ROH "Steel City Excellence/Masters of the Craft" (4/13-4/19)

[mcmahonfan85]

"Steel City Excellence" (TV taping)

Saturday, Apr 13, 2019
Stage AE
400 N Shore Dr
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Belltime - 5:00 PM (EDT)


Six-Man Tag Team match
Jay Lethal, Jonathan Gresham & Jeff Cobb vs. Villain Enterprises (Marty Scurll, PCO & Brody King)

Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) vs. Caristico & Soberano, Jr.

LifeBlood (Mark Haskins & Tracy Williams) vs. The Kingdom (Vinny Marseglia & TK O'Ryan)

Bandido vs. Shane Taylor

PJ Black vs. Eli Isom


Scheduled to appear:
- ROH World Champion Matt Taven
- The Bouncers (Beer City Bruiser & Brian Milonas)
- The Boys (Boy #1 & Boy #2)
- Dalton Castle
- Flip Gordon
- Kenny King
- RUSH
- Silas Young







"Masters of the Craft 2019"

Sunday, Apr 14, 2019
Express Live
405 Neil Ave
Columbus, OH 43215
Belltime - 6:00 PM (EDT)


Main Event
ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championshp
Villain Enterprises (Marty Scurll, PCO & Brody King) (c) vs. The Kingdom (Matt Taven, Vinny Marseglia & TK O'Ryan)

30 min. Iron Team match
Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham vs. LifeBlood (Mark Haskins & Tracy Williams)

Four Corner Survival match
Bandido vs. Caristico vs. Flip Gordon vs. PJ Black

Eight-Man Tag Team match
The Bouncers (Beer City Bruiser & Brian Milonas) & Coast 2 Coast (LSG & Shaheem Ali) vs. Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe), Silas Young & Shane Taylor

RUSH vs. Soberano, Jr.

Jenny Rose vs. Holidead


Scheduled to appear:
- ROH World Television Champions Jeff Cobb
- The Boys (Boy #1 & Boy #2)
- Dalton Castle
- Kenny King



Results

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}- Nick Aldis with Colt Cabana & Ian Riccaboni on commentary. Aldis told Cabana happy anniversary, as one year ago today they wrestled each other in China for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (a match which Aldis notes he won)

1. Jeff Cobb beat Rhett Titus. scary looking botch from Titus as he went for a dive over the top rope and landed on his head and neck. Cobb's nose was busted up. Cobb won after a Tour of the Islands.

- between matches Ian asked Cabana why he's not saying much, and Aldis says he's just butthurt about being reminded of his failure to beat him for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in China (a title, by the way, he'll never win again)

2. Jenny Rose beat Holidead. midmatch The Allure came out to watch the match and take selfies and the timekeeper's table. Rose won after a Uranage. post match Rose went over the timekeeper's table and started getting into a war of the words with Mandy Leon, until Velvet Sky rushed her and sprayed hairspray in her eyes.

3. Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe), Silas Young & Shane Taylor beat The Bouncer (Beer City Bruiser & Brian Milonas) & Coast 2 Coast (LSG & Shaheem Ali) in an Eight-Man Tag Team match. match broke down into a brawl on the floor with a series of dives, ending with Bruiser hitting a splash off the top rope. Milonas heads up for a dive, but Taylor blocks him and hits a powerbomb off the top rope. hometown boy Taylor gets the pin for his team. post match The Bouncers get out the cooler of beers for the Toast of Honor with C2C, but C2C throw the cooler across the ring and leave.

- After constantly bringing up their match in China, Cabana has had enough and gets on the house mic. Cabana tells the crowd Aldis won't shut up about he beat him one time...in China...a year ago. Cabana says Aldis has never beaten him in Columbus, and challenges him to a match. Aldis tries to back out, saying he's not dressed to compete, but Ian points out Aldis just said a minute ago he'd face Cabana "wherever, whenever", and shames Aldis into accepting. Aldis and Cabana both head to the back to get ready.

