ROH 383 – Road To Best In The World 2015: Nashville – 6th June 2015
This is Ring Of Honor’s last live event before Best In The World – although you could be forgiven for not realising since it’s hard to see how anything on the card tonight has any real impact on the pay-per-view. The World Champion is in a random four-team tag match, the TV Champion is in the most pointless of title defences against an enhancement talent, and a whole bunch of talent booked in marquee matches at the pay-per-view are over in Japan (AJ Styles, Young Bucks & reDRagon) and haven’t appeared once on this tour. One shouldn’t too critical though – as similar concerns could have been raised about the majority of the line-up yesterday for the Collinsville show, and I thought that turned out to be something of a sleeper hit. It’s not like The Addiction squaring off against the Briscoes, The Kingdom and War Machine doesn’t sound like a hell of a main event, and it’s not like matches like Elgin/Sydal and Strong/Castle don’t look solid on paper too. Let us all embrace the positive here, and head off to Nashville, TN to join Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino.
The House Of Truth’s music hits to open the show, and as they step through the curtain Lethal and Martini get a hell of an ovation. Martini somewhat flubs his promo, but since this is a lowly B-show it hardly matters. Apparently Lethal wants a final warm-up or Best In The World, and has organised a TV Title defence tonight against the inner of the following triple threat…
Mike Posey vs Corey Hollis vs Samson Walker
All three of these men have appeared before, although it feels like we’ve not seen any of them for a while. Posey and Hollis used to be a tag team, but they split up during last year’s Top Prospect Tournament and now Posey has a white rapper gimmick and calls himself ‘P-Dawg’. He basically looks, dresses and acts like Jack Evans, without any of the exciting high spots that make the ridiculously annoying gimmick worthwhile. Hollis is a small, talented, no-nonsense fighter, whilst Walker is a big, bruising, no-nonsense fighter. So take your pick from a little guy with an annoying personality, a little guy with no personality or a big dude with no personality. What a bunch! ROH cares so little about this it’s not even listed on the DVD cover…
Lethal and Truth are doing commentary for this, with Jay freaking out that his manager has allowed someone the size of Samson into the reckoning. Alabama Attitude reunite to fight Walker (who looks like he’s dropped a few pounds) and succeed in dumping him to the floor. Undeterred, Samson spears sh*t Jack Evans into the ringpost. He hits a big spinebuster and a devastating curb stomp next, and it’s only a missile dropkick from Hollis which saves P-Dawg from tapping out to a camel clutch. Walker wins with a running DVD on Posey at 05:40
Rating - * - This felt far longer than the five minutes it ran for. It was only the humorous commentary of Lethal and Martini which stopped this from being a complete bust. I don’t necessarily agree with Lethal wasting time with a random title defence tonight – but if you are going to book three enhancement talents onto the card at least this gimmick made it interesting.
Michael Bennett/Matt Taven vs Paco Gonzalez/Danny Adams
The debutants look incredibly generic; the only reason we know their names is that this is a DVD show and they are listed on the back cover. If this was TV we wouldn’t know who they were and, in truth we wouldn’t care. They are trained by Michael Elgin apparently.
Taven levels Adams with a rolling neckbreaker, although I’m completely distracted by Steve Corino’s hilariously insincere commentary (Adams has a ‘nice Hyundai’ apparently…). Paco tries to go to the top rope only to get his own tag partner suplexed into his face! Kingdom win with a backpack stunner/bicycle kick combo at 03:59
Rating - DUD - Quite a waste of time, and time which I’m certain could have been better spent giving matches later in the show more time. Bennett and Taven are a fun tag team, and Steve Corino can be entertaining on commentary. But we knew both of those facts already, and I didn’t feel this match was necessary to reinforce them.
Matt Taven grabs a microphone and declares their duo the best tag team in the world, and Bennett follows that by demanding that they be added to the main event tonight.
Adam Page vs Will Ferrara
Poor Adam Page is still stuck way down the card in enhancement matches when he knows his rival ACH would be doing something with a far higher profile were he booked for this show. Page is growing in confidence and now feels continually overlooked by Ring Of Honor management. He will look to vent some frustration by beating up the current poster boy for the ROH Dojo, and beaten 2015 Top Prospect Tournament finalist Will Ferrara.
