Honor Rising 2019

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Ospreay’s journey to heavyweight continues. Surely, he has to be in the g1 this year.

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Naito/Shinto teaming is awesome, but even from the little I’ve seen I just cba with The Kingdom.

Got their music sucks.

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Hope Finlay’s ok.


Other than that, the show was pretty good. The midcard tags were great. I must admit I barely care about Lethal vs Ryan. Not a fan of SANADA & EVIL dropping the belts so quick, again.

Not hugely feeling GOD vs the Briscoes at the garden. It’ll be a good match, but I have no desire to watch the Briscoes in anything ever again. And GOD are a good tag team, but I would really rather LIJ be in there.

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So title for title at MSG

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Lethal set the record for most total defenses of the ROH World Title, having made 39

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Ospreay pinned Cobb, indicating another potential matchup

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The Iizuka retirement match was a lot of fun.

[Some Baritone guy IS REDEEMED!]

Feb 23, 2019 5:37:00 GMT -5 @flaminghalo said:

Ospreay’s journey to heavyweight continues. Surely, he has to be in the g1 this year.

I honestly hope this is the first step towards making the Openweight title actually Openweight.

The title's been around for over 6 years and there's only ever been one Jr. Heavyweight that's held it and only 4 Juniors have even challenged for it.

What they should do is make this the first step for Juniors looking to move up in weight, and for up and coming Heavyweights trying to make their way up the ranks who aren't quite ready for the US, IC, or Heavyweight crown yet and for the older guys who aren't in the hunt for anything else but can still go, like Nagata, Tenzan, and Kojima.

Considering that the vast majority of the roster isn't doing anything at any given time, especially in the junior division where unless you're a champion or challenging for a title, you're just pretty much a Heavyweight's sidekick. This would be a great move.

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Gresham wants to challenge for the Jr title.

Henare has stated he wants to compete in the New Japan Cup

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Feb 23, 2019 5:09:47 GMT -5 @flaminghalo said:

Btw, this tour has been my first exposure to Gresham. I’ve heard the name a lot over the last year, but given my wrestling time is limited I haven’t seen anything.

Guys amazing, really want to see him more in NJPW.

I'm sure we can count on him being in Best of the Super Juniors this year. ROH could send any combination of Gresham, Bandido, Flip and Haskins.

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Finally got around to both nights. Night 1 was MUCH better than Night 2 for me. I honestly didn't care for Night 2 at all.
But I got Goto vs. Cobb on the first night, and that was the top thing I wanted to see.
And Ospreay vs. Dalton was way better than I expected.

GoD winning again was abysmal. No way EVIL and Sanada should have lost them so soon.
I don't care one bit about the Redneck Homophobes so yeah, the entire second night fell flat for me.
That being said, hope Finlay bounces back soon.

The ceiling is high for Gresham though, I really like him.
He's like if Zack Sabre Robot had a personality.

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