4. RUSH beat Soberano, Jr. in a quick match

- Caprice Coleman out for commentary

5. Bandido beat Caristico, Flip Gordon and PJ Black in a Four-Way match. fast paced, lot of
dives. Bandido won after hitting a double 21-Plex on Flip and Black, pinning Black for the win. post match all four celebrated in the ring. everyone headed to the back but Bandido pulled Caristico back into the ring for another bow.

- Kenny King out for commentary, and he's still blind. King said he's going to need surgery due to The Great Muta spitting the poison mist in his eyes at "G1 Supercard"

6. Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham beat LifeBlood (Mark Haskins & Tracy Williams) 2-1 in a 30 min. Tag Team Iron Man match. Lethal & Gresham earn a title shot for the ROH World Tag Team Championship at "War of the World 2019: Buffalo"
- Haskins submitted Gresham to the Sharpshooter around the 20 minute mark
- Gresham pinned Williams after a Cornette Cutter shortly after the 25 minute mark
- Gresham reversed Haskins' sharpshooter into a pin shortly after the 27 minute mark

- Colt Cabana comes out for his match against Nick Aldis. Cabana says Aldis agreed to the match, but he never agreed to put the NWA World Heavyweight Championship on the line, and he doesn't want anyone to say Aldis isn't a fighting champion, so put it on the line.

7. Colt Cabana beat Nick Aldis (w/Camille) (c) by disqualification in a match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. near the end of the match Marty Scurll came out and grabbed the NWA belt and began running around the ring with it, but was blocked Camille, allowing Aldis to attack him from behind. Cabana took out Aldis and rolled him back into the ring, but it was just as Scurll got back to his feet, and he though Cabana was the one who attacked him, and shoved him, resulting in the dq. post match Marty attacked Aldis with an umbrella.

- Dalton Castle out for a promo on the stage, but think the better of it and heads down to the floor, only to think even better of it and head back to the stage, only to leave without saying anything.

8. Villain Enterprises (Marty Scurll, PCO & Brody King) (c) beat The Kingdom (Matt Taven, Vinny Marseglia & TK O'Ryan) in a Street Fight to retain the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship. Villain Enterprises came out together instead of making three separate entrances. before the match, Marty says he's not in the best mood, and they've already done this match a hundred times, so why not make it a Street Fight. lot of chairs, lot of broken tables. finish saw Taven attempt to hit Marty with the ROH World Championship belt, but PCO, having seemingly been killed, sprang back to life, startling Taven and allowing Marty to hit him over the head with an umbrella. PCO then hit a moonsault for the pin. post match PCO posed over Taven holding the Six-Man Championship and ROH World Championship belts.

[peterh1990]

I've not watched ROH since Danielson and MCGuinness' last night, but man, the roster continues to get rougher. I think they are really starting to suffer from their dwindling influence and stature. NJPW is really a big thing helping keep them afloat right now.

There have been some good pickups this year (Bandido, Dragon Lee, Tracy Williams) but a roster that is probably at its worse state for many years is not being helped by the booking. That's the one thing the company should be able to rely upon. The WWE can get away with it, of course they can, but no other company can. What happened at G1 Supercard could end up being a big moment.

[Deleted]

Does Ring of Honor bring in Enzo & Cass for the TV shows, or will they be saved for the big events like Masters of the Craft exclusively?

Given ROH's track record of treating their television tapings as being piss-poor as possible, I won't be surprised.

[Convoy]

[The Spelunker!]

Apr 13, 2019 20:16:02 GMT -5 Convoy said:

Ooooof. Doesn’t look like they’ve got action, so perhaps it’s just an early crowd shot. But if not, that’s really gotta sting.

[Deleted]

I still don't understand why they film tv eps the night BEFORE a big live event. Shouldn't they do the live event and then film a couple weeks of tv the next night like Impact?