Page is nursing a groin injury apparently, and has his leg heavily taped. Luckily for him Kevin Kelly is distracting everyone with some ludicrous claims that Ferrara ‘pushed Kushida to the limit’ on TV this week, which is about as accurate as Brooklyn Brawler proclaiming a win/loss record similar to Bill Goldberg in 1997. Will’s slow-motion attempt to put Page in a shortarm scissors is depressing too (and I say that as someone who genuinely likes Ferrara’s attitude and in-ring tenacity). BJ Whitmer gives him a few cheap shots to put him back in his place, then sends him back into the ring for a Whitmer-esque rolling powerslam from Page for 2. Ferrara dishes out a few of the comeback spots he hits in every match, culminating with Eyes Wide Shut into the Code Red for 2. He then lines up the tope into the DDT on the apron…but catches his feet on the ropes then almost MURDERS Adam hitting the DDT anyway. Not that it matters, as Page basically no sells it to hit the slingshot lariat moments later. Rite Of Passage wins it for Page it an AWFUL 09:45
Rating - DUD - A genuine candidate for worst Ring Of Honor match of the year. At least when someone like Cheeseburger or Beer City Bruiser wrestles you almost expect it to suck. But I actually like both of these guys – in particular Page who I am a huge fan of. But this was just an awful wrestling match on every level. My main issue with Will Ferrara is that he has potential, but at this point he is still brutally green…yet somehow ROH have decided he is the guy they are going to push as the focal point and flag bearer for their bullsh*t Dojo/training seminar system. He is having to LEARN how to be a worker on the level one expects of a Ring Of Honor performer as he goes along. On some days he does ok, but on some (like this) he is terrible to watch. We live in an era where the Young Bucks throw around a thousand superkicks. We live in the Lucha Underground era. Hell, we live in an era where ECW was well over a DECADE ago. Wrestling has long since jumped the shark, and there is zero drama in watching two kids jostle over a basic vertical suplex for minutes at a time. But Will doesn’t have a lot of experience yet, and basic sh*t like that is all he has. For these guys to waste almost a minute over a straightforward suplex is a damning indictment of how basic, limited and uninteresting this was to watch. And it got worse because when they did try something vaguely more interesting – the whole match fell apart. That DDT spot on the floor looked truly terrible. Adam Page could be a future Ring Of Honor Champion, but he needs to be developing by working the top tier guys in competitive matches, not wasting his time with crap like this.
Whitmer wants a fight with Steve Corino, but has to settle with his scheduled match – which is up next.
BJ Whitmer vs Silas Young vs Cheeseburger vs Moose
Moose comes into this on the back of the biggest win of his ROH career. He pinned Roderick Strong to win his first ever main event yesterday in Collinsville and will now be looking to supplement that with another victory to enter Best In The World having regained some of the momentum he lost when his undefeated streak fell to Cedric Alexander (who subsequently hasn’t been booked on any of these Road To BITW shows). Young and Cheeseburger clashed yesterday in what was nothing more than a demonstration of Silas’ bullying tactics…whilst everyone will hate Whitmer since The Decade aren’t popular and he has had public disputes with the likes of Moose and Burger in the past.
Young starts with Cheeseburger and picks up where he left off yesterday by tossing him around with ease. He tries to be equally dismissive of Moose – but of course finds him a far tougher opponent. BJ has the same problem and makes poor little Cheeseburger work him instead. That beating only ends with Silas blind tags in to stop Moose ending it with the Rolling Spear. Sensibly Whitmer and Young look to box Moose out of the match and do so by isolating Cheeseburger as far from him as possible. They do eventually turn on each other obviously, at which point Moose is able to force his way back in. He tosses Cheese straight at Young…then LARIATS him into a German suplex when the Last Real Man catches him. Game Breaker on Young! Exploder ’98 from Whitmer to Moose! Killer Combo from Silas to BJ gets a 2-count before Burger lurches back into to break the count. Whitmer kills him with the Exploder ’98 too…but in a receipt from the San Antonio TV tapings, Moose runs in and steals BJ’s pinfall. Moose gets the win at 10:12
Rating - * - The best match on the show so far, which is pretty depressing considering we are now an hour into it. I actually thought Moose was the best part. He looked like a star in everything he did, and played the finish perfectly. It would have been easy to come off like a bit of a weasel stealing BJ’s pin, but his body language and demeanour made it crystal clear that he was doing it to get some revenge for what Whitmer did to him during the Conquest Tour. Nobody else contributed much to the match, and simply floated around killing time and trying to make Moose look good with as little effort as possible.
