Show opens with Ace Steel and Colt Cabana backstage. They are talking about the Field of Honor. They go over to Homicide and Julius Smokes, appear to be rolling dice in the corner. Classic line as Steel asks if they are playing jacks. They ask Smokes about the Field of Honor and he rambles on about something. Next is A.J. Styles and Amazing Red who cut a quick promo.

Match No. 1: Texas Wrestling Academy (Fast Eddie & Don Juan) vs. Carnage Crew (Loc & Masada) vs. Special K (Hydro & Deranged) vs. Spanish Announce Team (Jose & Joel Maximo) in a scramble match. Deranged hits a couple of arm drags on Loc before Loc hits a massive clothesline on Deranged. Loc then drops him on his head with a saito suplex. Hydro hits a hurricanrana on Joel. Fast Eddie hits a weak hurricanrana on Joel. Joel holds him on his shoulders and Hydro hits a huge ddt from the top rope. Deranged hits a leg trap sunset flip powerbomb (Code Red) on Fast Eddie. Loc does a reverse facebreaker knee smash followed by a swinging neckbreaker. Special K working over Loc. Deranged botches a springboard something attempt. SAT pick him up and do a pendulum into a facebuster (Washing Machine). TWA gets Jose on the top rope and Fast Eddie does a fallaway slam while Don Juan does a neckbreaker. Masato drops Eddite on his head and then gives Don a hangman’s neckbreaker. SAT with a doubleteam hurricanrana on Masada. Hydro with a nice bridging german suplex on Loc. SAT hit the Spanish Fly on Hydro but can’t make the pin. Fast Eddie nearly kills himself with a moonsault to the floor that miss Joel and he winds up in the front row. Well, the kid is legally blind. Don Juan with a cross body block to the floor. Deranged does a springboard into a hurricanrana on Loc and gets the pin as Dixie grabs his hands. Typical crazy scramble match with tons of high spots. After the match, we get another rave. Yawn. Rating: ***

Jim Cornette comes to the ring. Wireless mic doesn’t work. Cornette cuts a promo on Special K. Cornette then introduces the tag team he brought to ROH. Midnight Express music plays and Dunn and Marcos come out. The Prophecy then jumps Dunn and Marcos. It looks like Cornette turned heel. Christopher Daniels and Dan Maff give Marcos a double flapjack. Maff slams Dunn then throws Daniels into the Rocket Launcher, where he splashes Dunn. Cornette then hits Dunn with the racket, then the Marcos. Daniels then introduces Cornette as the newest member of The Prophecy.

B.J. Whitmer shown backstage. He cuts a boring, average promo.

Match No. 2: Chet “The Jet” Jablonski vs. Nigel McGuiness. Our first look at Nigel in ROH. Before the match, Chet’s manager, Brock Guffman cuts a promo. Chet works the arm early. He then hits a huge shoulder block. Chet hits a t-bone suplex on Nigel. Huge lariat by Chet. Nigel turns him into a stepover toehold facelock (STF). Jablonski hits a fisherman’s northern lights suplex. He then hits a crazy side suplex. Jablonski misses a senton and then Nigel does a quick roll into a bridge for the pin. Short match but a bunch of nice moves. Rating: ***1/2

Match No. 3: Chris Sabin vs. Homicide. They trade moves and block moves early. Sabin with a nice fireman’s carry into a sitout powerbomb. Homicide hits  a running arched boot (Yakuza Kick). Sabin hits a shining wizard as Homicide is on his knees. Nice brainbuster by Sabin. Sabin hits a cross  body block, but Homicide rolls through. Homicide applies the stepover toehold facelock (STF). Sabin hits a nice snap neckbreaker. He goes to the top but Homicide catches him. Homicide wihttps://www.timharv.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=2464th a hurricanrana. Sabin hits a side slam backbreaker (Sabalizer). Homicide barely kicks out. Homicide goes for his back to back double underhook piledriver, but Sabin blocks it. Homicide gives him a nut shot, then hits Da Cop Killa on his second attempt for the pin. These guys put on a great show, Sabin in particular. Rating: ****

Match No. 4: Alex Shelley & Jimmy Jacobs vs. Second City Saints (Colt Cabana & Ace Steel). Jacobs with a nice swinging headscissors. Jacobs and Shelley do double facebuster on Cabana. Cabana works over Shelley outside the ring. Steel hits a nice slingshot suplex on Shelley. Cabana holds Shelley and Steel with a huge dropkick to the face. Double knee to the chest by Cabana. Steel then hits a backbreaker on Shelley. Shelley with a nice swinging double neckbreaker on the heels. Jacobs with a double dropkick. Double arched big boots by the faces. Cabana on the top rope and Shelley goes up to meet him. Steel throws him down and then Cabana catches him with a ridiculous release german suplex onto his head. Steel then catches Jacobs with a gory neckbreaker (Spinal Shock) from the middle rope. Shelley breaks up the pin attempt. Shelley then hits a crossed-arm scoop brainbuster (It Came From Japan) on Cabana. Cabana and Steel then do a vicious doubleteam as Cabana gives Shelley a double underhook canadian backbreaker drop as Steel hits a hangman’s neckbreaker (Colt .46) for the pin. Another damn good match with a bunch of nasty moves. Rating: ****

Match No. 5: Matt Stryker vs. Justin Credible. I don’t know what it is, but I don’t like either of these guys. Stryker is jacked, he’s gotta be on the juice. Stryker gets on the mic and says he’s leaving. Stryker brings him back to the ring. Credible takes a big bump into the ring barricade. And a second. They are now in the front row. They continue to brawl in the crowd. Stryker takes a bump into the barricade. Credible gets posted. He’s busted open. Credible blocks a death valley driver attempt. He slams Stryker on the floor. Crowd is behind Stryker. He hits a springboard moonsault and then goes to the top. Stryker catches him with a boot as he dives to the mat. Credible with a cross body but Stryker rolls through. Credible blocks the death valley driver again and then catches Stryker with a kneeling belly to belly piledriver (That’s Incredible) but he kicks out. On his fourth attempt, Stryker hits a death valley driver (Stryker Driver) for the pin. Decent match but a bit sloppy in spots. Rating: ***

Les Thatcher outside the building with Christopher Daniels and Jim Cornette. Great promos by both. Maff chases away Thatcher. The Prophecy acts like they have a plan. Colt Cabana and Ace Steel backstage as Lucy films them making jokes, talking to Chris Sabin. Sabin says he was invited to the Field of Honor and Cabana is upset and goes looking for Rob Feinstein. Daniels and Maff are shown running down the hall. They attack Amazing Red and the SAT. Daniels gives Red several chairshots to his bad knee. A.J. Styles comes out as they help Red back to the lockerroom.

Match No. 6: Slyk Wagner Brown vs. Hotstuff Hernandez vs. Scoot Andrews vs. Michael Shane in a four corner survival match. Nice leg lariat by Hernandez. He then hits an overhead choke suplex (Crackerjack) on Bentley. Shane gives him a kick to the balls and then a forearm. Andrews now in against Brown. They mess up an armdrag spot. Slyk and Hernandez trade huge chops. Hernandez does a slingshot splash from the apron. Shane with a nice side suplex on Brown. Nice shot of Hunter and her humongous rack. Scoot hits a nice old school suplex. He then gives Shane a spinning inverted powerbomb. Scoot goes for a cross body block but Hernandez catches him and gives him a spinning sitout powerbomb. He follows with another sitout powerbomb. Hernandez takes a shot in the balls again. Brown then goes to the top and hits a neckbreaker on Hernandez. Brown puts Hernandez in a headscissors and then does a handstand on the apron. Andrews puts him in a facelock and then Shane puts Andrews in a boston crab. Nice four-way tandem spot. Hernandez then gives Brown and inverted side powerbomb. Another four-way move as Slyk hits a legdrop on the three from the top rope. Brown misses a moonsault. Brown nearly kills himself as he hits a moonsault from the second rope to the floor and lands on the barricade torso first. Hernandez then does a plancha to the floor. Hernandez gives Brown a nasty throwing crucifix powerbomb (Mega Bomb). Shane hits Hernandez with a dropkick and then Hernandez goes to spear Shane but he moves and Andrews takes the full force of it. Shane catches Hernandez with a superkick. As Scoot gives Shane a double underhook sitout powerbomb, Brown does a shooting star press on Hernandez but lands on his head. Andrews then catches Brown in a pumphandle reverse piledriver (Force of Nature) but Shane breaks it up. Shane blocks a Force of Nature and then gives Andrews a fisherman’s ddt for the pin. Match started slow and there were a couple of sloppy spots, but damn did these guys put on a great show. Rating: ****

Match No. 7: Slim J vs. Jimmy Rave in a Field of Honor qualifying match. No idea why these guys are so high on the card. J with a northern lights suplex early. Huge clothesline by Rave. J with a nutshot on Rave outside. Nice release german suplex by Rave. J blows a spot but comes back and drops Rave on his head with a spinning cradle ddt. J then hits a standing somersault neckbreaker. Nice inverted ddt by Rave. J follows with a swinging neckbreaker. Huge shining wizard by Rave. He somehow kicks out. Rave with a back suplex into a bridge. From the second rope, J hits a tornado double underhook suplex. J follows up with a wheelbarrow half nelson suplex. Damn this kid has some original highspots. Rave answers with a release german suplex. Power bomb by Rave, but J kicks out. Rave then hits a spinning headscissors into a crossface (From Dusk Till Dawn) for the pin. Another really good match with some innovated moves and highspots. Rating: ****

Match No. 8: B.J. Whitmer vs. Samoa Joe for ROH title. Joe with a nasty single boston crab. They trade some huge kicks. Then some huge slaps. Nice backdrop driver by Whitmer. Whitmer gets caught in a one-armed sides slam (STJoe). Joe with a big knee to the throat. More chops by Joe. Joe catches Whitmer with a nasty suplex. Joe working over Whitmer outside the ring. Whitmer puts Joe into the ring barricade. And a second time. And then a third time. Joe throws Whitmer headfirst into the barricade. He then gives him a running arched big boot to the barricade (Ole Kick). Joe follows with a second Ole Kick. Whitmer hits a diving forearm. Suplex by Whitmer, followed by a northern lights suplex. Joe with some nasty knees to the face. Joe choking out Whitmer, but he makes it to the ropes. Joe with a sunset flip and then a rolling cradle. Whitmer catches Joe with an exploder suplex and then a backdrop driver. Joe kicks out. Joe hits a german suplex, followed by a dragon suplex, followed by a crossed-arm german suplex (X-Plex). This was reminiscent of a Japanese match as these guys beat the hell out of each of other. Damn good match. Rating: ****1/2

Colt and Ace are still looking for Feinstein. Comedy segment with Ring Crew Express.

Match No. 9: Christopher Daniels & Dan Maff vs. A.J. Styles & ??? for ROH tag team titles. Christopher Daniels has one of the best ring entrances in the business. Too bad TNA ruined it. Styles has a mystery partner since Red was jumped earlier and had to be taken to the hospital. Styles picks Homicide to be his partner. Mayhem early. Heels get thrown into the front row. Damn, Styles and Homicide both just did double suicide dives into the crowd. Even Cornette is impressed. Faces do a rowboat on Cornette and Allison Danger. Sweet dropkick by Styles on Daniels. Faces with a double backdrop on Daniels. Nice snap suplex by Styles on Daniels. Homicide catches Daniels with a suplex. Maff then catches him with a suplex. Maff nails Homicide with a cannonball, followed by a headbutt to the groin. Heels hit a double flapjack. Daniels has abdominal stretch on Homicide and Cornette gives him racket for leverage. Heels working over Homicide. Maff does Rocket Launcher on Daniels but Homicide moves. Styles gets the hot tag. He gives Maff a hurricanrana, but Maff botches it. Daniels is on the apron and Styles gives him a headscissors into a hotshot. He then clotheslines Maff. Styles misses his moonsault press and Maff gives him a release german suplex. Styles misses another moonsault press but then recovers and gives him an inverted ddt (Phenomenon). Daniels tags in and catches A.J. with a spinning sitout powerbomb (Blue Thunder Driver). Daniels hits a double jump moonsault (Best Moonsault Ever) but Styles kicks out. Styles goes for a backflip kick (Pele) but it barely grazes Daniels and he sells it anyway. Maff hits a sitout facebuster on Styles and then heels do another Rocker Launcher. Homicide gives Daniels a cutter from the top rope but he barely kicks out. Maff with a half nelson suplex on Homicide. Homicide with a suicide dive (tope) but he hits Smokes. Homicide throws Maff head first into the barricade. Homicide goes for his back to back double underhook piledriver (Da Cop Killa), Daniels blocks it and then hits a 90 degrees spinning lifting sitout double underhook facebuster (Angel’s Wings) but Styles barely makes the save. Daniels throws A.J. in the referee. Cornette throws the racket to Daniels who swings at A.J. and misses. A.J. then gives him belly to back inverted mat slam facebuster (Styles Clash) for the pin. Pretty damn good match. Sadly, a couple of missed moves hurt the rating. After the match, Cornette and Daniels argue. Heels then beat on Cornette. Red then makes the save with the tennis racket. Joe then clears the ring. Cornette then lifts the arms of Red and Joe. Cornette then cuts a promo after the match and puts over ROH and the crowd. Great post match action. Rating: ****1/2

Homicide cuts a promo on Steve Corino. Enough already, we haven’t seen that f’ing guy in like six months. Joe puts over B.J. Whitmer. He asks who’s next, Stryker, Cabana or Punk? Or maybe Low Ki or Daniels? Corino cuts a promo from who the hell knows where. Blah, blah, blah. Enough already. He puts over Japan and shits on ROH. Actually kind of funny, yet too long and rambling.

Steel and Cabana continue their backstage hijinx. They finally find Feinstein and he still can’t act. Except when he gets caught on an undercover sting tape. Feinstein says the Cabana is invited to the tournament and leaves. Thankfully. Cabana is happy and he and Steel go to celebrate. As the show goes off the air, we see “Rust Never Sleeps” on a hand-written note.

Show opens with CM Punk backstage cutting a promo on Raven. He says this is the most important match of his career. Colt Cabana interrupts Punk and he gets pissed and storms away. Cabana then cuts a comedy promo that turns somewhat serious.

They then show a montage of clips from the show. This is my big ROH pet peeve. Hey Gabe, I don’t want to see highlights of matches I haven’t seen yet. Save that shit for after the show.

Special K inside and outside the ring dancing to their rave music, just like the ending of the last show.

Gary Michael Capetta backstage with Samoa Joe. Joe cuts a promo on Paul London, who is in his last match for ROH. Capetta is terrible as always, he just tries too hard and his acting sucks.

We cut back to the stupid rave.

Idiot Capetta backstage again. This time with Homicide. He asks what happened after the last show. They keep talking about Steve Corino for some unknown reason. Julius Smokes cuts a promo on Corino. Homicide challenges Corino to a strong style match.

Back in the ring, the rave continues. Special K keeps fucking with ring announcer Stephen DeAngelis. Christopher Street Connection breaks things up as they play their disco music. Crowd chants “You suck dick” at CSC. Buff E. asks if anyone knows if they suck or swallow. That shuts up the crowd. CSC says they will turn everyone on to disco. Special K then jumps CSC as the rave music starts again. Low Ki then comes out and grabs the mic. He says he came for a fight and most of Special K bails.

Match No. 1: Low Ki vs. Special K. Low Ki slaps the shit out of Cloudy. Hijinx laughs and Low Ki quickly puts him in a dragon sleeper. Deranged then gives Low Ki a nut shot. Slugga carries those two to the back and Deranged is left. Deranged goes for a springboard moonsault, Low Ki catches him but Deranged gives him an arm drag. Deranged then hits a hurricanrana and a spin kick. Deranged working on Low Ki’s injured shoulder. He then hits a nice moonsault from the top rope to the floor. Deranged comes back into the ring with a springboard missile dropkick. They fuck up a move and then Low Ki gets pissed and gives him numerous Kawada kicks to the face. He then hits a rolling wheel kick. Ki follows with a cartwheel jumping high kick (Tidal Krush). Slugga grabs Ki from behind. Ki grabs Slugga in the balls to escape. Ki then puts Deranged into a lifting leg hook front facelook and rams him into the top turnbuckle twice before dropping him with a fisherman driver (Ki Krusher). He then immediately locks on a dragon sleeper (Dragon Clutch) as the bell rings. Interesting match. Ki got his ass beat early and after a botched spot, he just destroyed Deranged. After the match, Ki steps on Deranged right in the nuts. Rating: ***

They cut to a shot of Christopher Daniels talking on his cell phone in front of a paneled wall. The graphic says it is from Japan and we see Daniels wearing a cool New Japan Pro Wrestling t-shirt. He is talking to Allison Danger and tells her to offer the spot to him, whoever that is. Daniels then cuts a promo. He then says he will ask for a title shot when he gets back to Japan.

Match No. 2: Jimmy Rave vs. Matt Stryker. Rave in control early, working over Stryker’s arm. These guys are trading a bunch of tehncial moves and crowd is into it. Rave hits a belly-to-belly suplex from the top rope, then Stryker throws Rave from the top rope. Big knee by Rave followed by a shining wizard. Stryker hits a leg lariat and then a power slam. Rave gets a sleeper hold but Stryker breaks it with a jawbreaker. Rave does a spinning headscissors into a crossface
(From Dusk Till Dawn). Stryker reaches the ropes. Stryker then hits a death valley driver (Stryker Driver) for the pin. Decent opener, but a bit short. Rating: ***

Match No. 3: Carnage Crew (Loc & DeVito & Justin Credible & Masada) vs. Texas Wrestling Academy (Fast Eddie, Don Juan & Hotstuff Hernandez & Rudy Boy Gonzalez) in a weapons tag team match. All eight guys brawl before the match officially starts. DeVito beating the shit out off Eddie outside. Hernandez and Eddie go for simultaneous drop kicks on Masada straddling the top rope, but Eddie is late and he nearly breaks his neck. Justin now working over Don Juan, giving him a nasty power bomb. Rudy and Justin brawl in the crowd. Fast Eddie does a crazy moonsault to the floor. Don Juan then does a cross body block to the floor. Fast Eddie gives Masada a wicked german suplex onto a folded chair. Loc gives Don Juan a suplex onto a section of fence. Masada sits on the top rope and then throws Fast Eddie over his head and he lands headfirst on a chair set up in the ring. Rudy gives DeVito a suplex into a ladder in the corner. Loc destroys Don Juan with a chair thrown into the back of his head. He then gives him a neckbreaker on a chair. DeVito gives Hernandez a ladder shot to the head. Don Juan gives Masada a ddt onto a chair from the second rope. Don Juan gives a Masada a swinging neckbreaker from the apron onto a chair on the floor. Loc gives Fast Eddie a huge superplex from the top of a 10-foot ladder. Loc and DeVito then give Don Juan a ridiculously crazy spike piledriver from the apron through a table. Hernandez with a tope to the floor on Masada. He then sets up several chairs in the ring. He gives Masada a throwing crucifix powerbomb (Mega Bomb) through the chairs for the pin. Damn, this match was a train wreck but great if you like this kind of violence in a match. Rating: ***

Match No. 4: Outcast Killaz (Oman Tortuga & Diablo Santiago) vs. The Purists (Tony Mamaluke & John Walters). No idea why there is a squash match this high on the card. Boring shit early, nothing worth writing about. Purists with a double hangman’s neckbreaker on Santiago. Nice dropkick by Walters. Diablo hits a blockbuster on Walters. Oman holds Mamaluke and Diablo hits him with a nice dropkick. Mamaluke plants Oman with a powerbomb. He then does a crazy leglock. Meanwhile, Walters puts his leg behind Oman’s head and pulls his arm. Oman submits to both moves. Match was decent but nothing special. Rating: **1/2

After the match, the Ring Crew Express (Dunn & Marcos) come to the ring. Then Xavier comes to the ring and gives RCE a double clothesline. No idea what’s going on here. Xavier gives Dunn a cobra clutch suplex and then Marcos a pumphandle sitout facebuster (Kiss Your X Goodbye). Gary Michael Capetta interviews Xavier in the ring. Fans do the A.C. Slater chant. Xavier says he wants to be in the Field of Honor tournament.

Match No. 5: Tom Carter vs. Doug Williams. They trade technical moves early. Williams all over Carter. Nice hangman’s neckbreaker by Williams. Carter recovers and works on the arm. Williams withe a nice old school suplex. He then hits a nice tornado ddt. Carter barely hits a dropkick on Williams and then hits a somewhat sloppy moonsault press. Williams hits a huge knee off the top rope but Carter kicks out. He follows with a big knee lift. Carter replies with a facebuster. Carter with a wicked swing ddt from the top rope followed by a frog splash. Williams rolls Carter and then goes for a bridging german suplex (Chaos Theory) but he can’t hit it and holds his arm. Carter grabs the arm and rolls Williams over for the pin. Not sure about this one, nobody gives a shit about Carter, except Gabe I guess. Rating: ***

After the match, Carter is walking back to locker room. Allison Danger offers him a spot in The Prophecy but he turns her down. Weak.

Match No. 6: Colt Cabana vs. B.J. Whitmer vs. Dan Maff vs. Homicide. Winner gets a title shot at the next show. Maff opens with Homicide. Maff quicly tags to Whitmer. Cabana now in with Maff and Cabana hits a huge clothesline. Homicide nearly kills himself with a tope con hilo to the floor. Whitmer hits a nice northern lights suplex on Homicide. Homicide and Cabana trade chops. Homicide and Whitmer trade kicks to the back. Maff does a crazy dive and ends up in the front row. Cabana hits a moonsault to the floor. Two huge spots by the big men in this match. Whitmer and Maff trade some brutal chops. Maff gives Whitmer a half nelson suplex and he  lands on his head. Homicide hits a cutter on Maff. Huge boot the face by Maff on Homicide. Cabana goes for a fisherman’s suplex on Homicide and Maff gives him a german suplex. Nice three-way spot. Whitmer catches Maff with a huge knee. Cabana goes for a double underhook canadian backbreaker drop (Colt .45) but Whitmer blocks it and gives him a falling reverse ddt (inverted ddt). Homicide breaks up the pin attempt. Homicide goes for his back-to-back inverted piledriver (Da Cop Killa) but Whitmer escapes, tries to hit him with a superkick but Homicide hits a huge lariat. Maff misses a cannonball on Homicide. Cabana goes for an airplane spin on Homicide but then drapes his legs over the top rope and gives him a nasty bulldog. Maff with a nut shot on Cabana. He then gives Cabana an inverted death valley driver (Burning Hammer) but Whitmer breaks it up. Whitmer hits a T-bone suplex (wrist clutch exploder suplex) on Maff but Homicide breaks it up. Whitmer gives Homicide a german suplex from the top rope. Whitmer then gives Cabana the wrist clutch exploder from the top rope for the pin. Damn good match with tons of high risk moves. Rating: ****

Daniels shown on the phone in Japan. He acts upset about Xavier coming back and not telling him. He then cuts a promo acting like Xavier came back as planned.

Capetta backstage with Low Ki. Same monotone promo by Ki. Fittingly the audio doesn’t match the video.

They show a clip from the previous show where Special K destroyed the Backseat Boyz through a table.

Match No. 7: Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid & Johnny Kashmere) & Spanish Announce Team (Jose & Joel Maximo) vs. Special K (Mikey Whipwreck, Brian XL, Angel Dust & Hydro) in a scramble match. Hydro opens with Joel. Huge lariat by Joel. Angel Dust hits a springboard dropkick. He offers some pills to Kashmere. Kashmere puts them in his mouth and gives  him a chop. Followed by a spear. Brian XL with some nice moves on Jose. Mikey blows mist into Acid’s eyes. All  four faces do a tandem suplex on the heels. Next is a crazy multi-man move as Hydro is on his stomach. SAT hold Angel Dust and Acid clotheslines him from the top rope. SAT then powerbomb him onto Hydro’s back. Jose then puts Hydro in a camel clutch while Joel has Angel Dust in a boston crab. Boyz and Joel then do a triple dropkick on Hydro. SAT all do jumps onto Jose, held by Mikey who did a stepover toehold facelock and then turned it over. Crazy moves now. Kashmere drops Lit from a cradle suplex into a neckbreaker (Cradle Breaker). Mikey then hits a shining wizard on Kashmere. Acid then nails Whipwreck with a running boot (Mafia Kick). SAT hits the Spanish Fly on Hydro. Trent holds Mikey and Joel goes for kick put Mikey moves and he hits Acid. Mikey then gives Acid a three-quarter facelock jawbreaker (Whipper Snapper) for the pin. Entertaining match with a bunch of spots. After the match, the Boyz give Joel a doubleteam crucifix powerbomb (T-Gimmick) and then they do the Dream Sequence on Jose. Rating: ***

Match No. 8: Krazy K vs. Joey Matthews vs. Jeff Hardy. Fans don’t like Hardy. After he slips on the ropes, they quickly start a “You fucked up” chant. Then they start a “You got fired” chant, followed by a “We want Matt” chant. Matthews attacks K and then Hardy. He then goes after Hardy’s mask. Girls scream as Hardy takes off his mask. Fans booing the hell out of Hardy as he works over K. They botch a move. K does a corkscrew plancha to the floor and nearly kills himself. Hardy nails K with a powerbomb. Matthews knocks Hardy off the top rope and the fans go crazy. He then gives K an inverted ddt. Hardy hits a swanton on Matthews. He then does a double legdrop on K for the pin. Interesting match on many levels. Hardy got booed and deservedly so as he wasn’t all there. Fans give it to him on the way back through the curtain. Rating: **1/2

Clips of Punk and Raven building up to the match. Great package.

Match No. 9: CM Punk vs. Raven in  a dog collar match. Punk cuts a great promo, asking how the crowd feels in a building that doesn’t sell alcohol. Crowd starts a “Shut the fuck up” chant. Crowd starts an “alcohol” chant. Punk calls out Danny Doring in the crowd. Crowd starts a “CM Pussy” chant. Punk tries to run away but Raven pulls him back into the ring. He then works him over with the chain. Punk gets posted, then crotched by the chain. Raven gives him a russian leg sweep into the barricade. Punk is busted open. Punk takes another leg sweep into the barricade. Raven crowns him with the ring bell. Punk is a bloody mess. Raven sets up a table in the corner, but Punk gives him a nutshot. Raven replies with a kneelift. Raven goes to whip Punk into the table but Punk reverses it. Punk now working him over. Raven thrown into the barricade. He’s busted open but it’s only a trickle. They are fighting in the crowd. A fan holds a chair and Raven runs Punk face first into it. Another fan participation spot. They are now in the bleachers. Raven goes to the top, but Punk drags him all the way down with the chain. Punk now beating him with the chain. They finally go back into the ring. Punk gives Raven a snap suplex. Punk grabs the mic and taunts Raven. Raven with multiple clotheslines. Raven sets up a chair in the ring. He gives Punk a drop toehold onto the chair. Punk kicks out. Raven goes for a chairshot on Punk but he moves and Raven crowns referee Paul Turner. Raven hits a flowing snap ddt (Raven Effect) but there is no referee. Colt Cabana to the ring and he gives Raven a nutshot followed by a ddt onto a chair. Doring then clotheslines Cabana to the floor. Punk then covers Raven for the pin. After the match, Punk ties Raven to the ropes with tape. Punk grabs the mic and then douses Raven with several beers. Tommy Dreamer then comes to the ring and lays out Punk with a vicious chairshot to the head. Punk then gets up but Dreamer gives him a ddt. He then ties Punk to ropes and unties Raven. They hug and then Dreamer hands Raven a beer. Raven then pours the beer on Punk. Pretty good old school match, but great angle afterward lifts it to four stars. Rating: ****

Paul London cuts a promo about his last match before leaving for WWE.

