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[ayumidah]

I'm very tempted to order this PPV, just to see the fate of Dalton's boys for myself. It'd be my first ROH PPV if I did.

[Deleted]

I am so pissed I am going to miss ASE live. Guess I should look at the positive and putting that money to better WM weekend seats but still, missing out on the Bucks hurts.

[mcmahonfan85]

#1 CONTENDER'S MATCH SIGNED FOR ASE 7
Friday, September 18th - San Antonio, Texas



The Best Wrestling on the Planet, Ring of Honor, returns to live Pay Per View on Friday, September 18 with All Star Extravaganza VII. This event will take place in historic San Antonio at the Shrine Auditorium.

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A number one contenders match for the Ring of Honor World championship has been signed for Friday, September 18 at All Star Extravaganza VII:

“PHENOMENAL” AJ STYLES vs “MR ROH” RODERICK STRONG vs ADAM COLE vs “UNBREAKABLE” MICHAEL ELGIN

AJ Styles is a constant threat to any championship, especially the ROH World Title. He has spent the majority of 2015 as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion, facing and defeating the very best athletes of New Japan Pro Wrestling. He has done the same within the ranks of ROH as well.

Roderick Strong is having a year unmatched by anyone. A former ROH World Champion, ROH World Television Champion and ROH World Tag Team Champion, he has done it all. He is an elite athlete who has lost very few matches in 2015. Strong took ROH World Champion Jay Lethal to an epic 60 minute time-limit draw and ultimately fell in a rematch due to interference from the HOT.

Adam Cole lost the ROH World Championship at Best in The World 2014. He came very close in several rematches to becoming a two-time champion. At Final Battle 2014, he not only lost a brutal “Fight without Honor” to then champion Jay Briscoe, but also suffered a major shoulder injury sidelining him for a good portion of this year. He would return in May and nearly defeated AJ Styles. He has since been mired in chaos with questions regarding his position with The Kingdom. Cole will need to put that in the back of his mind if he wants to become the #1 contender on this night.

#BigMike, Michael Elgin, lost the ROH World Championship in September of 2014. He would then drown in a state of flux, unsure of whom he was and where he wanted to be. The calendar turned in 2015 and he appeared to find himself again. A re-invigorated Michael Elgin was invited to the 2015 NJPW G1 Climax tournament. He would impress the fans of Japan as well as his contemporaries with many high profile victories during the prestigious tournament. He now returns to ROH with an opportunity to reclaim what he deems is the most important championship in wrestling, the ROH World Championship.

The only person who is not a former ROH World Champion in this matchup is AJ Styles. It is the one title that has eluded him. Is this going to be his chance to get that opportunity? Can Roderick Strong be denied in 2015? Is it Adam Cole’s destiny to become #1 Contender and regain the ROH World Championship? Is it “Unbreakable” Michael Elgin’s time to ride back into the limelight? It all starts with this opportunity. Whether Jay Lethal retains or Kyle O’Reilly becomes the new ROH World Champion, the champion will have one heck of task facing any of these potential challengers.


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RING OF HONOR WRESTLING PRESENTS:

ALL STAR EXTRAVAGANZA VII
Friday, September 18th, 2015
San Antonio Shrine Auditorium
901 North Loop 1604 West
San Antonio, TX 78232
BELL TIME: 8:00 PM Central Time Zone

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ROH World Championship
Kyle O’Reilly vs Jay Lethal w/ Truth Martini

ROH World Television Championship
Bobby Fish vs Jay Lethal w/ Truth Martini

ROH World Tag Team Championship
The Addiction (c) vs The Kingdom w/ Maria Kanellis vs The Young Bucks

Open Challenge Tag Team Match
The Briscoes vs ?

Best of 5 Series Match #3
ACH vs #Reborn Matt Sydal

No DQ Match
Cedric Alexander vs Moose w/ Stokely Hathaway

The Boys vs Silas Young becoming a Boy
Dalton Castle w/ the Boys vs "Pro Wrestling's Last Real Man" Silas Young

[berlynwright]

Not for the first time they have thrown Styles under the bus with a meaningless multi man match. He's solely in this match so he won't have to take the pin and one of the other 3 could win. They had this potential Briscoe vs AJ match last year when Jay was still champion and they decided it's not worth the hassle. I don't know how they can keep booking a tip top gaijin as an afterthought continuously

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

Sept 9, 2015 13:13:52 GMT -5 berlynwright said:

Not for the first time they have thrown Styles under the bus with a meaningless multi man match. He's solely in this match so he won't have to take the pin and one of the other 3 could win. They had this potential Briscoe vs AJ match last year when Jay was still champion and they decided it's not worth the hassle. I don't know how they can keep booking a tip top gaijin as an afterthought continuously

Probably because they can't put him in any meaningful match (especially not one for a belt) because New Japan won't want him to do the job and ROH don't want the belt on a guy who can only work part time for the company. It sucks but to be honest I'll take AJ being used this way rather than him not being used at all.

