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Oh...well that must explain it then, thanks for clearing it up.

I live in CT though..why do I get it? I dont want it.

For anyone who went to both shows, which was better, I only went to 11/28.

I got Pats/Colts, Chargers/Chiefs, Saints/Redskins(?!) and Bills/Giants.

Buried Alive match? You sure it wasent a bodybag match?

I think Malibu and them are going to the MA show.

Punk was gold last night, when Cabana was leaving and he got a great reaction, Punk yelled out "too bad Cabana's still a heel"! Hotstuff/Eddie looked best in the scramble..that moonsault spot thyey did was very creative.

Eh..I'll just copy/paste it.. What up homeslice and welcome to another McReview. This time I checked out Ring of Honor, as they presented their first show of what is a double header weekend for the promotion. Since I got to get ready for USA Pro, let's get right into it. PRESHOW: I know everyone loves the preshow lol. Got a 12 pack of Miller Lite and kicked its ass in the parking lot. ROH 11/28, from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. Attendance: 350-400 There were a shit load of refs tonight, among the best are: Ref Hanson, Ref Garry and Ref Turner. Your ring announcer is Steve D'Angelis. ROH SHOWCASE CARD The showcase are just a bunch of "dark" matches that give indy wrestlers a chance to break into the best indy fed today, ROH. Allison Danger d. Sara Stock This was the second time I saw Sara Stock, the first time being at the WXW Womens Super 8 tourney. Sara comes from Mexico but her style is similiar to today's American women wrestling. After some arm drags and some quick chain wrestling, Allison Danger picked up the W with a version of the flatliner, that Kanyon used to do in WCW. Decent womens match. Johnny "The Bison" Bravado/Slugga w/Grim Reefer and Benny Blanco d. The Solution (Papadon and Havok) This was Bravado's and Solutions ROH debut, and I would say it was successful. There was no word if Bravado was officially a Rottweiler now, considering that he teamed with Slugga and came out with Reefer and Blanco. I think Bravado would fit in well with the Rottweilers and he does have the similiar style to everyone in the Rottweilers besides Reefer. The match was back and forth, with Bravado taking a beating from The Solution. Havok hit a picture perfect Samoan drop on Bravado and tagged in Papadon. Bravado was able to muster some strength and threw one of the best german suplexes I have seen this year. Bravado then tagged in Slugga, and Slugga went animalistic, and hit Papadon with the bodybag (A falldown bodyslam putting pressure on the neck and head) for the victory. Decent match for the 4 or so minutes it was given. Slyk Wagner Brown w/April Hunter d. Jimmy Jack Cash The crowd reaction Slyk recieved was through the roof. The guy got a bigger reaction than most of the regular ROH roster. Time to get him off the showcase cards. As far as the match, something was lacking and it wasn't Slyk or April. Slyk was able to get the victory with the Holy Slyk, to another huge ovation. Just the fact Slyk can get one of the biggest reactions on the show, despite being wasted away in a showcase match, shows that the fans want to see him get the ball. Jay Lethal/Azriael (ROH Names: Hydro/Angeldust) with Special K members: Cloudy/Lit/Fred The Elephant Boy Chris Idol/Becky Bayless and Dana Dameson d. Dunn/Marcos Excellent match. These guys had alot of time and made the best out of it. I think Jay Lethal should break away from Special K and move onto bigger things in ROH. Dunn hit the best widows peak I ever saw on Azriael. Why Fred The Elephant Boy was in special K is beyond me. Lethal/Azraiel looked really solid as a tag team and had alot of unique offense. Ditto Dunn/Marcos. Finish saw the ref get distracted by Special K, only for Jay Lethal to kick Dunn in the penis, and as the ref turned around Jay Lethal inside cradled Dunn for the victory. END SHOWCASE After the first of three intermissions, it was time for the main show. Steve D'Angelis comes out, as Ref Garry gets into the ring for the first match. Steve introduces Gary Michael Capetta, who we are reminded used to announce for WCW. I swear, everytime GMC is on any show, you're bound to hear he used to announce for WCW at least 5 times. He should just get a WCW announcer tattoo on his forehead. Anyway, GMC has envelopes with match stipulations for the upcoming main event blow off match between Raven and CM Punk. He asks Ref Garry to shuffle them up, and GMC picks one of the envelopes. It turns out that GMC picked the STEEL CAGE envelope, so our main event tonight is Raven vs CM Punk in a cage. CM Punk comes out to the ring and clears everyone out of it. CM Punk has