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Post by Brain Of J on Jul 6, 2014 18:03:59 GMT -5
Preview for Ring Of Honor: Unleashed, December 16, 2009: Only eleven days left until Ring Of Honor closes out 2009 with Final Battle, and every passing day seemingly pushes ROH to the brink of armageddon! - Years ago, in ROH's infancy, a group of young wrestlers banded together to take the opportunities they didn't think the front office would give them. This group of renegades named themselves Generation Next. This band would tear down glass ceilings and change the face of ROH for two years, before Austin Aries voluntarily disbanded it. For months now, four members of that notable stable have been collected under the banner of Don Callis' Honor Guard. Tonight, they wrestle as Honor Guard, but it is very much a Generation Next reunion; Roderick Strong, The Alex Shelley Experience, Jack Evans and Matt Sydal team up for an 8-man match. Their opponents will be the collected opponents these men have at Clash Of The Champions and Final Battle: Homicide, Bobby Roode, Scott Lost and Brian Kendrick. Will the old chemistry carry the former Gen-Next to victory, or will the years apart be their undoing? - Over the past week or so, since moving forward with a solo career, David Hart Smith has been plagued by attacks from a man not even contracted with Ring Of Honor. Smith has had enough and wants an opportunity to say something about it on Unleashed! - Adam Pearce's plan on Monday to trap and eliminate BJ Whitmer before Final Battle backfired stupendously when Jim Cornette anticipated a trap and installed a special referee to even the odds. Whitmer and Pearce are expected to be at Unleashed. Neither man is happy with what happened on Throwdown. What will happen next? - Speaking of the huge tag match at Final Battle, Whitmer's partner Chris Hero had very harsh words to say to Claudio Castagnoli. "The Career Killer" has not responded to the challenge. Will Hero make good on his promise to torment Castagnoli and violate the TRO? - Like Gen-Next reuniting unofficially, there is another long-dormant stable from pro wrestling's indie history. This one has had several one-off reunions in the recent past. Tonight, they're doing so again. BLKOUT - Eddie Kingston and Ruckus - will stand side by side against the #1 contenders to the ROH World Tag Team Championships, We Who Are Not As Others! Kingston lost to them a week ago as he dealt with the tauntings and accusations of Michael Quackenbush Spillane. All the talk is out of the way now; Kingston has his Final Battle date booked. But will his head be clear? Can BLKOUT put back potentially the most dangerous tag team in ROH? - Our dual main events are a favorite of champions in recent times: Pick Your Poison. Only this time, there's a twist, and they're calling it Blind Man's Bluff; Christopher Daniels and Paul Burchill cannot pick somebody the other has already faced. So not only will Daniels and Burchill be facing surprise opponents, they'll be opponents that they're guaranteed to have no experience with! Who will it be? All this, plus Chris Bosh, Frank Kazarian, Delirious, Boris Alexiev, Randy Orton, Chuck Taylor, and we'll hear from The Family! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
Global ultraviolence masters collide in a grudge rematch! [stipulations TBA] Murderdeathkill vs. Blood Moon Dragons
Finally, the grudge match months in the making! Bobby Roode vs. Roderick Strong
Will Shelley redeem or ruin himself? The Alex Shelley Experience vs. Homicide
Truth Martini's minions and the men who turned him down finally clash! True Believers vs. Outcast Killahs
A triple threat match! Monty Brown vs. Randy Orton vs. Kory Chavis
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, ? & ?)
Teacher versus student collide for the first time! Michael Quackenbush Spillane vs. Eddie Kingston
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 close ... getting so close ... I CANNOT WAIT FOR FINAL BATTLE.
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Post by Brain Of J on Jul 28, 2014 20:05:54 GMT -5
Wednesday, December 16, 2009:[/u]
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Unleashed Commentators: Jimmy Bauer and JBL
Segment #1 Singles match, one fall Boris Alexiev (w/Truth Martini) vs. Frank Kazarian Unleashed opens with in-ring action, pitting the high-flier Kazarian against Russian MMA monster Alexiev. Unfortunately, Alexiev – looking to send a message to The Night Shadow, his Final Battle opponent – is on another level, and just tears through Kazarian as if he were a trainee fresh off the bus. Alexiev doesn't stop after he gets the win, though, continuing to beat on Kazarian and stretch him. The Night Shadow runs off Alexiev, and to make matters worse for “The Iron Czar”, the ref reverses the decision and awards the match to Kazarian by disqualification. **1/2 Winner: Frank Kazarian (disqualification, reverse decision) Quality: 81 Crowd: 64 Overall: 72
Segment #2 Taz is backstage and introduces Randy Orton for an interview. Taz asks Orton what his plans are for Final Battle, with spots on the card filling up quickly. Orton talks about how he came to ROH because he was promised title shots and he still hasn't been given what he was promised. Orton vows to make a statement at Final Battle, but before he can explain what, he's clobbered by the runaway freight train known as Monty Brown. “The Alpha Male” absolutely demolishes Orton, whipping him into lighting rigs and slamming him into walls. Brown grabs the mic from Taz and says the only statement Orton will make at Final Battle is that he doesn't belong in ROH, and Brown's statement will be to broom him out the door. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 75
Segment #3 David Hart Smith comes out in street clothes and his dad's old Hart Foundation jacket, and says he knows management won't help him with his problem, so he's taken it into his own hands. Hart says he cleared it with security so Petey Williams could come and answer Hart's questions. With that, Hart asks Williams to come to the ring, but nothing happens. Smith rips Williams about not having the courage to talk face to face but is comfortable with sneak attacks. Finally, Williams comes through the crowd and gets in the ring. Williams says that Smith's jacket is everything Smith needs to know about why Williams has attacked him. Williams says he grew up watching the great country of Canada represented in wrestling by graduates of the Hart Dungeon, and how they've dominated the landscape for decades. Williams says when he got into the business, he tried getting into the Dungeon, but they weren't taking on any new talent, just the few family members left training, guys like “that drunk TJ” and the “half-Canadian juicehead” Smith. Williams says wherever he went in the business, when promoters found out he was Canadian, they asked if he trained in the Dungeon; when he said no, opportunities disappeared. Williams says his entire career, he's been treading water while he watched “legacy brats” with “more connections than talent” pass him by. When he heard Smith was declaring himself ready for a solo career like “some kind of uncrowned prince”, while he himself was sitting at home unemployed again, he'd had enough. Williams says that as long as Smith goes around thinking his name is going to open doors, Williams will be there to slam those doors shut. Williams says the “Hart Dungeon free ride” is over, and if he has anything to say about it, wrestling won't be “poisoned” with more Harts. Williams tosses the mic and disappears into the crowd again. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 71 Notes: Petey Williams gained overness from this segment.
Segment #4 Triple threat match, one fall Chris Bosh vs. Delirious vs. Chuck Taylor This match stems from The Partycrashers interfering in a match between Bastard Nation and Incoherence. Not surprisingly, Bosh comes in all attitude and bluster. Surprisingly, Delirious and Taylor find themselves on the same page: not putting up with Bosh's nonsense. The result, for a little while, is a joint ass-kicking of Bosh, until the inevitable happens, putting Taylor and Delirious at each other's throats. With the two of them taking each other out, it's easy for Bosh to bide his time, recover, and wait for the opportune moment to strike. Eventually, he finds it, after Delirious manages to hit Shadows Over Hell on Taylor, grabbing Delirious and hitting his own finisher for the win. Bosh quickly gets out of the ring and out of the area before Taylor and Delirious can come to and get any measure of payback. *** Winner: Chris Bosh (pinfall, Maximum Bosh) Quality: 82 Crowd: 78 Overall: 80
Segment #5 Chris Hero enters the ring, mic in hand. He reminds everybody how on Monday he laid down a challenge to Claudio Castagnoli for tonight. He says he didn't expect “a bigger chicken than the Gobbleygooker” to accept his challenge, but he's sad that Castagnoli couldn't even send a messenger or make a “live via satellite” message (with dubious quotation marks in the air) to decline his offer; instead, just silence. Hero says he's never pretended to be a man you can trust, but he's always been a man of his word; Hero says his vow to haunt Castagnoli and get arrested at every major arena in the country will be fulfilled, and it starts right now … only by the time he hits the arena floor, Castagnoli has appeared on the stage. He rips the TRO paperwork to shreds and lets the pieces fall to the ground and asks Hero if he feels lucky. Castagnoli says since he helped found The Honor Guard, he's made a career out of ending others'. Hero says he's heard all of it before and isn't impressed, since all the careers he's ended have been “nobodies”. Castagnoli asks Hero if he's sure of that and goes on to show a video of how he's dominated opponents in the past and ended careers in ROH, capped off by the thorough demolition of Shawn Michaels two months in a row. After the video runs, Castagnoli asks Hero if he'd like to put his money where his mouth is with a match next Monday. If Castagnoli wins, the winner-take-all tag team match. When Hero asks what he gets if he wins, Castagnoli says there is no prize for Hero; only the chance to “scratch an itch” by putting up the main event of Final Battle. Castagnoli taunts Hero, reminding him what happens if he loses, and who he'll answer to (BJ Whitmer, the fans); Hero says he believes that Whitmer wouldn't have picked him as a partner if he didn't believe in Hero to get the job done. With that, he accepts Castagnoli's challenge for next Monday to a decidedly mixed crowd reaction. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 76
Segment #6 Eight-man tag match, one fall Roderick Strong, The Alex Shelley Experience, Jack Evans & Matt Sydal vs. Homicide, Bobby Roode, Scott Lost & Brian Kendrick
The difference between the Generation Next years and now are evident everywhere; from their coming to the ring under the Honor Guard music, to the stark visual differences in The Alex Shelley Experience and Roderick Strong, to their wrestling styles. Their opposition is by no means a congruous group, but they are unified in purpose and hatred, and it shows in the results; “Generation Next” are absolutely rocked left, right and center, as Strong seems disinterested unless Roode is in the ring, TASE the same with Homicide, and The Elite more busy trying to humiliate than win. That leaves the ad hoc team with some easy weaknesses to exploit, and they do it mercilessly, ending with Homicide getting the pin on Strong. The Honor Guard spend the time after the match blaming each other for the failure, save for Strong, who wanders away, disinterested. **3/4 Winners: Homicide, Roode, Lost & Kendrick (pinfall, Homicide on Strong, Cop Killa) Quality: 80 Crowd: 74 Overall:77
Segment #7 A taped promo from The Family airs. Each gives a short but impassioned rant against ROH in general and rivals in specific. Tyler Black promises that after War Games, ROH will be a “city of the dead”, and that the remaining few will not fight for their lives, but will line up for a mercy execution. Kevin Steen vows to make Raven “bleed out”, not by a vicious beating, but by a torturous million little cuts, each one taking just a drop until there's nothing left. Edge is impressed by the “courage” of Christian Cage, but wonders if Cage has thought about what would happen if he could take out Edge; how he would not be in the business if it weren't for Edge, and to destroy him would be to stop his own heart. Jimmy Jacobs says it has been a long, dark year, but that all the pain and suffering will have been worth it when he has the world under his boot. Trish Stratus ends the promo in her poetic yet creepy style, going on about the end of Throwdown; how the walls they built to keep the madness out ended up caging it in. She says how Scott Colton was a “promising young sociopath”, but because he'd cast his lot with Don Callis, he had to be eliminated. She is confident that she has given enough examples of what happens to heroes that nobody will sign their own death warrant by taking up the fifth spot in War Games … but that the hole in her roster will be far easier to fill. She says once again that the “infection” of The Family has “spread much farther” than anybody understands. She says that when she proclaimed there would be no more heroes, it was not just a call to arms or a battle cry; it was an activation. She promises that soon, she will call for the harvest … but that to the men and women of ROH who dare stand in her way, “the harvest will be a holocaust”. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 96 Notes: Trish Stratus gained overness from this segment.
Segment #8 Singles match, one fall, Blind Man's Bluff match Paul Burchill vs. ? Paul Burchill steps into the ring for his half of the “Blind Man's Bluff” arrangement with Christopher Daniels, ready to not only face a mystery opponent, but one he's never done battle with. His opponent turns out to be Michael Quackenbush Spillane, who cuts a short pre-match promo saying he does not appreciate being used as a “pawn” by a “paper champion”. But MQS then says he'll use this match to send a message to Eddie Kingston. With that, the bell rings and it's a very technical match, two masters of the trade going toe to toe. The crowd is on their feet, watching Burchill and MQS give a wrestling clinic so amazing, even other wrestlers step out onto the stage to watch. It's the kind of match where one mistake could prove to be the fatal undoing … but that never happens, as both are too on their game to ever give the other an open window, leaving both victims of the time limit. The crowd chants for five more minutes, but after fifteen minutes of a barnburner with no real purpose, MQS isn't interested in continuing. Daniels, watching from the stage, looks nervous, as he realizes that Burchill has just kept pace with MQS, the man who defeated him clean as a sheet several weeks ago, and what that implies. ***1/2 Winner: time limit draw Quality: 87 Crowd: 82 Overall: 84
Segment #9 Adam Pearce comes to the ring, looking very full of himself. He proclaims the landscape of Final Battle has changed, and he gives thanks to Chris Hero for being the agent of change. Pearce says that BJ Whitmer deserves nothing less than to watch his “self-proclaimed destiny” ripped from him in the last mile for turning his back on The Honor Guard and Ring Of Honor. He says that Whitmer was always “block-headed” and “slow to learn”, which is why he did something as stupid as turn his back on Ring Of Honor's “ruling family”, and then topped his mistake by trusting Chris Hero as a partner. And because of that pity, Pearce says he feels sad that he will never get to personally humiliate Whitmer “on the field of battle” … but Pearce adds that, unlike Whitmer, he will not have his opportunity taken from him, and calls out his nemesis. Whitmer comes out and wants to know what Pearce is talking about. Pearce says that just because Claudio Castagnoli is going to erase the main event of Final Battle by defeating Hero, it doesn't mean they can't do battle, one on one, as it should be. Whitmer says that Pearce is showing an awful lot of honor for a man who wouldn't know honor if it “bit him on the ass”; in that vein, Whitmer suggests they don't have a wresting match, but a match more fitting: a Fight Without Honor. Pearce eagerly accepts and promises that Whitmer's crusade won't be the only thing coming to an end on Monday; so will his career. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 83
Segment #10 Tag team match, one fall We Who Are Not As Others vs. Eddie Kingston & Ruckus While they have no particular reason for facing one another, none of the four men act like it's a meaningless match. All four go balls-out, looking to make statements for their opponents as Final Battle draws nearer. For Ruckus, it's continuing to show his evolution as a warrior of all styles and that he cowers before no monster. For Eddie Kingston, it's to show he isn't only a brawler and a fighter, but can truly hang with well-rounded athletes, especially after his previous failure against Buzz Stryker and Victor Ceron. And for the Others, it's to underscore their reputation as Ring Of Honor's most dangerous tandem. But like before, the weak link proves to be Kingston, and once he starts to get rattled, the mistakes pile up. No amount of experience between BLKOUT can overcome the nearly super-human ability and unity on the Others' side of the ring, leading to Kingston eating the pin once again. After the match, Kingston pushes Ruckus away, the frustration of losing again letting loose as he kicks loose the steel steps and even tears a sign out of a fan's hand when it gets too close. **1/2 Winners: We Who Are Not As Others (pinfall, Ceron pins Kingston, Brazilian Crucifix) Quality: 79 Crowd: 73 Overall: 76
Segment #11 Singles match, one fall, Blind Man's Bluff Christopher Daniels vs. ? Christopher Daniels is all casual arrogance, leaning against the turnbuckle as if he's expecting a training camp scrub. His smile vanishes when Oasis' “Fuckin' In The Bushes” hits, even as the crowd comes out of their seats for Nigel McGuinness. The Honor Guard's former centerpiece hits the ring like a coked-up bull, blitzing a hapless and shell-shocked Daniels with an attack flurry that sends him looking for retreat … until Paul Burchill comes out and stands on the ramp, arms crossed. McGuinness grabs Daniels from behind, tosses him back in the ring and proceeds to let loose with months of pent-up frustration. Daniels begs for mercy and tries to run away, but McGuinness will not be denied his opportunity to make Daniels pay, resulting in easily the longest seven minutes of Christopher Daniels' life. Unfortunately, when a savior appears for Daniels, it isn't one he wants: it's The Family, who descend upon the ring in their standard stalking/enclosure tactic, weapons in hand. But they aren't in the ring more than thirty seconds before Team ROH rushes out, also brandishing weapons, and are followed by several more roster members. Despite their reckless, ultraviolent mindset, the numbers game is just too much, even for The Family; Trish Stratus orders a strategic retreat, and they scatter into the safety of the crowd. Ruckus grabs a mic as several ROH wrestlers chase The Family through the crowd and holds up five fingers and points at McGuinness. The crowd chants “Nigel” as Ruckus shakes McGuinness' hand and officially announces him the fifth member of Team ROH. ***1/4 Winner: thrown out (interference) Quality: 83 Crowd: 82 Overall: 82
Overall show rating: 79
Thursday, December 17, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) WWE Wednesday are trying to compete with us, but are being destroyed in the ratings. 2) We got a 5.88 rating for 'Unleashed'! The attendance level was 7025 people. We made $281000 from ticket sales. 3) WWE got a 2.72 television rating for 'WWE Wednesday'! The event was attended by 805 people. They made $24150 from ticket sales.
