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Saturday, April 2, 2011
Results For Ring Of Honor's Honor Takes Center Stage: Part Two
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Kings Of Wrestling vs Adam Cole & Kyle O'Reilly
The Kings brutally attack Cole & O'Reilly before the opening bell, and Claudio kills Cole with a hard back elbow. Hero tags in and hits a hard slam and then nails O'Reilly off the apron. Shane Hagadorn joins Kevin Kelly & Dave Prazak at the announce booth where Kevin Kelly suggests that there might be some dissension between Shane and the Kings. Cole catches Claudio with a bulldog and then O'Reilly tags in and nails a hard dropkick, and Claudio responds with a European Uppercut. Claudio tries another and O'Reilly catches the arm and gets a backslide for 2, but Hero comes in and they hit the double parachute drop on O'Reilly. Hero with a running senton for 2 and then starts unloading with heavy strikes. Claudio comes in and easily lifts O'Reilly into the air and press slams him for 2. Hero back in for a delayed atomic drop, leaping elbow into the corner, and then whips O'Reilly into a running clothesline from Claudio for 2. Claudio tags out to Hero, clocks O'Reilly with a European Uppercut, and then Hero gets a hard elbow to the back of the head for 2, then O'Reilly gets a sunset flip out of nowhere for 2. Claudio back in and a complex series of moves leads to O'Reilly slipping past the Kings to make the hot tag to Adam Cole, who comes in and takes out Claudio with a flying headscissors and then gets the knees up on Hero on a senton attempt and then catches him with a leg lariat from the second rope. Cole blocks a German suplex attempt and hits a leaping enziguigi on Hero and dodges a move from Claudio, dropkicks him to the floor, and then hits a diving flying headscissors on the floor on Claudio, followed by O'Reilly with a diving dropkick off the apron, then Cole comes back in and hits a flying bodypress for 2. O'Reilly gets Hero in a fireman's carry but Hero slips out and hits rolling elbows on both opponents and makes the tag to Claudio. The Kings go for the waterslide elbow but Cole grabs Hero's ankle from the outside and O'Reilly converts to a front guillotine on Claudio. Hero repeatedly kicks O'Reilly in the head, but O'Reilly refuses to break, and Cole comes in and superkicks Hero to the floor and follows him out with a dive. O'Reilly nearly puts Claudio out, but claudio recovers and pops O'Reilly into the air for a European Uppercut, then a double bicycle kick puts O'Reilly down for 3.
Winners: Kings Of Wrestling
Awesome opener, O'Reilly and Cole did great this weekend and got a big pop from the crowd, who chanted "that was awesome" at them. Adam Cole & Kyle O'Reilly arrived in ROH this weekend.
Prince Nana comes out with his entourage to introduce his latest acquisition for the next match...
Dave Taylor vs Colt Cabana
I've been looking forward to this one. They tie up and Taylor takes Cabana to the corner and breaks clean. Taylor gets a three quarter nelson and snapmares Cabana, but Cabana rolls to his feet. Another three quarter nelson from Taylor and another snapmare with Cabana landing on his feet so Taylor hits a pair of dropkicks to send Cabana to the floor where he pantomimes his shock that Taylor can still hit dropkicks. Taylor ties Cabana up again with a straitjacket hold and steps on the back of Cabana's knees to break him down, but Cabana reverses to one of his own. Taylor reverses back to the advantage and rams into Cabana's shoulder a couple of times, but Cabana uses Taylor's momentum to backdrop him across the ring. Cabana goes for a handshake and pulls Taylor in, but Taylor backdrops him and just wallops Cabana with a European uppercut, then hits a second one and traps Cabana in an armbar/crossface combo. Taylor breaks Cabanadown flat and drops elbows across Cabana's arm, then lets him out and whips Cabana to the ropes but Cabana ducks the clothesline and hits some jabs, only to eat another European uppercut from Taylor. Taylor with an ankle pick and applies a stepover toehold, then releases Cabana and stretches the leg out before smashing his elbow into the bridge of Cabana's nose. Taylor back to the armbar/crossface and Cabana makes the ropes, so Taylor breaks clean and whips Cabana across the ring, but Cabana slips through the legs, whips Taylor to the corner and hits the Flying Apple. Taylor smashes him with another European uppercut, but Cabana gets a schoolboy rollup and gets the three count.
Winner: Colt Cabana
That was terrific, so much psychology in that one and everything they did meant something. I really hope they bring Dave Taylor in again at some point, there's so much he can bring to the company both in the ring and behind the scenes.
Taylor gets a "thank you Dave" chant on his way out and Prince Nana gets mad that Taylor lost, but Barrister RD Evans tells him not to worry about it because they have another match up next...
Homicide vs Tommaso Ciampa
Ciampa sneak attacks Homicide with a dropkick, but Homicide quickly responds by tossing Ciampa to the floor and ramming him repeatedly into the guardrails, then ramming the guardrails into Ciampa. Homicide grabbed a chair and the referee pulled it away, so Homicide rammed Ciampa into the rail again. Homicide drops Ciampa throat first on the guardrail and then rolls him back into the ring where he catches Ciampa with a flying back elbow. Homicide whips Ciampa into the ropes and catches him again with an overhead release suplex. Ciampa scurries back out to the floor and Homicide goes for the tope suicida, but Ciampa's entire group jumps up on the apron to distract Homicide and allow Ciampa to sneak up from behind and pick Homicide up in a torture rack into a sitout F5 for 2. Ciampa whips Homicide hard in to the corner and hit a running knee to the jaw and covered for 2. Homicide nailed Ciampa and went up in the corner for punches and Ciampa tried to carry him out into the ring for a powerbomb, but Homicide kept drilling him and Ciampa goes down. Homicide goes for a lariat, but Ciampa kicks the arm and hits a lariat of his own for 2. Ciampa yells at Homicide and slaps him in the face, but Homicide gets fired up and goes toe-to-toe with Ciampa in the middle of the ring. Ciampa tries a charge and Homicide sidesteps him to send Ciampa back to the floor. Homicide goes out and continues the assault on the floor, then goes up to the stage and hits a running suicide dive off of the stage and onto Ciampa at ringside. That was just insane. Homicide sends Ciampa back into the ring and hits a tornado DDT and a T-bone suplex for 2. Homicide goes for another lariat but Ciampa catches Homicide for a Boss Man Slam into a backbreaker for 2. Homicide recovers and beats Ciampa down in the corner and hits the Facewash, then goes for a Butterfly something, but Mia gets on the apron to distract the referee and Ciampa hits a neckbreaker cutter for 2. Ciampa goes to finish Homicide with the powerbomb backbreaker, but Homicide slips out and hits the Ace Crusher. Homicide sets for the Cop Killa but Mia is up on the apron again and Homicide goes after her, but Ciampa sneaks up on Homicide and hits a Northern Lights Suplex for 3.
Winner: Tommaso Ciampa
Homicide is so happy for the biggest victory of Ciampa's career that he grabs a chair and brings it into the ring. RD Evans warns Homicide not to do it, so Homicide launches it at Evans and knocks him out. Mia gets in Homicide's face and Homicide grabs her by the hair, but Prince Nana is able to drag Mia to safety on the floor.
Kevin Kelly and Dave Prazak talk about how Christopher Daniels refused to shake Eddie Edwards' hand after their match last night, and Dave Prazak reminds us that Daniels refused to follow the Code Of Honor going all the way back to the beginning of ROH.
Michael Elgin vs Christopher Daniels
Daniels attacks Elgin right at the bell and beats him senseless and rams him from corner to corner. Daniels with a running forearm in the corner and then knocks Elgin to the floor and follows him with a dive over the top rope. Daniels rams Elgin into the ring apron and then into the guardrail, then back into the apron again before rolling him back in the ring. Daniels comes right back in but Elgin picks him up and just dumps him with a Bodybag. Elgin with a hard whip into the corner and follows him in with a charging clothesline. Daniels with a chinbreaker and a leaping enziguiri sends Elgin back to the floor, but Elgin dodges a baseball slide and picks Daniels up to try and ram him into the ringpost, but Daniels slipped out and Elgin hits the post instead. Elgin gets back in the ring and tries to suplex Daniels in, but Daniels lands on his feet so Elgin charges him with a shoulderblock that sends Daniels to the floor. Elgin goes to the outside and rams Daniels all the way across the ring and through the barricade. Elgin tosses Daniels back into the ring and hits a Patriot Missile for 2, then a very delayed vertical suplex for another 2. Daniels fights back and hits another chinbreaker, but Elgin nails him and rams him into the ringpost, then sits on the top rope and puts Daniels in a Boston Crab in the corner! Elgin is so awesome. Elgin goes back up top but misses whatever he was trying and Daniels comes back with jabs and a flying leg lariat. Daniels drops Elgin to his knees and hits a Northern Lariat and a second rope curb stomp for 2. Elgin blocks Angel's Wings and another second rope curb stomp and hits a twisting pump handle driver for 2, then powerslams Daniels into the corner, hangs onto him, and hits a Cyclone for 2. Elgin goes up top but misses a twisting senton, and Daniels goes for a uranage but Elgin blocks and gets an O'Connor roll into a pair of forearms to the back of the head and comes off the ropes into an STO from Daniels. Elgin scores with a back elbow, Daniels ducks a lariat, but Elgin hits a second one and yells at Daniels to get up. Elgin goes for a powerbomb, Daniels lands on his feet, and lowblows Elgin, drawing boos from the fans. Daniels regards them for a moment before hitting the BME for the win.
Winner: Christopher Daniels
im Cornette kicks off the second half by saying he won't take too much time since the ROH main events go longer than a minute and 28 seconds, drawing a f*** TNA chant from the crowd. He politely asks them who is at their first ROH show (getting a loud reaction) and how many people think ROH is the best wrestling around today (getting an even louder reaction). Cornette guarantees everyone there and on iPPV that they will always do their best to justify our time and money on their product. He then asks Davey Richards to come join him in the ring, and asks him for his thoughts on his match tonight against Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin. Davey says he has a lot of respect for Benjamin and Haas, but even though they've come into ROH and steamrolled over everyone, but the American Wolves are on another level and when they get in the ring with them, they'll be in for a fight. He thanks the fans for the reaction they gave Eddie Edwards because he embodies everything there is to do with honor. Davey is proud of Eddie and people might think he's getting jealous, but he's known what Eddie was about all along and he's always had the spirit and honor it takes to be a champion. Cornette brings up Davey's tough break against Roderick Strong at Final Battle, but points out that Davey has been undefeated since and avenged that loss to Roderick last night. Cornette brings up Davey's quest to make sure he's at his best the next time he challenges for the World Title since it will be the last time and he wants to be ready, but tells Davey that ROH is a business and needs to sell tickets and DVDs and says that they're going to make that match. Davey looks very unhappy about being put in the position to fight Eddie, and says he understands ROH's position, but this is Eddie's time and he's not saying he'll never fight Eddie because they've already done it once, but this is Eddie's time and he's not going to be the guy to destroy his brother's dream.
Eddie Edwards' music hits and he comes out to join in the conversation, and Cornette asks for his position on this. Eddie says he feels the same way as Davey because they're partners, Wolves, and family...but Davey said he didn't want to be the one to crush his dreams and he made it sound like it would be a foregone conclusion that he would beat Eddie. He knows Davey didn't mean it that way, and points out that the one time they did wrestle, he came out on top. Cornette says he's not trying to break up any friendships, but there's a lot of money on the table and asks them to consider it. Davey says he knows that at the end of the day Cornette is a promoter, and if they end up having to fight each other then that'll happen, but tonight it's about the American Wolves against the ROH World Tag Team Champions. Eddie finishes by telling Haas & Benjamin that tonight, the hunt is on!
SHIMMER Tag Team Title Match: Daizee Haze & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Ayumi Kurihara
Nakagawa and Matsumoto start off and Matsumoto runs over Nakagawa with a series of shoulderblocks, but Daizee comes in and nails Matsumoto from behind. Matsumoto bowls through a double clothesline attempt and hits a double crossbody for 2. Kurihara tags in and nails Nakagawa with a clothesline and locks in a kneeling figure four, but Daizee comes in and boots Kurihara in the chest and then Nakagawa goes to the eyes. Daizee tags in and does a fast paced sequence with Kurihara, who locks Daizee into the cross armbreaker in the ropes that actually drags Daizee over the top to the floor. Kurihara goes to the top and Nakagawa runs over and sprays water in her eyes, allowing Daizee to dump her off the top rope and cover for 2. Nakagawa snapmares Kurihara, rakes her boots across the face, and dropkicks her in the face for 2. Nakagawa gets caught with a running victory roll from Kurihara for 2, but Daizee runs across the ring and nails Matsumoto and they follow it up with a double baseball slide to Kurihara for 2. Nakagawa comes back in and gets caught with a dropkick, and Kurihara makes the hot tag to Matsumoto, who comes in and runs over both girls with shoulderblocks. Matsumoto went for the backdrop driver, Makagawa tries to counter to a victory roll, but Matsumoto hangs on and hits the suplex anyway. Daizee tries a sleeper on Matsumoto and hangs on her back, but Kurihara jumps onto Matsumoto's front and she carries them both over for a double kneedrop on Nakagawa. Kurihara and Matsumoto hit a series of running knees to Nakagawa and then Kurihara hits a running dropkick to send Nakagawa through the ropes. Nakagawa manages to make the tag to Daizee, but Kurihara gets a lungblower and tags Matsumoto and then all hell breaks loose with all four girls in the ring. Kurihara hits an overhead uranage on Daizee and then Matsumoto hits a backdrop driver on Daizee but Nakagawa pulls the referee out of the ring before he can count 3. Daizee recovers and hits a heart punch and running Yakuza Kick on Matsumoto, Nakagawa hits a leaping enziguiri, and Daizee finishes with a Tiger Suplex.
Winners: Daizee Haze & Tomoka Nakagawa
That was awesome, great match and the SHIMMER crew had a great overall showing this weekend.