a picture of Lucy (or as GMC might say WCW's Daffney lol). Apparently, someone kidnapped Lucy on 8/9 in Dayton, Ohio, while Punk was in Japan. This would've made more sense if this was acknowleged maybe on 8/16, instead of waiting 3 months to realize she was missing. Then again, this feud was played off on the tapes, something else that bothers me about ROH - too many angles are shown on the tapes, instead of in front of the live crowd. I think it's only a matter of time ROH gets a ROHtron, because it will greatly advance storylines and show live fans who don't buy the tapes what the ROH wrestlers can do, promo wise. Anyway, Punk says Lucy is his best friend in wrestling, talks about making sacrifices in wrestling and how he would only let Lucy into his life where wrestling was his primary focus. Punk says that Steve Corino told him that Chris Daniels knows what happened to Lucy. Punk threatens to ruin the show and interfere in every match until he finds out what happened to Lucy. CM Punk is easily ROH's best performer all around as no one in ROH can cut a promo like him. Backseat Boyz d. Outcast Killahs Really great match here, primarily due to The Backseat Boyz quick and crisp double team offense. The Backseats made quick work of the Killahs with the T-Gimmick bomb. POSTMATCH: CM Punk returns and asks the Backseats if they know where Lucy is. They say they don't know. Punk says he will still interfere. Maybe Punk should ask Teddy Hart, as it seems he has all the answers these days lol. Homicide w/Julius Smokes d. John Walters Excellent match. Probably the best match on the show, but then again there was nothing that wouldn't qualify for match of the night. This match featured lots of chain wrestling and submissions which was expected from these two great athletes. Walters hit a great suicide dive during the match, and then hit a perfect superplex from the top rope. Towards the end of the match, Homicide went for the copkilla, only to have it reversed into the lungblower. (Walters held Homicides neck and brought his back down very hard on Walters knees. After some more submissions, Homicide was able to get John Walters to tap out to the STF. PAW match. POSTMATCH: Homicide calls out Corino and tells him to kiss his son because it will be the last time he will ever be able to. Tag Team Scramble Match The SAT d. Hot Stuff Hernandez/Fast Eddie, The Carnage Crew, and Special K members Dixie/Cloudy. Special K was also accompanied by Dana Dameson, Becky Bayless, Jay Lethal, Azraiel, Lit, Chris Idol and Fred The Elephant Boy. This match was definitely the best scramble match ROH ever did. This match wasn't a cluster like most of these scrambles are. Maybe because there wasn't as many teams in it, and that most of the guys were ROH regulars, but one way or the other, this match was easily the scramble match of the year. At one point in the match SAT injured Cloudy, with a spinning swinging bomb, that put Cloudy on his neck and head. He was later legit taken to the hospital, and is currently ok. When Cloudy went out, Jay Lethal took his spot as Dixie's partner. Hot Stuff Hernandez dominated this match and easily was the star of it, as he threw Cloudy at least 12 feet backwards in the ring, hit a humongous tope and hit a good mafia kick. Finish saw Hernandez tope everyone but the SAT and Jay Lethal. SAT then hit the Spanish Fly on Lethal for the 1-2-3, and became the number 1 contenders to the ROH Tag belts. The Fallen Angel Chris Daniels w/Allison Danger d. Jimmy Rave Maybe it's just me, because I think Rave steals people's moves, but this match wasn't all that. Daniels hit all his signature moves, including the best moonsault ever, and was able to finish off Rave with the Last Rites. Good match, but not one that would make a Chris Daniels Best-of Tape. POSTMATCH: CM Punk came out saying he know Daniels did something to Lucy, because Steve Corino told him. Daniels basically says he had nothing to do with it, lays down some Prophecies on Punk and leaves the ring. Josh Daniels d. Steve Corino w/Guillotine LeGrande, his ring announcer, and japanese fan boys. PREMATCH: Corino's announcer did this bit talking about famous midgets in wrestling, due to Josh Daniels height. Among the mentioned were Mini Vader, Sky Low Low and of course, Taz. Funny bit, that worked alot better here, then compared to the 11/1 show. It will also work better if the show wasn't 4 hours and 45 minutes long. This match was pretty good, as the King of Old School had me crackin up at points, by heckling this fat chick in the front row. Corino was hilarious. At one point, Daniels went up for a flying cross body, and Steve Corino side stepped him, and gave the camera a "n-word please look." Finish saw Legrande hit