ROH "Survival of the Fittest"

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

RING OF HONOR SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST IN PHILADELPHIA, PA LIVE REPORT

by Josh Niemand @ 2:30:00 AM on 6/25/2004

 

 

Ring of Honor debuted at the Ramada Inn in Essington, PA in front of an estimated 300-400 fans tonight. Complete results of the show saw:

 

Qualifying Matches for the Survival of the Fittest:

 

*Marc Briscoe pinned Alex Shelley

 

*Colt Cabana pinned Trent Acid

 

*Next was scheduled to be John Walters vs. Austin Aries but Generation Next came out and told Walters they had already beaten him on the last show, so get out of the ring. He refused and was beaten down and bloodied with a chair. They tried to announce Aries as the winner, but Gary Michael Cappetta told them that ROH had an alternate, Josh Daniels. They tried to intimidate Daniels and when he refused to back down. They attacked him. They were about to bust him open with a chain when a bloodied Walters made the save, setting up an impromptu tag. It ended up as Walters and Josh Daniels vs. Aries and Roderick Strong with the winner of the pinfall going on. Walters was pinned by Aries.

 

*Homicide pinned Jay Briscoe with a lariat. Homicide stood over Briscoe afterwards and was shoved off by Marc Briscoe as Jay was "hurt" from the lariat.

 

*American Dragon forced Jack Evans to submit. He just tied up Evans like a pretzel into some really scary positions before defeating him.

 

*Samoa Joe defeated Matt Stryker. The crowd turned on Stryker bigtime chanting "Die Stryker Die." CM Punk came out and asked Joe when he was going to get his rematch. As Joe was about to answer, the lights went out. Homicide was shown holding the stolen ROH World title belt at the hard camera position and challenged Joe. Joe and Homicide brawled, so Punk didn't get his answer.

 

*CM Punk & Colt Cabana defeated Special K, Dunn and Marcos and The Outkast Killaz in a Scramble Match. Punk sent Cabana to the back to work to prepare for the six-way and worked solo. He tried to get everyone else to fight each other. He ended up pinning Dunn.

 

*Punk said that no one was competition to him, so Hydro challenged Punk to a match. Punk refused but finally accepted after being insulted. This was really good with Punk finally getting the win. Punk was bleeding from the back at some point during his bouts.

 

*HC Loc cut a promo announcing the Carnage Crew challenged the New and Improved Carnage Crew to a Weapons Match on 7/17 at the Rexplex in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

 

*The Rockin' Rebel pinned Scott Cardinal with a legdrop. This was a really quick 2 minute match.

 

*Allison Danger announced she was putting a bounty on the heads of Danny Maff and BJ Whitmer for abandoning the Prophecy.

 

*American Dragon won the Survival of the Fittest Six-Way Elimination bout. Colt Cabana pinned Samoa Joe with a sunset flip. No kidding. Mark Briscoe pinned Cabana with a shooting star press. Briscoe and Homicide ended up eliminated in a double pin. Aries and Dragon went back and forth with some awesome stuff for over 20 minutes at the end. Aries busted open his chin. More blood! Dragon finally scored the pin.

 

Notes: Overall, this was a fun night. You can't go wrong for $5....They had all new packaging for their DVDs and no mention of RF Video, and nope, Rob Feinstein didn't show up either.

[Guest Choken One]

CM Punk is just getting closer and closer to having the first ever CM PUNK Invational where he wrestles 10 men for 30 minutes each.

 

Danielson winning is no surprise...If anyone is getting the title off Joe...It's AmDrag.

 

I'd perfer Punk though myself.

[Guest NateRizzle]

There is no way American Dragon is going to win the belt from Joe. He's in Japan far too much to defend it on a consistent basis.

[LucharesuFan619 0]

So, Rebel did debut...interesting...if he worked for ROH, it's pretty much guaranteed that RF is out of the mix and has no influence, because Rebel NEVER would've associated himself with ROH unless RF had no relation to them anymore. He HATES RF.

[Mystery Eskimo 0]

Cabana pinned Joe? Thats kinda weird. Does that mean Colt is the next to be the plucky loser in a title match?

[Guest Deviant]

Now now LF619, don't let any facts get in the way of a good story...

 

That sounds like another great card to me. Punk by the barrelful is always good and the SSMC looks like it went very well. I hope they can capture this hatred for Stryker and turn him into a big heel.