Ring of Honor 9/21 Results

[Guest Nevermortal]

RF Video's Ring of Honor returned to the Murphy Recreation Center last night, drawing 400+ for an event which saw the promotion "throw the script out the window" as they stated prior to the show in press releases, as Spanky and Steve Corino, who were set to be integral parts of the show, were needed to stay in Japan for Zero-One's PPV.

 

To make up for the card changes, the promotion promised a different slant on the ROH concept, offered the first two bouts of the evening for free, and organized a Fan Fest prior to the event with merchandise giveaways and meet and greets with the roster.

 

Complete results of the show:

 

*In the first round of the ROH Tag Team championship tournament, Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan defeated Jose and Joel Maximo in 7:21.

 

*In the first round of the ROH Tag Team championship tournament, Dick Togo and Ikuto Hidaka defeated James Maritato and Tony Mamaluke. This led to an immediate match between Maritato and Mamaluke, with Mamaluke scoring the pin in about 3:30. *

 

In the first round of the ROH Tag Team championship tournament, American Dragon and the debuting Michael Modest defeated Chris Divine and Quiet Storm in 6:23.

 

*Da Hit Squad came out for their match with Natural Born Sinners but were jumped and laid out by the Carnage Crew. The Crew stated they had also laid out the Sinners in the back (Sinners were not at the show), giving Modest and Dragon a Bye to the Finals of the tournament.

 

In the semi-finals of the ROH Tag Team championship torunament, Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan defeated Dick Togo and Ikuto Hidaka in 14:24. This was said to have been a tremendous bout.

 

*Alex Arion from New England Championship Wrestling made his PA debut for the promotion, defeating Dunn in 1:36. The bout was supposed to be a tag match with Well Dunn against Arion and Prince Nana, but Nana came out wearing protective gear on his head, saying his head hurt, playing off Low Ki "knocking out" Nana at the promotion's 6/22 event.

 

*CM Punk and Colt Cabana did a promo in the ring to build to their debut for the promotion in November.

 

*Xavier defeated Low Ki to win the Ring of Honor championship, becoming the second competitor to hold the belt after Christopher Daniels became involved. This was said to have been another tremendous bout.

 

*Pro Wrestling NOAH's Takao Omori debuted, defeating NWA TNA's Sonny Siaki, also making his debut for the promotion, in 7:28.

 

*In a rematch from the initial Ring of Honor event in February 2002, Jay Briscoe defeated The Amazing Red with the J-Driller in 7:47. Another strong match.

 

In a Streetfight, Paul London defeated Michael Shane in a bout that included Tables and Chairs. The finish of the bout saw London do an amazing Shooting Star Press off the top of a 12 foot ladder in the middle of the ring onto Shane for the pin. London had pulled out of the ROH Tag Team championship earlier in the night since his partner Spanky was in Japan, to get a shot at Shane, who he has been feuding with. This was said to have been an out of this world bout with tremendous spot after spot.

 

In the Ring of Honor Tag Team championship finals, Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan captured the promotion's championship, defeating American Dragon and Michael Modest in 26:40. This was said to have been a tremendous tag match.

 

Blatantly stolen from 1wrestling.com

 

All I can say is...weird booking. Low Ki losing the belt? To Xavier nonetheless?

 

The London/Shane match seems awesome... SSP off a ladder? I'm so there.

 

CM Punk/Cabana debuting in November....w00t, I'm going to that show! I can't wait to see them in action.

[Guest Rob Van Dam]

London and Shane tore the house down and there were at least 5 other matches that were probably 3 stars or more

[Guest Nevermortal]

Did you go?

 

I've been hearing that the show sucked, but I've also been hearing the show ruled.

 

Either way, I'm still going on Nov. 16th.

[Guest ShooterJay]

I was there, and here are my thoughts.

 

I missed the Fanfest completely, because I was trying to get my portfolio tape to RF, in hopes that I could crew the Wakefield show. He was actually a really nice guy, took the time to listen to my admittedly awkward pitch. Sucked that I missed getting some photo ops with the wrestlers though.

 

Best matches were London/Shane, Red/Briscoe, and Daniels/Morgan vs. Hidaka/Togo.

 

London and Shane put on the most incredible spotfest I'd ever seen, hitting everything perfect, and some of it was insane (SSP off a ladder was the finish, and there were 4 other highspots that could have been the finish) I've never seen Paul London before, but now I'm a huge fan.

 

Briscoe/Red was great, only problem was I was pissed that Briscoe no-sold a top-rope Code Red followed by the Red Star Press, and immediately hit his finisher for the pin, awesome otherwise though.

 

Low Ki's match actually blew pretty bad, nothing but kicks for 20 minutes, then some weak leg work, followed by Daniels' interference. I was not impressed with Xavier at all, he looked totally lost.

 

The tag matches were all excellent, Daniels is great to see live, he really gets into it with the crowd (he called me an assbag, major highlight right there.) I'm actually on the tape, as wrestlers got rammed into the extremely flimsy guardrail by my seat 3 times, demolishing it. I actually have huge bruises on my knee from the guardrail spots because I didn't get out of the way in time. Fun though.

 

Overall, well worth the price of admission ($55 total to get there from Boston.)

 

Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot, I saw Red and the SAT at a Burger King on the way home. I didn't talk to the Maximos because I was afraid of screwing up their names, but I did talk to Red for a sec, shook his hand and congratulated him on a good match. Really cool guy.

[King Cucaracha 0]

Man, if ROH can keep up the event calibre that it has been before, they'll be great!

I don't agree with Xavier having the belt over Low Ki, but then maybe it'll work out with a Daniels-Low Ki fued!

Shane and London's match sounds quality, and some of the spots I've heard about seemed impossible.

As for Togo, I don't know why WWE got rid of him (and Taka for that matter) and kept Funaki. Togo was always the bets of the bunch, so it's good to see him around again.

Pity there was no Spanky and Corino, but the replacements sounded like they made up for it.

If I can get to a ROH show anytime, I'll be there like a shot, but being in England it'll be real hard to! I'm sure if ROH could get a big arena, they'd sell it out, cause they can definately get more than 400 people to go to one of their shows.