Daniels, and the ref wouldn't count the three. The ref argued with LeGrande and the rest of Corino's posse. As that was going down, Homicide made his way into the ring, and hit a top rope diamond cutter on corino. Daniels hit his Benoit-esque diving headbutt, and the ref turned around and got the three count. Great way to keep every guy strong in the match, and to build up the Homicide/Corino blow off match, that will take place later on today in Framingham, MA. Intermission. Got some more Miller Lites, as they were cheap, and I was broke. In a Field of Honor BLOCK A winner match: Matt Stryker d. Xavier Ok match here, which saw Xavier lose some steam towards the end, which Stryker was able to capitalize on. There was lots of back and forth wrestling in this one, with about 9 2 counts in 20 seconds. Stryker gets the win with an overhead fireman carry driver. In a Field of Honor BLOCK B winner match: BJ Whitmer d. Mafia w/Allison Danger and Classic Colt Cabana Colt Cabana is finally showing off what a great character he is, and is reeking of charisma. This match was pretty decent with a few one on two ddt moves. Whitmer got the pin out of nowhere to advance to the finals. It was announced that Matt Stryker will take on BJ Whitmer to determine who will be the Field of Honor victor. After the match, CM Punk comes out and accuses Mafia about Lucy. Mafia swears on his father's grave (who recently passed away) that it wasn't him who did anything to Lucy. Big real life element to further this storyline. For the ROH Tag Titles © The Briscoe Brothers d. ROH World Champion Samoa Joe and AJ Styles to retain their titles Excellent tag team match here. The Briscoe Brothers are one of the best tag teams today, and it's a shame that they don't work anywhere else besides ROH and the occassional DCW matches. Finish saw AJ Styles accidentally clothesline Samoa Joe, which led to Jay Briscoe throwing AJ out of the ring, and superkicking Joe down. Mark Briscoe then hit a Shooting Star Press, to get the pinfall. It was weird seeing these 19 and 20 year old kicks kicking Joe's ass, but it worked here tonight. POSTMATCH: AJ and Samoa Joe slap each other, with AJ leaving the ring, promising to win the title from Joe. In what was billed as the Blowoff match of the feud CM Punk d. Raven in a Steel Cage Match Punk has the greatest entrance in wrestling today. This match went back and forth with CM Punk getting bloody extremely early. Lots of whips into the cage. Fortunately, no one got a concussion, so we didn't see moonsaults. CM Punk hit a flying elbow from the top of the cage into Ravens chest. Finish saw CM Punk climb to the top of the cage, as Raven made his way towards the door. Raven crotched CM Punk on the door, and the visual was pretty electic. CM Punk, bloody, is on top of the door, which is fraying, as Raven tries to get out of the ring through the door. Punk with his right leg kicked the door, and the door collided with Ravens face, and CM Punk jumped to the floor for victory. POSTMATCH: Raven says sometimes the student is the teacher, quote the Raven nevermore. Final McWord Probably the best Ring of Honor show of the year. Not one bad match, and it seems that ROH is finally starting to inject some storylines and reasons into why matches are actually happening. I also got to mention that ROH Security are either way too much into their jobs or just haters, make no bones about it. I saw 2 different ROH Security guards, in 2 seperate incidents kick 8 fans out of their seats. The building wasn't full, and there were lots of empty seats. What is usually a no-brainer, sit as close as possible, so it looks better on camera, wasn't a concern to the security guards. They asked for ticket stubs, then when it was shown they had GA tickets, they told the fans to get up, and made them stand for the rest of the show. So when it comes on tape, you'll see lots of front row seats empty, due to the extreme intelligence of these security guards. Best part about this, is that these security guards were doing this halfway into the show, so it wasn't like people were going to take those seats. I saw this happen on two occassions, and I'm not sure if it would turn off those fans, but I know it would turn off me, if those guys were doing that. Besides security overdoing their jobs, I thought this was the sleeper show of the year, as it wasn't hyped up to be one of the best, but I think it was. ROH is talking about how Raven/Becky had an incident after the show. What other fed can talk about a storyline, without actually showing it, to get the fans to believe it? Like the NFL, feel the power. I'm still waiting for the day ROH gets a ROHtron... See you at Usa Pro... Sean "The MiC" McCaffrey [email protected]