[chazraps]

AJ's gonna win the match and headline final battle against Lethal.

[mcmahonfan85]

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

So...I'm not sure how it happened, but I'm SUPER into Bobby Fish now. Just awesome all around.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

Sept 10, 2015 17:46:06 GMT -5 2coldMack is even more baffled said:

So...I'm not sure how it happened, but I'm SUPER into Bobby Fish now. Just awesome all around.

I'm not sure how it happened either, because it should've happened a long time ago . Dude is absolutely fantastic. I mean reDRagon as a whole are, and Kyle obviously is the better talent in the long term but Fish is absolutely amazing and one of my favourite guys in pro wrestling right now. I'd love to see him win the TV Title at ASEVII.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Sept 10, 2015 18:29:36 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

Sept 10, 2015 17:46:06 GMT -5 2coldMack is even more baffled said:

So...I'm not sure how it happened, but I'm SUPER into Bobby Fish now. Just awesome all around.

I'm not sure how it happened either, because it should've happened a long time ago . Dude is absolutely fantastic. I mean reDRagon as a whole are, and Kyle obviously is the better talent in the long term but Fish is absolutely amazing and one of my favourite guys in pro wrestling right now. I'd love to see him win the TV Title at ASEVII.

I think that's where they're going, honestly. I think it'd be way more interesting for Fish to win the TV title than it would be for O'Reilly to win the World Title(at this stage. I think O'Reilly's a future world champ, just not now). That way, you can have Fish being TV Champ eating at Kyle, pushing him further into his old Future Shock pairing for drama's sake.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

Sept 10, 2015 18:34:39 GMT -5 2coldMack is even more baffled said:

Sept 10, 2015 18:29:36 GMT -5 AdamAFL was sooooo wrong said:

I'm not sure how it happened either, because it should've happened a long time ago . Dude is absolutely fantastic. I mean reDRagon as a whole are, and Kyle obviously is the better talent in the long term but Fish is absolutely amazing and one of my favourite guys in pro wrestling right now. I'd love to see him win the TV Title at ASEVII.

I think that's where they're going, honestly. I think it'd be way more interesting for Fish to win the TV title than it would be for O'Reilly to win the World Title(at this stage. I think O'Reilly's a future world champ, just not now). That way, you can have Fish being TV Champ eating at Kyle, pushing him further into his old Future Shock pairing for drama's sake.

I love how they've managed to build to a possible Kyle/Bobby feud perfectly without having to make it obvious that one will turn with the typical miscommunication or whatever that has come to signify turns with in a tag team. Yeah they've been on a bit of a losing streak as a team (Addiction, Lethal/Shinsuke etc.) but it has mainly been built up via outside factors: The Kingdom, both having shots at a belt on the same show, Adam Cole, Future Shock. It's awesome. And it is what makes ASE VII - already an awesome card - more awesome because of the complete unpredictablity of its two biggest matches.

[comahan]

Caught myself up on ROH as of today, and since im a list mark, I kept track of my favorite matches of 2015 thus far:

1. Roderick Strong vs Hiroshi Tanahashi @ ROH War of the Worlds N2 ****½
2. Jay Lethal vs Kyle O'Reilly @ ROH TV ****¼
3. Jay Briscoe vs Jay Lethal @ ROH Best in the World ****¼
4. The Briscoes vs The Kingdom @ ROH Winter Warriors ****¼
5. The Kingdom vs The Bullet Club @ ROH War of the Worlds N2 ****¼
6. AJ Styles vs Adam Cole @ ROH War of the Worlds N1 ****¼
7. reDRagon vs The Young Bucks @ ROH 13th Anniversary ****¼
8. Roderick Strong vs Kazuhicka Okada @ ROH Field of Honor ****
9. Roderick Strong vs KUSHIDA @ ROH War of the Worlds N1 ****
0. Bullet Club vs Chaos @ ROH TV ****

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Sept 10, 2015 21:28:53 GMT -5 comahan said:

Caught myself up on ROH as of today, and since im a list mark, I kept track of my favorite matches of 2015 thus far:

1. Roderick Strong vs Hiroshi Tanahashi @ ROH War of the Worlds N2 ****½
2. Jay Lethal vs Kyle O'Reilly @ ROH TV ****¼
3. Jay Briscoe vs Jay Lethal @ ROH Best in the World ****¼
4. The Briscoes vs The Kingdom @ ROH Winter Warriors ****¼
5. The Kingdom vs The Bullet Club @ ROH War of the Worlds N2 ****¼
6. AJ Styles vs Adam Cole @ ROH War of the Worlds N1 ****¼
7. reDRagon vs The Young Bucks @ ROH 13th Anniversary ****¼
8. Roderick Strong vs Kazuhicka Okada @ ROH Field of Honor ****
9. Roderick Strong vs KUSHIDA @ ROH War of the Worlds N1 ****
0. Bullet Club vs Chaos @ ROH TV ****

Which Briscoes vs. Kingdom match? The one in Atlanta? Because I was there live for that, and yeah, it was f***ing nuts.

