ROH/NJPW "War of the Worlds 2018'' tour (5/9-5/13)

[Facetious]

Man, I feel bad for ROH. The injury bug hit them hard.

[chrom]

Any word from the tapings?

[mcmahonfan85]

results from "War of the Worlds 2018: Chicago, IL" tv taping (via WrestleZone):

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{Spoiler}Pre show
A. The Bouncers (Beer City Bruiser & Brian Milonas) beat Brian Johnson & Justin Pusser (w/Miss Jasmine)

B. Stacy Shadows beat Stella Grey

Main show
1. Karen Q beat Tenille Dashwood

2. Jushin Liger & Cheeseburger beat The Dawgs (Rhett Titus & Kenny King)

3. Sumie Sakai (c) beat Jenny Rose to retain the ROH Women of Honor Championship

4. Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) (c) beat Roppongi 3K (SHO & YOH) to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship

5. Silas Young (c) beat Austin Aries by disqualification to retain the ROH World Television Championship. finish saw Kenny King run out and attack Young with the TV Championship belt, and Aries got the pinfall. the ref reversed the decision after finding out King interfered, and Silas retains

- INTERMISSION

- Cody out for a promo and puts himself over and says he'll win back the ROH World Championship. Marty Scurll comes out and says he'll go through Cody if he has to to win the ROH World Championship. Marty offers a handshake, then teases breaking Cody's fingers when he goes for it, before walking away.

6. Flip Gordon beat Jonathan Gresham. post match Bully Ray comes out to tell Flip he has his respect because he respects anyone who serves in the US military. Bully salutes Flip and Flip salutes back, only for Bully to kick him below the belt and call him a "stupid young boy"

7. Kelly Klein beat Deonna Purrazzo

8. SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian & Scorpio Sky) beat The Kingdom (Matt Taven, Vinny Marseglia & TK O'Ryan) by disqualification in a match for the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship. no word on why Kingdom was disqualified

9. Kenny King (replacing Jay Lethal) beat Chuck Taylor

10. Shane Taylor beat Josh Woods

- Dalton Castle out for commentary

11. Bullet Club (Cody, Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Marty Scurll & Adam Page) beat Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, BUSHI & Hiromu Takahashi w/Daryl Jr.) in a Ten-Man Tag Team match

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

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{Spoiler}Sucks that it looks like Tenille is now just another person in their division and already doing jobs even to girls that aren't even that pushed. Thought she would be used better then she was in WWE with a less talented division and her being the only woman that gets good reactions but guess that's not the case.

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[Facetious]

Well I'm glad I didn't blow money on that show. The TV tapings are boring as is.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

I went to the Chicago show. They should have cut one or two matches - I'm thinking #9 and #10. The Shane Taylor and Josh Woods match especially felt like filler. It was a Sunday evening and the show went until 11:00.

Crowd was f***ING LIVID when that f***er Todd Sinclair

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{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}reversed the decision in the title match

, and they didn't let Todd forget it for the rest of the night.


I follow NJPW more than ROH so I hadn't heard of Jonathan Gresham. He really impressed me.

Seeing Jushin Liger live is one mark off the bucket list. Hopefully Suzuki will come back to Chicago for one of the tours so I can see him too and check that off (he came last October but I didn't find out about it until after!)

The LIJ/Bullet Club match was a LOT of fun. There was a good two or three minutes of just character work at the beginning, with each LIJ and Bullet Club member getting their own chant, except for Cody who just was booed relentlessly. (And Page, who got no chant at all except for one dude trying to start one) Cody then put an All In shirt on and got cheered. He teased throwing the shirt to the crowd then tossed it on the ground. At one point Cody flexed, and Naito got up close to try to find his muscles with his telescope pose. Tons of stuff like that mixed into the match. Takahashi taking out everyone with Darryl, until he gets superkicked and Darryl goes flying. Punishment Martinez and Hangman Page brawled to the back. Bernard the Business Bear took his place for a few spots, and ended up blinded by Bushi's mist for his trouble.



I CAN'T believe how much beer people were drinking on a Sunday night, and at 10 bucks for a 24 oz Miller Lite. The guy next to me must have had 6 of them. At least two different people got kicked out.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

May 13, 2018 23:50:52 GMT -5 ThankGodForSidJustice said:

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{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Sucks that it looks like Tenille is now just another person in their division and already doing jobs even to girls that aren't even that pushed. Thought she would be used better then she was in WWE with a less talented division and her being the only woman that gets good reactions but guess that's not the case.

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I was surprised about that, but honestly have no familiarity with Women of Honor so I have no idea who the top contenders are.

They were all at least okay though I was the least impressed by Stacy Shadows and Kelly Klein.