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Post by Brain Of J on Jun 2, 2014 18:52:25 GMT -5
Preview for Ring Of Honor: Throwdown, December 7, 2009: Ring Of Honor’s year-end 2-day pay-per-view extravaganza is less than 3 weeks away, and the event is quickly taking shape as Ring Of Honor is being torn apart by war! You don’t want to miss Throwdown’s triple main event, the next step on the road to Final Battle! - Before he left to complete a talent swap with NOAH, Mark Briscoe was the missile aimed by The Honor Guard to take out former member Homicide. Briscoe made his return to ROH last week, and picked up where he left off, going after Homicide for his treasonous actions against the Guard. Tonight, these two will step into the ring in what is sure to be an all-out brawl! - On Breakout, Davey Richards issued a challenge to newcomer Nick Nemeth to meet him in the ring again. We’ve been told Nemeth has accepted the challenge. Last week, he gave Richards a run for his money, but he had the element of surprise. This time out, Richards knows what’s coming at him. Does Nemeth? - The Honor Guard doesn’t want BJ Whitmer’s wish to come true, not with the future of The Honor Guard hanging in the balance. Adam Pearce has done all he can to tantalize Whitmer, but Whitmer didn’t bite. How will Pearce and the Guard will try to dissuade Whitmer tonight? - On Breakout, MQS made his feelings known about Eddie Kingston; he is disgusted with Kingston’s actions over the past couple months, and is sickened that he ever brought Kingston into the business. He laid out a challenge to Kingston to show up to Throwdown and answer for his “crimes”. Will Kingston show? If so, what will he say? - The first of our triple main event was set up on Breakout, when Nigel McGuinness, after brushing off Scott Colton, made an unexpected challenge to The Family. Per McGuinness, he intends to carry out the spirit of The Honor Guard’s mission, protecting ROH from threats to its sanctity, which drove his open challenge to any of Trish Stratus’ Family. We’ve been informed they’ve accepted the challenge … but won’t reveal who will step into the ring with “The Crown Jewel”. Who will it be? With The Family’s recent spate of violence, has McGuinness put himself in the crosshairs of a woman whose battle cry is now “no more heroes”? - The second part of the triple main event came in the reply from The Family to Nigel McGuinness’ challenge: a challenge of their own. They threw down the gauntlet to any two members of Ruckus’ War Games team to meet Edge and Kevin Steen at Throwdown, with the winner getting first entry at War Games! Ruckus’ team has stepped forth and offered their two: Matt Hardy and Christian Cage! This will be an epic tag team war for the ages! - The final match of the triple main event stems from something MQS said in his anti-Kingston tirade: namely, how defeatable Christopher Daniels has been. Despite beating Kingston at Trios Tournament, he’s had close calls with a number of challengers that he only got out of on technicalities, as well as losing the strap to Bryan Danielson back in July. Reportedly, the ROH World Champion took great offense to MQS’ comments, and has now vowed to prove he is no paper tiger, leading up to his title defense against Paul Burchill at Final Battle … and he’s offering a title shot to anybody who can defeat him! On Throwdown, the first man to step up will be none other than Chris Hero! Will the cocky, outspoken former ROH World Champion finish was he started and got snatched away by Eddie Kingston? Or will Daniels silence the doubters? All this, plus Boris Alexiev, Rob Conway, Jimmy Jacobs, The Night Shadow, ROH World Tag Team Champions The Burning River Brigade, Blood Moon Dragons, and more! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ring Of Honor presents Clash Of The Champions III Live and free on The CW Network December 26, 2009
For the ROH World Tag Team Championships! The Burning River Brigade (c) vs. We Who Are Not As Others
Matches to be announed!
Ring Of Honor presents Final Battle: The End Of The Line Live, only on pay-per-view December 27, 2009
A trilogy concludes and the ROH World Championship is on the line! Christopher Daniels (c) vs. Paul Burchill
The crusade ends tonight ... and so could careers! A Texas tornado grudge match! BJ Whitmer & Chris Hero vs. Adam Pearce & Claudio Castagnoli No disqualifications, no count-outs, no interference. If Whitmer/Hero win, The Honor Guard dissolves, Pearce and Don Callis leave ROH and control reverts to Cary Silken. If Pearce/Castagnoli win, Whitmer and Hero leave ROH.
The war against The Family will be fought on the ultimate battleground, War Games! Ruckus, Bryan Danielson, Christian Cage, Matt Hardy and ? vs. The Family (Jimmy Jacobs, Edge, Tyler Black, Kevin Steen & ?)
A four-corners elimination match to crown ROH's first Women's Champion! Sara Del Ray vs. Mschif vs. Amazing Kong vs. ? (winner of Lisa Marie Varon/Nora Greenwald/Shantelle Taylor triple threat)
More matches to be announced! Jed Shaffer ~Already two segments into Throwdown. The new format sure does make it easier.
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Post by Brain Of J on Jun 7, 2014 12:00:21 GMT -5
Monday, December 7, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) HWA got a 1.17 television rating for 'HWA Sunday'! The event was attended by 393 people. They made $7860 from ticket sales. 2) CMLL got a 1.66 television rating for 'CMLL Sunday'! The event was attended by 465 people. They made $9300 from ticket sales. 3) Here is my weekly report on our battle with TNA. They have more star power than us, and that is affecting our image. We are seen as having better workers, and this is causing fans to choose us over them. The fans see us as being the more professional promotion, thanks to our higher production values. 4) HWA's Main Event TV has been renewed for a further 30 weeks!
Throwdown Commentary: Steven Manning and Jerry Lawler
1st segment Singles match, one fall Mark Briscoe vs. Homicide Throwdown kicks off with the night’s first match, the grudge match between “The Man Of Destiny” Mark Briscoe and “The Notorious 187” Homicide. Briscoe comes out first, and Homicide wastes no time, ambushing him and brawling on the ramp. The match never officially gets underway, though, and not because of Homicide; by the time they brawl their way to ringside, The Family shows up. In an unfortunately familiar scene, The Family lay waste to Homicide and Briscoe, all the while Trish Stratus stands at ringside, screeching her battle cry of “no more heroes”. By the time the segment is over, two steel chairs are warped to the point of being unusable, a Singapore cane is splintered and broken, and medics are carting out two more bodies. Winner: no contest (thrown out for interference) Quality: Crowd: Overall: 67 Notes: Trish Stratus lost overness from this segment. Homicide lost overness from this segment. [?!?]
2nd segment Adam Pearce comes to the ring, wearing his ridiculous king robes, and once again tries to appeal to BJ Whitmer to cancel the tag team match at Final Battle. Pearce shows video of the attacks on Shawn Michaels, Joey Ryan, Rey Mysterio, and the attack only minutes ago on Homicide and Mark Briscoe; Pearce mentions how Michaels and Mysterio left the company for their own well-being, and Ryan quit out of disgust; he mentions doctors already think Briscoe will be out of action for a couple months, and it’s only going to get worse. Pearce says he’s offered to give Whitmer the #30 spot in the 30-man Rumble Royale at A New Level in January if he’ll cancel the tag match and accept a one-on-one match for next Monday. Whitmer comes out and shoots down Pearce’s reply with a simple shake of the head, then walks out again, leaving Pearce fuming. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 76
3rd segment Singles match, one fall, non-title Rob Conway vs. Jimmy Jacobs While it’s a non-title match, the champ doesn’t take the match any less seriously, especially with his opponent being the psychotic Jimmy Jacobs. It starts off as a competition between Rob Conway’s size and strength advantage against Jacobs’ speed, but when the match seems to settle into a cat-and-mouse groove, Jacobs flips the psycho switch and turns it into a barely-legal brawl. Trish Stratus provides the timely distraction for Jacobs to pull the railroad spike out of his boot, but before he can use it, Max Boyer runs in and spears Jacobs almost out of his boots. Jacobs and Stratus make a strategic retreat, with Jacobs the winner by disqualification, a decision that Conway doesn’t like. He gives Boyer a shove, yelling at him for interfering and saying he didn’t ask for or need Boyer’s help. They part without coming to blows, but there’s not exactly friendship between the two either. ** Winner: Jimmy Jacobs (disqualification) Quality: 71 Crowd: 80 Overall: 77
4th segment Singles match, one fall Davey Richards (w/Fangirl Lizzy) vs. Nick Nemeth Fangirl Lizzy leads Davey Richards to the ring, where she proceeds to run down Tom Carter again for being “old” and “washed up”. She then says Carter is “yesterday’s business”, and calls out Nick Nemeth. The youngster from ROH’s developmental territory comes to the ring and stands there while Lizzy patronizes him; she says it’s the “opportunity of a lifetime” to face “The Digital Deity”, even if he’s a “lost cause”. After listening to almost three uninterrupted minutes of Lizzy’s fangirl-squeeing over Richards and treating Nemeth like an inept idiot, Nemeth takes the mic out of Lizzy’s hand and asks if Richards is here to talk or fight. Lizzy says Richards isn’t here to do anything except see Nemeth put in his place, because Richards doesn’t associate with “trolls”. With that, a mystery man wearing a Davey Richards t-shirt, cargo shorts and a backwards baseball hat jumps in the ring and hits Nemeth from behind. Richards and Lizzy watch this mystery man – identified as Derek Wayne, a wrestler from the developmental territory – put the screws to Nemeth. Tom Carter comes out with a steel equalizer, but the trio manage to slip the noose. Winner: no match Quality: Crowd: Overall: 62 Notes: Derek Wayne debuted his new gimmick, it got a positive response. Derek Wayne gained overness from this segment. Davey Richards lost overness from this segment.