Match No. 10: Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) vs. A.J. Styles & Amazing Red for ROH tag team titles. A.J. and Jay trade heavy shots and then fall to the floor. Back in the ring, Red hits a leg trap sunset flip powerbomb (Code Red) on Jay. Huge dropkick by A.J. on Mark. Briscoes going after Red’s bad knee. Mark gives Red a dragon screw. Red is in trouble. Nice spot in the corner as Jay powerbombs A.J. and he superplexes Mark. Jay nails double underhook piledriver (Jay Driller) on Red. Mark hits springboard clothesline on A.J. Red hits a shining wizard on Jay and then Styles uses belly to back inverted mat slam (Styles Clash) for the pin. Awesome match. Rating: ****

Jim Cornette cuts promo putting over ROH, previewing upcoming show in Dayton.

Match No. 11: Paul London vs. Samoa Joe for ROH world title. Baseball slide by London. He then does a moonsault off the ringside barricade. Joe drops London with a side suplex slam (sidewalk slam). Joe drops London throat first over the top rope. He then gives him a couple of facewashes. London goes for a slingshot crossbody block to the floor but Joe catches him and drops him to the floor. Joe does running arched big boot (Ole Kick) on the floor as London is seated. Joe hits a second kick. Joe with a nice german suplex on London. They trade pinning attempts. London hits a ddt and then goes to the top rope. He hits a shooting star press (London Star Press) but Joe kicks out. Joe with a huge dragon suplex but London kicks out. Nasty lariat by Joe but London kicks out. Joe catches London in the choke, then he takes him to the ground. London fighting but he finally goes out. Another damn good match, although it seemed a bit short and a bit of a letdown. Still nothing to complain about when it comes to the show these two put on. Rating: ****1/2

After the match, the entire locker room comes to the ring to congratulate London. Fans start a “Thank You Paul” chant. Wrestlers take a knee as London cuts a farewell promo. He puts over Joe. He also puts over his trainer Rudy Boy Gonzalez. London hugs all of the boys and then kisses the ROH logo.

Raven cuts a promo talking about his losing ways. Talk about a buzz killer after the London segment. Raven now wants to lose in a cage against Punk. Same cliche ending.

Carnage crew cut promo. Same old shit from them too. Fat wife, blah, blah, blah.

Christopher Daniels with another promo from in front of the wood paneling in his basement, er, in the locker room in Japan.

Rob Feinstein asks Punk to cut a promo. Punk gets pissed and shoves him to the ground. Feinstein still can’t act, but Punk is great.

ROH Showcase Match A: Lit vs. Benny Blanco. Lit comes out acting like he is fucked up. Blanco hits a nice neckbreaker onto his leg. And then a roaring forearm. He misses a reverse splash. Blanco then hits three suplexes for the pin. Not much here. Rating: *

ROH Showcase Match B: Hydro vs. Angeldust. No idea why these guys are wrestling each other. They don’t either. They trade moves early. Nice springboard by Angeldust. Hydro with a german suplex but he can’t hold the bridge. He then hits the splash. Angeldust with a side suplex on Hydro from the top rope. Hydro then hits an inverted over the shoulder back to belly piledriver (That’s All She Wrote). Short but a couple of decent moves. Rating: *1/2

ROH Showcase Match C: Christoper Street Connection (Buff E. & Mase) vs. Outcast Killaz (Oman Tortuga & Diablo Santiago). Buff E. with with some huge chops on Diablo. OCK hits double dropkick on Buff E. Diablo with a decent side suplex on Mase. Buff E. holds Oman and Mase hits gay basher on him for the pin. Trademark CSC spots. Rating: *1/2

Low Ki cuts a promo backstage. Same monotone, cringe-worthy promo as always.

Speaking of bad promos, Rob Feinstein is backstage. Horrible segment with Ronnie Stevens.

Match No. 1: Ring Crew Express (Dunn & Marcos) vs. Prince Nana & Jimmy “Jac’t” Cash. Cash is juicing big time. All heels early. Marcos with a nice northern lights suplex. Nana holds Dunn and Cash hits legdrop from the top rope. He then hits a huge spinebuster. Dunn drops Marcos into a senton. Dunn lifts Marcos who hits a shiranui for the pin. Quick match, but decent. And an upset as RCE wins their first match in ROH. Rating: **1/2

Match No. 2: Alexis Laree vs. Sumie Sakai. Yawn. Laree hits inverted ddt for the pin. Rating: **

Christopher Daniels cuts a promo backstage. Allison Danger has now has pink and blonde hair to go with the black. Talk about the tramp look. Dan Maff also cuts a promo on Samoa Joe. Raven is shown sitting down with a terribly bruised ankle.

Match No. 3: Chad Collyer vs. Matt Stryker in a tap out match. Gabe says that Tom Carter was supposed to face Collyer but his wife is giving birth. First he quit CHIKARA as a trainer to work with her business. Now this. I guess we know who wears the pants in the family. Stryker working on Collyer’s legs early. Collyer goes for a figure four but Stryker makes the ropes. Collyer now working Stryker’s arm. He hits a fujiwara armbar but Stryker turns it into a texas cloverleaf. Collyer runs Stryker’s leg into the ring apron twice and then into the ring post. He continues to work Stryker’s leg. Collyer hits the figure four. But Stryker reverses it. Collyer breaks it and then goes back for the leg. He again applies the figure four. Stryker reverses it again before it’s broken. Stryker with an ankle lock on Collyer but he reaches the ropes. Collyer hits the cloverleaf but Stryker makes the ropes. Stryker applies the reverse figure four (Stryker Lock) but Collyer makes the ropes. Collyer with the cloverleaf and Stryker taps. Damn good technical match. Rating: ***1/2

Match No. 4: Special K (Deranged & Dixie & Izzy) vs. Carnage Crew (Loc & DeVito & Justin Credible). Loc drops Dixie hard with a sitout facebuster. DeVito beating on Izzy. Justin hits a superkick on Deranged and then Loc gives him a saito suplex. Justin chopping the hell out of Deranged. DeVito misses a moonsault. Dixie with a plancha and then Deranged hits a tope con hilo. Izzy follows with a crazy springboard corkscrew to the floor. Things get crazy before Credible hits a kneeling belly-to-belly piledriver (That’s Incredible!) for the pin. A bit sloppy, but decent overall. Rating: **1/2

Match No. 5: Dan Maff vs. Samoa Joe for the ROH title. Maff attacks Joe at the bell. Maff does a crazy tope to the floor on Joe. Joe misses a running arched big boot (Ole Kick) but he hits it the second time. And then a third. Maff then thrown into the ring barricade. Joe with several chair shots. Joe with a release german suplex but Maff gets up and hits a huge lariat on Joe. Maff hits a cannonball and then a heel kick on Joe. Maff goes for an inverted death valley driver (Burning Hammer) but Joe blocks it. Joe goes for the choke but Maff breaks it up. Maff hits a nasty backdrop driver for a near fall. Joe catches Maff in a one armed side slam (STJoe) in the corner. Powerbomb by Joe followed by a stepover toehold facelock (STF) but Maff makes it to the ropes. Maff then gives Joe an sto in the corner. Maff goes for another Burning Hammer but Joe escapes. Joe hits a nice dragon suplex for the pin. Wow, damn good match that was very physical. I wasn’t expecting Maff to step it up like this. His father died the day earlier and he definitely honored him. Rating: ****

Gary Michael Capetta backstage with Homicide and Julius Smokes. Smokes with his standard gibberish.

Match No. 6: Alex Shelley vs. Jimmy Jacobs vs. B.J. Whitmer vs. Tony Mamaluke in a four-corner survival match. Shelley opens against Mamaluke. Our first look at Shelley in ROH. Jacobs doing the hilarious “Huss” gimmick. Nice moves back and forth. Shelly now in against Jacobs. Hard to believe Shelley is only 19 during this match. More great moves by Jacobs. These guys look great together. Whitmer in against Mamaluke. Mamaluke works on his bad knee. Then moves to the arm. Camel clutch by Mamluke but Whitmer reverses it into one of his own. Whitmer nails Jacobs with a huge boot to the face. Mamaluke hits a sick-looking backdrop driver on Shelley. Whitmer hits a nice snap suplex on Shelley. Jacobs goes for a hurricanrana on Shelley, but Shelley catches him and instead of doing a power bomb, he drops him forward and Jacobs hits his head on the top turnbuckle. Great looking move as Jacobs does a Flair bump on his face. Mamaluke hits a russian leg sweep on Shelley. Whitmer hits a brainbuster on Mamaluke but Jacobs breaks it up with a senton on Mamaluke. Whitmer catches Jacobs in a spin-out power bomb (Blue Thunder Driver) but Shelley dropkicks Whitmer in the face. Whitmer nearly takes off Shelley’s head with a lariat. Mamaluke breaks it up with a fujiwara armbar but Jacobs breaks it up with a double stomp to the chest. Mamaluke puts Jacobs in a hammerlock and then bridges. Shelley with a huge dive to break it up. Whitmer hits another huge lariat, this time on Mamaluke. Whitmer then goes for an exploder suplex but Shelley blocks it nearly gets the pin with a small package. Whitmer destroys Shelley with a wrist-clutch explode. Whitmer then hits another exploder on Jacobs for the pin while Shelley simultaneously taps to Mamaluke’s grounded dragon sleeper (Sicilian Stretch). Damn good match with some awesome action and moves. Shelley and Jacobs were superb. Rating: ****

Match No. 7: Second City Saints (CM Punk & Colt Cabana) vs. Raven & Christopher Daniels. Raven cuts a pissed off promo before the match. Raven lies down in the ring, but moves when Cabana goes for a frog splash. All four guys brawl outside. Faces catch heels in old school rowboat move. Faces then bulldog Cabana into Punk’s nuts. Raven sets up a chair, but misses leg drop. Punk goes to hit Raven with the chair but Daniels hits him with another chair. Punk gives Daniels a huge chair shot to the head. Daniels is busted open. Punk is also bleeding from the earlier chair shot. Punk working over Daniels’ arm. Heels taking it to Daniels now. Punk is a mess. Cabana now in with Daniels. Daniels gets Cabana in a crazy submission, but Punk comes off the top rope to break it up. Daniels hits inverted ddt on Cabana and then makes the hot tag to Raven, who cleans house. Raven catches both Cabana and Punk with knee lifts. He does drop toe holds onto a chair on both Punk and Cabana. Raven bulldogs Punk and on the way down, clotheslines Cabana. Cabana goes for his spingboard moonsault but takes out the referee. Raven nails Cabana with a flowing snap ddt (Raven Effect) but there is no ref. Allison Danger and Lucy Ferr fight each other in the ring. Punk then superkicks Danger. Daniels then gives Punk a sitout double underhook facebuster (Angel’s Wings) but Cabana gives him a double underhook backbreaker drop (Colt .45). Raven hits another Raven Effect on Cabana but Punk gives Raven a hangman’s neckbreaker with a chain. He then beats the shit out of him with the chain. Ref comes back in and Punk gets the pin. After the match, Punk hangs Raven with the chain in the corner. Gabe and Gentry act outraged on commentary. Match was decent, but a bit short. Rating: ***

Raven cuts a promo after the match. I guess this wasn’t a blow off match. He says they will have a dog collar match at the next show.

Cameras on Punk and Cabana backstage. Punk cuts another promo on Raven. He compares Raven to his drunk father.

Match No. 8: Chris Sabin vs. A.J. Styles for the NWA World Heavyweight Title. Sabin comes to the ring with his TNA X Division belt. Lot of matwork early. Styles goes for a belly-to-back inverted mat slam (Styles Clash) but Sabin blocks it. Sabin then gets his neck snapped over the top rope by Styles. Sabin gives Styles a head scissors into the barricade outside. Sytles does a suplex and then drops Sabin with a neckbreaker. Styes then hits a brainbuster. Styles ties up Sabin’s legs and then lifts him by the neck into a submission attempt. Styles hits a quick powerslam. Double enzuigiris put both men down. Sabin does a crazy release german suplex on A.J. Sabin goes for a fisherman’s buster, but A.J. blocks it and gives Sabin a side powerbomb. Styles uses a springboard moonsault but Sabin blocks it and then A.J. spins around into a crucifix. Sabin gives A.J. a spinning backbreaker (Sabalizer). Styles then gives Sabin a Styles Clash for the pin. Damn good match, but again a bit short. Rating: ****

Styles cuts a promo after the match and puts over his NWA title.

Gary Michael Capetta with another stupid segment. He tells Low Ki that Homicide wants to meet him after the show.

Match No. 9: Trent Acid vs. Homicide in a Fight Without Honor match. Acid jumps Homicide before the match. Acid with a crazy springboard moonsault to the floor that nearly kills himself. Acid is playing to the ladies and Homicide catches him with a mafia kick. Homicide working him over in the corner. Homicide with two t-bone suplexes followed by a northern lights suplex. Homicide blocks a superkick but Acid hits the second. He then gives Homicide a double knee to the face and then a missile dropkick. Acid sets up a ladder in the corner. Homicide gives Acid a belly-to-belly suplex into the ladder. Homicide hits Acid with a chair. He then does a crazy cross body block to the floor. Homicide puts the ladder on the apron and the ring barricade. Acid gives Homicide a ddt on the ladder. Acid dropkicks the ladder onto Homicide. He then brings the table into the ring along with two chairs. Homicide takes a chair to the head. Acid sets up two chairs and puts the ladder between them. Acid gives Homicide a sitout powerbomb (Acid Burn) onto the chairs. Homicide puts Acid into a stepover toehold facelock (STF). Homicide gives a Acid a brainbuster on a chair. Homicide brings a big ladder into the ring. Homicide goes to give Acid a back-to-back double underhook piledriver (Cop Killa) but Acid blocks it. Johnny Kashmere comes into the ring and he and Acid give Homicide a double crucifix powerbomb (T-Gimmick). Smokes takes out Kashmere. Ref is late and Homicide kicks out. Acid puts Homicide on the top rope and gives him a skylift powerbomb (Backseat Driver) but he barely kicks out. Homicide gives Acid a cutter and then a northern lights bomb. Homicide puts Acid on a table outside the ring. He goes to the top but Acid throws a chair at him and knocks him down. Acid brings a table into the ring. Homicide gives Acid a cutter on the table on the floor. Fans start a “Holy Shit” chant. Back in the ring, they trade kicks to the face. Acid sets up the big ladder. He slams Homicide and climbs to the top. Homicide knocks the ladder over and Acid falls to floor and nails the guardrail. Homicide leans a ladder on the guardrail and puts Acid on it. He does a somersault tope (Tope con Hilo) but Acid moves. Homicide goes for another Cop Killa but Acid rolls through and gets the pin. These guys beat the shit out of each other. Rating: ***1/2

After the match, Homicide goes to shake Acid’s hand, but the lights go off. Special K’s music plays and they come to the ring. When the lights come back on, the Backseat Boyz are on a table and Deranged and Izzy do elbow drops through the table. Special K rave in the ring.

Jim Cornette cuts a promo and puts over “The” Ring of Honor and then the Midnight Express, Smoky Mountain Wrestling and OVW.

We see more of the rave.

Loc & DeVito cut a promo backstage on Mikey Whipwreck and the boys from the Texas Wrestling Academy, who they will meet on the next show.

We see more of the rave.

Samoa Joe cuts a promo backstage on Paul London. We then go to commotion in the locker room. Capetta tries to go in and see what’s happening, but he is threatened by one of the gangsters. Show ends.

ROH Showcase Match A: Lit vs. Jimmy “Jac’t” Cash. Cash is one big SOB. He’s about twice the size of Lit. Jump cut. Cash with a huge power slam. Jump cut. Lit with a nice swinging neckbreaker on the big guy. Lit puts him down with a discus punch. He goes for a moonsault without the flip and misses. Cash drops him hard for the pin. Rating: None.

ROH Showcase Match B: Ring Crew Express (Dunn & Marcos) & Slyk Wagner Brown vs. Special K (Slugga & Angel Dust & Deranged). The prelim feud continues from the last show. Marcos and Deranged traded near falls. Marcos hits a swinging neckbreaker and tags Dunn. Deranged hits a sitout side slam from the top rope on Dunn. Angel Dust and Dunn trade chops. Angel Dust goes for a backslide and Dunn falls back and drops him on his face. Brown comes in. He press slams Angel Dust and drops him before hitting a standing shooting star press. RCE and Brown do a spot where all three guys leapfrog Angel Dust, Dunn kicks him in the midsection and Brown does a leg drop on him from the top rope. Dunn picks up Marcos and does an electric chair drop into a senton. Shelton Benjamin looks a lot like Brown did six years earlier. Slugga tags in. Marcos tries to clothesline him several times before getting hit with a huge side slam (body bag). Slugga gives him a vicious pump handle slam. Dunn takes a sitout slam of some sort from Slugga. Slugga then gives him a release german suplex. Slugga has Dunn and is about to slam him and Marcos jumps from the top rope and lands on his shoulders. Slugga plants both men to the canvas. Damn, RCE is taking a lot of abuse. Angel Dust tags in and destroys Dunn with kicks to the front and back. Brown tags in and does his springboard into the ring. He then hits a swinging side slam (Haterbreaker) on Angel Dust for a near fall. April Hunter trips Angel Dust and he swings at her but she ducks. She then slaps him and Brown gives him a lifting sitout spinebuster (Appreciation Bomb) for another near fall. Hunter and Becky Bayless roll around outside the ring in the catfight spot. Angel Dust distracts the ref, Slugga drops Brown on his face and Angel Dust gets the pin. Decent prelim opener that went longer than I thought it would. Angel Dust advances to four corner match, which I guess is later in the show. Rating: **1/2

Show opens with promo by Paul London. He recaps some of his great ROH matches. He talks about his match tonight with A.J. Styles.

A.J. Styles cuts a promo holding his new NWA title belt. He’s still got the thick redneck accent. Pretty weak promo.

Match No. 1: Christoper Street Connection (Buff E. & Mase) with Ariel vs. the Carnage Crew (Loc & DeVito). This is the first appearance of CSC in a while. CSC does the obligatory gay spot on the bullies where Buff E. kisses Loc instead of doing a move while Mase has him over his knee. Mase grabs DeVito’s ass then spanks him. No idea why the Carnage Crew is booked to look like pussies so far. Finally, DeVito gives Mase a huge clothesline. Carnage Crew then follow up with a double team swinging neckbreaker (Carnage-Plex). Several clubbing blows to the head on Mase by DeVito. Mase getting his ass kicked but he responds with a swinging ddt on Loc. Buff E. is a house of fire. Mase gives both guys a bronco buster. CSC then makes out. Carnage Crew go for their tradmark spike piledriver (Carnage Driver) on Buff E., but Mase makes the save. Loc gives Buff E. a swinging neckbreaker and DeVito does a moonsault for the pin. Not a fan of this match as Carnage Crew looked weak before finally winning. After the match, they give a Ariel a nasty Carnage Driver. Rating: **

Match No. 2: Chance Beckett vs. Matt Stryker. Never heard of Beckett. Stryker working the arm. Beckett finally breaks it with a mule kick type move. Beckett with a single boston crab. Stryker makes the ropes. Not much so far. Back and forth which is surprising since Beckett is a nobody and Stryker is being pushed as a rising technical star. Stryker goes for a texas cloverleaf but Beckett reverses it into a leg lock. Stryker reverses it into a reverse figure four leg lock (Stryker Lock) for the tap. Wasn’t into this match either. Rating: **1/2

Match No. 3: John Walters vs. Justin Credible vs. Chris Sabin vs. Homicide in a four corners match. Damn, crowd is really into Credible. Well, New England fans were always marks. Gary Michael Capetta comes into the ring to interview Credible. Capetta grabs the mic and cuts a promo. Wow, an early look at Sabin. Angel Dust was supposed to be in the match, but Credible jumped him and took his spot. Homicide opens with Walters. Homicide gives him an overhead double underhook suplex into the corner and onto his head. Walters stretches Homicide with a facelock. Sabin tags in. They then do a nice spot where Homicide goes to roll up Walters and Sabin does a sunset flip over both guys. Sabin then does a nice hurricanrana. He flips out of a backdrop onto his feet and responds with a dropkick. Credible tags in and gives Sabin a lifting ddt (187) . Credible with a sitout powerbomb. Sabin tags in Homicide who gives Credible an overhead suplex. Homicide gives Sabin a nasty sitout powerbomb from the top rope. Sabin with a nice swinging sideslam backbreaker (Sabalizer). Homicide gives Sabin and overhead release belly-to-belly suplex. Walters tags in. He works on Sabin’s shoulder before Sabin gives him an enzuigiri. Sabin tags in Credible. Credible tags out pretty quickly. He’s wearing a shirt so he must be gassed already. Walters puts Sabin in a bow and arrow type move. Homicide comes in and Credible superkicks him to the floor. Credible with a springboard cross body block (Pescado) to the floor. Walters with a suicide dive (plancha) to the floor followed by Sabin’s somersault suicide dive (plancha). Homicide’s turn for a crazy bump as he hits a somersault dive (tope con hilo) to the floor. Credible then catches Homicide with a kneeling belly-to-belly piledriver (That’s Incredible!). Sabin breaks it up. Walters gives Sabin an overhead gutwrench backbreaker rack into an implant ddt (Hurricane DDT). Homicide breaks it up. Walters does a slingshot sunset flip on Homicide. Homicide replies with a dragon screw. He then hits a nasty looking scoop piledriver on Walters. Homicide applies the stepover toehold and instead of a facelock he grabs the hair. Walters taps. Pretty good scramble match with a bunch of good moves. Rating: ***1/2

After the match, Homicide and Low Ki meet backstage. Ki, wearing a Jason Kidd jersey and looking a lot like him, walks away as he doesn’t like the Julius Smokes influence.

Match No. 4: Second City Saints (CM Punk vs. Colt Cabana) vs. B.J. Whitmer & Raven. Before the match, Punk cuts a great promo, reminiscent of his current WWE promos. Shut the fuck up, Gabe. Raven cuts a promo before the match as well. Same old shit. Here’s a question: If Raven is so smart, if his IQ puts him in MENSA, why the fuck did he destroy his body with drugs? Punk stomps the shit out Raven early. Superkick by Raven on Punk. Whitmer hits a nice suplex on Cabana. Punk cracks Whitmer in the head with a chair shot. Raven returns the favor on Cabana. Raven gets a trash can lid and nails Punk in the head. He’s busted open pretty good. Whitmer clotheslines Cabana over the top rope as Punk and Raven brawl in the crowd. Whitmer is also busted open. Cabana and Punk both get leg tripped into chairs. Things are finally back in the ring. Cabana beating the shit out of Whitmer. Punk gives him a hard side suplex. Then a facewash and big boot. Punk goes for a hurricanrana on Whitmer, but he moves and Cabana takes the move. Whitmer makes the hot tag and Raven cleans house. Raven gives Punk an faceplant ddt (Raven Effect). Cabana breaks it up. Whitmer hits a flying headbutt. He then drops Cabana with a wrist clutch exploder suplex. No referee. Punk then runs into the ring and gives Whitmer a shining wizard using a chair. Punk makes the cover but still no ref. Finally, the ref starts the count but Whitmer kicked out. Cabana then gives Whitmer a double underhook backbreaker rack drop (Colt .45) for the pin. Punk destroys Raven afterwards. He also gives Whitmer and Punk blows with the chair. Cabana sets up Raven on the table outside the ring. Punk then does a legdrop through the table on Raven. Pretty good match and brawl. And beating afterwards was also great. Rating: ****

Capetta interviews Matt Stryker. Yawn. Prince Nana then saves things. Barely.

Match No. 5: Diablo Santiago vs. Prince Nana. Diablo with a back suplex. Followed by a neckbreaker. Nana getting beaten down early. He rebounds and hits a running hip strike. Nana goes for a suplex, but drops Diablo on his face with a ddt for the pin. Fairly quick squash. Rating: **

Match No. 6: Mikey Whipwreck & Dixie vs. Spanish Announce Team (Jose & Joel Maximo). Mikey goes for a head scissors but Joel is a bit heavy and it doesn’t look good. Mikey doesn’t skip a beat and he gives the fat fucker a(n) hurricanrana. Joel replies with a hurricanrana and they do a WWE jump cut so you can’t tell if it hits or not. Mikey rolls out. Dixie and SAT both a move before Jose drops Dixie back first onto Joel’s knees. SAT then give heels a boston crab/camel clutch combo. SAT with another doubleteam move on Dixie, some kind of double flapjack on Dixie. Mikey hits a couple of slingshot leg drops on the SAT. Dixie gets destroyed with a shoulder mount into a ddt (Maximo Explosion) on the ring apron. Mikey with a crazy suicide swanton from the top rope. Mikey hits double underhook suplex. Jose hits tornado ddt on Mikey. Joel with three power bombs followed by a sitout powerbomb for a near fall. Joel goes to the top. Mikey catches him with a hurricanrana from the top rope and then gives him a three-quarter facelock jawbreaker (Whipper-Snapper) but Jose breaks it up. Joel puts Dixie on his shoulders and Jose goes to the top rope and gives him a swinging ddt for the pin. Decent action but several missed spots lowered things a notch. Rating: **1/2

After the match, Special K jump SAT. Carnage Crew then beat the shit out of Mikey. Mikey recovers, but Justin Credible then gives Mikey a superkick. He is the new member of the Carnage Crew. Gabe is marking out for the ECW in this segment.

Match No. 7: Paul London vs. A.J. Styles. They trade holds on the mat early. Styles with a huge kick to London’s back. They are playing some head games now. They trade slaps and then shake hands. Good back-and-forth action as they trade arm drags and then drop kick each other. A.J. hits a nice springboard missile dropkick. A.J. misses a pescado to the floor and London nails him with a baseball slide. A.J. puts London into the barricade but London replies with a drop toe hold into the guard rail. London rams A.J.’s legs into the barricade. They trade chops before A.J. hits a kick. Styles with a snap suplex and then hits a one-handed swinging suplex. A.J. goes for an enzuigiri but London turns it into a dragon screw. Great move. Styles catches London with a brainbuster. London goes back to work on A.J.’s leg. They trade blows before A.J. catches a huge clotheslines that flips over London. Styles catches London with a pump handle power bomb. London hits a leg lariat from the second rope. London then does a springboard moonsault but lands on his feet. Styles then catches him with his own springboard moonsault into an inverted ddt (Phenomenon). London does a shooting star press (London Star Press) onto the leg of Styles. Styles catches him with a small package. London hits the figure four leglock. A.J. reaches the ropes. Styles hits a power bomb from the top rope and then gives London a belly-to-back inverted mat slam (Styles Clash) but he cannot make the cover. Styles hits a german suplex but he is unable to bridge. Gary Moyer looks to count pin on both men and bell rings. The match is ruled a draw as both men’s shoulders were down for the three count. Fans want five more minutes. Not sure about the finish, although A.J. had just won the NWA title and there was no way he was losing to London. Gabe says it was a match of the year candidate, although I’m not sure. Match was pretty damn good as expected, but not the best of the year. Rating: ****1/2

Match No. 8: Michael Shane & CW Anderson & Samoa Joe vs. Donovan Morgan & Dan Maff & Christopher Daniels. Shane & Daniels open things. They punch each other in the face and then tag out. Anderson and Maff square off. They trade chops. Joe tags in as does Morgan. Daniels and Morgan doubleteam Joe. Now Shane tags in and takes it to Daniels. Maff tags in and beats on Shane, giving him a boot to the face. Maff and Morgan give him a double elbow. Joe comes in. He catches Morgan with a space tornado ogawa (STO) in the corner. Anderson tags in and works on Morgan’s arm. Shane in now. He continues to work on Morgan’s arm. This match is dragging and crowd is nearly dead. Maff cleans house. He gives Shane a senton for a near fall. Huge superkick by Shane on Maff. Shane up top but Allison Danger distracts him. He gives Maff a tornado ddt. Maff goes for a burning hammer on Shane but Anderson gives him a superkick. Maff outside and Joe gives him a running arched big boot (Ole Kick). Maff hits a huge release german suplex on Shane. He finally tags in Daniels. Nice move by Daniels as he gives Joe a ddt and CW a facebuster. Daniels hits a double jump moonsault (Best Moonsault Ever) but Anderson barely kicks out. Morgan gives Joe a side suplex (Saito Suplex). He follows with a swinging cradle suplex (Golden Gate Swing). Anderson catches Morgan with a superplex. Shane follows with an elbow from the top rope and Maff hits Anderson with a diving headbutt. Daniels and Morgan give Shane a neckbreaker/powerbomb (Revolutions) but Anderson makes the save. Anderson gives Morgan a spinebuster but Daniels breaks it up. Tons of near falls. Maff goes for a burning hammer on Maff but can’t keep him up. Joe now beating on Maff who does a leg trip and bridge to pin Joe. Finish was a huge surprise. Pretty good match that really picked up at the end. Group must disband as a result of losing. Rating: ***1/2

Daniels cuts a promo backstage after the match. He puts over Maff. Afterward, Raven asks Daniels to be his partner at the next show. Daniels accepts.