All Night Express vs Jay & Mark Briscoe
The Briscoes got the jump on King and Titus by coming out of the crowd and attacking them from behind, and the fight quickly spilled out to the floor with the Briscoes basically destroying the ANX. Mark went for a piledriver but Titus backdrops him on the floor as Jay rammed King into the guardrail. They head back into the ring and try to double team King, and Mark gets backdropped to the floor but Jay superkicks King. Titus makes a blind tag and comes in with a slingshot shoulderblock for 2. Mark comes back in and beats King down as a second referee comes in the ring to try and control this. This is so going to end in a DQ. The referees put Mark and King out to the apron as Titus works Jay over with a chop and a sweet dropkick for 2. Inverted atomic drop/clothesline combo gets 2 for King, and then King gets a snap suplex and starts drilling Jay in the face with rights. Titus with a charging elbow in the corner and then whips Jay into a leaping spinkick from King for 2. Jay makes a blind tag to Mark, who comes in with a clothesline to Titus and then pummels titus with crossfaces and punches. Mark takes a shot at King and then the Briscoes take Titus out to the floor, ram him into the barricade, and then double whip him into the ringpost, busting him open. Jay walks him around ringside to show off his handiwork, then dumps him back into the ring so Mark can gouge at his face and drill him with more punches and crossfaces. Briscoes with a double football tackle to Titus, and then Jay unloads with chops and punches in the corner, then just stomps him into oblivion. Mark comes in and lights Titus up with chops and then bites him on the head. Jay clears off the timekeeper's table as Mark hits a slingshot double stomp for 2. Titus desperately tries to make the tag, but Mark cuts him off and puts him in the corner so Jay can hit a running boot to the face and a charging clothesline, followed by a snapmare and baseball slide for 2, and Titus counters with a crucifix for 2 but gets right up into a superkick from Jay. Mark comes in and puts Titus on top, but Titus shoves him off and hits a double kneedrop from the top and tags King in. King comes in and destroys Jay with clotheslines and a cartwheel kick followed by a cradle suplex for 2. King leapfrogs Jay and hits shotgun knees in the corner for 2. King gets Jay in a fireman's carry and Jay slides out to the apron to escape, but Titus comes out of nowhere to hit the Sex Factor through the timekeeper's table. King and Mark are going at it in the ring, and Titus joins in for a 2-on-1 beatdown on Mark. ANX goes for the double football tackle, but Jay drags Titus to the floor and Mark hits King with a superkick and then a bloody Jay Briscoe comes in and kills King with a clothesline and sprays blood out of his mouth at the audience. Jay with a Falcon Arrow suplex for 2 on King, then Mark puts Titus up top and goes for a top rope suplerplex, but Titus slid under and dumped him face first on the ringpost. Jay and Titus go face to face and exchange blows in the middle of the ring, and Jay sprays more blood at Titus and fires rights at him, but that just fires Titus up who comes back with a hard clothesline to lay Jay out. Titus and King hit the Blockbuster/powerbomb combo and go for the cover, but Mark makes the save and then gets summarily dumped to the floor. The ANX go for a double team on Jay, but Mark nails Titus and Jay hits the Jay Driller on King for the win.
Winners: Jay & Mark Briscoe
Roderick Strong vs El Generico
They do wristlock exchanges to start, but Roderick gets a cheap kick to the gut and then starts stomping Generico, but Generico comes back with some chops. Roderick kicks at Generico's knee and then boots him in the head, but Generico catches him with a series of armdrags and goes up in the corner for the diez punch count and then hits a leg lariat for 2. Generico goes for a springboard move from the apron, but Truth Martini yanks Generico down by the ankle and puts the boots to Generico on the floor. Generico gets back in the ring and Roderick covers for 2, then goes to a neck vice. Roderick with a vertical suplex for 2 and then goes to a chinlock, Generico fights his way free but Roderick gets a dropkick for 2 and then locks him in a Sabu clutch. Generico makes the ropes and goes to the floor, so Roderick follows him out and works him over with hard forearms. Generico fires back with some shots of his own so Roderick cracks him with a leaping knee to the jaw and whips him into the barricade, and then whips Truth Martini into Generico, getting a pop from the crowd. Roderick rolls Generico back into the ring and covers for 2, then gets a leg nelson, then leans forward and nails Generico with a few crossfaces. Generico rocked backward to put Roderick to his back for a 2 count, but Roderick comes right back and just destroys Generico in the corner with chops and stomps. Generico gets whipped hard to the corner but comes out with a series of clotheslines, Roderick responds with some forearms of his own but Generico hit a Blue Thunder Driver for 2. Roderick blocked the half nelson suplex and went for a superkick, but Generico rolls him up for 2. Roderick comes off the ropes and Generico catches him with a Michinoku Driver for 2, then feeds off the fans and goes for the running Yakuza Kick in the corner, but Roderick gets the boot up and follows right up with a leaping enziguiri, then a pair of running forearms in the corner and a cradle backbreaker for 2. Generico goes for the climbing DDT but Roderick blocks and hits a leaping knee for 2. They exchange forearms in the middle of the ring with Roderick coming out on top, Generico spits in Roderick's face, Roderick spits back and boots Generico in the face, Generico comes back with a big boot of his own and now hits the climbing DDT. Roderick spills to the floor and Generico goes for a dive, but Truth Martini grabs his ankle and pulls him to the floor, then gets in the ring and sets up for a dive of his own, but Roderick pulls the ropes down as he tries to drag himself back up and Truth tumbles to the floor then Generico knocks Roderick back to the floor and finally wipes both men out with the dive. Generico hits the running Yakuza Kick in the corner and the half-and-half suplex for 2. Generico motions for the top rope brainbuster and sets Roderick up top, but Roderick blocks. Generico is persistent and tries again, but Truth Martini distracts the referee while Michael Elgin runs in and tries to attack Generico. Generico takes him out and Roderick tries to catch him unawares, but Generico catches him coming in and hits the brainbuster for the win.
Winner: El Generico
Good match, though not the blowaway classic I expected after the way the SoCal Showdown II match was talked up. Michael Elgin and Truth Martini attack Generico after the match, but Colt Cabana runs out to make the save. Cabana goes to nail Truth Martini, but Elgin attacks him from behind and puts the boots to Cabana. Daniels runs in with the Book of Truth in his hand and goes to nail Elgin with it, but instead turns and hits Generico. Daniels hands a smiling Truth Martini the Book of Truth, then gives Cabana the Angel's Wings. Daniels and Roderick go face-to-face, then smileat each other and go back to beating up Cabana and Generico, finishing with Roderick hitting a uranage through a chair on Generico. The new and improved House of Truth raise their arms in victory to the booing fans, and then Daniels and Truth Martini shake hands before heading to the back.
ROH World Tag Team Champions Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin vs American Wolves
This is non-title. Davey and Haas start us off, with the crowd evenly split between both men. They do a mat wrestling sequence with neither man getting a clear advantage. Davey asks the fans if they want him to team Eddie in, and the fans react positively so he makes the tag and Haas goes and makes the tag to Shelton. Shelton shoots in with a double leg takedown and pretty easily outwrestles Edwards, but Eddie goes to the ropes and tries a test of strength instead. Shelton powers Eddie down into a bridge and tries straddling Eddieand bouncing his body weight onto Eddie, but can't break the bridge and Eddie ends up kicking to his feet and hitting a Frankensteiner. Crowd chants "that's our champ" at Eddie, and they tie up again. Shelton takes Eddie to the corner and tags out to Haas, but Eddie breaks cleans and tags out to Davey, who takes Haas down with a single leg and hooks the ankle. Davey tags Eddie and and they do a wishbone split and Eddie covers for 1. Davey back in and locks Haas in an Indian Deathlock and then turns it into a Muta Lock, but Haas makes the ropes so the Wolves tag in and out and work over the left arm of Haas. Davey hit a top rope double stomp on the arm and covers for 2, then tries a cross armbreaker but Haas clasps the hands, so Davey goes to a top wristlock instead. Eddie comes in with a double stomp to the arm and gets a nasty armbar where he kneels on Haas' shoulder and pulls up on the arm.
Davey comes in and rams Haas to the corner, but Haas returns the favor by literally launching Davey into the corner and making the tag to Shelton, who comes in and ties Davey up with a half nelson while ramming knees into the ribs and then ramming Davey hard into the corner and then covering for 2. Shelton with a gourdbuster for 2 and tags out to Haas for a wishbone of their own. Haas again rams Davey into the corner and covers for 2, then gets a chinlock with a bodyscissors. Davey reverses to a surfboard and Shelton comes in to save his partner, then tags in for a headbutt to the lower adbomen of Davey. Shelton fights for it and turns Davey over into a Boston Crab, but Eddie comes in and saves his partner with a kick to the face. Haas tags in and hits a running kneedrop for 2 and goes back to the chinlock, but Davey fights free and hits the handspring enziguiri. Haas rolls to the outside and Davey goes for the dive but Shelton comes in and nails him. Shelton tries to toss Davey to the floor, Davey reverses and tries to dump Shelton, Shelton tries to skin the cat back in but Eddie dropkicks him in the face and dumps him again, then the Wolves hit stereo dives and nearly drive Haas & Benjamin through the barricade.
They head back in where Eddie slams Haas and Davey hits an assisted flying headbutt for 2. Eddie with a chop on Haas and rams him to the corner for a charging elbow, then a snap suplex gets 2. Crowd chants "let's go champ" at Eddie, then locks him in a kneeling abdominal stretch and cradles Haas back into a crucifix for 2. Haas drives Eddie back to the corner and tags Shelton in, and Shelton superkicks Eddie's knee out from under him. That was unique. Shelton DDTs Eddie's foot multiple times and goes for a figure four until the crowd starts whooing at him and he just drops the legs and tags out to Haas. Haas drops on the leg and gets a side angle Indian Deathlock, and he and Eddie exchange chops while still locked in the hold. Eddie comes out on top to break the hold, but Haas just drops Eddie with a vicious single leg takedown, then tags in Shelton, who comes over the top with a vertical drop on the knee. Shelton picks Eddie up atomic drop-style, but just rams Eddie's knee into the top turnbuckle before hooking a toehold. Eddie makes the ropes so Shelton goes for a powerbomb, Eddie tries to fight it off, but Shelton powers him up and Eddied goes over the top and gets a sunset flip for 2. Shelton does "superkick uh oh you caught my foot but haha you threw my leg away so I'm going to spinkick you now" and then tags out to Haas. Eddie slips out of a suplex attempt and gets a second rope Codebreaker onto his bad knee, kicks away from Shelton, and makes the hot tag.
Davey comes in with a double missile dropkick and assaults Haas in the corner, then sets him up top. Haas tries to fight Davey off and headbutts him into the ring, but Davey fires up and goes back to the top to deliver repeated headbutts back to Haas, just headbutting him over and over until Haas is knocked silly, and then hits a top rope superplex on Haas for 2. Haas blocks a suplex and tries to counter to one of his own, but Davey slips out the back and gets a victory roll into the anklelock. Haas rolls through and sends Davey hurtling into the corner, and Shelton makes a blind tag and Haas catapults Davey into a fireman's carry by Shelton, but Davey counters to a crucifix for 2. Davey with kicks and kicks in the corner and now all four men are in the ring. Wolves with a pair of leaping enziguiris and dump Haas to the floor, then hit a double knockout kick to Shelton for 2. Wolves with the double team Alarm Clock on Shelton, then they go for the superkick German Suplex combo, but Haas breaks it up and they hit stereo rolling Germans to the Wolves, and then the Wolves hit stereo rolling Germans of their own, then switch opponents and hit more rolling Germans. Haas & Benjamin both hit switches and start delivering more rolling Germans to the Wolves until the Wolves get stereo victory rolls that get 2, and then a pair of double clotheslines wipe all four men out.
The crowd is really into this as Davey and Haas regain their footing and exchange blows in the middle of the ring. Haas comes out on top so Davey hits a spinning enziguiri out of nowhere, then eats a nasty superkick from Shelton. Shelton turns around and gets superkicked by Eddie, and then Haas comes over and hits an Angle Slam on Eddie. It's back to Haas and Davey, and Davey fires repeated forearms at Haas, but Haas gets an inverted atomic drop and Shelton follows with another superkick for 2. Haas & Benjamin put Davey on top, but Davey dumps Haas to the floor so Shelton comes up the ropes and Davey knocks him off, so Shelton runs up the ropes for a hard kick to Davey. Eddie nails Shelton and they hit a double team powerbomb into a super lungblower for 2, then Davey gets Shelton in an ankle lock as Eddie gets Haas in an Achilles Lock. Shelton kicks Davey off into Eddie and then hits the leaping Flatliner for the win.
Winners: Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin
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Kings Of Wrestling vs Adam Cole & Kyle O'Reilly
The Kings brutally attack Cole & O'Reilly before the opening bell, and Claudio kills Cole with a hard back elbow. Hero tags in and hits a hard slam and then nails O'Reilly off the apron. Shane Hagadorn joins Kevin Kelly & Dave Prazak at the announce booth where Kevin Kelly suggests that there might be some dissension between Shane and the Kings. Cole catches Claudio with a bulldog and then O'Reilly tags in and nails a hard dropkick, and Claudio responds with a European Uppercut. Claudio tries another and O'Reilly catches the arm and gets a backslide for 2, but Hero comes in and they hit the double parachute drop on O'Reilly. Hero with a running senton for 2 and then starts unloading with heavy strikes. Claudio comes in and easily lifts O'Reilly into the air and press slams him for 2. Hero back in for a delayed atomic drop, leaping elbow into the corner, and then whips O'Reilly into a running clothesline from Claudio for 2. Claudio tags out to Hero, clocks O'Reilly with a European Uppercut, and then Hero gets a hard elbow to the back of the head for 2, then O'Reilly gets a sunset flip out of nowhere for 2. Claudio back in and a complex series of moves leads to O'Reilly slipping past the Kings to make the hot tag to Adam Cole, who comes in and takes out Claudio with a flying headscissors and then gets the knees up on Hero on a senton attempt and then catches him with a leg lariat from the second rope. Cole blocks a German suplex attempt and hits a leaping enziguigi on Hero and dodges a move from Claudio, dropkicks him to the floor, and then hits a diving flying headscissors on the floor on Claudio, followed by O'Reilly with a diving dropkick off the apron, then Cole comes back in and hits a flying bodypress for 2. O'Reilly gets Hero in a fireman's carry but Hero slips out and hits rolling elbows on both opponents and makes the tag to Claudio. The Kings go for the waterslide elbow but Cole grabs Hero's ankle from the outside and O'Reilly converts to a front guillotine on Claudio. Hero repeatedly kicks O'Reilly in the head, but O'Reilly refuses to break, and Cole comes in and superkicks Hero to the floor and follows him out with a dive. O'Reilly nearly puts Claudio out, but claudio recovers and pops O'Reilly into the air for a European Uppercut, then a double bicycle kick puts O'Reilly down for 3.