5th segment Cameras are quickly sent to the back, where trainers are coming upon the body of Matt Hardy, lying in a pool of blood. ROH Chairman Don Callis rolls up and asks if anybody saw who did it, but nobody offers any testimony; Callis says he has a good idea who did it anyway, and he is not going to let them get away with any more “unaddressed carnage”. Medics load Hardy onto a stretcher and wheel him away. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 88
6th segment Tag team match, one fall, non-title The Burning River Brigade vs. Blood Moon Dragons A first-time collision between these two teams, and it isn’t the match anybody expects. The normal offensive style of the Brigade – explosive, quick, very indie-riffic – is nowhere to be seen; instead, they go for a more smash-mouth, borderline hardcore style, as if to match the style of Blood Moon Dragons … or a way to try out a strategy for surviving We Who Are Not As Others in three weeks. Jun Kasai and Deisuke Sekimoto, both Japanese deathmatch survivors, are much more accustomed to the style, so they spend much of the match in control. Not long after the hot tag, the match descends into chaos and ends up getting thrown out. The Brigade hold their own, and that’s enough to give the Dragons pause, but their tactical retreat sends them into the waiting Singapore canes of Murderdeathkill. By the time Kasai and Sekimoto are able to make their getaway, they’re covered in red marks from the Singapore canes, and chased by a very angry and bloodthirsty MDK. **1/2 Winners: thrown out Quality: 82 Crowd: 57 Overall: 69
7th segment Singles match, one fall Boris Alexiev (w/Truth Martini) vs. The Night Shadow Once again, the mysterious Night Shadow tangles with Truth Martini’s Russian MMA assassin, Boris Alexiev, in a battle of hot up-and-comers. Unlike before, though, the stipulation’s stakes have been raised; instead of just a Bold Future title shot on the line, the winner gets the shot at Final Battle. The match builds nicely off the last time, with counters to what worked before and new moves out of that. But, like before, they’re evenly matched, and neither is able to dominate; it’s back and forth the whole time. When the final seconds dwindle away, the frustration really starts to settle in on Alexiev that he can’t find a way to finish off Shadow. When the ref calls for the bell at the 10 minute mark, Alexiev drops out and paces the floor, absolutely livid with his inability to seal the deal. The Night Shadow invites Alexiev back into the ring to keep going, but Alexiev walks away, too angry to even consider it, leaving Final Battle’s Bold Future Championship match without a challenger. **1/2 Winner: time limit draw Quality: 83 Crowd: 60 Overall: 71
8th segment Singles match, one fall, non-title Christopher Daniels vs. Chris Hero While the title isn’t on the line, both men do have something to fight for; Hero can capture a world title shot if he wins, while for Daniels, it’s pride and proving wrong the detractors. To no one’s surprise, it’s a great match, and it shows Daniels has learned a lot from his last encounter with Chris Hero, as Hero isn’t able to exert the dominance he was last time around. It’s a match about capitalizing on little mistakes and chipping away at the opponent until he collapses. And, like before, Hero is more built for that, as he hits harder and takes the punishment a little better. Hero looks to be on his way to victory when Claudio Castagnoli comes out. He says he has information to deliver to Steven Manning and Jerry Lawler to make an announcement (which ends up being that Matt Hardy will not return to compete in the main event, leaving Christian Cage without a partner), but because of the restraining order, Hero must vacate the area, or else Hero will go to jail. Despite it being a transparent screwjob, Hero complies and leaves into the crowd; the ref has no choice but to count Hero out of the ring, vaporizing Hero’s title opportunity in a cloud of technicality. **1/2 Winner: Christopher Daniels (count-out) Quality: 76 Crowd: 85 Overall: 82
9th segment Singles match, one fall Nigel McGuinness vs. a member of The Family If Nigel McGuinness feels any trepidation about his open challenge to The Family, he doesn't show it, looking as cocky as ever in the ring. The entire Family shows up at the barricade, teasing for a moment that they will encircle the ring and make McGuinness their next victim, but instead, Tyler Black steps forward. The rest of The Family backs off, and what follows is actually a straight-forward match with no interference from Trish Stratus or her men. It's a very intense, physical match, with both men looking to make their particular statement at the expense of the other man. Everything is going fine up until Scott Colton saunters down to ringside; he flips the bird to The Family as he walks by and stands in front of the announce table, watching. When the ref accidentally gets nailed by an errant Black superkick, Colton makes his move. He pushes Black aside, grabs McGuinness and nails him with the One Shot Kill. Colton leaves Black to stand there gobsmacked for a moment, before waking up the ref for the very tainted win. As Colton walks up the ramp, ROH Chairman Don Callis rolls out and demands an explanation. Colton brushes by Callis; Callis grabs Colton's arm, which prompts Colton to pie-face Callis, threaten him and walk off. *** Winner: Tyler Black (pinfall, interference) Quality: 83 Crowd: 76 Overall: 79
10th segment MQS is already on his way down the ramp when Throwdown returns, his scowl even more unpleasant than usual. He wastes no time in calling out Eddie Kingston. The former ROH and FTW Champion comes out and stands before MQS, looking at his teacher with flat, unreadable eyes. MQS proceeds to go down the list of “crimes” Kingston has perpetrated, namely manipulating the world title situation to Kingston's benefit, while screwing others out of title shots like Chris Hero and himself. He mentions how he argued and almost threw a temper tantrum like a child in a toy store when Paul Heyman questioned Kingston's ability to get the job done against Christopher Daniels. He shows video of a confrontation between the two before Trios Tournament, where Kingston promised he'd take care of Daniels. MQS says he's robbed people of championship opportunities, crushed Heyman's dream, and condemned everybody to work for a clueless tyrant in Don Callis. He then says once again that training Kingston was one of the worst mistakes of his life, and wishes Kingston could've been injured as bad as his old partner Blackjack Marciano, so the wrestling world would've been spared two “worthless pieces of garbage” instead of only one. The last comment is enough to bring some fire into Kingston's eyes; MQS sees it and demands to know what Kingston has to say for himself, how he can defend his actions, if there is an apology big enough for all the people he's hurt. Kingston answers with a surprise Backfist To The Future, knocking out MQS in one quick shot. Kingston picks up the stick dropped by MQS and says he does his talking with his fists and that he doesn't owe MQS anything but “the ass-whipping of a lifetime”. Kingston throws the mic down like he's throwing a knife, right into MQS' gut and walks away. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 76
11th segment Tag team match, one fall Christian Cage & ? vs. Edge and Kevin Steen Throwdown returns with the entirety of the roster (minus Mark Briscoe and Matt Hardy for medical reasons, and Scott Colton due to leaving the arena) marching down the ramp, to the surprise of the everybody, since what was expected was a tag team main event. When they get there, Chairman Callis comes out and announces that everybody is present because the match is now a lumberjack tag match, in the interest of protecting his roster from The Family's incursion. The lumberjacks open a path for the representatives of The Family, Edge and Kevin Steen, who are introduced first. Christian Cage comes out by himself, stops at the top of the ramp and announces that he managed to find a new partner, who will also be in War Games, Raven. The iconic ECW alum, wearing an eyepatch over his wounded eye, runs to the ring with Cage for what proves to be little more than a mugging of The Family. The ref doesn't even try to maintain a semblance of order, let alone tagging; nobody wants it, nobody needs it, and with the Chairman only a stone's throw away not protesting anything, there's no reason to stop it. Edge and Steen get tossed repeatedly, where they're subjected to the kind of beatings usually reserved for snitches in prison. They never get a moment of control, thanks to the circumstances, and when Cage and Raven keep one or the other in the ring, they delight in torturing their enemy. After what ends up being almost ten minutes, Cage takes great delight in making Edge tap to a Sharpshooter. Throwdown ends with Trish Stratus, Jimmy Jacobs, Tyler Black and the mystery assassin standing in the crowd, unable to assist their fallen brothers from the horde of humanity surrounding the ring, who are all looking at The Family with hatred in their eyes and hearts, especially the four men representing ROH in War Games. ** Winners: Christian Cage and Raven (submission, Cage over Edge, Sharpshooter) Quality: 71 Crowd: 86 Overall: 81
Overall show rating: 75
Tuesday, December 8, 2009:
News: ROH and Matt Hardy have come to terms on the conditions of his release.