Friday, December 18, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) TNA got a 6.03 television rating for 'TNA iMPACT!'! The event was attended by 6526 people. They made $261040 from ticket sales. 2) IWA-PR got a 1.57 television rating for 'IWA-PR Thursday'! The event was attended by 803 people. They made $24090 from ticket sales.
Jed Shaffer ~One episode of Breakout, Throwdown and Unleashed apiece left before it all comes down. So close now. So close.
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Post by mlsq42 on Jul 29, 2014 9:17:37 GMT -5
Segment from 'Weekly Dose of New Truth 12/17/09' column posted on rohwrestling.com[/b]
And finally, a quick comment on the 'Blind Man's Bluff' match on Unleashed last night. As I have seen posted over, and over, and OVER again, yes, Mr. Burchill and Mr. Spillane did indeed square off on the November 18th edition of E-Pro's 'Unleashed'. So I can understand why some of you less intelligent people might be confused as to how Burchill was eligible to be selected by YOUR World Champion. So I went straight to to source and put this to YOUR World Champion, Christopher 'The Reborn Angel' Daniels, and he had to say:
"Young man, the contract said that whoever I selected could not have wrestled that third rate jobber. Note the word 'wrestled' there. Since nothing related to the 'promotion' I killed at Trios Tournament was true wrestling, that match didn't count. I put this to Chairman Callis, and he agreed with me, and signed off on it. Simple really."
So there you have it. Now shut up about it.
Mathew Sforcina Assistant Integration Synergy Overseerer/New Truth Secretary/Chief Internet Realignment Coordinator for Honor Guard Support Committee.
~ 'Sforcina's Plot Hole Fillers- You write 'em, we right 'em!
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Post by Brain Of J on Aug 7, 2014 21:01:59 GMT -5
Saturday, December 19, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) TNA got a 0.88 television rating for 'TNA Friday'! The event was attended by 6514 people. They made $260560 from ticket sales. 2) CMLL got a 1.26 television rating for 'CMLL Friday'! The event was attended by 452 people. They made $9040 from ticket sales. 3) IWA-PR got a 1.15 television rating for 'High Impact'! The event was attended by 803 people. They made $24090 from ticket sales.
Results for Breakout
Segment #1 – Brian Kendrick and Jack Evans wrestled to a no-contest due to a double count-out The heated rivalry between The Elite and Brian Kendrick & Scott Lost takes form in a one-on-one contest. Both men start off the match in high gear, wrestling less like high fliers and more like men looking to take a pound of flesh out of the other guy. There's no risk that isn't worth taking, and that's what ends up getting the match thrown out, as Evans ends up outside and Kendrick leaps over the top with a plancha that sends both men crashing into the barricade. By the time Kendrick gets up, the ref is at eight, and Kendrick is more interested in punching Evans into submission. They have to be pulled apart by officials when they won't break it off after numerous bell ringings, putting only more fuel on the fire of this war. **1/4 77/69/73
Segment #2 Tom Carter and Nick Nemeth appear in a taped promo. Carter talks about how a lot of wrestlers who've reached the age he has have had a hard time doing the right thing: helping the next batch of wrestlers grow and mature and become the stars of tomorrow. Carter says he would've been proud to help Davey Richards get to that next level of stardom, but Richards has fallen for his own hype instead of paying the dues. Carter says he's happy to do the right thing by Nick Nemeth in mentoring him for the future, both the distant future where Nemeth could be main eventing pay-per-views, and the immediate future, where he'd like to stand next to Nemeth while they beat the stuffing out of Richards and Webmaster Derek. Nemeth says he doesn't care about being an “online darling”; he'd rather be the guy who didn't have the support and makes everybody eat their words than have fans and amount to nothing. Nemeth says Richards may have a bunch of “loud” fans on message boards, but so do a “thousand other wrestlers”, and only a few ever get to the top, and Nemeth plans on keeping Richards from ever doing that, if they accept the challenge for Clash Of The Champions. 58
Segment #3 – Lisa Marie Varon & Nora Greenwald d. Sara Del Ray & Amazing Kong (pinfall, Greenwald pins Kong, Molly-Go-Round) The friction in the trio of women known as The Heathers continues to reveal itself, as Sara Del Ray and Amazing Kong fail to defeat two of the women whom they defeated only a few weeks before. Once again, Del Ray objects to Kong's desire to maim and injure, and Kong is offended by Del Ray's fair-sport attitude. The schism allows the veterans to capitalize and take the win. Del Ray shows no sisterhood towards her Heathers cohort, leaving her behind once the bell rings. *1/4 67/66/66
Segment #4 A taped promo from Trish Stratus airs, and surprisingly, it isn't related to War Games. Instead, she talks about herself and her accomplishments as a wrestler; how she had more reigns as women's champion than anybody else in history, and how she made history by being the first woman to ever main event a nationally televised wrestling show. Trish says her excellence is unequaled, but she's sitting on the sidelines while “brutes” and “Barbie dolls” fight over the right to be champion, all because she lost to a “porn star”. But the solution, Trish says, is obvious: every champion needs a challenger. Trish suggests that the remaining ladies in ROH – herself, Lisa Marie Varon, Nora Greenwald, and LuFisto – have their own four-corners match at Clash Of The Champions to determine the first challenger to the new champ. 90
Segment #5 – Kevin Steen d. Randy Orton to retain the ROH Bold Future Championship (ref stoppage) Steen and Orton have a knock-down, drag-out fight from bell to bell. On two occasions, Orton is microseconds away from the win, once on the rope-drape DDT, and once on a skull punt. But what Orton doesn't count on is Monty Brown interfering while the ref's attention is elsewhere. A powerbomb on the floor knocks the wind right out of Orton, and Steen is there to take advantage of it. Orton won't tap to the Mobius Strip, but he can't escape it either, and ends up passing out from the pain. With the win, Steen fulfills his one-defense-a-week stipulation, and his match with Raven at Clash Of The Champions officially becomes an ROH Bold Future Championship defense … a match that, if he wins, he earns a shot at the Pure Championship. **1/2 78/80/79
Segment #6 Beulah hosts her Beulah's Bedroom interview segment, where her guests are ROH Pure Champion Rob Conway and the #1 contender Max Boyer. Right away, the tension between the two comes to the forefront; Conway says Boyer is a “jealous little wanna-be who got into mommy's mascara drawer” and is only out for himself, despite what he says. Boyer says that's hypocritical, coming from a “mirror-kissing pretty boy” who doesn't have a friend in the locker room. Boyer says Conway has never cared about anybody but himself, and he shows it with his attitude, how he's a partner, and how views the title as a stepping stone, when it means so much more to Boyer. Conway says at least he can admit being selfish and career-minded, and Boyer will see it when they step in the ring at Clash Of The Champions, because to Conway, the title is everything: respect, validation, a ticket to the top. Boyer says that's why Conway will lose come Sunday, because he fights for himself, not something bigger. Boyer tells Conway that nobody holds onto a championship forever, and that when he does lose it, he'll find his fame, fortune and notoriety go with it, but that a man who fights for an ideal makes an indelible mark on history. For a moment, Conway looks like he's about to snap and attack Boyer, but instead, he just leaves, holding up the gold all the way as he backs up the ramp. 81
Segment #7 – The Burning River Brigade d. Roderick Strong & The Alex Shelley Experience in a non-title match (pinfall, Cross pins Strong, Death From Above) All four men enter the match looking to send messages to their respective opponents for Final Battle weekend. Unfortunately for the Honor Guard contingent, the message is muddled, as TASE is far more interested in participation than Strong is. Finally, TASE has enough of trying to carry his team to victory and walks off, leaving Strong to eat the pin. ROH Chairman Don Callis tries to confront TASE, but TASE points out he's actually trying, unlike Strong who couldn't have cared less. Callis waits for Strong to come by and tries to get a word with him, but Strong blows him off. *** 82/76/79
Segment #8 A taped promo from David Hart Smith runs. Smith says that being a second generation wrestler is no easy thing; for every Randy Orton or Dustin Rhodes, there's a Sim Snuka or a Scott Putski. Smith says he didn't even ask to use his father's name, that it was “a promoter's idea”, and he'd rather go by his birth name, Harry. He says he never asked for his family's legacy to open any doors, and he sure isn't expecting it to happen now; he'd hid in tag teams for far too long, first with TJ Wilson and then with Kory Chavis, and he needs to know if he has the chops to go it alone. Smith says he isn't looking for any special favors because of his connections … but he is asking for a favor now: a match with Petey Williams. He knows Williams isn't on the roster, and he doesn't really care; if it has to be unsanctioned, a fist-fight in a parking lot, whatever, as long as ROH puts it together for Clash Of The Champions. Smith says Williams needs to learn the lesson that “it isn't a name that gets you in the door, it's skill”, and that's something Williams “just doesn't have enough of”. 64
Segment #9 – Shantelle Taylor d. MsChif (pinfall, small package) MsChif is definitely the stronger of the two, but she dangerously under-estimates Shantelle's skill and will to win. That refusal by Shantelle to just be a centerfold who does catfights frustrates Mschif as the match goes on, and that proves to be her undoing, when MsChif stalls too long trying to think of what to do next and Shantelle catches her off-guard. Shantelle peels off a nice volley of offense before Mschif manages to dodge a missile dropkick, but MsChif takes too long catching her breath, and when she bends down, she gets cradled. MsChif doesn't take well to that, though, and plants Shantelle with two Desecrators before leaving. MsChif yells as she backs up the ramp, promising to “bury” the “princess” at Final Battle. *1/2 70/63/66
Segment #10 A taped promo from Bryan Danielson and Nigel McGuinness. Danielson and McGuinness talk about how the two have come to an accord: they both realize that Don Callis' campaign has its heart in the right place, but his methods are horrible. They say ROH does need protecting, but not from new talent looking to break through; its from malicious monsters looking to tear the place down. Danielson says he's been with the company since day one, and never has he seen a greater threat to the company than The Family. McGuinness, he says, is the only man to push him to his absolute limits and match him step for step in the ring, and that's the kind of man they need in War Games. McGuinness says he knows he still has to earn trust with some people both in the locker room and in the crowd, but he vows that he will not let Ring Of Honor down. 67
Segment #11 – Bobby Roode d. Jimmy Jacobs (disqualification) Just a crazy fight from start until its abrupt finish. There's nothing on the line, but the way they fight, you wouldn't know it, as they push the limits of what the ROH rules will allow. They spend as much time on the outside as they do in, skirting the edge of disqualification by throwing each other into solid objects like barricades or the steps, but never picking things up and blatantly arming themselves. That is until Jacobs decides fun time is over and pulls the railroad spike out of his boot. Roode, having just been bounced off the ringpost, doesn't know what Jacobs has until Jacobs stabs him in the forehead with it, drawing the disqualification. Jacobs looks like he's going to go to town on Roode until Roderick Strong comes back out, casting his hollow, haunting stare towards Jacobs from the other side of the ring. Jacobs smirks and backs off; Strong, too, walks away, leaving everybody in a state of confusion as to what just happened. **1/2 78/72/75
Overall rating: 72
Sunday, December 20, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) Road agents - Josh Prohibition and Matt Cross work well together as a team, it adds to their matches. 2) Road agents - Bobby Roode and Jimmy Jacobs work pretty well together due to their similar styles. 3) Christian Cage - I'd like to work with Edge if possible. 4) Christopher Daniels - I'd like to request a match or two with Tom Carter. I'm pretty sure we could do some good work together. 5) The Messiah - I would like to work with Daisuke Sekimoto at some stage, i think you'd be impressed with the results. [YOU'RE WORKING A PROGRAM WITH HIM RIGHT NOW, DIPSHIT!] 6) We got a 6.46 rating for 'Breakout'! The attendance level was 7046 people. We made $281840 from ticket sales. 7) HWA got a 0.71 television rating for 'Main Event TV'! The event was attended by 390 people. They made $7800 from ticket sales. 8) CMLL got a 1.58 television rating for 'CMLL Saturday'! The event was attended by 447 people. They made $8940 from ticket sales. 9) IWC got a 0.20 television rating for 'IWC Ignition'! The event was attended by 4040 people. They made $161600 from ticket sales.
----------------------------------------------- Many thanks to Sforcina for plugging the hole I suspected existed, but was too lazy to research.
Jed Shaffer ~One week of shows left. And then ... and then ...
