ROH: 100th show

[Hawk 34 0]

With the momentum of a runaway freight train ROH will present its 100th ever show this Saturday in Philadelphia at the National Guard Armory. It will be a very special night as everyone at ROH gives thanks to you for getting us to our 100th event.

 

There were times when it didn't look like ROH would ever see 100 shows. It is only with your support that we have been able to put on 100 shows worthy of the ROH name. We will put our 100 consecutive shows up against any other promotion anywhere. It is you that drove us to keep outdoing ourselves. It is you that has now made ROH stronger than ever as we turn this cornerstone. THANK YOU!!!

 

The Milestone Series will go down as the greatest chapter in ROH history. It all started on 2/25 at the "Fourth Anniversary Show" and now the seventh and final event of this series will be on April 22nd. The Milestone Series has seen it all from match of the year candidates like the Dragon Gate six man on 3/31 to emotional moments like the one between Colt Cabana and Homicide on 4/1 to one time only dream matches like the NOAH vs. ROH tag on 3/25 to barbaric violence like the CZW crew brought on 3/11 to Bryan Danielson backing up his claim as being "The Best Wrestler In The World" with classic ROH World Title defenses vs. Jimmy Rave, Alex Shelley, Roderick Strong and Lance Storm. All these happenings don't even scratch the surface of what transpired on ROH's last six events.

 

So now it all steamrolls into Philadelphia on Saturday. This event will feature everything that brought us to our 100th show. You'll be able to meet legends like Bill Watts. You will witness a full fledged war between ROH and CZW in an atmosphere that you must experience live. Of course, you will see the best wrestling going today in all different styles. You know that this show is special. You know we want to end The Milestone Series with a bang. The time for hype is over. Just check out this lineup:

 

Ring Of Honor

April 22, 2006, 7:30pm belltime

Pennsylvania National Guard Armory

2700 Southampton Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19154

100th Show

 

Join us as The Milestone Series concludes with ROH's 100th show.

 

Tickets on sale now at the ROH offices by calling 215-781-2500, right here at ROHwrestling.com or at Ticketmaster.com and Ticketmaster outlets.

 

Tickets will be available at the door on the night of the event.

 

ROH vs. CZW Six Man War- No Rules

Samoa Joe, BJ Whitmer, & Adam Pearce vs. Chris Hero, Necro Butcher, & Super Dragon

 

ROH World Title Match

Bryan Danielson defends against Colt Cabana

 

Tag Team Title Match

Austin Aries & Roderick Strong vs. Homicide & Ricky Reyes with Julius Smokes

 

Tag Team Grudge Match

AJ Styles & Matt Sydal vs. Jay & Mark Briscoe

 

Special Attraction

Christopher Daniels with Allison Danger vs. Claudio Castagnoli

 

Four Corner Survival

Jimmy Rave with Prince Nana & Daizee Haze vs. Jimmy Yang vs. Delirious vs. Jimmy Jacobs

 

Debate

Jim Cornette vs. John Zandig

 

The legendary "Cowboy" Bill Watts will be in attendance for a special autograph signing. Mr. Watts will be signing copies of his book as well as Straight Shootin' With Bill Watts & Jim Cornette.

 

Davey Richards makes his ROH debut!!!

 

Plus more including a Six Man Mayhem on the preshow featuring students from the ROH Wrestling School.

 

Bleachers will be opened up on both sides of the ring. The side that is normally open will be for ROH fans. The other side will be for CZW fans. Both promotion's fans will feel at home in their own section in what will create a unique, must be there live atmosphere!!!

-rohwrestling.com

 

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Richards, has been canceled as he screwed his knee up and will require surgery and will be out of action for 4-6 weeks.

[JHawk 0]

I want to see the CZW vs. ROH match for the crowd alone.

 

The debate has the potential to be the biggest squash in ROH history.

 

And I don't think there's a chance in hell of Cabana taking the belt tonight but I'd love to see it happen.

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on-going results

 

Match 1: Christopher Daniels defeats Claudio Castagnoli via pin. Loud CZW-ROH dueling chants to begin the evening. Crowd: 15% CZW - 85% ROH. Daniels shakes Claudio's hand after the match, and cuts a pro-ROH promo. Chris Hero appears, cuts promo "Great atmosphere." Hero setting the stage for the main event.

 

Match 2: Delirious wins Four Corner Survival. Delirious forces Jimmy Jacobs to submit. With the win, thousands of young men and basement dwelling no-life losers began crying.

 

Match 3: Tag Team Champions Austin Aries & Roderick Strong defeat Homicide & Ricky Reyes after Aries pins Reyes via 450 Splash

 

Match 4: ROH World Champion defeats Colt Cabana with a rollup. Apparently, the pin came out of nowhere (common) and the match was short (uncommon).