Dalton Castle vs Roderick Strong
The ‘original’ Boys are back with Dalton tonight. After one of the worst hours of wrestling Ring Of Honor have put out on DVD in their existence, hopefully the show really gets going with this encounter. Roderick, like Moose, is preparing for a battle to become #1 contender at Best In The World and will need to rebound in a major way after falling to one of his rivals in the main event last night. Castle is far from a walkover though, and he will be looking to elevate his status in the company with a major victory over ‘Mr ROH’.
Castle is at his flamboyant best in the opening minutes, with so much posturing that Strong is thrown completely off of his game. The match is contested almost exclusively on the canvas where Dalton is at his best – with all of Strong’s signature striking, backbreakers and increases in pace are nullified. We are well past the five minute mark before Roderick is able to land a single chop, and by that point he has already sustained some real damage. Dalton doesn’t have the experience of Strong though, and finally makes a mistake by missing a running knee strike and falling out of the ring. RUNNING BOOT INTO THE GUARDRAILS by Strong! In a flash Mr ROH has turned this into ‘his’ match as he pursues his opponent around the ring peppering him with chops. Castle counters back with the apron 619 into the headscissors…so Strong kicks his legs out from under him! A grounded abdominal stretch is applied do inflict damage to Castle’s back for the first time – and if you were in any doubt as to how serious Roddy is taking this he adds to it with some Danielson-esque close-range elbow strikes. Still Castle showcases his ability to counter-wrestle on the canvas but he is slowed considerably by the attacks of his opponent and comes off far worse when they collide in the middle of the ring having simultaneously attempted crossbody blocks. KNEELING EXPLODER by Dalton! Roddy tries a flying knee strike, only to be caught with a belly to belly suplex! Everest German blocked into the MUSO for 2! The Party Peacock is rattled, then further punished by being back dropped over the top rope to the floor! He tries the apron 619 again…but Strong blocks…only for Dalton to block his attempted cradle backbreaker too! SCOOP BACKBREAKER ON THE APRON INSTEAD! Castle’s back absorbs another devastating impact moments later as he is hauled back into the ring with Strong’s huge superplex for 2. Death By Roderick blocked…SO STRONG KNEES ONE OF THE BOYS IN THE FACE! BANG-A-RANG ON STRONG! SUPER-CLOSE NEARFALL!! DEAD-LIFT EVEREST GERMAN FROM THE APRON TO THE INSIDE OF THE RING BY CASTLE! ROLLED INTO ANOTHER EVERST GERMAN! STRONG KICKS OUT AGAIN! Both men are exhausted and stare defiantly across the ring from each other. DEATH BY RODERICK! SICK KICK! Roderick has been through a war but leaves with his hand raised at 18:59!
Rating - **** - The Road To Best In The World 2015 Tour hasn’t been awash with great wrestling, but these two still deserve plenty of credit for producing what was the best match of the tour by some distance. The hot false finishes at the end were great, but I found the chess match opening portion of the contest equally enjoyable – as we watched the cerebral and enigmatic Party Peacock mess with Roddy’s mind then work circles around him. Strong needed all of his experience to work his way back into the contest, but then started breaking out all of his traditional tricks to best his tenacious adversary. The way Castle continued to fight, and continued to counter and out-fox Roderick even during that Strong comeback sequence was a joy to behold and a real affirmation for those of us who have been championing Dalton as a major star for Ring Of Honor in the years to come. I wanted to go higher on my rating – but it felt like they started rushing things in the end. They weren’t letting big moments breathe, and almost stopped selling the impact of such a hard-fought contest to start reeling off big spots. Those spots were awesome to watch I’m not denying – but I feel like I need to explain why I didn’t push my rating up further. They’d told such a fantastic story through the first three quarters of the match, but it felt like they abandoned it somewhat in the final quarter. These are minor quibbles though and this was still a hell of a contest; the only match really worth going out of your way to see on the Road To BITW 2015 Tour.