Winners: Kings Of Wrestling
Awesome opener, O'Reilly and Cole did great this weekend and got a big pop from the crowd, who chanted "that was awesome" at them. Adam Cole & Kyle O'Reilly arrived in ROH this weekend.
Prince Nana comes out with his entourage to introduce his latest acquisition for the next match...
Dave Taylor vs Colt Cabana
I've been looking forward to this one. They tie up and Taylor takes Cabana to the corner and breaks clean. Taylor gets a three quarter nelson and snapmares Cabana, but Cabana rolls to his feet. Another three quarter nelson from Taylor and another snapmare with Cabana landing on his feet so Taylor hits a pair of dropkicks to send Cabana to the floor where he pantomimes his shock that Taylor can still hit dropkicks. Taylor ties Cabana up again with a straitjacket hold and steps on the back of Cabana's knees to break him down, but Cabana reverses to one of his own. Taylor reverses back to the advantage and rams into Cabana's shoulder a couple of times, but Cabana uses Taylor's momentum to backdrop him across the ring. Cabana goes for a handshake and pulls Taylor in, but Taylor backdrops him and just wallops Cabana with a European uppercut, then hits a second one and traps Cabana in an armbar/crossface combo. Taylor breaks Cabanadown flat and drops elbows across Cabana's arm, then lets him out and whips Cabana to the ropes but Cabana ducks the clothesline and hits some jabs, only to eat another European uppercut from Taylor. Taylor with an ankle pick and applies a stepover toehold, then releases Cabana and stretches the leg out before smashing his elbow into the bridge of Cabana's nose. Taylor back to the armbar/crossface and Cabana makes the ropes, so Taylor breaks clean and whips Cabana across the ring, but Cabana slips through the legs, whips Taylor to the corner and hits the Flying Apple. Taylor smashes him with another European uppercut, but Cabana gets a schoolboy rollup and gets the three count.
Winner: Colt Cabana
That was terrific, so much psychology in that one and everything they did meant something. I really hope they bring Dave Taylor in again at some point, there's so much he can bring to the company both in the ring and behind the scenes.
Taylor gets a "thank you Dave" chant on his way out and Prince Nana gets mad that Taylor lost, but Barrister RD Evans tells him not to worry about it because they have another match up next...
Homicide vs Tommaso Ciampa
Ciampa sneak attacks Homicide with a dropkick, but Homicide quickly responds by tossing Ciampa to the floor and ramming him repeatedly into the guardrails, then ramming the guardrails into Ciampa. Homicide grabbed a chair and the referee pulled it away, so Homicide rammed Ciampa into the rail again. Homicide drops Ciampa throat first on the guardrail and then rolls him back into the ring where he catches Ciampa with a flying back elbow. Homicide whips Ciampa into the ropes and catches him again with an overhead release suplex. Ciampa scurries back out to the floor and Homicide goes for the tope suicida, but Ciampa's entire group jumps up on the apron to distract Homicide and allow Ciampa to sneak up from behind and pick Homicide up in a torture rack into a sitout F5 for 2. Ciampa whips Homicide hard in to the corner and hit a running knee to the jaw and covered for 2. Homicide nailed Ciampa and went up in the corner for punches and Ciampa tried to carry him out into the ring for a powerbomb, but Homicide kept drilling him and Ciampa goes down. Homicide goes for a lariat, but Ciampa kicks the arm and hits a lariat of his own for 2. Ciampa yells at Homicide and slaps him in the face, but Homicide gets fired up and goes toe-to-toe with Ciampa in the middle of the ring. Ciampa tries a charge and Homicide sidesteps him to send Ciampa back to the floor. Homicide goes out and continues the assault on the floor, then goes up to the stage and hits a running suicide dive off of the stage and onto Ciampa at ringside. That was just insane. Homicide sends Ciampa back into the ring and hits a tornado DDT and a T-bone suplex for 2. Homicide goes for another lariat but Ciampa catches Homicide for a Boss Man Slam into a backbreaker for 2. Homicide recovers and beats Ciampa down in the corner and hits the Facewash, then goes for a Butterfly something, but Mia gets on the apron to distract the referee and Ciampa hits a neckbreaker cutter for 2. Ciampa goes to finish Homicide with the powerbomb backbreaker, but Homicide slips out and hits the Ace Crusher. Homicide sets for the Cop Killa but Mia is up on the apron again and Homicide goes after her, but Ciampa sneaks up on Homicide and hits a Northern Lights Suplex for 3.
Winner: Tommaso Ciampa
Homicide is so happy for the biggest victory of Ciampa's career that he grabs a chair and brings it into the ring. RD Evans warns Homicide not to do it, so Homicide launches it at Evans and knocks him out. Mia gets in Homicide's face and Homicide grabs her by the hair, but Prince Nana is able to drag Mia to safety on the floor.
Kevin Kelly and Dave Prazak talk about how Christopher Daniels refused to shake Eddie Edwards' hand after their match last night, and Dave Prazak reminds us that Daniels refused to follow the Code Of Honor going all the way back to the beginning of ROH.
Michael Elgin vs Christopher Daniels
Daniels attacks Elgin right at the bell and beats him senseless and rams him from corner to corner. Daniels with a running forearm in the corner and then knocks Elgin to the floor and follows him with a dive over the top rope. Daniels rams Elgin into the ring apron and then into the guardrail, then back into the apron again before rolling him back in the ring. Daniels comes right back in but Elgin picks him up and just dumps him with a Bodybag. Elgin with a hard whip into the corner and follows him in with a charging clothesline. Daniels with a chinbreaker and a leaping enziguiri sends Elgin back to the floor, but Elgin dodges a baseball slide and picks Daniels up to try and ram him into the ringpost, but Daniels slipped out and Elgin hits the post instead. Elgin gets back in the ring and tries to suplex Daniels in, but Daniels lands on his feet so Elgin charges him with a shoulderblock that sends Daniels to the floor. Elgin goes to the outside and rams Daniels all the way across the ring and through the barricade. Elgin tosses Daniels back into the ring and hits a Patriot Missile for 2, then a very delayed vertical suplex for another 2. Daniels fights back and hits another chinbreaker, but Elgin nails him and rams him into the ringpost, then sits on the top rope and puts Daniels in a Boston Crab in the corner! Elgin is so awesome. Elgin goes back up top but misses whatever he was trying and Daniels comes back with jabs and a flying leg lariat. Daniels drops Elgin to his knees and hits a Northern Lariat and a second rope curb stomp for 2. Elgin blocks Angel's Wings and another second rope curb stomp and hits a twisting pump handle driver for 2, then powerslams Daniels into the corner, hangs onto him, and hits a Cyclone for 2. Elgin goes up top but misses a twisting senton, and Daniels goes for a uranage but Elgin blocks and gets an O'Connor roll into a pair of forearms to the back of the head and comes off the ropes into an STO from Daniels. Elgin scores with a back elbow, Daniels ducks a lariat, but Elgin hits a second one and yells at Daniels to get up. Elgin goes for a powerbomb, Daniels lands on his feet, and lowblows Elgin, drawing boos from the fans. Daniels regards them for a moment before hitting the BME for the win.
Winner: Christopher Daniels
im Cornette kicks off the second half by saying he won't take too much time since the ROH main events go longer than a minute and 28 seconds, drawing a f*** TNA chant from the crowd. He politely asks them who is at their first ROH show (getting a loud reaction) and how many people think ROH is the best wrestling around today (getting an even louder reaction). Cornette guarantees everyone there and on iPPV that they will always do their best to justify our time and money on their product. He then asks Davey Richards to come join him in the ring, and asks him for his thoughts on his match tonight against Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin. Davey says he has a lot of respect for Benjamin and Haas, but even though they've come into ROH and steamrolled over everyone, but the American Wolves are on another level and when they get in the ring with them, they'll be in for a fight. He thanks the fans for the reaction they gave Eddie Edwards because he embodies everything there is to do with honor. Davey is proud of Eddie and people might think he's getting jealous, but he's known what Eddie was about all along and he's always had the spirit and honor it takes to be a champion. Cornette brings up Davey's tough break against Roderick Strong at Final Battle, but points out that Davey has been undefeated since and avenged that loss to Roderick last night. Cornette brings up Davey's quest to make sure he's at his best the next time he challenges for the World Title since it will be the last time and he wants to be ready, but tells Davey that ROH is a business and needs to sell tickets and DVDs and says that they're going to make that match. Davey looks very unhappy about being put in the position to fight Eddie, and says he understands ROH's position, but this is Eddie's time and he's not saying he'll never fight Eddie because they've already done it once, but this is Eddie's time and he's not going to be the guy to destroy his brother's dream.
Eddie Edwards' music hits and he comes out to join in the conversation, and Cornette asks for his position on this. Eddie says he feels the same way as Davey because they're partners, Wolves, and family...but Davey said he didn't want to be the one to crush his dreams and he made it sound like it would be a foregone conclusion that he would beat Eddie. He knows Davey didn't mean it that way, and points out that the one time they did wrestle, he came out on top. Cornette says he's not trying to break up any friendships, but there's a lot of money on the table and asks them to consider it. Davey says he knows that at the end of the day Cornette is a promoter, and if they end up having to fight each other then that'll happen, but tonight it's about the American Wolves against the ROH World Tag Team Champions. Eddie finishes by telling Haas & Benjamin that tonight, the hunt is on!
SHIMMER Tag Team Title Match: Daizee Haze & Tomoka Nakagawa vs Hiroyo Matsumoto & Ayumi Kurihara
Nakagawa and Matsumoto start off and Matsumoto runs over Nakagawa with a series of shoulderblocks, but Daizee comes in and nails Matsumoto from behind. Matsumoto bowls through a double clothesline attempt and hits a double crossbody for 2. Kurihara tags in and nails Nakagawa with a clothesline and locks in a kneeling figure four, but Daizee comes in and boots Kurihara in the chest and then Nakagawa goes to the eyes. Daizee tags in and does a fast paced sequence with Kurihara, who locks Daizee into the cross armbreaker in the ropes that actually drags Daizee over the top to the floor. Kurihara goes to the top and Nakagawa runs over and sprays water in her eyes, allowing Daizee to dump her off the top rope and cover for 2. Nakagawa snapmares Kurihara, rakes her boots across the face, and dropkicks her in the face for 2. Nakagawa gets caught with a running victory roll from Kurihara for 2, but Daizee runs across the ring and nails Matsumoto and they follow it up with a double baseball slide to Kurihara for 2. Nakagawa comes back in and gets caught with a dropkick, and Kurihara makes the hot tag to Matsumoto, who comes in and runs over both girls with shoulderblocks. Matsumoto went for the backdrop driver, Makagawa tries to counter to a victory roll, but Matsumoto hangs on and hits the suplex anyway. Daizee tries a sleeper on Matsumoto and hangs on her back, but Kurihara jumps onto Matsumoto's front and she carries them both over for a double kneedrop on Nakagawa. Kurihara and Matsumoto hit a series of running knees to Nakagawa and then Kurihara hits a running dropkick to send Nakagawa through the ropes. Nakagawa manages to make the tag to Daizee, but Kurihara gets a lungblower and tags Matsumoto and then all hell breaks loose with all four girls in the ring. Kurihara hits an overhead uranage on Daizee and then Matsumoto hits a backdrop driver on Daizee but Nakagawa pulls the referee out of the ring before he can count 3. Daizee recovers and hits a heart punch and running Yakuza Kick on Matsumoto, Nakagawa hits a leaping enziguiri, and Daizee finishes with a Tiger Suplex.
Winners: Daizee Haze & Tomoka Nakagawa
That was awesome, great match and the SHIMMER crew had a great overall showing this weekend.
All Night Express vs Jay & Mark Briscoe
The Briscoes got the jump on King and Titus by coming out of the crowd and attacking them from behind, and the fight quickly spilled out to the floor with the Briscoes basically destroying the ANX. Mark went for a piledriver but Titus backdrops him on the floor as Jay rammed King into the guardrail. They head back into the ring and try to double team King, and Mark gets backdropped to the floor but Jay superkicks King. Titus makes a blind tag and comes in with a slingshot shoulderblock for 2. Mark comes back in and beats King down as a second referee comes in the ring to try and control this. This is so going to end in a DQ. The referees put Mark and King out to the apron as Titus works Jay over with a chop and a sweet dropkick for 2. Inverted atomic drop/clothesline combo gets 2 for King, and then King gets a snap suplex and starts drilling Jay in the face with rights. Titus with a charging elbow in the corner and then whips Jay into a leaping spinkick from King for 2. Jay makes a blind tag to Mark, who comes in with a clothesline to Titus and then pummels titus with crossfaces and punches. Mark takes a shot at King and then the Briscoes take Titus out to the floor, ram him into the barricade, and then double whip him into the ringpost, busting him open. Jay walks him around ringside to show off his handiwork, then dumps him back into the ring so Mark can gouge at his face and drill him with more punches and crossfaces. Briscoes with a double football tackle to Titus, and then Jay unloads with chops and punches in the corner, then just stomps him into oblivion. Mark comes in and lights Titus up with chops and then bites him on the head. Jay clears off the timekeeper's table as Mark hits a slingshot double stomp for 2. Titus desperately tries to make the tag, but Mark cuts him off and puts him in the corner so Jay can hit a running boot to the face and a charging clothesline, followed by a snapmare and baseball slide for 2, and Titus counters with a crucifix for 2 but gets right up into a superkick from Jay. Mark comes in and puts Titus on top, but Titus shoves him off and hits a double kneedrop from the top and tags King in. King comes in and destroys Jay with clotheslines and a cartwheel kick followed by a cradle suplex for 2. King leapfrogs Jay and hits shotgun knees in the corner for 2. King gets Jay in a fireman's carry and Jay slides out to the apron to escape, but Titus comes out of nowhere to hit the Sex Factor through the timekeeper's table. King and Mark are going at it in the ring, and Titus joins in for a 2-on-1 beatdown on Mark. ANX goes for the double football tackle, but Jay drags Titus to the floor and Mark hits King with a superkick and then a bloody Jay Briscoe comes in and kills King with a clothesline and sprays blood out of his mouth at the audience. Jay with a Falcon Arrow suplex for 2 on King, then Mark puts Titus up top and goes for a top rope suplerplex, but Titus slid under and dumped him face first on the ringpost. Jay and Titus go face to face and exchange blows in the middle of the ring, and Jay sprays more blood at Titus and fires rights at him, but that just fires Titus up who comes back with a hard clothesline to lay Jay out. Titus and King hit the Blockbuster/powerbomb combo and go for the cover, but Mark makes the save and then gets summarily dumped to the floor. The ANX go for a double team on Jay, but Mark nails Titus and Jay hits the Jay Driller on King for the win.