 

July 15 Return. Intermission. Attendance estimate- near 1,000.

 

Match 5: Derrick Dempsey defeats Pelle Primuea with a spinebuster.

 

Everybody, prepare your $20, because you will want to get this DVD when it is available-

 

Bryan Danielson cuts a promo in the ring. Reall good, live. He told the CZW fans that he was a real world champion, and he'd prove it by taking all challenges...Bryan Danielson has accepted a title challenge from...DELIRIOUS.

 

Match 6: Bryan Danielson defeats Delirious via ref stoppage. During the match, Delirious "sliced his hand real bad". Delirious was bleeding from the hand. Danielson forced the ref to stop the match after beating Delirious repeatedly with elbows to the head.

 

Match 7: Briscoe Brothers defeat AJ Styles & Matty "Nice Try" Sydal after doubleteam Jay Driller. "great match, Briscoes over bigtime".

 

Just got word from a friend who was there: CZW won. Claudio turned on Joe and teamed with Hero to beat the **** outta him. Super Psycho Drivered Whitmer off the apron through a table.

[DangerousDamon 0]

Saw this on the ROH message board:

"Found this on CZWfans:

 

 

Just got word from a friend who was there: CZW won. Claudio turned on Joe and teamed with Hero to beat the **** outta him. Super Psycho Drivered Whitmer off the apron through a table. "

[King Cucaracha 0]

YES!

 

Claudio and Hero for ROH Tag Champions!

[Hawk 34 0]

It should be pointed out that Danielson actually beat Colt in 6 minutes, which might be the shortest ROH World title match ever. By all accounts, the main event was as expected very chaotic and insane with sick bumps galore.

[Youth N Asia 0]

So they appear to start Delirious off with a win here and there, only to squash him moments later. Bah

[Hawk 34 0]

So they appear to start Delirious off with a win here and there, only to squash him moments later. Bah

 

No, the story is that Danielson tore Delirious apart with the huge gash in his hand and the ripped masked. This is just the start of Delirious and Danielson. Delirious also got out of the Chickenwing and Cattle Mutilation as well. It's showing that Delirious can wrestle Danielson but Danielson had to go to his fighting style to take him out as you can tell with the elbows finish.

[King Cucaracha 0]

Any reason for Colt/Danielson being so short? Did Colt have an injury or something?

[The Buzz 0]

The reasoning given is that after fighting Homicide for so long, Colt's wrestling abilities are rusty. He is now going to work his way up from the bottom of the card back to a title shot to get ready.

[Bruce Blank 0]

It's showing that Delirious can wrestle Danielson but Danielson had to go to his fighting style to take him out as you can tell with the elbows finish.

Okay maybe I'm just missing the logic here since I'm not totally familiar with the ROH way of "telling a story" here but what does that even mean? that he had to resort to this "ultra bad ass style" that he hardly ever uses?

 

A sign of desperation or frustration on Danielson's part that he couldn't beat him with his "normal style"? Help me Obi-Hawk Kenobi cause I just don't get it.

[Michrome 0]

The idea is, Delirious was able to survive Danielson's usual finishers so Danielson had to go to his uber knockout finish to win it.

[Hawk 34 0]

Danielson, has been booked to be dangerous from all ranges as he can make you submit in a number of ways, piss you off just enough to make a mistake and he'll get a flash pin or he'll just flat out beat your ass senseless.

 

Danielson, was trying to show the CZW fans in the crowd what a "real wrestler" does so he challenges Delirious because all the other winners in the first half of the show, he already beaten lately and he acted as if Delirious wasn't a real challenge. Delirious, stuns Dragon by being capable of wrestling with him. Danielson, has to resort to tearing at Delirious's mask and the gash in Delirious's hand and after failing to win via his trademark submissions...

 

Danielson, simply beat the shit out of Delirious and the match was stopped. It's not that hard to follow that story, Delirious was a better wrestler then Danielson expected, so Danielson has to go to his vicious nature to beat the guy. Playing that off with the fact he mocked CZW for not being pure wrestling, he ends up having to bloody up Delirious and punching him out.

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

Any reason for Colt/Danielson being so short? Did Colt have an injury or something?

According to Meltzer, Gabe had two reasons for making the match so short. He felt that the fans were there for the wild main event, and so wouldn't be into the usual long Dragon title match, and might even turn on it. The other reason is that he wanted to educate fans into believing that a title match can end at any time.

 

All Japan had a problem with long main events, as no matter how good they'd be, the fans wouldn't react for the first 20:00 because they 'knew' the matches were always going long.

[Hawk 34 0]

With just one match, Gabe accomplished four things. The two things mentioned above, starting the current Cabana angle and putting Delirious over as a legit wrestler rather then a comedy performer.