ROH Reborn: Stage 1 Review

[IWSfan4life]

Nice opening promo by Homicide here, I love his fued with Joe and never wanna see it end.

Nigel vs. Stryker was awesome. Nigel looks very good again and manages to get me to cheer for him. Stryker also looks better than usual and pulls out anothern nice match. Nigel is very much growing on me.

RCE vs. CC was a fun tag match that showed CC as a brutal angry team and had some innovation by both teams. Fun little match here, good stuff.

Walters vs. Credible was way better than expected, but nothing as good as the first 2 matches. Walters looks really good and carries Justin noticably.

The 6 man meyhem is my MOTN so far, very exciting match with several jaw droppers. It also helps that 3 of my favorites were out there (Shelley/Evans/Rave). Sick match, that is also made better by Punk's commentary. Him calling Evans "Flippy MaGillacutty" and "Flippy McFlipson" was CLASSIC". GREAT match.

Cabana vs. Whitmer was pretty good and showed off the SCS/Prophesy fued with some crowd brawling. I've seen better from both men, but this was pretty cool.

Becky Bayless is HOTTTT, and Alex Shelley rules in his promo.

Sydal vs. Delirious was very short, but showed off alot. Sydal ruled here and hit some very nice stuff. Delirious showed off alot of technical mat work. Nice match, should have gotten more time.

Pitbulls vs. Briscoe's just wasn't my thing. They hit hard and beat each other up, and even though they tried, I just couldn't get into this one at all. Hope their other work with each other is better, b/c this is the weakest match on the card to me.

Punk/Dragon is my second favorite MOTN. Nothing MOTYC here that was blow away, but just very solid work that focused on Dragon working Punk's abdominals over and Punk working Dragon's back. Some fun stretches by Dragon and counters by Punk. I expected a bit more, but still really liked this.

Still to come: Joe/Cide and my overall thoughts

-Jason Burke

[Agent Kev]

Stylesclash2004 said:

Pitbulls vs. Briscoe's just wasn't my thing. They hit hard and beat each other up, and even though they tried, I just couldn't get into this one at all. Hope their other work with each other is better, b/c this is the weakest match on the card to me.

I thought this match was VERY solid. The work was stiff and they worked together well. What they didn't do was throw out big spots for the sake of throwing them out. Also what they did was establish that The Pitbulls were on the same level as The Briscoes in their debut without making The Briscoes look weak and also leaving lots of room for their re-match to be a quite different type of match in style and result. I understand you didn't like it but to say that Credible vs. Walters was better is a joke.

[IWSfan4life]

Eh, I wouldn't really say that Credible-Walters was better per say, but what that match did for me was showcase Walters and Walters excited me overall, which the two teams didnt do. I enjoyed the beginning of the tag match and the stiff strikes, but the Pitbulls came off as wannabe Low-Ki's in this situation. I've enjoyed both teams MUCH better in other matches, maybe I just expected alot more heat or something from this that wasn't there.

-jason Burke

[NewFnShow]

Eh, I REALLY enjoyed the Briscoes vs. HP match. It was definately my favorite match on the card. Very stiff, well paced, some great double team stuff, and just fun imo. I can't wait till' they go at it again in Boston this Saturday. Should be even better this time around.

[IWSfan4life]

It's not like I hated the match, it was just something about it that was missing for me. Like I said i've seen both teams do about 50 times better stuff, and I'm thinking this Saturdays match will rule.

Otherwise this was a very good card and I still have yet to see Joe/Cide.

-Jason Burke

[Agent Kev]

Stylesclash2004 said:

It's not like I hated the match, it was just something about it that was missing for me. Like I said i've seen both teams do about 50 times better stuff, and I'm thinking this Saturdays match will rule.

Care to list the matches that you've seen The Pitbulls in that are 50 times better?

[IWSfan4life]

"Care to list the matches that you've seen The Pitbulls in that are 50 times better?"

Not sure of exact dates of this stuff, because I do not own nor stay up on the fed I saw these from.

I'm thinking it was either Inoki Dojo USA or Zero One USA or NJPW or may have even been SoCal (as I was very tired while viewing). Something to that effect my friend showed me, but I saw some TREMENDOUS stuff from them including:

vs. The Stampede Bulldogs
vs. The Briscoe's (Once)
vs. Quance and Frantz
vs. Super Dragon and Puma

Again these are only on my opinion, but I loved all this and was worked way better IMO.

-jason burke

[Agent Kev]

Stylesclash2004 said:

"Care to list the matches that you've seen The Pitbulls in that are 50 times better?"

Not sure of exact dates of this stuff, because I do not own nor stay up on the fed I saw these from.

I'm thinking it was either Inoki Dojo USA or Zero One USA or NJPW or may have even been SoCal (as I was very tired while viewing). Something to that effect my friend showed me, but I saw some TREMENDOUS stuff from them including:

vs. The Stampede Bulldogs

This is the MLW match right?

[IWSfan4life]

Actually I think it was. I have that match on my PC and another of their matches my friend has, but it may be the same match. Either way, I was impressed here.

-jason Burke