Winners: Jay & Mark Briscoe
Roderick Strong vs El Generico
They do wristlock exchanges to start, but Roderick gets a cheap kick to the gut and then starts stomping Generico, but Generico comes back with some chops. Roderick kicks at Generico's knee and then boots him in the head, but Generico catches him with a series of armdrags and goes up in the corner for the diez punch count and then hits a leg lariat for 2. Generico goes for a springboard move from the apron, but Truth Martini yanks Generico down by the ankle and puts the boots to Generico on the floor. Generico gets back in the ring and Roderick covers for 2, then goes to a neck vice. Roderick with a vertical suplex for 2 and then goes to a chinlock, Generico fights his way free but Roderick gets a dropkick for 2 and then locks him in a Sabu clutch. Generico makes the ropes and goes to the floor, so Roderick follows him out and works him over with hard forearms. Generico fires back with some shots of his own so Roderick cracks him with a leaping knee to the jaw and whips him into the barricade, and then whips Truth Martini into Generico, getting a pop from the crowd. Roderick rolls Generico back into the ring and covers for 2, then gets a leg nelson, then leans forward and nails Generico with a few crossfaces. Generico rocked backward to put Roderick to his back for a 2 count, but Roderick comes right back and just destroys Generico in the corner with chops and stomps. Generico gets whipped hard to the corner but comes out with a series of clotheslines, Roderick responds with some forearms of his own but Generico hit a Blue Thunder Driver for 2. Roderick blocked the half nelson suplex and went for a superkick, but Generico rolls him up for 2. Roderick comes off the ropes and Generico catches him with a Michinoku Driver for 2, then feeds off the fans and goes for the running Yakuza Kick in the corner, but Roderick gets the boot up and follows right up with a leaping enziguiri, then a pair of running forearms in the corner and a cradle backbreaker for 2. Generico goes for the climbing DDT but Roderick blocks and hits a leaping knee for 2. They exchange forearms in the middle of the ring with Roderick coming out on top, Generico spits in Roderick's face, Roderick spits back and boots Generico in the face, Generico comes back with a big boot of his own and now hits the climbing DDT. Roderick spills to the floor and Generico goes for a dive, but Truth Martini grabs his ankle and pulls him to the floor, then gets in the ring and sets up for a dive of his own, but Roderick pulls the ropes down as he tries to drag himself back up and Truth tumbles to the floor then Generico knocks Roderick back to the floor and finally wipes both men out with the dive. Generico hits the running Yakuza Kick in the corner and the half-and-half suplex for 2. Generico motions for the top rope brainbuster and sets Roderick up top, but Roderick blocks. Generico is persistent and tries again, but Truth Martini distracts the referee while Michael Elgin runs in and tries to attack Generico. Generico takes him out and Roderick tries to catch him unawares, but Generico catches him coming in and hits the brainbuster for the win.
Winner: El Generico
Good match, though not the blowaway classic I expected after the way the SoCal Showdown II match was talked up. Michael Elgin and Truth Martini attack Generico after the match, but Colt Cabana runs out to make the save. Cabana goes to nail Truth Martini, but Elgin attacks him from behind and puts the boots to Cabana. Daniels runs in with the Book of Truth in his hand and goes to nail Elgin with it, but instead turns and hits Generico. Daniels hands a smiling Truth Martini the Book of Truth, then gives Cabana the Angel's Wings. Daniels and Roderick go face-to-face, then smileat each other and go back to beating up Cabana and Generico, finishing with Roderick hitting a uranage through a chair on Generico. The new and improved House of Truth raise their arms in victory to the booing fans, and then Daniels and Truth Martini shake hands before heading to the back.
ROH World Tag Team Champions Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin vs American Wolves
This is non-title. Davey and Haas start us off, with the crowd evenly split between both men. They do a mat wrestling sequence with neither man getting a clear advantage. Davey asks the fans if they want him to team Eddie in, and the fans react positively so he makes the tag and Haas goes and makes the tag to Shelton. Shelton shoots in with a double leg takedown and pretty easily outwrestles Edwards, but Eddie goes to the ropes and tries a test of strength instead. Shelton powers Eddie down into a bridge and tries straddling Eddieand bouncing his body weight onto Eddie, but can't break the bridge and Eddie ends up kicking to his feet and hitting a Frankensteiner. Crowd chants "that's our champ" at Eddie, and they tie up again. Shelton takes Eddie to the corner and tags out to Haas, but Eddie breaks cleans and tags out to Davey, who takes Haas down with a single leg and hooks the ankle. Davey tags Eddie and and they do a wishbone split and Eddie covers for 1. Davey back in and locks Haas in an Indian Deathlock and then turns it into a Muta Lock, but Haas makes the ropes so the Wolves tag in and out and work over the left arm of Haas. Davey hit a top rope double stomp on the arm and covers for 2, then tries a cross armbreaker but Haas clasps the hands, so Davey goes to a top wristlock instead. Eddie comes in with a double stomp to the arm and gets a nasty armbar where he kneels on Haas' shoulder and pulls up on the arm.
Davey comes in and rams Haas to the corner, but Haas returns the favor by literally launching Davey into the corner and making the tag to Shelton, who comes in and ties Davey up with a half nelson while ramming knees into the ribs and then ramming Davey hard into the corner and then covering for 2. Shelton with a gourdbuster for 2 and tags out to Haas for a wishbone of their own. Haas again rams Davey into the corner and covers for 2, then gets a chinlock with a bodyscissors. Davey reverses to a surfboard and Shelton comes in to save his partner, then tags in for a headbutt to the lower adbomen of Davey. Shelton fights for it and turns Davey over into a Boston Crab, but Eddie comes in and saves his partner with a kick to the face. Haas tags in and hits a running kneedrop for 2 and goes back to the chinlock, but Davey fights free and hits the handspring enziguiri. Haas rolls to the outside and Davey goes for the dive but Shelton comes in and nails him. Shelton tries to toss Davey to the floor, Davey reverses and tries to dump Shelton, Shelton tries to skin the cat back in but Eddie dropkicks him in the face and dumps him again, then the Wolves hit stereo dives and nearly drive Haas & Benjamin through the barricade.
They head back in where Eddie slams Haas and Davey hits an assisted flying headbutt for 2. Eddie with a chop on Haas and rams him to the corner for a charging elbow, then a snap suplex gets 2. Crowd chants "let's go champ" at Eddie, then locks him in a kneeling abdominal stretch and cradles Haas back into a crucifix for 2. Haas drives Eddie back to the corner and tags Shelton in, and Shelton superkicks Eddie's knee out from under him. That was unique. Shelton DDTs Eddie's foot multiple times and goes for a figure four until the crowd starts whooing at him and he just drops the legs and tags out to Haas. Haas drops on the leg and gets a side angle Indian Deathlock, and he and Eddie exchange chops while still locked in the hold. Eddie comes out on top to break the hold, but Haas just drops Eddie with a vicious single leg takedown, then tags in Shelton, who comes over the top with a vertical drop on the knee. Shelton picks Eddie up atomic drop-style, but just rams Eddie's knee into the top turnbuckle before hooking a toehold. Eddie makes the ropes so Shelton goes for a powerbomb, Eddie tries to fight it off, but Shelton powers him up and Eddied goes over the top and gets a sunset flip for 2. Shelton does "superkick uh oh you caught my foot but haha you threw my leg away so I'm going to spinkick you now" and then tags out to Haas. Eddie slips out of a suplex attempt and gets a second rope Codebreaker onto his bad knee, kicks away from Shelton, and makes the hot tag.
Davey comes in with a double missile dropkick and assaults Haas in the corner, then sets him up top. Haas tries to fight Davey off and headbutts him into the ring, but Davey fires up and goes back to the top to deliver repeated headbutts back to Haas, just headbutting him over and over until Haas is knocked silly, and then hits a top rope superplex on Haas for 2. Haas blocks a suplex and tries to counter to one of his own, but Davey slips out the back and gets a victory roll into the anklelock. Haas rolls through and sends Davey hurtling into the corner, and Shelton makes a blind tag and Haas catapults Davey into a fireman's carry by Shelton, but Davey counters to a crucifix for 2. Davey with kicks and kicks in the corner and now all four men are in the ring. Wolves with a pair of leaping enziguiris and dump Haas to the floor, then hit a double knockout kick to Shelton for 2. Wolves with the double team Alarm Clock on Shelton, then they go for the superkick German Suplex combo, but Haas breaks it up and they hit stereo rolling Germans to the Wolves, and then the Wolves hit stereo rolling Germans of their own, then switch opponents and hit more rolling Germans. Haas & Benjamin both hit switches and start delivering more rolling Germans to the Wolves until the Wolves get stereo victory rolls that get 2, and then a pair of double clotheslines wipe all four men out.
The crowd is really into this as Davey and Haas regain their footing and exchange blows in the middle of the ring. Haas comes out on top so Davey hits a spinning enziguiri out of nowhere, then eats a nasty superkick from Shelton. Shelton turns around and gets superkicked by Eddie, and then Haas comes over and hits an Angle Slam on Eddie. It's back to Haas and Davey, and Davey fires repeated forearms at Haas, but Haas gets an inverted atomic drop and Shelton follows with another superkick for 2. Haas & Benjamin put Davey on top, but Davey dumps Haas to the floor so Shelton comes up the ropes and Davey knocks him off, so Shelton runs up the ropes for a hard kick to Davey. Eddie nails Shelton and they hit a double team powerbomb into a super lungblower for 2, then Davey gets Shelton in an ankle lock as Eddie gets Haas in an Achilles Lock. Shelton kicks Davey off into Eddie and then hits the leaping Flatliner for the win.
Winners: Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin
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Part 1 Of Ring Of Honor's "Honor Takes Center Stage" Report
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Kevin Kelly and Dave Prazak welcome us to the show and run down the card, then send us to the ring for our opening match...
Michael Elgin vs El Generico
The House of Truth is barred from ringside for this match. They tie up and Elgin overpowers Generico, but Generico ducks around Elgin and lays into him with chops so Elgin runs him over with a shoulderblock. Generico continues trying to maneuver around Elgin and unloads on him in the corner, then dodges a charge and hits a top rope flying bodypress. Generico goes for a swinging DDT off the ropes, but Elgin blocks and turns it into a backbreaker for 2. Elgin starts working Generico's back over with forearms and kneedrops, but wastes too much time paying attention to the fans and Generico gets a rollup for 2. Elgin quickly regains control and rams Generico hard into the corner, further injuring his back. Elgin puts Generico on top but Generico fights him off and gets a sunset flip out of the corner. Elgin blocks and tries a vertical splash, but Generico moves and starts nailing Elgin with clotheslines, but can't knock Elgin down so he goes up top and hits a flying headscissors and then a Blue Thunder Driver for 2. Generico goes for the half and half, but Elgin fights his way out and charges Generico in the corner, but Generico nails him and suplexes him into the turnbuckles and covers for 2. Generico goes for the running Yakuza Kick in the corner, but Elgin catches the foot and powerslams Generico into the corner, then rips his head off with a hard clothesline for 2. Generico goes for a powerbomb but Generico backdrops out then charges Elgin and gets caught with a Black Hole Slam for 2. Elgin hits the charge into the corner and goes for another hard clothesline, but Generico moves and Elgin sails out to the floor. Elging dodges a dive, but Generico lands on the apron and tries again and this time Elgin catches him and tries to powerslam him into the barricade, but Generico slips out and Elgin crashes into the guardrail and then follows that up with the diving DDT through the ring and onto the floor. Crowd popped big for that one. Generico rolls Elgin back inside and goes for the Yakuza Kick again, but someone in a black ski mask comes out and grabs Generico's leg, allowing Elgin to nail him and hit the twisting sitout powerbomb for the win.
Winner: Michael Elgin
Solid opener, there was some good stuff in here that got the crowd going.
We go to a video package recapping Eddie Edwards defeating Roderick Strong for the ROH World Title two weeks ago in New York City.
Truth Martini is out in the ring with Caleb Konley telling us that we all can trust Truth Martini, drawing a very naughty chant from the crowd. Truth says Konley has been down the wrong path, but tonight is his chance to prove to the world that he is fit to be the newest member of the House Of Truth. This leads us right into the next match...
Four Corner Survival: Homicide vs Tommaso Ciampa vs Colt Cabana vs Caleb Konley
Konley and Homicide kick us off and Konley gets the early advantage with some armdrags, but the crowd chants "let's go Spanky" at him. Konley tries a drop down and Homicide kicks him in the ribs and tags in Cabana, who chain wrestles circles around Konley and gets a folding press for 2. Konley gets a Frankensteiner, but Cabana gets a flying ass for 2. Cabana tags Homicide in and he hits an overhead release suplex, but Konley nails Homicide and tags out to Ciampa, who immediately find himself eating Homicide's fist over and over. Ciampa tosses Homicide to the floor where Nana lays in some shots and then Mia Yim kicks his head off. Homicide goes back into the ring and Ciampa covers for 2, then boots Homicide in the face and tags out to Konley, who hits a vertical suplex with a floatover for 1. Homicide tries to make the tag but Konley cuts him off and takes him back to the corner and tags in Ciampa, who nails Homicide with a clothesline and rams several elbows to Homicide's ear before covering for 2. Konley back in and continues working Homicide over and catapults him into the bottom rope, which gets him 2 when Ciampa breaks the fall. Konley with a judo throw into a top wristlock with the other arm grapevined. Homicide ducked a big boot and tags Cabana in and he unloads on Konley with jabs and elbows for Ciampa, Nana, and Ernesto, and then a kiss for Mia. Cabana with a Lionsault to Konley for 2 and the Flying Apple to Konley, but Ciampa tags himself in and gives Cabana a neckbreaker. Now Konley and Ciampa go at it, with Konley hitting a running knee for 2. Ciampa hits the powerbomb into a backbreaker, but Homicide tags himself in and covers for 2. Now Homicide and Ciampa go at it, exchanging blows in the middle of the ring before Homicide hits the suicide dive to the floor on Cabana out of nowhere. Ciampa tries a dive onto Homicide and misses, so Homicide gets back in and hits a second suicide dive to Ciampa, then gets back in the ring and tosses Konley as well and hits yet a third suicide dive that wipes everyone out. Homicide rolls Konley in and goes for the Ace Crusher but Konley blocks and tries a clothesline, and Homicide ducks and hits the Cop Killa for the win.
