Ryan's Wrestling Blog: August 2010

First of all let me start by saying, if you haven't been to a live ROH event it is a must for a true wrestling fan, I can't think of a better way to spend 20 bucks and get every penny of it paid back in entertainment. that being said here is my review of the event they had in Charlotte NC this past weekend.

In our opening competition we see the always exciting El Generico facing off with Erick Stevens of The Embassy. This match was sprinked with each wrestlers signature style with the lucha style of Generico and the dirty playing heel moves of Erick Stevens and his manager Prince Nana. In the end it was Generico who came out on top by pinning Stevens after hitting his infamous Brain Buster.

The second match of the evening was between living legend The King of Old School Steve Corino facing off with ROH wrestling school graduate Bobby Dempsey. At first I was like "who the fuck is Bobby Dempsey" but I quickly realized exactly who he was, Corino's jobber for the night, he worked the match well and it was a very entertaining contest, but then again every time Mr. Wrestling 3 is in the ring it is guaranteed to be a great match. Even though Bobby could use some conditioning the match over all gets a good rating from me. Needless to say Corino was the victor.

Next we see Necro Butcher accompanied to the ring by Prince Nana, in a butcher's rules match with, the Worlds Smallest Jobber, Grizzly Redwood. This match was fun, not exactly the nights most technical competition but that was to be expected of the Necro Butcher, who defeated Redwood.

Our fourth match of the evening featured everyone's favorite funny guy in wrestling the ever talented Colt Cabana going head to head with TV Champ Eddie Edwards of the American Wolves in a non title match. The match started out with a laugh as do most Colt Cabana matches, but it was no joke. Much like the crowd the match was back and forth between Edwards and Cabana from start to finish, with Eddie Edwards coming out on top.

The fifth match took us to six man tag action between the Bravado Brothers with Cedric Alexander vs The Man Scout Jake Manning Caleb Konley, and Marker Dillinger, in which the Bravado's and Alexander won.

Next was two future World Champs, Roderick Strong and Kevin Steen facing off in a very entertaining competition that include Eric's sign getting ripped up by Steen and a guest appearance from El Generico. In the end it was Strong who was the victor and he will go on to face Tyler Black for the World Title at Glory By Honor September 11th on iPPV.

Tag Wars finals, The Dark City Fight Club, All Night Express, Kings of Wrestling, and The Briscoe Brothers. This match was one of the finest displays of tag team wrestling I have seen since...well the last time I saw Ring Of Honor in Charlotte. This match was contested as an Ultimate Endurance Title Match, which is an elimination style match in which each fall has a different stipulation. The first fall saw the elimination of The Dark City Fight Club, it was a four corners match meaning two men were legal and could tag anyone from any team. During the course of the first fall we saw Mark and Jay Briscoe tagged in at the same time during which they had to make contact and compete against each other they then tagged in both Claudio Castagnoli and Chris Hero of the Kings of Wrestling where they had to do the same thing eventually ending up with with DCFC being eliminated. The second fall was Texas Tornado which meant all men were legal no count out, during this fall we saw the most competitive tag team action...EVER, with Jay Briscoe being busted open dawning what good ole JR would call "the proverbial crimson mask" the fall ended with The All Night Express being eliminated by the Briscoes. The third and final fall was a quickie Scramble, in which the Kings came out with a successful title defense after Hero used the loaded elbow pad to take out Jay Briscoe.

In our Main Event of the evening we saw ROH World Champion Tyler Black in a non title match against Davey Richards of the American Wolves. Before the match, after the sea of "You sold out" chants referring to Black's decision to make the move to WWE via the NXT show, Jim Cornette came out and tried to persuade Tyler to make it a title match, to which Tyler Black denied. This was a high quality match of epic proportions that really displayed every type of wrestling you could dream of, from technical mat wrestling, with Black and Richards going hold for hold with each other, to high impact high flying dives. At one point in the match everyone was on there feet watching in suspense as Davey Richards attempted to superplex Black from the corner post to the outside of the ring, but no such luck for us expecting Anti-Black fans, Black reversed it into the ring. After stealing Black's finisher not once but twice Richards made Tyler black tap out via ankle lock.

well that covers it, good bros, good wrestling, funny signs and yelling obscenities at the guys we didn't like, a great night. ROH returns to Charlotte on January 15th, I strongly suggest you don't miss out on the action.

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thanks for reading.
Ryan Rampage
"I'll show you a shoot"

I'm on here today to talk about something that I think is underutilized in today's wrestling, the art of the Time Limit Draw. Sure you might see one every now and then on TNA but they are always few and far between, which is better than over done but I'd like to see it used as it is meant to be used, as a tension builder in big feuds. Lets use for instance a feud between AJ Styles and Samoa Joe, just for example purposes, the first match would end in AJ winning using some underhanded cheap shot in true heel fashion, the second ends with Samoa Joe on top. The third match, in order to set up the rest of a best of five series should end in some sort of draw, being that these guys are great, great, performers in the ring the best draw for them would be the Time Limit Draw. Picture it a match with near fall after near fall, with nothing but high impact wrestling between each near fall. it would be the perfect set up for a no DQ no time limit match and of course, call me old fashioned but the feud would end in a steel cage match. but back to the point the time limit draw is not used to its full potential these days.