[comahan]

Sept 10, 2015 21:33:55 GMT -5 2coldMack is even more baffled said:

Sept 10, 2015 21:28:53 GMT -5 comahan said:

Caught myself up on ROH as of today, and since im a list mark, I kept track of my favorite matches of 2015 thus far:

1. Roderick Strong vs Hiroshi Tanahashi @ ROH War of the Worlds N2 ****½
2. Jay Lethal vs Kyle O'Reilly @ ROH TV ****¼
3. Jay Briscoe vs Jay Lethal @ ROH Best in the World ****¼
4. The Briscoes vs The Kingdom @ ROH Winter Warriors ****¼
5. The Kingdom vs The Bullet Club @ ROH War of the Worlds N2 ****¼
6. AJ Styles vs Adam Cole @ ROH War of the Worlds N1 ****¼
7. reDRagon vs The Young Bucks @ ROH 13th Anniversary ****¼
8. Roderick Strong vs Kazuhicka Okada @ ROH Field of Honor ****
9. Roderick Strong vs KUSHIDA @ ROH War of the Worlds N1 ****
0. Bullet Club vs Chaos @ ROH TV ****

Which Briscoes vs. Kingdom match? The one in Atlanta? Because I was there live for that, and yeah, it was f***ing nuts.

Yea, the 2/3 falls match with a different stip for every fall. Awesome match!

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Sept 10, 2015 21:35:43 GMT -5 comahan said:

Sept 10, 2015 21:33:55 GMT -5 2coldMack is even more baffled said:

Which Briscoes vs. Kingdom match? The one in Atlanta? Because I was there live for that, and yeah, it was f***ing nuts.

Yea, the 2/3 falls match with a different stip for every fall. Awesome match!

Indeed. As awesome as it was, though, I think AJ Styles vs. Fish from that event tops it.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

Sept 10, 2015 21:28:53 GMT -5 comahan said:

Caught myself up on ROH as of today, and since im a list mark, I kept track of my favorite matches of 2015 thus far:

1. Roderick Strong vs Hiroshi Tanahashi @ ROH War of the Worlds N2 ****½
2. Jay Lethal vs Kyle O'Reilly @ ROH TV ****¼
3. Jay Briscoe vs Jay Lethal @ ROH Best in the World ****¼
4. The Briscoes vs The Kingdom @ ROH Winter Warriors ****¼
5. The Kingdom vs The Bullet Club @ ROH War of the Worlds N2 ****¼
6. AJ Styles vs Adam Cole @ ROH War of the Worlds N1 ****¼
7. reDRagon vs The Young Bucks @ ROH 13th Anniversary ****¼
8. Roderick Strong vs Kazuhicka Okada @ ROH Field of Honor ****
9. Roderick Strong vs KUSHIDA @ ROH War of the Worlds N1 ****
0. Bullet Club vs Chaos @ ROH TV ****

My personal ROH Top Ten:

1) reDRagon (Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly) vs. The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson), ROH World Tag Team Championship – 13th Anniversary Show
2) Adam Cole vs. AJ Styles – War of the Worlds: Night One
3) Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Roderick Strong – War of the Worlds: Night Two
4) Jay Briscoe vs. Jay Lethal, ROH World Championship, ROH World Television Championship – Best in the World
5) Bullet Club (AJ Styles, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson and The Young Bucks [Matt and Nick Jackson]) vs. Team ROH (The Briscoe Brothers [Jay and Mark], Roderick Strong and War Machine [Hanson and Raymond Rowe]) – Global Wars
6) Kazuchika Okada vs. Roderick Strong – Field of Honor
7) Bullet Club (AJ Styles and The Young Bucks [Matt and Nick Jackson]) vs. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada and Roppongi Vice [Baretta and Rocky Romero]) – ROH Wrestling (20th June)
8) Kyle O’Reilly vs. Roderick Strong – Winter Warriors Tour: Atlanta
9) Bullet Club (AJ Styles and The Young Bucks [Matt and Nick Jackson]) vs. Team ROH (ACH, Cedric Alexander and Matt Sydal) – ROH Wrestling (14th February)
10) Jay Lethal vs. Kyle O’Reilly, ROH World Television Championship – Conquest Tour: Hopkins

[saintpat]

The first Atlanta show this year is the best live show I've ever attended, probably (hard to compare that to WM30).

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Sept 11, 2015 11:15:40 GMT -5 saintpat said:

The first Atlanta show this year is the best live show I've ever attended, probably (hard to compare that to WM30).

It's up there for me, yeah.

[mcmahonfan85]

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Cliff Compton is off the Chicago Ridge show under doctor's orders.