Winner: Homicide
Truth Martini gives Caleb Konley the verdict...and it's a thumbs up. Truth Martini welcomes Caleb Konley into the House of Truth and says today is the first day of the rest of his life...and it's also April Fool's Day. Michael Elgin runs in and kills Konley with a clothesline out of nowhere, then hits the sitout powerbomb. Crowd chants for one more time, but Elgin ignores them and they head to the back.
Sara Del Rey & Serena Deeb vs Ayumi Kurihara & Hiroyo Matsumoto
Matsumoto and Deeb start us off and Deeb gets a go behind into a waistlock and takes Matsumoto down, then stomps the arm. Deeb goes to a wristlock but Matsumoto sweeps the leg and they exchange armdrags in slightly sloppy fashion. Del Rey tags in and gets a "Queen of Wrestling" chant, Matsumoto goes for a test of strength so Sara kicks her in the midsection and tries a charge, but Matsumoto gets the boot up and tags out to Kurihara, and they whip Sara to the corner and hit a trio of running knees. Kurihara with a bridging snap suplex for 2, but comes off the ropes right into a hard kick to the ribs and an axe kick for 2. Deeb tags in and walks right into a hard dropkick from Kurihara, who sweeps her legs and locks Deeb into a hold even I can't identify. Sara comes in and kicks Kurihara in the head and also has one for Matsumoto, giving Deeb an opening to lay in some hard shots, but tries the spear and Kurihara dodges, and Deeb goes to the floor. Everyone winds up in one spot as Kurihara goes to the top rope and hits a big dive to the floor. Kurihara sends Deeb back in and goes for a monkey flip, Deeb blocks and sits Kurihara on the top rope but Kurihara gets a cross armbreaker and slumps backward over the top rope. THAT looks nasty, and Sara must have agreed because she ran across the ring and booted Kurihara in the face. Sara tags in and gets a wheelbarrow flapjack for 2, then Deeb tags back in and hits a hard slam and a legdrop for 2. Deeb with a three quarter nelson, but Kurihara reverses to an O'Connor Roll for 2. Sara knocks Matsumoto off the apron before Kurihara can make the tag, but Kurihara hits a Codebreaker to Sara and finally makes the hot tag and Matsumoto comes in and cleans house, wiping both Sara and Deeb out with a crossbody for 2. Matsumoto with a Torture Rack into a gutbuster on Sara, but Deeb breaks the cover at 2 and then tags herself in. Deeb with some jabs but Matsumoto lays her out with a double axhandle, Sara lays her out with a rolling front kick, and Kurihara hits a missile dropkick to Deeb, kills her with a suplex, and then Matsumoto with a backdrop suplex that kills Deeb even deader than she was before for the win.
Winners: Ayumi Kurihara & Hiroyo Matsumoto
Kurihara and Matsumoto will now go on to challenge Daizee Haze and Tomoka Nakigawa for the SHIMMER Tag Team Title tomorrow afternoon. Haze and Nakigawa were at ringside scouting their challengers, and Nakigawa spits her green mist at Kurihara and Matsumoto and then she and Haze run off.
Kevin & Dave talk about a brawl earlier tonight between the Briscoes and the All Night Express that caused the ANX to get kicked out of the building. We then take a look back at their violent match a couple of weeks ago in New York City and a subsequent locker room fight between the two teams.
Jay & Mark Briscoe vs Kyle O'Reilly & Adam Cole
Mark and Cole start and do a feeling out process, then exchange armdrags and legsweeps before doing the indy stalemate. Jay and O'Reilly tag in and do a mat wrestling sequence, but Jay runs O'Reilly over with a shoulderblock and then O'Reilly reverses a hiptoss to a cross armbreaker. Jay gets out and boots O'Reilly in the face, but O'Reilly makes the tag and he and Cole hit stereo kicks and Cole covers for 2. Jay rams Cole to the Briscoe corner and Mark tags in and delivers some jabs and chops. Cole tries to fight his way out and gets some chops of his own and tags O'Reilly in for a flapjack/bulldog combo that gets 2. Mark gets a chinbreaker and then Jay turns O'Reilly inside out with a running clothesline. My signal goes out for a moment, and when it comes back the Briscoes hit a giant double Beell toss on O'Reilly and then Mark gets a rear chinlock and rams crossfaces into O'Reilly's grill. O'Reilly catches Mark with an enziguiri and tags Cole, who comes in with dropkicks and chops to Jay, then backdrops Jay to the apron and nails him with an enziguiri to send him to the floor and finally wipes Jay out with a high velocity dive through the ropes. They head back in where Jay plants Cole into the mat with a big spinebuster that literally makes the crowd go silent. Jay with some really hard chops in the corner and Mark tags in and gets a vertical suplex for 2, then they hit the double football tackle for 2. Jay with a hard running clothesline in the corner, then a snapmare and running boot for 2 on Cole. Cole dives for his corner, but Jay cuts him off and rams him back across the ring to the Briscoe corner. Mark tags in and chokes Cole with his boot in the corner, but eats boot on a charge and Cole hits a leg lariat out of the corner and makes the hot tag. O'Reilly boots Jay off the apron, then unloads on Mark with kicks, kneestrikes, and sweeps the legs out from under Mark. Jay runs in and nails O'Reilly, but O'Reilly ducks a double clothesline, catches both their boots, and hits a double Dragon Screw and then a missile dropkick to Mark for 2. Cole blind tags in as O'Reilly hits the rolling Butterfly suplexes, a wheelbarrow DDT, and a wheelbarrow suplex that totally pops the crowd, but only gets 2. Crowd start a this is awesome chant as Mark backdrops Cole to the apron where Jay yanks him to the floor. Cole nails Jay and hits a leaping enziguiri to Mark, and then Cole whips Jay into the corner of the barricade and O'Reilly hits his running missile dropkick off the apron to Jay. Cole with a flying bodypres in the ring for 2 on Mark, then Cole gets Mark in a fireman's carry for a top rope double stomp from O'Reilly, then hits an FU onto O'Reilly's knees and a double knockout kick gets 2. Jay pulls O'Reilly to the floor as Mark hits a leaping enziguiri on Cole. Jay tags himself in and hits a Falcon Arrow, but O'Reilly breaks it up so O'Reilly and Mark go blow for blow with Redneck Kung Fu and kicks. O'Reilly charges Mark but Jay superkicks his head off and Mark suplexes O'Reilly right on top of his head, then they hit the springboard Doomsday Device on Cole for the win.
Winners: Jay & Mark Briscoe
AWESOME MATCH! Cole and O'Reilly looked like superstars out there. The All Night Express, who had been kicked out of the building earlier, come out of the crowd and brawl with the Briscoes. A bunch of security personnel run out to try and break them up without much success. King and Titus go for the spike piledriver on Mark on the floor, so Jay press slams a security guy onto the ANX to save his brother's career. The ANX head back in the ring and dare the Briscoes to get in there and fight them as the crowd chants "ANX" at them and then "f*** the Briscoes."
INTERMISSION
Okay, we're back and it's time for our next match...
Davey Richards vs Roderick Strong
Wristlock exchange to start and Roderick ends up in control of Davey, but Davey fires off a kick at him and Roderick bails to the floor for a siesta. He heads back in and they lock up Greco-Roman style, and Roderick goes back to the wristlock but Davey cartwheels out and armdrags Roderick into another stalemate. Crowd is really into this match. Another Greco-Romen knucklelock, but Roderick kicks Davey in the gut and goes back to work on the arm and tries a chop, but Davey dodges and lands a kick. Roderick shoves him, so Davey calmly kicks the crap out of him and hits a snap suplex for 2. Davey with an arm-trap Texas Cloverleaf and turns it into a pinning combination for 2. Roderick tries to kick at Davey's legs but Davey quickly shuts him down and hits a hard slam and traps Roderick in an Indian Deathlock. Roderick makes the ropes so Davey with a side backbreaker and then he goes up top for the headbutt, but Truth Martini grabs Davey's ankle and distracts him long enough for Roderick to hit a leaping enziguiri and send Davey tumbling to the floor. Roderick goes after him and unloads with chops, then sends Davey back in the ring and repeatedly stomps him in the chest. Davey is bleeding from the mouth as Roderick hits a vertical suplex and covers, but Davey kicks out before 1 so Roderick smacks him in the head and repeatedly drills Davey in the face with blood literally splattering out of Davey's mouth with each blow. Roderick with a seated abdominal stretch on Davey, but Davey fights his way out and then takes a knee to the gut for 2. Roderick gets a top wristlock on Davey and turns it into a Million Dollar Dream with a bodyscissors, but Davey reverses out of that and turns it into a surfboard. Roderick kicks Davey in the face to get out and takes Davey to the floor, hitting a gutbuster onto the barricade and then slamming him onto the edge of the ring apron. Roderick is a sadistic dude. He rolls back into the ring and lets the referee count Davey, but Davey beats the count back in so Davey stomps at him and unloads with hard chops, then slumps Davey in the corner and rams his shoulder into Davey's midsection. Davey starts firing back but Roderick with more heavy blows puts Davey down again, and then a side backbreaker gets 2 for Roderick. Roderick with a jarring back suplex for 2 and then goes to a front facelock. Davey regains his base and rams Roderick to the corner, then backdrops him to the apron and hits a leaping enziguiri to send Roderick to the floor. Davey went for the running kick from the apron and Roderick dodges, but Davey hits it on the second try and hits a killer dive to the floor. They head back in and Davey hits a missile dropkick and a big boot to the face. They exchange forearms in the middle of the ring with Roderick getting the upper hand, but Davey hits the handspring enziguiri for 2. Roderick goes for a uranage backbreaker, but Davey counters to a crucifix for 2, then a kick and a bridging German Suplex for 2. Davey gets the anklelock but Roderick counters to the LeBell Lock. Davey rolls Roderick to his back for 2 but Roderick with a pair of hard forearms, a release gourdbuster, and a charging clothesline in the corner, a roaring clothesline, and a Side Effect gets 2. Crowd starts chanting for Davey as Roderick sits him side-saddle on the top rope, hits a leaping enziguiri, and side suplexes Davey on the top turnbuckle. Davey tumbles out of the ring, but Roderick rolls him back in and covers for 2, then hooks the Stronghold. Davey quickly makes the ropes so Roderick unloads with some chops, Davey reverses and lays in kicks in the corner, chops from Roderick, kicks from Davey, lots and lots of chops from Roderick, Davey collapses in the corner and Roderick continues to annihilate him with chops. Davey pops up and unloads with lots and lots of kicks on Roderick, then hits the Alarm Clock, ducks a leaping enziguiri and hits a pair of spinkicks to Roderick's jaw, and Roderick kills Davey with a leaping kneestrike. Both men are down and the crowd is on their feet chanting ROH. They end up fighting out on the ring apron and Roderick puts Davey on the second rope and suplexes him off the turnbuckles and onto the ring frame, and Davey falls to the floor again as the referee puts the count on him. Davey tries to get back in the ring so Roderick superkicks him in the face and sends him back to the outside. Crowd picks up the Twinkies chant as Todd Sinclair counts Davey, who manages to beat the count. Roderick is on him right away, unloading with forearms and chops, but Davey fires up and starts coming back at Roderick, who comes off the ropes and hits the Sick Kick for 2. Roderick with a uranage backbreaker and gutbuster and that only gets 2 as well. Crowd is going nuts for this match. Roderick looks frustrated, but goes for the Gibson Driver. Davey backdrops out and goes for the anklelock and Roderick escapes that, so Davey with a backdrop suplex and a roaring lariat for 2. Davey with more strikes and kicks and a knockout kick to the head, Roderick spits in his face, so Davey with another pair of knockout kicks for 2 and then hooks the anklelock on Roderick right in the middle of the ring. Truth Martini gets on the apron and Davey goes after him, giving Roderick an opening to hit a leaping enziguiri and a vertical suplex backbreaker and STILL only gets 2. Roderick with a superkick and Gibson Driver for 2 and then goes right into the Stronghold. Davey escapes that and goes to the anklelock and now Truth Martini comes in the ring. Davey nails him and Roderick goes for the Sick Kick again but Davey dodges and gets Roderick in the anklelock again. Roderick makes the ropes so Davey dumps Roderick to the apron and hits a leaping enziguiri, then puts Roderick up top and superplexes him into the ring, holds on and rolls through and hits a Falcon Arrow suplex, and turns that right into the anklelock and Roderick finally taps.
Winner: Roderick Strong
This match was just off the charts amazing and totally lived up to the Final Battle match. The crowd loved this, and is on their feet appaluding both men.
ROH World Tag Team Title Match: Kings Of Wrestling vs Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin
Crowd does dueling chants as the teams stare each other down. Claudio and Shelton start us off with a tie up, and neither man moves. Claudio flexes at Claudio, so Shelton gets a quick rollup for 2. Claudio sends Shelton to the ropes and Shelton runs him over with a shoulderblock for a quick 2. Claudio scurries over and tags Hero in, and Hero takes Shelton down and tries to mat wrestle him, but Shelton is an All-American wrestler and easily outwrestles Hero. Hero gets the ropes and then goes for a Greco-Roman knucklelock, but rolls through and picks Shelton's ankle, Shelton counters to a duck under single leg and rolls Hero into a cradle for 2. They exchange slaps, so Hero drills Shelton in the face and lays into him with kneestrikes, but Shelton chops him and drives him into the corner. Haas tags in and unloads on Hero with forearms, but eats Hero's elbow on a charge. Hero runs at Haas and ends up taking an overhead release suplex. Haas takes Hero to the mat with an armbar, but Hero rolls out and grinds Haas' face into the mat and then stomps on the back of his head. Hero lays into Haas with chops in the corner, but Haas no-sells so Hero thumbs him in the eyes. Hero goes for a hiptoss but Haas blocks and gets a pair of armdrags and goes to a hammerlock, keeping his hips off the mat to put all the weight on Hero's shoulder. Hero gets a chinbreaker and tags to Claudio, but Haas takes him right down with a single leg and pulls Claudio's kneepad down to do some damage with kicks. Shelton tags in and does the same and DDTs Claudio's foot and slams Claudio in such a way that Claudio's leg lands on the bottom rope. Haas tags in and comes over the top with a vertical drop on Claudio's knee. Shelton tags in and Claudio fires back with forearms, but Shelton gets a rollup for 2 and then goes into a half crab. Hero comes in and kicks Shelton in the face, but Haas & Benjamin recover and get a double back elbow on Hero and a double backdrop on Claudio. The KOW can't seem to get an advantage here as Haas & Benjamin hit stereo German suplexes on both men for dual two counts.