Email: 1) Josh Prohibition and Matt Cross work well together as a team, it adds to their matches. 2) Buzz Stryker - I would like to work with Homicide at some stage, i think you'd be impressed with the results. [YOU CAN TALK?!? #kayfabe] 3) We got a 6.40 rating for 'Throwdown'! The attendance level was 7546 people. We made $301840 from ticket sales. 4) TNA got a 0.88 television rating for 'TNA Monday'! The event was attended by 6505 people. They made $260200 from ticket sales. 5) IWC got a 1.75 television rating for 'IWC Monday'! The event was attended by 4543 people. They made $181720 from ticket sales. 6) TNA have fired Nate Mattson! [That was fast.] 7) TNA have fired Shinsuke Nakamura! 8) TNA have fired Petey Williams!
Jed Shaffer ~Three shows in as many weeks. Thank the new format.
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Dan O'Mac
Trying Out for Tough Enough
Don't Open the Box...
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Post by Dan O'Mac on Jun 7, 2014 23:05:49 GMT -5
Buzz didn't talk... he sent an email.
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Post by Hayden on Jun 13, 2014 22:18:33 GMT -5
Hire Swagsuke!
BOMA YE FOR EVERYBODY!
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Post by Brain Of J on Jun 14, 2014 20:27:46 GMT -5
Preview for ROH Unleashed, December 9, 2009Final Battle, Ring Of Honor’s end-of-year annual event, inches closer with every passing day … but can the promotion even make it that long with Trish Stratus’ Family on the warpath, and the chairman’s personal army coming apart at the seams? We’ll find out as Unleashed brings us one step closer, live on The CW Network! - The tag division has never been deeper in Ring Of Honor: The Burning River Brigade, MDK, We Who Are Not As Others, The Elite, Bastard Nation, Incoherence, Lost & Kendrick, the new pairing of Chris Bosh & TJ Wilson … the competition to get noticed, let alone get in line for a title shot is at its deepest ever. We’ve been told, though, that one pairing has decided to go their separate ways, namely Kory Chavis & David Hart Smith. Tonight, Smith will begin the long journey to stamp out a name for himself in ROH all on his own, when he takes on the formidable Brent Albright. While Albright’s career has stalled of late, he’s a former Pure Champion, so he cannot be overlooked. Will Smith rise to the occasion, or will he find the solo talent pool is deeper than he realizes? - The Family’s body count since Trish Stratus vowed there would be “no more heroes” keeps growing. Add to it Mark Briscoe, who will be out until spring 2010, and Matt Hardy, who suffered injuries so profound, he won’t be cleared to return by the time his contract expires (and thus was released by management). This has left a hole in the team representing ROH in the War Games match at Final Battle against The Family. There are no shortages of people who have an axe to grind with The Family; Homicide was brutalized on Monday, and Nigel McGuinness suffered at the hands of the cult-like group after his match with Tyler Black, just to name two, but that’s hardly everybody. Will we see one of these men step up and put their name in the hat? - Speaking of Team ROH, two of the members will be in tag action tonight; Bryan Danielson and Ruckus will team up to take on The Elite. Sophomoric they may be, but The Elite have a mean streak a mile wide, and are still looking to take out their tag title freeze-out on others. Will this tune-up match prove to be a trap? - Ever since Trios Tournament, Adam Pearce has done everything he can to get BJ Whitmer to rescind his choice for Final Battle match, to no avail. Pearce has informed us he has an announcement for tonight’s show. How will this affect Final Battle? How will it affect Whitmer, who will be in action tonight against Honor Guard member Roderick Strong? - We’ve been told that CW Network Representative Jim Cornette will be on hand, as he has something to say regarding the future of Ring Of Honor. What could it be? - Our main event will be a tag team match of epic proportions. On one side, former Paul Heyman allies Eddie Kingston and Paul Burchill will team up. Burchill is looking to build momentum for his ROH World Title rematch at Final Battle, while Kingston is looking for direction in the aftermath of his failure at Trios Tournament and the harassment of MQS. Standing across from the ring, though, is no mere team; it’s the number-one contenders to the ROH World Tag Team Titles, We Who Are Not As Others. The Burning River Brigade have said they aren’t afraid of the Others; the Others will be looking to make a case as to why they should be. Have Kingston and Burchill bitten off more than they can chew, or will the Others finally get put in their place? - All this, plus we’ll hear from The Family after their embarrassment in the main event of Throwdown on Monday, and we’ll see Randy Orton, Scott Lost, Brian Kendrick, Monty Brown, Incoherence, Claudio Castagnoli, Arik Cannon and Chuck Taylor in action! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ring Of Honor presents Clash Of The Champions III Live and free on The CW Network December 26, 2009
For the ROH Pure Championship! Rob Conway (c) vs. Max Boyer
For the ROH World Tag Team Championships! The Burning River Brigade (c) vs. We Who Are Not As Others
Matches to be announed!
Ring Of Honor presents Final Battle: The End Of The Line Live, only on pay-per-view December 27, 2009
A trilogy concludes and the ROH World Championship is on the line! Christopher Daniels (c) vs. Paul Burchill
The crusade ends tonight ... and so could careers! A Texas tornado grudge match! BJ Whitmer & Chris Hero vs. Adam Pearce & Claudio Castagnoli No disqualifications, no count-outs, no interference. If Whitmer/Hero win, The Honor Guard dissolves, Pearce and Don Callis leave ROH and control reverts to Cary Silken. If Pearce/Castagnoli win, Whitmer and Hero leave ROH forever.
The war against The Family will be fought on the ultimate battleground, War Games! Ruckus, Bryan Danielson, Christian Cage, Raven and ? vs. The Family (Jimmy Jacobs, Edge, Tyler Black, Kevin Steen & ?)
A four-corners elimination match to crown ROH's first Women's Champion! Sara Del Ray vs. Mschif vs. Amazing Kong vs. ? (winner of Lisa Marie Varon/Nora Greenwald/Shantelle Taylor triple threat)
More matches to be announced! Jed Shaffer ~Was a long, busy week. Hoping to have Unleashed done by next weekend.
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Post by Brain Of J on Jun 19, 2014 19:39:02 GMT -5
Wednesday, December 9, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) Martin Marin has taken over control of NNW!