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Post by Brain Of J on Aug 7, 2014 21:46:10 GMT -5
Preview for Ring Of Honor: Throwdown, December 20, 2009: It's the final week of ROH's calendar year! Only two shows to go before Ring Of Honor closes out 2009 with its annual Final Battle weekend, and the last Throwdown could change the face of Final Battle! - If you watched Breakout, you no doubt saw the peculiar situation regarding Roderick Strong. Not only did he cause friction with his partner The Alex Shelley Experience that caused The Experience to walk away from the match, but Strong came out and had a weird moment in the show's main event between Jimmy Jacobs and Bobby Roode. ROH Chairman Don Callis has demanded Strong be on Throwdown to explain his descent into apathy, his role in The Honor Guard and his actions on Breakout. What will Strong have to say in his defense? - Last week, Matt Sydal got the pin in a tag match against Max Boyer and Rob Conway, pinning the current ROH Pure Champion. This week, five days removed from Conway's defense against Boyer, Conway will defend the title against Matt Sydal! Could Sydal capture his first solo gold? What would happen to the scheduled matches if he were to be successful? - This weekend, Paul Burchill will get one more chance at Christopher Daniels and the undisputed ROH World Championship. Tonight, we'll get a look inside the life of Burchill, his training regimen, how he is preparing mentally for this match, and what will become of him, win or lose! - You already know two of tonight's main event-level matches. The first will see the once-ROH World Tag Team Champions The Kings Of Wrestling go at it. But this will be no ordinary match. Should Claudio Castagnoli defeat Chris Hero, the main event of Final Battle would go up in flames; no more winner-take-all stipulation. No more threat of Adam Pearce or Don Callis being fired. It would remove all purpose for Final Battle's epochal main event. BJ Whitmer's year-long crusade hangs in the balance of another man! - The second part of the main event will be a Fight Without Honor, pitting the two partners of the previous match ... Adam Pearce vs. BJ Whitmer, no rules, no limitations, will happen ... but if Chris Hero fails to beat Claudio Castagnoli, this match may end up being an exercise is pointlessness! If Hero loses, can BJ Whitmer rise to the occasion after seeing his dreams dashed? - Our third main event will also have an effect on Final Battle, namely War Games. There will be no coin flip to see who gets the man advantage. The respective teams will fight for it by sending a representative into battle tonight ... but who will it be? The teams won't get to decide, as ROH officials will determine via a random draw at the time fo the match ... and if either team interferes, it'll be an automatic forfeit! All this, plus we'll hear from Eddie Kingston and Raven, an 8-man tag pitting MDK and The Burning River Brigade against Blood Moon Dragons and We Who Are Not As Others, 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 will settle the score once and for all, and the ROH Bold Future Championship is on the line! Kevin Steen (c) vs. Raven
For the ROH World Tag Team Championships! The Burning River Brigade (c) vs. We Who Are Not As Others
Global ultraviolence masters collide once again in a falls-count-anywhere war! Murderdeathkill vs. Blood Moon Dragons
Finally, the grudge match months in the making! Bobby Roode vs. Roderick Strong
Will Shelley redeem or ruin himself? The Alex Shelley Experience vs. Homicide
Truth Martini's minions and the men who turned him down finally clash! True Believers vs. Outcast Killahs
A tag team grudge match! Tom Carter & Nick Nemeth vs. Davey Richards & Webmaster Derek
A triple threat match! Monty Brown vs. Randy Orton vs. Kory Chavis
A four-corners survival match to determine the first #1 contender to the first ROH World Women's Championship! Lisa Marie Varon vs. Trish Stratus vs. Lufisto vs. Nora Greenwald
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, ? & ?)
Teacher versus student collide for the first time! Michael Quackenbush Spillane vs. Eddie Kingston
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
A tag team grudge match! Scott Lost & Brian Kendrick vs. The Elite
Jed Shaffer ~Closer by the minute. Seriously, I cannot wait to get it up and see what everybody thinks.
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Post by Brain Of J on Aug 16, 2014 15:28:06 GMT -5
Monday, December 21, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) WWE's 'Armageddon' show was attended by 3473 people! They made $138920 from ticket sales. 2) TNA got a 1.39 PPV buy rate for 'Turning Point'! The event was attended by 14406 people. They made $3475000 from pay-per-view revenue. They made $864360 from ticket sales. 3) HWA's 'World War 3' show was attended by 835 people! They made $25050 from ticket sales. 4) CMLL's 'La Gran Fiesta De Cierre' show was attended by 2610 people! They made $78300 from ticket sales. 5) 21CW's '21CW Violent Conduct' show was attended by 208 people! They made $4160 from ticket sales. 6) NNW's 'NNW The Final Swansong' show was attended by 441 people! They made $8820 from ticket sales. 7) Kid Romeo has agreed to an open contract with HWA! 8) Chris Michaels has agreed to an open contract with HWA! 9) Johnny Devine has agreed to an open contract with HWA! 10) 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. 11) WWE's WWE Wednesday has been renewed for a further 30 weeks!
Throwdown Commentary: Steven Manning and Jerry Lawler
1st segment Singles match, Fight Without Honor BJ Whitmer vs. Adam Pearce There isn't any of the normal intro pagentry; the show opens cold to the introductions of BJ Whitmer and Adam Pearce. And from the moment the bell rings, there's no stalling, no tricks, no nothing except two people who hate each other and have no limits on how to express it. That is precisely what they do, beating the ever-loving hell out of each other in and around the ring. In the course of the match, a table and two chairs are destroyed, and the ringside area is strewn with things pulled out and used as weapons: a wrench, a piece of pipe, the timekeeper's hammer, and a length of chain. There's nary a wrestling move in the match; it's all ultra-violence, leading up to the war being taken back through the curtain into the hallways of the arena. The environment is used to even greater benefit; lighting rigs, crates, lumber and anything they can get their hands on gets sucked into the war. But the tide finally turns to one direction after they stumble into one of the arena offices. There, Pearce stuns Whitmer with a cup of somebody's coffee right in the face. Whitmer staggers away, leaning against a wall that has the kind of window with the steel mesh inside. Pearce quickly rams Whitmer into the glass face first, grinding Whitmer's face into the glass and the mesh. Out of fear for potentially hazardous injury to Whitmer, the ref stops the match, awarding it to Pearce as medics take Whitmer away. **1/2 Winner: Adam Pearce (ref stoppage, medical emergency) Quality: 79 Crowd: 76 Overall: 77
2nd segment Singles match, one fall Boris Alexiev vs. Harry Smith As a match, this meeting of Smith and Alexiev isn't much of anything; three minutes of action, and that's mostly the feeling-out process. In that three minutes, they have some wonderful exchanges with counters and transitions, but because of the brevity, it never gets out of first gear, and that's wholly due to the incursion of Petey Williams. “The Maple Leaf Muscle” pulls Smith to the floor by his feet while Smith has Alexiev in a chin-lock, and throws Smith into the steps. Williams grabs a mic and says he'll accept Smith's challenge on one condition: if Williams wins, he gets an ROH contract. But before Williams can gloat or do further damage, Alexiev spins Williams around and peppers him with strikes to the head and torso. But Alexiev doesn't stop there, tossing Smith back in the ring. Before Alexiev can apply a guillotine choke, The Night Shadow sends Alexiev packing. ***1/2 Winner: Harry Smith (disqualification, interference) Quality: 90 Crowd: 71 Overall: 80
3rd segment A taped promo from Raven is shown. He runs down a list of the “masters of war” he's faced in his career: Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman, The Pitbulls, Terry Funk, Rhino, Diamond Dallas Page, CM Punk. All, he says, men who pushed him to his limit. Men who dug deep into their souls and found enough hatred in their hearts give him all that he could handle. But, Raven says, Kevin Steen is different; Steen is “not a man with a secret monster buried in the shadows of his heart”, but a monster through and through. The kind of “remorseless engine of hatred” Raven was to men like Dreamer and Sandman. Raven says of all the men he's faced in his lifetime, none have been like Steen. But, he says, nobody Steen has ever faced has been like him. Raven promises their match will be like looking into a mirror. Raven says he knows what he sees when he looks in the mirror, and he's grown comfortable with it. He wonders if Steen can say the same, and wonders what he'll say come Sunday morning. As for War Games, Raven knows that physically, he won't be at 100% when he steps into the cage, but he also knows that he is tougher at 50% than most people are at 100%. He knows The Family will look for the weak link and exploit it, and he vows that, while there's breath in his body, he'll bleed out before he gives up. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 87
4th segment 8-man tag match, one fall The Burning River Brigade & Murderdeathkill vs. We Who Are Not As Others & Blood Moon Dragons A fairly standard pre-PPV multi-man mash-up of feuding peoples; lots of tags, brief offense, lots of brawling. Of note, though, is the fact that the Dragons and Others do not work well together; Buzz Stryker and Victor Ceron only tag each other, forcing Deisuke Sekimoto and Jun Kasai to blind-tag when they want in. The MDK/BRB combo, meanwhile, work fantastic together, with pairings containing members of both hit nice double-team moves. In the end, after a bench-clearing pier-6’er, Ceron finds himself alone with all four men. After a beatdown to soften him up, he gets hit with the mother of all four-person moves: a double powerbomb-slash-blockbuster neckbreaker-slash-backstabber. The crowd explodes as Cross makes the pin and gets the 3, as the BRB sends the strongest message possible to the Others: that they can be beaten. *3/4 Winners: BRB/MDK (pinfall, Matt Cross pins Victor Ceron, four-man super-finisher) Quality: 73 Crowd: 61 Overall: 67
5th segment Eddie Kingston comes out and says that he learned a lot at the Chikara Wrestlefactory. One thing he learned was to always be true to himself, and Kingston says he hasn't done that in the past few weeks. He's convinced himself he doesn't care what MQS says, but he does; he's let MQS get in his head and under his skin. Kingston says for weeks, even months now, all he's heard is MQS' mouth, and finally, it's all become too much. He says there's another lesson he learned, but he learned it on the streets: sometimes, “the young buck's gotta put down the ol' dog”. Kingston says he “and Ol' Yeller got a date behind the woodshed this Sunday”, which brings out MQS. The arrogant owner of Chikara says Kingston's career has been seasoned with one excuse after another; excuses why he got fired from CZW, why he left Chikara, why Kingston never faced him in Chikara, and now excuses why he can't win a match lately to save his soul. MQS wants Kingston, for once in his life, to come clean and admit his mistakes and faults … and he'll have the opportunity, come the first show of 2010, after MQS humbles him and leaves Kingston no excuse but to admit he's just not good enough. Kingston asks if that would make MQS happy; MQS retorts that erasing his biggest mistake – namely Kingston's career – would make him happy, but he'll have to suffice with beating him. With that, MQS suddenly busts out with Backfist To The Future! Kingston hits the mat like a sack of rocks. MQS stands over him and says he's forgotten a very important lesson: if you forget your lessons, you're doomed to fail. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 69
6th segment Singles match, one fall, winner gets the advantage for his side in War Games ? vs. ? The Family stand collected high up in the crowd, looking down on the ring where ROH Chairman Don Callis is. Callis calls for the randomizer to pick the name of the Family member who will fight for the one-man advantage in War Games. The randomizer blurs on the Tron through the faces of the Family members, and comes to a stop on Edge. The ROH faces blur by a lot quicker, since there dozens more to go through. When it comes to a stop, Edge's eyes narrow and the crowd explodes: it's Christian Cage. “The Instant Classic” races down the ramp like a freight train. There's no let-up in the action from bell to bell; it's two wrestlers who know each other perhaps as closely as brothers, waging war against each other like nobody else could. If there's any difference to be seen, it's in Cage, who wrestles with a fire and desperation that Edge can't match … and really, doesn't even seem to try to. Not that Edge dogs it, but it's clear he isn't trying to stay in the same gear as Cage, and that ends up being his downfall. Cage takes the match and wins the advantage for Ring Of Honor in about thirteen minutes, but while the ROH roster celebrates, Steven Manning and JBL can't help but wonder why it looked easy. ***1/4 Winner: Christian Cage (pinfall, Killswitch) Quality: 82 Crowd: 90 Overall: 87
7th segment Three-team scramble match, one fall Bastard Nation vs. Incoherence vs. The Partycrashers A high-energy, but not long, three team scramble match, which builds off the triple threat singles encounter from the week before. Bastard Nation plays more of a tweener role, no friend to Incoherence, but still resentful of The Partycrashers and how they got mixed up in one of their matches. The result is Incoherence and Bastard Nation working together for a while to single out their common enemy, until the want to win takes over. That's when The Partycrashers sneak in, allowing for TJ Wilson to score the pin on Arik Cannon. Wilson is out of the ring before the ref can turn to raise his hand, and Chris Bosh is right behind him, getting as far away as they can from the four men who want their heads. **3/4 Winners: The Partycrashers (pinfall, TJ Wilson on Arik Cannon, low blow and roll-up) Quality: 82 Crowd: 74 Overall: 78
8th segment A video package runs, showing the ROH career of Paul Burchill; his arrival in ROH. Narrating over it is Burchill, discussing how he arrived in ROH with baggage from another promotion. He says he had to go to great lengths to erase the stigma of that other company, and he paid the price in blood and peace of mind. He says 2009 has been a hard year, with hard wars, some he won, and some he lost. He says he never liked losing, but he doesn't dwell on the failures, because success shines brighter. He says when he defeated Nigel McGuinness, he knew he'd proven himself to the fans once and for all and erased all doubts … except his own. Winning the championship, he says, isn't something he's doing for the fans, or for Ring Of Honor, or for anybody but himself. He says there's dozens of guys in the record books with half his skill and enough gold to “float a small country for a year”, and a hundred more who had all the chops and nothing to show for it. He says being called the best wrestler in the world is an opinion; being world champion is a reality. Burchill says he fought to make his dreams real, and he only has the one left, and whether it's for a day, or a month, or a year, he will leave everything he has in the ring to make it come true. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 76
9th segment Singles match for the ROH Pure Championship, Pure Wrestling Rules Rob Conway (c) vs. Matt Sydal Stemming from Rob Conway eating the pin in his loss alongside Max Boyer against The Elite last week, the man who got the pin, Matt Sydal, gets a shot at the ROH Pure Championship. Not surprisingly, with the possibility of the belt changing hands, Boyer comes out and watches the proceedings. The match is definitely two different styles colliding, with Conway's more classic American-style power wrestling against Sydal's explosive, high-octane modern indie style. Boyer deflects most questions as he watches Sydal and Conway trade offense, save to say he doesn't care who he faces at Clash Of The Champions, because the belt is leaving with him regardless who walks in with it; “it's only my strategy that changes”, he says. Nevertheless, Boyer doesn't remain a passive observer for the duration, when Jack Evans comes down and tries to get involved. Boyer pulls Evans down off the apron before Evans can push Conway off the top turnbuckle, but Conway is distracted anyway, allowing Sydal enough time to recover. Sydal is up in time for Conway to return his attention where it belongs, but not enough time to react to the run-up hip toss Sydal executes. Sydal hops back up on the turnbuckle and hits the shooting star press. Three seconds later, ROH has a new Pure Champion! Sydal scoops up the belt as soon as the ref is handed it and runs off, leaving Conway to fume about his loss and shoot daggers Boyer's way. **3/4 [b[Winner:[/b] Matt Sydal (pinfall, shooting star press, new champion) Quality: 81 Crowd: 77 Overall: 79
10th segment When Throwdown returns, ROH Chairman Don Callis is already in the ring in his wheelchair, microphone in hand. Callis demands Roderick Strong come out and answer for his “crimes”. Strong, head cast down and disheveled, enters the ring, not looking at Callis as the Chairman runs him down. Callis says that when everybody, including himself, gave up him, Callis saw the value in him; he gave Strong purpose, reunited him with friends, and protected him from the oncoming storm in the sheltered harbor of The Honor Guard. Callis runs clips of Strong dogging it in the ring, refusing to participate in attacks, and walking out of tag matches. Callis reminds Strong of the favors they did for him, and how he still has a debt to repay; he says that this Saturday, he has one final task ahead of him, eliminating Bobby Roode from Ring Of Honor. Callis expects his “assassin” to give “nothing less than a hundred-and-ten percent when the bell rings”, and is starting to outline in graphic terms the condition he wants Roode (whom he refers to as “Cornette's lapdog”) left in when Callis' voice trails off. The camera moves to see what he sees: Trish Stratus and Tyler Black, approaching the ring. Callis and the camera move quickly to visually confirm what everybody already knows is happening: the encircling of the ring by The Family, with Black and Stratus on one side, Jimmy Jacobs on another, Edge on a third and Kevin Steen on the fourth. They all jump the barricade, weapons in hand … but the only one to step up to the apron is Trish. She smiles, tilting her head and asks a question of Callis in her chillingly vacuous voice: does he remember what she said, about sleeper agents all throughout ROH? She pauses as the crowd starts to murmur with unrest and Steven Manning says “oh, no”; then, the smile vanishes from her face and she says “awaken … my assassin”. Just like that, Strong knocks Callis out of the chair with a Sick Kick. Jacobs slides in a steel chair that Strong lays out in the middle of the ring and plants Callis into it with a Gibson Driver. The crowd actually pops for ROH wrestlers – Honor Guard and those aligned against it – coming to chase off The Family, but the damage is done. Throwdown goes to commercial first on Adam Pearce sitting by the head of his fallen superior, almost crying as he calls for an ambulance … and lastly on the face of Strong, standing by Trish and The Family. And for the first time in at least a year, Strong doesn't look despondent. And it's horrifying. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 77
11th segment Singles match, one fall, if Castagnoli wins, the stipulations for the tag match at Final Battle are revoked Chris Hero vs. Claudio Castagnoli Despite his complete lack of likability, the brutal attack on Don Callis, as well as the defection of Roderick Strong from ROH to The Family, casts a heavy pallor over the all-important main event. Manning and JBL don't sound as invested, the crowd is uncomfortable and obviously expecting another bloody invasion, and Claudio Castagnoli is visibly shaken. His focus is barely there, he makes rookie mistakes and when he hits something, it isn't crisp or as effective as it should be. Case in point, twice Castagnoli manages to get a submission hold locked in that focuses on the ankle Hero injured two months back, but both times, he applies it loosely, allowing Hero to easily escape before damage is done. Eventually, Castagnoli's disjointed effort starts to bother Hero, who came looking for a contest, not a roll-over; he starts yelling at Castagnoli to get up, to fight harder … and then Hero lets loose with his trademark offensive wit, asking Castagnoli if he's “bummed about [his] boyfriend”. That finally snaps Castagnoli out of his funk; he charges Hero like a bulldozer with a jet engine and lets loose a flurry of destructive offense, including a sequence in the corner where Hero eats twenty consecutive European uppercuts. Swiss Death gets two, as does an Alpamare Waterslide. But when he tries a Gotch-Style Neutralizer, Hero counters, lifting up Castangoli onto his back and hitting a Kryptonite Krunch. From there, the match enters the home stretch, and resembles a NOAH-style match, going back and forth as each guy digs down and finds that last bit left in the tank. They trade finishers and kick out of virtually everything, and stiff each other into near unconsciousness with Euro-cuts and elbows. In the final moments, Castagnoli has Hero trapped in a corner and hits more Euro-cuts. He backs off, looking to hit a running variant, but Hero steps out of the way. Castagnoli hits the turnbuckle hard with his chest; Hero moves quick, hitting a discus elbow to the back of Castagnoli's head, then hooks the arms and brings him down in a backslide. The crowd come out of their seats when the ref's hand hits a third time, keeping the stipulations of their match intact. Hero stands in the ring alone, arms raised, as Manning and JBL bring up a good point: Hero may have preserved the stipulations around the all-or-nothing tag match, but will BJ Whitmer be in any condition to participate? Or did Hero just sign his own death warrant? **3/4 Winner: Chris Hero (pinfall, discus elbow to the back of the head→backslide) Quality: 80 Crowd: 82 Overall: 81
Overall show rating: 78
Tuesday, December 22, 2009:
Email: 1) Alex Shelley - How about booking me against Homicide? I'm sure we could do some pretty entertaining stuff that the fans would like. [Guess you didn't read the COTC3 match listing, eh?] 2) We got a 6.08 rating for 'Throwdown'! The attendance level was 7010 people. We made $280400 from ticket sales. 3) TNA got a 0.92 television rating for 'TNA Monday'! The event was attended by 6032 people. They made $241280 from ticket sales. 4) IWC got a 1.81 television rating for 'IWC Monday'! The event was attended by 4523 people. They made $180920 from ticket sales.
