RING OF HONOR RESULTS FROM CLEVELAND
- 10/07/2006 (1:43:12 pm)
- Keith Lipinski
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ROH - Cleveland, Ohio - Gray's Armory - attendance about 400ish (they did not announce a return date)Dark Match #1 Bobby Dempsey defeated Mitch Franklin and Eddie Osiris in a three way with a sweet Death Valley Driver on Osiris, this was better then most ROH student matches, probably because both Dempsey and Franklin have a whacky charisma about them. Franklin can also go in the ring.
Dark Match #2 - Top of the Class Trophy: Shane Haggadorn defeated Pelle Primeau to retain after the power of the punch brass knuckles shot and the cross face. Haggadorn is improving, but this finish might have been done to death by now.
"Handsome" Bobby Cruise is not in Cleveland, as the voice of ROH play by play Dave Prazak is handling the Ring Announcing this evening. He also did most of the ring announcing outside of the ring in back, like old ECW shows with a MYSTERIOUS VOICE as the announcer.
1. Survival of the Fittest - round one: Matt Sydal defeated Davey Richards after his Implant Driver in an upset. This was an excellent opener to the main show, as both guys got allot of their stuff in and worked well together. Would love to see this rematched down the line, as it was stiff, fast paced, and high flying. Both guys looked good and traded counters and near falls before Sydal hit the implant driver for the win.
2. Survival of the Fittest - round one: Delirious defeated Jimmy Rave with his cobra stretch (bridging cobra clutch). Rave was Nanaless, but still had Daizee Haze with him. Usual toilet paper schanagans. A fan brought a whole case of TP to pass out to people in line. In a great moment, Daizee whipped the TP and my god, it hit the elder gentlemen with such full force, I swear he was seeing stars for most of the rest of the night. Ok match. For some reason or another it never got out of second gear, some nice reversals, and the Jimmy Rave hatred was lower then usual. Decent finish. After the match, Daizee Haze and Rave had a stand off, and Rave walked out and Haze looked upset.
3. Survival of the Fittest - round one: Austin Aries defeated Christopher Daniels with his 450 splash. Very good match. Pre match Aries got on the house mic and talked about how the fine people at US Air had lost his luggage (along with Bryan Danielsons), and he had to wear other peoples gear. Most of it was ROH students gear, like Bobby Dempseys socks, Pelle Primeau's tights and so on. Both guys got allot in, Daniels attempted BME, Aries got him into the crucifix bomb, then hit his 450 for the win. They are rematching this again in a few weeks in Chicago in a special challenge match.
-Jim Cornette and the Briscoes came out for a promo. Briscoes didn't get to say their delightful MAN UP~! catchphrase. People were sad. Cornette's promo was him basically talking about putting up roadblocks for Homicide road to hell to final battle, and how he was not asking the Briscoes, nor telling the Briscoes, he was ORDERING the Briscoe's to hurt and defeat Homicide this evening. Decent promo. I was expecting more but Cornette heeled up and called Cleveland the mistake by the lake (never heard that one before) he did talk about taking a dump in a fans hat (thats new)
4. Survival of the Fittest - round one: Jay & Mark Briscoe defeated Homicide & Roderick Strong after Jay hit Homicide while he was coming off the top rope with Jim Cornette's tennis racket which allowed Mark to get the pin. Second best match of the night. Funny moment to begin the match as the demon Homicide threw two chairs as he was coming down to the ring, one of them got Roderick square into the head. The Briscoes not only look bigger, but they're constantly doing innovative double teams. The stiff match almost went the 20 minute time limit. With two minutes left, Roderick hit a superplex on Mark as Homicide came off with a frog splash for a 2.5 when Jay broke up the pin. Cornette ran down, gave the racket to Jay and that was that.
5. Survival of the Fittest - round one: Bryan Danielson and Samoa Joe fought to a 20 minute time limit draw. Good match, but of course the short time limit for these two men who went sixty minutes in August could have telegraphed what was going to happen. Danielson was wearing some old school blue tights, yes, he went back to his old blue tights ways. Someone call Jun Akiyama! Due to the draw both men are eliminated from the Survival of the Fittest Tournament. After the match, the crowd and Joe wanted five more minutes. Danielson got on the mic and asked the crowd what they wanted. He then attacked and laid out Joe with the title belt. He even came off the top rope as the belt was on Joe's head. Joe needed help to the back.
6. Irish Airborne defeated ROH Students Rhett Titus & Alex SUGARFOOT~! Payne with their double stomp DVD to the knees double team. Good after intermission match. Airborne are impressive. Sugarfoot is more over in Chicago.
7. ROH World Tag Team Titles: Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli) defeated Lacey's Angels of Colt Cabana & Jimmy Jacobs to retain the ROH World Tag Team Titles after Jacobs accidentally speared Cabana and the Kings got Cabana in Hero's Welcome Kings of Wrestling Edition for the three count. Very good match, its great to see the Kings of Wrestling in ROH. The Kings came out with the ROH World Tag Team Titles and CHIKARA Campeones de Parejas titles and the briefcase. The champs tried to put both sets of belts in the briefcase only to have some technical difficulties. Jimmy Jacobs jealous character is frickin' awesome, but he put the jealousy (which was evidenced when Colt and Lacey were dancing pre-match and Colt was able to bring Lacey's skirt up. This is another reason Colt Cabana is a great man) away and they did some great double teams. After the match, BJ Whitmer with his walking cast ran down and brawled with Jimmy Jacobs. Jacobs left alone after brawling with BJ and Cabana and BJ left together with Lacey.
8. Survival Of The Fittest Tournament - elimination final match: Delirious defeated Jay Briscoe, Mark Briscoe, Matt Sydal and Austin Aries to win 2006 Survival of the Fittest Tournament. Excellent match. The energy in the final five minutes with Sydal and Delirious (who started and finished the match against each other) could have powered Cleveland for an entire week. It started slow but picked up nicely and by the finish, everyone was on their feet for both guys. Order of elimination:
- Jay Briscoe eliminated Austin Aries after a Briscoe springboard Doomsday Device at 11:19. I guess Pelle Primeau's tights weren't lucky.
- Matt Sydal eliminated Jay Briscoe in 19:08 after Sydal rolled up Jay when the Briscoe's attempted another springboard Doomsday Device
- Matt Sydal (who was the co-MVP of this match as he was in the longest of any of the guys and was damn impressive) eliminated Mark Briscoe at 23:11 with his Sydal (Shooting Star) Press
- Delirious eliminated Matt Sydal at 35:01 with the Cobra Stretch for the tap out. The last ten minutes of this should be seen by everyone as they hit each other with their big moves and tons of near falls, including Sydal flipping into the Crowd to get Delirious, a Sydal Cyclorama (belly to belly off the middle rope with a moonsault slam), Delirious hitting his inverto fertilization for a 2.9999 count, also doing the Shadows Over Hell, several Panic Attacks, and his Bizarro Driver for close near falls. Delirious did his Delirious speak and said "f*** this mother f****" after the 2.9999 near fall. Sydal attempted the Sydal Press, but missed which allowed Delirious to get the cobra stretch and the win. After wards both men cut promos, Delirious' victory speech was up there with a great war leaders of our time. Good show.
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Thanks to Dr. Keith Lipinski
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