ROH. I am prepared for the afterlife...are you?

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murders, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with FIRE and brimstone: which is the SECOND DEATH
King James Bible

June 23
DuBurns Arena
Steel Cage Warfare

The second death is coming. What side are you on? It is not too late to accept Matt Hardy, the next and final ROH World champion, as your savior.

Because if you don't, June 23, you and ROH BURN!

[Talent Name]

That is why Corino is just awesome, just reading that gave me chills. He can deliver a good promo when he needs to.

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Jun 19, 2013 15:36:57 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Jun 19, 2013 13:28:58 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

As far as cheap heat goes, putting a video of yourself laying in a bed of cash getting blown by a hot (if somewhat vacuous) woman out there is tough to beat. Matt's basically a low-rent Douchetista and I'm loving every minute of it.

Matt needs to lend ROH his camera and his production skills. I love it.