Jed Shaffer ~ONE SHOW LEFT, YOU GUYS.
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Post by Brain Of J on Aug 17, 2014 11:53:00 GMT -5
Preview for Ring Of Honor: Unleashed, December 22, 2009: It's the last new Unleashed for 2009, the last stop before Clash Of The Champions III on The CW, and Final Battle on pay-per-view! - Since breaking off from Chris Bosh, we've seen a lot more of Monty Brown than we did before. He is a remorseless hunter, only looking to further his career by destroying anybody in his path. Randy Orton and Kory Chavis have both been victimized by Brown. Tonight, they team up three days ahead of their match with Brown, where they will be partners. Can they co-exist against Chris Bosh and TJ Wilson? - Two eagerly anticipated tag team grudge matches at Clash Of The Champions will see Murderdeathkill square off with Blood Moon Dragons in a falls-count-anywhere blowout, and Tom Carter partnering with Nick Nemeth against Davey Richards and Webmaster Derek. Tonight, these matches will cross-polinate, as the Dragon will face off against Carter and Nemeth. What team will gain some much-needed momentum before the big weekend? What team will find themselves limping into COTC3? - On Throwdown, during an eight-man tag match, the Burning River Brigade cast a new light on their showdown with We Who Are Not As Others, when Matt Cross (after a four-man combo move) pinned Victor Ceron. Pinfall victories over WWANAO are few and far between, so for them to have suffered a fall to the champs less than a week before challenging for the titles has to have lit a fire in the challengers like never before. Tonight, Cross will step into the ring solo and look to show once again how vulnerable the Others are, when he squares off against the other half of the duo, Buzz Stryker. Can Cross topple the silent killing machine and show that the Brigade has the Others' number? Or will “The Devil's Nightmare” give Cross and Josh Prohibition reason to doubt their survival come Saturday? - Over the past few weeks, Roderick Strong has been booked alongside Honor Guard stablemates, and twice with old Generation Next friends, and each time, he has let them down with disinterest in the match. This past Monday, we found out why, in a most brutal fashion: he was a sleeper agent for The Family. This has put a new spin on his feud with Bobby Roode, as now Roode has been drawn into the web that is ROH's struggle against Trish Stratus' psychopathic army of followers. But Strong's defection has had a larger effect; his betrayal has angered The Honor Guard and ROH alike. His stablemate in two different factions, The Alex Shelley Experience is reportedly furious at Strong. Likewise, Homicide, who campaigned to get into the War Games match, also has bad blood with The Family. Tonight on Unleashed, three days ahead of their respective singles matches, all four of these men will collide in a four-corners survival match. Who will walk out the victor? Or will The Family let anybody walk out at all? - Our main event will feature two superb athletes looking to notch one more win before Final Battle. While they don't have anything against one another, they don't have any reason to be friends either. On one side, Ruckus, the man who spear-headed the War Games match against The Family. On the other side, Michael Quackenbush Spillane, the man who has made it his mission to expose Eddie Kingston as a rotten human being. Who will come out on top? Also, we will see how Christopher Daniels is preparing for his epic ROH World Title match against Paul Burchill, we'll hear from Christian Cage, and Adam Pearce will give an update on the condition of both ROH Chairman Don Callis and the status of Final Battle's all-or-nothing tag match! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ring Of Honor presents Clash Of The Champions III Live and free on The CW Network December 26, 2009
A triple threat match for the ROH Pure Championship! Matt Sydal (c) vs. Max Boyer vs. Rob Conway
An epic Bloodletting match will settle the score once and for all, and the ROH Bold Future Championship is on the line! Kevin Steen (c) vs. Raven
For the ROH World Tag Team Championships! The Burning River Brigade (c) vs. We Who Are Not As Others
Global ultraviolence masters collide once again in a falls-count-anywhere war! Murderdeathkill vs. Blood Moon Dragons
A Canadian civil war will happen in a non-sanctioned parking lot brawl! Harry Smith vs. Petey Williams If Williams wins, he is awarded an ROH contract.
Finally, the grudge match months in the making! Bobby Roode vs. Roderick Strong
Will Shelley redeem or ruin himself? The Alex Shelley Experience vs. Homicide
Truth Martini's minions and the men who turned him down finally clash! True Believers vs. Outcast Killahs
A tag team grudge match! Tom Carter & Nick Nemeth vs. Davey Richards & Webmaster Derek
A triple threat match! Monty Brown vs. Randy Orton vs. Kory Chavis
A four-corners survival match to determine the first #1 contender to the first ROH World Women's Championship! Lisa Marie Varon vs. Trish Stratus vs. Lufisto vs. Nora Greenwald
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 Nigel McGuinness vs. The Family (Jimmy Jacobs, Edge, Tyler Black, ? & ?)
Teacher versus student collide for the first time! Michael Quackenbush Spillane vs. Eddie Kingston
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
A tag team grudge match! Scott Lost & Brian Kendrick vs. The Elite Jed Shaffer ~Last stop before the big year-end finale. So close now ...
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Post by Brain Of J on Sept 11, 2014 20:43:45 GMT -5
Wednesday, December 23, 2009:
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Unleashed Commentators: Jimmy Bauer and JBL
Segment #1 Tag match, one fall Kory Chavis & Randy Orton vs. Truth Martini's True Believers (w/Truth Martini) Unleashed wastes no time in getting to the action, pitting two opponents at Clash Of The Champions as partners against Truth Martini's True Believers, Donovan Morgan and Jay Lethal. Chavis is game to work with anybody, but Orton in his best mood is at best prickly and combative, and he is in no fine mood for Unleashed. The Orton/Chavis combo shows no ability to work together and are taken down with little resistance. Afterwards, Orton and Chavis argue and are about to come to blows when Monty Brown runs out, looking to take advantage and catch both his opponents unawares. Both catch a glimpse of him, though, and finally show some teamwork in sending “The Alpha Male” packing. **1/2 Winners: True Believers (pinfall, Lethal on Chavis, Lethal Injection) Quality: 78 Crowd: 73 Overall: 75
Segment #2 Tag match, one fall Bryan Danielson & Nigel McGuinness vs. The Partycrashers Unlike the previous match, the singles wrestlers acquits themselves quite nicely as a team. TJ Wilson and Chris Bosh are no slouches, giving both McGuinness and the former two-time ROH World Champion a workout. But in the end, McGuinness and Danielson are too much for Wilson and Bosh. Before they can eat the pinfall, Wilson and Bosh bail … only for Bastard Nation and Incoherence to block their escape at the bottom of the ramp. Wilson and Bosh make the mistake of running their mouths at the two teams they've angered, turning their backs to McGuinness and Danielson. The two technical masters haul the disrespectful Partycrashers back in the ring and stretch them until they tap out. Bastard Nation, Incoherence, Danielson and McGuinness all form a gauntlet on either side of the ramp to the stage, forcing Bosh and Wilson to walk through their taunting and jeering to get to the back, reminding them how they ran like frightened children and tapped out. **3/4 Winners: Danielson & McGuinness (stereo submissions, London Dungeon and Cattle Mutilation) Quality: 82 Crowd: 74 Overall: 78
Segment #3 A taped promo from Christian Cage runs. He talks about how beating Edge on Monday should've been the spark that lit the fire in the engine of Team ROH. Instead, all he hears online and in the locker room is how Edge “let Cage have it” and “phoned it in”. People talk about how Raven has never tapped out, Danielson is a submission master, McGuinness is tough as nails, and Ruckus is too dangerous to ever put in that position … which leaves Cage as the “weak link”. Cage says that's how people have looked at him his whole career, which will make Sunday so much sweeter when he breaks Edge and makes him submit, because he knows where and how to hit Edge to make it hurt the most. He says for the good of Ring Of Honor, for the good of the wrestling industry, he's willing to find the madness he fell into during his war with Austin Aries and unleash it upon Edge and The Family, and he knows that each and every member of his team have a dark place in their hearts like his. The Family, he says, have shown how far they'll sink; at Final Battle, inside the War Games double-ring cage, The Family will see what happens to good men pushed too far. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 93
Segment #4 Tag match, one fall Tom Carter & Nick Nemeth vs. Blood Moon Dragons The last of the evening's tag matches, Tom Carter and Nick Nemeth partner up to get some experience under their belt against the Japanese hardcore warriors, Blood Moon Dragons. Carter and Nemeth are definitely good athletes, but their pure athleticism is countered by their lack of experience together, and the overall package of Jun Kasai and Deisuke Sekimoto. Too much strength, too much endurance, and too much willingness to be crazier and more violent than Carter and Nemeth help the Dragons get the win. Once the Dragons are gone, the Tron comes to life with Fangirl Lizzy, Davey Richards and Webmaster Derek. Lizzy taunts Carter and Nemeth, calling Carter old and washed-up and Nemeth (who she calls “Nicky”) a joke who should “stick to cheerleading for better athletes”. Lizzy says that Clash Of The Champions, her “Digital Deity” will send Carter into a “long-overdue retirement” and that Nemeth will beg to be “stuck in developmental hell” instead of being in “Davey Richards' Ring Of Honor”. *3/4 Winners: Blood Moon Dragons (pinfall, Kasai on Nemeth, Sudden Impact) Quality: 77 Crowd: 54 Overall: 65
Segment #5 Taz is in the ring and introduces Shantelle Taylor, one of the four participants in the four-corner elimination match to crown the first ROH World Women’s Champion. Shantelle is humble and gracious in speaking, thanking the fans for support and promising to do her best against three tough foes in The Heathers. Taz asks her if she has any thoughts on why The Heathers hate her so much; Shantelle says women’s wrestling has fought a stigma for decades, and it only got worse in the 90’s with the centerfolds. She says she’s never tried to get anything on being blonde-haired and blue-eyed, that she’s always sold herself on skill alone. She wonders if The Heathers are upset because she looks like a Torrie Wilson or Stacy Keibler, but wrestles as well as they do. This prompts The Heathers to come out and get in Shantelle’s face. MsChif is disgusted by Shantelle assuming they’re jealous of a “Hooters waitress with an entry-level ring education”, and they’re insulted that Shantelle thinks she’s in their league. Shantelle gets right back in MsChif’s face and calls The Heathers hypocrites; they care about how they look and spend just as much time cultivating an image as she does, even if it’s purposefully different. She asks why can’t a woman be pretty and talented. Taz flees from a stare from Kong, as Kong and MsChif slowly advance on Shantelle. But before they can put fist to face, Sara Del Ray runs out, spins MsChif around and puts an elbow in her face. Together, Sara and Shantelle fight off The Heathers to the delight of the crowd. Once they’re gone, Sara picks up the mic and says there’s room in wrestling for all women … but there’s only room for one champion, and what happened tonight doesn’t change what she needs to do on Sunday. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 70 Notes: Shantelle Taylor gained overness from this segment. Sara Del Ray's turn was completed, and she is now a face. Sara Del Ray gained overness from this turn.