Unleashed Commentators: Jimmy Bauer and JBL
Segment #1 Jimmy Bauer and JBL are running down the card for the evening when CW Network Representative Jim Cornette marches to the ring. He wastes no time and demands ROH Chairman Don Callis come down and face him. Callis shows up and is quite indignant about being “summoned like some peasant” by a man “wearing a suit a birthday clown would find tasteless”. Cornette takes Callis’ barbs silently, waiting for him to finish. When he does, Cornette tells Callis that he’s spent the past two weeks getting screamed at by people; advertisers horrified by the violence and carnage. Wrestlers wanting to leave the promotion. Lawyers for wrestlers threatening lawsuits over an unsafe working environment. Network execs panicking about the network being dragged into the fray. Cornette steamrolls over Callis’ objections and says since Trios Tournament, Callis has let the inmates run the asylum, and the result is Callis’ personal army falling apart, The Family chasing talented wrestlers out the door, and show after show with non-finishes and disqualifications galore. Cornette announces that next Monday, to “wipe the taste out of our mouths”, all matches will take place inside a steel cage. After that, Cornette says, it’s on Callis to reinstitute order, or he’ll “start answering Jim Crockett’s calls”. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 78
Segment #2 Tag match, one fall Scott Lost & Brian Kendrick vs. Adam Pearce & Claudio Castagnoli Before the match, Adam Pearce makes an announcement: ROH has negotiated another talent trade with a Japanese promotion, but due to schedules and availability, ROH would need to send their talent over first, and that the talent will be Pearce. As such, he will leave next week for a three week tour of Japan and miss Final Battle. Pearce leaves that hanging as their get onto the match, which finds the Honor Guard not taking Lost and Kendrick seriously. The result is they get blindsided by speed and surgical precision strikes, and it’s mostly Pearce taking it on the chin. Pearce keeps trying to work his way out of it, ending up in Castagnoli making way more saves than he needs to, to the point that he gets frustrated and walks away, letting Pearce eat the pinfall. There’s a confrontation after Lost and Kendrick leave, with Castagnoli verbally shredding Pearce for not taking the match seriously and “playing stupid games” with BJ Whitmer. Pearce tries to smooth-talk it, but Castagnoli walks off, Pearce right behind him still talking. **1/4 Winners: Scott Lost & Brian Kendrick (pinfall, Kendrick pins Pearce, Sliced Bread #2) Quality: 76 Crowd: 75 Overall: 75
Segment #3 Singles match, one fall Randy Orton vs. Monty Brown Both men are coming off a disappointing stretch, with Orton part of the losing team in the Trios Tournament finals, and Brown seeing his alliance with Chris Bosh dissolve, so both are looking for some traction. Brown gets the chance to show off how his exhaustive time in ROH’s developmental territory helped him grow, as he moves faster and shows a surprising knowledge of mat wrestling, far more than he ever showed in previous promotions. But Orton’s wily veteran mind, far more seasoned from higher profile matches against some of the business’ very best, allows him to find an opening to hit a surprise RKO for the win. But no sooner does Orton score the pinfall than Brown, sore about eating the pinfall, blasts Orton from behind and puts the screws to him. A Pounce sends Orton flying through the ropes to the floor to end the segment. ***1/4 Winner: Randy Orton (pinfall, RKO) Quality: 83 Crowd: 82 Overall: 82
Segment #4 Taz interviews Homicide backstage. “The Notorious 187” boasts about how The Family put Mark Briscoe, but they couldn’t the job done on him. He says he came back to ROH to protect it, and he’s not afraid of a “bunch of nutcases” following a “piece that ain’t worth a Big Mac”. Homicide says he knows he’s had his differences with Ruckus and Bryan Danielson in the past, but he hopes they can put that in the past and work together in War Games to take down The Family. Homicide’s entreaty is cut off by the sudden ambush of The Alex Shelley Experience. Once Homicide is laying, TASE takes the mic and says he’s finishing what Mark Briscoe couldn’t: taking out a traitor. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 79
Segment #5 Singles match, one fall David Hart Smith vs. Brent Albright The son of Davey Boy Smith shines in his first match after parting ways with Kory Chavis; he’s able to take the punishment from “The Shooter” and keep coming back, and he dishes as good as he gets, leading up to a strong victory for “The Canadian Bulldog”. As Smith has his arm raised, a hooded figure jumps the barricade, slides in and viciously attacks Smith from behind. At first, the identity is unknown, but when he does a front-flip piledriver, that tips the attacker’s hand, which he confirms by flipping back the hood. PETEY WILLIAMS stands over the fallen body of Smith, looking at him with unbridled hatred for a few seconds before security finally reaches the ring. Williams retreats back through the crowd, one step ahead of the law, leaving everyone to wonder why he invaded ROH and what he has against Smith. *** Winner: David Hart Smith (pinfall, running powerslam) Quality: 85 Crowd: 69 Overall: 77
Segment #6 Tag match, one fall Bryan Danielson & Ruckus vs. The Elite Scott Lost and Brian Kendrick join Jimmy Bauer and JBL for the clash between two members of Team ROH and The Elite, ROH's resident sophomoric pranksters. It's a tight fight all the way down the line, considering one side has a two-time world champ and an SOTF winner, while the other side are multiple tag team champ winners. During all this, Lost and Kendrick talk about how The Elite's disrespectful and disgusting “impression” of Shawn Michaels and Jerry Lawler have driven them to throw down the gauntlet for Clash Of The Champions. Evans, on the apron, hears the talking and drops down to trash-talk, making fun of Kendrick's mentor Shawn Michaels; Kendrick lets it slip that the Burning River Brigade were impressed by their win earlier and have challenged Lost and Kendrick to a tag title shot next Monday. Evans gets into it verbally with Lost and Kendrick, allowing his partner to be taken advantage of, beaten down and just plain beaten. Evans doesn't know about it until the bell rings; Lost and Kendrick walk away smiling, while Evans just stands there, fuming over his costly and embarrassing error. ***1/2 Winners: Bryan Danielson & Ruckus (pinfall, Ruckus pins Matt Sydal, buzzsaw kick to the head) Quality: 90 Crowd: 71 Overall:80
Segment #7 Taz interviews Nigel McGuinness backstage. The former “Crown Jewel” of The Honor Guard says he swore to protect Ring Of Honor, and when he stepped in the ring with Tyler Black, that’s just what he intended to do. He says that he doesn’t leave an opponent unbeaten, and he has something left for Tyler Black, namely a concussion coming from a lariat. But to get him, he knows he needs to get into the War Games cage, and he knows nobody trusts him. He knows he’s burned bridges, and he says he’s not here to make friends and get on his knees, but that he knows Bryan Danielson, Ruckus and the rest know how tough he is, how vicious he is, and how can be the missing piece that puts them over the top in the cage, and he wants in that match more than anything. That’s when Scott Colton comes into frame and says McGuinness needs to stop looking past the “clear and present danger” in front of him. McGuinness says maybe Colton is right, and this is a way to solve two problems at once; McGuinness throws down the gauntlet and challenges Colton to a match for next Monday, with the stipulation that the loser leaves Ring Of Honor. That way, he can flush Colton out of ROH and back up his words and hopefully get in the War Games cage. Colton accepts the challenge, warning McGuinness he’ll regret ever letting down Chairman Callis and betraying ROH. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 77
Segment #8 Tag match, one fall Bastard Nation vs. Incoherence The in-ring return of Delirious, tagging with his old friend Hallowicked, sees him donning the so-called “Poison Delirious” gear with the red outlines instead of the normal green. And in the ring against Bastard Nation, he shows the difference is more than ring gear, as he is aggressive and almost monstrous. Arik Cannon and Chuck Taylor are no slouches, though, showing they’ve done their homework on their opponents with every move and counter. The result is a nice back-and-forth match with no real lull in the action. Unfortunately, its ending is a non-ending, as TJ Wilson and new partner Chris Bosh – now dubbed The Partycrashers – attacking Incoherence. The incursion does nothing to endear them to the Nation, though, and the Partycrashers end up in a four-in-two brawl until they can make for higher ground. ***3/4 Winners: no contest (thrown out due to interference) Quality: 85 Crowd: 73 Overall: 79
Segment #9 Singles match, one fall BJ Whitmer vs. Roderick Strong The announcers wonder if Adam Pearce’s announcement about missing Final Battle will have an effect on Whitmer’s state of mind coming into the match. They get their answer quickly when Whitmer dives over the top rope onto Strong as he approaches the ring and never lets off the gas, taking out all his frustration on Strong. Officially, the match never even begins, as Whitmer never lets Strong get in the ring, abusing Strong outside the ring at will. After a couple minutes of a very uncomfortable beating, Whitmer grabs a mic and tells Pearce if he’ll show up to Final Battle, Whitmer will meet him under whatever conditions Pearce wants between now and then. Pearce comes out and toys with Whitmer, dragging it out until Strong comes back and ambushes Whitmer. Pearce and Strong put the screws to Whitmer, as Pearce says Whitmer has a deal … but he won’t know the details of the match until next Monday when Whitmer steps in the ring, where Pearce says the cage will be the least of Whitmer’s worries. Bobby Roode makes a late save with a steel chair that never connects but at least scares off the Guard’s lieutenant and indentured thug. Winner: no contest (match never started) Quality: Crowd: Overall: 73
Segment #10 The only hint of The Family all night comes courtesy of a taped promo. Trish Stratus speaks in her normal psychotically-serene tone of voice, her words full of vivid and graphic imagery about what The Family has done to ROH since Trios Tournament; she says she has “loved” how they’ve “blacked out the light of Ring Of Honor’s bright future” with a “tower of dead heroes”. She says the “ocean of blood is not deep enough”, because Don Callis is still breathing, and she intends to see him choke. One by one, the rest of The Family has their turn, echoing the sentiments of Trish: Jimmy Jacobs promises that War Games will be an event ROH will wish they could forget, but that they will indelibly burn in their brains; Edge promises what The Family has in store for Final Battle will shock the world; Tyler Black says if there are enough warm bodies to field a team ROH by the time Final Battle rolls around, they won’t make it out of the cage alive. Kevin Steen drops the surprise that he won’t be in War Games; instead, he throws down a challenge to Raven for Clash Of The Champions for a Last Man Standing match. Trish then speaks one more time and says that nobody should worry about The Family not fielding enough men for War Games; her mystery assassin will step inside the cage. And then, she says with a huge smile and that horrifically vacuous look in her eyes, that Ring Of Honor has “plenty” of Family members “hiding in plain sight”. She ends by posing a question to Callis; “are there no more heroes because we’ve broken their bodies, quieted their noble ambitions … or because they’ve given over their hearts to me?”. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 92
Segment #11 Tag match, one fall We Who Are Not As Others vs. Paul Burchill & Eddie Kingston If Buzz Stryker and Victor Ceron have any trepidation at facing opponents with the qualifications of Eddie Kingston and Paul Burchill, they don’t show it; likewise, Kingston and Burchill betray nothing as far as their opponents’ ruthless, invincible reputation goes. However, Kingston shows an aggression above and beyond his normal level; unlike others tonight, though, his is less focused and more reckless. Kingston’s in the market for a fight, while Stryker and Ceron wrestle like the relentless monsters they are, and Burchill gives them everything they can handle with his precision mat work. But Burchill can’t keep it together himself, and Kingston’s reckless nature gives way to mistakes, and that gives way to more mistakes when he tries to correct the error. Burchill tries to talk up Kingston to get his head in the game, but the mental errors keep adding up. Against even an average team, it’d be hard to overcome; against an excellent team like The Elite or MDK, it’d be a death sentence. Against two living, breathing hell-spawn monsters like We Who Are Not As Others, it’s like drinking and having sex in a slasher movie. Burchill tries to stop the inevitable, but Stryker cuts him off while Ceron delivers the knockout blow. With the pinning of the man who held a world championship for 10 out of 11 months of the year, the Others send a message to the Burning River Brigade for Final Battle … and with the loss, Eddie Kingston shows that he is far more rattled by the words of Michael Quackenbush Spillane than his backfist brush-off let on. ***1/2 Winners: We Who Are Not As Others (pinfall, Ceron pins Kingston, Brazilian Crucifix) Quality: 86 Crowd: 80 Overall: 83
Overall show rating: 79
Thursday, December 10, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) Christian Cage - I'd like to request a match or two with Edge. I'm pretty sure we could do some good work together. 2) Christopher Daniels - I'd like to work with Tom Carter if possible. 3) Michael Quackenbush Spillane - How about booking me against David Hart Smith? I'm sure we could do some pretty entertaining stuff that the fans would like. 4) WWE Wednesday are trying to compete with us, but are being destroyed in the ratings. 5) We got a 5.98 rating for 'Unleashed'! The attendance level was 7540 people. We made $301600 from ticket sales. 6) WWE got a 2.79 television rating for 'WWE Wednesday'! The event was attended by 806 people. They made $24180 from ticket sales.