Joe cuts a promo on Maff. Damn, does he have a big fucking nose.

Special K tries to get the sound guy to cut the lights. Finally, he listens to Slugga. They do some dancing before getting jumped by Carnage Crew. Loc and DeVito then cut a promo, as does a pissed off Justin Incredible.

ROH Showcase Match A: Ring Crew Express (Dunn & Marcos) vs. Special K (Slugga & Hydro). First look at ROH’s venture into TV. Well, highlights, at least. Hydro hits a lariat on Marcos. Jump cut. Hydro goes for what looks like a suplex but Marcos flips and lands on his feet. He makes a hot tag to Dunn. Hydro hits an elbow. Jump cut. Slugga holds Dunn and Hydro hits a drop kick from the top rope. Jump cut. RCE working over Hydro. Jump cut. Slugga gives Dunn a huge suplex. Jump cut. Dunn hits elbow from top rope on Hydro. Jump cut. Slugga gives Dunn pumphandle slam. Hydro to the top and does a diving head butt for the pin. Almost a squash match. Rating: None

ROH Showcase Match B: Persephone vs. Alexis Laree. This on the card where it should be. At the beginning, optional and short and sweet. Wow, Persephone gets the pin with a facefirst ddt. Laree won the last match so they are even. Again, only highlights. Rating: None

Show opens with Homicide cutting a promo about his rough upbringing. He talks about selling dope and giving up a chance to play football at the University of Miami. Julius Smokes is doing his crazy shtick in the background. Homicide cuts a promo on Samoa Joe. Pretty good promo.

Special K is backstage doing what else but a little rave action. Hydro gets the idea of taking over the ring and turning it into a rave. The light guy won’t go for it.

Match No. 1: B.J. Whitmer vs. Dan Maff. Gabe, er, Chris Lovey on play-by-play. CM Punk joins him on color. Whitmer wants to shake and Maff slaps him. Whitmer gives him several forearms and Maff slaps him some more. Punk rags on Whitmer. Maff with some big chops but Whitmer responds with an exploder suplex. Whitmer misses a high knee and Maff bails. Whitmer whips Maff into the new sheet metal guard rail. Damn, they’re still using those today. Maff again into the rail. And a third time. Maff reverses it and Whitmer hits the guardrail. Not sure if I like the new lighting. Too many dark spots. Reminds me of old NWA TV tapings from Bumfuck, SC. Maff hits a back senton. Shot of Allison Danger with her new green hair. Yuck. Her bangability quotient just went down. Earlier, Punk said it was seaweed in her hair. Huge lariat by Maff. Facewash by Maff. Ass to the face by Maff. Whitmer finally hits the big knee. High knee by Whitmer. Maff with a nasty half nelson suplex. Whitmer is coming off a concussion and that can’t be good. Whitmer Hulks up. Maff hits a release german suplex again on Whitmer’s head. Maff goes for a death valley driver but Whitmer blocks it and then hits a german suplex of his own on Maff. Danger interferes now Maff hits a burning hammer on Whitmer for the pin. Pretty good opening match. Whitmer took too many moves on his head coming off a concussion though. Maff has a catchy tune as his ring music. Rating: ***

Julius Smokes comes down to the ring. He’s got the mic. He wants to know what’s up with Maff, apparantely, as I can barely understand him and Gabe and Punk aren’t faring much better. Smokes drops the n-bomb and Maff gets pissed. Low Ki comes to the ring with his arm in a sling. Couldn’t tell from watching, but he got hurt at the last show in England. Maff bails as Ki gets in the ring. He cuts a promo on Maff. Same monotone as always from Ki. He now cuts a promo on Smokes. He says the ring is not for thugs. Smokes takes off his shirt. Homicide comes out to try and mediate things. Ki tells Homicide he doesn’t need distraction by Smokes. Trent Acid comes out and gives Homicide a yakuza kick to the face.

Match No. 2: Tony Mamaluke vs. Jason Cross. Have to admit, haven’t heard of Cross. Mamaluke is in his first ROH match in six months. Annoying graphic of future events. Cross hits a nice corkscrew plancha. Mamaluke then throws him into the guardrail. Cross hits a somersault plancha. Mamaluke hits a side suplex (saito suplex). With Cross’ legs on the top rope, Mamaluke hits a ddt. High knee by Mamaluke. Nice snap suplex and then a northern lights suplex by Mamaluke. Cross with a crazy move that looks like a sunset flip but we then does double underhook ddt type of move. Punk compares it to the signature finishing move of Tommy Rogers of the Fantastics, an inverted double underhook facebuster (Tomikaze). Cross hits a neckbreaker from the top. Mamaluke applies the dragon sleeper (Sicilian Stretch) but Cross backdrops him into the corner on his head. Cross with two brainbusters put Mamaluke kicks out. He hits a third and goes up top. He goes for a shotting star leg drop (Crossfire) but Mamaluke moves. Cross hits a release dragon suplex. Cross up top again. Mamaluke pushes the ref into the ropes and Cross falls to the top turnbuckle. Mamaluke hits a suplerplex and then applies the grounded dragon sleeper (Sicilian Stretch) for the submission. Pretty good match with some good high spots. Rating: ***

Backstage with Rob Feinstein. No comment. Iceberg thanks Rob for his shot and he turns around and has thumbtacks in his head spelling ROH. Outcast Killaz ask for a shot and Rob tells them they are wrestling iceberg. Feinstein sucks. As an actor.

Match No. 3: Oman Tortuga vs. Iceberg. Iceberg all over Oman. He gives him a ddt. Then Homicide’s move, a back to back double underhook piledriver (Cop Killa) followed by a senton for the pin. Squash match. Rating: *

After the match, he gives Diablo Santiago a side suplex. Dunn & Marcos come in for the save.

Match No. 4: Matt Stryker vs. Tom Carter. Gabe talks about Punk getting his skull broken while wrestling against Carter. Punk no-sells it. Matwork early. Stryker with a bow and arrow type move. Did I mention the lighting sucks? This match is putting me to sleep so far. Carter gets a stepover toehold facelock (STF) but Stryker makes the ropes. Stryker hits a plancha to the floor. Carter does a ddt type move on the apron on Stryker. Carter to the top rope. Styker catches him with a release german suplex from up top. Leg lariat by Stryker. Carter with a brain buster followed by a frog splash. Stryker barely kicks out. Styker tries a death valley driver but it is blocked. He catches Carter with his second attempt. Stryker goes for a dvd from the top rope but Carter reverses it and drops Stryker hard on his back. Stryker kicks out at last possible second. Crowd into things now. Carter with double dragon screw. He then gets the texas cloverleaf on Stryker but he makes the ropes. Carter tries texas cloverleaf again, but Stryker rolls him over for the pin. Match was decent, although it picked up in the end. Rating: ***

After the match, Carter refuses to shake Stryker’s hand. Gary Michael Capetta comes to the ring for some reason. He asks Carter why he wouldn’t shake. As Carter grabs the mic, a fan says “Quackenbush would have shaken his hand.” Carter whines about the pin. He says he pioneered the junior style. And will re-invent pure wrestling in ROH. Carter challenges Stryker to a tap-out match. Stryker cuts a promo on Carter. He accepts the challenge. Allison Danger comes to the ring. She offers Carter a spot in the Prophecy if he doesn’t shake hands. He thinks about it, then shakes hands.

Match No. 5: Special K (Izzy & Dixie) vs. Carnage Crew (Loc & DeVito & Masada) vs. Second City Saints (CM Punk vs. Colt Cabana) vs. Briscoe Brothers (Jay & Mark Briscoe) in tag team scramble match. This should be crazy. Cabana starts against Jay.

They “cut” to Capetta in the back. Samoa Joe has a scoop. He offers to show Capetta. Capetta’s acting is horrible as he tries to act excited. Joe goes into the locker room and gives Dan Maff a vicious knee to the face. Capetta tries to act disgusted.

Match No. 5 (continued): Nice hurricanrana by Cabana. He then hits a big knee. Briscoe then hits a plancha to the floor. DeVito in against Dixie. Dixie hits a swinging ddt. DeVito then hits an overhead suplex. Mark and Loc. Loc hits a swinging neckbreaker. Izzy gives both Loc and DeVito a moonsault dropkick as Gabe calls it. Izzy gives Mark a sitout backflip three quarter facelock diving reverse ddt (Shirunai). Mark then gives him a nasty saito suplex on his head. Punk in. Loc jumped him. Crazy move where Punk and Izzy backdrop Dixie and Mark over the top rope. Dixie lands on Loc pretty hard. Izzy makes a sign of smoking weed to Punk, who clotheslines him hard to the floor. Jay and Punk trade forearms. Punk goes for a tiltawhirl but misses. He then holds one of Jay’s arms in a chicken wing and gives him a hard clothesline. Loc dropkicks Punk. Cabana in. He holds Loc over his knee for a pendulum backbreaker and Punk does a slingshot somersault senton onto him. Dixie and Izzy fuck up a move from the top. Gabe covers saying they are high. Crazy spot where Izzy is on Cabana’s shoulders. Punk gives him a missile dropkick (Doomsday Dropkick), but Izzy gives Cabana a hurricanrana and he lands on his head. DeVito gives Izzy a belly-to-back suplex and Loc catches him with a swinging neckbreaker (Carnage-Plex). Mark gives DeVito a saito suplex onto his head. Loc clotheslines him hard and Jay gives him a mafia kick to the face. Loc gives Jay a saito suplex of his own. Carnage crew go for spike piledriver on Dixie but Izzy makes the save. Dixie then gives Loc a hurricanrana off the top rope. Dixie dives to the floor on Jay. Mark does a crazy backwards dive to the floor. DeVito then does an insane moonsault to the floor hitting the guardrail hard. Cabana gives Dixie a double underhook overhead backbreaker rack drop (Colt .45) and then Punk drops Izzy from the top rope with a diving double underhook facebuster (Pepsi Plunge) ontop of Izzy for the pin. Great action with a bunch of highspots. Rating: ***1/2

After the match, Punk cuts a promo on Special K and Christopher Daniels calls out Samoa Joe.

Match No. 6: John Walters vs. Andy Anderson. They trade nasty slaps. Punk back on commentary. Anderson goes for a snap mare and Walters lands on his. Kind of. Anderson with a suplex into a sitout powerbomb. Walters hits a nice slingshot into a sunset flip powerbomb. Anderson with a crucifix powerbomb. Walters then hits a overhead gutwrench backbreaker rack into a impant ddt (Hurricane DDT) for a near fall. Anderson with a spinning crucifix powerbomb for the pin. Wow, that came out of nowhere. And I don’t think the better wrestler won either. Decent, but short and questionable outcome. Rating: **1/2

Match No. 7: Jimmy Rave vs. Frankie Kazarian vs. CM Punk vs. Christopher Daniels. Supid question, but why isn’t Rave a part of Special K? My first look at Rave and Kazarian. In ROH, that is. Rave with a huge chop on Punk who hightails it over the top turnbuckle and to the floor. Kazarian in. Rave hits a release overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Daniels in and hits Kaz with a nice dropkick. Kazarian hits neckbreaker on Daniels, who tags in Rave. Kaz unloading on Rave and he hits sweet dropkick. Who knew two of these guys would later become Suicide? Daniels vs. Punk. Good heel psychology. Punk working arm of Daniels. Nice spot by Punk as he is sitting in the corner and he grabs the top rope with each hand. Daniels goes to pull his legs and Punk flips to his feet (Jackie Chan) and gives him a jawbreaker. Rave tags himself in. Daniels backdrops Punk to the floor, then Rave clotheslines Daniels to the floor. Rave with a plancha to the floor and Kazarian hits a springboard plancha (Pescado) to the floor. Punk rocks Rave with a brainbuster. Then hits a power slam. Rave backdrops Kaz. Daniels with lariat in the corner on Kaz. Punk in vs. Daniels. Elbow by Daniels. Daniels with a gutwrench suplex. Rave in. He gives Daniels a leg lariat. Kaz in. Rave gives him an enzuigiri. Rave gives Punk a shining wizard. Rave then hits a double underhook inverted ddt on Daniels. Rave on fire. He gives Punk a spinning head scissors into a crossface (From Dusk to Dawn). Kaz breaks it up. Rave gives Kaz a back suplex into a bridge. Punk hits superplex on Daniels. Then a double underhook backbreaker (Welcome to Chicago, Motherfucker). Allison Danger trips Punk. Then Lucy trips Daniels. Tit for Tat. Or is it Tit for Tit? Daniels goes for a 90 degrees spinning lifting double underhook facebuster (Angel’s Wings) but Punk backdrops him. Punk attempts a shining wizard but Daniels blocks it. Kaz hits superkick on Punk. Then a springboard legdrop. Punk responds with a hamerlock legsweep ddt (Devil Lock DDT). Rave in and Kaz gives him a swinging reverse sto (Wave of the Future). Nice move by Kaz as he gives Daniels a bridging wristlock electric chair drop (Back to the Future). Kaz hits a lariat on Daniels followed by a springboard revolving legdrop. Daniels gives Kaz a space tornado ogawa (STO). Daniels then hits a rolling cutter (Last Rites) for the pin. Damn good match with a bunch of great moves. Rating: ****

After the match, Daniels takes the mic. He cuts a promo on Steve Corino. Enough already. The guy hasn’t wrestled in ROH in over three months. And before that it was another three months. Daniels says Kaz is a candidate for the Prophecy. He also puts over Rave. He then cuts a promo on Punk. He gets interrupted by a fan and then puts him in his place by saying, “Hey look, Asshole, if I want shit from you, I’ll scrape your tongue.” Daniels asks Punk what he would say if he asked him to join the Prophecy. Punk says he’ll join under one condition, if Daniels shakes his hand. Daniels goes to shake his but won’t. Great mic work by these two.

Match No. 8: Special K (Jody Fleisch & Slim J) vs. Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid & Johnny Kashmere). Fleisch and Acid open things. Fleisch does a springboard moonsault and lands on his feet. Acid responds with a springboard crossbody block. They trade leg sweeps before Acid lands a nasty dropkick as Fleisch is on his knees. Acid and Fleisch are great together. They do the choreographed Kung Fu spots perfectly. Fleisch goes for the twisting springboard tornado ddt (Phoenix DDT) but Acid catches him. Fleisch narrowly ducks a yakuza kick. Slim J and Kashmere tag in. Instead of shaking hands, Slim J grabs his package. J with a nice handstand into a headscissors. Kashmere responds with a punch. Fleisch and J make numerous tags while working Kashmere’s arm. Nice spot by the Boyz as Kashmere catches Fleisch in a full nelson right as Acid superkicks him and then Kashmere throws him to the mat. J does a dive from the top rope and the Boyz catch him. They then give him a sky lift and Kashmere gives him a neckbreaker while Acid power bombs him (Backseat Driver). Boyz then do a tandem somersault plancha on the all of Special K on the floor. Great doubleteam action by the Boyz. J and Fleisch working over Acid. Fleisch hits a nice cross bodyblock from the top rope. And then two standing shooting star presses. Acid still getting worked over. Fleisch goes for the Phoenix DDT again, but Acid drops him. Acid gives Fleisch a crazy hurricanrana from the top rope. Another nice move by the Boyz as Acid leapfrogs Fleisch and then Kashmere hits a nasty missile dropkick. Kashmere grabs J’s leg and flips him over into a hard powerbomb. Dream Sequence time as Acid hits a clothesline, then a legdrop and as he’s about to give the dropkick finisher, Fleisch gives Acid a tornado ddt. Kashmere can’t believe it. Slim J gives Acid a hurricanrana to the floor. They battle in the crowd and Fleisch and Slim J climb to the top of a scaffold. They do tandem moonsaults off the moonsault. Fleisch is holding is knee. This is probably when his knee problems started. Back in the ring, J covers Acid but he somehow kicks out. Fleisch covers Kashmere and both Boyz kick out at two. Fleisch tries to climb to the top rope but he can’t. Slim J to the top rope. Boyz catch him with a vicious doubleteam crucifix (T-Gimmick) for the pin. Damn good match with some insane highspots. Rating: ****

Match No. 9: Homicide vs. Samoa Joe. Joe works on Homicide’s arm early. Big knee to the face by Joe. Big forearm by Homicide but Joe no-sells it. Homicide kicks him in the corner hard. Joe then replies with a vicious space tornado ogawa (STO) from the corner. Homicide nearly kills Joe with an overhead suplex. Homicide slides to the floor and Joe throws him into the guardrail. Joe gives Homicide a release belly-to-belly suplex on the floor. He puts him in the chair and here comes the running arched big boot (Ole Kick). He then hits a second and nearly destroys both Homicide and the sheet metal on the guardrail. Homicide is busted open. Joe with a german suplex, followed by dragon suplex and then a cross arm suplex. Homicie barely kicks out. Homicide hits a swinging ddt. They are now on the floor. Homicide grabs a table and sets up on the guardrail. He goes for a tope con hilo but Joe puts him through the table. These guys are beating the shit out of each other. Huge powerbomb by Joe and he then puts Homicide into a stepover toehold facelock (STF). Low Ki comes to ringside. Homicide reverse the STF. Ki is now coaching Homicide. Huge knee by Joe after Homicide’s lariats don’t phase him. Another big knee by Joe. Ki slaps Homicide and he snaps out of it. Huge suplex by Homicide. Followed by a cutter. He goes to the top and hits a double stomp but Joe barely kicks out. Homicide then gives Joe a suplex on his head, kind of a brainbuster but he couldn’t get him all the way up. Joe is out on the floor. Homicide drags Joe into the ring. Joe kicks out again. Two huge kicks to the head by Homicide. And a third. Ki and Smokes argue outside the ring as Homicide has Joe on the top rope. Homicide is distracted and Joe gives him a nasty double legtrap brainbuster (Muscle Buster) from the top rope for the pin. Incredible strong style match. These guys busted their ass, the match told a story and you can’t fault anything in this one. Rating: *****

After the match, Joe cuts a promo in the lockerroom. His left eye is swollen. He calls out Daniels. Pretty good promo. Christopher Daniels is in the ring and calls out Joe. They fight in the ring before it is broken up by 15 guys. Backstage, Daniels cuts a raging promo. He is still pissed after the promo is over. He yells “Get the fuck out of here” and slams the lockerroom door as the show ends. Awesome finish that immediately builds up the next show.

Show opens with a shot of dreary York Hall in London. Actually, it’s not any more dreary than those outside shots of Philly in the early ROH shows.

Match No. 1: James Tighe vs. Paul London. Female ring announcer has a voice that reminds me of fingernails on the chalkboard. I guess this is a ringside fancam with no commentary. London hits a nice standing shooting star press. He then does his flip dropkick. Crowd totally into the match. London with nice springboard hurricanrana. He hits a leg lariat and then another dropkick. London to the top rope and he gets launched into the guardrail. Tighe goes to work on London’s arm. London hits a superkick outside the ring. He then follows with a running shooting star press from the ring apron. He hits a rolling oklahoma stampede from the outside. His enzuigiri gets a two count. London then follows with a springboard senton for a near fall. Tighe hits a nice overhead horizontal suplex into a bridge. Tighe then hits a german suplex with a bridge. Followed by a sitout sideslam. Tighe works on London’s arm. He then follows with a springboard moonsault to the floor. London misses a shooting star press. Tighe hits some kind of cradle brainbuster followed by a standing shooting star press for the pin. Very good opener. London was great and so was Tighe. Bunch of good moves, including some variations by Tighe I hadn’t seen before. FWA 1-0. Rating: ****

Match No. 2: Jack Xavier vs. Mikey Whipwreck. Mike clowns early. They finally lock up. They botch a spot early. Mike is looking old and slow. Xavier goes for a plancha and Mikey moves. Mikey puts bell on Xavier’s groin and rings it. Mikey does a flip in the crowd and Xavier moves. Superkick by Mikey but Xavier kicks out. Mikey drops Xavier on a chair face first. Mike with a russian leg sweep. Xavier kips up and then gives Mikey an enzuigiri. Mikey hits a three-quarter facelook jawbreaker (Whipper-Snapper) for the pin. Scratch that. Xavier kicked out. Xavier rolls up Mikey for the pin. Hometown booking for sure as this guy sucked and a beat an ECW guy. Weak match. FWA 2-0. Rating: **

Match No. 3: Paul Burchill vs. Double Dragon (Raj Ghosh & Ross Jordan). The Duke of Danger is in the ring with his butler, Simmons, and his maid, Buttercup. He can’t wrestle because of the cast on his hand and he brings out a pair of cruiserweights as his replacment. Dean Ayass comes out and introduces Burchill, who destroys the two. Burchill hits a sitout powerbomb but the butler stops the count and the little guys take advantage of him. Burchill does a release german suplex on both guys at once and the fans go crazy. Burchill then does an insane flip dive over the turnbuckle and ringpost onto both Dragons on the floor. Crowd goes nuts. Burchill hits a pair of standing shooting star presses. Impressive for a big guy. He finally walks out of the ring and the Dragon win by countout. But they are motionless in the ring. Squash match but Burchill looked great. He beats up a security guy afterwards. Rating: **

Match No. 4: Jonny Storm vs. AJ Styles. Styles is over with the Brits. Storm is cocky little bastard who looks like Bret Hart. He slaps AJ in the back of the head. AJ does some moves and gives him a slap of his own. Looks like the fuck up a spot as both attempt dropkicks. Great move as AJ does a russian leg sweep, he and Storm kip up at the same time and Styles drops him with a lariat. Styles goes for a dive to the floor but Storm gives him a nasty superkick. Followed by a second. Styles goes for a springboard moonsault into an inverted ddt (Phenomenon) but Storm blocks it. Styles then hits a release german suplex but Storm lands on his feet. Styles then hits a somewhat sloppy Phenomenon. Followed by a nice snap suplex. Storm with a corkscrew leg lariat. He then hits a sitout powerbomb on Styles followed by a moonsault. Crowd is dead all of a sudden. Storm then hits a springboard, Styles catches his legs and Storm responds with a ddt. Styles hits a nice old school brainbuster. They miss what looks like a satellite headscissors attempt by Storm. Outside the ring, Styles gets backdropped on the ramp. They fight on the stage but the ref is in the way. Storm takes a slam on the ramp. I guess there are no countouts in Britian. Back in the ring, Styles hits a high end belly-to-back suplex (Starmaker). Match is starting to drag. Stom nearly botches a springboard hurricanrana (Rewind Hurricanrana). Styles barely kick out. Storm goes for a dive but Styles catches him with a belly to back inverted mat slam (Styles Clash) but Storm kicks out. Homer booking as that scrub should been pinned. Storm does some kind of powerbomb where he flips Styles. Storm then goes for a hurricanrana from the top rope but Styles catches him and goes for a Styles Clash. Storm falls back and then goes back up and gives Styles an hurricanrana. There’s a jump cut so who knows what happened. Styles hits a lariat followed by a springboard 450 splash (Superman Splash) for the pin. FWA 2, ROH 1. This match went too long, dragged a bit and was sloppy. Styles was pretty good though. Rating: **1/2

After the match, Storm won’t shake hands but finally does. When Styles turns his back he jumps him and gives him a beatdown. He goes to hit him with a chair but Jody Fleisch makes the save. I guess those two are feuding.

Match No. 5: Zebra Kid vs. Samoa Joe. Before the match, Joe grabs the mic. He says the match will be for the ROH title. Joe opens with some kicks and then gets Zebra in a leg lock. Zebra replies with a pair of enzuigiris. Joe outside the ring and Zebra hits a high cross body block. Zebra puts Joe in a chair and hits an elbow from the ring apron. Joe is in the corner and Zebra goes for a clothesline, but Joe catches him with a nasty one-arm side slam (STJoe). He then gives him several facewashes followed by a running boat to the face. Joe sits Zebra in a chair next to the guard rail and gives him a running arched big boot (Ole Kick). Joe celebrates like he scored a goal in soccer and British fans go crazy. Zebra beats down Joe and gives him a leg drop in nuts. Zebra with a ddt off the top rope. He then hits a missle drop kick on Joe. Zebra goes for a move from the top rope and Joe catches him in an arm bar. He then gives him several knees to the head. Joe takes his elbow pad off and gives Zebra a huge lariat. Zebra is a tough bastard. He is hanging with Joe and pounds him several times. Joe responds with a german suplex, followed by a dragon suplex and then another german suplex for the pin. Pretty good match. Zebra was able to hang without a problem. Crowd into Joe. FWA 2, ROH 2. Rating: ***

Match No. 6: The Family vs. Alex Shane & Ulf Herman & Nikita. The Family comes to the ring carry burning crosses. Their manager cuts a promo. Shane & Herman get jumped but then clean house. Shane and Herman are some big bastards. Shane does a flip dive onto the heels on the floor. Heels head back to the lockerroom. I have no idea what the hell is going on. Now the match starts as a six man or five man and one woman. Bunch of high spots. Nikita blows a move. Ulf with a dive off the turnbuckle onto the heels. His knees must be shot. Ulf brings weapons into the ring. Ulf destroys Solid Gold Scott Parker with weapons. Alex Shane uses a staple gun on some boor bastard. Nikita does a crazy dive from the balcony onto the guys. Shane gives some unlucky bastard a powerbomb off the stage and through a table. One of the heels tries a springboard and busts his ass. Another follows with a dropkick into a chair on Herman’s face. This shit is dragging and getting sloppy. Weak ref bump spot. Nikita takes several bumps and finally gets pinned. These guys tried but this was low level indy stuff. Rating: *1/2

Match No. 7: Flash Barker vs. Low Ki. Barker is a big son of a bitch. He’s wearing MMA gloves. They trade leglocks early. Then kicks to the leg. More kicks. Ki hits a vicious dragon screw on Barker. Then some hard chops. Huge clothesline by Barker. And a big leg drop. Ki with several kicks to the chest followed by a nasty kick to the head (Krush Kombo). Damn these guys are going strong style. Ki with a kick to the back. Ki nails a springboard roundhouse kick (Tidal Wave). They trade huge uppercuts. Wow, Barker hits a hurricanrana. Barker ducks a shining wizard but Ki gives him a back kick. Barker hits a spinning spinebuster on Ki. Ki responds with a cartwell jumping high kick (Tidal Krush). Barker with several punches to the head. Ki gets him in an arm bar but he breaks it. The bell rings as they reach the 20-mintue time limit. Crowd chants, “Five more minutes!” Ki grabs the mic and says he didn’t come all the you to London for a fucking draw. Samoa Joe and AJ Styles come to the ring to support Ki. Barker takes the mic and asks for five more minutes. Bald ref is adamant that it is a draw. Fans start the bullshit chant. This was a great match ruined by stupid fucking booking. FWA 2, ROH 2, Draw 1. Rating: **1/2

Match No. 8: Christopher Daniels vs. Jody Fleisch. Fans into Daniels. He grabs the mic and insults the crowd and the annoying ring announcer. He says he doesn’t represent ROH but rather the Prophecy. He starts to turn the crowd masterfully. I’m looking forward to this match, which will determine the winner of the challenge. Unless the FWA booker blows it, which is entirely possible. Daniels is awesome working the crowd. Groundwork early. Good stuff as Fleisch gets Daniels in several pinning postions. Daniels works the crowd again. Fleisch uses a headlock on Daniels several times. Fleisch does a springboard moonsault off the top rope, Daniels moves and Fleisch lands on his feet. He then hits a satellite headscissors on Daniels. Fleisch hits another moonsault, this time landing it on Daniels outside the ring. They fight on the ring entrance. Daniels goes for a suplex but Fleisch lands on his feet. He then gives Daniels a hard suplex on the stage. Fleisch gets a chair and then jumps off the chair and does a hurricanrana. Back in the ring, Fleisch hits a corkscrew cross bodyblock. Daniels responds with a clothesline that flips over Fleisch. Daniels hits a nice exploder suplex. Another jump cut. Bastards. Daniels with a pair of backbreakers. He then hits the double jump moonsault (Best Moonsault Ever). Nice dropkick by Fleisch. Then a leg lariat. He hits a pair of standing shooting star presses. Followed by a springboard hurricanrana. Daniels responds with a space tornado ogawa (STO). Daniels with another BME but he misses. Daniels gets a near fall with an enzuigiri. They trade several rolling pin attempts. Daniels nails a palm thrust. Fleisch with a sweet springboard shooting star press. Fleisch goes for a springboard move of some kind and gets nailed with a chair. Jonny Storm maybe? Daniels hits a 90 degree spinning lifting sitout double underhook facebuster (Angel’s Wings) for the pin. ROH wins the challenge 3-2-1. Damn good match. Rating: ****

After the match, Storm beats on Fleisch. Daniels is about to hit the Angel’s Wings from the top rope, but the faces run in for the save. Storm cuts a promo afterwards and nails some guy with a chair. He does a terrible blade job. All the wrestlers come to the ring after the match. Decent show, although the British wrestling was a bit odd at times.