Segment #6 Singles match, one fall Buzz Stryker vs. Matt Cross Three days removed from meeting each other in the ring for the ROH World Tag Team Championship, Matt Cross steps into the ring with Buzz Stryker, the silent killer of the challenging team. Like at Trios Tournament, Stryker's mask stays on his head, giving the eerie impression Cross is fighting a slasher movie monster. Unfortunately for Cross, the fight does end up resembling a Final Girl vs. Masked Killer showdown: he gets in a few good licks, but spends most of it on the defensive. Stryker literally throws Cross around the ring as if Cross were no bigger than a toddler. Cross gets in a flurry of nice, high-speed offense in the final minute and a half, but that's all it is: a flurry. Stryker stops him when Cross tries a slingshot maneuver, only to get caught by the face and drilled with Stryker's latest favored finisher, the clawhold STO, erasing whatever psychological advantage the champs help. *3/4 Winner: Buzz Stryker (pinfall, clawhold STO) Quality: 71 Crowd: 72 Overall: 71
Segment #7 A video runs spotlighting Christopher Daniels for the build-up to his ROH World Title defense at Final Battle. The video starts by showing Daniels early on in his career and is narrated by Daniels; over footage of winning the Super-8 Tournament, Daniels talks about how he was one of a handful of athletes at the dawn of the millennium who were thought of as the future of the industry. His freak accident on WCW Monday Nitro is mentioned, and how everybody thought his career would be cut short like Magnum TA, but he persevered and came back better than ever. Highlights of his career across the planet run, as he talks about winning titles everywhere he went, and how expectations ran high … but he could never capture a world championship, and it haunted him. He watched people he broke into the business with, like AJ Styles, CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Low Ki and Homicide rack up championships, while he spun his wheels. He says he even helped a “piece of dead weight” take the belt here in ROH, but that wasn’t good enough. Daniels says he needed the validation of winning a championship of his own, and ROH wasn’t interested in giving him that chance … until a “visionary” took over and gave him the chance. Footage of his training runs, and over it, Daniels boasts that nobody in the world trains as hard as him, nobody pushes themselves as far as him, and nobody is as good as him. Daniels appears on screen and asserts that nobody handed him anything; he’s worked for the better part of a decade to live up to the hype, and he won’t let “some back-water scrub with dreams of mediocrity” ruin the legacy he’s still carving out. Daniels says from day one, Ring Of Honor was designed to be built around him, and that come Final Battle, nothing about that will change; his is not a championship reign, but a “dynasty” that will live forever. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 81
Segment #8 Four corners survival match, one fall Homicide vs. Roderick Strong vs. The Alex Shelley Experience vs. Bobby Roode Strong comes to the ring through the crowd, Trish Stratus at his side, wearing the all-black body suit and mask worn when The Family's mysterious assassin was still a mystery, removing the mask when he enters the ring. Everybody else in the match shares the same expression of contempt for Strong, and he proves to be the target for much of the match, except when rivals aren't in the ring together. The crowd even gets behind The Alex Shelley Experience when he tees off on Strong, just because Strong's deceit and defection to The Family is so loathesome. But while they all share a hatred of Strong, they also share a want to win, which is what levels the playing field. When the match breaks down at the end, it starts off as a three-on-one, until TASE tries to roll up Homicide for the win while Roode is taking out Strong. Homicide manages to kick out and blasts TASE with a quick clothesline. As that happens, Strong manages to fend off Roode with a quick kick in the groin, and as Homicide gets up from the lariat, Strong nails him with a Sick Kick in the side of the head. No sooner is Strong up than Roode nails him with the Northern Lariat. TASE shakes off the clothesline and is waiting for Roode the moment he pops up, nailing him with the Once In A Lifetime Experience. With the others laid out, TASE makes the cover and sneaks away with the win and some nice momentum for Clash Of The Champions. *** Winner: The Alex Shelley Experience (pinfall, on Roode, Once In A Lifetime Experience) Quality: 82 Crowd: 77 Overall: 79
Segment #9 A taped promo runs from The Family. This time, however, the only one to speak is Trish Stratus, while the others stand behind her. She says that the day she was signed by Vince McMahon is the day her soul died. All the wet t-shirt videos and lingerie matches poisoned and twisted her, robbing her of the belief that she'd ever be taken seriously or given the same kind of respect men like Steve Austin or Ric Flair get. Trish says she tried to bury it and live for the crowd, but they'd been conditioned by a “grotesque pig” to want bikini videos and centerfolds, not real wrestling done by women. She even retired and tried to live a normal life, but the unfulfilled dream and the haunting of the catcalls echoed in her mind. She ended up walking out on that man, because she couldn't believe he saw her as anything more than what the fans saw her: a sex object in a skin-tight uniform. That familiar smile spreads across her lips, her head cocked to the side just a little. Trish says now, she knows how to handle the pain inside her; not by curing it, but by embracing it, nurturing it, and unleashing it upon the industry that ruined her life. And with Ring Of Honor the biggest promotion in the world, it only makes sense to start at the top. She says she Final Battle will be the day she earns the respect she wanted so long ago, when her men spread destruction upon the landscape of ROH; Kevin Steen, she says, will destroy Raven and secure a shot at the Pure Championship. She herself will win the number-one contendership to the World Women's Championship. Roderick Strong will end Jim Cornette's friend Bobby Roode. The Family will stand tall in War Games, while their opponents will lie bleeding beneath them, utterly conquered. And with the Golden Ticket in her hands, the winner of the ROH World Championship match will be holding a ticking time bomb in their hands. “Wake up,” she ends with, “the nightmare is over. And reality is a far, far worse thing. All my Family will come together and lay waste to all you hold dear. Wake up.” Quality: Crowd: Overall: 91
Segment #10 Singles match, one fall Ruckus vs. Michael Quackenbush Spillane Despite Ruckus' MMA repertoire and MQS' mat wrestling and lucha, their match is something of a clash of styles. Ruckus looks more for hard-hitting knock-out blows and punishment, while MQS is all about the slow grind on the mat and dazzling on his feet. Still, it's a solid main event between two top-level athletes, and even though nothing is on the line except pride, they wrestle like there's a championship at stake, for fifteen solid minutes. The final two minutes gets the crowd on their feet, as Ruckus and MQS run through, and counter, virtually every signature and finisher they have in one long sequence. That is, until, Ruckus hits a nasty 12-to-6 elbow, putting MQS on the mat. Ruckus goes up top and tries for a moonsault leg drop, but MQS rolls out of the way, then rolls back and quickly applies the Chikara Special … only for Ruckus to get out of it! The announcers flip out at Ruckus breaking the seemingly unbreakable hold. MQS is also obviously rattled, as he just stands there for a moment, looking at Ruckus like he's seen a ghost. Ruckus takes the moment to grab MQS and unleash with Kawada kicks, then a series of knees to the head, and lastly, a Booker T-style bicycle kick to the back of the head. But just as MQS goes for the pin … the 15 minute time limit runs out. Ruckus and the crowd chant “five more minutes”, but when MQS rolls out and staggers away, his feelings are made perfectly clear; he'd rather save himself for the match at Final Battle than take any more punishment and risk an embarrassing pre-PPV loss. **1/4 Winner: time limit draw Quality: 78 Crowd: 70 Overall: 74
Segment #11 Adam Pearce, decked out in his regal attire, and Claudio Castagnoli enter the ring, looking even more full of themselves than normal. Pearce says that, instead of explaining what they did, they'll just show it. With that, video runs from Throwdown, where BJ Whitmer was beaten down and defeated by Pearce. Every vicious shot of the beating Whitmer took is shown, with slow-motion to capture the particularly nasty moments. Once done, Pearce introduces ROH's head physician, Michael Leisner, who explains that Whitmer suffered a concussion and has not been cleared to fly. Therefore, he is not here at Unleashed. When asked if he will be medically cleared for Final Battle, Leisner says “no doctor with a conscience and a desire to continue practicing medicine would sign off on BJ Whitmer competing this Sunday”. Leisner is dismissed, leaving Pearce and Castagnoli to announce that, due to Whitmer's health, the main event of Final Battle cannot proceed, and therefore, for the safety of Whitmer, must be canceled. That's when Chris Hero comes out and gets in the ring. Hero says he knows Whitmer's toughness better than anybody in the locker room, and he knows Whitmer would do everything in his power to be at Final Battle. When Castagnoli pipes up and asks if Hero is deaf and reiterates what the doctor said, Hero shoots Castagnoli a baleful glare that would stop a clock. He says if Whitmer isn't allowed to compete, then Hero will step up and take on Pearce and Castagnoli on his own. Pearce and Castagnoli laugh until they see Hero is dead serious; Hero goads them, asking if they're afraid of him, and suggests they should be since together, they “don't have enough balls to qualify as a girl, let alone a boy”. Pearce's temper flames up and he says he needs to see if such a proposition is worth his and the people's time, and suggests a dry run … and then surprises Hero by smacking him with the mic. Castagnoli and Pearce start to put boots to Hero, but mere seconds later, Whitmer jumps the guardrail and slides in the ring! Whitmer tosses Pearce over the top rope, whips him into a guard rail, and spears him so hard, the guard rail comes apart! Hero manages to defend himself against Castagnoli, to the point of putting the Swede on the defensive, until they too are outside the ring. Together, Whitmer and Hero choke-slam Castagnoli into the announce table. Whitmer knocks apart the steel steps as Hero grabs Pearce and drags him back from a crawling attempt at escape. With Hero providing the jumping push, they spike piledrive Pearce into the steel steps on the outside, then do the same to Castagnoli. Whitmer grabs the mic, enraged, gets down in Pearce's face and says that there's no way he won't be at Final Battle, and that there's no way in hell Pearce is walking out of Final Battle with his job. Or even walking out. Quality: Crowd: Overall: 74
Overall show rating: 77
Thursday, December 24, 2009:
INCIDENT[/u] Michael Quackenbush Spillane has been forced to check into rehab because of personal problems. [DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!]
Email: 1) Justice Pain - Daisuke Sekimoto would be a great opponent for me, how about putting us together in some matches? 2) WWE Wednesday are trying to compete with us, but are being destroyed in the ratings. 3) We got a 6.08 rating for 'Unleashed'! The attendance level was 7021 people. We made $280840 from ticket sales. 4) WWE got a 2.72 television rating for 'WWE Wednesday'! The event was attended by 620 people. They made $18600 from ticket sales.
Friday, December 25, 2009:[/u]
Email: 1) TNA got a 5.81 television rating for 'TNA iMPACT!'! The event was attended by 6022 people. They made $240880 from ticket sales. 2) IWA-PR got a 1.61 television rating for 'IWA-PR Thursday'! The event was attended by 808 people. They made $24240 from ticket sales.
Jed Shaffer ~Thanks, Quack. Screw up MONTHS of build-up and at least two PPV's. Now I have to figure out where to stick Kingston in at the 11th hour and 59th minute ...
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Post by mlsq42 on Sept 11, 2014 23:07:01 GMT -5
Clearly having the Chikara special broken REALLY spooked him.
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Post by Brain Of J on Sept 12, 2014 20:12:06 GMT -5
Your final card for Clash Of The Champions III Live and free only on The CW Network December 26, 2009
Three-way elimination match for the ROH Pure Championship! “Must-See” Matt Sydal © vs. “The A-Lister” Rob Conway vs. “The Painkiller” Max Boyer As the old saying goes, the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. It was not in the plans of Rob Conway and Max Boyer to be in a triple threat match. For the past month, the two butted heads, as reluctant partners and rivals, as they marched on towards their one-on-one showdown. Conway, egocentric to a fault, was eager to silence the hot young athlete Boyer and continue to add more validation to his title reign. Boyer wanted to prove Conway a fluke and justify his hype with gold. Perhaps the focus on each other is what left the door open for Matt Sydal to barge in and take the title in a defense on Throwdown five days ago. Perhaps Sydal is more than the tag specialist we have seen. Whatever the case, Sydal left nothing on the table and walked away with singles gold, and now both Conway and Boyer are in the position of challenger. The one-pinfall champion’s disadvantage is gone, so whoever walks out will have earned it. But who will it be? Will Sydal prove his championship run isn’t some fluke? Will Conway reclaim the gold and silence the two youngsters? Will Boyer turn potential into product?
A Bloodbath match will settle the score once and for all, and the ROH Bold Future Championship is on the line! “The Man That You Fear” Kevin Steen © vs. Raven Kevin Steen’s reign has proven many things: he is an exceptional athlete. He wasn’t afforded the proper chances to showcase his abilities. And he has a sickening meanstreak a mile wide and a hundred times as long. Many have challenged, and all have walked out with nothing to show for it but bruises and months shaven off their careers. But one man has not shrank in the face of Steen. He is a man who is easily as deranged and dangerous as Steen: he is ECW legend Raven. He is a man who has felt the sting of barbed wire, the stab of thumbtacks, the burn of fire. And he has inflicted twice as much suffering as he’s taken. The bad blood between Raven and Steen is so much more than the sum of its parts; it is a man standing up for a friend, a battle of generations, a fight by a man against a poisonous gang not unlike the one he once led … but is so much more. If Raven can make Steen bleed out until he can’t answer a ten count, he will stop Steen one day short of hitting the three month mark and deny him a shot at the Pure Championship … and if anybody can do it, it’s Raven. But Steen is the man who handed Ruckus his first loss in 2009, after nearly 7 months of being undefeated. He held back the combined challenge of Raven and Homicide last month. Has Raven run into the one man who has his number? Or will Steen finally meet his match?
For the ROH World Tag Team Championships! The Burning River Brigade (“M-Dogg 20” Matt Cross & Josh Prohibition) vs. We Who Are Not As Others (“The Devil’s Nightmare” Buzz Stryker & “The Brazilian Beast” Victor Ceron) In the history of tag team wrestling, it’s common for a team to come along and be the measuring stick for a period of time; The Road Warriors, The Rock & Roll Express and The Dudleys are three great examples. In ROH, for the longest time, The Briscoes were the measuring stick, until two CZW exiles came to ROH, partnered up, and terrorized the tag ranks. For almost two years, the mere mention of Murderdeathkill was enough to send opponents into knee-knocking terror. Many, though, now believe we’re on the edge of a new era, one that could see no end; the era of We Who Are Not As Others. Speed, strength, athleticism, versatility, they have it all. They’ve left ruin in their wake, and nearly drove MDK to break up. They are but one step from crowning their dominance with gold, and standing in their way are The Burning River Brigade. The Brigade’s road to the championships was long and hard, and saw the rug pulled out from them in a piece of Machiavellian front-office trickery heretofore unseen in pro wrestling. They will not let go of their championships willingly, and certainly not to be the stepping stone to validate another team’s reputation. Will that fire and determination win out the day, or will the Others parlay their unstoppable reputation into championship gold?
An unsanctioned parking lot brawl will be the site for a Canadian civil war! “The Canadian Bulldog” Harry Smith vs. “The Maple Leaf Muscle” Petey Williams Sports has a long history of favoring the sons of successful athletes, and professional wrestling is no exception. Randy Orton and The Rock are but two men who stepped in the ring with the shadows of their fathers on them and carved out their own legacies. And for every success story, there are men like Shawn Stasiak and Scott Putski. But whether they found success or failure, they still had to earn their opportunities. The last name only got them so far. It is this tradition that has gotten under the skin of Petey Williams, an accomplished athlete from The Great White North who nevertheless has seen his career stall out, while men like Harry Smith are just starting theirs. Williams’ bitterness has manifested in a hatred for Smith simply because of his pedigree. Smith, he believes, was given an ROH contract on name alone, not on skill or track record, both of which Wililams (and Smith) have to spare. Finally, after weeks of attacks and diatribes, Smith buckled and demanded that the outsider Williams be booked in a match … but Williams has upped the stakes. He wants into ROH, and if he has his way, it’ll be over Smith’s broken body. At Clash Of The Champions, these two will lock up in an unsanctioned parking lot brawl. If Smith wins, he will prove Williams’ assertions wrong … but he loses, Williams gets an ROH contract. Will Smith do the Hart family proud? Or will Williams’ aspirations derail the youngster’s promising singles career before it begins?
An open challenge to The Family! “The Last Of A Dying Breed” Eddie Kingston vs. ? Eddie Kingston’s last month has been one of trials and derailments. Starting at Trios Tournament, Kingston came up short in his match with Christopher Daniels, ending not only his championship run, but the renegade promotion he represented. Michael Quackenbush Spillane cast Kingston as the villain for his loss, prompting some disagreement among fans. He attempted to represent ROH in War Games, but was passed over. Finally, he was drawn into a match with his one-time teacher, MQS … until MQS walked out of ROH to deal with “personal issues” on Thursday. Kingston was left without a match, without an opportunity to silence the man who has damaged his reputation, and with a loaded double-header, no feasible available replacement. Until, that is, Kingston presented ROH officials with a bold solution: Kingston has vowed to help Team ROH and repair his public image by calling out The Family. Will Trish Stratus and her army of sociopaths answer the call? Or will they stick to whatever twisted plan they have?