Friday, December 11, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) TNA got a 6.04 television rating for 'TNA iMPACT!'! The event was attended by 6504 people. They made $260160 from ticket sales. 2) IWA-PR got a 1.58 television rating for 'IWA-PR Thursday'! The event was attended by 801 people. They made $24030 from ticket sales.
Jed Shaffer ~Been busy around here lately. Nice to see the place lively again.
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Post by Dan O'Mac on Jun 20, 2014 0:43:52 GMT -5
3) Michael Quackenbush Spillane - How about booking me against David Hart Smith? I'm sure we could do some pretty entertaining stuff that the fans would like. MQS vs DHS? SO MANY INITIALS! --Dan O'Mac
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Post by Brain Of J on Jun 21, 2014 12:35:18 GMT -5
3) Michael Quackenbush Spillane - How about booking me against David Hart Smith? I'm sure we could do some pretty entertaining stuff that the fans would like. MQS vs DHS? SO MANY INITIALS! --Dan O'Mac It shall headline an all-new event: ALPHABET WARS. Also, a rematch between JBL and TASE, and a tag team triple threat of MDK vs. BRB vs. WWANAO. Jed Shaffer ~The pre-show: Sean Waltman vs. Dustin Rhodes, or ... Syxx vs. Se7en!
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Post by Dan O'Mac on Jun 21, 2014 15:53:12 GMT -5
Can we get HBK and HHH as special guest referees?
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Post by Brain Of J on Jun 22, 2014 20:22:53 GMT -5
Can we get HBK and HHH as special guest referees? Pssh, why settle for that? DX vs. nWo! Jed Shaffer ~This is beginning to sound like a Chikara card.
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Post by Ishmeal Insane on Jun 23, 2014 10:56:42 GMT -5
TAFKAPI or I riot!
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Post by Brain Of J on Jun 29, 2014 12:53:08 GMT -5
Saturday, December 12, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) TNA got a 0.89 television rating for 'TNA Friday'! The event was attended by 6506 people. They made $260240 from ticket sales. 2) CMLL got a 1.34 television rating for 'CMLL Friday'! The event was attended by 450 people. They made $9000 from ticket sales. 3) IWA-PR got a 1.21 television rating for 'High Impact'! The event was attended by 801 people. They made $24030 from ticket sales.
Results for Breakout Segment #1 – Michael Quackenbush Spillane d. David Hart Smith (pinfall, QDIII) Nothing but a straight-forward, classic wrestling match, pitting a hot, young up-and-comer against a seasoned veteran at the top of his game. MQS' experience is definitely a plus on his side, but moreso is that Smith is constantly looking over his shoulder (the announcers refuse to say who, referring to Petey Williams as a “disgruntled wrestler from another company”). Williams never surfaces, but the paranoia is more than enough to derail him and his chances of victory. 100/75/87 ****1/2
Segment #2 A promo from Eddie Kingston runs, taped shortly after Unleashed. Kingston admits that he cost his team the match because Michael Quackenbush Spillane has gotten in his head. He says that the more he thinks about what MQS has said, the more he wonders if maybe he did get greedy and selfish. But, Kingston says, at least he can admit that maybe he has faults, unlike MQS. He says MQS should be sorry for taking him on as a student, because he's gone higher and done more than MQS ever could, and MQS needs to watch his step and his mouth before Kingston corrects it. Kingston says he knows that some people have listened to the “poison garbage” coming from MQS and think Kingston's gone into business for himself; Kingston says that's garbage, and to prove it, he's putting his name in the hopper for the fifth spot on Team ROH in War Games, to show that the company – no matter who's in charge – comes first. 76
Segment #3 A taped promo from Truth Martini and his House Of Truth stable airs. Martini runs down Diablo Santiago and Oman Tortuga, calling them “two-bit half-wits”, and saying they could never “handle the Truth”. He then says he turned down their request to manage them and warns them to leave him and the True Believers alone or else. He then moves on to The Night Shadow and says he's tired of the “grandstanding” and “showboating” of the Shadow; Martini says that Shadow is “running scared” because he can't “make a dent” in the “bulletproof armor” of Boris Alexiev. He throws down the challenge for Final Battle: a no-time limit match, winner gets a shot at the Bold Future Championship. 76
Segment #4 – Shantelle Taylor d. Lisa Marie Varon and Nora Greenwald (pinfall, on Varon, missile dropkick) A decent triple threat match, highlighted more by the story than anything. Greenwald and Varon, no strangers to one another, aren't afraid to let loose against each other. But with Taylor, there's almost a reluctance to fight her, as if she needs to be protected. Taylor doesn't want any of that and takes the fight to them. Eventually, they have to stop with the mama-bird routine because Taylor's threatening to win. The closing moments feature an awesome spot as Varon has Greenwald in position for the Widow's Peak, but forgets about Taylor; she comes off the top with a missile dropkick into Varon, who ends up crushing Greenwald in the process. Three seconds later, Taylor has the pin and is on her way to Final Battle against The Heathers. 58/66/63 ½*
Segment #5 On Beulah's Bedroom, Beulah's guest is Sara Del Ray, one of the women involved in the four-corners match to crown the first ROH Women's World Champion. Sara tells Beulah she made the right choice by bowing out to “be a mommy” because Sara says the ring will be “no place for housewives and Barbie dolls”. Sara says Shantelle Taylor's gotten lucky a few times, but deep down, everybody knows she's not cut out to stand up against the best. Sara says she will show no mercy, which is when her compatriots in The Heathers show up. Amazing Kong and MsChif insinuate that lately, all Sara does is show mercy, and she's betraying what The Heathers stand for. Sara says that “now is not the time for a come-to-Jesus meeting”, but when Kong literally pushes Sara, she snaps and says MsChif and Kong have betrayed “the mission”; namely, to break down the doors of ROH's men-only establishment and prove women's wrestling shouldn't be an afterthought, but held in the same regard. Sara says beatdowns and muggings aren't the way to win respect, and that winning the belt and establishing women's wrestling as viable in its own right is her goal. Sara goes to leave but MsChif grabs her by the arm to stop her; Sara wrenches it away and leaves as MsChif yells at Sara that this isn't over. 66
Segment #6 The latest episode of DaTVey, the YouTube vlog of Davey Richards, is shown. Fangirl Lizzy, as normal, does most of the talking; first, she introduces Richards with a two-minute-long introduction full of exaggerated accomplishments. Next, she introduces the “man behind the fangirl behind the greatest man in the history of ever”, Webmaster Derek (who only gets to wave and say “hey” before the camera moves away). Lizzy then goes off on Tom Carter and Nick Nemeth, saying the usual things: Carter is old and washed up, and Nemeth is a rookie idiot and out of his depth. She says that Richards is an athlete without equal and will prove it. With that, Richards finally speaks, announcing that he will not waste time on “no-names and has-beens” and instead focus on the 30-man Rumble Royale at A New Level in January, where the winner will get a ROH World Title shot at Best In The World in March. 60
Segment #7 – Christopher Daniels d. Tom Carter in a non-title match (pinfall, Angel's Wings) Two stalwarts of the American indie scene at the turn of the millennium do battle, and it's everything you'd expect; fast-paced, but smartly wrestled from start to finish. It comes down the first person to make the crucial mistake, and that's Carter, who whiffs on a moonsault attempt, leaving himself wide open for Daniels and his finisher. Carter has nothing to be ashamed of by his performance, and tries to offer a handshake to show he's a good sport, but Daniels is too absorbed in his victory to pay Carter any mind. 100/83/91 ****3/4
Segment #8 A taped promo from Paul Burchill airs. The #1 contender to Christopher Daniels talks about how he's struggled his whole career against expectations, and he's always been his own worst critic. He says no matter how good a match he wrestles, he always looks back on the times he didn't get his hand raised. He says Final Battle is his chance to redeem one of those failures, but that's only one of many. Like his Final Battle opponent, Burchill doesn't want the failures of the past to haunt him anymore, especially one: Edge. Burchill says the way he lost still nags at him, and he doesn't want that shadow darkening his mind anymore. He officially challenges Edge to a match for the special all-steel-cage edition of Throwdown on Monday. 82