A better review can be found at.. http://www.declarationofindependents.net/d...ges/frames.html The show was great.

The only DVD's my Walgreens had was Finding Nemo, X2 and Christmas ones...

Bah! It's Rumble 94!

Ultimo wasent first gone..color me surprised.

Whats wrong with GTA??

WGTT off Velocity!

Was that Spanky as the Gooker?

Ray A. Kroc, the man who went down in history as McDonald's first chairman, must have been pretty shocked the first time he heard that Burger King, Roy Rogers, Chick Fil-A or Wendy's were getting into the fast food business. He probably thought that he had cornered the market, and that people wouldn't clamor for the Whopper or the Classic as much as they loved the Big Mac. However, much to the credit of the proprietors of the competition, they didn't open their stores inside McDonald's every single day, and have McDonald's employees selling Big Macs and Whoppers at he same time. Major League Wrestling's attempt at using a significant portion of Ring of Honor's major name talent, as well as talent "blacklisted" by the organization, is curious. Even still, MLW billing their "new" ideal of wrestling as "athletic and hard-hitting" is pretty humorous. MLW running the same venues as ROH while doing the first two things is downright predatory and insidious. For another apt comparison, it's as if a husband builds a home by hand, using his own money. He then moves himself, and his wife and children into said home, and begins to live there peaceably. Suddenly, without warning, some other guy shows up at the door unannounced, claiming to be married to the wife also, and claims custody of the children as well, and takes up residence in a home that he did not build. For those of you out there who feel that anyone angry at the situation is pouting like a petulant child, and that Ring of Honor deserves competition, I say to you that they are likely to get it in a year or two or so, as California upstart Pro Wrestling Guerilla has really impressed me with a sound marketing plan, and using a preponderance of west coast talents in addition to the established ROH stalwarts like Samoa Joe, Colt Cabana, AJ Styles and CM Punk. Or, even further, let's discuss Combat Zone Wrestling, an organization that I have shook a mighty angry fist at in this column before, but, one that still makes a name for itself by marketing a different brand of wrestling, as well as creating pure wrestling stars of its own for the most part, such as B-Boy, Sonjay Dutt, the Backseat Boyz and Jimmy Rave. In addendum, they also use stars from the IWA-Mid South Wrestling organization, including Chris Hero, creating an entertaining mix of different talent. As well, they also use ROH mainstays Homicide, Dan Maff, Deranged and Azrael (Special K's Angel Dust) in such vastly different ways than ROH would ever imagine, at least enforcing a difference in their product from the competition's. Down to everything but shaking hands and the All Japan, "Royal Road" era inspired ring, MLW has rechristened themselves as a cheap grade Ring of Honor rip-off, instead of being the cheap grade ECW rip-off they were prior to that. The things that defined ECW and define ROH as unique and special are that these organizations took great effort to dare to be different. Both ECW and ROH spat defiantly in the face at what mainstream promoters felt pro wrestling had become, and re-evolved it using elements of classic wrestling excitement. You can't re-evolve and evolution. That's a 360 degree turn, which means that at the end of the day, you end up right back where you started again. And, given that independent wrestling fans in the year 2003 aren't so gullible anymore, I find it extremely hard to believe that they're going to buy this crap as legitimate. When I initially found out that MLW was reopening, I was pretty excited. In fact, I went as far as to let Court Bauer know that I would be more than glad to write about his shows, and offer some assistance. Over the past