Finally, a grudge match months in the making! Bobby Roode vs. Roderick Strong Bobby Roode came to Ring Of Honor to solve the problem of officiating being corrupted by corporate influence. This did not make him any friends in the front office, and he was summarily targeted by The Honor Guard’s indentured hit man, Roderick Strong. For months now, Strong has played a shell game with Roode, not allowing him the opportunity to face him one on one. For a man who has been a fierce competitor for years now, this seemed peculiar for Strong. Last month, he got Callis to switch out the announced match with The Alex Shelley Experience. Fans were baffled; why was Strong, obviously reluctant in his role as Callis’ guard dog, acting this way? His reluctance to face Roode started to spread to participating in wrestling at all, as he would abandon tag matches and put in the most nominal of efforts when forced to. Finally, we got our answer why five days ago, when Strong revealed he was a Family sleeper agent at the expense of ROH Chairman Don Callis. The trap sprung in the face of Callis, literally, as Strong Sick Kicked him into a hospital. Now, with The Family behind him, Strong has no objections to facing down with the man he ambushed months ago. Roode, not one to back down from a challenge, has watched his issue with Strong take on a new dimension. Before, Strong was a reluctant participant in a screwjob, backed by a group that is fracturing and may be extinct come Monday. Now, Strong is surrounded by dangerous men and a maniacal manipulator in Trish Stratus. Can Roode continue to stand against Strong and his new friends? Or has he too been lured into a Trish Stratus deathtrap?
Global ultraviolence masters collide once again in a falls-count-anywhere war! Murderdeathkill (Justice Pain & The Messiah) vs. Blood Moon Dragons (Jun Kasai & Deisuke Sekimoto) For the past few months, MDK's mystique and their reign of dominance over Ring Of Honor's tag ranks has been shattered. It began with their loss of the ROH Tag Team Championships at Survival Of The Fittest in a four-team ladder war. Following that, We Who Are Not As Others shook them to their core, dominating them in two straight falls of a 2/3 falls match. When an icon starts to lose the allure that propelled them to their status in the first place, opportunists come out of the woodwork looking to use the falling icon as a stepping stone, and that's just what Jun Kasai and Deisuke Sekimoto did. Coming in for the Trios Tournament, they impressed and scored contracts, then dropped the facade of grateful foreigners and attacked MDK. And though their success against MDK has been, at best, limited, they've been unrelenting. MDK has been pushed to the breaking point with the Japanese deathmatch masters. At Clash Of The Champions, they'll collide once more, with no rules, and no need for a ring to score the victory. Will MDK finally put a stamp on the belief they're sliding into irrelevancy? Or have the Dragons rattled MDK too much, and their war will be an overdue mercy killing?
Redemption or revenge? The Alex Shelley Experience vs. "The Notorious 187" Homicide Since embracing The Honor Guard, the career of The Alex Shelley Experience has changed directions as many times as he's had elaborate entrances. Once the junior star of the administration's army, he fell out of favor when he couldn't live up to the insane expectations of ROH Chairman Don Callis. He was forced into being a roadblock for Bobby Roode during Roderick Strong's game of cat-and-mouse, and failed miserably. With a rift between him and the Guard, he's looking for redemption by taking out a man who returned to ROH specifically to bolster the Guard only to turn his back on them months later: Homicide. Originally, Homicide would have been facing Mark Briscoe, until The Family saw to it that Briscoe wouldn't be wrestling here or abroad, which has given The Alex Shelley Experience the perfect opportunity to prove he's being unfairly overlooked. But Homicide is not the kind to go quietly into the night, and he sure isn't one to overlook the vendetta the Guard have had for him since he had a change of heart. One man is seeking revenge against a former brotherhood; one is seeking redemption against the samesaid brotherhood. Only one man can get what he wants here. Who will it be?
A tag team grudge match! "Reckless Youth" Tom Carter & Nick Nemeth vs. "The Digital Deity" Davey Richards & Webmaster Derek Davey Richards had a lot of hype surrounding him since he came to ROH. In recent months, he has started to not only believe his own hype, but he's used any and every tactic to keep the hype train rolling. The comparisons to indie icon Tom Carter have never sat well, and a tainted victory over Carter did nothing to quell doubters, or keep Carter from coming after him. Since their initial encounter, Carter has taken a newcomer to ROH, Nick Nemeth, under his wing, who gave Richards a run for his money on ROH television a few weeks back. In response, Richards brought in Webmaster Derek, who runs Richards' website and vlog "DaTVey", and just so happens to also be a trained wrestler. With the odds even, and Carter pressing the issue, this has left Richards no choice but to face Carter once again, only this time, in a tag team match with their respective proteges alongside. Can Richards score the clean win over Carter he so richly thinks he deserves? Or will Carter pull the plug on the egotistical "Digital Deity"?
A four-corners survival match to determine the first #1 contender to the ROH World Women's Championship! Trish Stratus vs. Lisa Marie Varon vs. Nora Greenwald vs. Lufisto At Final Battle, one woman will make history as the first ROH World Women's Champion ... but a champion is only as respected as the challengers she faces. With the fledgling women's division roster still thin, the decision has been made to let the women who couldn't compete for the belt compete for the right to be the first challenger. Will it be the newcomer Lufisto, who has made a name for herself on the indie circuit? Or Nora Greenwald, a woman of strong morals and convictions, who is often thought of as overlooked by women's wrestling enthusiasts? What about Lisa Marie Varon, the brunette powerhouse who once terrorized women's wrestling with her mixture of strength and psychosis? Any of the the three would make for a fine first contender, and a respectable champion to boot ... but there is a fourth. A wild card. The worst case scenario. She is Trish Stratus, matriarch of The Family. A woman bent on tearing ROH apart and denigrating all that defines it. While all four women want the championship, three of them can agree on one thing: Trish Stratus is a dangerous woman, and the worst possible person to become #1 contender. With one fall to a finish, though, is there any way they can work together long enough to to keep her from winning? Or will Trish find a way to outwit them all and threaten the sanctity of the new championship in its infancy?
A tag team grudge match! Outcast Killahs (Oman Tortuga & Diablo Santiago) vs. Truth Martini's True Believers (Jay Lethal & Donovan Morgan) Truth Martini wanted to expand his clientele beyond Boris Alexiev, so he put the word out that he was looking to find a tag team as well. His first target were two tough young men from the streets in Oman Tortuga and Diablo Santiago. Martini spun a web of promises, new images, nice suits ... and a required obedience to the bizarre doctrine of Martini. When the Killahs spurned the offer, Donovan Morgan and Jay Lethal - recently cast out of The Honor Guard - jumped at the opportunity ... and then jumped Tortuga and Santiago. Since then, they've crossed swords in various ways, but to date, not in a straight-up tag match. It's a crowded tag scene in ROH, and both teams are looking to climb the ladder of contention. And they're also looking to prove each made the right choice. Tonight, they'll square off. Will the Killahs prove they were right in turning down Martini's snake-oil sales job? Or will Martini show he found the right clients, and relegate the Killahs to the bottom of the heap? Jed Shaffer ~Gentlemen, start your predictions!
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Post by Dan O'Mac on Sept 15, 2014 11:36:33 GMT -5
Your final card for Clash Of The Champions III -- PREDICTIONS
Three-way elimination match for the ROH Pure Championship! “Must-See” Matt Sydal © vs. “The A-Lister” Rob Conway vs. “The Painkiller” Max Boyer This looks like it is a great match. I think that Conway and Boyer's issues will cause one of them to go out first, I'm hoping it's Conway. Then, Boyer and Sydal go nuts for the final fall. Official Prediction: "Must-See" Matt Sydal by pinfall
A Bloodbath match will settle the score once and for all, and the ROH Bold Future Championship is on the line! “The Man That You Fear” Kevin Steen © vs. Raven Being a huge fan of ECW myself, I have a soft spot for Raven in this one. However, Steen is just too good. I see him getting cocky and almost losing because of it, but Steen's not losing this one. Official Prediction: "The Man That You Fear" Kevin Steen by pinfall
For the ROH World Tag Team Championships! The Burning River Brigade (“M-Dogg 20” Matt Cross & Josh Prohibition) vs. We Who Are Not As Others (“The Devil’s Nightmare” Buzz Stryker & “The Brazilian Beast” Victor Ceron) This one is tough to predict. I like both teams, and with the sheer number of other Tag Teams out there, you can't just predict based on who's going to be the next opponent. It comes down to who looks beatable, and who looks like you can't stop them. Official Prediction: We Who Are Not As Others ("The Devil's Nightmare" Buzz Stryker & "The Brazilian Beast" Victor Ceron) by pinfall
An unsanctioned parking lot brawl will be the site for a Canadian civil war! “The Canadian Bulldog” Harry Smith vs. “The Maple Leaf Muscle” Petey Williams Matches that involve a stipulation that one person will get a contract always seem easy to pick: they guy looking for the contract wins. But I am not sure on this one. The Canadian Destroyer will end this match, it's in a parking lot after all. I just don't think Petey gets the chance to do it. Petey will be struggling to win this one, and Harry has less to lose. Official Prediction: "The Canadian Bulldog" Harry Smith by pinfall
An open challenge to The Family! “The Last Of A Dying Breed” Eddie Kingston vs. ? So... this is kind of hard to predict, not knowing who it'll be that Kingston faces. I'm going to predict that it's Edge. However, I still see Kingston winning, based on a little well-timed interference from Christian, who seems to want to prove he's truely got Edge's number. Official Prediction: "The Last Of A Dying Breed" Eddie Kingston
Finally, a grudge match months in the making! Bobby Roode vs. Roderick Strong No offense to Bobby, but this isn't a match he's going to win. Roddy needs to win to solidify his place in The Family. Official Prediction: Roderick Strong by pinfall
Global ultraviolence masters collide once again in a falls-count-anywhere war! Murderdeathkill (Justice Pain & The Messiah) vs. Blood Moon Dragons (Jun Kasai & Deisuke Sekimoto) This is a match that I feel both teams need to win. I'd go for a double countout or double DQ, but the stipulation just doesn't allow it. So I'm going to just pick the team I like more. Official Prediction: Murderseathkill (Justice Pain & The Messiah) by pinfall
Redemption or revenge? The Alex Shelley Experience vs. "The Notorious 187" Homicide Likes: TASE. Roast Beef Sandwiches. Throwing confetti. Mountain Dew. Dislikes: Homicide. Unsatisfying poops. Hitting your shins on the coffee table in the dark. Official Prediction: The Alex Shelley Experience by pinfall
A tag team grudge match! "Reckless Youth" Tom Carter & Nick Nemeth vs. "The Digital Deity" Davey Richards & Webmaster Derek I feel that this leads to a singles match down the road. To get there, Davey must lose. Official Prediction: "Reckless Youth" Tom Carter & Nick Nemeth by pinfall
A four-corners survival match to determine the first #1 contender to the ROH World Women's Championship! Trish Stratus vs. Lisa Marie Varon vs. Nora Greenwald vs. Lufisto Everything is telling me to pick Trish. I just don't feel I should. I go with a different pick. Official Prediction: Lufisto by pinfall
A tag team grudge match! Outcast Killahs (Oman Tortuga & Diablo Santiago) vs. Truth Martini's True Believers (Jay Lethal & Donovan Morgan) I just don't know. Both these teams could win. In the end, I think I pick the right team. The team that one person's last name is Spanish for "turtle". Official Prediction: Outcast Killahs (Oman Tortuga & Diablo Santiago) by pinfall
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Post by mlsq42 on Sept 25, 2014 10:23:09 GMT -5
I know what I'd do with Kingston, but I won't say until after the PPV as a courtesy.
Mistress ViceRaven New Truth xkred27 Lil Ol Me.
Three-way elimination match for the ROH Pure Championship! “Must-See” Matt Sydal © vs. “The A-Lister” Rob Conway vs. “The Painkiller” Max Boyer Purity is an illusion, it is nothing more than a lack of understanding and experience of pain and suffering, the hallmarks of life. This title is as meaningless as those would shield youth from the horrors of this world. Boyer Finally we have a champion to be proud of, one who is a future Hall of Famer, a ROH original. Sydal will of course reign supreme. I'm hoping Conway gets back his title, but I'll admit, where Sydal goes, everyone else is sure to follow... I think it would be fascinating to have a Boyer in real life, someone who is SO far ahead of everyone else that no-one can have a truly epic match with him. Seriously, has anyone had chemistry with him?
A Bloodbath match will settle the score once and for all, and the ROH Bold Future Championship is on the line! “The Man That You Fear” Kevin Steen © vs. Raven I maintain that until ROH calls back its Prodigal Son and entrusts the leadership of the task to stop The Family to Austin Aries, they will remain unstoppable. Steen. I, for one, will be getting nachos and beer during this farce. Raven, simply because Steen fighting for the Pure title is laughable. I still don't trust Raven, and Steen fucking scares me. Yeah, this is the "Build Steen Tour '09", and I fully endorse that.
For the ROH World Tag Team Championships! The Burning River Brigade (“M-Dogg 20” Matt Cross & Josh Prohibition) vs. We Who Are Not As Others (“The Devil’s Nightmare” Buzz Stryker & “The Brazilian Beast” Victor Ceron) Nahnahnahnah... Others Nah, nah, nah, nah..... Others Hey... Hey... Hey... Others Good. Bye. Others
An unsanctioned parking lot brawl will be the site for a Canadian civil war! “The Canadian Bulldog” Harry Smith vs. “The Maple Leaf Muscle” Petey Williams Harry Smith is merely fending off a threat. Williams is fighting for his survival. The man with the deeper drive always finds a way. Williams I refuse to make a prediction on a match that does not exist officially, thank you. Williams has that knock out blow Smith lacks. And once it strikes, Smith is done. Yeah, we need more talent to make up for the deserters, so welcome Williams
An open challenge to The Family! “The Last Of A Dying Breed” Eddie Kingston vs. ? I spent a good 15 minutes trying to stop myself laughing before I managed to type this. The Family. I wouldn't entrust Eddie Kingston to screw a banana in a monkey prostitute's house, or however that expression goes. The Family need to be stopped, and The Honor Guard will do it, thank you. Yeah, because a guy who's spent the last couple of months preparing for a technical genius is going to be able to handle psychopaths like The Family on short notice. This match isn't happening, The Family's gonna just beat Kingston down and no-one will help him. And he deserves it...
Finally, a grudge match months in the making! Bobby Roode vs. Roderick Strong I tire of repeating myself. Strong This message has been redacted due to length, tone, abundance of swear words and seven pages of repetitious references to 'Judas'. Roode appears to have been the choice, however. Hope you don't like Roode, because Strong is not done filling hospital beds, believe me... Yeah, Strong with Trish to speak for him is gonna be GOOD...
Global ultraviolence masters collide once again in a falls-count-anywhere war! Murderdeathkill (Justice Pain & The Messiah) vs. Blood Moon Dragons (Jun Kasai & Deisuke Sekimoto) This is a match that will provide some entertainment, perhaps. But while MDK has done wonderful work bringing ultraviolence to the masses and providing us all with so much wonderful, wonderful blood... That was in the past. This is now. And BMD is now. BMD because Keiko_Fan_69 likes them. Did you get my message by the way? MDK is still the default choice... For now... See, if you run a redemption angle, the lead in has to suck, and suck bad. WWE totally screwed that up with Cena, and Jed > WWE, so BMD win.