Segment #9 – Kevin Steen retains the ROH Bold Future Championship over Oman Tortuga and Diablo Santiago (pinfall, on Santiago, package piledriver) Teammates are turned into opponents as both get a shot at Kevin Steen, who is only two weeks shy of the Bold Future Championship's three month mark, a threshold not yet hit by anybody who has held the title. Despite his earlier comments about the Outcast Killahs being the aggressors in their rivalry, Truth Martini and his True Believers interfere in the match, causing problems for Tortuga and Santiago, who were already hesitant to square off against each other. Those two factors, plus Steen's natural ruthlessness, are more than enough to put Steen over the top and keep his belt for another week,moving him ever so closer to meeting the deadline. 85/49/67 **1/2
Segment #10 A taped promo from Raven airs. He is shirtless and standing alone in a bathroom somewhere. Raven talks about how he's never been the kind of wrestler the industry was ready for, and to make a name for himself, his mind and body had to pay the price. He shows the numerous scars he's incurred over his career; the slashes from barbed wire wars with men like Sandman, the lash marks left behind by Singapore cane shots from Tommy Dreamer, and burns from fire wielded by men like Terry Funk. “And those are the scars you can see,” he says, tapping his temple. Raven says he's been in wars with men who are better in the ring and sicker in the head than Steen, and he has yet to tap out or stay down, so he'll be damned if Steen will just bludgeon him down to the ground. Raven says he'll have to drain every last drop of lifeblood to keep him down and keep him out of War Games … so Raven suggests they up the ante. Instead of a regular LMS match, Raven suggests a Bloodletting match: no ten-count until a man is bleeding. He says he doesn't expect the “Man That You Fear” to be afraid of such a stipulation, but he promises to make Steen regret saying yes. 82
Segment #11 – Roderick Strong & The Alex Shelley Experience and Homicide & Bobby Roode fought to a double disqualification From the start, the ref has a hard time keeping these four in line, and it never gets any better. Even with the four all being accomplished wrestlers with mat skills to spare, they'd rather tear at each other and make each other hurt than use science and skill to be the better wrestler. Eventually, the match breaks down entirely, with nary a tag in sight and brawling in and out of the ring. When nobody looks like they're even attempting to wrestle anymore, the ref just calls for the bell, not that it makes a difference to the wrestlers, who keep on brawling until road agents and officials pull them apart. 84/77/80 ***1/4
Overall rating: 75
Sunday, December 13, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) Jimmy Jacobs - I'd like to work with Homicide if possible. 2) We got a 6.08 rating for 'Breakout'! The attendance level was 7535 people. We made $301400 from ticket sales. 3) HWA got a 0.71 television rating for 'Main Event TV'! The event was attended by 388 people. They made $7760 from ticket sales. 4) CMLL got a 1.62 television rating for 'CMLL Saturday'! The event was attended by 444 people. They made $8880 from ticket sales. 5) IWC got a 0.20 television rating for 'IWC Ignition'! The event was attended by 4531 people. They made $181240 from ticket sales.
Jed Shaffer ~I'm going to use Arsenic to adjust the ratings for the women who didn't through developmental. The data pack really short-changed some women.
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Post by Brain Of J on Jun 30, 2014 19:50:39 GMT -5
Preview for Ring Of Honor: Throwdown, December 14, 2009: As tensions rise and Final Battle looms nearer, Ring Of Honor takes a bold step to rein in the lawlessness running through the company: every match tonight will happen inside a steel cage! - The feud between Murderdeathkill and Blood Moon Dragons has gotten intensely personal since they first crossed paths. The Japanese deathmatch veterans have no respect for MDK and are intent to use a career lull to push themselves up the ladder. Tonight, two of the four men involved in this feud will do battle in a one-on-one match. It’ll be The Messiah and Jun Kasai, locked inside the unforgiving steel cage! - Michael Quackenbush Spillane and Eddie Kingston have rarely seen eye to eye, going back to other promotions, but it’s never been like this before. MQS has called out Kingston on his behavior the past several months and how detrimental it’s been to ROH; Kingston’s defenses have been minimal at best, and has announced he wants the fifth spot in the War Games match against The Family to prove his ROH loyalties. But MQS is once again calling Kingston out to respond to the charges. Will Kingston show up? Will he speak? Is there any answer that would satisfy MQS? - Adam Pearce has BJ Whitmer right where he wants him; the conscience of ROH has to wrestle Pearce one-on-one, just as Pearce wants, ahead of Final Battle and their winner-take-all tag match. But what are the stipulations? We know it’ll be in the cage, but Pearce has promised more than that. What could it be? Will Whitmer make it to Final Battle after getting through whatever diabolical plan Pearce has? - The ROH World Champion and the #1 contender are both on a quest to prove themselves not only the superior wrestler, but to silence critics – and perhaps each other – by addressing their failures. Tonight, that arms race takes place in the form of two matches: Christopher Daniels will square off against the man who beat him for the championship in July, Bryan Danielson! Meanwhile, Paul Burchill will do battle with The Family’s Edge! - The main event is a match weeks, perhaps even months, in the making … but nobody thought it would boil to a head so quickly. Nigel McGuinness, once the centerpiece of The Honor Guard, has waged open rebellion against his former brethren, especially against the condescending Scott Colton, who sought to “teach” McGuinness “how to win” during Trios Tournament. Now, McGuiness is out of the Guard and looking to prove his love of ROH is never stronger by joining Team ROH in War Games … but for the Guard, being out of the Guard isn’t good enough. They want McGuinness gone. Therefore, the main event tonight will be a steel cage loser-leaves-town match: McGuinness vs. Colton. One long-time mainstay of ROH will walk down the aisle for the last time … Also: David Hart Smith will square off against Monty Brown, ROH Pure Champion Rob Conway and Max Boyer will be in action together, we’ll hear from Christian Cage, and more! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ring Of Honor presents Clash Of The Champions III Live and free on The CW Network December 26, 2009
For the ROH Pure Championship! Rob Conway (c) vs. Max Boyer
An epic Bloodletting match to settle the score once and for all! Kevin Steen vs. Raven (If Steen is still Bold Future Champion, the title will be on the line)
For the ROH World Tag Team Championships! The Burning River Brigade (c) vs. We Who Are Not As Others
Finally, the grudge match months in the making! Bobby Roode vs. Roderick Strong
Truth Martini's minions and the men who turned him down finally clash! True Believers vs. Outcast Killahs
More matches to be announed!
Ring Of Honor presents Final Battle: The End Of The Line Live, only on pay-per-view December 27, 2009
A trilogy concludes and the ROH World Championship is on the line! Christopher Daniels (c) vs. Paul Burchill
The crusade ends tonight ... and so could careers! A Texas tornado grudge match! BJ Whitmer & Chris Hero vs. Adam Pearce & Claudio Castagnoli No disqualifications, no count-outs, no interference. If Whitmer/Hero win, The Honor Guard dissolves, Pearce and Don Callis leave ROH and control reverts to Cary Silken. If Pearce/Castagnoli win, Whitmer and Hero leave ROH forever.
The war against The Family will be fought on the ultimate battleground, War Games! Ruckus, Bryan Danielson, Christian Cage, Raven and ? vs. The Family (Jimmy Jacobs, Edge, Tyler Black, ? & ?)
A four-corners elimination match to crown ROH's first Women's Champion! Sara Del Ray vs. Mschif vs. Amazing Kong vs. Shantelle Taylor
A Bold Future Championship match is on the line in a no-time-limits match! The Night Shadow vs. Boris Alexiev
More matches to be announced! Jed Shaffer ~So, any feelings on the new format? How storylines are progressing?
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Post by mlsq42 on Jul 2, 2014 6:18:16 GMT -5
Cool with the new format, cool with the storylines, cool with Derek, and cool with the Gender Equality Movement.
Hence why the lack of posting. Just being cool with stuff does not make for good posting.