The Kings roll to the floor to try and regroup, and Claudio grabs Shelton and snaps him down on the top rope, then lays him out with a European uppercut. Claudio goes for a slam and Shelton slips out and goes for an O'Connor roll, but Hero blindsides him with an elbow from the apron and then tags in to put the boots to Shelton. Hero backdrops Shelton to the apron where Sara Del Rey grabs at Shelton's ankle, Shelton shakes her off and nails Claudio, but Hero comes in with a running boot to the face and pulls him into the ring for 2. Hero with a baseball slide to the face for 2 on Shelton, then tags Claudio in for a European uppercut that gets 2. Claudio drops an elbow then bars Shelton's arm, Shelton punches his way out and tries an Irish whip and Stinger Splash, but Claudio dodges and goes for a chokeslam, Shelton counters to a rollup for 2, but Claudio hits the chokeslam the second time around and gets 2. Hero is in and hit a Yakuza Kick to Shelton's arm and then a hammerlock backbreaker gets 2. Very cool move, and Hero goes to a top wristlock to do even more damage to Shelton's arm. Claudio comes in and elbowdrops Shelton while he's still in the hold, and then the Kings do the switcheroo behind the referee's back. Claudio presses Shelton over his head and Hotshots him on the top rope, then goes to a sleeper. Shelton gets out so Claudio drops him with a European uppercut and then Hero nails him from the outside. Claudio tags to Hero and then whips Shelton to the ropes and leapfrogs him, and Shelton comes out right into a leaping Yakuza Kick from Hero for 2. Hero keeps kicking Shelton in the face, but Shelton catches Hero's boot and starts firing back. Hero whips Shelton to the corner and hits a leaping elbow and then moonsaults off the ropes, but Shelton hits the "superkick, oh you caught my boot and spun me so now I'm going to spinkick you" kick.
Shelton finally makes the hot tag and Haas is in now and tearing through both Kings with clotheslines and hits a flying headscissors on Claudio and a T-Bone suplex on Hero for 2. Hero lands an elbow, but charges Haas and gets snap powerslammed for 2. Claudio comes in to help Hero out but Haas boots Hero in the face and hits a flying headscissors out of the corner on Claudio for 2. Hero goes for a roaring elbow but Shelton superkicks him in the face. Both Kings are slumped on the ropes so Haas & Benjamin hit a double Beverly Drop for 2. Hero catches Haas with a sharp rolling elbow and tags to Claudio and they hit stereo bicycle kicks to Haas for 2. Claudio gets the Giant Swing into the baseball slide from Hero and goes for the cover, but Shelton breaks it up at 2. Crowd does a "this is awesome" chant as they go for the waterslide elbow, but Shelton slips out and drills Claudio with a DDT and Haas covers for a very close 2. Haas and Claudio go punch-for-punch in the middle of the ring and Claudio hits a pop-up European uppercut for another close 2, then goes for the Ricola Bomb but Haas escapes and hits an Angle Slam. Haas gets the Haas of Pain, but Sara Del Rey is distracting the referee. Hero puts on the loaded elbow pad and goes up top, but Shelton leaps up and suplexes Hero off the top, and Claudio is left with no way out and taps.
Winners and NEW ROH World Tag Team Champions: Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin
This was was unbelievable, and the crowd blew up when Haas & Benjamin got the win. Awesome, awesome match and a great blowoff to their feud.
ROH World Title Match: Eddie Edwards vs Christopher Daniels
Eddie Edwards has new entrance music and tights. Daniels is the TV Champion, but the TV Title is not on the line. They do a mat wrestling sequence to start and Eddie gets a hammerlock, but Daniels wedges his way out and catches a wristlock. Eddie tries to roll out but Daniels rolls through with him, Eddie tries another roll but Daniels catches him in a cradle for 2, then gets another cradle for another 2. Eddie chops Daniels and sends him to the floor, and Daniels comes right back in and gets in Eddie's face and slaps him, so Eddie gives him another chop. Daniels takes Eddie to the corner and rams shoulderblocks to his ribs and then stomps him down in the corner. Eddie leapfrogs out of the corner and hits a Frankensteiner and then armdrags Daniels and bars the arm. Eddie takes Daniels to the corner and unloads with a chop, then just stomps him in the face. Eddie with another hard chop and Daniels goes down like a ton of bricks, but kicks out of a pin attempt before the referee can make a count.
Eddie goes for another Frankensteiner but Daniels holds on and catches Eddie in his own Achilles Lock. Eddie makes the ropes and they go out to the floor where Eddie hiptosses Daniels into the barricade. Eddie drags Daniels around ringside to chop him on each side of the ring, then rolls Daniels into the ring and hits a hard back suplex for 2. Eddie sits Daniels up top and goes for a back suplex, but Daniels fights him off so Eddie hits a leaping enziguiri to knock Daniels upside down and then hits a running dropkick from the floor and covers for 2. Eddie gets a rear chinlock and Daniels fights out of that, so Eddie hits an overhead release suplex for 2. Eddie goes for a vertical suplex but Daniels lands on his feet and bulldogs Eddie into the second turnbuckle and then hits a Blue Thunder Driver. Daniels nails several clotheslines and an STO, Eddie hits a second rope Codebreaker and an F5 that gets him 2. Daniels gets a chinbreaker and an enziguiri to knock Eddie silly and goes for a uranage, but Eddie rolls through with an armdrag. Daniels goes up top but Eddie hits a leaping enziguiri and goes for a Backpack Driver on the apron, but Daniels slips out and hits a uranage off the apron and through the timekeeper's table.
Daniels is in the driver's seat now and after taking a moment to recover, he goes after Eddie and slams him on the timekeeper's chair just to ensure that a)Eddie gets more hurt and b)the timekeeper will need to make a trip to IKEA tomorrow morning. Crowd start a "f*** TNA" chant as Daniels grabs the World Title belt and holds it high, then rolls Eddie into the ring and hits a slingshot elbowdrop for 2. Daniels with three bodyslams in a row and then covers for 2. Daniels with a hard kick to Eddie's back and then whips Eddie hard into the corner and stands on his back when he collapses. Daniels stomps away at Eddie's back, then hits a vertical suplex for 2. Daniels goes to a chinlock and Eddie elbows his way out and then lays in a couple of chops, but walks right into a spinebuster that gets 2 for Daniels. Daniels rams Eddie into the corner again and sits him up top and gets a superplex for 2. Daniels puts Eddie up top again and palmstrikes him in the face and goes for another superplex, but Eddie fights Daniels off and sends him crashing into the ring and then Eddie hits a missile dropkick and both men are down.
Eddie with a pair of running boots to the face of Daniels, and Daniels brushes the third aside and gets an O'Connor Roll for 2 and then they exchange pinning combinations for a long series of two counts, but neither man can get an advantage. Eddie dodges a charge and sends Daniels to the floor and follows him with a diving elbow through the ropes. Eddie rolls Daniels back in and goes up top and hits a flying bodypress for 2. Eddie lays into Daniels with a series of chops, and then unloads with Kobashi chops in the corner and hits a Tiger Suplex for 2. Daniels blocks a suplex attempt, but Eddie gets another enziguiri and a back suplex flapjack for 2. Daniels goes for a crucifix and turns it into the Koji Clutch and Eddie crumples to the mat. Eddie goes for the ropes but Daniels grapevines his arm to block him and Eddie is forced to totally turn himself around to get his foot on the rope. Daniels puts Eddie on top and side suplexes him into the ring for 2. Daniels goes for another enziguiri but Eddie ducks and catches Daniels in the Achilles Lock. Daniels can't make the ropes but is able to cradle Eddie for 2. They exchange blows in the middle of the ring, Eddie superkicks Daniels, Daniels hits an enziguiri and a backdrop suplex, Eddie hits a pair of clotheslines and then hits the 2K1 Bomb for 2.
Both men are down, but Eddie regains his feet first and puts Daniels up top. Daniels blocks Eddie and goes for a top rope Angel's Wings, but Eddie blocks and backdrops Daniels into the ring and follows with a double stomp to the back, running kick to the chest, and then tries a powerbomb but Daniels slips out and hits the Angel's Wings but that only gets 2. Crowd is really behind Eddie as Daniels gets a shocked look on his face, but hits the uranage and the BME and that still only gets 2. Daniels is just stunned as the crowd chants "one more time" at him, so he just sits on Eddie's chest and repeatedly drills him in the face. Daniels goes for a second BME but Eddie gets the knees up and rolls him up for 2, then goes to the Achilles Lock. Daniels slips out so Eddie holds on and starts stomping on Daniels' head, but Daniels slips out again and just boots Eddie in the face to get the break. Crowd is going nuts and chanting ROH as Daniels sets Eddie on top yet again and hits another palmstrike, then they go silent as he tries a top rope uranage, but Eddie blocks and hits a top rope 2K1 Bomb and then a conventional 2K1 Bomb in the middle of the ring for the win.
Winner: Eddie Edwards
Another incredible match, putting an exclamation point on both tonight's event as well as the Eddie-Daniels series with Eddie Edwards finally getting his win over Daniels. Eddie extends his hand to Daniels as Daniels stares a hole through Eddie's skull and the crowd chants "shake his hand" at Daniels, but Daniels just walks off, grabs his TV Title belt, and slowly stalks to the back.
Eddie grabs a mic and says that they just had an awesome match and it was an honor to come to Atlanta tonight and the fans made it worth their while. He hopes ROH continues to come to Atlanta year after year, and it's his honor to represent this company as champion and thanks the fans for coming tonight and reminds them to come back tomorrow.
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Kevin Kelly and Dave Prazak welcome us to the show and run down the card, then send us to the ring for our opening match...
Michael Elgin vs El Generico
The House of Truth is barred from ringside for this match. They tie up and Elgin overpowers Generico, but Generico ducks around Elgin and lays into him with chops so Elgin runs him over with a shoulderblock. Generico continues trying to maneuver around Elgin and unloads on him in the corner, then dodges a charge and hits a top rope flying bodypress. Generico goes for a swinging DDT off the ropes, but Elgin blocks and turns it into a backbreaker for 2. Elgin starts working Generico's back over with forearms and kneedrops, but wastes too much time paying attention to the fans and Generico gets a rollup for 2. Elgin quickly regains control and rams Generico hard into the corner, further injuring his back. Elgin puts Generico on top but Generico fights him off and gets a sunset flip out of the corner. Elgin blocks and tries a vertical splash, but Generico moves and starts nailing Elgin with clotheslines, but can't knock Elgin down so he goes up top and hits a flying headscissors and then a Blue Thunder Driver for 2. Generico goes for the half and half, but Elgin fights his way out and charges Generico in the corner, but Generico nails him and suplexes him into the turnbuckles and covers for 2. Generico goes for the running Yakuza Kick in the corner, but Elgin catches the foot and powerslams Generico into the corner, then rips his head off with a hard clothesline for 2. Generico goes for a powerbomb but Generico backdrops out then charges Elgin and gets caught with a Black Hole Slam for 2. Elgin hits the charge into the corner and goes for another hard clothesline, but Generico moves and Elgin sails out to the floor. Elging dodges a dive, but Generico lands on the apron and tries again and this time Elgin catches him and tries to powerslam him into the barricade, but Generico slips out and Elgin crashes into the guardrail and then follows that up with the diving DDT through the ring and onto the floor. Crowd popped big for that one. Generico rolls Elgin back inside and goes for the Yakuza Kick again, but someone in a black ski mask comes out and grabs Generico's leg, allowing Elgin to nail him and hit the twisting sitout powerbomb for the win.
Winner: Michael Elgin
Solid opener, there was some good stuff in here that got the crowd going.
We go to a video package recapping Eddie Edwards defeating Roderick Strong for the ROH World Title two weeks ago in New York City.
Truth Martini is out in the ring with Caleb Konley telling us that we all can trust Truth Martini, drawing a very naughty chant from the crowd. Truth says Konley has been down the wrong path, but tonight is his chance to prove to the world that he is fit to be the newest member of the House Of Truth. This leads us right into the next match...
Four Corner Survival: Homicide vs Tommaso Ciampa vs Colt Cabana vs Caleb Konley
Konley and Homicide kick us off and Konley gets the early advantage with some armdrags, but the crowd chants "let's go Spanky" at him. Konley tries a drop down and Homicide kicks him in the ribs and tags in Cabana, who chain wrestles circles around Konley and gets a folding press for 2. Konley gets a Frankensteiner, but Cabana gets a flying ass for 2. Cabana tags Homicide in and he hits an overhead release suplex, but Konley nails Homicide and tags out to Ciampa, who immediately find himself eating Homicide's fist over and over. Ciampa tosses Homicide to the floor where Nana lays in some shots and then Mia Yim kicks his head off. Homicide goes back into the ring and Ciampa covers for 2, then boots Homicide in the face and tags out to Konley, who hits a vertical suplex with a floatover for 1. Homicide tries to make the tag but Konley cuts him off and takes him back to the corner and tags in Ciampa, who nails Homicide with a clothesline and rams several elbows to Homicide's ear before covering for 2. Konley back in and continues working Homicide over and catapults him into the bottom rope, which gets him 2 when Ciampa breaks the fall. Konley with a judo throw into a top wristlock with the other arm grapevined. Homicide ducked a big boot and tags Cabana in and he unloads on Konley with jabs and elbows for Ciampa, Nana, and Ernesto, and then a kiss for Mia. Cabana with a Lionsault to Konley for 2 and the Flying Apple to Konley, but Ciampa tags himself in and gives Cabana a neckbreaker. Now Konley and Ciampa go at it, with Konley hitting a running knee for 2. Ciampa hits the powerbomb into a backbreaker, but Homicide tags himself in and covers for 2. Now Homicide and Ciampa go at it, exchanging blows in the middle of the ring before Homicide hits the suicide dive to the floor on Cabana out of nowhere. Ciampa tries a dive onto Homicide and misses, so Homicide gets back in and hits a second suicide dive to Ciampa, then gets back in the ring and tosses Konley as well and hits yet a third suicide dive that wipes everyone out. Homicide rolls Konley in and goes for the Ace Crusher but Konley blocks and tries a clothesline, and Homicide ducks and hits the Cop Killa for the win.
Winner: Homicide
Truth Martini gives Caleb Konley the verdict...and it's a thumbs up. Truth Martini welcomes Caleb Konley into the House of Truth and says today is the first day of the rest of his life...and it's also April Fool's Day. Michael Elgin runs in and kills Konley with a clothesline out of nowhere, then hits the sitout powerbomb. Crowd chants for one more time, but Elgin ignores them and they head to the back.
