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[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

All the flippy doo's...

[543Y2J]

Aug 24, 2015 15:14:20 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

ACH VS MATT SYDAL - BEST OF 5 MATCH SERIES



Ever since they started teaming up, Matt Sydal and ACH have thrilled fans with their incredible athleticism and compatibility. A true tag team is much more than just two wrestlers competing on the same side of the ring. It can often take YEARS of working together before a team truly "clicks" - and sometimes that never happens at all!

But even though the team of ACH and Sydal still seem to have limitless potential for success, ACH apparently feels he needs to do more. He went to Matt Sydal and explained that he feels he is sinking in ROH and needs to shake up his career before it's too late. Always a source of positive energy and wisdom, Sydal encouraged his partner, ensuring him that he has all the potential in the world. ACH has now decided to test that theory by taking on his own partner!

ACH has decided that what he needs to prove his potential is to defeat the man who has taught him so much in the past year - MATT SYDAL! Because although ACH has learned so much and grown tremendously through this partnership, he truly believes the only way to learn even more is to beat Sydal himself.

ROH Head Matchmaker, Nigel McGuinness, heard ACH's request for a match against his partner and took it under careful consideration. We have just received Nigel's decision! ACH will get his match...but that's not the end of the story. McGuinness has decided that one match between these two athletes is simply not enough. If ACH wants to show the world how much he has learned from Matt Sydal, he can prove it in a BEST OF FIVE SERIES!

The first three matches have already been set. Obviously, only time will tell if matches four and five are necessary...

BEST OF FIVE SERIES: ACH VS. MATT SYDAL

- Match 1: Dearborn, MI (September 11, 2015)
- Match 2: Chicago Ridge, IL (September 12, 2015)
- Match 3: ALL STAR EXTRAVAGANZA VII in San Antonio, TX (September 18, 2015)

ROH fans are guaranteed at least three epic encounters between two of the most innovative and exciting professional wrestlers on the planet. This is a rivalry based on friendship and competition , and there's no way it doesn't get very personal, very quickly!

I am mark for both guys, this should be excellent. Amazing news!

[mcmahonfan85]

RELOADED TOUR MATCHES SIGNED FOR DEARBORN & CHICAGO RIDGE!
9/11 Dearborn, Mi and 9/12 Chicago Ridge, IL



The month of September is absolutely STACKED with Ring of Honor action! Not only will we be hitting San Antonio for ALL STAR EXTRAVAGANZA, but the ROH RELOADED TOUR is coming to cities across the country! On September 11th, Ring of Honor returns to Dearborn, MI. And the very next night, your favorite ROH stars are coming back to Chicago Ridge!

As we've already learned, ACH and MATT SYDAL begin their Best of 5 challenge series in Dearborn. But those are just two matches of many signed for the September 11th and 12th stops of the ROH RELOADED TOUR! Here's the latest...

SEPTEMBER 11 - DEARBORN

- DEFY OR DENY - ROH TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP SHOT ON THE LINE
JAY LETHAL w/ TRUTH MARTINI VS. MARK BRISCOE VS. DALTON CASTLE w/ THE BOYS VS. CEDRIC ALEXANDER

Defy or Deny is a unique ROH twist on an elimination match! If Mark Briscoe, Dalton Castle, or Cedric Alexander are the winner, whichever man came out on top receives a future shot at the ROH World Television Championship. But if LETHAL is the last man standing, whoever he defeated to win will NEVER get an ROH World Television Championship opportunity for as long as Jay Lethal holds the gold! Therefore, this is potentially a make-or-break opportunity for the 3 men vying for a future title shot!

- THE KINGDOM (MATT TAVEN & MICHAEL BENNETT) w/ MARIA KANELLIS VS. YOUNG BUCKS (NICK & MATT JACKSON)

Two of the best tag teams on the planet will collide in Dearborn! These two teams - and their respective warring factions, CHAOS and the Bullet Club - are building an international rivalry that is defining tag team wrestling in 2015. ROH is proud to give the best tag teams on in the world a place to compete and ROH fans have learned to expect excellence in every encounter. You don't want to miss the next battle between these two globally elite teams!

PLUS: Match 1 of the Best of 5 challenge series between ACH and his partner, MATT SYDAL!

