Post by adamclark52 on Jan 27, 2019 1:51:36 GMT -5
Ring of Honor “Reclamation Night 2”
July 13th, 2013
From the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan
Commentators: Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuinness
Tonight: Michael Elgin and Jay Lethal take on the American Wolves.
Kyle O’Reilly vs. TaDarius Thomas
I’m glad this match was first so to get these two over with. I don’t know what was going on with TaDarius Thomas’ entrance but it looked like three Jack Evans’ came out and started break dancing in the crowd. This match had a bit of good stuff but some seriously sluggish stuff at the end.
Winner: TaDarius Thomas
Leah Von Dutch is ready for her Ring of Honor debut.
Leah Von Dutch vs. Jenny Rose vs. Athena vs. MsChif
This was f***ING HORRIBLE. I saw Leah Von Dutch live in 2017 and she was pretty bad. She was f***ing brutal here. I was embarrassed watching this. I mean the other three could hold their own (Jenny Rose was pretty green too though) but Leah Von Dutch brought this match down to levels where it may have been the worst match I’ve seen in Ring of Honor.
Winner: MsChif
Silas Young comes out tells the women they don’t belong in the ring and told them to get out. God I love Silas.
Silas Young vs. Tommaso Ciampa
After that last mess this was a five-star classic. It was pretty good.
Winner: Silas Young
Afterwards Nigel McGuinness restarts the match because Silas blatantly used the timekeeper’s hammer on Ciampa.
Silas Young vs. Tommaso Ciampa
I knew Silas winning a match was too good to be true.
Winner: Tommaso Ciampa
BJ Whitmer is ready for Adam Cole tonight.
BJ Whitmer vs. Adam Cole
The best line of the night came during this match; Nigel McGuinness: “a stunned silence comes across the crowd”. Yeah, “stunned silence”. This was boring.
Winner: Adam Cole
Andy Muscat vs. Michael Bennett w/Maria Kanellis
I was rooting for Andy Muscat.
Winner: Michael Bennett
Afterwards Bennett was about to continue beating Andy Muscat but Rhino came to the rescue. Rhino calls Bennett out for a match RIGHT NOW. Maria says “no” but Bennett wants to. Rhino eventually gets to them.
Michael Bennett w/Maria Kanellis vs. Rhino
I was still rooting for Andy Muscat.
Winner: Michael Bennett
Bobby Fish vs. ACH
I wasn’t even paying attention to the show by this point.
Winner: Bobby Fish
Matt Taven says he doesn’t need Truth Martini to speak for him or win his matches for him.
Matt Taven w/Truth Martini, Scarlett Bordeaux and Slezia Sparx vs. Kevin Steen
It took this long but Kevin Owens finally got this crowd off their asses. Shenanigans!!!!!
Winner: Matt Taven
As a result of the shenanigans Kevin Steen calls Truth Martini out for a match. Nigel McGuinness makes it so and tells Truth that if he’s going to keep inferring in matches he’s going to keep getting put in matches.
Kevin Steen vs. Truth Martini
Yup.
Winner: Kevin Steen
reDRagon are backstage...man, Kyle O’Reilly is such a punter. That hat made him look even stupider. They are ready for the American Wolves.
Michael Elgin & Jay Lethal vs. the American Wolves
I was done with this show so this match got skipped.
Winners: the American Wolves
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DVD bonus features:
Q&A with Nigel McGuinness
Post show recap
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This was really not a good show. I found my review of Reclamation Night 1 and I wasn’t feeling that show either. It was a transitional period for Ring of Honor. The S.C.U.M. storyline had just wrapped up. But more glaring was that Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Champion Jay Briscoe had just suffered the injury that forced him to vacate the championship a few weeks earlier. So not only did they not have the Briscoes to lean on, they didn’t have a champion. There was a tournament a few weeks later to crown a new champion.
The show has a very weird aire to it though. Everything felt off the cuff and unplanned. So many matches that got restarted or led into other matches. A lot of the wrestlers looked uninterested too. And the crowd looked...different.
The crowd was “stunned silent” for almost the entire show. Or maybe the show really just sucked.
Whenever I see Leah Von Dutch I’m reminded of that one time I saw her live and a low-tier Indy show in Oshawa, Ontario where she was selling her used ring gear and there were all these old creeps buying the bottoms and terribly hitting on her. Her smiles at them were haunting. It really opened my eyes to Indy wrestling and that “those people” really do exist.