Show opens with a promo by Christopher Daniels. Same quality stuff as always. Donovan Morgan talks about his full-time job with Pro Wrestling NOAH. Daniels then cuts a promo on Samoa Joe. Steve Corino is also mentioned even though we haven’t seen him in several shows. Allison Danger cuts a promo on her brother, Corino. Daniels then welcomes Dan Maff to the Prophecy. He finishes by cutting a promo on Amazing Red and Paul London.

Before the first match, the ROH champions and rankings are shown. Pretty interesting six years later. ROH Champion: Samoa Joe (TNA). ROH Tag Team Champions: A.J. Styles (TNA) & Amazing Red (TNA). No. 1 Contender: Doug Williams (TNA). No. 2: Homicide (TNA). No. 3: Low Ki (WWE Developmental). No. 4: CM Punk (WWE). No. 5: Paul London (ex-WWE).

Match No. 1: Amazing Red vs. Christopher Daniels. Paul London is the third participant in the round robin tournament. Daniels manhandling Red early. Red hits a nice satellite head scissors. Red then hits a springboard hurricanrana on the floor. Daniels destroys Red with a clothesline. He then hits an inverted ddt on Red. Great back-and-forth action, finally Red hits a springboard ddt. He misses an hurricanrana attempt. Sloppy action. Red hits a springboard hurricanrana that is also a bit sloppy. Daniels with a sweet Space Tornado Ogawa (STO). Daniels follows with his double jump moonsault (Best Moonsault Ever). Red kicks out. Red gives Daniels a hurricanrana from the top rope. Red then hits his leg trap suset flip powerbomb (Code Red) but Daniels kicks out. Both guys have kicked out of each other’s finishing moves. Red goes to the top rope but Daniels kicks the referee into the ropes and makes him fall. First time I’ve ever seen that brilliant move. Daniels then hits rolling cutter (Last Rites) on Red for the pin. Very good match hurt by a couple of missed spots. Daniels 1-0. Rating: ***1/2

Scott Chong is the guest timekeeper. I have no idea who he is.

Match No. 2: Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mack) vs. Second City Saints (Ace Steel & Colt Cabana). This is the final DHS match as Mafia is now Dan Maff of the Prophecy. Cabana clowning early. Maff drops Steel on his head with a full nelson back suplex. Steel and Maff trade slaps, chops and then forearms Japanese style. Damn impressive exchange. Maff stuck in the corner and the Saints go to town on him. Mack hits a powerslam on Cabana followed by a nasty vertical suplex powerbomb (Orange Crush). Steel breaks it up. Mack hits a huge lariat on Steel. Steel follows with a swinging ddt on Maff. Steel and Cabana then give Mack a double underhook overhead backbreaker rack drop (Colt .45) for the pin. Great physical tag team match. Rating: ****

Before the show, Dunn & Marcos cut a promo as they are setting up the ring. Diablo Santiago & Oman Tortuga cut a promo. Dunn & Marcos laugh at them.

Match No. 3: Ring Crew Express (Dunn & Marcos) vs. Special K (Brian XL & Hydro) vs. EZ Money & Sterling James Keenan vs. Spanish Announce Team (Jose & Joel Maximo) in tag team scramble match. RCE tries to do a high five with Chong. Slugga is out with Special K and the guy even bigger than him is at ringside. Hydro, a young Jay Lethal, hits a nice tope on Money on the floor. Crazy action in the ring. Dunn and Marcos blow the stage dive to the floor. XL hits a nice somersault tope and ends up in the front row. Nice doubleteam work by SAT. Way too many moves to keep up with. EZ Money makes crazy dive to the floor. SAT hits Spanish Fly for the pin. Slugga takes out Joel after the match. The big guy then comes in the ring. He faces off with Slugga. Slugga takes him out with a power bomb. Good match, tons of high spots as expected. Rating: ***

Match No. 4: C.M. Punk vs. Homicide for No. 1 Contender’s Trophy. Before the match some guy is in the ring in flannel, similar to Raven. Lucy takes him out. Punk cuts promo on the crowd. These guys trade moves back and forth early. Bunch of arm drags. Homicide hits t-bone suplex on Punk. Followed by mafia kick and knee to the head in the corner. Punk nails Homicide with a shining wizard. Homicide rolls to the floor and Punk hits tope to the floor. Punk then uses a jumping hammerlock followed by a twisting short-range lariat. Nice move. Punk puts Homicide in the tree of woe and then gives him several facewashes with his boot. Punk puts Homicide in a hammerlock and then drops him on his knees. Punk goes for a springboard senton but Homicide moves. Homicide grabs Punks hair and kicks him several times in the back. Homicide gets Punk in the bow-and-arrow. Punk recovers and puts Homicide in a stepover toehold facelock (STF). Punk nails a northern lights suplex. Punk gives Homicide a belly-to-belly suplex on the floor. Homicide does huricanrana off the top rope for a near fall. Punk goes to the top rope and hits a vicious diving double underhook facebuster (Pepsi Plunge). Somehow, Homicide kicks out at 2 9/10. Punk can’t fucking believe it. Homicide hits a cutter on Punk. Followed by a huge lariat. Punk somehow kicks out. Punk then replies with a hammerlock legsweep ddt (Devil Lock DDT). Again, Homicide somehow kicks out. Homicide hits a nasty looking scoop lift piledriver on Punk. Punk gets his foot on the rope. Homicide attempts his back-to-back underhook piledriver (Da Cop Killa), but Punk escapes. They botch a move before Punk hits a death valley driver. Homicide grapevines Punk’s legs, then rolls him into a stepover toehold facelock (STF). Punk taps. Damn good match with one slight miscue. These guys put on a helluva show. Rating: ****1/2

Match No. 5: Carnage Crew (Loc & DeVito & Masada) vs. Texas Wrestling Academy (Fast Eddie, Don Juan & Hotstuff Hernandez) with Rudy Boy Gonzalez in a No DQ match. DeVito cuts a promo on Gonzalez and Loc cheap shots him as the bell rings. I feel bad for Hernandez. He was in the semi-main event in the last show vs. Joe. Two weeks later, he’s teaming with a pair of pussies in a no DQ match. Hernandez takes a hubcap shot to the head outside while the whitemeat babyfaces dropkick a screen and knock down the heels. Don Juan takes Masada and drapes him over the top rope and sets up a chair. He then drops him on the chair hard. Fast Eddie then does a springboard somersault corner-to-corner missle dropkick (Van Terminator) on Masada. Ok, looks are deceiving but these guys are not wrestling like pussies. Masada is busted open. Loc nails Fast Eddie with a swinging neckbreaker on a chair. Masada gives Eddie a vicious chair shot to the head. Hernandez gives DeVito an inverted sitout reverse powerbomb. Loc is a bloody mess. Hernandez picks up Masada and gives him a throwing crucifix powerbomb (Border Toss) of at least 10 feet. Loc hits a nice Saito suplex on Hernandez. DeVito takes massive chairshot. Loc then throws a chair and nails Hernandez. Masada hits a death valley driver from the top rope on Don Juan. Fast Eddie is a bloody mess. Eddie goes to the top rope and gives Masda an hurricanrana to the hard wooden floor. Damn crazy bump. Hotstuff then puts Eddie on his shoulders and does the throwing crucifix powerbomb to the floor on Loc and DeVito. Another crazy ass bump. Hernandez nearly kills himself as he does a somersault tope to the floor and everyone moves. Actually DeVito nailed him with a chair on the way down. Carnage Crew then give Fast Eddie a triple spike piledriver (Carnage Driver) from the middle rope. Another ridiculous move and this one is finally over. If you like bloody matches with crazy spots, this match delivers. Rating: ****

After the match, the Carnage Crew beat the shit out of Chong. Turns out he was on the third season of the WWE reality show Tough Enough.

Match No. 6: Paul London vs. Amazing Red. This is a grudge match as sorts as Red replaced London as AJ Styles’ partner and the two won the ROH tag team titles. Red nearly misses a springboard moonsault but London catches him. He then hits a satellite headscissors. London with a nice knee to the face from the top rope. London does a hiptoss and kicks Red in mid-air. He then hits that nice flipping dropkick. London drops Red on the guardrail. He then hits a nice springboard senton. London hits a pair of nice double underhook german suplexes. Red reverses a London suplex into a small package. Red with a german suplex for a near fall. Red goes for a sunset flip but London turns it into a northern lights suplex. Followed by a second. London mocks AJ Styles as he goes for the pin. Red hits a leg trap sunset flip powerbomb (Code Red) from the top rope but somehow London kicks out. Red then hits standing shooting star press (Red Star Press) but London kicks out again. London hits a belly-to-back inverted mat slam (Styles Clash) for the pin. Red was a bit shaky in places, but in all fairness this was his second match of the night. These guys did some innovative moves and the finish was original. London 1-0. Daniels 1-0. Red 0-2. Rating: ****

Gary Michael Capetta interviews Matt Stryker backstage. Chad Collyer interrupts him. Michael Shane is backstage with Simply Luscious. He manhandles Capetta who is overly dramatic. Shane cuts a promo on Daniels.

Match No. 7: Persephone vs. Alexis Laree. Presephone is the greek goddess of growth. No comment. As usual, Gabe obsesses over Laree. Wonder what his wife thinks of that. Oh yeah, the dvd commentary is a work. Laree hits an inverted ddt for the win. Rating: **

After the match, Luscious gives Laree a death valley driver. Shane holds Persephone, who is bigger than he is. Luscious has problems picking her up before finally giving her a dvd. Shane gets a chair and sits in the ring. Capetta comes to the ring.

Great backstage promo by CM Punk. Cabana and Steel look at each other as he goes on a rant. He introduces Lucy, formerly Daffney and now Daffney again who will counteract Trinity. Steel and Cabana then do the comedy routing as Punk shakes. Awesome segment.

Match No. 8: Matt Styker vs. Chad Collyer vs. Donovan Morgan vs. B.J. Whitmer vs. Michael Shane. Shane has put himself in this match making a four-way match into a five-way match. Shane starts with Morgan but quickly tags out. Whitmer opens against Morgan. Shane gets beat down by Morgan and quickly tags out again. Stryker and Collyer square off again. Collyer has made Stryker submit to the texas cloverleaf in their last two ROH matches. Whitmer hits a couple of loud chops on Collyer. Collyer responds with a beautiful dropkick on Whitmer. Morgan hits a pair of snap suplexes and then a swinging fisherman suplex on Whitmer. Shane with the beatdown on Collyer. He then gives him a cheapshot to the knee. Shane is a great chickenshit heel. Shane works on Collyer’s leg. Whitmer does the same. Stryker also works on the leg of rival Collyer. All four guys work on Collyer’s leg. Collyer finally tags to Morgan who pounds on Shane. Shane slows Morgan with an enzuigiri. Whitmer in and he gets nailed by Morgan’s sitout double underhook facebuster (Sayonara). Shane in and gives Morgan a superkick. Stryker in and he gives Shane a death valley driver. Collyer with a cross body block on Stryker. Stryker kicks out. Collyer with a dragon screw on Stryker and then a texas cloverleaf. Shane breaks it up with a superkick on Collyer. Morgan hits a swinging crade suplex (Golden Gate Swing) on Shane. Morgan goes to hit Luscious on the ring apron but he moves and Whitmer takes our out with a forearm. Whitmer hits a wrist clutch exploder suplex (Exploder 98) on Morgan. Collyer holds Whitmer and Stryker gives him a leg lariat and Collyer gives him a german suplex. Stryker puts Collyer in the reverse figure four (Stryker Lock) for the pin. Great old-school technical match. Rating: ****

Match No. 9: Christopher Daniels vs. Paul London in round robin challenge final. Gabe points out Japanese female stalker fan who flew from Tokyo to see London. Matwork early. Daniels pissed. Both take turns talking smack on the house mic. Daniels puts out his hand and then suckers London. London with a springboard cross body block to the floor (Pescado). London then hits a springboard oklahoma roll from the ring apron followed by a nice flip dropkick. Daniels responds with a knee to the midsection. Daniels with an abdominal stretch. London recovers but Daniels nails him with a huge lariat. He then follows with the 90 degrees spinning lifing sitout double underhook facebuster (Angel’s Wings). London kicks out. London hits a springboard forearm on Daniels. London makes the comeback but holds his ribs. From the ring apron London does a springboard into a moonsault but Daniels moves. Daniels with a nasty palm strike as London is sitting on the top rope. He follows with a big snap mare. Daniels goes for a double jump moonsault (Best Moonsault Ever) but London moves. Daniels blocks a sunset flip attempt. London to the top rope. Daniels catches him and tries a superplex. But London drops Daniels and hits the shooting star press. He is unable to make the cover. As he does so, Allison Danger distracts the ref. London blocks a slap attempt and kisses her. Wonder what the stalker fan thought of that? London backdrops Daniels onto Danger on the floor. London hits tope on Daniels. Both slow to get up from the floor. London hits a legsweep ddt but Daniels barely kicks out. London back to the top rope. He goes for a shooting star press but Daniels gets the knees up. Daniels hits a facebuster (Flatline) followed by a double jump moonsault (Best Moonsault Ever) for the pin. Damn good match by two incredible wrestlers. Rating: *****

Match No. 10: Doug Williams vs. Samoa Joe for ROH title. These two have a tough act to follow. Williams goes to work on Joe’s arm. They trade moves and then Joe hits some hard chops on Williams followed by some big elbows. Joe with some facewashes followed by a running boot to the face. Joe with a brainbuster. Williams hits a big uppercut but Joe responds with a slap to the face. Williams hits a big knee lift. Williams goes back to the arm. Joe nails Williams with a form of the space tornado ogawa (STO). Joe puts Williams in the stepover toehold facelock (STF). He breaks it and Williams grabs the arm again. Williams uses a knee to the arm and goes up top with another knee to the arm. Huge lariat by Joe. Williams goes for his backwards roll into a german suplex with a bridge (Chaos Theory) but Joe blocks it. Joe with several vicious knees to the face followed by a rear naked choke. Williams taps. Real good title match between two technical heavyweights. Rating: ****

After the match, Maff and Morgan attackd Joe. Shane comes in for the save and he battles Morgan. Daniels comes in to give his group the advantage and he and Morgan drop Shane. Daniels hits a rolling cutter (Last Rites) on Joe.

Fast forward in time as Carnage Crew tape promo prior to May 31 show. As the chant goes, same old shit, talking about their wives and kids. Actually it was probably taped before this show but since Loc’s head was busted open and he went to the hospital they had to explain something.

Daniels and Morgan and Maff backstage. Great promo by Daniels. Joe cuts a promo after the show. He points at his nose which is big and in this case, bruised or broken.

Show opens with the huge black guy from the last show who is bigger than Slugga entering the arena. Next we go backstage as Alexis Laree cuts a promo with A.J. Styles and Amazing Red. After she’s done, Paul London confronts A.J. and asks why they are no longer partners. Weird promo by London and A.J.’s redneck accent makes him nearly incomprehensible.

Match No. 1: Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid & Johnny Kashmere) vs. Da Hit Squad (Mafia and Monsta Mack). Boyz clown around early. DHS gets in some licks and Boyz head back to the locker room. DHS goes to the back and drag them back to the ring. Mafia does suicide dive to the floor. Monsta Mack powerbombs Kashmere hard into the turnbuckle. Mafia goes for burning hammer on Kashmere but he escapes. He then goes to clothesline Kashmere but he ducks and Mafia hits Monsta Mack. Boyz then hit double team crucifix powerbomb (T-Gimmick) on Mafia for the pin. Mafia is pissed after the match and walks out on Monsta Mack. Decent opener but a bit short. Rating: **1/2

The lights go out, the rave music begins and Special K hits the ring with Mikey Whipwreck. The Backseat Boyz are still in the ring and Mikey cuts a promo on them. Dunn & Marcos hit the ring. Followed by the Loc & Devito. The Backseat Boyz challenge the winner of the scramble match to meet them next month.

Match No. 2: Special K (Dixie & Hydro) vs. Ring Crew Express (Dunn & Marcos) vs. the Carnage Crew (Loc & Devito). Loc hits huge german suplex on Marcos. Devito suplexes Dixie on his head. Dunn & Marcos hit stereo slingshot crossbody blocks (Stage Dive) to the floor. Carnage Crew hits stuff piledriver on Dunn, but referee is distracted as Mikey comes into the ring and gives them both a three-quarter facelock jawbreaker (Whipper-Snapper). Hydro then covers Dunn for the pin. Another short match, but a lot of action and a bunch of high spots. Rating: ***

After the match, Slugga gives Marco a body bag. Then the big guy from the opening segment comes to the ring. Special K holds Slugga back.

Match No. 3: Briscoe Brothers vs. A.J. Styles & Amazing Red for ROH tag team titles. Briscoes attack champs at the bell. A.J. and Red do crazy criss-cross dives to the floor. Red hits leg trap sunset flip powerbomb (Code Red) on Mark. Jay hits a nice snap suplex on Red. Mark follows with a basic suplex and then a northern lights suplex on Red. Red can’t make it to the corner for the tag. Red hits huge ddt on Mark. He finally makes the hot tag to A.J. Styles cleans house. Red climbs A.J.’s back and hits a Shining Wizard on Mark. Nice doubleteam moves by the champs. Briscoes hit huge powerbomb on Red. Mark goes for hurricanrana outside the ring on A.J., who catches him and then gives him belly-to-back inverted mat slam (Styles Clash) on the floor. Jay goes for a double underhook piledriver (Jay Driller) but Red blocks it. He then hits a shoulder mount ddt (Maximo Expolsion) followed by a standing shooting star press (Red Star Press) for the pin. Damn good match by four excellent wrestlers. Rating: ****

Match No. 4: B.J. Whitmer vs. C.M. Punk. Before the match, Trinity comes to the ring and sits in the corner similar to Raven. She’s looking smoking hot. She nearly busts her ass as she dives to the floor but Colt Cabana catches her and takes her to the back. Matwork early. Punk takes bump to the floor. Whitmer goes for a flip dive but he doesn’t rotate all the way and cracks his head on the floor. Whitmer misses a move. Punk looks pissed and snaps his neck over the top rope and hits a big missile dropkick. Punk gets a table from beneath the ring. He tries to throw Whitmer onto it but he blocks it. Punk nails him with a Shining Wizard. (This is the second straight match with the move.) Whitmer hits high knee followed by a chop to the throat and a northern lights suplex. They trade huge forearms. Whitmer hits several Kawada kicks on Punk. More huge forearms. Punk hits german suplex on Whitmer through the table on the floor. Bell rings as both guys are motionless on the floor. Both are then helped to the locker room. Pretty good match that dragged in the middle. Couple of missed spots, including finish. Rating: ***

Match No. 5: Homicide vs. Christopher Daniels. Allison Danger is looking smoking hot, in a trampy sort of way. No idea why they joined this in progress. Back and forth early, Daniels nice ddt on Homicide. Homicide with capo kick and knee to the face, followed by a flip dive to the floor. Daniels hits double jump moonsault (Best Moonsault Ever) and Homicide barely kicks out. Homicide hits a pair of back suplexes. Daniels replies with one of is own. They block each other’s finishing moves and then Homicide hits huge lariat. Daniels hits spinning lifting sitout double underhook facebuster (Angel’s Wings) for a near fall. Out of nowhere, Homocide does some kind of grapevine for the three count. Decent match, but nothing special. Wasn’t as good as I expected. Rating: ***

After the match, Homicide was trying to get Daniels to shake when Samoa Joe, CW Anderson and Jack Victory attack both of them. Joe chokes out Homicide and Mafia makes the save. Mafia and Daniels are about to go at it. Daniels rips off his shirt and he has a Prophecy shirt underneath. I guess he’s a heel now. He drops his shirt on Homicide and walks out.

Gary Michael Capetta interviews B.J. Whitmer. Poor bastard is hurting. CM Punk gives him props, then totally shits on him for quitting. They cut to the hallway outside where Julius Smokes and his thug friend are beating down nobodys, then run away with their wallets.

Match No. 6: Alexis Laree vs. Ariel. Match must have sucked since they are only showing highlights and the match went less than two minutes. Wonder if this was before or after Alexis did the porn shoot. Alexis wins, Ariel needs to lose some weight. Rating: *

Match No. 7: Hotstuff Hernandez vs. Samoa Joe in a non-title match. Joe’s first match as ROH champion. Of course, the belt’s not on the line. Joe controlling the action early. Huge clothesline by Hernandez. He dives over the top rope and crashes into the guard rail pretty hard but gets right up. Damn impressive. Hernandez with an impressive release german suplex. He then hits a some kind of choke into a sitout powerbomb. Joe puts him in a leg scissors with an arm bar and Hernandez taps. Finish came out of nowhere. Decent match between the big guys, but a little short. Rating: ***

Gary Michael Capetta interviews Joe after the match. Best line comes from the crowd about Capetta being on his knees. Joe cuts a promo. He says Hernandez busted his ass for the title. Crowd tells him it was a non-title match. He says Philly deserves a title match and to hit the music.

Match No. 8: Samoa Joe vs. Matt Stryker vs. Colt Cabana vs. Tom Carter. Joe says that if anyone pins him, they will get the belt. Cabana and Carter trade some nice moves. Cabana hits a nice swinging snap suplex. Not sure what happened, but there was a jump cut as Stryker and Carter were going at it. Stryker does some kind of hammerlock/leglock submission on Carter. Huge dragonscrew by Stryker on Cabana and he turns it into a leglock. Stryker backdrops Cabana onto the floor and he takes a big bump on the apron. Stryker then does a slingshot cross bodyblock to the floor. Joe goes for a dive to the floor but Carter nails him in the face with a boot. He hits a sunset flip followed by some kind of spinning facebuster. Carter goes for a lariat but Joe catches him with a Space Tornado Ogawa (STO or in this case, STJoe). Stryker makes the save. He hits a death valley driver on Joe but Cabana makes a save. Cabana then hits an over the shoulder belly to back piledriver onto his knee. Cabana goes for a power bomb from the top rope but Carter reverses it into a huge ddt. Joe with Kawada kicks on Cabana. Joe blocks Cabana’s double underhook overhead overhead backbreaker rack drop (Colt .45). Joe puts Cabana in a rear naked choke and as he is about to tap out, Carter does frog splash on both of them. Joe holds onto the choke and Cabana taps. Pretty good match between four really good wrestlers. Rating: ***1/2

They cut to David Young and Iceberg fighting outside the arena. No idea what that’s about. This must have been before Young’s TNA run.

Match No. 9: Bryan Danielson vs. Paul London. This should be a damn good match, let’s see if it delivers. It’s two out of three falls. They trade holds early. Danielson with a vicous kick to the face of London. London hits nice belly-to-belly suplex. Danielson hits a nasty forearm uppercut on London. These guys are beating the hell out of each other Japanese style. Danielson nails a back suplex for a near fall. Danielson uses an old-school abdominal stretch. Fifteen minutes in and no falls yet. Huge lariat by London. Londen then follows with a beautiful springboard sunset flip from at least 10 feet away. Danielson slingshots London who puts himself over the top rope and then uses headscissors to take Danielson to the floor. Danielson does a risky tope to the floor. Nice snap suplex by Danielson. He goes to the top rope and hits a diving headbutt for a near fall. Several quick near falls. Danielson nails a german suplex but London barely kicks out. Danielson goes for a back suplex from the top rope but in mid-air, London turns it into a crossbody block for the pin. London 1-0. London gets hung up in the ropes and Danielson goes after his knee. He then runs his knee hard into the corner turnbuckle. Twenty-five minutes into the match. Nasty dragon screw by Danielson. Danileson puts on a half boston crab. London taps. Tied 1-1. London nails Danielson with several boots to the face. London hits a legsweep ddt for a near fall. Massive roaring forearm by Danielson, followed by a bridging grounded double chickenwing (Cattle Mutilation). London escapes using the ropes. Danielson nails London with an enzuigiri. Followed by a second. Danielson gets a near fall with a dragon suplex. He then puts London back in the half crab. He again gets to the ropes. London with a nasty powerbomb on Danielson. London goes to the top rope slowly favoring his knee. Thirty-five minutes in. Danielson puts London on the top rope and he nails him in the back several times. Danielson with a massive back suplex. London kicks out. Danielson again with the half boston crab. It’s in deep. Somehow he makes the ropes for the break. Danielson puts him on the top rope again. London him knocks him to the canvas. Danielson back up to the top rope with London. London hits a huge spinning ddt on Danielson. London slowly climbs to the top rope as we hit forty minutes. London hits a shooting star press (London Star Press) onto Daniels for the pin. Damn good match, it doesn’t get much better than this. Danielson shaken up afterwards. Rating: ****1/2

Match No. 10: Bunkhouse Brawl starts with David Young and Iceberg. Young does senton off the stage onto Iceberg. Homicide and CW Anderson brawl in the ring. Jack Victory and David Young gang up on Homicide. The Midnight Rider comes to the ring. Dusty Rhodes comes from behind and drops Young, Victory and Anderson. Homicide with nasty cowbell shot on Anderson. Homicide busts open Victory with a fork. Anderson is also bloody. Iceberg is bloody and he splashes Young. Rhodes is busted open. Homicide is bloody after a cowbell to the forehead by Anderson. Victory puts Homicide hard through a table. Homicide puts Victory hard int the table. Dusty gives Anderson a nut shot. Bionic elbow by Rhodes on Young. Young gives Dusty a nutshot. Things break down as Julius Smokes fights a guy from the crowd. He then dropkicks him from the apron. Dusty kisses Simply Luscious. Victory getting destroyed with a trash can. He quits after Homicide forks him several times. If you like bloody carnage, this was a good match. Rating: ***

Dusty cuts a rambling promo backstage. Homicide then cuts a promo on Steve Corino. Julius Smokes then chips in with his gibberish. Colt Cabana and CM Punk backstage. Punk cuts promo on Raven. Thought that feud was over. I guess not. After the promo, Cabana asks Punk about his new catch phrases. Loc and DeVito beat up some more ring crew guys. Christoper Daniels cuts a promo on Michael Shane. Daniels and Simply Luscious welcome Dan Maff to the Prophecy. Monsta Mack interrupts and asks Maff why he joined the Prophecy. Maff cuts a promo on Mack. He then cuts a promo on Ace Steel and Colt Cabana. Mack says he is now the Brooklyn Bull Steve Mack and gets fired up as the show ends.