Redemption or revenge? The Alex Shelley Experience vs. "The Notorious 187" Homicide I suppose, if I was to draft the army Aries will need, Homicide would be a junior member. He can be the one to break Trish's neck... The Alex Shelley Experience... At least he better... Draw. I gotta pick one to try and win the pickems after all. Homicide I guess... I dunno, this one's a toss up.
A tag team grudge match! "Reckless Youth" Tom Carter & Nick Nemeth vs. "The Digital Deity" Davey Richards & Webmaster Derek I will begrudgingly continue to support Team Davey given that without his current attitude, I would not enjoy the powers I now hold. I will begrudgingly begin to support Team Davey since he began to allow ROH advertising to be placed into DaTVey. I will begrudgingly refuse to support Team Davey because he's a dick, but he's a dick who gets results. I will happily support Team Davey because I feel, in some small way, that he's mine.
A four-corners survival match to determine the first #1 contender to the ROH World Women's Championship! Trish Stratus vs. Lisa Marie Varon vs. Nora Greenwald vs. Lufisto She may lack a penis, but she is still Family. And in fact, Trish is the most dangerous of them all... Nora is the most well rounded (in all senses of the word...) I don't care. Lufisto because reasons. I'm legally obligated to take My Goddess here.
A tag team grudge match! Outcast Killahs (Oman Tortuga & Diablo Santiago) vs. Truth Martini's True Believers (Jay Lethal & Donovan Morgan) I notice a distinct lack of killing from these so called 'Killers' and... Oh, wait, that's slang... Still, any Killah in a storm, so to speak... The True Believers were third rate guard members, but that's still better than 95% of the rest. The Killahs might, one day, be good. But The Believers have Boris, and Boris is perfect now. The Others need meat. The Killahs
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Post by Brain Of J on Oct 18, 2014 13:52:18 GMT -5
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Results for Clash Of The Champions III Commentators: Steven Manning and Paul Heyman
Segment #1 Tag match, one fall Davey Richards & Webmaster Derek (w/Fangirl Lizzy) vs. Tom Carter & Nick Nemeth Ring Of Honor's third Clash Of The Champions gets underway with a tag team grudge match kicking off the first of an eleven match slate. While Carter and Richards are no strangers to one another, Richards has no interest in locking up with Carter again. Fangirl Lizzy elaborates as she sits in on commentary, stating Richards has proven what he needs to against “the old man”, and is here more as moral support for Webmaster Derek, making his in-ring debut for ROH. At first, Derek gives a good fight to both his opponents, but with the numbers stacked against him, soon he's taking way more than he dishes out. Finally, Richards is embarrassed by Derek's failure to handle Carter and Nemeth, so he tags in … but only when Nemeth is in the ring. Richards exaggerates a cheer, a mockery of Nemeth's lamentable past gimmick in another promotion, drawing Nemeth's anger and clouding his judgment. He rushes headlong into battle, and Richards is able to take advantage. After a few minutes of softening up Nemeth, Richards tags back out to Derek, who is hardly recovered. Still, Derek keeps his team afloat for a while. But eventually his exhaustion and the occasional hits Nemeth gets in are enough to leave Derek vulnerable; he tries a high-risk move and eats knees for it, and Nemeth follows it up with a quick rocker dropper. The hot tag double crawl plays out, and Derek gets the tag first, but Richards can't stop Nemeth from making the tag, finally putting Richards and Carter in the ring together. Richards turns around to re-tag Derek, but he's rolled to the floor, leaving Carter to tee off on Richards. Carter doesn't even go for the pin, he just wants to hurt and humiliate Richards, and that's what he does for a few minutes. But when it comes time for the pin, Carter looks over at Nemeth and asks if he's ready; Nemeth, tired and beaten, nods, and he tags in. Carter puts Richards on his shoulders, turns his back to the turnbuckle, and Nemeth comes flying, hitting a super version of his jumping sleeper slam. Carter rolls out, letting Nemeth take the pin while Carter keeps Derek neutralized. As soon as the bell rings, Carter gets in Lizzy's face and tells her that there's a one-on-one match coming in Richards' future, and he's not going to like it any more than what just happened. **1/4 Winners: Carter & Nemeth (pinfall, Nemeth on Richards, Doomsday sleeper slam) Quality: 79 Crowd: 59 Overall: 69
Segment #2 Bloodletting match for the ROH Bold Future Championship Kevin Steen (c) vs. Raven Raven arrives ringside with a trash can full of weaponry, but it isn't the cheap, almost comical kind of weaponry from an Attitude-era “hardcore” match. Everything in the can is designed for bloodshed and pain; a cheese grater, a bag of thumbtacks, a barbed wire 2x4, lighter fluid and a lighter, light tubes, a staple gun, and plenty more beyond that. When Steen comes out, he doesn't look the least bit intimidated by the arsenal on the arena floor, and in fact has a weapon in his hand; an axe handle, with shards of broken glass stuck to one end. Raven meets him on the floor for an ECW-style orgy of violence. Surprisingly, it's Raven who uses more wrestling moves than Steen, albeit they're modified to include the surroundings; a Russian leg sweep into the guard rail, or a piledriver onto the steel steps. But for the most part, it's weapons, weapons and more weapons, starting with the standard steel chairs; three chairs are left dented or broken in the first six minutes alone. Of note, though, is that Raven just unloads with both barrels, using weapons and moves alike, and has Steen busted open in less than five minutes. Steen, on the other hand, doesn't seem intent on making Raven bleed, and in fact seems to be going out of the way to do damage that doesn't draw a crimson mask. Weapons shots are almost exclusively to the back or legs, and nothing with points or sharp edges. Ten minutes in, and Steen is bleeding and definitely slow to rise, but Raven's head is drenched only in sweat … and he has an even harder time standing up, favoring one leg and his back. He still gets up and manages to deliver punishment, including an Evenflow on the cheese grater than draws a nine-count, and a superplex onto thumbtacks that gets the same, but Steen keeps finding a way to pull himself up off the mat. Every blow that Steen lands is targeted and surgical in its precision, looking not to drain the lifeblood from Raven, but to crush his body and make it unresponsive, to draw out the suffering until Steen decides to end it. At the fourteen minute mark, both look like they've shaved years off their lifespans, but while Raven's skin is still unbroken, his leg can't support weight; he has to pull himself up by the ropes, at which point Steen just kicks it out from under him again. That's when Trish Stratus, having stood behind the guard rail the whole time, comes over, grabs a steel chair and tells Steen to break Raven's leg. Steen smashes Raven's leg and then hammers it a few times on the ground, then slides the chair around his ankle, looking to Pillmanize it … until Beulah runs in, grabs a light tube and smashes it in Steen's face! Stratus climbs up on the apron, eyes staring murderous daggers at Beulah; the First Lady Of Extreme grabs Trish by the hair and pulls her in as the crowd goes wild. A kick in the gut stuns Trish; Beulah yells out “E-C-FUCKING-DUB!” and delivers an Evenflow to Trish onto the chair! Raven and Steen both pull themselves up, but Steen does so with his back turned to Raven, obscuring the fact that he's getting up with the axe handle. When they both get to their feet, Steen turns around and swings, connecting with Raven with a major league swing! Raven hits the mat and is finally bleeding, but he gets back up at nine! Steen hits a package piledriver onto the thumbtacks, but again, Raven's up at the last second! Steen knocks Raven down again, putting the barbed wire 2x4 under Steen's knees. Steen ascends to the top with a chair in hand, jumps off for a senton, putting the chair behind him and crashes down onto Raven's legs, crushing them between steel and barbs! Beulah begs Raven to stay down, even though he insists on trying … so Steen drags him over to the thumbtacks and slams Raven's hands into the tacks! With thumbtacks in his hands, Raven can't grab without causing new pain, and he doesn't have enough time to rip them out, nor enough strength to get to his feet without the ropes. When the audience gets to ten, there's almost an audible sigh of relief from the crowd and the announcers. Beulah moves over to Raven to check on him as medical staff rush down to tend to him. Meanwhile, Steen rolls out, staggers over to the time keeper and grabs a mic. He holds up the Bold Future Title and says he's played by “the machine's” rules, and he wants what is coming to him … and he wants it tonight. And if he isn't put into the Pure Title match, he promises the winners will be the medics working overtime to pick up the bodies he leaves behind. ** Winner: Kevin Steen Quality: 70 Crowd: 83 Overall: 79 Notes: Raven lost overness from this match. Kevin Steen gained overness from this match. The ROH Bold Future title has gained in image.
Segment #3 Tag match, one fall Outcast Killahs vs. Truth Martini's True Believers (w/Truth Martini) Truth Martini sits in with the commentators, saying he has absolute confidence in his men. He says there's no way two “young hooligans” have half the skills of one of his “seasoned ring masters”. As he says this, Diablo Santiago starts off against Jay Lethal, blasts him with a Busaiku knee strike out of nowhere, and pins him for the three-count! Martini, just finished boasting about his team's experience, sees this and flips out, demanding the match be restarted. The Killahs agree, and Morgan rushes in with a clothesline … only for Oman Tortuga to duck and hit a bridging dragon suplex for three! Again, Martini yells and screams and demands another match. Again, the Killahs are game, and even give Martini's True Believers some space to shake out the cobwebs and begin the third attempt at a match fresh. But for all Martini's protesting, the third time is not the charm; the Killahs come on like a swarm of killer bees. Morgan and Lethal never get out of the starting blocks, as Tortuga and Santiago are all over everything they do. It takes all of six minutes, all of it spent on offense, for the Killahs to show Martini that he made the wrong move antagonizing guys just because they turned him down. ***1/2 Winners: Outcast Killahs (pinfall, Tortuga on Morgan, dragon suplex) Quality: 91 Crowd: 67 Overall: 79
Segment #4 Four-corners survival match for a shot at the ROH World Women's Championship Trish Stratus vs. Lisa Marie Varon vs. Lufisto vs. Nora Greenwald Speculation runs rampant over whether or not Trish will make it out for the match, given the vicious DDT she ate less than a half hour prior. Sure enough, after introducing Lisa Marie, Nora and Lufisto, there's nothing but silence when Trish is given an introduction. After three attempts, the ref makes a judgment call and signals for the bell, turning the four-corners survival match into a one-fall triple threat match. Without the psychopathic matriarch of The Family, the match has a completely different tone than what was expected going in. The fight to win isn't tinged with a desperate need for survival against a monster, and Trish's absence gives them no reason to show any unity, so it's every woman for herself. Each woman has her strengths and plays to them; Nora her more grounded offense, Lisa Marie her power, and Lufisto her brawling and fearlessness. It doesn't make for the most amazing match, but it's never dull, as they keep it lively and avoid the one-person-on-the-floor trope rather skillfully. But in the end, it's all about timing and placement. Lisa Marie has Lufisto in position for the Widow's Peak, forgetting about Nora, who was thrown outside. Lisa Marie doesn't see Nora until it's too late, as she's coming off the top rope, hitting Lisa Marie with the Molly-Go-Round. The impact sandwiches Lisa Marie, to say nothing of Lufisto, giving Nora the chance to score the pin on Lisa Marie and become the first number one contender to the ROH World Women's Championship. *1/4 Winner: Nora Greenwald (pinfall, on Lisa Marie Varon, Molly-Go-Round) Quality: 68 Crowd: 68 Overall: 67
Segment #5 Singles match, unsanctioned parking lot brawl Petey Williams vs. Harry Smith When the cameras cut backstage for the parking lot brawl, Williams is already there, leaning against the ROH production truck. The commentators explain that, since it is unsanctioned, there is no referee, so submission or surrender will be the only ways to win. When Smith finally shows up, he bum-rushes Williams from the shadows, and the fight is on. And it very much is a fight, possibly even more so than Steen/Raven was, as they don't make any attempt to use any wrestling moves. It's all fisticuffs and using the environment to their advantage, which happens a lot. The chests and backs of both men are introduced to many a truck, wall, dumpster and anything else that looks large, hard and immobile. At one point, Williams even mugs one of the cameramen for his equipment to drop across the back of Smith. “The Canadian Bulldog” is able to use his size and strength advantage against Williams, throwing him around with ease, but no matter what he does, Williams keeps getting back up and daring Smith to bring more. Smith firmly takes control in the closing minutes, having his way with Williams who looks outmatched and out of gas, but refuses to fly the white flag. After delivering a serious pounding, Smith decides to bust out a wrestling move to try and end it, namely the running powerslam. Only Williams slides out of it behind Smith, pushing him with every ounce of strength into a steel garage door. Smith connects with the steel, denting it with his head and collapsing. Williams, seeing his opportunity, takes advantage, opening the garage door, putting Smith underneath it and bringing it down across the legs once, twice, three, four times. Williams then does the unthinkable: he applies the move most synonymous with the Hart family, the Sharpshooter, wrenching back to put as much torque on the legs and lower back as he can. Smith tries to hold on, but the pain is too great, and he has to cry off. Williams falls to his knees and yells, celebrating his big win and the opportunity it now gives him, proclaiming “first grand slam champion, here I come!”. **1/2 Winner: Petey Williams (submission, Sharpshooter) Quality: 80 Crowd: 67 Overall: 73
Segment #6 Singles match, one fall Roderick Strong vs. Bobby Roode Beneath the black assassin's shroud Strong wears is new gear – full-length white tights, with the words “Family is forever” written down one side, and “Suffer in silence” down the other, in what is supposed to look like blood – and the sick smile he showed after kicking in the head of ROH Chairman Don Callis. The new look and new attitude goes along with a new meanstreak in the ring; where before he was surgical and scientific, now he is vicious, delighting in the pain he causes. Bobby Roode, up to now expecting the morose, apathetic indentured servant Strong had been, has the challenge of changing his gameplan on the fly, with Strong's new Family-style wrestling sensibilities. The result is that, while Roode gets in his shots, he takes way more of a beating than he – or anybody – expected. Even the announcers are astounded to see an athlete of Roode's caliber spend so much time on the defensive, not to mention Strong's change in style. The only hiccup in Strong's plan is that Roode shows an innate toughness, kicking out – with authority – at everything Strong puts him through. Finally, Strong grabs Roode to put him in something there is no kick-out for: the Stronghold. Only Roode gets his legs free and mule kicks Strong right in the gut, knocking the wind out of him. Roode manages to get to his feet, wraps his arms around Strong and hits a bridging German, and amazingly, gets the pinfall! But Roode gets no chance to savor the victory, as Strong catches his breath and takes out the frustration of the loss on Roode. First, a backbreaker using the ring apron, and to follow that up, a Gibson drive onto the bottom half of the steel steps. Roode manages to leave under his own power, but trainers still meet him at the curtain to check him out, as Strong leaves through the crowd, his face twisted in a raging snarl. **3/4 Winner: Bobby Roode (pinfall, bridging German suplex) Quality: 80 Crowd: 75 Overall: 77
Segment #7 Singles match, one fall The Alex Shelley Experience vs. Homicide From the word go, it's obvious that the match means so much to The Alex Shelley Experience. He doesn't wrestle with any trace of the self-centered narcissism that has become his hallmark in recent months; instead, a laser-like focus to prove he is not the failure the ruling administration of ROH has painted him to be. Likewise, Homicide's in-ring demeanor is easily decipherable; rather than wrestling to win, he's wrestling not to lose, no doubt an effect of once again being denied getting his hands on Mark Briscoe. The result is Homicide's anger distracts him and causes him to make mistakes, the kind a seasoned veteran and former ROH World Champion shouldn't make. The end sees Homicide going for the Cop Killa a little too early, with TASE breaking out of it during the roll-over. TASE clinches around Homicide, readjusts and his able to pull off a quick but effective piledriver. From there, a finisher is academic, but The Experience hits one anyway. Once the match is over and The Experience has left the ring, Homicide still lays on the mat, for long enough to give the ref concern that he is injured. But finally Homicide shows he isn't hurt or unconscious; he's just been trying to process what just happened. When he rolls out, he walks down the aisle, head slumped down, as if he can't believe what just happened. ****1/4 Winner: The Alex Shelley Experience (pinfall, Once In A Lifetime Experience) Quality: 94 Crowd: 84 Overall: 89
Segment #8 Tag match, street fight Murderdeathkill vs. Blood Moon Dragons Blood Moon Dragons don't wait for entrances, or even for MDK to get off the stage, to begin their . As MDK stand with Singapore canes raised above head at the head of the ramp, the Dragons attack from behind, with Daisuke Sekimoto cracking Justice Pain in the head with a shovel, and Jun Kasai using a crowbar on The Messiah. For the next several minutes – although it feels like an eternity – Kasai and Sekimoto torture MDK on the stage and ramp; they're strangled with the shovel handle, gouged with the crowbar, rammed into the support structure for the Jumbotron, and dropped onto the unforgiving steel grating of the stage. And the Dragons know how the crowd is aching to see MDK rise up and slay the impudent imports, so they take a few opportunities to rub in their destruction of ROH's once most feared tandem. At about the eight minute mark, Sekimoto slashes across his own throat, calling for the end. Kasai drops off the stage on the side and sets up two tables, then produces lighter fluid and sets them ablaze. Sekimoto lifts up Messiah, looking to power bomb him off the stage through a flaming table, a likely career-ending move. But before he can do it, Pain drags himself over and uses the broken shovel to cave in Sekimoto's sack, and hits the Pain Thriller off the stage! Sekimoto crashes through the flames and the wood to the hard concrete beneath! Kasai rushes around to intercept, but Pain is on the ramp to meet him, shovel in hand. Pain feints a wild baseball swing, causing Kasai to duck, then brings it down across Kasai's back! Dropped to the ground and a DDT into the shovel head! Pain drags Kasai down to the ring, and hits a Pain Thriller into the steel post! Finally, after ten minutes of action, Kasai is rolled in, Pain follows and makes the cover to officially start the match, but he only gets two. Messiah finally gets to the ring with the crowbar and calls for the Grave Filler … and they hit it! The crowd explodes as Messiah makes the cover, but then all gasp as one when Kasai kicks out at 2.99999999999999! Messiah rolls out and starts digging under the ring for something, so he doesn't see Kasai go limp on a power bomb attempt, grab the crowbar and waffle Pain with it. A crowbar Russian leg sweep just about collapses Pain's trachea, which Messiah stands up just in time to see. Messiah slides right in, and Kasai punts him in the head, right back out of the ring. Kasai quickly goes back to Pain with the crowbar and uses it to choke Pain from behind. Messiah tries to fight through the pain, but just as he's about to roll back in, Sekimoto rises from the dead and busts out a sleeper suplex on the arena floor! With no rescue and no rope-breaks available, Pain can only last so long before the lack of oxygen renders him unconscious, and the ref has no choice but to call it. But the ringing of the bell doesn't mean anything as far as the beating being over. Sekimoto produces the table Messiah was working on getting, and with it, the bag of thumbtacks and Steen's lighter and fluid. Sekimoto sets up a horrific tableau, a flaming thumbtack table, climbs the turnbuckle and tells Kasai to send up Messiah. But before the deed can be done, The Outcast Killahs hit the scene! Sekimoto is sent flying into the table by Diablo Santiago! Oman Tortuga blasts Kasai in the head with the shovel! Kasai and Sekimoto roll out and limp away, bleeding and barely conscious, as the Killahs stand in the ring, weapons in hand, daring the Dragons to come back and pick up the fight (which, no surprise, they don't). As the show fades to commercial, the announcers ask the important question: why did the Killahs get involved? **1/4 Winners: Blood Moon Dragons (ref stoppage) Quality: 82 Crowd: 46 Overall: 64 Notes: This match suffered because the crowd were still pumped up from the last one, and so this bout was seen as something of a let-down to them.