SEPTEMBER 12 - CHICAGO RIDGE

- ADAM COLE/KYLE O'REILLY VS. YOUNG BUCKS (NICK & MATT JACKSON)

FUTURE SHOCK reunites once again! On a recent episode of ROH TV, we learned that not only do Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly still respect each other, they also still make an incredible tag team! And in Chicago Ridge, they will team up to face the YOUNG BUCKS! O'Reilly and his usual partner, Bobby Fish, have battled Matt and Nick Jackson all over the planet and have elevated tag team wrestling to incredible new heights. This is a match we never thought we would see in 2015, but it's happening right here in Ring of Honor!

- RODERICK STRONG VS. BOBBY FISH

Meanwhile, the other half of reDRagon will be in singles action on September 12 in Chicago Ridge! Roderick Strong is at the absolute peak of his game right now and only getting better with every match. At the same time, Bobby Fish has established himself as not just an elite level tag competitor, but a singles star as well. Fish is slated to challenge Jay Lethal for the ROH World Television Championship. But first he needs to get through a battle with Mr. ROH!

PLUS: Match 2 of the Best of 5 series between MATT SYDAL and ACH!

Don't miss your chance to be there LIVE for 2 huge nights of ROH action! For tickets to September 11 in Dearborn, click HERE. And to be there in Chicago Ridge on September 12th, click HERE!

[mcmahonfan85]

Tuesday Rollout:



"Ring of Honor: Year Five"

Disc 1:

1. AJ Styles vs. Matt Sydal ... "Hell Freezes Over" (01.14.06)

2. Bryan Danielson & CM Punk vs. Jimmy Rave & Adam Pearce ... "Unscripted II" (02.11.06)

3. Samoa Joe vs. Jay Lethal ... "Fourth Anniversary Show" (02.25.06)

4. Dragon Gate Rules match: Do FIXER (Dragon Kid, Ryo Saito & Genki Horiguchi) vs. Blood Generation (CIMA, Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino) ... "Supercard of Honor" (03.31.06)

5. ROH World Championship: Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Roderick Strong ... "Supercard of Honor" (03.31.06)

6. Chicago Street Fight: Colt Cabana vs. Homicide ... "Better Than Our Best" (04.01.06)


Disc 2:

7. AJ Styles & Matt Sydal vs. Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) ... "The 100th Show" (04.22.06)

8. ROH World Championship: Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Delirious ... "Ring of Homicide" (05.13.06)

9. Cage of Death: ROH (Samoa Joe, Adam Pearce, BJ Whitmer, Ace Steel & Homicide) vs. CZW (Chris Hero, Claudio Castagnoli, Necro Butcher, Nate Webb & Eddie Kingston) ... "Death Before Dishonor IV" (07.15.06)

10. No Rope Barbed Wire match: BJ Whitmer vs. Necro Butcher ... "War of the Wire II" (07.28.06)

11. Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles ... "Time to Man Up" (08.04.06)

12. ROH World Championship vs. ROH Pure Championship - Title Unification match: Bryan Danielson (World) vs. Nigel McGuinness (Pure) ... "Unified" (08.12.06)

13. Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) vs. KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji ... "Glory by Honor V: Night 1" (09.15.06)


Disc 3:

14. ROH World Tag Team Championship: Austin Aries & Roderick Strong (c) vs. Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli) ... "Glory by Honor V: Night 2" (09.16.06)

15. ROH World Championship: Bryan Danielson (c) vs. KENTA ... "Glory by Honor V: Night 2" (09.16.06)

16. Austin Aries & Roderick Strong vs. KENTA & Davey Richards ... "Honor Reclaims Boston" (11.03.06)

17. ROH World Tag Team Championship: Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli) (c) vs. Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal ... "Dethroned" (11.25.06)

18. Steel Cage match for the ROH World Championship: Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Samoa Joe ... "The Chicago Spectacular: Night One" (12.08.06)

19. Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) vs. Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli) ... "International Challenge" (12.22.06)

20. ROH World Championship: Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Homicide ... "Final Battle 2006" (12.23.06)





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[2coldMack is even more baffled]

That year 5 DVD.....I wants it!

[chazraps]

Anyone want to take the time to do some cross-referencing and see how many of those Year 5 matches aren't on other compilations?

Not that I'm complaining and it's too be expected as 2006 is considered by many to be ROH's top-to-bottom best year, but as someone who owns just about all the other compilations, I'm curious what here is something I likely don't have.