Roderick Strong shakes hands and congratulates Dalton on his performance…then even graciously clears the ring so he can have a standing ovation. Castle celebrates his first real ROH show-stealing performance by reclining on a human sofa made up of The Boys…
Jay Lethal vs Samson Walker – ROH TV Title Match
Initially, Lethal’s last scheduled defence of the Television Championship was scheduled to be back in Oklahoma City when he retained against Mark Briscoe. However, as we saw earlier tonight, he wanted to show off and annoy the Nashville fans by teasing another ‘warm-up’ title defence before Best In The World…thinking that Truth Martini had lined up a bunch of scrubs to compete for the spot. As we learned from their commentary stint, Martini didn’t vet the applicants and subsequently let the massive Samson Walker earn his opportunity. Samson has appeared periodically on Ring Of Honor events for a while now, and will know winning the belt here is his ticket to a full-time contract. Can Jay escape this ill-advised stunt injury-free and with his championship reign still intact ahead of the pay-per-view?
Lethal spends the first two minutes outside the ring refusing to lock up with Walker…and eventually the challenger decides he has waited long enough so decimates him with a tope suicida. Some vicious trips into the railings come next for the TV Champion before he is finally able to reverse one – which sends Samson head-first into the metal. That was a rough landing and Jay is made extremely aware of how stern a challenge he faces tonight as Walker shakes that off within seconds and is soon back inside the ring dishing out a Curb Stomp for 2. A similar statement is made a couple of minutes later as Lethal nails Hail To The King and barely gets a 1-count out of it. Lethal Injection countered with a HUGE boot to the face…so Martini gets involved by tripping Samson’s leg. Now the Lethal Injection scores, and Jay retains in a time of 08:12
Rating - * - The live audience seemed far more into this one than I was, so perhaps this was one of those matches that just doesn’t translate well to DVD. Considering they were only going eight minutes, this was far too slow and ponderous – and Lethal spending more than two minutes simply walking around outside was inexcusable. It was also strange how the match didn’t really seem to do a lot to get Walker over yet also made Jay Lethal look like a fool as well. Nobody came off well here, and this can be added to the growing pile of wasted time/matches from the Road To Best In The World Tour…
For some reason ODB is a) booked on the show and b) getting some promo time. It is her birthday, and she is celebrating by issuing an open challenge. As if it couldn’t get any worse, Romantic Touch answers the call…
ODB vs Romantic Touch
If there was ever a match to sum up how tedious the Road To BITW Tour has been to get through then this might just be it. ODB was actually entertaining during her brief run earlier in the year when she joined with the Briscoes during their feud with The Kingdom. The exchanges between herself and Maria Kanellis were undeniably fun to watch. But her aforementioned brief run had reached a natural conclusion and there really isn’t much of a reason to bring her back. Even if the rumours of relaunching a Women Of Honor division is true, she is hardly an elite level women’s wrestler either. She is almost certainly more tolerable in every way than Romantic Touch though, who is here to do the exact same sh*t he has done in every match, on every show, for the past two years that he’s been running with this gimmick.
Before the bell even rings we have ODB grabbing her tits excessively and Touch making multiple dick jokes. He then spends some time gratuitously sexually assaulting her…so she starts ramming his head into her crotch? You did read that correctly, and I’m none the wiser having actually watched it. ODB misses a crossbody and apparently injures herself, which opens the door to further rape-like offence from her opponent. Then he hugs and slow dances his way into a belly to belly suplex for 2. This is f*cking awful. Boob punches…followed by E HONDA titty slaps for 2! Titus hits his big dropkick for another nearfall, which Kelly and Corino sell as crossing the line way more than simulating raping her earlier. Not to labour the point, but when Larry Sweeney, Bobby Dempsey and Allison Danger pulled a similar stunt back in the day Gabe got crucified for booking such junk. This interminable, offensive chores trundles on with ODB working over Romantic’s crotch region. Apparently Jay Lethal finds this abysmal too – he runs in and mercy kills the match by superkicking ODB at 08:04
Rating - DUD - This show proudly presents a second candidate for worst 2015 ROH match, which is some accomplishment considering how bad Page/Ferrara was. This match wasn’t funny in the slightest, and at over eight minutes long just kept going on and on like a form of torture. I don’t have a problem with ODB and Romantic Touch being used for some comic relief on a show, and I support using ODB to enhance the heat between Lethal and Briscoe before Best In The World. But whomever booked this offensive, juvenile farce to go so long should be embarrassed. Thank goodness for Dalton Castle and Roderick Strong because everything else on this show has been total garbage.
Jay Briscoe comes to the aid of his friend ODB, as Lethal walks away with a smirk on his face having made his point and successfully messed with his rival’s head once again before Best In The World.
