The Hog describes Jimmy Jacobs as having a “big heart” mere seconds before the on-screen graphic calls him “violent and evil.” Both guys cheat; choking with different objects, Necro uses the ring bell, a table spot is blocked.
Necro hits a chokeslam into Tiger Driver combo, and then brings in the staple gun. Brodie Lee breaks [...]
Ref isn’t miked at all during this show, again. Looks like they gave up on that pretty early. Unfortunate.
Crowd heckles Aries early on with “Austin Asshole!” and “You tapped out!” before his match. Omega gets way more offense than I expected, and this is a good little match. Aries hits a wicked looking dropkick in [...]
Due to my vacation last weekend I’m late watching ROH weeklies; going to catch up today, I hope.
Show opens with a few quick highlights from last week, and then Mike Hogewood and Dave Prazak discuss Jerry Lynn winning the world title from Nigel McGuinness in Houston.
Then we have two matches that nobody cares about. [...]
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 — [...]