year, I've done this for many other promoters, and, given that all I saw on the release was that it looked like the entire west coast (sans Joey Ryan and Super Dragon) were invading the east coast, I was pretty geeked. Even seeing Teddy Hart's name didn't really tick me off, as, he's ten dimes short of a dollar, but, he's a mega talented guy. However, I neglected to notice the main event offering for January 9th in Philadelphia. Low-Ki v. Homicide. Wow. In ROH's backyard, Court Bauer is going to run a main event that ROH unsuccessfully attempted to run for a myriad of reasons that made a certain respected, world renowned junior heavyweight in my eyes look uncompromising and unprofessional. Immediately, I felt pretty silly for contacting him, and honestly wished I never had. To run a show using almost the exact same talent as another promoter, in that promoter's backyard, and running a main event that the other promoter unsuccessfully tried to run under dubious circumstances is, in my eyes, one of the few truly despicable acts left in wrestling. I agree that ROH needs competition. But, when a promoter goes out and usurps someone else's hard work and brainpower for their own financial gain, that's just bush league. Heck, as much as I think that Teddy Hart needs his head examined, putting him, or Michael Modest, or B-Boy, or Chris Hero, or Sonjay Dutt, or Dustin Rhodes, or Sabu or Abdullah the Butcher, or Josh Deeley, or Dana Dameson, or ANYBODY who is not a completely recognizable main event name from Ring of Honor in the main event would have gone far to differentiate MLW from ROH. However, by putting that match as a main event in the Philadelphia National Guard Armory only 13 days after the Great Muta and Satoshi Kojima are running around in there for ROH is absurd. It makes Court Bauer look like a legitimate Rob Black, using not even B, but C level shock and awe tactics to promote a wrestling show. When MLW ran Florida, I had NO problem with them using ROH talent. Florida is a completely different market, and ROH has never been there. And, even though they had national TV, it didn't penetrate enough of the nation in my opinion to adversely effect anyone else using much of the same talent anywhere else. Just wanted to add a disclaimer. OK. So I know that ROH is the best wrestling organization in the world right now. Hands down. And, I even know that it may be the one organization that many promoters look at and just marvel at just how smoothly run and professional thing are there. Even further, they look at the exponentially growing crowds, and see the money in what they believe the ideal of ROH is. They see 5 star workrate, and fans popping. They see guys busting their a**, and fans popping. So, a guy like Court Bauer comes along, and just transplants all of that and slaps a liberal coating of hot lime green paint on it. No. That's creatively stifling bulls**t plain and simple. The only angle that ever drew any money in the history of MLW was what appeared to be, to this well tuned in observer, Steve Corino's childhood dream of kicking the dog stuffing out of Terry Funk. Due to the vitriol and real appearance of anger from Corino and his cohorts, it may have represented the last time that Terry Funk will be a consistent main event draw for a wrestling company. This angle was outstanding, but the emotion, by the end, fizzled out, as MLW couldn't attract any new fans. I wonder why. The last company Terry Funk consistently drew main event money for...ECW...but MLW isn't ECW anymore...right. Okay then. So now, if I were to be a betting man, I'd say that Teddy Hart and his Hart Foundation 2003 cronies will likely not want to shake the hands of their opponents, and will, about 3 months in, state that they want to recreate MLW in their image. They'll bring down Nattie Neidhart to play the role of Simply Luscious, and the three ways between Low-Ki, Homicide and Ted Hart will commence. Of course, at some point TJ Wilson and Harry Smith need