Sara Del Rey & Serena Deeb vs Ayumi Kurihara & Hiroyo Matsumoto
Matsumoto and Deeb start us off and Deeb gets a go behind into a waistlock and takes Matsumoto down, then stomps the arm. Deeb goes to a wristlock but Matsumoto sweeps the leg and they exchange armdrags in slightly sloppy fashion. Del Rey tags in and gets a "Queen of Wrestling" chant, Matsumoto goes for a test of strength so Sara kicks her in the midsection and tries a charge, but Matsumoto gets the boot up and tags out to Kurihara, and they whip Sara to the corner and hit a trio of running knees. Kurihara with a bridging snap suplex for 2, but comes off the ropes right into a hard kick to the ribs and an axe kick for 2. Deeb tags in and walks right into a hard dropkick from Kurihara, who sweeps her legs and locks Deeb into a hold even I can't identify. Sara comes in and kicks Kurihara in the head and also has one for Matsumoto, giving Deeb an opening to lay in some hard shots, but tries the spear and Kurihara dodges, and Deeb goes to the floor. Everyone winds up in one spot as Kurihara goes to the top rope and hits a big dive to the floor. Kurihara sends Deeb back in and goes for a monkey flip, Deeb blocks and sits Kurihara on the top rope but Kurihara gets a cross armbreaker and slumps backward over the top rope. THAT looks nasty, and Sara must have agreed because she ran across the ring and booted Kurihara in the face. Sara tags in and gets a wheelbarrow flapjack for 2, then Deeb tags back in and hits a hard slam and a legdrop for 2. Deeb with a three quarter nelson, but Kurihara reverses to an O'Connor Roll for 2. Sara knocks Matsumoto off the apron before Kurihara can make the tag, but Kurihara hits a Codebreaker to Sara and finally makes the hot tag and Matsumoto comes in and cleans house, wiping both Sara and Deeb out with a crossbody for 2. Matsumoto with a Torture Rack into a gutbuster on Sara, but Deeb breaks the cover at 2 and then tags herself in. Deeb with some jabs but Matsumoto lays her out with a double axhandle, Sara lays her out with a rolling front kick, and Kurihara hits a missile dropkick to Deeb, kills her with a suplex, and then Matsumoto with a backdrop suplex that kills Deeb even deader than she was before for the win.
Winners: Ayumi Kurihara & Hiroyo Matsumoto
Kurihara and Matsumoto will now go on to challenge Daizee Haze and Tomoka Nakigawa for the SHIMMER Tag Team Title tomorrow afternoon. Haze and Nakigawa were at ringside scouting their challengers, and Nakigawa spits her green mist at Kurihara and Matsumoto and then she and Haze run off.
Kevin & Dave talk about a brawl earlier tonight between the Briscoes and the All Night Express that caused the ANX to get kicked out of the building. We then take a look back at their violent match a couple of weeks ago in New York City and a subsequent locker room fight between the two teams.
Jay & Mark Briscoe vs Kyle O'Reilly & Adam Cole
Mark and Cole start and do a feeling out process, then exchange armdrags and legsweeps before doing the indy stalemate. Jay and O'Reilly tag in and do a mat wrestling sequence, but Jay runs O'Reilly over with a shoulderblock and then O'Reilly reverses a hiptoss to a cross armbreaker. Jay gets out and boots O'Reilly in the face, but O'Reilly makes the tag and he and Cole hit stereo kicks and Cole covers for 2. Jay rams Cole to the Briscoe corner and Mark tags in and delivers some jabs and chops. Cole tries to fight his way out and gets some chops of his own and tags O'Reilly in for a flapjack/bulldog combo that gets 2. Mark gets a chinbreaker and then Jay turns O'Reilly inside out with a running clothesline. My signal goes out for a moment, and when it comes back the Briscoes hit a giant double Beell toss on O'Reilly and then Mark gets a rear chinlock and rams crossfaces into O'Reilly's grill. O'Reilly catches Mark with an enziguiri and tags Cole, who comes in with dropkicks and chops to Jay, then backdrops Jay to the apron and nails him with an enziguiri to send him to the floor and finally wipes Jay out with a high velocity dive through the ropes. They head back in where Jay plants Cole into the mat with a big spinebuster that literally makes the crowd go silent. Jay with some really hard chops in the corner and Mark tags in and gets a vertical suplex for 2, then they hit the double football tackle for 2. Jay with a hard running clothesline in the corner, then a snapmare and running boot for 2 on Cole. Cole dives for his corner, but Jay cuts him off and rams him back across the ring to the Briscoe corner. Mark tags in and chokes Cole with his boot in the corner, but eats boot on a charge and Cole hits a leg lariat out of the corner and makes the hot tag. O'Reilly boots Jay off the apron, then unloads on Mark with kicks, kneestrikes, and sweeps the legs out from under Mark. Jay runs in and nails O'Reilly, but O'Reilly ducks a double clothesline, catches both their boots, and hits a double Dragon Screw and then a missile dropkick to Mark for 2. Cole blind tags in as O'Reilly hits the rolling Butterfly suplexes, a wheelbarrow DDT, and a wheelbarrow suplex that totally pops the crowd, but only gets 2. Crowd start a this is awesome chant as Mark backdrops Cole to the apron where Jay yanks him to the floor. Cole nails Jay and hits a leaping enziguiri to Mark, and then Cole whips Jay into the corner of the barricade and O'Reilly hits his running missile dropkick off the apron to Jay. Cole with a flying bodypres in the ring for 2 on Mark, then Cole gets Mark in a fireman's carry for a top rope double stomp from O'Reilly, then hits an FU onto O'Reilly's knees and a double knockout kick gets 2. Jay pulls O'Reilly to the floor as Mark hits a leaping enziguiri on Cole. Jay tags himself in and hits a Falcon Arrow, but O'Reilly breaks it up so O'Reilly and Mark go blow for blow with Redneck Kung Fu and kicks. O'Reilly charges Mark but Jay superkicks his head off and Mark suplexes O'Reilly right on top of his head, then they hit the springboard Doomsday Device on Cole for the win.
Winners: Jay & Mark Briscoe
AWESOME MATCH! Cole and O'Reilly looked like superstars out there. The All Night Express, who had been kicked out of the building earlier, come out of the crowd and brawl with the Briscoes. A bunch of security personnel run out to try and break them up without much success. King and Titus go for the spike piledriver on Mark on the floor, so Jay press slams a security guy onto the ANX to save his brother's career. The ANX head back in the ring and dare the Briscoes to get in there and fight them as the crowd chants "ANX" at them and then "f*** the Briscoes."
INTERMISSION
Okay, we're back and it's time for our next match...
Davey Richards vs Roderick Strong
Wristlock exchange to start and Roderick ends up in control of Davey, but Davey fires off a kick at him and Roderick bails to the floor for a siesta. He heads back in and they lock up Greco-Roman style, and Roderick goes back to the wristlock but Davey cartwheels out and armdrags Roderick into another stalemate. Crowd is really into this match. Another Greco-Romen knucklelock, but Roderick kicks Davey in the gut and goes back to work on the arm and tries a chop, but Davey dodges and lands a kick. Roderick shoves him, so Davey calmly kicks the crap out of him and hits a snap suplex for 2. Davey with an arm-trap Texas Cloverleaf and turns it into a pinning combination for 2. Roderick tries to kick at Davey's legs but Davey quickly shuts him down and hits a hard slam and traps Roderick in an Indian Deathlock. Roderick makes the ropes so Davey with a side backbreaker and then he goes up top for the headbutt, but Truth Martini grabs Davey's ankle and distracts him long enough for Roderick to hit a leaping enziguiri and send Davey tumbling to the floor. Roderick goes after him and unloads with chops, then sends Davey back in the ring and repeatedly stomps him in the chest. Davey is bleeding from the mouth as Roderick hits a vertical suplex and covers, but Davey kicks out before 1 so Roderick smacks him in the head and repeatedly drills Davey in the face with blood literally splattering out of Davey's mouth with each blow. Roderick with a seated abdominal stretch on Davey, but Davey fights his way out and then takes a knee to the gut for 2. Roderick gets a top wristlock on Davey and turns it into a Million Dollar Dream with a bodyscissors, but Davey reverses out of that and turns it into a surfboard. Roderick kicks Davey in the face to get out and takes Davey to the floor, hitting a gutbuster onto the barricade and then slamming him onto the edge of the ring apron. Roderick is a sadistic dude. He rolls back into the ring and lets the referee count Davey, but Davey beats the count back in so Davey stomps at him and unloads with hard chops, then slumps Davey in the corner and rams his shoulder into Davey's midsection. Davey starts firing back but Roderick with more heavy blows puts Davey down again, and then a side backbreaker gets 2 for Roderick. Roderick with a jarring back suplex for 2 and then goes to a front facelock. Davey regains his base and rams Roderick to the corner, then backdrops him to the apron and hits a leaping enziguiri to send Roderick to the floor. Davey went for the running kick from the apron and Roderick dodges, but Davey hits it on the second try and hits a killer dive to the floor. They head back in and Davey hits a missile dropkick and a big boot to the face. They exchange forearms in the middle of the ring with Roderick getting the upper hand, but Davey hits the handspring enziguiri for 2. Roderick goes for a uranage backbreaker, but Davey counters to a crucifix for 2, then a kick and a bridging German Suplex for 2. Davey gets the anklelock but Roderick counters to the LeBell Lock. Davey rolls Roderick to his back for 2 but Roderick with a pair of hard forearms, a release gourdbuster, and a charging clothesline in the corner, a roaring clothesline, and a Side Effect gets 2. Crowd starts chanting for Davey as Roderick sits him side-saddle on the top rope, hits a leaping enziguiri, and side suplexes Davey on the top turnbuckle. Davey tumbles out of the ring, but Roderick rolls him back in and covers for 2, then hooks the Stronghold. Davey quickly makes the ropes so Roderick unloads with some chops, Davey reverses and lays in kicks in the corner, chops from Roderick, kicks from Davey, lots and lots of chops from Roderick, Davey collapses in the corner and Roderick continues to annihilate him with chops. Davey pops up and unloads with lots and lots of kicks on Roderick, then hits the Alarm Clock, ducks a leaping enziguiri and hits a pair of spinkicks to Roderick's jaw, and Roderick kills Davey with a leaping kneestrike. Both men are down and the crowd is on their feet chanting ROH. They end up fighting out on the ring apron and Roderick puts Davey on the second rope and suplexes him off the turnbuckles and onto the ring frame, and Davey falls to the floor again as the referee puts the count on him. Davey tries to get back in the ring so Roderick superkicks him in the face and sends him back to the outside. Crowd picks up the Twinkies chant as Todd Sinclair counts Davey, who manages to beat the count. Roderick is on him right away, unloading with forearms and chops, but Davey fires up and starts coming back at Roderick, who comes off the ropes and hits the Sick Kick for 2. Roderick with a uranage backbreaker and gutbuster and that only gets 2 as well. Crowd is going nuts for this match. Roderick looks frustrated, but goes for the Gibson Driver. Davey backdrops out and goes for the anklelock and Roderick escapes that, so Davey with a backdrop suplex and a roaring lariat for 2. Davey with more strikes and kicks and a knockout kick to the head, Roderick spits in his face, so Davey with another pair of knockout kicks for 2 and then hooks the anklelock on Roderick right in the middle of the ring. Truth Martini gets on the apron and Davey goes after him, giving Roderick an opening to hit a leaping enziguiri and a vertical suplex backbreaker and STILL only gets 2. Roderick with a superkick and Gibson Driver for 2 and then goes right into the Stronghold. Davey escapes that and goes to the anklelock and now Truth Martini comes in the ring. Davey nails him and Roderick goes for the Sick Kick again but Davey dodges and gets Roderick in the anklelock again. Roderick makes the ropes so Davey dumps Roderick to the apron and hits a leaping enziguiri, then puts Roderick up top and superplexes him into the ring, holds on and rolls through and hits a Falcon Arrow suplex, and turns that right into the anklelock and Roderick finally taps.
Winner: Roderick Strong
This match was just off the charts amazing and totally lived up to the Final Battle match. The crowd loved this, and is on their feet appaluding both men.
ROH World Tag Team Title Match: Kings Of Wrestling vs Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin
Crowd does dueling chants as the teams stare each other down. Claudio and Shelton start us off with a tie up, and neither man moves. Claudio flexes at Claudio, so Shelton gets a quick rollup for 2. Claudio sends Shelton to the ropes and Shelton runs him over with a shoulderblock for a quick 2. Claudio scurries over and tags Hero in, and Hero takes Shelton down and tries to mat wrestle him, but Shelton is an All-American wrestler and easily outwrestles Hero. Hero gets the ropes and then goes for a Greco-Roman knucklelock, but rolls through and picks Shelton's ankle, Shelton counters to a duck under single leg and rolls Hero into a cradle for 2. They exchange slaps, so Hero drills Shelton in the face and lays into him with kneestrikes, but Shelton chops him and drives him into the corner. Haas tags in and unloads on Hero with forearms, but eats Hero's elbow on a charge. Hero runs at Haas and ends up taking an overhead release suplex. Haas takes Hero to the mat with an armbar, but Hero rolls out and grinds Haas' face into the mat and then stomps on the back of his head. Hero lays into Haas with chops in the corner, but Haas no-sells so Hero thumbs him in the eyes. Hero goes for a hiptoss but Haas blocks and gets a pair of armdrags and goes to a hammerlock, keeping his hips off the mat to put all the weight on Hero's shoulder. Hero gets a chinbreaker and tags to Claudio, but Haas takes him right down with a single leg and pulls Claudio's kneepad down to do some damage with kicks. Shelton tags in and does the same and DDTs Claudio's foot and slams Claudio in such a way that Claudio's leg lands on the bottom rope. Haas tags in and comes over the top with a vertical drop on Claudio's knee. Shelton tags in and Claudio fires back with forearms, but Shelton gets a rollup for 2 and then goes into a half crab. Hero comes in and kicks Shelton in the face, but Haas & Benjamin recover and get a double back elbow on Hero and a double backdrop on Claudio. The KOW can't seem to get an advantage here as Haas & Benjamin hit stereo German suplexes on both men for dual two counts.