Michael Elgin vs Matt Sydal
It was around this time that Elgin was announced for his NJPW debut as part of the annual G1 Climax Tournament so this is a real period of resurgence for a man who looked to be on a severe downward spiral towards the end of 2014. He has a chance to become #1 contender to the World Championship he desperately wants to regain, and can make a real statement ahead of both that and his pending trip to Japan by defeating a former WWE superstar like Sydal in singles action.
Elgin is covered in welts and bruises to demonstrate just how physical that main event was yesterday. Kelly makes a valid point that Sydal is a man that has wrestled (and beaten) the likes of Big Show, Mark Henry, Kane and so on – meaning Elgin won’t intimidate him at all. As you’d expect this quickly breaks down into a battle between Sydal’s speed and Unbreakable’s sheer power. Matt misses the standing moonsault and is swiftly kicked in the face to put him on the defensive. The neck becomes a target for Elgin – and he hits it really hard with that somersault leg drop from the second rope. A DVD is countered in mid-air to a Meteora by Sydal and he flees to the apron as his opponent looks to grab his neck and wrench it again into a big suplex. Flying Codebreaker misses enabling the weary Sydal to land his standing moonsault…but afterwards he lies on the deck beside his fallen adversary struggling to recover. DOUBLE STOMP TO THE NECK by Elgin, followed by a DVD INTO THE BUCKLES for 2! Repeated lariats to the neck next, and as Sydal attempts a springboard DDT Elgin effortlessly counters him into a devastating side slam. Top rope Awesomebomb COUNTERED TO A MID-AIR HURRICANRANA by Sydal! Meteora caught INTO THE BUCKLE BOMB! ELGIN BOMB COUNTERED TO A REVERSE RANA! SYDAL PRESS GETS KNEES! Western Lariat followed by the Buckle Bomb/Elgin Bomb combo – giving Elgin the win at 12:58
Rating - *** - Shall we give Delirious the benefit of the doubt and say that this match only got less than thirteen minutes because he was looking to protect Elgin after a rough evening in Collinsville? Certainly under normal circumstances it would be laughable that these two got twelve minutes on the same card that ODB/Romantic Touch got more than eight. Matt Sydal has been crazily under-rated since his return to the indies and he was, as usual, superb here. He struck a great balance between selling Elgin’s offence whilst also working in and making his own signature offensive manoeuvres believable. The speed versus power dynamic won’t have surprised anyone – but the diligence and quality of Sydal’s performance was first class. Every move he made in the match revolved around either negating Elgin’s power, or staying out of his clutches so he couldn’t use it. That’s why he started by trying to work a limb (either an arm or a leg), and when that didn’t work he spent the rest of the match moving quickly and using a high volume of distance strikes to stay out of Unbreakable’s clutches. He may be one of the best workers ROH has at the moment, but since he isn’t signed Sydal is nothing but an extremely glamorous enhancement talent – and such is his professionalism that he did a hell of a job ‘enhancing’ Michael Elgin too. Elgin marches into Best In The World with a huge victory, and the rest of us are left wondering how this match was so short considering how depressingly bad the rest of the DVD has been.
The Addiction vs War Machine vs Michael Bennett/Matt Taven vs Jay Briscoe/Mark Briscoe
Initially this was scheduled to be a triple threat, but things are now a lot more complicated as Match Maker Nigel McGuinness has apparently ratified The Kingdom’s pleas from earlier tonight to be allowed into the main event as well. They have a lengthy history with the Briscoe Brothers, and have been raising the ire of War Machine throughout the Road To BITW Tour as well. Hanson, Rowe and the Briscoes have shared some physical battles in the past too, so this certainly won’t be three teams ganging up on the incumbent champions. Given that nobody has been able to pin Jay Briscoe in more than two years too, you might even consider them the favourites. The DVD casing lists this as a Tag Title Match, but neither Scarlett Bordeaux or the commentators refer to it as such so I’m presuming that’s nothing more than a production error.