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Post by Brain Of J on Jul 6, 2014 9:44:35 GMT -5
Monday, December 14, 2009:
Email: 1) HWA got a 1.11 television rating for 'HWA Sunday'! The event was attended by 387 people. They made $7740 from ticket sales. 2) CHI's 'CHI Unholy' show was attended by 63 people! They made $1260 from ticket sales. 3) CMLL got a 1.73 television rating for 'CMLL Sunday'! The event was attended by 451 people. They made $9020 from ticket sales. 4) IWA-PR's 'Christmas in PR' show was attended by 3425 people! They made $137000 from ticket sales. 5) WXW's 'Desirable Divas' show was attended by 65 people! They made $1300 from ticket sales. 6) ECCW's 'Season's Beatings' show was attended by 14 people! They made $280 from ticket sales. 7) CW's 'Road To Cold Fury' show was attended by 316 people! They made $6320 from ticket sales. 8) NWA-S's 'NWA-S Trompe Le Monde' show was attended by 326 people! They made $6520 from ticket sales. 9) IWC got a 0.95 PPV buy rate for 'A Call To Arms'! The event was attended by 11921 people. They made $2375000 from pay-per-view revenue. They made $715260 from ticket sales. 10) SHI's 'SHI In Times Of War' show was attended by 50 people! They made $500 from ticket sales. 11) Hardcore Kidd has agreed to an open contract with CW! 12) Taiyo Kea has agreed to an open contract with CW! 13) Here is my weekly report on our battle with TNA. They have more star power than us, and that is affecting our image. We are seen as having better workers, and this is causing fans to choose us over them. The fans see us as being the more professional promotion, thanks to our higher production values.
Throwdown Commentary: Steven Manning and Jerry Lawler
1st segment Steel cage singles match, pinfall or submission only The Messiah vs. Jun Kasai Throwdown kicks off in the ring with a wild fight between “The Crazy Monkey” Jun Kasai and The Messiah. While ostensibly only a regular match with a steel cage around the ring, it no more resembles a wrestling match than it does a chess match. Both men throw caution to the wind and rulebook out the window as they look not for the win but to maim each other with the cage. Daisuke Sekimoto tries to give his partner an advantage by slipping a pair of wire cutters through the cage’s fencing, but the ref catches it and tosses it into the aisle, where Justice Pain picks it up and attacks Sekimoto with it. The chaos is enough to distract Kasai and allow Messiah to take advantage and score the win with the Fall From Grace. MDK manage to walk away from the fight, but the trash-talking from them, as well as the look of raw hatred on the faces of Blood Moon Dragons says the war is far from over. *1/2 Winner: The Messiah (pinfall, Fall From Grace) Quality: 71 Crowd: 61 Overall: 59
2nd segment Cameras quickly cut to the parking garage, where David Hart Smith has been ambushed at his car by Petey Williams. The cameras catch up in time to see “The Maple Leaf Muscle” bounce Smith’s head off a cement pillar and the hood of the car. Williams drags Smith up onto the roof of the car, but security swarms the area before Williams can pull off a Canadian Destroyer that would end with Smith’s head being driven into the hood. Williams stands down and is escorted from the building, but the damage done is obviously enough to rule him out for his match against Monty Brown. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 64
3rd segment Steel cage tag team match, pinfall or submission only Rob Conway & Max Boyer vs. The Elite With nothing in common besides being opponents in two weeks, Max Boyer and Rob Conway don't exactly get along as they take on Matt Sydal and Jack Evans. Try as they might to use their pure athleticism and skill to out-duel The Elite, their tension is enough to destabilize them and ruin any chance of unity. The announcers wonder if Conway and Boyer were put together on purpose to derail either of their chances at winning out the day at Clash Of The Champions III, and judging from the results, it sure looks like it. To their credit, Conway is definitely stronger than either, and Boyer is a better athlete, not to mention Sydal and Evans once again are doing impressions of Jerry Lawler and Shawn Michaels, but the discord between Conway and Boyer is too much. Sydal gets the duke over the champ when Boyer lets Conway eat a poorly imitated Sweet Chin Music into pathetic piledriver, payback for Conway's brusque treatment of Boyer's saving gesture the previous week. The Elite are proud of themselves, standing on the corners of the cage like they've won the championships again, until Brian Kendrick and Scott Lost come out. The duo tell The Elite that they're tired of watching The Elite lampoon two legends, one of whom isn't even in the company anymore. They demand a match at Final Battle against The Elite, and if The Elite don't want a match, they'll convince Sydal and Evans otherwise. The Elite answer by daring Kendrick and Lost to do their worst. *** Winners: The Elite (pinfall, Sydal pins Conway, superkick/piledriver combo) Quality: 83 Crowd: 75 Overall: 71
4th segment Steel cage singles match, pinfall or submission only Monty Brown vs. ? Monty Brown comes out and demands a new opponent, since his scheduled opponent was taken out. Kory Chavis answers the call, saying that he admires Brown's competitive desire but that Brown hasn't earned the right to make demands. That sets Brown off, and the match turns into a straight-up fight. No science, no rest holds, just two studs throwing leather, using all their power to pound down the other into the mat. But Brown is just a more well-rounded athlete, and it doesn't take long before he gets the upper hand. The Pounce hits so hard, it sends Chavis slamming against the cage wall. But rather than go for the pin, Brown demands a mic. He says Chavis isn't worth his time, so he's leaving until ROH can muster up better competition. But as he goes for the door, Randy Orton appears and blocks the way. Brown threatens to “run [Orton] over”, but “The Viper” shows no fear of “The Alpha Male”. The bickering gives Chavis enough time to recover; he nails Brown from behind, powerbombs him into the cage, and hits a Yakuza kick to the face against the cage wall to dim Brown's lights enough for a pin. When Brown clears out the cobwebs, he is so livid, he tosses the ref into the cage and hits him with an Alpha Bomb. *1/2 Winner: Kory Chavis (pinfall, cage-assisted boot to the face) Quality: 66 Crowd: 84 Overall: 70
5th segment Catching everybody off guard, Chris Hero comes to the ring, preventing the next match from taking place. Hero says he's grown in recent times and learned that respect and like don't have to go hand in hand; he says he may not go out for beers with BJ Whitmer, but he's willing to stand by him at Final Battle and put a bullet in The Honor Guard's head, because he respects what Whitmer has done. He says he respects anybody who tackles their problems head on, men like Steve Corino and Nigel McGuinness, and even people like Edge and Adam Pearce, who “might be lower than the lowest layer of prehistoric frog [bleep] at the bottom of a New Jersey scum swamp”, but at least they stand and fight. One man he neither likes nor respects is Claudio Castagnoli. He says Castagnoli used to be a spectacular wrestler and a dear friend; the friendship died a long time ago, and now, Hero says, any qualities of a good wrestler are gone too. Hero says the only career Castagnoli is killing now is his own with “Desperate Housewives-level stunts” like restraining orders. Hero says he's tired of waiting for Castagnoli to stop being such a “sniveling bitch” and he's tired of waiting for Final Battle; he wants Castagnoli one-on-one, Wednesday on Unleashed … and if Castagnoli is unwilling to accept the challenge, Hero says the local police of all the cities between Wednesday and Final Battle should have a “hot and a cot” ready for him, because he's going to “jam that TRO so far up his ass, he won't have room in his mouth for Don Callis' ballsack”. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 87
6th segment Steel cage singles match, non-title, pinfall or submission only Christopher Daniels vs. Bryan Danielson While, like all the other matches tonight, the contest takes place inside a steel cage, Bryan Danielson and Christopher Daniels make absolutely no use of it. Every move betrays that, to both men, this is all about proving who is the better wrestler, and cage walls have no place in that. Like all good long-standing rivalries in wrestling, it builds on the previous matches, forcing both men to think faster than ever before. But as the magnificence unfolds, the story underneath reveals itself; Danielson wrestles with a little more reckless abandon than normal, as if he's going through a dry run of what he will need to bring to to the table in War Games. As he more and more leaves behind his surgically precise mat wrestling and moves towards high-risk-high-reward offense, it gives Daniels the edge he needs. In the end, Danielson takes too long on a diving headbutt, allowing Daniels to kick up at Danielson's head as he comes down. Daniels quickly rolls onto Danielson and applies the Koji Clutch. To the shock of everybody, even the announcers, Danielson taps out. Steven Manning speculates that perhaps this was to preserve himself from undue punishment so soon before War Games; Jerry Lawler says it may have done more damage by showing The Family Danielson can be made to submit. Regardless, Danielson's night ends with a humiliating loss to an old rival, while Daniels scores his first clean win over Danielson. **3/4 Winner: Christopher Daniels (submission, Koji Clutch) Quality: 79 Crowd: 85 Overall: 74