Show opens with tape of Steve Corino promo sent from Japan. Next we see Special K backstage raving. Mikey changes the music from rave to rock and the guys freak out. Christopher Daniels cuts his typical good promo. He shows off his FWA belt. Xavier calls out Samoa Joe. He stumbles over his words and looks down, kind of like he may be losing the belt tonight?

Match No. 1: Matt Stryker vs. B.J. Whitmer vs. Alex Arion vs. Dixie in four-way match. Stryker opens with Whitmer. Good moves early by the two. Arion does monkey flip on Whitmer who (almost) lands on his feet. Stryker hits an overhead release suplex on Dixie. Arion and Stryker look good together. Of course, they both are the same size, barely taller than the top rope. Dixie and Arion rack each other with cross body blocks. Whitmer and Stryker trade huge chops and then forearms. Stryker hits a death valley driver (Stryker Driver) on Whitmer for a near fall. Dixie then hits an inverted neckbreaker on Stryker. Arion breaks it up. Arion hits a sitdown power bomb on Dixie. Whitmer breaks it up. Stryker uses ankle lock on Arion. Dixie hits weak hurricanrana on Stryker. Whitmer follows with wrist clutch exploder suplex (Exploder ’98) on Dixie for the pin. Pretty good opener. Rating: ***

Mikey Whipwreck in the ring with the mic. He’s talking to Quiet Storm and the SAT. Special K attacks the faces.

Match No. 2: Special K (Deranged, Izzy and Angel Dust) vs. Spanish Announce Team and Quiet Storm in a scramble match. SAT all do highspots onto the floor. Quiet Storm hits a spinal shock on Deranged. Nice triple team by the faces on Izzy. SAT mess up cutter (Ace Crusher) from the top rope on Angel Dust, whose head hits the canvas. Jose hits two brainbusters and a sitdown powerbomb on Deranged. Storm hits storm cradle driver on Angel Dust. Ref Hanson is distracted and Whipwreck hits a stunner (Whiper-Snapper) on all three faces and Special K pins them simultaneously. Another pretty good match. Rating: ***

After the match, Slugga gives Quiet Storm a body bag. A big brother then comes into the ring from the crowd. He’s actually bigger than Slugga. They have a stare down and Slugga backs down and walk away.

They show Julius Smokes and friend arguing with Gabe Sapolsky in the crowd. I guess that’s supposed to be a carryover from the “riot” in New York.

Match No. 3: Ring Crew Express (Dunn & Marcos) vs. Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid & Johnny Kashmere). Boyz do their trademark double team moves. Say what you will, but the fuckers are fun to watch. Dunn suplexes Kashmere on the floor. A lot of offene for RCE. Boyz hit Dream Sequence on Marcos. Boyz go for double team crucifix powerbomb (T-Gimmick) on Dunn, but Marcos blocks it and they do a double roll up on the Boyz. Boyz then use T-Gimmick on Marcos for the pin. Another good match, even though it was a squash. Rating: ***

Trent Acid on the mic after the match. He calls out the ROH tag teams. As the Boyz go through the curtain, Da Hit Squad blocks their path.

Match No. 4: Doug Williams vs. Christopher Daniels for FWA title. All Williams early and Daniels is pissed as he bails from the ring. Daniels now on the offensive. Williams drops Daniels hard with a back suplex. Crowd is dead. Daniels hits nice slingshot elbow drop. All Daniels at this point. He puts Williams in an abdominal stretch. Williams uses high knee on Daniels. Followed by a huge lariat. Things are picking up now. Williams hits overhead release belly-to-belly suplex followed by a fisherman’s buster suplex. Williams jumps off middle rope and nails Daniels with a tornado ddt. Williams puts Daniels in a crossface. Daniels hits moonsault for a near fall. Williams goes for bridging german suplex (Chaos Theory), but Daniels blocks it. Daniels goes for a rolling cutter (Last Rites) but Williams blocks with a snap mare. Williams uses swinging cobra clutch. He goes to the top and hits a knee to the back of the head. Daniels goes for spinning lifting sitout double underhook facebuster (Angel’s Wings) but Williams counters. Williams then hits Chaos Theory for the pin and the belt. Damn good match between two studs. Crowd got into it as it picked up late. Rating: ****

Samoa Joe, C.W. Anderson and that tramp Simply Luscious in the ring. They jaw with Julius Smokes. Security comes over and then Jack Victory throws Smokes over the guardrail and Joe and Anderson beat on him. Homicide and Da Hit Squad come out and attack the heels. Homicide hits huge tope on Anderson.

Match No. 5: Da Hit Squad & Homicide vs. Samoa Joe & C.W. Anderson & Jack Victory. Monsta Mack with a huge clothesline on Joe. Homicide all over C.W. DHS doubleteams Joe. C.W. hits spinebuster on Mafia. Joe does tope on Mafia. Homicide uses cutter (Ace Crusher) on C.W. C.W. hits belly-to-back suplex on Homicide. Simply Luscious fights with Becky Bayless. Homicide gives Luscious back-to-back double underhook piledrive (Cop Killa). Anderson puts Homicide in scissored armbar (Anderson Tradition). Anderson gives Homicide spinebuster on a trash can. Bell rings as this one is thrown out. Julius Smokes comes running down to the ring with a bat. The other thugs are with him. Entertaining brawl. Rating: ***

Gary Michael Capetta backstage with Doug Williams. Capetta is wearing a 10-year old jacket and tie. That was a one-minute waste of time.

Match No. 6: Mace & Hotstuff Hernandez vs. Carnage Crew (Loc & DeVito). Mace says Buff E. can’t wrestle because his ass is hurting. Hernandez opens with his power spots. Mace hits a bronco buster on DeVito. Loc drops Mace on his head with a release suplex. CC jump Hernandez in the corner. He then gives them a double ddt. Hernandez catches Loc and gives him a sitdown powerbomb. Hernandez hits the amazing vault over the top rope clothesline on the floor. DeVito drops Hernandez on guardrail and then nails him with a chairshot. CC give Mace ridiculous spike piledriver from the middle rope. Buff E. kisses Loc and clotheslines DeVito afterwards. Ok match. Rating: **

Match No. 7: Briscoe Brothers vs. A.J. Styles & Amazing Red with Alexis Laree for ROH tag team title. Red and Jay open with some great spots. Red and Mark also trade nice moves. A.J. hits nice release german suplex on Mark. A.J. holds Jay and Red superkicks him and then A.J. gives him a release german suplex. A.J. and Red do stereo dives onto Briscoes on the floor. Briscoes doubleteam Styles giving him a double boot to the face. Jay gives A.J. a nice snap suplex, shades of Dynamite Kid. A.J. hits a huge brainbuster on Mark. Red hits standing shooting star press (Red Star Press) on Mark. Jay hits huge clothesline on Red. Red hits a crazy hip toss into a sitout powerbomb on Mark. Red goes for Code Red but Briscoes drop him on his head. Styles does springboard moonsault and catches Mark before he can give him a ddt (Phenomenon), he kicks Jay and then ddt’s both of them. A.J. blocks double-underhook piledriver (J-Driller), then Jay blocks belly-to-back inverted mat slam (Styles Clash) and hits a sitout suplex slam (Falcon Arrow) on Styles. With Jay on the top rope, Red hits leg trap sunset flip powerbomb (Code Red) for a near fall. Mark is on the top rope and Red does huricanrana and Styles catches him and hits Styles Clash for the pin. Outstanding match, one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. Rating: ****1/2

Match No. 8: Jody Fleisch vs. Low Ki. Mat work early. Fleisch goes for a twisting springboard tornado ddt (Phoenix DDT) but Ki blocks it. Fleisch does some kind of backwards hurricanrana and drops Ki on his head. Fleisch hits a crazy springboard flip to the floor. Fleisch does a springboard back flip and Ki then hits a springboard roundhouse kick (Tidal Wave) and destroys Fleisch. Ki hits a clothesline followed by a german suplex with a nice bridge. Fleisch hits nice corkscrew cross body block from the top rope. Ki does running fireman’s carry into the turnbuckle (Krush Rush). He follows it with a rolling wheel kick and then some Kawada kicks to the face. Ki does a crazy power bomb into a bridge. Ki goes for a Fisherman’s Driver (Ki Krusher) but Fleisch rolls him into a small package. Ki then does a cartwheel and hits a jumping high kick (Tidal Krush). Fleisch hits a springboard shooting star press and nearly kills Ki. Ki gives Fleisch some Kawada kicks from the top rope. The two nearly lose their balance and fall before Ki gives him another Ki Krusher. Crazy move and fans go nuts. Ki then rolls over and gets the pin. Very good match with a bunch of high spots. Rating: ****

Special K is in the dressing room having a rave. Fleisch comes back holding his head. He gets a dropper full of drugs and gets to his feet and stars dancing.

C.M. Punk comes to the ring with Ace Steel and cuts a promo on the crowd.

Match No. 9: C.M. Punk & Ace Steel vs. Raven & Colt Cabana. Raven cuts his standard promo and Cabana says something meaningless. Punk gets back on the mic. Now we finally get some wrestling. Punk and Raven start things. They take turns tagging before Steel and Raven tie up. Raven nails Steel with garbage can lid. Ace Steel is tremendous as a cowardly heel. Punk is also a great heel, which explains why WWE now uses him as a face. Punk takes a drop toe hold on a chair from Raven. Cabana uses double underhook overhead backbreaker rack drop (Colt .45) on Punk but Steel breaks it up. Punk follows with a double underhook backbreaker on Cabana. Raven goes crazy with a trash can. He then hits a huge bulldog on Steel. Wow, old ass Raven does suicide dive onto the floor on Punk and Steel. Cabana does moonsault to the floor on Punk and Steel and grabs his ankle and screams in pain. Steel and Punk double team Raven and put him on a table. Punk goes for an elbow drop, but Raven moves. Steel breaks up the count. Raven hits flowing snap ddt (Raven Effect) on Steel for the pin. Finish comes out of nowhere. Decent match, but strange finish. Rating: ***

Raven gets on the mic after the match and tells Punk to shake his hand. Punk gives him the finger. He goes for Raven Effect on Punk, but he bails. Raven then gives Steel another Raven Effect. Raven tries to lure Punk back into the ring and Punk sneaks in and drops him. Cabana tries to get Punk to step laying the boots to him. Cabana then turns on Raven and Punk and Cabana beat him down.

Homicide cuts promo on Jack Victory. He says Dusty Rhodes will join him in bunkhouse match. Julius Smokes cuts a crazy, rambling promo.

Match No. 10: Samoa Joe vs. Xavier for ROH title. Michael Shane and CW Anderson attack Christopher Daniels and Alison Danger at ringside. Then Joe attacks Xavier in the ring. Xavier is taking a beating early. Joe hits huge ole kick on Xavier outside the ring. Joe follows up with several Kawada kicks. Xavier hits double knee backbreaker on Joe, followed by several european forearms. Xavier hits release overhead suplex on Joe. He follows with a nice dropkick. Xavier hits a tope on Joe outside the ring, but Joe catches him with a swining ddt onto the floor. Xavier hits a 450 legdrop on Joe, followed by a suplex. They trade chops and Joe gets the better of things. Joe with a ridiculous clothesline on Xavier. Joe hits a german suplex, followed by a dragon suplex, finished up with an x-plex (Chimera-Plex sequence). Xavier somehow rolls over and gets a two count on Xavier. Xavier goes for a straight jacket hangman’s neckbreaker (X Breaker), but Joe blocks it. Joe goes for a suplex but Xavier knees him in the head. Xavier then hits the X Breaker. Xavier goes to the top rope. He goes for a 450 splash but Joe gets his knees up. Joe hits several knees to the head, then he puts Xavier in a rear naked choke. Xavier’s hand goes down one, twice and then a third time and Joe gets the win. Pretty good match, but not as much heat as expected, although the crowd popped at the end. Rating: ***1/2

Raven cuts promo on Punk in the locker room. Daniels is distraught days after the event as he mourns the loss of the tag title belts, the FWA title and the ROH title. He calls out Michael Shane and Steve Corino and says The Prophecy may get a new member. Show ends as it started as Steve Corino cuts a promo from Japan on Homicide.

Show opens with Christopher Daniels promo. He congratulates Xavier, who gloats over his title win at the one-year anniversary show. Daniels says Xavier will be his partner in tag team title match as Donovan Morgan is in Japan. Daniels cuts long promo and Alison Danger even cuts promo her on her brother Steve Corino.

Match No. 1: Matt Stryker vs. Chad Collyer. For the first time, ROH lists the top five ranking system: 5) CM Punk; 4) Low Ki; 3) Steve Corino; 2) Bryan Danielson; 1) vacant. Mat wrestling early between the two. Crowd in Boston is hot early. Stryker does a leglock facelook on Collyer and then follows up with a modified reverse figure four (Stryker Lock). Collyer gets to the ropes both times. Collyer now working on Stryker’s leg. He uses his texas cloverleaf finisher. Stryker makes the ropes. Tons of reversals and near falls. Collyer hits texas cloverleaf again for the tap. Great opener that started slowed and finished hot. Rating: ***

Da Hit Squad and Low Ki backstage. Mafia and Low Ki argue and Monsta Mack tries to keep the peace. Low Ki cuts a promo on Special K. It’s the same tired promo. Mafia cuts him off and Ki ges pissed.

Low Ki cuts promo outside the arena. Same old monotone kung fu talk that is vaguely amusing.

Recap from last show of Corino announcing Simply Luscious as first member of his faction.

Corino promo from ROH Impact announcing second member of his stable, Samoa Joe.

Corino and Daniels backstage at ROH Impact taping. Daniels announces Allison Danger — Steve Cornio’s sister — has replaced Luscious.

Special K comes to the ring. Deranged cuts a pretty funny promo. Da Hit Squad and SAT jump them. Mafia cuts a promo. Idiot Pittsburgh fans are dead.

Simply Luscious and Allison Danger fight before the show.

Paul London cuts a promo. Average.

Match No. 1: Matt Stryker vs. Chad Collyer. Chris Lovey and Ray Murrow on commentary. Mat work early. Collyer working on Stryker’s leg. Collyer hits texas cloverleaf. Stryker makes the ropes. Stryker hits two lariats, followed by an elbow. He then hits a neckbreaker, but misses a quebrada. Collyer does nice gedo clutch. Stryker hits ankle lock, but Collyer reverses it. Colyer goes for texas cloverleaf but Stryker reverses it. Collyer goes back to colverleaf and he gets the tap. These guys started out a bit slow, but crowd got into what turned into a really good technical match. Rating: ****

Punk cuts a promo backstage.

Match No. 2: C.M. Punk vs. Michael Shane. Nothing notable early. Punk goes for a shining wizard, but Shane ducks. Punk catches him with a dropkick from behind. Shane throws Punk over the top rope and beats on Punk outside the ring. Punk blows a kiss to a couple of hotties in the crowd. Punk hits jawbreaker. Punk goes to top rope and goes for a cross body press, but Shane gets his knee up. Action goes outside briefly. Huge back body drop by Punk. He follows with a shining wizard. Punk calls out to crowd, who is dead. Shane flips off the crowd. Punk does split leg moonsault for a two count. Punk goes back to the top rope. Shane nails a superkick but Punk barely kicks out. Punk hits rollup for the pin. Decent match but a bit sloppy in spots. Rating: ***

Match No. 3: Spanish Announce Team (Joel & Jose Maximo) & Ghost Shadow vs. Divine Storm (Chris Divine & Quiet Storm) & Konnan. Divine and Ghost Shadow open things. Decent work by these two. Joel and Storm are next. Storm is a stocky, half-pint but he can wrestle. Konnan and Jose enter. Another nice sequence. Divine back in with Shadow. Ghost Shadow hits huricanrana. But they blow a spot. Everyone hits missile dropkick. Jose hits a nice suplex. Jose hits moonsault onto the floor. Ghost Shadow does somersault plancha. Trinity does moonsault off the top rope. Nice doubleteam by the SAT. Shadow hits climbing shining wizard. Followed by a muscle buster type move where he drops the guy onto the mat. Divine does tope to the floor. Storm with nice drago suplex. Joel responds with release german suplex. Joel hits top rope brainbuster but Storm kicks out. Shadow with tornado ddt and then a flipping elbow. Shadow with sitdown powerbomb. Konnan with splash mountain on Konan. Konan uses tequila sunrise on Ghost Shadow for the pin. These match had a lot of innovative move but was a bit sloppy. Good to see Konnan in ROH. Rating: ***

Match No. 4: Carnage Crew (Loc & Devito) vs. Da Hit Squad (Mafia and Monsta Mack). The fight on the floor as the match starts. Devito into the post. Mafia gets the railing in his head. He’s busted open. He then gets suplexed onto the barricade. Devito nails Mafia with a baking pan. Devito is busted open. Mack takes a hubcap to the head. Mafia uses cowboy boots on both Loc and Devito. Loc is busted open. Mack gives Devito a frog splash. DHS uses ladder on both Loc and Devito. Ladder buckles as Mack tries to jump from it. Loc nails Mack in the abdomen with the ladder. Loc cuts Mafia with the cowbell. Mafia with huge clothesline on Loc. With ladder on Loc and Devito, DHS hits them with chairs. Mafia brings table into the ring. Loc sets up the table. They place Mack on the table. Mafia gives Loc huge chairshot to the head. Devito put on the table. Mafia powerbombs Loc onto Devito and through table for the pin. Good old school brawl. Rating: ***1/2

Special K skit. They are fucked up in the locker room.

Match No. 5: Ring Crew Express (Dunn & Marcos) & Outcast Killaz (Oman Tortuga & Diablo Santiago) vs. Special K (Deranged, Angel Dust, Yeyo & Hydro) in scramble match. Triple tope by Special K. Deranged hits springboard senton to the floor. Hydro with huge clothesline on Marcos. Deranged hits crazy spinning drop. Slugga chokeslams Oman and Diablo and Dunn. And finally Marcos. Angel Dust and Hydro hits some nice new moves. Deranged hits sunset flip power bomb. Slugga gives Marcos the body bag. They all pin him. Decent moves in this one. Rating: ***1/2

Match No. 6: B.J. Whitmer vs. Colt Cabana vs. Paul London vs. Homicide in a four-way match. Whitmer opens with London. Nice work early by these guys. London hits overhead belly to belly suplex. Homicide and Cabana in now. Homicide hits knee to the head of Cabana. Whitmer working on Homicide’s arm. Homicide gives Cabana a superplex. Huge clothesline by Cabana on London after they miss a similar spot. London hits cross body block, but Cabana nails him with an elbow. Nice suplex by Whitmer on London. He follows with a camel clutch. London hits signature drop kick on Cabana. Cabana fakes a tag to Homicide, which pisses him off. London tags Homicide. Whitmer hits german suplex on Homicide. Cabana goes for suplex on Homicide but London does cross body block from top rope. Whitmer hits exploder 98 on Homicide. Homicide does tope on Whitmer on the floor. Cabana tries to follow but London hits nice dropkick. Cabana flips London over top rope on to Whitmer and Homicide on the floor. Great action by these guys. Cabana does springboard somersault senton to the floor. He takes a hard bump. Whitmer misses knee, Homicide gives him three-quarter facelock bulldog (Ace Crusher) from top rope. Homicide hits vertebbreaker (Cop Killa) on London. Cabana makes the save. Cabana hits double underhook overhead backbreaker drop (Colt .45) on Homicide. Whitmer makes the save. Whitmer hits three dragon suplexes on Cabana. As he bridges for the pin, London hits shooting star press on Whitmer for the pin. Incredible moves in this one. Rating: ****1/2

Punk and Cabana in the car on the way to the show. Cabana talks, Punk gets pissed.

Gary Michael Capetta with Steve Corino. Corino cuts excellent promo.

High Impact TV taping highlights. Homicide beats Jay Lethal.

Match No. 1: C.M. Punk vs. Colt Cabana for ROH contract. Chris Lovey and Ray Murrow on commentary. Punk walks the rope, but Cabana makes him lose his balance and he crotches himself. Cabana with a huge lariat. Great rollup by Punk from his back in the corner. Cabana blocks shining wizard. Punk does nice tope on Cabana on the floor. Cabana does superplex type move dropping Punk on his face. Punk does belly to belly suplex from the top rope. Airplane spin by Punk, followed by split legged moonsault. Punk hits shining wizard but Cabana kicks out. Punk does running face wash on Cabana. Punk hits diving double underhook facebuster from the top rope for the pin. Great opener between two future stars. Rating: ****

Homicide runs into Johnny Kashmere and Trent Acid backstage.

Gary Michael Capetta in the ring. Christopher Daniels comes out. He takes the mic from Capetta. He calls out Alexis Laree. Simply Luscious attacks her from behind. Laree gives her a spear. As the ref is attending to Luscious, Daniels gives Laree a rolling cutter and Luscious then makes the pin.

Steve Corino comes to the ring and cuts a promo. He says he made more money in 2002 than Paul Heyman owes him. He tells Daniels he’s putting the Prophecy on notice. He tells Luscious they are done. Daniels gets pissed and leaves. Corino calls out Homicide. They go at it. Homicide pulls out a fork but Corino bails.

Dunn & Marcos cut promo before the show. Highlights from High Impact TV taping. Christopher Daniels & Donovan Morgan destroy Dunn & Marcos.

Mafia & Monsta Mack cut promo on Special K & Backseat Boyz.

Match No. 2: Special K (Deranged & Angel Dust) vs. Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid & Johnny Kashmere) vs. Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mack) in three-way scramble match. Nice opening sequence with Acid and Deranged. Angel Dust blows a spot. Mafia hits dragon suplex on Angel Dust. DHS powerbombs Kashmere on Acid. Angel Dust does moonsault to the floor. Camera nearly misses it. Deranged does springboard flip to the floor. Monsta Mack throws Hydro (Jay Lethal) onto Special K on the floor. Acid & Kashmere do tandem suicide flip onto the floor. Mafia does tope onto the floor. Backseat hits dream sequence on Angel Dust. While Angel Dust is holding Deranged, Mafia hits german suplex on him. Acid hits mafia kick on Mafia, then Mack. A second kick on Mack but Mafia hits huge lariat on him. Special K pins Mafia after he gets hit behind with cane and then cast then double team rollup. A bit sloopy but good match with tons of high spots. Rating: ***1/2

High Impact TV match with Ace Steele vs. Jay Briscoe. Briscoe wins with Jay Driller.

Match No. 3: Spanish Announce Team (Joel & Jose Maximo) vs. Christopher Daniels & Donovan Morgan in two out of three falls for ROH tag team titles. Morgan and Jose aren’t clicking early. Joel and Daniels next in the ring. Not much to report. SAT work over Daniels. They hit double bulldog. Then camel clutch/boston crab combo on Prophecy. Daniels uses springboard split legged moonsault on Jose. Jose rolls up Daniels but Morgan distracts the ref. Jose hits tornado ddt on Daniels. Prophecy uses revelations on Jose for the pin. Prophecy 1-0. Prophecy hits double suplex on Joel. Jose hits double dropkick then double backdrop. Jose hits spinning ddt on Mogan but Daniels makes the save. SAT hit spanish fly on Daniels for the pin. Tied 1-1. Joel hits ddt on apron on Morgan. Jose botches flip move. Nice fisherman’s buster by Morgan on Jose. Daniels hits spinning lifting sitout double underhook suplex, then misses double springboard moonsault. Daniels hits sto on Jose. Daniels hits rolling cutter on Joel for the pin. Daniels was great, other three had issues at times. Rating: ***

ROH High Impact match. Samoa Joe vs. Outcast Killaz.

Match No. 4: Carnage Crew (Loc & Devito) vs. New Christopher Street Connection. Bloody squash. Rating: **

Homicide cuts promo backstage. Pretty good job.

Match No. 5: Jody Fleish vs. Amazing Red. Nice opening sequence. Fleisch did springboard moonsault and landed on his feet. Red does plancha onto Fleisch on the floor. Fleisch hits springboard shooting star press onto Red on the floor. They go to the top rope and both do moonsaults and land hard. Special K comes to ringside. Fleisch hits another springboard moonsault. Fleisch to the top rope. Red knocks him down. Red does corkscrew senton but Special K pulls Fleisch out of the way. Fleisch hits twisting springboard tornado ddt for the pin. A bit short, but pretty damn good spot fest. Rating: ****

Special K with a beatdown on Red afterwards. SAT tries to make the save. Quiet Storm tries to make the save. Both are beaten down. Da Hit Squad and J.T. Smith come to the ring. Slugga gives Smith a chokeslam. DHS gets the beat down.

Xavier cuts a promo in the ring.

Match No. 6: Xavier vs. Paul London for ROH title. Xavier jumps London at the bell. Xavier drops London on his face as he was going for head scissors. They trade hard chops. Huge clothesline by Xavier. Xavier hits nice german suplex. Big elbow by Xavier after he snaps his throat over the top rope. London tries to superplex Xavier to the floor but he blocks it and drops him on the top turnbuckle. Xavier gets crotched by London. London with nice flip dropkick. Huge powerbomb by London. London hits shooting star press on the floor on Xavier. London misses shooting star press. Xavier rolls him up for a near fall. London hits some kind of spinning facebuster for a near fall. London fakes that he’s hurt. London hits ddt for three count but Xavier has his foot on the ropes. Xavier uses cobra clutch suplex and then jumping hangman’s neckbreaker for the pin. Great match. Rating: ****

Gary Michael Capetta tries to interview Special K. They clown with him and his hair. Slugga kicks out the camera man. Then he won’t let Da Hit Squad into the locker room.

Steve Corino comes out to the ring. He grabs the mic and takes a seat. He says you can’t have a main event without him. Corino attacks Homicide with a fork then gives him a pile driver. Corino gives Homicide another pile driver. And a third one.