[mcmahonfan85]

Well you can throw out the obvious ones:

- Danielson & Punk vs. Rave & Peace
- Do FIXER vs. Blood Generation
- Cabana vs. Homicide
- Cage of Death
- Whitmer vs. Necro
- Danielson vs. McGuinness
- Danielson vs. KENTA
- Danielson vs. Homicide

I'm pretty sure but not positive they've released the Danielson/Strong, the two KENTA tag matches and the Danielson/Joe cage match on other comps

[543Y2J]

Man that September 12th card is stacked
Future Shock vs Young Bucks - always shown chemistry together since their very first matches in ROH/PWG.
Strong vs Fish - should be a geat technical and hard hitting match
Second match of the five Sydal vs ACH

Bah gawd what a card!!

[mcmahonfan85]

from PWInsider:

DISH NETWORK PULLS SINCLAIR BROADCASTING STATIONS, YANKING ROH ALONG WITH THEM
by Paul Jordan @ 8:20 AM on 8/26/2015

DISH Network issued the following:

Dish Network issued the following late last night:

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Despite reaching an agreement on rates and all other terms for the carriage of the Sinclair local stations, DISH said that this afternoon Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. chose to begin the largest local channel blackout in the history of television, blocking DISH customers’ access to 129 local channels in 79 markets across 36 states and the District of Columbia, and intentionally harming and exploiting millions of innocent consumers to gain negotiating leverage for carriage of an unrelated cable channel that it hopes to acquire but does not own today.

“We have agreed to rates and all terms to carry Sinclair’s local stations”

“We have agreed to rates and all terms to carry Sinclair’s local stations,” said Warren Schlichting, DISH senior vice president of programming. “But Sinclair is blacking out 129 local stations in an effort to negotiate a carriage agreement for an unrelated cable channel that it hopes to acquire, but does not own today.”

Schlichting continued: “Sinclair rejected our extension offer and has chosen to use innocent consumers as pawns to gain leverage for the economic benefit of Sinclair, while causing substantial harm and disruption to the lives of consumers.”

DISH and Sinclair had been making steady progress in their recent negotiations, and DISH was hopeful that they would come to a mutual agreement to renew carriage of the Sinclair local stations. In that spirit, DISH offered another short-term contract extension to Sinclair that would include a retroactive “true-up” when new rates were agreed upon, and would preserve the ability of DISH customers to access the Sinclair local stations while our negotiations continued. The “true-up” would ensure that Sinclair was made whole at the new rates for the period of any contract extension.

Rather than accept DISH’s good faith offer, Sinclair Broadcast Group chose to begin the largest local channel blackout in the history of television, blocking DISH customers’ access to 129 local channels in 79 markets, and intentionally harming and exploiting millions of innocent consumers to gain negotiating leverage for carriage of an unrelated cable channel that it hopes to acquire but does not own today.

“Since we offered to retroactively true them up when new rates were agreed upon, Sinclair had nothing to lose and consumers had everything to gain from an extension of our existing contract that would allow negotiations to continue,” said R. Stanton Dodge, DISH executive vice president and general counsel. “Instead, Sinclair rejected our offer and has chosen to use innocent consumers as pawns to gain leverage for the economic benefit of Sinclair, while causing substantial harm and disruption to the lives of those very same consumers who ultimately will bear the brunt of the unreasonable terms sought by Sinclair.”

DISH Network L.L.C. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH).

DISH Re-ignites Call for FCC action

DISH filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Aug. 15 urging the FCC to intervene to protect consumers from the actions of Sinclair.

The formal complaint can be read here: about.dish.com/document-library/verified-retransmission-complaint-dish-network-llc-against-sinclair

DISH intends to amend the complaint to include allegations stemming from Sinclair’s decision to blackout local channels to millions of innocent consumers to gain negotiating leverage for carriage of an unrelated cable channel that it hopes to acquire but does not own today.

“Sinclair is holding consumers hostage in order to force our hand in unrelated negotiations regarding a cable channel that Sinclair hopes to acquire but does not own today,” added Dodge. “We’ve asked for swift action from the FCC to stop Sinclair’s anti-competitive behavior.”

DISH extended its contract with 23 local non-Sinclair controlled stations for which Sinclair had been attempting to negotiate.

“We appreciate that we have mutually created time to try to find the right path to serve consumers for these 23 stations, but we hoped Sinclair would have chosen that same path,” added Schlichting.

Broadcaster Blackouts Punish Consumers

“Sinclair’s decision to cut ties with DISH customers is a prime example of why Washington needs to stand up for consumers and end local channel blackouts,” said Dodge. “Broadcasters like Sinclair use their in-market monopoly power to put profits ahead of the public interests they are supposed to serve.”

DISH has appeared on behalf of pay-TV consumers before the FCC, as well as U.S. Senate and House hearings, to encourage regulators and lawmakers to update existing video laws and reform the current system that allows these blackouts to occur.

