Dave and Mike Hogewood open the show with some highlights of Jimmy Jacobs vs. Tyler Black from last week, and then they talk about what’s coming up this week: ROH World Champion Nigel McGuinness.
For the first match, the ref is miked much more loudly this week than last; you can hear him asking for every [...]
Preamble
I haven’t been watching Ring of Honor much over the last few years. I wasn’t particularly interested in Takeshi Morishima as champion and the overall number of DVDs I’d need to buy to follow the storylines I was interested in [such as the Age of the Fall] basically drove me away from the promotion — [...]
Andrew “Test” Martin died on March 13th, 2009, at the age of 33 years old, less than a week from his 33th birthday. As of now, the cause of death is not released, but police say that foul play is not suspected.
Many wrestlers have died in the last 15 years, many of them too young. [...]
I have seen many wrestling matches in my life, and I cannot recall seeing a finish as contrived and weak looking as the finish to the Cena/Edge match that closed this week’s RAW. It looked like 8-year-olds tip-toeing through a dance performance for the xmas play at school.