The Kings roll to the floor to try and regroup, and Claudio grabs Shelton and snaps him down on the top rope, then lays him out with a European uppercut. Claudio goes for a slam and Shelton slips out and goes for an O'Connor roll, but Hero blindsides him with an elbow from the apron and then tags in to put the boots to Shelton. Hero backdrops Shelton to the apron where Sara Del Rey grabs at Shelton's ankle, Shelton shakes her off and nails Claudio, but Hero comes in with a running boot to the face and pulls him into the ring for 2. Hero with a baseball slide to the face for 2 on Shelton, then tags Claudio in for a European uppercut that gets 2. Claudio drops an elbow then bars Shelton's arm, Shelton punches his way out and tries an Irish whip and Stinger Splash, but Claudio dodges and goes for a chokeslam, Shelton counters to a rollup for 2, but Claudio hits the chokeslam the second time around and gets 2. Hero is in and hit a Yakuza Kick to Shelton's arm and then a hammerlock backbreaker gets 2. Very cool move, and Hero goes to a top wristlock to do even more damage to Shelton's arm. Claudio comes in and elbowdrops Shelton while he's still in the hold, and then the Kings do the switcheroo behind the referee's back. Claudio presses Shelton over his head and Hotshots him on the top rope, then goes to a sleeper. Shelton gets out so Claudio drops him with a European uppercut and then Hero nails him from the outside. Claudio tags to Hero and then whips Shelton to the ropes and leapfrogs him, and Shelton comes out right into a leaping Yakuza Kick from Hero for 2. Hero keeps kicking Shelton in the face, but Shelton catches Hero's boot and starts firing back. Hero whips Shelton to the corner and hits a leaping elbow and then moonsaults off the ropes, but Shelton hits the "superkick, oh you caught my boot and spun me so now I'm going to spinkick you" kick.
Shelton finally makes the hot tag and Haas is in now and tearing through both Kings with clotheslines and hits a flying headscissors on Claudio and a T-Bone suplex on Hero for 2. Hero lands an elbow, but charges Haas and gets snap powerslammed for 2. Claudio comes in to help Hero out but Haas boots Hero in the face and hits a flying headscissors out of the corner on Claudio for 2. Hero goes for a roaring elbow but Shelton superkicks him in the face. Both Kings are slumped on the ropes so Haas & Benjamin hit a double Beverly Drop for 2. Hero catches Haas with a sharp rolling elbow and tags to Claudio and they hit stereo bicycle kicks to Haas for 2. Claudio gets the Giant Swing into the baseball slide from Hero and goes for the cover, but Shelton breaks it up at 2. Crowd does a "this is awesome" chant as they go for the waterslide elbow, but Shelton slips out and drills Claudio with a DDT and Haas covers for a very close 2. Haas and Claudio go punch-for-punch in the middle of the ring and Claudio hits a pop-up European uppercut for another close 2, then goes for the Ricola Bomb but Haas escapes and hits an Angle Slam. Haas gets the Haas of Pain, but Sara Del Rey is distracting the referee. Hero puts on the loaded elbow pad and goes up top, but Shelton leaps up and suplexes Hero off the top, and Claudio is left with no way out and taps.
Winners and NEW ROH World Tag Team Champions: Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin
This was was unbelievable, and the crowd blew up when Haas & Benjamin got the win. Awesome, awesome match and a great blowoff to their feud.
ROH World Title Match: Eddie Edwards vs Christopher Daniels
Eddie Edwards has new entrance music and tights. Daniels is the TV Champion, but the TV Title is not on the line. They do a mat wrestling sequence to start and Eddie gets a hammerlock, but Daniels wedges his way out and catches a wristlock. Eddie tries to roll out but Daniels rolls through with him, Eddie tries another roll but Daniels catches him in a cradle for 2, then gets another cradle for another 2. Eddie chops Daniels and sends him to the floor, and Daniels comes right back in and gets in Eddie's face and slaps him, so Eddie gives him another chop. Daniels takes Eddie to the corner and rams shoulderblocks to his ribs and then stomps him down in the corner. Eddie leapfrogs out of the corner and hits a Frankensteiner and then armdrags Daniels and bars the arm. Eddie takes Daniels to the corner and unloads with a chop, then just stomps him in the face. Eddie with another hard chop and Daniels goes down like a ton of bricks, but kicks out of a pin attempt before the referee can make a count.
Eddie goes for another Frankensteiner but Daniels holds on and catches Eddie in his own Achilles Lock. Eddie makes the ropes and they go out to the floor where Eddie hiptosses Daniels into the barricade. Eddie drags Daniels around ringside to chop him on each side of the ring, then rolls Daniels into the ring and hits a hard back suplex for 2. Eddie sits Daniels up top and goes for a back suplex, but Daniels fights him off so Eddie hits a leaping enziguiri to knock Daniels upside down and then hits a running dropkick from the floor and covers for 2. Eddie gets a rear chinlock and Daniels fights out of that, so Eddie hits an overhead release suplex for 2. Eddie goes for a vertical suplex but Daniels lands on his feet and bulldogs Eddie into the second turnbuckle and then hits a Blue Thunder Driver. Daniels nails several clotheslines and an STO, Eddie hits a second rope Codebreaker and an F5 that gets him 2. Daniels gets a chinbreaker and an enziguiri to knock Eddie silly and goes for a uranage, but Eddie rolls through with an armdrag. Daniels goes up top but Eddie hits a leaping enziguiri and goes for a Backpack Driver on the apron, but Daniels slips out and hits a uranage off the apron and through the timekeeper's table.
Daniels is in the driver's seat now and after taking a moment to recover, he goes after Eddie and slams him on the timekeeper's chair just to ensure that a)Eddie gets more hurt and b)the timekeeper will need to make a trip to IKEA tomorrow morning. Crowd start a "f*** TNA" chant as Daniels grabs the World Title belt and holds it high, then rolls Eddie into the ring and hits a slingshot elbowdrop for 2. Daniels with three bodyslams in a row and then covers for 2. Daniels with a hard kick to Eddie's back and then whips Eddie hard into the corner and stands on his back when he collapses. Daniels stomps away at Eddie's back, then hits a vertical suplex for 2. Daniels goes to a chinlock and Eddie elbows his way out and then lays in a couple of chops, but walks right into a spinebuster that gets 2 for Daniels. Daniels rams Eddie into the corner again and sits him up top and gets a superplex for 2. Daniels puts Eddie up top again and palmstrikes him in the face and goes for another superplex, but Eddie fights Daniels off and sends him crashing into the ring and then Eddie hits a missile dropkick and both men are down.
Eddie with a pair of running boots to the face of Daniels, and Daniels brushes the third aside and gets an O'Connor Roll for 2 and then they exchange pinning combinations for a long series of two counts, but neither man can get an advantage. Eddie dodges a charge and sends Daniels to the floor and follows him with a diving elbow through the ropes. Eddie rolls Daniels back in and goes up top and hits a flying bodypress for 2. Eddie lays into Daniels with a series of chops, and then unloads with Kobashi chops in the corner and hits a Tiger Suplex for 2. Daniels blocks a suplex attempt, but Eddie gets another enziguiri and a back suplex flapjack for 2. Daniels goes for a crucifix and turns it into the Koji Clutch and Eddie crumples to the mat. Eddie goes for the ropes but Daniels grapevines his arm to block him and Eddie is forced to totally turn himself around to get his foot on the rope. Daniels puts Eddie on top and side suplexes him into the ring for 2. Daniels goes for another enziguiri but Eddie ducks and catches Daniels in the Achilles Lock. Daniels can't make the ropes but is able to cradle Eddie for 2. They exchange blows in the middle of the ring, Eddie superkicks Daniels, Daniels hits an enziguiri and a backdrop suplex, Eddie hits a pair of clotheslines and then hits the 2K1 Bomb for 2.
Both men are down, but Eddie regains his feet first and puts Daniels up top. Daniels blocks Eddie and goes for a top rope Angel's Wings, but Eddie blocks and backdrops Daniels into the ring and follows with a double stomp to the back, running kick to the chest, and then tries a powerbomb but Daniels slips out and hits the Angel's Wings but that only gets 2. Crowd is really behind Eddie as Daniels gets a shocked look on his face, but hits the uranage and the BME and that still only gets 2. Daniels is just stunned as the crowd chants "one more time" at him, so he just sits on Eddie's chest and repeatedly drills him in the face. Daniels goes for a second BME but Eddie gets the knees up and rolls him up for 2, then goes to the Achilles Lock. Daniels slips out so Eddie holds on and starts stomping on Daniels' head, but Daniels slips out again and just boots Eddie in the face to get the break. Crowd is going nuts and chanting ROH as Daniels sets Eddie on top yet again and hits another palmstrike, then they go silent as he tries a top rope uranage, but Eddie blocks and hits a top rope 2K1 Bomb and then a conventional 2K1 Bomb in the middle of the ring for the win.
Winner: Eddie Edwards
Another incredible match, putting an exclamation point on both tonight's event as well as the Eddie-Daniels series with Eddie Edwards finally getting his win over Daniels. Eddie extends his hand to Daniels as Daniels stares a hole through Eddie's skull and the crowd chants "shake his hand" at Daniels, but Daniels just walks off, grabs his TV Title belt, and slowly stalks to the back.
Eddie grabs a mic and says that they just had an awesome match and it was an honor to come to Atlanta tonight and the fans made it worth their while. He hopes ROH continues to come to Atlanta year after year, and it's his honor to represent this company as champion and thanks the fans for coming tonight and reminds them to come back tomorrow.
Photo:Shawn Michaels Meets Ric Flair
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Shawn Michaels tweeted a picture of himself and TNA talent Ric Flair. The photo can be seen here
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WWE Star Attends ROH iPPV
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According to Wrestling Observer Newsletter, CM Punk was backstage visiting friends at yesterday's Ring of Honor event, "Honor Takes Center Stage".
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Radio: Unplugged 4/1/11 Archived
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UnPlugged with JJ $exay returned to the airwaves on the SNS Radio Network on 4-1-11 and this broadcast was certainly "No Joke". JJ reviewed the final Smackdown
going into WrestleMania 27 that featured 2 matches and lots of clips. Chris Kelly of Headlocks2Headlines.com joined the show to talk the latest news in pro wrestling including news on an openly Gay Wrestling Promotion who recently had a little "Butthurt" with the WWE."The Sensational Sean (Sequel)" joined the show to talk WrestleMania 27 and to finish from last weeks top ten Wrestlemania matches. JJ opened up the phone lines and took a few calls including someone claiming to be "The Gay Avenger". Sean talked about the latest videogaming and movie news including Leonard Nimoy joining the cast of Transformers 3 "The Darh Side of the Moon". Rantables joined the show to talk about a group raising money for charity via gaming, JJ read an email from TMBronx that may have ruffled some feathers at GLAAD and Seymour Butts of Glaad called in to give JJ a piece of his mind. JJ wrapped the show with some Wheather Girls in honor of GLAAD, The Gay Avenger, and Seymour Butts as this show was "Raining Men".
http://www.archive.org/download/UnpluggedWithJjexay_4-1-11/UnpluggedWithJjexay_4-1-11.mp3
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going into WrestleMania 27 that featured 2 matches and lots of clips. Chris Kelly of Headlocks2Headlines.com joined the show to talk the latest news in pro wrestling including news on an openly Gay Wrestling Promotion who recently had a little "Butthurt" with the WWE."The Sensational Sean (Sequel)" joined the show to talk WrestleMania 27 and to finish from last weeks top ten Wrestlemania matches. JJ opened up the phone lines and took a few calls including someone claiming to be "The Gay Avenger". Sean talked about the latest videogaming and movie news including Leonard Nimoy joining the cast of Transformers 3 "The Darh Side of the Moon". Rantables joined the show to talk about a group raising money for charity via gaming, JJ read an email from TMBronx that may have ruffled some feathers at GLAAD and Seymour Butts of Glaad called in to give JJ a piece of his mind. JJ wrapped the show with some Wheather Girls in honor of GLAAD, The Gay Avenger, and Seymour Butts as this show was "Raining Men".
http://www.archive.org/download/UnpluggedWithJjexay_4-1-11/UnpluggedWithJjexay_4-1-11.mp3
Video: The Corre Attack Vladimir Kozlov At Fan Axxess, WrestleMania Match Changed?
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WWE posted a video on their Twitter page that shows The Corre attacking Vladimir Kozlov at fan axxess and knocking him out. According to PWInsider.com , it is expected that Kofi Kingston will replace Kozlov in the Eight man tag team match.
Joey Styles posted the following picture of Kozlov's arm on Twitter
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Joey Styles posted the following picture of Kozlov's arm on Twitter
Winner Of THQ's All Star Challenge
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Jey Uso won the 2011 THQ Superstars Challenge last night in Atlanta to become the champion of the THQ All Stars video game challenge. Below are the barracks for the event
Round 1: Sheamus defeated Evan Bourne, Sgt. Slaughter defeated Ted DiBiase Sr., Jey Uso defeated Jimmy Uso, Jim Ross defeated Jerry Lawler, John Morrison defeated Dolph Ziggler, Dusty Rhodes defeated Ricky Steamboat, Chris Masters defeated JTG and Beth Phoenix defeated Gail Kim.
Round 2: Sheamus defeated John Morrison, Sgt. Slaughter defeated Dusty Rhodes, Jey Uso defeated Chris Masters and Beth Phoenix defeated Jim Ross.
Semi-Finals: Sgt. Slaughter defeated Sheamus and Jey Uso defeated Beth Phoenix.
Finals: Jey Uso defeated Sgt. Slaughter.
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Round 1: Sheamus defeated Evan Bourne, Sgt. Slaughter defeated Ted DiBiase Sr., Jey Uso defeated Jimmy Uso, Jim Ross defeated Jerry Lawler, John Morrison defeated Dolph Ziggler, Dusty Rhodes defeated Ricky Steamboat, Chris Masters defeated JTG and Beth Phoenix defeated Gail Kim.
Round 2: Sheamus defeated John Morrison, Sgt. Slaughter defeated Dusty Rhodes, Jey Uso defeated Chris Masters and Beth Phoenix defeated Jim Ross.
Semi-Finals: Sgt. Slaughter defeated Sheamus and Jey Uso defeated Beth Phoenix.
Finals: Jey Uso defeated Sgt. Slaughter.
Video: USA Network Pushing Rima Fakih's Tough Enough Involvement
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The USA network has released the following trailer involving "Miss USA" Rima Fakih taking bumps:
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Ric Flair At WWE WrestleMania Weekend
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According to Jim Ross on Twittrr, TNA talent Ric Flair is in Atlanta, Georgia. PWInsder is reporting that he is there to see Shawn Michaels inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
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