Match No. 7: Homicide vs. Samoa Joe vs. Low Ki vs. Bryan Danielson in number one contenders match. Rob Feinstein says to give Homicide’s spot in the match to Corino. Danielson opens with Ki. They do test of strength then some mat wrestling. Danielson fakes a tag to Joe, who gets pissed. Danielson does giant swing on Ki. Joe tags in. Danielson uses shoulder block and both go to the floor. Corino tags in. Corino and Joe trade forarms and then Joe hits enzuigiri. Joe beating the shit out of Corino, who rolls out to the floor. Corino runs into the camera man on his way to the floor again. Low Ki tags in. Huge shoulder block by Corino. Ki responds with big elbow. Danielson tags in and his all over Ki. Huge chop by Ki but Danielson responds with knee lift and slam and elbow drop. And a second one. Joe tags in. He hits Ki with a shoulder block. Corino tags in. Ki kicks Corino twice to the chest and once to the face. He follows with some crazy hard chops. Joe tags in. As does Danielson. Joe suplexes Dragon. Huge chops by Joe. Ki tags in. And gives Dragon a back suplex. Huge forearm by Dragon. And then fall away slam with a bridge. Corino tags in. Ki hits boot to the face. He tries dragon sleeper but Corino turns it into a ddt. He then uses an abdominal stretch on Ki. Ki escapes with a kick to the head and tags in Dragon. Two head butts by Dragon. Corino tags in Joe. Dragon does bridging grounded double chicken wing. Joe escapes and hits german suplex. He tags in Corino. Joe back in. He does half boston crab on Dragon. Joe hits two more chops. Followed by a choke. Joe gets two count with a back suplex. Joe tags in Ki. Danielson escapes dragon clutch. Twice. Ki uses running fireman’s slam into top turnbuckle. Danielson hits fisherman’s buster suplex on Ki. Ki hits brainbuster on Danielson. Ki gives Danielson a suplex on the floor. Ki tags in Joe. Joe hits knee drop. And then overhead belly to belly suplex. Joe holds Dragon and Corino drops him with a clothesline. Joe tags in Corino. He slaps Danielson. Then uses a chinlock. Ki breaks it up with a kick to the face. Danielson tags in Ki. Joe chops Ki hard. Joe tags in Corino. They exchange moves and then Ki hits cartwheel jumping high kick. Joe tags in. He gives Ki facewash. Corino with dragon screw on Joe. Then a figure four. Ki and Dragon break it up with double head butts. Joe power bombs Corino and puts in an stf. He gives Ki a half boston crab. Joe gets stf on dragon. Ki breaks it up with baseball slide to the face. Low Ki does springboard kick on Corino. Low Ki blocks cattle mutilation. Ki and Danileson trade blows. Danielson hits discus elbow smash. Ki and Joe take off the tape. They trade huge chops and slaps. Corino and Dragon hit them from behind. Corino gives Ki a tbone suplex from the top rope. Danielson to the top rope. Corino goes up. Then Joe. Joe gives Corino ace crusher. Dragon breaks it up. Double enzuigri by Joe and Dragon. Ki gives Joe a fisherman’s driver. Ki has dragon sleeper on Corino but bell sounds before he taps. Match was long and crowd was a bit dead but it was damn good. These four put on a helluva show. Rating: ****1/2

Wrestlers take back their locker room from Special K. Carnage Crew cuts promo in the locker room that was longer than their match. Ki cuts his robotic promo. Capetta backstage with Corino. The first member of his faction is……Simply Luscious. He says next week he will introduce the second member.

Show opens with Da Hit Squad in the locker room. Divine Storm arrives. Trinity is in tow. She’s looking hot as always. They all leave to warm up and Special K takes over the locker room and starts to party.

Michael Shane cuts a promo backstage on Jeremy Lopez.

Da Hit Squad and Divine Storm return to the locker room. They are pissed at Special K.

Match No. 1: Jeremy Lopez vs. Michael Shane. Jeff Gorman and Chris Lovey on commentary. Senile Frank Talent of the Pa. Athletic Commission is talking in the hallway, not watching the match. Lopez hits nice neckbreaker. Shane uses back suplex to slow him down. Lopez hits double underhook ddt followed by a tiger driver. Shane fakes a superkick, Lopez ducks, then Shane hits superkick for a near fall. Shane to the top rope. He hits elbow drop for the pin. Decent opener. Rating: ***

Match No. 2: Colt Cabana vs. CM Punk. Cabana hits nice Japanese arm drag. Punk grabs Cabana’s arm and walks the rope like Undertaker. Punk gives Cabana a facewash. Cabana clotheslines Punk over the top rope. Cabana uses moonsault onto Punk outside of the ring. Cabana hits frog splash. Cabana uses snap suplex. Followed by double knee in the corner. Punk uses cross body block for near fall. Huge clothesline by Cabana. Punk hits a huricanrana from behind. Cabana takes a big bump but kicks out. Punk hits shining wizard but Cabana kicks out. Cabana hits colt .45 (double underhook overhead backbreaker drop) for the pin. Pretty good match, but a bit sloppy at times. Rating: ***

Gary Michael Capetta comes to the ring. He says the will have a rematch. And the winner will receive an ROH contract. Punk offers to cash in plane ticket for gas money. Cabana says he will fly if he wins.

Match No. 3: EZ Money vs. Paul London in No. 1 contenders match. Interesting match between a man who makes tights and a man who is an actor and model. Money uses a pendulum swing on London. Nice money clip by Money, who does springboard flip from outside and clotheslines London. He follows with standing moonsault. London does somersault plancha to the floor. Money uses an ez driver for a two count. London hits enzuigiri and Money staggers before falling. Nice springboard by Money. London hits legsweep ddt for the pin. Money looked good in his debut. One sloppy spot downgrades the match a bit. Rating: ***

Match No. 4: Chad Collyer vs. Bryan Danielson in No. 1 contenders match. Dragon works on the arm early. Collyer then works on Danielson’s arm. Dragon hits big shoulder block. Back-and-forth action between these two. Fans getting a little restless. Collyer working on Dragon’s leg. Big knee lift by Dragon. Dragon’s hits nice bridging german suplex. They trade blows. And chops. Collyer sinks in texas cloverleaf. Dragon reaches the ropes. Dragon hits dragon suplex for the pin. Very sound technical match. Rating: ****

Match No. 5: Special K (Joey Matthews & Deramged) vs. Jay Briscoe & Amazing Red vs. Spanish Announce Table (Joel & Jose Maximo) vs. Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mack) in four-way scramble match. Jose and Jay trade arm locks. Mafia beating the shit out of Deranged. Red in against his cousin Joel. Nice work by these two. Trinity getting beat down by Special K outside the ring. Joel uses dragon screw leg whip and then figure four on Deranged. Jay hits nice snap suplex on Joel. Jay and Red to flapjack on Joel. Jose makes the save. Joel with a big clothesline on Jay. Jay and Mafia trading forearms. Red and Mafia botch a spot. Monsta Mack with a powerslam on Jay. Jay uses yakuza kick on Monsta Mack. Joey uses hangman’s neckbreaker on Monsta Mack. Red does superplex to the floor on Delirious. Mafia does suicide dive and takes out the guard rail and front row. Mafia misses headbutt from the top rope. Deranged misses a tope. Joel misses a tope. Red misses a frog splash. Joey misses elbow drop. Monsta Mack splashes Joey. He somehow kicks out. Monsta Mack hits big piledriver on Joey. Delirious with floating ddt on Monsta Mack. Jay with a huge powerbomb on Deranged. Jay goes for jay driller on Delirous, but Mafia spears both of them hard. Red hits f5 on Joel. Followed by red star press. Joel kicks out. Jose piledrives Red five times. Then a face buster and a swinging german suplex. Joey breaks it up. SAT uses tapping machine on Special K for the pin. Tons of high spots. Match went a bit long. Rating: ***

Special K argues with the ref after the match. Large black man gives ref a bodybag and leaves the ring.

Highlights of ROH High Impact TV taping. Paul E. Normous destroys Buff E. Dragon pummels Marcos. Paul London all over Angle Dust. Da Hit Squad beat Outkast Killaz. Jimmy Rave beaten by A.J. Styles.

Match No. 6: Jeff Starr & Shockwave vs. Divine Storm (Chris Divine & Quiet Storm). Quiet Storm with three northern lights suplexes. Starr doesn’t belong out here with these guys. Storm hits shockwave and storm cradle driver for the pin. Squash. Rating: *

C.W. Anderson hits the ring and beats up the two jabronis. Gabe tries to act like he hates C.W. and wants to edit him off the tape. C.W. rips on ROH. He says Gabe was an internet geek who became booker and used to kiss his ass in ECW. He calls out Gabe. C.W. goes to the back and him and Sapolsky yell at each other. If this was an angle, it was pretty damn good.

Match No. 7: Paul London vs. Brian Danielson in No. 1 contenders trophy final.
They trade hard chops and slaps early. Nice mat work by London. He hits a japanese arm drag. Tons of knife edge chops by Danielson in the corner. London hits two flip dropkicks. And a standing moonsault. Danielson uses cross arm german suplex on London. They both take a nasty bump over the top rope onto the floor. On the floor, London gives him a superkick. London hits cross body block for a two count. London goes to the top rope. Dragon catches him. And gives London back suplex from the top rope. London barely kicks out. Danielson hits cattle mutilation. London reaches the ropes. London hits shooting star press from the pin. Real good match between two great wrestlers. Rating: ****

After the match, London cuts promo and gives Dragon props. Dragon returns the kudos.

Match No. 8: A.J. Styles vs. Xavier. Styles hits styles clash immediately. Luscious puts his foot on the rope to save the title. A.J. hits nice back suplex, followed by clothesline and flipping dropkick. Styles does corkscrew plancha over the top rope. Xavier does release overhead suplex on Styles. He goes back to the chin lock. Styles hits superplex but he can’t make the cover as he is holding his head. They trade knife edge chops before Styles his enzuigiri. Styles uses springboard moonsault into ddt. Xavier catches him with waterwheel slam. Several near falls by both guys. Xavier uses shoulder block into A.J.’s back. He then uses a camel clutch. A.J. hits nice piledriver after reversing out of move by Xavier. Xavier hits pumphandle sitout suplex, but A.J. kicks out. Xavier misses 450 and A.J. hits superkick. A.J. hits styles clash from the top rope. He he hurts his knee and can’t cover him right away. Xavier gets his arm on the rope. Xavier ties up A.J.’s knee, rolls over and gets the pin. Solid match, with a couple of rope slips. Grade: ***1/2

Match No. 9: Carnage Crew (Loc & Devito) vs. Homicide & Abdullah the Butcher. Abby is one fat bastard. Homicide attacked early. Abby goes right to the fork, cutting Loc in the head. Devito hits moonsault on Homicide. Loc bleeding already. He’s a mess. Devito and Homicide are also bloody. Loc cracks Homicide in the head with a hub cap. Abby using fork again on Loc, this time in his mouth. Homicide puts Loc on the table and hits him with a chair shot. Homicide goes for flip dive on table but Loc moves. Loc and Devito double team Abby. Abby now has a chain. Homicide nearly gets cop killa on Loc but he reverses it into back suplex. Loc hits Abby with a chair but nothing happens. Except that he gets pissed. Homicide hits cop killa on Loc for the pin. Homicide has noose around Loc’s neck. Abby pounding on guys from the locker room. Mafia uses some vicious char shots. Him and Monsta Mack double team Abby. Homicide holds him back. Abby uses fork on some poor bastard. Entertaining bloodbath. Rating: ***

Homicide leads a chant for Butcher. Butcher goes back after some bastard who is a blood mess. Butch has a crazed look on his face as he leaves with Homicidee. They show the poor bloody bastard.

Homicide tells Carnage Crew their feud is over. He talks about his match with Low Ki. Carnage Crew is a bloody mess in the locker room and they are happy about their match. They cut a long promo on how much they like bleeding. Colt Cabana and Punk are driving home together. Colt is rambling and Punk is getting pissed. Punk gets out of the car and starts walking. Christoper Daniels cuts another great promo.

Show opens with promo by Christopher Daniels. Samoa Joe is smirking in the background. Dunn and Marcos stop Daniels as he tries to leave. They ask for a title shot. Daniels laughs his ass off. Nice comedy bit.

Jeff Gorman and Chris Lovey (Gabe Sapolsky) on commentary. Jay Brisco cuts a promo, calls out his brother. Mark comes out, introduces his dream tag team partner — Christopher Daniels. Daniels on the mic. He says Mark is the new member of the Prophecy.

Match No. 1: Jay Briscoe & Amazing Red vs. Mark Briscoe & Christopher Daniels. Mark gives Jay a cheap shot. Nice segment by Mark and Red. Damn good since they are 17 & 20. Daniels gives Red huge backdrop to the floor. Daniels and Mark double-teaming Red. Red uses small package on Daniels but Mark distracts the ref. Daniels hits double springboard moonsault on Red. Briscoe follows with ace crusher from the top rope. Red makes the hot tag. Jay hits ddt on Mark. Jay goes for jay driller but Daniels breaks it up. Mark clotheslines Jay over top rope. Red hits code red (leg trap sunset flip powerbomb) for near fall. Daniels hits last rites (rolling cutter) for the pin. Very good opener. Rating: ***1/2

Joey Matthews backstage with Special K. Alexi Laree interrupts. Joey just laughs at her and she walks off.

Match No. 2: Mace with Alison Danger vs. Alexis Laree. Alexis grabs Mace by the balls. Then hits ddt for the pin. Pretty weak finisher. Rating: **

Steve Corino backstage with a patch over his eye. He rips on ROH and its fans.

Match No. 3: Jeremy Lopez vs. Xavier. Xavier with some big chops. He hits a samoan drop. Lopez uses ankle lock. Lopez hits double underhook ddt, followed by a tiger driver. Xavier uses cobra clutch suplex. Lopez hits elevated ddt. Xavier hits x breaker (jumping hangman’s neckbreaker) followed by 450 splash for the pin. Started slow, but good finish. Rating: **1/2

Match No. 4: Tony Mamaluke & Matt Thompson vs. Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mack). Gabe says Thompson is 6-8. And it’s only his fourth match. No idea why they are putting him on this show. Thompson hits a huge cross body block. He tries a satellite head scissors, but doesn’t quite hit it. Thompson botches something. Monsta Mack makes him pay with a clothesline. He then hits belly to belly suplex. Mafia hits facewash on Mamaluke. Mamaluke takes a double clothesline. Mafia hits clothesline on Mamaluke after Monsta Mack gives him a wheelbarrow suplex. Thompson clotheslines Monsta Mack from the ring apron. Mamaluke hits legdrop from the top rope. Then a swinging ddt. Thompson tags in. And hits a lionsault on Mafia. He goes to the top rope but gets knocked off his feet. Mafia then hits nasty burning hammer for the pin. Mamaluke got tap out on Monsta Mack but it was too late. Decent match with green freak show element. Rating: ***

Match No. 5: Special K (Joey Matthews, Izzy, Slim J, Deranged & Angel Dust with Dixie) vs. Devine Storm (Chris Devine & Quiet Storm with Trinity) & SAT (Jose & Joel Maximo) & Amazing Red. Deranged starts with Jose. Red and Slim J with some nice moves. Red gives him a vicious clothesline and he takes a flip bump. Joel drops Izzy with an enzuigiri. Holy shit is right. All five members of Special K dive to the floor. Three suicide dives and a couple of flip dives. Joel with a nasty clothesline on Joel. SAT with great triple team. Deranged gets hung in the ropes and all five faces give him baseball slide to the face. Devine hits brainbuster on Deranged. Deranged hits ddt. Devine takes five elbows. Red drops Slim J on his face. Izzy then gives Red a shooting star drop kick. Joel hits nice sitting power bomb on Deranged. Quiet Storm hits spinal shock on Joey. The faces hit four top rope power bombs after Red does flip dive onto the floor. Four moonsaults by the heels. Red and Deranged trade some nice high spot moves. Quiet Storm hits storm cradle driver on slim j but Izzy makes the save. Joel gives Deranged four power bombs and a maximo explosion. Red hits infrared on Angel Dust for the pin. Tons of high spots. Purists may not like it, but I enjoyed the match. Rating: ****

Match No. 6: Ring Crew Express (Dunn & Marcos) vs. Samoa Joe. RCE tries to double team Joe, but it doesn’t work. He hits Marcos with an elbow and Dunn with a running boot. He gives Dunn a powerslam and then clotheslines Marcos after blinding him with his t-shirt. He follows with a sitout side powerslam on Marcos. Joe then hits the sitout side powerslam on Dunn for the pin. A handicap squash match. Rating: **

Match No. 7: Rudy Boy Gonzalez & Paul London vs. Michael Shane & Biohazard in a street fight. London & Gonzalez attacked before the bell. London takes bump through the guardrail. Gonzalez puts Biohazard through a guardrail. London and Shane in the ring. They trade some nice moves. London hits his dropkick where he flips. Gonzalez gives London a backdrop onto Shane. He then backdrops London over the top rope onto Shane & Biohazard. London uses standing moonsault on the floor on Biohazard. Gonzalez does tarantula on Shane. London puts Biohazard through the guardrail and into the crowd. Shane ddt’s Gonzalez on fence guardrail on the floor. London, seated in chair in the ring, gets snap mare from Biohazard from the second rope. Rudy Boy posted by Shane. Biohazard gives London a death valley driver. He then grabs a ladder from underneath the ring. He sets it up on guard rail. London sets ladder up between ring apron and guard rail. London crotches himself on the ladder. Gonzalez kicks Shane who bumps through table at ringside. Biohazard suplexes Gonzalez on the ladder in the ring. Biohazard hits senton on Gonzalez on the ladder. London hits standing moonsault on chair on Biohazard. Shane goes for superplex on London. London blocks it and Gonzalez superkicks him. London hits shooting star press on Shane for a two count. Shane hits superkick on Gonzalez for two. London and Gonzalez clothesline Shane over top rope. Gonzalez power bombs Biohazard from the top rope and London hits standing shooting star press for the pin. Damn good match. Rating: ****

Match No. 8: Carnage Crew (Loc & Devito & Masato) vs. Alex Arion & Don Juan & Fast Eddie. Fast Eddie does moonsault outside the match on all three members of Carnage Crew. Crew triple teams Arion. Loc drops Don Juan on his head using a back suplex. Masato hits huge power bomb on Don Juan. Devito superplexes Don Juan and Masato hits leg drop from top rope. Devito misses moonsault. Fast Eddie hits hurricanrana on Masato seated on top turnbuckle. Arion follows up with a splash but the ref is distracted. Loc hits him with a chairshot in the head. Arion kicks out. Loc and Devito hit spike piledriver from top rope for the pin. Decent match. Rating: ***1/2

Match No. 9: Samoa Joe vs. Homicide. Nice mat work early. Joe with several kawada kicks. Followed by facewashes and two big boots. Joe hits two hard forearms. Homicide does suicide flip dive through the middle rope. Homicide uses running knee on Joe. Joe responds with uranage suplex. Joe takes irish whip into the guard rail. Joe responds with enzuigiri. Joe drops homicide on his head with a dragon suplex. Homicide does huricanrana off top rope, followed by lariat, on Joe. Joe hits death valley driver and huge clothesline on Homicide. Homicide drops Joe on his head with a side suplex. He hits two yakuza kicks. Joe blocks the third and hits a power bomb. He hits an stf and turns it into a kokina clutch. Homicide makes the ropes. They trade hard slaps to the face. Homicide rolls up Joe for the pin. Awesome strong style match. Rating: ****

Match No. 10: Christopher Daniels vs. A.J. Styles for No. 1 Contender’s Trophy. Nice mat work early. Both hit the mat after simultaneous cross body blocks. Styles nails a nice dropkick. Daniels monkey flips Styles hard into the corner. Daniels drops Styles over the guard rail. Styles replies with same move. Styles hits facebuster. Styles gets crotched on the top rope and flips onto Daniels. They trade chops to the chest. Daniels hits back suplex. He does double jump moonsault but Styles moves and he lands on his feet. He then hits a flatliner. Styles nails a brainbuster for a two counts. Daniels hits nice blue thunder driver. Then an sto. He hits the double springboard moonsault. Styles kicks out. Daniels hits backslide, Styles replies with small package. Styles uses styles clash for the pin. Great match between two pros. Mark Briscoe and Xavier attack him after the match. They beat his ass. Jay Briscoe tries to make the save. He gets beaten down. SAT then make the save. Styles gives Xavier the styles clash. Rating: ****

Match No. 11: Bryan Danielson vs. Doug Williams in 30-minute iron man match. Nice work early. Williams working on Danielson’s arm. Danielson tries for stf. Williams hits judo throws, but Danielson responds with a hip toss. Danielson uses some european uppercuts. Nice back and forth action. Danielson hits superplex. Both are slow to get up. Danielson gets near fall with northern lights suplex. He gets another near fall with dragon suplex. He hits a second one for the pin. Danielson up 1-0. Williams hits tope on Danielson. Williams hits several knees for a near fall. Williams uses german suplex. Followed by swinging cobra clutch. Dragon to the top rope. He uses flying headbutt. Williams barely kicks out. Danielson blocks chaos theory by going through ropes to the floor. Williams uses rollup for near fall. Five minutes left in the match. Williams with floating ddt. Dragon kicks out. Danielson somehow kicks out of chaos theory. Williams to the top rope. He hits a big knee from the top rope. Danielson kicks out again. Williams with two german suplexes and chaos theory. Danielson makes the ropes. Williams with a brainbuster. Danielson kicks out again. One minute left in the match. Williams uses cross face near the end of the match. Danielson holds on for the win. These guys put on a great technical show. Rating: ****1/2

Danielson cuts a promo. Not bad. Williams cuts promo. He’s pissed. He wants a best of three match. Prophecy promo. Luscious is on the phone and Samoa Joe walks out. He’s wearing a Curry Man t-shirt. A.J. Styles is talking to Alexis Laree. Prophecy jumps them.

Steve Corino goes up to Low Ki in the locker room. Corino says the Zero One office wants them to face Otani and Tanaka and asks if he is interested. Homicide interrupts and he and Corino argue.

Match No. 1: Special K (Dixie & Joey Matthews) vs. Devine Storm (Chris Devine & Quite Storm) vs. SAT (Jose & Joel Maximo) vs. Da Hit Squad (Mafia and Monsta Mack) in a four-way scramble match. Jeff Gorman and Chris Lovey (Gabe Sapolsky) on commentary. Joel hits hurricanrana on Storm. They do a great power bomb spot from the top rope with all six guys. Monsta Mack hits spike piledriver from the top rope on Jose. Joey gets out of burning hammer attempt by Mafia. Mafia then does german suplex. Mafia goes to press slam Dixie, but Dixie rolls him into a ddt. Storm hits german suplex on Dixie, followed by a spinal shock (gory neckbreaker). Quiet Storm takes several suplexes from the Maximos. They both go to the top rope across from each other. One hits a moonsault and the other hits a legdrop timed perfectly. Dixie destroyed by DHS. SAT hits spanish fly on Dixie for the pin. Great moves, real good match if you like frantic tag team action. Rating: ***1/2

Christopher Daniels cuts promo backstage. Samoa Joe looks bored. Luscious showing off her ample bosom. Luscious gives Xavier a hard time again. Xavier cuts promo on Jay Briscoe. Joe walks out of promo.

Match No. 2: C.M. Punk vs. Michael Shane in No. 1 contenders gauntlet series match. This is Punk’s ROH debut. Mat wrestling early. Punk starts to work the arm. He walks the ropes and does a thesz press on the arm. It doesn’t work a second time as Shane gives him a back suplex. Back to the mat. Punk misses a dropkick. But he hits a senton for a near fall. Punk puts on arm breaker submission hold. Punk does a split leg moonsault but Shane gets the knees up. Punk goes for cross body block but Shane kicks him in the face. Punk hits shining wizard but Shane kicks out. Punk goes for rollup, Shane reverses it and holds the rope for the pin. These guys must have never worked together since it was sloppy in places. But still a pretty good match. Rating: ***

Match No. 3: Paul London vs. Michael Shane in No. 1 contenders gauntlet match. They trade punches right away. London chops the hell out of him and follows with some kicks. London takes a bump and takes out the barricade. Shane does standing suplex on the floor. London hits ddt out of nowhere for the pin. Good match, pretty short though. London bitches after the match. Fans chant shut the fuck up. Shane leaves without a handshake. Tommy Dreamer comes and brings Shane back to the ring. Dreamer cuts a promo, tells Shane he is not leaving the ring without shaking hands. He makes a joke about actually getting a paycheck now. Shane shakes London’s hand then cheap shots him. Dreamer hits a dreamer ddt (vertical snap ddt) on Shane. Post-match action bumps the rating. Rating: ****

Match No. 4: Paul London vs. Amazing Red in No. 1 contenders guantlet match.. Fast opening, but a bit sloppy. London grabs Red by the ankes and swings him into the guard rail. Red hits red star press (standing shooting star press) for a near fall. Red does huricanrana from the top rope. London kicks out. London hits shooting star press for the pin. Rating: ***1/2

Match No. 5: Paul London vs. “American Dragon” Brian Danielson. Mat wrestling early. Danielson starts to pound on London. London goes for moonsault and Danielson dropkicks him in the knees. Danielson goes for hip toss, but London ddt’s him. London with the nice dropkick into the flip. He hits a standing moonsault. Danielson then hits huge clothesline. Dragon goes for a suplex off the top rope, but London blocks hit. London with a russian leg sweep from the top rope. Danielson then does a superplex. Dragon nails a dragon suplex followed by cattle mutilation (bridging grounded double chickenwing). Great technical match. Rating: ****

Match No. 6: Christopher Daniels & Donovan Morgan & Samoa Joe vs. Homicide & Low Ki & Doug Williams for ROH tag team titles. Joe gets pissed as Daniels blind tags him from behind as he is about to lock up with Low Ki. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Joe actually looks cool with blonde hair. Not sure why he went back to the natural look. Homicide looks good cleaning the ring. He does some nice fast spots with Daniels, although they nearly botch one. Low Ki and Homicide hit double yakuza kicks on Daniels. Tons of crazy spots outside the ring. Joe ends it with a flip over the top rope onto everyone. Joe hits dragon suplex on Williams. Everyone does their finishers but pin bets broken up. Joe puts stf on Homicide then hits rear naked clutch for the submission. Great match, helluva finish. Joe shakes hands, Daniels gets pissed. Rating: ****

Match No. 7: Allison Danger vs. Alexis Laree. Laree wins with an inverted ddt. Mace suplexes her afterwards. Rating: **1/2

Match No. 8: Ring Crew Express (Marcos & Dunn) vs. The Carnage Crew (Loc & Devito). Spike piledriver on Marcos ends the squash. Rating: *1/2

Gary Michael Capetta calls out J.T. Smith, making his first return in six years. Special K comes to the ring and interrupts him. They then jump him until Omar Tortuga and Diablo Santiago make the save. Slugga jumps them, but then shakes the hand of J.T.

Match No. 9: Jay Briscoe vs. Xavier for the ROH championship. Simply Average makes the ring intros. Nice recovery by Jay after they lose grip with each other. Xavier bridges from his back. Xavier blocks a jay driller. Brisco clotheslines Xavier over the top rope. Xavier responds by suplexing Brisco over top rope and to the floor. Xavier then hits flying elbow from the ring apron. Xavier hits nice springboard moonsault onto Brisco. Jay is busted open after dropkick from a chair. Xavier hits jumping hangman’s neckbreaker but Brisco kicks out. Jay is a mess. Xavier blocks jay driller again. Brisco hits superplex. Then a german suplex. Xavier kicks out at two. Brisco hits death valley driver. He goes to the top rope. Luscious throws chair into the ring. Brisco hits leg drop from the top rope for a near fall. Jay just missed jay driller. Xavier hits cobra clutch suplex, followed by pumphandle sitout facebuster, but Jay somehow kicks out. Brisco hits power bomb. She throws chair in to distract the ref and trip Brisco from the top rope. Xavier hits nasty jumping hangman’s neckbreaker for the pin. Match was a bit sloppy in places and lacked heat, but nonetheless very good. Rating: ***1/2

Match No. 10: A.J. Styles vs. Brian Danielson in number one contenders gauntlet final. Great matwork early. Fans go crazy. More technical wrestling. Danielson knocks A.J. silly with huge shoulder block. They take it back to the mat. Danielson jumps in a drop kick attempt but Styles hits dropkick of his own. Danielson hits big elbow. A.J. jumps over guard rail and then hits Danielson with superkick. Danileson hits two head butts, but A.J. responds with forearm. Danielson goes to work on A.J.’s arm. He continues with some head butts to the arm. Styles does springboard suplex but Danielson catches him with fisherman’s suplex. Danielson is bleeding from the fac. A.J. hits a brainbuster. Dragon with a bridging german suplex. He then hits headbutt from the top rope for a near fall. A.J. with a german suplex followed by a facebuster. A.J. to the top rope. Danielson knocks him off balance and climbs to the top. Danielson hits back suplex and drops A.J. on his face. They trade slaps to the face and punches before clotheslining each other. They trade blows 0n their knees. Styles hits springboard moonsault and reverse ddt, but Danielson kick out. Syles hits styles clash (belly to back inverted mat slam), but Danielson kicks out. Danielson hits bridging dragon suplex but Styles kick out. Danileson uses cattle mutilation (bridging grounded double chickenwing) but he can’t hold it. He rolls A.J. over for near fall. Styles hits styles coash again for the pin. Damn good match. Rating: ****1/2

Danielson goes to the locker room and is jumped by Prophecy members Christopher Daniels, Donovan Morgan and Xavier. They then jump A.J. Styles in the ring. Jay Brisco and Bryan Danielson make the save.

