ROH 03/31/2007 Supercard of Honor II
Detroit "Motor City," Michigan
ROH World Champion: Takeshi Morishima
ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoe Brothers
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JIMMY JACOBS IS AT IT AGAIN!
Jay Briscoe comes out to announce that his brother, who injured himself last night, very unlucky, and says that there’s no place Mark would rather be than right here but he's in a hospital bed instead, and that when he heals he’ll come back as crazy as ever. Christopher Daniels and Matt Sydal come out to the ring Daniels tells the crowd he "Knows his name, so you idiot can stop chanting it" what a heel. They demand their title shot, even in Mark’s absence. Jay says no, so Daniels says the Briscoe’s should forfeit the belts. Jay says no to that too, Jay says there will be no title defense tonight, but there will be a match, because he has a partner. It’s Delirious! The then cuts a "Delirious" promo which gets the crowd pumped for the match.
Jay Briscoe & Delirious vs. Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal
This was really solid stuff here nothing AMAZING aside from Matt and Daniels asshole/cocky heel tactics. It started off slow but then things began to pick up when all hell broke loose which lead to the extremely hot finish that set the crowd up nicely for the show ahead. This match got all the time it needed to tell a good story without going so long that it felt like it dragged but I feel they didn't really utilize it well at all you was given 18 minutes and the best story they came up with was a basic formula tag match. The match ends when Matt misses the SSP, which allows Delirious to hit him with the Chemical Imbalance II for the win. ***
Yamato vs. Claudio Castagnoli
The height advantage Double C has in this match is pretty funny, Yamato isn't Dragon Kid small but I’ll say he’s maybe a couple inches taller. This was short like 6 minutes long and they had Double C control like 4 and a half minutes of it. I loved the test of strength comedy stuff to start, kinda wish we got more of that. Anyway the match ends when Double C hits him with his new finisher "gut wrench into a piledriver" **1/2
Erick Stevens vs. Mitch Franklin
Stevens slams him off the handshake, hits a TKO and kills him with The Doctorbomb. DUD!
Larry Sweeney comes down to the ring and he introduces their new “A-List celebrity†friend Johnny Fairplay. Chris Hero accompanies Fairplay to the ring to get some HEAT! The crowd rightly chants "You're not famous!" Fairplay insults the crowd. Hero gets on the mic and talks about how he would have had Bruno Sammartino last night if not for Nigel McGuinness, so he calls him out for a match right now.
Nigel McGuinness vs. Chris Hero (w/Larry Sweeney & Johnny Fairplay)
This was nothing more to get over Sweeney and Fairplay being hilarious. And to further more put over Hero as this goofy prick that does hilarious stuff like pretending to be a super athlete. IDK what it was but the past 2 shows Nigel have been in 3 moves of doom match "uppercuts, lariats and the Tower of London" oh and the occasional kick. The match ends when Nigel hits a Jawbreaker Lariat for the win. The best part of the match was Nigel FUCKIN' KILLING Fairplay with a lariat. **
Roderick Strong and Davey Richards come through the curtain next. They’re here to announce the newest member of the No Remorse Corps, Rocky Romero!
Jack Evans & Naruki Doi vs. Davey Richards & Rocky Romero
You know what hilarious, Rocky teamed with Aries last night
and showed no signs of "friction" happening, Just hilarious booking. You know what else is hilarious the fact that you debut a new member to a heel faction and have them lose
but aside from that this was really fun, it was like one of the DragonGate spotty matches but just involving tags. This did have one thing i love and that's double team moves, and sick combos like Evans & Doi hitting this ridiculous "POWERBOMB MOONSAULT DOUBLE STOMP" The mini-heat segment on Jack was really good too, but Davey and Rocky are not Roddy so they didn't try and kill him. The match ends when Jack hits the 630 on Davey for the win, and gives Davey his 12-straight loss HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ***1/4
Homicide vs. Brent Albright
Cornette's hired Albright to take out Homicide cause his track record with taking guys out is so high
, like a minute and a half in Adam Pearce runs down and attacks Homicide for the DQ, but Colt Cabana makes the save.
Homicide & Colt Cabana vs. Brent Albright & Adam Pearce
Pearce and Albright were about to leave but get dragged to the ring and forced into the match, the brawling portion on the match was really fun cause it covered up the lack of wrestling these 4 have don't get me wrong I'm a Colt fan and at one time was a HUGE! Homicide fan but I’ve noticed when they are not in the ring with a Nigel or Danielson things are pretty terrible and same goes for Albright and Pearce, but Albright and Pearce rarely have good matches anyway. So yeah the brawling was fun but when it settled down into a legit tag it was boring as fuck. Pearce & Albright's heat-segments are terrible and can't draw heat for shit. The match ends when Pearce holds Cabana for Cornette to hit, but Cabana blocks it and hits Cornette with an elbow and uses Pearce’s brass knuckles for the win. **
INTERMISSION~!