[Big DSR Energy]

I wasn't at this tv taping, but I was at one last year (also in April and at Stage AE) and like 90% of the t-shirts in the crowd were Bullet Club/Elite. So I wouldn't be surprised they're struggling without them.

[mcmahonfan85]

not finding a lot of info on the tapings. only found three things of note on twitter:

- the above pics were indeed take well before the show started
- either Ian Riccaboni is going for a Mr. Mackey vibe in his entrance video, or calling a show at MSG has really gone to his head

and

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}- after their apparent breakup at the G1 Supercard, Dalton Castle & The Boys came out together and appeared to have made up. however Dalton said he didn't need The Boys, The Boys need him, and commenced to beating the shit out of them

[chrom]

Oof that's sad

[chronocross]

That's crazy, also I remember back in the day how easy it was to get results from ROH shows, what happened?

[ianriccaboni]

Apr 14, 2019 2:19:21 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

not finding a lot of info on the tapings. only found three things of note on twitter:

- the above pics were indeed take well before the show started
- either Ian Riccaboni is going for a Mr. Mackey vibe in his entrance video, or calling a show at MSG has really gone to his head

and

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}{Spoiler}- after their apparent breakup at the G1 Supercard, Dalton Castle & The Boys came out together and appeared to have made up. however Dalton said he didn't need The Boys, The Boys need him, and commenced to beating the shit out of them

Hello! I got the video in November. It was made around the time I told our team my then-pregnant wife and two-year old would be coming to our Lowell event so they did something nice for me so that my son would know it was me. I think the only recent update is that I now emerge from the bottom of the screen whereas I used to fade in. Funny story: the dark match ran long and killed the regular ROH opening and Colt and I's formal intros so they didn't get to see it that night.

Attendance was pretty good last night. I'm pretty sure we sold all of the floor seats and most of the general admission. The building is a concert venue and we've done well before. My first TV taping that I called was here in February 2017 and there were definitely more people here last night than that but less than the Global Wars Tour with Kenny Omega. That photo was taken early in the night - the tell is the "lock screen" on the CaryTron. That is on before the dark matches and sometimes comes back briefly after the dark matches but before we start the event.

Attendance has been solid throughout the year so far and we did comparable or larger houses in most markets in 2019 (Atlanta, San Antonio, Dallas, Pittsburgh) that we did in 2018 while breaking our record at MSG and trying some new markets (Houston in January and Kent and Portland in June).

[The Spelunker!]

Apr 14, 2019 8:16:46 GMT -5 ianriccaboni said:

Apr 14, 2019 2:19:21 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

not finding a lot of info on the tapings. only found three things of note on twitter:

- the above pics were indeed take well before the show started
- either Ian Riccaboni is going for a Mr. Mackey vibe in his entrance video, or calling a show at MSG has really gone to his head

and

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}- after their apparent breakup at the G1 Supercard, Dalton Castle & The Boys came out together and appeared to have made up. however Dalton said he didn't need The Boys, The Boys need him, and commenced to beating the shit out of them

Hello! I got the video in November. It was made around the time I told our team my then-pregnant wife and two-year old would be coming to our Lowell event so they did something nice for me so that my son would know it was me. I think the only recent update is that I now emerge from the bottom of the screen whereas I used to fade in. Funny story: the dark match ran long and killed the regular ROH opening and Colt and I's formal intros so they didn't get to see it that night.

Attendance was pretty good last night. I'm pretty sure we sold all of the floor seats and most of the general admission. The building is a concert venue and we've done well before. My first TV taping that I called was here in February 2017 and there were definitely more people here last night than that but less than the Global Wars Tour with Kenny Omega. That photo was taken early in the night - the tell is the "lock screen" on the CaryTron. That is on before the dark matches and sometimes comes back briefly after the dark matches but before we start the event.