Match No. 11: Steve Corino & Low Ki vs. Masato Tanaka & Shinjiro Otani. Tanaka hits sitout powerbomb on Ki. Otani and Tanaka make a wish on Ki. Otani hits double boot to the face as Tanaka holds him in camel clutch. Otani chops the hell out of Ki. Otani hits facewash on Corino. Followed by a big boot to the face. And another. Otani hits huge spinning sole kick on Ki. Tanaka spears Lo Ki and hits a stunner on Corino. Tanaka with a huge frog spash on Low Ki. Low Ki hits several kawada kicks on Tanaka. Otani hits tornado ddt on Corino. Tanaka hits same move. Corino responds with exploder suplex on Otani. Corino uses fisherman’s buster on Otani. Corino holds Otani and Ki does springboard enzuigiri Otani ducks and he hits Corino. Tanaka gives Ki a lariat and Otani hits springboard missile drop kick on Corino followed by a spiral bomb (spinning sitout powerbomb) for the pin. Great match, Otani is the man. Rating: ****

Da Hit Squad backstage. Homicide is sharpening his fork. He’s still pissed at Corino. He attacks Corino with the fork and leaves him laying on the ground.

Match No. 1: Devine Storm (Chris Devine & Quiet Storm) vs. Special K (Izzy & Dixie) vs. Homicide vs. SAT (Joel & Jose Maximo) in tag team scramble match. Jeff Gorman and Chris Lovey (Gabe Sapolsky) on commentary. Nice chain wrestling by Jose and Quiet Storm. Guys do chain submissions. Joel lariats Dixie from the top rope. Then hits Maximo Explosion. Izzy hits floating DDT. Devine hits Dragon screw on Izzy. Homicide hits flip dive outside of the ring. Tons of dives follow. Guys do multiple superplex. Storm hits muscle buster into power bomb. Homicide hits Cop Killa on Izzy and STF on Dixie for the pin. Tons of great high spots and moves. Rating: ****

After the match, Backseat Boyz come to the ring. Trent Acid says CPW and ROH will work together. They challenge Homicide to a match. Homicide says he will tag with anyone. Steve Corino comes to the ring.

Match No. 2: Steve Corino & Homicide vs. Backseat Boyz (Trent Acid & Johnny Kashmere). Homicide does ace crusher on Kashmere. Homicide does drop toe hold onto chair outside of ring on Acid. Homicide does flip dive through middle rope on Acid. Kashmere with spear on Corino. And then Homicide. Boyz hit dream sequence on Homicide. Homicide goes for forearm on Kashmere. He ducks and Homicide nails Corino. Homicide goes for cop killa but Corino kicks homicide. Boyz hit t gimmick for the pin. Damn good tag team match. Great ending. Rating: ****1/2

Match No. 3: Christoper Street Connection (Buff E. & Mase) & Allison Danger vs. Christian York & Joey Matthews & Alexis Laree. Mase hits gay basher on Alexis. Allison gets the pin. York superkicks Japanese Pool Boy after the match. Then does a legdrop as Joey holds him. This one wasn’t the greatest. Rating: **

James Maritato talks about the FBI gimmick. He says if Tony Mamaluke wins, he can have the FBI gimmick. If he wins, FBI gimmick is dead forever.

Match No. 4: Tony Mamaluke vs. James Maritato. Mamaluke jumps him at the bell. They do some mat wrestling. Mamaluke does dragon screw and then half boston crab. Maritato uses fujiwara armbar. Mamaluke responds with front chancery. Mamaluke does superplex into front chancery. Maritato taps in what turns out to be his final ROH match before going to WWE. Decent match although crowd wasn’t really into it, which downgrades rating. Rating: **1/2

Match No. 5: Ikuto Hidaka vs. Amazing Red. These guys do some nice choreographed moves, ending in both missing dropkicks on each other. Red does crazy flip over the top rope, misses Hidaka and goes hard into the chain link fence/guard rail. Somehow, he gets up. He misses red star press. Red hits spinning karate kick. Hidaka uses ankle lock. They trade rolling moves. Then double clothesline. Hidaka hits superkick. Then spinning ace crusher. Red hits 619. Followed by sunset flip power bomb. Red hits infrared and red star press for the pin. These guys did a great junior heavyweight style match. Tons of great moves. Rating: ****

Match No. 6: Don Juan vs. Fast Eddie. Eddie does a nice bridge. Don Juan hits neckbreaker type move. Fast Eddie hits german suplex. Don Juan takes nasty bump through the middle rope. Fast Eddie does springboard moonsault but misses and hits the guardrail. Don Juan hits ace crusher as Eddie enters the ring for near pin. Eddie nails Don Juan with knee. Eddie does fallaway slam blockbuster for the pin. These guys were a little slower and not as technically sound as the ROH guys, but they put on a nice show. Biohazard destroys both after the match. Rudy Boy Gonzales makes the save. Corino comes out. And rags on Rudy. Rudy says he’s a Dusty Rhodes wannabe. Then hits him with the mic. Rating: **1/2

Match No. 7: Rudy Boy Gonzales vs. Steve Corino in Texas Death Match. They jaw at each other on the mic. Rudy says Corino is a Dusty Rhodes wannabe. Gonzales hits Corino with the mic repeatedly. Corino already bleeding. Gonzales hits superkick for the pin. Corino beats the count. The brawl into the crowd. Corino hits some face washes with the boots. Corino hits cobra sleeper. Corino get the decision. Rudy can’t beat the 10 count and Corino wins the match. Rudy won’t shake so Corino puts on the sleeper again. London makes the save with a ladder. London does shooting star press from the ladder and hits the guardrail hard. Good match, great postmatch. Rating: ****

Match No. 8: Samoa Joe vs. Low Ki in Fight Without Honor. Joe making his ROH debut. They put him with Low Ki right away. These guys pounding on each other early. Joe goes after Low Ki’s leg early. They trade face slaps. Ki hits rolling wheel kick. Joe hits a huge lariat. Ki hits a tiger suplex. They trade slaps to the face again. Joe hits a couple of facewashes. Ki hits back suplex. Joe counters dragon clutch with a death valley driver. He hits island driver but Ki puts his foot on the ropes. More trading of slaps. And kicks to the face. Joe hits a big lariat. Ki with numerous kawada kicks. Joe is dazed. Low Ki hits some clotheslines to the head for the pin. Physical technical masterpiece. Grade: ****1/2

Match No. 9: Prince Nana vs. Elax. Elax does comedy spot and Nana attacks him. Squash. Dunn & Marcos confront Nana afterwards. He leaves but Slugga destroys them and walks back to his spot in the crowd. Grade: *

Match No. 10: Jay Briscoe vs. Xavier in a non-title match. Xavier hits nice belly-to-belly suplex. Jay with death valley driver. Then he clotheslines Xavier over the top rope. Jay goes for Macho Man double axe handle off top rope and misses. Xavier spears Jay in nuts as he is in tree of woe. Xavier ddt’s Briscoe from top rope. Jay does nice german suplex for near fall. Xavier nails cobra clutch suplex but Jay kicks out. Jay hits double underhook piledriver (Jay driller) for the pin. Nice upset win for Briscoe, but a bit short. Daniels and Joe attack Jay after the match. Low Ki and Doug Williams make the save. Grade: ***1/2

Match No. 11: Carnage Crew (Loc & Devito) vs. Da Hit Squad in falls count anywhere match. DHS hits CC with fence from the guardrail. Devito is bleeding. Mafia does suicide dive onto all three and through the guard rail. Devito takes chair shot to the head. Huge brawl in the crowd. Loc nails Mafia with chair and Devito follows. Loc uses hub cab on Mafia. Devito hits spike piledriver on Mafia from stage down through table. Great brawl, killer finishing spot. Grade: ****

Joey Matthews is all fucked up backstage. Special K laughs about it.

Match No. 12: Brian Kendrick vs. Michael Shane vs. Paul London. Spanky jumps Shane. London hits dropkicks and he tries a backflip but lands on his head. London and Spanky go at it. London walks over Spanky and hits shooting star press on Shane. Great move as Spanky skins the cat and Shane hits London with a baseball slide. Spanky then does pescado on both guys. London misses shooting star press. Spanky does sliced bread No. 2 off Shane’s back. But Shane superkicks Spanky and pins London. Shane now faces Spanky. Spanky tosses Shane into the guard rail. Shane blocks slice bread No. 2 with clothesline to the back of the head. He follows with flying elbow from the top rope. Spanky hits springboard drop kick. Spanky with a frog splash but Shane kicks out. Shane nails a floating ddt for a near fall. Shane with a superkick and flying elbow for the pin. The three guys were awesome, it slowed down after London was eliminated. Grade: ****

Match No. 13: Christopher Daniels vs. Doug Williams. They do a nice job of trading holds and escaping early. Williams can’t hit chaos theory. But he does deliver flying knee drop. Daniels hits a nice sto. Williams kicks out of best moonsault ever (double spingboard moonsault). Another chaos theory but Daniels grabs the rope. Williams argues, then Daniles drops Williams to the mat and Daniels puts his feet on the rope for the pin. Great match, but a bit short. Dick Togo cracks Daniels with a crutch afterwards. Jay hits him with a jay driller. Grade: ****

Tony Mamaluke leaves the building with his suitcase. James Maritato asks if he’s going to say goodbye. They hug. Maritato asks him to become a serious wrestler. Mamaluke seems to listen.

Daniels and Xavier and Samoa Joe cut promo. Simply Luscious interrupts Xavier. After the promo is over, Corino comes over to Luscious. Daniels asks him why he is hanging out with Michael Shane. Shane comes into the room. Xavier and Shane jaw at each other. Daniels won’t let Luscious leave with Corino and Shane. But Joe starts to and Daniels gets upset.

Show opens with Paul London in the ring with Stephen DeAngelis. Audio sucks, but London says something about American Dragon being his partner. Danielson comes to the ring. Michael Shane comes limping to the ring and confronts London. They trade blows. Then London hits a fucking shooting star press onto Shane on the floor. London then says he and Shane will be in a street fight tonight. And he will use a ladder. London climbs to the top of the ladder as Shane leaves. DeAngelis asks Dragon who his partner will be now. He says he doesn’t know, but he has an idea. Not a match but damn good segment worth a high rating. Rating: ****

Match No. 1: SAT (Joel and Jose Maximo) vs. The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels & Donovan Morgan) with Simply Luscious. Chris Lovey (Gabe Sapolsky) and Ray Murrow (Doug Gentry) are on commentary. SAT start with some nice double team moves on the heels. Lovey explains this is a tag team title tournament. Now the opening segment makes sense. Jose puts Morgan in camel clutch and Joel puts Daniels in boston crab. Some chick comes from the stands and does reverse moonsault on Luscious and then takes her to the back. SAT hits spinning DDT from top rope on Morgan for near fall. Joel does one half of Spanish fly on Daniels. Morgan does sit down pedigree on Jose for the pin. Short opener but very solid. Rating: ***1/2

Togo & Hidaka are backstage and Christopher Street Connection confront them in comedy skit. James Maritato gives the sound guy new music but Tony Mamaluke switches it with their old music.

Match No. 2: Dick Togo & Ikuta Hidaka vs. James Maritato & Tony Mamaluke. Maritato is pissed they are playing his old music. Hidaka does a couple of handstands. Hidaka and Maritato trade some moves and get a hand. Togo and Mamaluke do some matwork and trade reversals. Fans give them a huge hand. Togo has Maritato in abdominal stretch and Hidaka kicks him in the face. Then he does a baseball slide to the face. Stiff moves so far. Mamaluke all over Hidaka. Hidaka hits sitdown power bomb on Mamaluke. Togo hits something, a senton without the flip, on Mamaluke for the pin. Enjoyable match with some stiff blows. Rating: ****

Match No. 3: Mamaluke and Maritato argue after the match. They hug and Mamaluke gives Maritato belly-to-belly suplex. This is now a match. They then battle on the floor. Maritato goes to hit Mamaluke with the ring bell but he moves and Maritato cracks his head on it on the guard rail. Maritato is a bloody mess. Mamluke gets the pin as Maritato has his hand on the rope. Decent match. Rating: ***

Danielson is backstage with Capetta and introduces his partner, Michael Modest.

Match No. 4: Devine Storm (Chris Devine & Quiet Storm) vs. American Dragon & Michael Modest. Modest pummels Devine with forearms to the face. Then drops him on his head with an exploder suplex. Modest hits fisherman’s buster from top rope on Devine for the pin. Short, but some real good high spots. Did see a blown spot. Rating: ***

Loc and Devito are pissed about not being in the tag tournament so at the fanfest, they destroy the ring crew. Again.

Match No. 5: Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mack) vs. Natural Born Sinners (Homicide & Boogalou). Before the match, Loc and Devito attack DHS with hubcaps. They destroy Mafia with chair shot and then spike piledriver. No contest. According to Lovey, Loc and Devito jumped NBS in the locker room and sent Boogalou to the hospital. Rating: ***

Match No. 6: Togo & Hidaka vs. Danles & Morgan. Nice mat wrestling by Hidaka and Morgan. Daniels does elbow drop on Hidaka from the apron onto the floor. Togo does springboard senton onto Daniels. Morgan gets near fall with side suplex on Hidaka. Daniels does leg drop on Hidaka who is draped over the top rope. Togo puts leglock on head of Morgan, who does likewise to Hidaka. Daniels breaks it up with flying elbow on Togo. Hidaka hits tornado DDT on Daniels. Mogan hits sliced bread no. 2 on Togo. Togo hits SFT on Morgan. Hidaka does springboard senton onto Daniels outside of ring. Morgan hits fisherman’s buster then fisherman’s neckbreaker on Togo but Hidaka makes the save. Daniels hits angel’s wings on Hidaka but he kicks out. Hidaka with german suplex into a bridge on Daniels for near fall. Daniels does german suplex on Hidaka, who lands on his feet. Hidaka hits sitdown power bomb on Daniels and gets 2 7/8 before Morgan makes the save. Daniels his STO on Hidaka and gets the pin as Morgan holds his leg from outside of the ring. Awesome match between four international pros. Rating: ****1/2

Match No. 7: Dunn & Marcos vs. Prince Nana & Alex Arion. Nana says he can’t wrestle so it is Arion vs. Dunn. Arion hits splash for the pin. Not much in this one. Nana destroys Marcos after the match. Rating: *

Christopher Street Connection in the ring. Alexis Laree interrupts. Beats the shit out of Japanese Pool Boy.

Match No. 8: Xavier vs. Low Ki for ROH title. They trade stiff kicks early. More kicks by Ki. Xavier blocks one, but Ki then nails him in the head with another kick. Xavier hits samoan drop. Ki does rolling heel kick on Xavier. And a second knocking him out of the ring. Ki hits suplex with a bridge. They trade chops to the chest. Xavier hits what looks to be a dragon suplex into a bridge. Elbow drop from top rope by Ki gets a two count. Daniels comes to ringside. Xavier misses 450. Ki with several Kawada kicks. Ki comes after Daniels outside of the ring and Lo Ki chop blocks him from behind. He puts cement barricade on Ki’s chest. Then drives the barricade into his chest with a chair. Ki bleeding from the mouth. He’s crawling back to the ring. Xavier hits 450 for the pin. He’s the new champion. And the newest member of The Prophecy. Another damn good match. They bury Ki in an ROH sign. Rating: ****1/2

Match No. 9: Takao Omori vs. Sonny Siaki. Huge forearm by Omori. Siaki with some horrible chops. Siaki hits neckbreaker on Omori. Omori hits some kind of reverse piledriver on Siaki for the pin. Rating: **1/2

C.M. Punk cuts a promo. He’s acting like a face for some reason. Colt Cabana comes to the ring. He cuts promo, says he pissed that Punk got a date but he didn’t.

Jay Briscoe cuts a promo. No idea why they are showing a closeup his mug.

Match No. 10: Jay Briscoe vs. Amazing Red. Backstage, Mark asks Red if he can manage him. Red says no and then superkicks him. Briscoe hits pretty hard clothesline on Red. Red misses swanton. Red hits sunset flip power bomb from the top rope, then red star press. Briscoe kicks out. Briscoe hits jay driller for the pin. Short match, but great moves near the end raise the rating. Rating: ***1/2

Special K jumps Red after the match, SAT make the save. From top rope, Jose does torture rack on Dixie and leg drop on Elax. Then They gave spanish fly to Elax.

Black guy with dredlocks comes out of crowd and does bodybag on Ref Hanson.

Match No. 11: Michael Shane vs. Paul London. Shane puts London into post. London launches Shane from top rope and he crotches himself. Big forearm by London. London gets thrown over top rope, tries to skin the cat but Shane shoulderblocks him to the floor. Shane throws London hard into barricade. London grabs chair, Shane does flip over top rope on top of him. London is bleeding. Shane sets up chair in the corner. He tries to run London into it, but London reverses it and Shane goes headfirst into the chair. Shane is busted open. He grabs a ladder. London superkicks ladder onto Shane. London does headscissors from ring apron onto Shane who flips through a table on the floor. London with flying knee to the head. London backdrops Shane onto ladder leaning on top turnbuckle. London runs up ladder and does flip dive onto Shane. Crazy fucking move. London leapfrogs ladder from top turnbuckle but Shane catches him and turns it into power bomb. Shane hits flying elbow on London. London hits shooting star press but Shane kicks out. Shane climbs to top of the ladder. He hits picture perfect elbow but London kicks out. London does springboard off middle rope and spinning heel kick onto Shane on the ladder. Fans chanting, “Please don’t die.” London hits shooting star press from top of the ladder for the pin. INCREDIBLE FUCKING MATCH. Shane clotheslines London after they shake hands and hug. Then another clothesline. Rating: *****

Before the show, Donovan Morgan is in the ring with Michael Modest and Morgan tries to give him some advice, but Modest not interested. They then go at it in the ring.

Match No. 12: Christopher Daniels & Donovan Morgan vs. Michael Modest & American Dragon for ROH tag team titles. Daniels working the shit out of Dragon’s leg. First a couple of “Dragon” screws, then laying the boots. Daniels taking a beating outside of the ring as Morgan puts him into the guard rails twice. Modest finally gets the pin. Modest puts Morgan into barricade. Daniels does springboard moonsault onto Modest and Morgan. Dragon does dive through ropes onto Daniels but hurts his knees. Morgan hits reverse neckbreaker on Modest. Dragon hits cattle mutilation on Morgan, but he cannot bridge properly because of the knee. Daniels pins Dragon with spinning neckbreaker. Another great match. Modest attacks heels after the match and takes trophy. Dragon then destroys it with a chair. Rating: ****

Prophecy is backstage celebrating. Daniels says Xavier will wrestle Jay Briscoe in non-title match at the next show.

Low Ki cuts promo backstage holding ROH belt. He can sure wrestle, but his promos annoy the hell out of me.

Izzy and Dixie shown outside the arena. Elax is in a dumpster.

Match No. 1: Quiet Storm vs. Amazing Red. Donnie B and Steve Corino on commentary. Nice fast opening sequence. Red hits nice tope on Quiet Storm. Most of the match so far from ringside camera at ringside, which hides the fact that they are both about 5-6. Storm hits nice Running Sunset Flip Piledriver, a move similar to Petey Williams’ Canadian Destroyer. Maybe Williams got the idea from Storm. Red hits an Infrared and then Red Star Press for the win. Great opener. A bit short, but great moves by both guys. Rating: ***1/2

Special K (Brian XL, Izzy, Dixie and Elax) attack Storm and Red after the match.

Match No. 2: Special K (Brian XL, Izzy & Dixie) vs. SAT (Joel & Jose Maximo) & Chris Devine in scramble match. Izzy and Dixie do nice dives to outside of ring. XL hits Flying Tiger Star Press, which is a back flip over the top rope to the floor. Elax does flip dive from top turnbuckle. XL does standing star press. Joel does double power bomb from top rope. Devine does full nelson from top rope onto Elax. SAT hit Spanish Fly on XL for the pin. Great moves, tons of high spots. Crowd really into the match. Rating: ****

Devine puts over ROH after the match. He asks for match with Low Ki. Low Ki accepts.

Match No. 3: Chris Devine vs. Low Ki. Ki hits several Kawada kicks, then Dragon Sleeper for the tap. Low Ki looks impressive in a squash. Rating: **

Christoper Daniels cuts promo from Japan. There is a Japanese wrestling poster behind him, as well as a picture of Curry Man.

Match No. 4: Dunn & Marcos vs. Christopher Street Connection with Allison Danger. Mace pins Dunn with Gay Basher. Average match. Rating: **

Match No. 5: Mike Tobin with Danny Drake in a wheelchair vs. Scoot Andrews. Andrews pins Tobin with Force of Nature. Another quick squash. Rating: **

Xavier comes to the ring and challenges Scoot to match right now.

Match No. 6: Scoot Andrews vs. Xavier. Fans start A.C. Slater chant. Xavier jumps from top turnbuckle and does springboard moonsault to outside of the ring, nearly missing Scoot. Xavier hits 450 for the pin. Another short but decent match. Rating: **1/2

Michael Shane arrives in silver Lexus. It has New York tags so it is not his. He tells Bio-Hazard to get his bags and park the car.

Match No. 7: Michael Shane with Bio-Hazard vs. Paul London. London backdrops Shane over top rope onto Bio-Hazard. London dives through the ropes onto Shane. Shane pushes London from top rope onto guard rail, which he destroys. London hits crazy springboard flip onto Shane. Shane fakes leg injury and rolls up London for the pin. Great match, classic chickenshit heel finish. Rating: ***1/2

Simply Luscious comes to the ring. She offers Shane a spot in the Prophecy. Fat ass Rudy interrupts. Rudy mumbles some shit. Shane superkicks Danger. Then Rudy. Then him and Bio-Hazard destroy London, including Picture Perfect Elbow at the end.

Match No. 8: “American Dragon” Brian Danielson vs. Donovan Morgan. Corino says Donnie B’s brother, Simon Dean/Super Nova, has heat with the boys. All Dragon in early part of the match. Morgan throws Dragon into three different ring barriers. Dragon hits head butt from top rope. Dragon hits Cattle Mutilation. But time limit expires. Real good match with solid matwork. Fans ask for five more minutes. Dragon puts over Morgan after the match. He asks for him to shake his hand. Morgan goes to shake, but hits Pedigree-type move. Rating: ****

Promo outside the arena with Da Hit Squad. Carnage Crew destoyes ring crew, again.

Match No. 9: Carnage Crew (Loc & Devito) vs. Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mac) in Boston Massacre Match. Mafia nails Loc with German Suplex. Devito hits Mafia with barbed wire. Mafia is bloody. Mafia returns favor with barbed wire on Devito. Monsta Mac is also bleeding. Devito shows color. He dropkicks chair into Mafia’s head. And gives him a chairshot. Monsta Mack wraps barbed wire around Loc’s head, busting him open. Devito takes chairshot to lower back from Mafia. Devito nails Mafia with cow bell. DHS head to locker room. They return with barbed wire plywood boards. Devito looks happy. Devito hits Mafia with hubcap. Monsta Mack first into barbed wire board. Mafia spears Devito into board, which breaks. Mafia hits Burning Hammer on Loc for the pin. A good bloody, hardcore match, if that is the kind of thing you like. Rating: ****

Match No. 10: Don Juan vs. Bio-Hazard with Michael Shane. Not sure why these two are on so late in the card. Crowd is spent from last match, not that it would matter with these two. Bio-Hazard hits suplex for a pin. Short match, nearly a squash. Rating: **

Match No. 11: Maverick Wild vs. Alex Arion. Battle of little-known New England indy guys. Again, these guys are way to high on the card, although a better match than the last match. Fans also into these two local guys. Arion pins Wild with victory roll. Average match. Rating: ***

Match No. 12: Natural Born Sinners (Homicide & Boogalou) vs. James Maritato & Tony Mamaluke. Back and forth action early in the match. Crowd not into this match. Maybe because it is the 12th of the night. Mamaluke nearly pins Homicide with german suplex into a bridge. Homicide gets two count with Ace Crusher on Maritato. Mamaluke hits superplex on Homicide, but Boogalou makes the save. Homicide can’t hit Cop Killa on Mamaluke, but does the second time for the pin. Average match, picked up at the end. Rating: ***1/2

Match No. 13: Jay Briscoe vs. Mark Briscoe. The Briscoes are as good as they are dumb and ugly. Jay all over Mark early. Great show so far by these guys. Mark runs Jay into the post. And a second time. Jay is busted open. Huge clothesline by Jay. Mark hits a release german suplex. Mark hits hard DDT on Jay. Mark hits springboard ace crusher from top rope. Mark hits tombstone piledriver on Jay. Jay responds with dragon screw. And a second one. Big backbreaker by Jay on Mark. Mark hits exploder suplex on Jay. Mark sells knee injury. Then gives a nut shot to Jay. Crowd into the match. Mark blocks jay driller. But Jay hits huge suplex. Mark hits german suplex on Jay. Then a full nelson dragon suplex. Then a fisherman buster suplex. Mark to the top rope. He misses a moonsault. Jay hits huge lariat. Then death valley driver. Jay goes to the top. Mark hits shining wizard. Then cut throat driver for a pin in his debut. Outstanding match. Especially for two high school-aged kids. Rating: *****

Mark taunts Jay after the match.

Match No. 14: A.J. Styles vs. Low Ki for ROH title. Mat wrestling early. Then they trade kicks. Low Ki with hard chops. And a big elbow. Low Ki nails styles with thrust kick. But Styles surprises him with head scissors. Styles does mule kick on Ki. Ki goes for big kick but Styles does sweep. Low Ki blocks styles clash. Styles hits big lariat. A.J. goes for dive between rope, but Ki meets him with a kick to the head. Tons of Kawada kicks by Ki. Styles bleeding from the nose. Lo Ki blocks styles clash into hurricanrana. Styles goes to the top. He misses 450 corkscrew. Ki hits brainbuster. Only gets two. Ki goes for phoenix splash but Styles gets his knees up. Styles hits brainbuster. A.J. nearly gets pin with small package. Low Ki hits ki crusher for the pin. Another spectacular match that turned an average card into a great one. These guys worked their asses off and A.J. bled hardway and Ki’s face looks bruised. Hats off to both of them. Rating: *****

Xavier meets Low Ki backstage after the match. Xavier asks for a shot at the title.

Michael Shane cuts promo after show and asks Rudy how he feels after his beating. Shane rips on London, calls out Spanky.