Steel Cage: Jimmy Jacobs (w/Lacey) vs. BJ Whitmer (w/Daizee Haze)
Still holds up as my favorite ROH steel cage match of all time and quite possible my favorite Indy cage match too, hell this whole feud was one of my favorites period. The fact that they kept it going a whole year but added other guys in the mix to keep it going and fresh, AMAZING! But yeah this was an great way to end the feud. Because it had it all, prom hatred-passion-intensity-violence-all the moves were spot on and it never got boring once. The match starts off with Jimmy making his way to the ring and during the entrance the crowd were chanting “please don’t die†Jacobs dives through the door onto Whitmer before the bell and start brawling for a while they would eventually make it back into the ring and from that every spot would be even more violent than the last, you don't believe me then 2 minutes with being into the cage BJ kills Jimmy with a steel chair to the head which actual chipped Jimmy's fuckin tooth, true story. Jimmy would gain control after BJ tires to give him a brainbuster on a chair but Jimmy counters it with a drop-toehold onto the chair, like Raven does it. He then orders Lacey to get a weapon from security. The kid comes back with a spike. Whitmer pulls a spike out of his boot and we have a standoff. So naturally they have a fuckin' SPIKE DUEL! And just spike eachother in the head, get up and do it again. Then they just start stabbing eachother in the head countless time, so you can just imagine both men are pretty much bleeding like horror movie and the crowd pop was insane. Jacobs spikes himself in the head and Whitmer hits a turnbuckle powerbomb, and then asks the Haze to gets him a fuckin' barbed wire bat. But Jacobs gets to it first, and he hits BJ right in the bloody head with it. AND HOLDS THE BARBED WIRE IN HIS MOUTH! He licks the blood off of Whitmer’s face and spits it back at him.
Now he’s got both railroad spikes. STABS TO THE HEAD AND ARMS! He lays BJ down with his head in the barbed wire…CHAIR SHOT TO THE BACK OF THE HEAD! But that wouldn't be enough to keep BJ down, he then tries to spike him again but BJ counters it by powerbomb into the cage. He hits Jacobs with the barbed wire bat on his stomach and his back. But decides he's not done so he BRAINBUSTER JIMMY ONTO AN OPEN SITTING CHAIR! Which only gets a 2 count, fun fact this is like 15 minutes in and that was the first pinfall attempt. The match would eventually have some really great back-and-forth big moves without weapons like, when Contra Code but Whitmer counters to the Adrenaline Spike for 2 when Lacey breaks it up. Whitmer hits the Adrenaline Spike on Lacey and climbs to the top of the cage. He goes for a frog splash but misses and Jacobs hits the Contra Code for 2 but Jimmy looks like he would hurt his knee here so he orders one of the students into the ring I think it was Rhett to help set up a table and then puts Whitmer on it. He climbs to the top of the cage but Whitmer goes up after him. Jacobs knocks Whitmer down and puts him back on the table. And finally KILLS BJ WITH A FUCKIN' SENTON BOMB FROM THE TOP OF THE CAGE THROUGH THE TABLE! I should add that the cage senton was when Jimmy tore his ACL or MCL i forget which one. But yeah WOW! WOW! WOW! One of the most violent things I've ever seen. ****1/2
FIP World Championship: Roderick Strong vs. Austin Aries
This is my 2nd favorite FIP title match, with Strong/Stevens from Redemption being first. This match was good on so many levels. Don't get me wrong i do agree what it was too early in the feud to have that first Roddy/Aries match but considering what would happen with Aries and TNA I think it was a great time to have the match, now. I fuckin' loved that they that they didn't just go balls to walls and kept it simple with the story of the match being "They were a tag team for a year maybe 2, so they know what the other is gonna do before he does it" so that being the story lead to allot of moves I've not seen them do which I thought was great but the crowd was really dead for this. I'm guessing it was because Jacobs and BJ had a FUCKING AMAZING cage match before this. The match would end when both men are fighting on the top rope and I don't think it was intentional but Roddy shoves him off the top rope and he crashes through the timekeepers table. Roddy then tearing out the guardrail and gives Aries the GIBSON DRIVER ONTO A RAILING!
he then gets into the ring hoping for the countout but Aries manages to get into the ring at 19.999999 so Roddy tries to end it with Aries' own move the Brainbuster but Aries counters it into a small package, for a great near-fall. Roddy gets back to his feet first and decides FUCK! THIS! And KILLS HIM WITH A FUCKIN' HALF NELSON BACKBREAKER-GIBSON DRIVER-STRONGHOLD and Aries is out cold so the ref calls the match. Post-Match: Strong applies the STRONGHOLD! Again, but Delirious makes the save. ****
Dragon Gate Rules: CIMA, Shingo & Susumu Yokusuka vs. The Dragon Kid, Ryo Saito & Masaaki Mochizuki
"Dragon Gate Rules" means no tags are necessary. This wasn't even close to the "Supercard of Honor I" match a year ago, yes the spots are fuckin' ridiculous and insane but it just seemed to be lacking that thing the match at SOH one had. So yeah if you love that cruiserweight craziness this is for you, not much to add I would of loved to mentions spot but shit was too fast for me to write down, lol. ****
Becky Bayless is backstage and is looking for an interview but finds Lacey and Jimmy cuddling. You would have thought they would have left for the hospital by now.