Segment #9 Singles match, open challenge Eddie Kingston vs. ? When Clash Of The Champions returns from commercial, Eddie Kingston is in the middle of the ring, mic in hand. He says that sometimes plans don't work out like you expect, but that sometimes, changing plans makes things better. He says Michael Quackenbush Spillane take a “leave of absence” (complete with air quotes) is the best thing for ROH, because right now, ROH doesn't need him stirring up trouble with his lies. Kingston says he has it on good authority that Raven won't be medically cleared to be in War Games at Final Battle, and that Team ROH needs to fill a hole. Kingston understands why they passed on him last time – because of the pressure put on them by MQS' lies – but he says now, the coast is clear; he's defended ROH's honor every time he set foot in the ring. He says he knows he dropped the ball against Christopher Daniels, but War Games is his chance to make it right, by stepping up to the plate when ROH needs it most, and he proves his case tonight, by taking out somebody from The Family. Kingston waits to see who will answer the challenge, and for a long handful of moments, it seems like nobody will. Finally, Jimmy Jacobs appears. The rest of The Family is not here tonight, says Jacobs; he is here to act as emissary, to deliver Kingston a reply. In one smooth move, Jacobs pulls his railroad spike out of his waistband in back and lunges at Kingston, only to get nailed with the spinning backfist! The ref calls for the bell, just in time for Kingston to pick up Jacobs and make him a couple inches shorter with a sickening backdrop driver! And then another! And a third! Kingston drags Jacobs up to his knees and hits another Backfist To The Future! The announcers say that Kingston was looking to “take out” a member of The Family, not just defeat one. Jacobs barely manages to sit up, only to get knocked down again by a Sliding D! A huge smile is across Kingston's face and the crowd is eating it up. Kingston bends down and picks up the spike; the ref tries to stop him, but Kingston yells at the ref how The Family have terrorized Ring Of Honor and chased away too many wrestlers from the company, and if the ref really cared about ROH, he'd stand aside and let Kingston return the favor. All the ref can say in reply is that “rules are rules”; Kingston flips off the ref and as soon as Jacobs is up on his knees, lunges at him with the spike, jamming it into his forehead. The ref calls for the bell, but there's no stopping Kingston's mission to punish. Kingston rolls Jacobs' dead carcass to the outside, picks him up and hauls him up to the stage. Kingston signals to the one remaining table from the MDK/Dragons match to the crowd's delight. With that, Kingston stands up Jacobs, puts a hand around his throat and drives him off the stage through the table with a choke slam! Jacobs is a broken mess lying in the twisted steel and shards of table! Kingston looks in the camera and holds up a finger, saying “one down”. **3/4 Winner: Jimmy Jacobs (disqualification, international object use by Eddie Kingston) Quality: 81 Crowd: 74 Overall: 77
Segment #10 Tag match for the ROH World Tag Team Championships The Burning River Brigade (c) vs. We Who Are Not As Others The champs show no fear of the challengers, either in demeanor or wrestling style; Josh Prohibition and Matt Cross start in a high gear and don't slow down until Buzz Stryker and Victor Ceron make them. It's very much a tag team version of the Sting/Vader matches in WCW; the Brigade show no signs of giving up, and whenever a mistake is made, they capitalize. But, simultaneously, there is a disparity between the two teams: the Brigade, fantastic athletes that they are, are smaller and easier to dominate physically. Meanwhile, the Others have mat skills, a power game, Ceron's martial arts, and the unbridled movie-monster relentlessness of Stryker. There are flashes of offense from the Brigade, but not nearly enough to foster the embers of hope into a full-fledged flame. And as the minutes wear on, the Others show another wrinkle to their strategy: they allow Prohibition and Cross to tag out, rather than working one over excessively, so both get worn down equally, preventing the hot tag to the fresh man. The strategy pays off, as the champs are ground down minute by minute, tag after tag, and the ending becomes as inevitable as a sunset at the end of the day. When Prohibition is weakened as much as the Others think he needs to be, Ceron executes him with the Brazilian Crucifix. There is no celebration, no revelry by the new champions; Ceron stands simply with his arm raised, belt in hand, while Stryker's belt hangs from his hand like a child would hold a blanket. They leave before the now-former champs with all the emotion of having conducted a business transaction, leaving it to the announcers to ask the question: if MDK and the Brigade could be so easily dispatched, did ROH have anybody on their roster who could stop them? **3/4 Winners: We Who Are Not As Others (pinfall, Ceron on Prohibition, Brazilian Crucifix) Quality: 81 Crowd: 77 Overall: 79
Segment #11 Three-way elimination match for the ROH Pure Championship Matt Sydal (c) vs. Rob Conway vs. Max Boyer Before either of the challengers or the champion come out, CW Network Representative Jim Cornette walks down to the ring. He says that he’s been in communication with reps for ROH Chairman Don Callis, and they have determined that they have no grounds on which to block Kevin Steen from taking his title shot tonight. Therefore, the match will now be a four-corners elimination match. With that, one by one, the challengers come out, as the announcers openly postulate how the inclusion of Steen will change the game plans of each wrestler. When Steen, the last challenger to enter the ring, makes his appearance, it’s visually stunning, as he has not changed gear, gotten stitched up or even cleaned up; dried blood is still crusted on his forehead, and his singlet is still stained. Max Boyer and Rob Conway don’t seem bothered by the sudden inclusion of Steen, but Matt Sydal most definitely is, and gets on the mic to voice his displeasure, calling it a “conspiracy” to derail his “historical” title reign. Sydal starts running down his opponents one by one, Steen walks over, pimp slaps Sydal and spikes him into the mat with the package piledriver. Steen makes the cover so quickly, the ref has to call for the bell before making the count, but it doesn’t matter, because Sydal is out cold. Three seconds later, a new champion is guaranteed with Sydal’s abrupt elimination. With Sydal gone, Conway steps in, only Steen quickly tags out to Boyer, pitting the two men who were supposed to have gone one on one against each other. While Conway and Boyer are in the ring together, it’s a game of one-upsmanship, with each looking to prove his case as the superior wrestler (without breaking the Pure Wrestling rules). But when Steen comes in, there’s a tonal change; with Steen being a wounded animal and a member of The Family, both Conway and Boyer want Steen eliminated and even work together on occasion to do it. Steen, though, plays a very cagey game, limiting his in-ring time, and employing a clever strategy by working in submission moves when he can, even when his opponent isn’t weakened enough to tap, to force them into burning off rope breaks. He makes Conway burn two with a cobra clutch and a Boston crab, and a lazily-applied Sharpshooter helps Boyer spend one as well before Boyer wises up to Steen’s trick. Conway and Boyer, meanwhile, spend every moment looking to humble the other, and Steen happily watches from the sidelines when he gets the chance, since Conway and Boyer pull out all the stops. Boyer has to burn through a rope break to save himself from a pinfall after eating the Director's Cut, and makes Conway eat his last one on a shooting star press that damn near has Boyer touching the rafters. And Steen has to use one to save himself after his wound gets busted open and he bleeds enough that he can't kick out on his own. At this point, Steen manages to crawl and tag out to Conway, who is so incensed at Steen saving his own skin, he turns to take a shot at Steen, and gets caught by Boyer. One hit from A Touch Of Evil later, and Conway can put his foot in the ropes all he likes, but without rope breaks, it doesn't stop the ref from counting to three, eliminating “The A-Lister”. Steen is forced to come back in and has to crawl under the middle rope to do so. Boyer runs at Steen, ready to connect with a shining wizard, but Steen stands up with Boyer! He was playing possum! Steen has Boyer on his shoulders and unleashes with an F-Cinq! Mobius Strip by Steen, but Steen looks to have spent all his energy on that short offensive burst, as Boyer gets to the ropes to break up the hold. The ref sends Steen back, but Steen pushes him aside and grabs Boyer by the legs; the ref penalizes Steen a rope break, but Steen tells the ref he won't need it. Mobius Strip again! And this time, the ropes won't save him! Steen uses every last drop of energy, blood pouring down his face, to keep Boyer from squirming out of the hold, as Boyer struggles to get out of the vicious submission move, but there's nowhere to go. Boyer holds on and holds on until his body betrays him and he passes out. The ref checks the arm once, twice, and on the third time, Steen makes history, becoming not only the first man to go the distance with the Bold Future Championship, but winning the Pure Championship with his guaranteed title shot. The ref has to lay the belt on Steen, who can barely stand. Clash Of The Champions III closes on the image of Steen, belt draped over his body, giving The Family a positive note to end the night on after several disappointments. **1/2 Winner: Kevin Steen (on Boyer, ref stoppage) Quality: 78 Crowd: 76 Overall: 77
Overall show rating: 75
Jed Shaffer ~Took a long time to get that done. Sorry.
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Post by Brain Of J on Oct 22, 2014 20:00:31 GMT -5
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE ROH NEWSWIRE!!![/i]
At last night’s Clash Of The Champions III, Kevin Steen’s defeat of Raven proved the depths of Raven’s toughness, but it came at a high price. Raven was taken away in an ambulance following the loss, unable to stand after having his lower legs crushed, and has spent the night in a nearby medical facility. Early this morning, doctors informed Ring Of Honor that, due to various and sundry injuries – especially to the legs – Raven would not medically cleared to compete in the War Games match against The Family. Who will take Raven’s place, and how will this change the team’s dynamic? We should find out in a few hours, as we've been informed the office of ROH Chairman Don Callis will issue a statement regarding War Games - and release the final card preview for Final Battle - shortly!
Jed Shaffer ~Another newswire coming by the weekend. Thoughts on COTC3?
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Post by Brain Of J on Oct 25, 2014 20:54:49 GMT -5
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE ROH NEWSWIRE!!!
The announcement earlier today about Raven's medical removal from War Games had thrown ROH officials for a loop. The veteran wrestler's presence on ROH's War Games team was a welcome addition, given his career history and connection to Ruckus. For a couple hours, ROH officials have been scrambling, discussing with Team ROH, about a replacement for Raven.
That is, until, embattled ROH Chairman Don Callis stepped in, who issued a press release that read more like a proclamation. The entirety of this press release is contained below:
“While Raven and I only have our ECW past and breathing oxygen in common, I cannot deny his presence on Team ROH was necessary in combating the terrorist force of Trish Stratus' Family. His experience in extreme environments would no doubt have given Ring Of Honor's representatives an edge. As a result of his narcissism in wanting to wrestle both Kevin Steen in War Games, he has left me in an awkward position. I am forced to make harsh decisions to protect Ring Of Honor.
“Based on his success at Clash Of The Champions III against a member of The Family, I am forced to add Bobby Roode to Team ROH. While he is a puppet of the loathsome Jim Cornette, he has proven himself to be the kind of tough and resilient wrestler ROH needs right now. Additionally, I will be installing a corner-man for Team ROH, to protect against any chicanery by The Family on the outside. As much as I am reluctant to include this man anywhere in this match, I am forced to concede his physical capabilities and noted history with The Family. That man will be Eddie Kingston.
“And to the hundreds of thousands of fans who have written online, concerned for my well-being, rest assured that I will be on hand at ringside to witness Final Battle in person. On a night such as this – where we can and will vanquish both the remnants of Paul Heyman's mutinous cabal, and Trish Stratus' vile cult – I have a solemn duty to be there on hand as Ring Of Honor sweeps away the most turbulent, violent period in its history and turns the page to a new era. An era of pure sportsmanship, pure competition, pure wrestling – in short, what makes ROH the premiere wrestling brand on Earth!”
Jed Shaffer ~Preview in the next few days, is the plan.
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