“Broadcasters like Sinclair are blacking out content, effectively forcing consumers to switch to other pay-TV providers – providers that may soon face a blackout due to their own set of unreasonable broadcaster demands,” added Dodge. “The system treats viewers as negotiating chips instead of consumers.”

Rising Retransmission Rates

Each year, the cost to carry local broadcast stations rises far beyond the rate of inflation, leading to blackouts across the country that affect millions of subscribers of various pay-TV companies. According to SNL Kagan, a media industry source, broadcast fees burdening pay-TV consumers were as low as $215 million in 2006, soared to $4.9 billion in 2014 and are expected to more than double to reach $10.3 billion in 2021.

Along with other pay-TV companies and public interest groups that form the American Television Alliance, DISH has called for the FCC and U.S. Congress to revamp the out-of-date laws and to reform the system that favor these high fees and unnecessary blackouts.

DISH customers can visit DISHPromise.com for more information and to ask Congress to end TV blackouts.

Sinclair’s action affects viewers of various ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, CW, MyNetwork, Univision, Telemundo, Azteca and Estrella stations in 79 markets. For a list of affected stations, visit dishnetwork.newshq.businesswire.com/document-library/sinclair-stations.

yes i'm sure its all Sinclair's fault, isn't it DISH? they're just mean old bullies. just like CBS, Viacom, Disney, ESPN, Fox, Fox News, Fox Sports, AMC, Turner Networks, CW, WWE, UFC, and a dozen other networks big and small who've gotten into contract disputes with DISH and had their channels blacked out and/or dropped.

funny thing, though. you never hear about them getting into contract disputes with Direct TV, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, etc.

[Deleted]

Meh, the channels will be back on Dish in a week or so. That's how these things always seem to play out.

[JTG]

ROH has reached a deal with french TV channel l'Equipe 21. Primetime slot at 9 p.m every friday. L'Equipe 21 is a digital network TV, with around 1.0% share. This channel has way, way more viewers than AB1, which broadcasts WWE in France.

[chrom]

After defeating The Killer Elite Squad at Field of Honor this past week, War Machine has called out and issued a challenge to them for the GHC Tag Titles.



Interestingly enough, the video was posted and promoted on NOAH's channel so Hanson and Rowe maybe taking a trip to the Orient soon enough.

[Mondai Rogue]

Aug 26, 2015 14:01:22 GMT -5 chrom said:

After defeating The Killer Elite Squad at Field of Honor this past week, War Machine has called out and issued a challenge to them for the GHC Tag Titles.



Interestingly enough, the video was posted and promoted on NOAH's channel so Hanson and Rowe maybe taking a trip to the Orient soon enough.

Wasn't it announced a few weeks ago that they'd be doing a tour with NOAH?

[Chuck Conry]

Sooo..This whole Future Shock/Redragon thing...Fish is going to end up turning on Kyle over this isn't he?

Maybe not..I mean, Redragon is a pretty hot team right now. Would be foolish.

[mcmahonfan85]

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Aug 26, 2015 14:24:38 GMT -5 Chuck Conry said:

Sooo..This whole Future Shock/Redragon thing...Fish is going to end up turning on Kyle over this isn't he?

Maybe not..I mean, Redragon is a pretty hot team right now. Would be foolish.

He'd be in the right. If he turns heel, it's because Kyle did this to him:

[anticonscience]

Aug 26, 2015 14:24:38 GMT -5 Chuck Conry said:

Sooo..This whole Future Shock/Redragon thing...Fish is going to end up turning on Kyle over this isn't he?

Maybe not..I mean, Redragon is a pretty hot team right now. Would be foolish.

I think Fish will win the TV title and stay solo for awhile while Future Shock chases the tag titles.

[saintpat]

Aug 26, 2015 17:20:33 GMT -5 anticonscience said:

Aug 26, 2015 14:24:38 GMT -5 Chuck Conry said:

Sooo..This whole Future Shock/Redragon thing...Fish is going to end up turning on Kyle over this isn't he?

Maybe not..I mean, Redragon is a pretty hot team right now. Would be foolish.

I think Fish will win the TV title and stay solo for awhile while Future Shock chases the tag titles.

I'm OK with this.

[mcmahonfan85]

THE CRISIS IS OVER!!!

after countless hours and minutes, Sinclair and Dish have agreed to a new deal. peace has once again settled on Dish...at least until the next network's contract comes up and they start this bulllshit all over again

[mcmahonfan85]