ROH: "Ring of Homicide" Thoughts~!

[Agent Kev]

Colt Cabana vs. Kikitaro

This was a great, comedic opener. Just some great stuff here and a good way to get the crowd going to start the show.

Homicide & Ricky Reyes vs. Dunn & Marcos

Solid extended squash with Adam Pearce coming out after the match to make a plea to Homicide to join ROH in their fight against CZW. Cide no sells Pearce and walks to the back.

Jimmy Rave vs. Jimmy Yang

This was solid. Nothing spectacular but a good third match in a show that is building nicely.

More to come....

[blakeferris]

I just got the show in the mail, I loved it, hint, look for Riley G to the left of the entrance.

[Agent Kev]

ROH Pure Title Match: Nigel McGuinness (c) vs. Jay Lethal

Lethal is much, much better as a face than a heel. Overall, this was another solid match (much like the last one). Nothing to go out of your way to see but if you watch it you will probably enjoy it.

ROH World Title Match: Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Delirious

Really solid match. Typically great pacing of the match by Danielson as he dominates and it leads to the comeback by the challenger which gets the crowd going. Good stuff, I think I liked their last match a little better though.

Christopher Daniels vs Matt Sydal

This match just never grabbed me. I think it was partially hurt by it's card placement after Danielson/Delirious. Danielson is just so good at what he does right now and wrestles such a tight, snug style that he is a hard act to follow. Especially when you are wrestling a more traditional "your offense...my offense" match like Daniels tends to do. Not that there is anything wrong with that it just doesn't grab me after a physical encounter like the previous one.

ROH Tag-Team Title Match: Roderick Strong/Austin Aries (c) vs. Jay and Mark Briscoe

This was a solid tag-match with a really good 5 minute finish. Solid ending with a dual pin and the ref only counting the legal men. Good job keeping both teams strong in order to further develop the fued and the tag-division. Aries/Strong hit a totally sick chop/brainbuster combo in the stretch run of this match. Of course the Briscoes countered later with the spike Jay Driller killing Roderick.

Samoa Joe vs Necro Butcher

Necro was introduced and came in thru the crowd and when he hit the ring he sucker punched the ring announcer. Then before the match started he took out the ROH referee and Joe in turn beat up the CZW referee. Really fun brawl here as Joe and Necro went for about 5 minutes before Chris Hero interfered which eventually brought down Adam Pearce and BJ Whitmer to help ROH and Claudio to help CZW. Hero was just great in this as a dickhead heel. CZW then got the upperhand and then the lights went out, Homicide's music hit and the crowd popped. Cide came down and teased which side he would be on but then attacked Hero and Claudio before brawling with Necro. This led to Homicide and Necro having an actual match as the ref signaled for the bell to ring. Really fun brawl here as Homicide was way over. They did the "throw the chairs into the ring" bit like has been done in ECW and was done a couple of years ago in ROH but this time Necro was in the ring when it happened. They continued the match after that with a lot of false finishes (probably went on a little too long) before Cide finally came out victorious. Post match Cide said that tonight ROH stood for Ring of Homicide and that this victory was for him not for ROH.

Verdict:
This was a solid show with a lot of good stuff but nothing that really blew me away. This is a good show to pick up during a sale.

2006 Show Rankings:
1. Supercard Of Honor- Chicago Ridge, IL 3/31/06
2. Better Than Our Best- Chicago Ridge, IL 4/1/06
3. The 100th Show- Philadelphia, PA 4/22/06
4. Best In The World- New York, NY 3/25/06
5. Weekend of Champions Night 2- Cleveland, OH 4/29/06
6. Tag Wars 2006- Dayton, OH 1/27/06
7. Dragon Gate Challenge- Detroit, MI 3/30/06
8. Arena Warfare- Philadelphia, PA 3/11/06
9. Fourth Anniversary Show- Edison, NJ 2/25/06
10. Dissension- Cleveland, OH 1/28/06
11. Hell Freezes Over- Philadelphia, PA 1/14/06
12. Ring of Homicide- Edison, NJ 5/13/06
13. How We Roll- Long Island, NY 5/12/06
14. Weekend of Champions Night 1- Dayton, OH 4/28/06
15. Unscripted II- Long Island, NY 2/11/06