Dunn & Marcos cut promo and camera cuts to Carnage Crew beating up ring crew. Again.

Low Ki cuts same old promo. He can wrestle but he can’t talk for shit. Jackie Chan speaks better English.

Next is a true professional promo by Steve Corino. Does Corino give Simply Luscious a rub or does she give a rub? They make out again.

Christopher Street Connection eating bananas backstage. Brian XL and company steal one of them.

Tony Mamaluke asks Little Guido if he has any FBI T-shirts left. Homicide & Boogalou challenge the former FBI to a match in Boston.

Match No. 1: Jeremy Lopez vs. Tony Mamaluke. Not much to report. Average match, not much heat. Rating: **

CSC throws banana at Devine Storm.

Match No. 2: Prince Nana & Jacob’s Ladder vs. Christian York & Joey Matthews. Donnie B and Steve Corino on commentary. Corino sounds like he is in a phone booth. Alexis Laree at ringside, in corner of York & Matthews. Nana leaves after getting kicked in the head and York hits legdrop on Ladder while Matthews holds him on his back. Rating: ** Meaningless squash.

CSC tries to console Nana. CSC heads to the ring to confront York & Matthews. Corino makes crack about Donnie B’s brother, Simon Dean/Nova, being gay. He makes a second crack. Teams go at it and highlight is Allison Danger smacks Alexis Laree in the ass.

Texas Wrestling Academy guys arrive in minivan.

Match No. 3: Michael Shane & Bio-Hazard vs. Paul London & Don Juan. Winner of the fall gets ROH contract. London nearly kills himself with flip over top rope that nearly misses. Corino rips on Rudy Boy. Shane drops London on his head in the corner. London hits nice leg scissors on Hazard. Shane hits nice superplex on Don Juan. London does drop kick on Shane and then does back flip onto Bio-Hazard. London hits back suplex onto Shane. Shane & London get pin at the same time. Referee says Shane gets the win and the ROH contract. Rating: ***1/2 Great moves by London and Shane. Other guys just took up space.

Shane cuts heel program after the match, challenging Spanky. London interrupts. The two go at it. London misses a Shooting Star Press. Shane nails him with a lariat. And then misses a flying elbow. Rudy breaks up fight. London and Shane argue backstage. And try to fight some more. Rudy sets up match between the two next month.

Match No. 4: Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mack) vs. Devine Storm (Chris Devine & Quiet Storm). Mack nails Storm on his head with a suplex. Storm hits Diamond Dust on Mafia. Mack nails Devine with power bomb for the pin. Rating: *** Match was short as DHS gassed.

Xavier wishes Low Ki luck tonight. Mr. Monotone says something.

Match No. 5: Jay Briscoe vs. James Maritato. Nice technical moves by the two. Briscoe hits Death Valley Driver. Maritato nails Briscoe with dropkick. Mark leaves, gives Jay the finger. Maritato hits the Kiss of Death for the pin. Rating: ***1/2 A bit short, but quality moves and match.

Christopher Daniels backstage promo with Simply Luscious.

Doug Williams cuts promo while stretching some jabroni.

Match No. 6: Natural Born Sinners (Homicide & Boogalou) vs. Carnage Crew (Loc & Devito) in a bunkhouse match. Devito hits Homicide with his boot. Then throws him into barbed wire. Homicide is busted open. Homicide returns favor to Devito. Camera has blood on it. Devito is busted open. Homicide takes three hard chairshots to the head. Homicide is a mess. Devito takes chairshot to the head. Boogalou hits Loc with cow bell. Homicide hits Loc and Devito with weight belt. Loc also bleeding from the left arm. Homicide hits Shining Wizard but Devito kicks out. Devito blocks Cop Killer and nails Homicide with clothesline and toss into the barbed wire. Devito puts barbed wire on Homicide and does moonsault onto him. Boogalou makes the save. Homicide hits Diamond Cutter on Loc. Homicide does flip driver outside of rope and crashes through rail. Devito taps after Boogalou wraps barbed wire around his face and mouth. Rating: **** Brutal match with many good moves and a lot of blood. CC destroy NBS with hubcaps after the match. DHS makes the save. Homicide pissed that DHS made the save.

Spanky cuts promo backstage, talks about his hardships.

Danny Drake & Mike Tobin backstage. Drake is in wheelchair injured. Tobin asks Rob Feinstein who will be his partner for six-man match. Pedostein says Dunn & Marcos.

Match No. 7: Adam Jacobs vs. David Young vs. A.J. Styles in three-way elimination match for NWA TNA X-Division title. Jacobs misses move, Young looks fat, Styles looks great as always. Young does moonsault on Styles outside of the ring. Jacobs does flip dive onto Styles and Young. Styles bleeding like crazy. He hits Asai moonsault into double underhook DDT. Young hits spinebuster on Jacobs. Styles hits flip into hurricanrana off top rope. Styles hits corkscrew dive onto Young for the pin. Styles hits huge forearm on Jacobs. Jacobs nearly gets pin with swinging DDT. Styles goes for Styles Clash but turns it into sitdown Boston Crab. Styles goes to top rope. And gets crotched. Styles blocks hurricanrana from top rope and hits Styles Clash for the pin. Rating: ***1/2 Pretty good match. Started out slow and sloppy but really picked up at the end.

Rudy Boy Gonzales cuts promo in the ring on Corino. Says he will face American Dragon.

Match No. 8: Dunn & Marcos & Mike Tobin vs. Black Gordman Jr. & Brian XL & Dixie. XL & Dixie turn on Gordman. Dunn gets pin on Gordman. Rating: None (highlights only).

Large black man with dreadlocks chokeslams Tobin, then double chokeslams Dunn & Marcos. He rolls Drake into ringpost.

Devito bloody backstage, challenges DHS to Boston Barbwire match.

Match No. 9: Scott Andrews vs. Xavier. Xavier busted open. Xavier hits forearm for the pin. Xavier hits Razor’s Edge, but Scoot kicks out. Scoot gets pin after dropping Xavier on his head. Rating: None (highlights only).

Match No. 10: Low Ki vs. Spanky vs. Doug Williams vs. Christoper Daniels in iron man match for the ROH title. Daniels and Williams great together early. Daniels pins Low Ki with Last Rites. Daniels 2, Low Ki -1. Spanky taps to Dragon Sleeper. Daniels 2, Low Ki 1, Williams 0, Spanky -1. Daniels get near fall with back moonsault. Williams kicks out from Picture Perfect Mooonsault from Daniels. Williams kicks out of cross body block from Spanky. Low Ki hits Phoenix Senton on Williams for pin. Low Ki 3, Daniels 2, Williams 0, Spanky -1. Low Ki hits Tombstone Piledriver on Spanky but Daniels saves. Williams hits piledriver on Daniels but he gets his foot on the ropes at two. Williams hits power bomb on Low Ki but Spanky makes the save. Low Ki hits 450 splash on Spanky, but can’t pin him. Spanky hits frog splash on Daniels but Low Ki breaks it up. Williams hits spinning DDT on Spanky on the floor. Daniels has Low Ki in Dragon Sleeper but he escapes. Time expires. Low Ki is first ROH champion. Rating: ***** These guys went 60 minutes. And had a helluva match. There’s no reason to downgrade from five stars.

Daniels teases shaking hands with Williams. And then leaves. Low Ki poses with the belt. Boys congratulate him in the locker room. He nearly passes out. Then cuts victory promo. He mentions the late Russ Haas, and his brother Charlie.

Mark still laughing at Jay for losing his match. Jay challenges Mark to match next month in Boston.

Daniels gets pissed at one of the referees and says ROH hasn’t seen the last of him.

Mafia and Homicide give Low Ki words of encouragement in the locker room. Low Ki gets fired up and tells Christoper Daniels the ROH title is his.

Match No. 1: Bio-Hazard vs. American Dragon in Block C match. American Dragon hits Cattle Mutilation pretty quickly. Rating: ** Squash match. Short, but nothing bad in this match.

Match No. 2: Paul London vs. Spanky in Block A match. Why is this match in the first round of the title tournament? Spanky drops London on his head with a back suplex. Spanky dropkicks London in the head. London misses shooting star press. London does sunset flip over top rope onto Spanky. Spanky botches suplex off the top rope and drops London on his head. Spanky wins with Sliced Bread No. 2. Rating: ***1/2 Pretty good match. Couple of missed moves keeps rating down.

Match No. 3: Doug Williams vs. Jay Briscoe in Block C match. Mark comes to the ring. Mark hits a pair of snap suplexes and then a front suplex. Briscoe gets a couple of near falls. Williams blocks Jay Driller. Williams wins with Chaos Theory. Rating: *** Good technical match, but a bit short. Mark is happy that Jay lost.

Match No. 4: Jonny Storm vs. Jody Fleisch in Block A match. Storm look like Bret Hart with long wet black hair and shades. Duo opens with great chain wrestling spot. Storm does a flip off the top rope onto the floor. Fleisch does shooting star press of top rope onto floor. Numerous near falls between these two. Storm hits release german suplex from top rope. Storm hits Frankensteiner off top rope. Fleisch wins with power bomb as Storm jumps from top rope. Rating: ***1/2 Guys worked great together which is no surprise since they are both from U.K. Tons of high spots and only one slight missed move.

Christopher Street Connection give Jerry Lynn a banana.

Match No. 5: Prince Nana with E-lax vs. Low Ki in Block D match. Nana attacks Low Ki as he jumps in the ring. Nana destroying Low Ki early. Low Ki chopping the hell out of Nana. Low Ki hits nasty enziguri on Nana. Ref stops the match due to head injury. Rating: *** Another good match, a bit short with the stoppage.

ROH officials and wrestlers attend to Nana after his “injury” in the ring.

Xavier and Jerry Lynn shake hands in the locker room. SAT and Chris Devine wish Amazing Red good luck in his match.

Match No. 6: Xavier vs. Amazing Red in Block D match. Red hits tope on Xavier. Xaver does nice handstand into ropes and then kicks Red in the face. Xavier misses 450. Red hits corkscrew dive and then Red Star Press for the pin. Rating: ***1/2 Another very solid match with some great moves.

Backstage, Daniels yells at Xavier and then Red.

Sheldon Goldberg introduces Scoot Andrews to Sumie Sukai. Who knows why.

Christopher Daniels introduces Simply Luscious as first member of The Prophecy.

Match No. 7: Christopher Daniels vs. Scoot Andrews in Block B match. Scoot gets near fall with neckbreaker. Daniels hits Best Moonsault Ever for the pin. Rating: ** This match was way too short. Daniels hit the finisher out of nowhere.

After the match, Simply Luscious tries to get Scoot Andrews to hit her. He then brings out Sukai for an impromptu match. Sukai wins with moonsault.

Match No. 8: Jerry Lynn vs. A.J. Styles in Block B match. Great chain wrestling in the opening. Several near falls. Styles nails superkick. Sytles hits twisting senton and Lynn kicks out. Styles wins with Styles Clash. Rating: **** Damn good match. They were given a decent amount of time and delivered.

Marcos and Dunn say they are the best tag team in ROH and then get destroyed by Da Hit Squad during intermission. Quiet Storm then comes out and challenges DHS. SAT comes out. All six battle. Tons of high spots. Christopher Street Connection then come out. And get destroyed by Natural Born Sinners as Homicide hits Cop Killa on Buffy. The Carnage Crew then attack NBS. Mafia power bombed LOC onto Devito and through a table.

Match No. 9: Spanky vs. Jody Fleisch in Block A finals. This one opens quickly. Fleisch blocks Sliced Bread No. 2. Fleisch does reverse moonsault off top rope and misses, hitting guard rail. Somehow he gets up. Spanky nails Sliced Bread No. 2 for win. Rating: ***1/2 These guys put on a great show. Fleisch is selling his knee, hopefully he didn’t hurt it.

Match No. 10: Doug Williams vs. American Dragon in Block C finals. Williams nails some forearms. And some knees. Williams wins with neck bridge after trading moves. Rating: **** These guys put on a classic mat wrestling match.

Match No. 11: Low Ki vs. Amazing Red in Block D finals. Great opening karate spot. Low hits spinning heel kick on Red on the apron and he hits the barricade hard. As Red goes for dive, Low Ki knees him in the jaw. Low Ki does front Muscle Buster move on Red. Red does Reverse Frankensteiner. Red misses Infrared. Low Ki hits Ki Crusher into turnbuckle and onto the floor. Low Ki misses twisting senton. Red hits spinning wheel kick. Low Ki hits Ki Krusher from top rope and gets the pin. Rating: **** Another great match with several great moves and near falls.

Brian XL comes out after the match. Crowd starts Little Bow Wow chant. He attacks Red. SAT makes the save, gives XL the Spanish Fly.

Backstage promo with Homicide and Boogalou hyping bunkhouse match with Natural Born Sinners.

Match No. 12: A.J. Styles vs. Christopher Daniels in Block B final. Good matwork early. A.J. takes nasty-looking bump into guardrail and comes up with some color. Daniels goes to work on Styles. Styles his nice brainbuster. Daniels blocks Styles Clash and turns it into an anklelock. Daniels hits Last Rites for the pin. Rating: **** A bit short, but you can’t discount the work of these two professionals. Great match.

After the match, Donnie B. heads to the ring. Damn, he looks just like his brother Mike, Nova/Simon Dean. Spanky enters the ring. And hits Daniels. Big announcement is ROH TV. Yawn.

Spanky, Low Ki, Christoper Daniels and Doug Williams in the ring for the unveiling of the ROH title. All four battle in the ring. Low Ki puts Daniels in Dragon Sleeper and he won’t let it up.

A.J. cuts bloody promo and says his Southern boys will be at the next show. Rudy Boy is looking for Simply Luscious. Spanky rips on Brian Danileson. LOC and Devito walking out of the building past the ring attack the ring crew. Corino and Simply Luscious are making out in the parking lot.

Opening segment: Before the show, Loc is on the phone and he is joined by his new partner, Tony Devito. Devito roughs up a couple of the ring crew on his way to the locker room.

Quiet Storm asks Brian XL if he can try a submission on him. Christopher Street Connection cuts a promo on the crowd outside before being chased away by Da Hit Squad. Quiet Storm asks American Dragon to show a submission move to Brian XL, which he does. Devito tells Boogalou to watch out. As Frank Talent from the state athletic commission is giving another rambling speech, he sees Spanky with headphones and tells him to “take that shit off his ears”

Donnie B has replaced Eric Gargiulo on play-by-play. Steve Corino remains on color. Da Hit Squad calls out Christopher Street Connection.

Match No. 1: DHS vs. CSC. Allison Danger cuts promo on DHS and Corino makes crack on his sister, saying she enjoys alternate lifestyle. Danger says match is now a three way, adding Prince Nana & his servents. Corino makes a crack about Donnie B’s brother, Super Nova/Simon Dean, being gay. Mafia gives Luscious a Burning Hammer to get the pin. Rating: *1/2 This match was a squash but Allison Danger and Elax getting destroyed increased the rating.

Jay Brisco cuts promo, Mark interrupts him. Dissension in the making between these two.

Match No. 2: Jay Briscoe vs. Tony Mamaluke. Donnie B cracks on Briscoes for being ugly. He called that correctly. Jay looks like Boris Zubov. Brisco wins with Jay Driller. Mark is mad that Jay won. Rating: **1/2 Solid match but not great.

The Briscoe parents are backstage. Old man Briscoe is a big bastard. James Maritato is mad at Tony Mamaluke for using the FBI gimmick.

Match No. 3: Divine Storm (Chris Divine & Quiet Storm) with Brian XL vs. Christian York & Joey Matthews. Matthews taps out to some kind of leg lock by Quiet Storm. (If Donnie B and Corino couldn’t name it, don’t expect me to.) Rating: **1/2 Another solid match, a bit sloppy at times. Finish came out of nowhere.

James Maritato and Scoot Andrews both cut veteran, old school promos.

Match No. 4: James Maritato vs. Scoot Andrews vs. Xavier in three-way dance. Xavier taps to Fujiwara Armbar by Maritato. Rating: *** Pretty good match, a bit short.

Allison Danger is pissed, cuts promo on Rob Feinstein, who is horrible on the mic. A.J. Styles cuts very short promo.

Match No. 5: A.J. Styles vs. Low Ki. Crowd is really into this match. Great back-and-forth action. Both guys area beating the hell out of each other. Styles reverses Ki Crusher into DDT. Crowd is going crazy. Many near falls. Low Ki wins with quick roll-up. Rating: ***** Spectacular match, tons of heat.

Christopher Daniels cuts promo on newcomer Donovan Morgan.

Match No. 6: Ring Crew Express (Marcos & Dunn) vs. Carnage Crew (Loc & Devito). Crowd is already crapping on this match, which is pissing off Carnage Crew. Devito pins Dunn with wicked power bomb. Rating: * Squash. Marcos & Dunn get destroyed afterwards with hub cabs.

Donovan Morgan cuts quick promo.

Match No. 7: Donovan Morgan vs. Christopher Daniels. Match starts slow, but they pick it up and crowd warms up. Morgan wins with swinging neckbreaker. Rating: ***1/2 Very good match by two vets.

After the match, Daniels tells Morgan he has his back if he wants it.

Match No. 8: Paul London vs. John Hope in Texas Wrestling Academy gauntlet match. London wins with Shooting Star Press. Rating: none (only match highlights)

Match No. 9: Paul London vs. Michael Shane in Texas Wrestling Academy gauntlet match. Shane wins with elbow drop. Rating: *** Good match, but short.

Match No. 10: Michael Shane vs. Spanky in Texas Wrestling Academy gauntlet match.
Spanky wins with Sliced Bread No. 2. Rating: **1/2 Good match, dragged near finish.

Match No. 11: Spanky vs. Brian Danielson in Texas Wrestling Academy gauntlet match. Spanky’s pants are totally shredded. Danielson kicks out of Sliced Bread No. 2. Spanky wins with Sliced Bread No. 2 from top rope. Rating: *** Match was sloppy early, but picked up at the end.

Spanky cuts hilarious promo after the match. Dragon tries to cut promo on Spanky. Daniels comes to ring and rips on both of them says they are not in his league. Scoot Andrews comes to ring and cuts promo on Daniels, challenges him to first round tournament match. Xavier comes to the ring, throws his name into the hat. Jay Briscoe is next and he says he’s in the tournament. Prince Nana wants his spot. Finally, Low Ki comes out and cracks Nana in the chin with a punch. Low Ki cuts same rambling Kung Fu promo.

Match No. 12: Eddy Guerrero & Amazing Red vs. Spanish Announce Team (Jose & Joel Maximo). Eddy misses frog splash on Jose, but pins him with Gory Special. Rating: ***1/2 Wasn’t the greatest without Guererro in the ring, but they really picked it up at the end.

Brian XL cuts promo on Guerrero after match. Eddy calls him Little Bow Wow. Then destroys him. It looks like he hit the frog splash extra hard on him. Fans start Eddy chant. He cuts emotional farewell promo. (RIP, Eddy.)

Danielson and Low Ki confront Spanky for not paying respect to Guerrero. Morgan and Daniels ask them if they are finished marking out for Guererro. The four fight. Spanky is upset at Daniels and Morgan for causing him heat with Low Ki.

Opening segment: Daniels cuts promo, rags on ROH; highlights from last show; Da Hit Squad cuts promo, goes outside again with fans, similar to last show. Again Mafia does great job getting crowd fired up; Devine Storm practice hold and in comedy spot, Danielson comes in and puts hold hard on Chris Devine.

Match No. 1: Christopher Daniels vs. American Dragon in Round Robin Challenge match. Great opener. Daniels wins with cross face out of nowhere. Rating: ***1/2 Match was a bit short, crowd wasn’t into match as much as you would think.

Eric Tuttle shines Nana’s shoes; CW Anderson cuts promo, picks Elax as his partner.

Match No. 2: Prince Nana & Eric Tuttle vs. Da Hit Squad. Corino puts over girlfriend Simply Luscious. Nana cuts promo, makes Tuttle shine his shoes. DHS jumps Nana and Tuttle. Mafia pins Tuttle with burning hammer. Rating: ** Another squash win for DHS. Extra star for Christopher Street Connection attending to Tuttle and DHS throwing Luscious out of the ring.

CSC tries to give Tuttle CPR before Nana saves him; Danny Drake and Mike Tobin try to steal Natural Born Sinners’ chainsaw

Match No. 3: Christian York & Joey Matthews vs. CW Anderson & Elax. York pins Anderson with a diamond cutter. Rating: ** Solid match, but lack of heat and presence of Elax dragged down match. Anderson destroys Elax after match.

Xavier says Scoot Andrews broke his leg and can’t wrestle him in rematch; Little Guido says he will change back to James Maritato

Match No. 4: James Maritato vs. Xavier. Fans start A.C. Slater chant at Xavier. Xavier gets surprise pin in middle of match. Rating: *** Solid match.

Frank Talent gives rambling speech to wrestlers; Natural Born Sinners promo on Boogie Knights

Match No. 5: Boogie Knights (Danny Drake & Mike Tobin) vs. Natural Born Sinners (Homicide & Boogalou). Boogalou uses chainsaw during entrance. Pretty much a squash. Rating: **

Low Ki cuts same tired promo

Match No. 6: Christoper Daniels vs. Low Ki in Round Robin Challenge Match. Daniels is a great heel with a killer ring entrance. (Naturally, in 2007, TNA utilizes neither.) Low Ki has early advantage as Daniels has already wrestled tonight. Slow methodical match. Daniels hits Angel’s Wings, but Lo Ki kicks out. Daniels then gets to rope after Ki Krusher. Daniels taps to Dragon Clutch. Rating: **** Great technical match that built to finish with several near falls.

Daniels acts contrite, then won’t shake Low Ki’s hand and cuts promo. Xavier congratulates Daniels behind the curtain.

Match No. 7: Chris Marvel vs. Paul London in Texas Wrestling Academy challenge match. London does nice acrobatics early. London then does Moonsault onto Marvel outside of the ring and match is stopped after Marvel suffers gruesome broken leg. Rating: None

Jay Briscoe cuts promo, there is growing dissension with brother Mark.

Match No. 8: Jay Briscoe with Mark Briscoe vs. Brian “Spanky” Kendrick. Kendrick is in great shape. He’s not in great shape after getting thrown into the corner and hitting his head on the ringpost. In fact, he’s a bloody mess. Match picks up at this point. Spanky wins with Sliced Bread No. 2. Rating: ***1/2 Mark Briscoe gives his brother hard time after the match.

Match No. 9: Divine Storm vs. SAT vs. Amazing Red & Brian XL in lucha style match. Match drags until they hit several high spots outside the ring. These guys are hitting nice moves, but at times, things seem a step slow. Red hits Red Star Press on Quiet Storm for the pin; Divine Storm is eliminated. Brian XL and Red each try for pin and argue; Joel Maximo pins Red. Rating: **1/2 Match had some nice moves, but sloppy mat work cost it low rating.

Match No. 10: American Dragon vs. Low Ki in final Round Robin Challenge Match. Ken Shamrock comes to the ring, cuts promo, offers to referee the match. Dragon and Ki agree. Danielson bleeding from a cut next to the eye which happened in first match of the night. With Shamrock as the ref, match is kept on the mat in early going. Low Ki hits Ki Krusher from the second rope. Crowd goes crazy. Low Ki passes out in Cattle Mutilation. Rating: ***** This was a classic old school match that built perfectly to the finish. This match was even more impressive considering they went 30 plus minutes in their second match of the match.

Dragon cuts post-match promo, thanks Shamrock, puts over Low Ki.

Mikey Whipwreck breaks up his guys arguing in the locker room; London, Kendrick and Danielson argue about ROH internet balloting, Rudy says he will try to get a match with all of them against each other.

Opening segment: Mafia and Monsta Mack cut a promo on a bus full of New York fans before the show. Da Hit Squad then cut a promo in front of some Boston fans.

Match No. 1: Christopher Street Connection with Allison Danger vs. Da Hit Squad. Corino rags on his sister. Kinda funny. Fans not sure how to react when Buffy kisses a male fan. Buffy and Mase then make it more awkward by making out. Da Hit Squad then destroy CSC. Mafia then powerbombs Danger onto Buffy on a table. Rating: ** In a symbolic opening match, ROH destroys “sports entertainment” in a squash. While the match wasn’t much, the symbolism and crowd heat raise it from one star to two.

Match No. 2: Jay Briscoe with Mark Briscoe vs. Amazing Red. Red wins with shooting star press. Rating: *** Good match for guys that young. Some good moves, none obviously blown. Great heat.

In vignettes, they show Low Ki in front of some Karate banner; Homicide in his old neighborhood; Xavier giving advice to Eric Tuttle; Scoot Andrews talks about Xavier match.

Match No. 3: Xavier vs. Scoot Andrews. Scoot enters to Ric Flair’s 2001 entrance music. Fans start A.C. Slater chant at Xavier. I admit it. I had to look on the Internet to figure out A.C. Slater is the Mario Lopez character from Saved by the Bell. Xavier wins with a neckbreaker. Rating: *** Another very solid match with several near falls.

Match No. 4: Boogie Nights (Mike Tobin and Danny Drake) vs. Natural Born Sinners (Homicide & Boogalou). Classic entrance. Homicide comes out with Michael Myers mask, Boogalou is carrying a working chainsaw. NBS disqualified for using a rubber chicken. Rating: *** Match was a squash, but it gets three stars for the ring entrance and post-match beating of referee H.C. Loc. In shades of Abdullah the Butcher, Homicide used a fork or spike to the head of Loc and busted him open. And then gave Loc his Cop Killa finisher for good measure.

Drake and Tobin, armed with bats, look for NBS; Buffy and Mase bemoan their loss as Spanky dances in the background.

Match No. 5: Quiet Storm & Chris Divine & Brian XL vs. SAT & Amazing Red in elimination match with Mikey Whipwreck as guest ref. Match opens with tons of high spots onto the floor. Jose Maximo pins Red. Chris Divine pins Brian XL. Quiet Storm pins Jose Maximo and Joel Maximo pins Chris Divine simultaneously. Quiet Storm pins Joel to win the match. Rating: **1/2 Match dragged near the end and there were a couple of sloppy and/or slow moves. Still a decent match.

Homicide curses at the camera; Feinstein gives Eric Tuttle a match. He probably met the kid on the Internet.

Match No. 6: Prince Nana vs. Towel Boy Eric Tuttle. Nana wins a squash. Rating: * Popcorn match.

Match No. 7: Michael Shane & Oz vs. Spanky & Ikaika Loa in Texas Wrestling Academy challenge. Kendrick and Shane in the ring for most of the match, thankfully. Spanky pins Oz to win an ROH contract. Rating: **1/2 Would have been *** if the two meatballs had not been in match.

Mikey goes off on his guys in the locker room; a bloody H.C. Loc makes a phone call, threatens to quit

Match No. 8: Super Crazy vs. Eddy Guerrero for IWA Intercontinental Championship. Eddy looks ridiculously big and it isn’t natural. (RIP, Eddy.) Super Crazy wins with a small package. Rating: ***1/2 Very good match, may have been four stars if it went longer.

Low Ki cuts his signature Kung Fu promo

Match No. 9: American Dragon vs. Low Ki vs. Christoper Daniels. Very stiff match. Very technical match. What can you say other than these guys are great. Tons of heat. In one crazy spot, Daniels superplexes Dragon who superplexes Low Ki. Low Ki pins Daniels with Ki Krusher. Rating: ***** I can’t say one bad thing about this match or think of a reason to downgrade it from a perfect rating of five stars.

Daniels refuses to shake hands after the match; in the locker room, Eddy Guerrero puts over ROH for being pure; the show closes with a video montage of match highlights.