7th segment Once again, Michael Quackenbush Spillane comes out to rail on Eddie Kingston. MQS says that Kingston throwing his hat in the ring for War Games is a “shameless wag-the-dog tactic”, designed by “carny hustlers like Paul Heyman” to distract the “rubes” in the audience from the truth: that Eddie Kingston has, unapologetically, been a “human glass ceiling” through his selfish actions, and killed Evolution Pro Wrestling. MQS says he's made these points over and over, and nobody wants to hear the truth when it's ugly, least of all the “corrupt, cancerous worm” at the center of it all. MQS says he's tired of talking and wants Kingston to answer for it. Kingston comes down and asks what MQS wants him to say. MQS says he wants Kingston to say one word: yes. When Kingston looks confused, MQS explains that, like he said, he's done all the talking and nobody wants to hear it, so now, he wants to prove it in the ring. MQS says he wants to prove how much better he is than Kingston, and that when he beats Kingston in the ring, Kingston will have no choice but to admit MQS is the better man and would've come out on top at Trios Tournament. Kingston stuns everyone by saying that, while he and Mike no longer see eye to eye, he won't fight his teacher. MQS ranks him up one side and down the other to no effect. MQS slaps Kingston hard across the face; Kingston's eyes flash for a moment, then he settles back down and tells MQS that where he comes from, doing that would get a guy “put down”, but he's not going to give in. MQS does it again, and this time, Kingston reacts out of instinct, going for a Backfist To The Future … only MQS ducks like Kingston's moving in slow motion. Kingston tries to throw a few more strikes that MQS evades without effort, stopping the onslaught with another pimp-slap that sends Kingston back a couple steps. Kingston stands slack-jawed, staring at MQS in shock and fury; MQS points at his own eye, then makes a fist, then points at Kingston mouthing “I have you”. MQS turns and leaves and his halfway up the ramp when Kingston picks up the stick and just says “yes”. The crowd explodes. MQS doesn't even turn around; he just stands there and smiles, back still turned to Kingston and laughs. When he gets to the top of the ramp, MQS does the “I have you” gesture one more time and leaves. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 70
8th segment Steel cage singles match, pinfall or submission only Paul Burchill vs. Edge Where Daniels and Danielson were on a quest to prove the better wrestler, Edge and Paul Burchill have no such noble ambitions; they just want to win, and in the worst way. The cage comes into play early and often, leaving both men with welts, cuts and scrapes. Surprisingly, The Family never make an appearance; Edge is truly on his own for the night. Unfortunately for the “Rated-R Superstar”, Burchill is not the same man he hung with a dog collar back in the spring; this is a more patient and focused Burchill. Still a man with a fiery meanstreak, but no longer desperate to prove himself, and no longer savagely unfocused and controlled by rage. The result is an opponent a man who has all of Edge's qualities – both a superb technician and a sadistic monster – but with far more refinement of it, and Edge can't handle that. Once Burchill dodges a spear that sends Edge shouler-first into the turnbuckle, the clock is ticking; Burchill zeroes in on the weak spot until he can slap on his Whitechapel Armbar and draw the submission. The victory gives Burchill neutralizes any psychological edge Daniels may have gotten from beating Danielson, and moreover, given Team ROH some hope, showing Edge to be vulnerable. **1/4 Winner: Paul Burchill (submission, Whitechapel Armbar) Quality: 71 Crowd: 95 Overall: 78
9th segment Steel cage match, stipulations unknown BJ Whitmer vs. Adam Pearce BJ Whitmer is introduced first, and while he enters the ring with his head held high, in his eyes is visible the knowledge that he's likely entering a trap. Adam Pearce steps through the curtain and says that he promised it would not just be a steel cage match; with that, he introduces his partner for what is in fact a steel cage handicap match, Roderick Strong. But before they can get in the ring, CW Network Representative Jim Cornette comes out and says he had a feeling this was the road Pearce was going to go down, and he's taken steps to keep things on the level. Namely, a one-night referee license to none other than Bobby Roode. As soon as the bell rings, Roode's position is all but dispensed with, as he goes right after Strong, leaving Whitmer to go it alone with Pearce. Like Burchill/Edge, this is more of a fight than a wrestling match, as they beat the hell out of each other all over the place, with the consequence being that there are no attempts at a pinfall, since the “ref” is too busy beating the piss out of one of the wrestlers. That is, until Roode manages to catch Roode climbing the cage, knocks him off about three-quarters of the way up, then does a Randy Savage elbow onto Strong. The fall and the elbow put Strong down; seeing that he's more or less alone for the very near future, Pearce jabs Whitmer in the eye and heads for the hills. With his gaze locked on Pearce so that the “King Of Kings” understands what is happening is meant for him, Whitmer hits an academic Adrenaline Spike on Strong and scores the win. Pearce and Whitmer both jaw at each other from their respective positions, their hatred for one another more virulent than ever before. 3/4* Winner: BJ Whitmer (pinfall, on Strong, Adrenaline Spike) Quality: 65 Crowd: 69 Overall: 55
10th segment A taped promo from Christian Cage runs. He talks about how he's known Matt Hardy and Edge for almost his entire career and then some. He says how through all the ups and downs, Matt and Edge had a way of putting the personal aside and doing business for the good of the company. But now, Edge has gone too far. Cage says burying somebody with politics or even getting them run out of the company is one thing; nobody wants to be the guy on either end of the deal, but sometimes, it happens. But what Edge and The Family did to Matt (and everybody else) goes beyond business and beyond personal, he says; they used fear and bodily harm to drive him from a company, to take from him the ability to put food on the table, maybe to even live a comfortable life. Cage says that when the door closes and everybody's in the ring together at War Games, Team ROH will be a team united by purpose, but that each man has his own story to tell and his own axe to grind. None, Cage says, will have the story between one another as do Cage and Edge, and none will have a sharper axe, and he plans on using it to cut Edge's career short in two weeks. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 88
11th segment Steel cage singles match, pinfall or submission only, loser leaves ROH Nigel McGuinness vs. Scott Colton Don Callis sits in his wheelchair at ringside, watching as The Honor Guard's heavy hitter collides with the Guard's former “Crown Jewel” turned rebellious anti-hero. With not only pride but careers on the line, there's not a second of wasted time or wasted motion once the door closes. Callis betrays his supposed crippled condition by jumping to his feet a number of times, both when Colton gets a near-fall or a particularly nasty hit, or when McGuinness does the same, albeit with more tension for McGuinness. For twenty solid minutes, the two empty use every play in their book against the other to no avail; McGuinness kicks out of a Colt .45 and a One-Shot Kill, and Colton eats two massive lariats and a Tower Of London to no avail. As it's looking to be a never-ending war of attrition, Cabana catches McGuinness telegraphing a back body drop and goes for the One-Shot Kill. McGuinness falls out the back and nails Colton with a lariat, but it doesn't fell Colton. McGuinness grabs Colton by the head and back of his tights and launches him into the cage wall; Colton bounces off it face first … and that's when the mat tears open and The Family come pouring out of it like roaches. After twenty minutes of hellacious warfare, McGuinness and Colton are in no condition to fight off Jimmy Jacobs, Kevin Steen, Tyler Black and the hooded assassin. The assassin produces a chain and padlock to prevent the door from being opened, leaving The Family alone with McGuinness and Colton. After a few minutes of torture, Trish Stratus, standing on the outside, gives an order; Colton is hit with a package piledriver by Kevin Steen, and McGuinness, already out on his feet from punishment meted out by The Family, is placed on top of him. With no rules, the ref has no choice but to make the count, expelling Colton from Ring Of Honor. Trish gets a microphone and taunts Callis, who has come out of his chair, shaking the cage wall and yelling no over and over; she taunts Callis over losing yet another hero, this time one so close to Callis' own heart, and she asks how it feels to have an open wound that never closes. Trish says she will keep ripping open the wounds in ROH until the company is bled dead. And as McGuinness struggles to fight against The Family and only makes the situation worse for himself, Trish tells McGuinness that when one sticks their head in a noose, one shouldn't be surprised if somebody kicks out the chair; this, she says, is her showing mercy, and that she hopes he understands it and takes advantage of it. She says if he doesn't listen, every graveyard has an opening for another dead hero. *1/2 Winner: Nigel McGuinness (pinfall, Family-assisted beatdown) Quality: 67 Crowd: 83 Overall: 70
Overall show rating: 71
Tuesday, December 15, 2009:
News: Scott Colton and Ring Of Honor have agreed to terms on the condition of his release.
Email: 1) Road agents - Jack Evans and Matt Sydal work well together as a team, it adds to their matches. 2) Nigel McGuinness - I think you might be pushing me too high up the card, the fans seem to be resenting me. [Dude was in the mid-70's. Had to demote. Time to rebuild.] 3) Jimmy Jacobs - I'd like to request a match or two with Homicide. I'm pretty sure we could do some good work together. 4) Austin Aries - I would like to work with Scott Lost at some stage, i think you'd be impressed with the results. 5) We got a 6.45 rating for 'Throwdown'! The attendance level was 7044 people. We made $281760 from ticket sales. 6) TNA got a 0.86 television rating for 'TNA Monday'! The event was attended by 6539 people. They made $261560 from ticket sales.
Jed Shaffer ~All the malcontents who suddenly got mopey are gone now. Colton is a painful loss ... I had plans for him.
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