Attendance has been solid throughout the year so far and we did comparable or larger houses in most markets in 2019 (Atlanta, San Antonio, Dallas, Pittsburgh) that we did in 2018 while breaking our record at MSG and trying some new markets (Houston in January and Kent and Portland in June).

Thanks for clearing that up!

[Deleted]

Apr 14, 2019 5:35:03 GMT -5 chronocross said:

That's crazy, also I remember back in the day how easy it was to get results from ROH shows, what happened?

Not as many people go to the shows anymore, so there's less people to report spoilers.

[mcmahonfan85]

results from "Steel City Cexcellence" tv taping (via @ringsidechats on twitter):

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}Pre show
- Flip Gordon named number one contender for the ROH World Championship, will get his title shot tonight.

A. Jenny Rose beat Lady Frost

Main show
1. Jonathan Gresham vs. Silas Young ends with "Young resorts to using the time keepers hammer to secure the stoppage" (don't know if that means Gresham won by dq of if Young used it behind the ref's back and won via referee stoppage)

- Rhett Titus out for commentary

2. PJ Black beat Eli Isom. finish saw Isom botch a sprinboard 450, allowing Black to hit a moonsault double stomp.

3. Kelly Klein (c) beat Rae Lyn to retain the ROH Women of Honor World Championship. post match Klein is attacked by The Allure.

- Dalton Castle calls The Boys out to the ring. they pose. Castle says he doesn't need The Boys, The Boys need him, and beat them down before taking their masks.

4. LifeBlood (Mark Haskins & Tracy Williams) beat The Kingdom (Vinny Marseglia & TK O'Ryan)

5. Bandido beat Shane Taylor. post match the Sons of Savagery (Bishop Khan & Malcolm Moses) attack LifeBlood

- Marty Scurll calls out Nick Aldis and challenges him to a fight. Aldis declines, and gets his fingers broken.

- Briscoe Brothers interrupt a Future of Honor match and beat down both wrestlers

6. The Bouncers (Beer City Bruiser & Brian Malonis) vs. Coast 2 Coast (LSG & Shaheem Ali) vs. Shinobi Shadow Squad (Cheeseburger & Ryan Nova) in a Three-Way Tag Team match. no word on official winner, but judging from the picture it was The Bouncers.

- Kenny King out, and he's gone blind ("The dangers of too much masturbation" - @ringsidechats)

7. Josh Woods (making his return after a five month absence) vs. "Barry Horowitz Jr". no word on winner, but betting its Woods.

8. Villain Enterprises (Marty Scurll, PCO & Brody King) (c) beat Jay Lethal, Jeff Cobb & RUSH to retain the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship. post match Lethal was attacked by Kenny King, who miraculously regained his sight.

9. Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) beat Caristico & Soberano, Jr.

10. Matt Taven (c) vs. Flip Gordon for the ROH World Championship. no word on winner, but if Flip won the title i think we'd have heard about it.

[chrom]

Gresham's perhaps the best all around talent they got and they use him as little more than fodder.

Hope New Japan sees his worth come BOSJ

[Final Countdown Jones]

Well that spoiler kind of blows the main event for tonight's show. Absolutely baffling way to do things.

[mcmahonfan85]

Apr 14, 2019 17:01:16 GMT -5 Final Countdown Jones said:

Well that spoiler kind of blows the main event for tonight's show. Absolutely baffling way to do things.

how?

[Final Countdown Jones]

Apr 14, 2019 17:08:47 GMT -5 mcmahonfan85 said:

Apr 14, 2019 17:01:16 GMT -5 Final Countdown Jones said:

Well that spoiler kind of blows the main event for tonight's show. Absolutely baffling way to do things.

how?

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Villain Enterprises defending the 6-man tag titles for a TV episode that hasn't aired yet tells me they won't be losing the titles tonight in the main event

[mcmahonfan85]

Jeff Cobb over Rhett Titus

[mcmahonfan85]

Jenny Rose over Holidead