to win the tag straps, and yadda yadda yadda. Apologies for the rant, but the larger point to be made here is that Ring of Honor needs competition, but that MLW is going about providing it in the totally wrong way. Before anyone states that MLW is doing nothing wrong, and that there are no blocks on using buildings or talent, let me make a point. The greatest era of competition in wrestling were the "Monday Night Wars" that lasted for seven years between the WWF and WCW. What made them exciting was that there was equal talent of equal skill on each show, and that it was the talent busting their rear end that made the shows interesting. MLW and ROH using the same talent is a battle of bookers and promoters. And, to be honest, I'll take Gabe Saplosky, with Jim Cornette working in the company and having his two cents to say, along with Rob Feinstein (who has some responsibility to shoulder as it was the tapes that a company bearing his initials has sold that I point to leading to the "puro heavy" workrate driven style that's all the rage right now), over Kevin Kelly, Court Bauer and his crew any day of the week. And, in the final point of this paragraph, let me state that the wresling community has gotten to be a pretty geeky and infantile place to be when we're getting into our bunkers for a battle of people's capacity to write on a piece of paper. In all reality, Court Bauer made a great point when, in a statement released to 1wrestling.com's Michael K. Johnson II, he loosely said that MLW running was a great thing because it gave the boys more chances to make a paycheck. As a fan of indy wrestling, I'm all for Steve Corino adding to Colby's savings account so that he can get a great college education. Steve Corino entertains me to no end, and, because he does so, I honestly wish him nothing but the best. If he makes another paycheck, he deserves it. However, there are literally hundreds of really talented wrestlers out there right now, and many of you reading my article can probably name all the ones that I forget. Even better, because ROH wants to stay around for a few years apparently, they can't all get booked by the organization. Why Court Bauer hasn't realized that indy wrestling fans love ROH, but love WRESTLING much, much more than that is beyond my comprehension. In final, I urge everyone who believes in individuality, freedom of thought, good common sense and logic to not attend MLW. I'm drawing a line in the sand right now. Support ROH. Please. Even more so, don't just support ROH, support, CZW, IWA Mid-South, NWA Florida (for whom Steve Corino is booked on April 10th --sorry Court!), Jersey All Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Guerilla, NWA Wildside and the Heartland Wrestling Association, just to name a few. And, if you want some quality independent workers in your area, and you don't think you have them already, contact Court and tell him to bring "ROH" to your town. It'll save RF and company a few dollars. And, as a fan of the real ROH, I'd appreciate that. Originality and excellence can co-exist peacefully in wrestling. In school, being a copycat got you kicked out of class...being a copycat in wrestling should at least get you kicked out of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Ohio. The darkest hour is just before dawn. For any questions, comments or feedback, please contact me at [email protected], or AIM me at MarcusKDowling. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

What a day to have no extra money to spend because I'm going to ROH at night...

Ugh, I want Simpsons Season one...but I'm not getting up until after 10..it better still be at my Best Buy.

Lions Intercept it and have this game won.

22-14 Lions.

Hook us up with Hotline IP's..all the good ones I knew died.

Lions still maintaining the lead though, 13-7.

Stupid Lions have to start playing good today.

Anyone else notice the pudgy Dustin Rhodes in the Steamboat training session on disc 2?

Matt Morgan..