Corino points out that War Machine could in theory become top contenders for either the ROH Tag Titles, the IWGP Tag Titles or even the ROH World Title so have far more to gain than anyone else. With that in mind it is no surprise that Ray Rowe is tremendously frustrated when Kazarian prevents him from starting the match. Hanson only has to wait a couple of minutes before getting the opportunity to manhandle Chris Daniels fortunately. First Daniels, then Bennett, then Taven all decide they don’t want to fight War Machine at all – walking to the floor and leaving the Briscoes to take up the baton and trade blows with them. Just when Hanson thinks he has cleared the ring The Kingdom jump him from behind to take control themselves for the first time. Hanson spends several minutes isolated from his partner as first The Kingdom then The Addiction take turns working him over. Rowe eventually gets the hot tag and comes in with the Cement Mixer on Daniels! Pretty soon the Briscoes and War Machine are brawling amongst themselves again…and this time the ROH and IWGP Tag Champs decide they want to join the party as well! Daniels takes out Jay with the Arabian Press to the floor! TOP ROPE MOONSAULT TO THE OUTSIDE BY MARK! SUICIDE DIVE BY TAVEN! SOMERSAULT SENTON ONTO EVERYONE BY HANSON! Rude Awakening from Jay to Kaz, before he eats a superkick from Bennett! BICYCLE KICK/STUNNER by The Kingdom! War Machine are in next to give Bennett a double chokeslam. DEATH ROWE! SPIN KICK OF DOOM! Taven is already dead, so it’s overkill when War Machine try to give him Fallout as well. The Addiction thwart that and level Rowe with one of the title belts behind Todd Sinclair’s back. Next they stop the Briscoes hitting the Doomsday Device! Fisherman buster from Mark to Bennett, followed by the Froggy Bow! Again The Addiction are on hand to stop one of their opponents winning! CELEBRITY REHAB! They pin Mark Briscoe to win the match at 18:03
Rating - *** - I may be in a minority but I liked the tag team main event to the Collinsville show more than this one. These guys packed in plenty of hot spots down the stretch, but personally I enjoyed the intensity and physicality of last night’s main event more. Everyone did what they had to do proficiently here; The Addiction came off like sneaky veterans, The Kingdom came off like uber-cocky dicks, War Machine hit their big muscular spots and Jay Briscoe, as World Champion, was well protected. The reason I haven’t gone higher on my rating, however, is that the first ten minutes felt very ‘safe’ and thoroughly b-show. Nobody was really stepping out of their wheelhouse to steal the show or produce something memorable. They were working a match so formulaic that, but for a few Briscoes/War Machine exchanges this may as well have been an 8-man tag. It got better at the end thankfully, and the right team definitely won. Daniels and Kazarian definitely needed a strong, competitive and clean victory to give some legitimacy to their fledgling Tag Championship reign…
The Kingdom get in The Addiction’s faces, proudly raising their IWGP Tag Titles and making it clear that the issue between those two teams isn’t over. In the midst of that Jay Lethal runs in to blindside Jay Briscoe once more, and War Machine are still at ringside happily fighting anyone they can get their hands on…sort of like violent hairy toddlers. The show ends with Briscoe countering the Lethal Injection, then Lethal rolling away to escape the Jay Driller. The next time they get their hands on each other it will be the ‘Battle Of The Belts’…
Tape Rating - * - I’ll keep this brief, because there are plenty of reviews out there to tell you that the whole Road To Best In The World 2015 Tour was rather underwhelming and that this wasn’t a great show. For my money this wasn't great, with a top-heavy main event which under-delivered and a seriously bad undercard - but it wasn't quite as outrageously irritating as the Amarillo DVD. When Michael Elgin and Matt Sydal working delivering a solid, safe, professional but largely unremarkable match almost steals the show then you know there are issues though. Thankfully, and not for the first time this year, Roderick Strong was around to deliver a show-saving match – which also did wonders to elevate Dalton Castle’s credibility too. Lets focus on the positives – despite being a disappointing collection of shows, every single Road To BITW event had at least one match that really made you sit up and take notice – from Elgin/ACH in Amarillo, through to Strong/Castle tonight. My own recommendation would be to skip them all unless you are a completist…and if you have to pick just one Road To BITW show to get, make it Collinsville (which was actually a half-decent house show). I’ve broken down the best matches from the tour below too, although I’d probably recommend waiting until some of them spring up on a compilation somewhere down the road…
Top 3 Matches
3) The Addiction vs War Machine vs Michael Bennett/Matt Taven vs Jay Briscoe/Mark Briscoe (***)
2) Michael Elgin vs Matt Sydal (***)
1) Roderick Strong vs Dalton Castle (****)
Top 5 Road To Best In The World 2015 Collinsville/Nashville Weekend Matches
5) Michael Elgin vs Matt Sydal (*** - Nashville)
4) Hanson vs Matt Taven (*** - Collinsville)
3) The Addiction vs Matt Sydal/Delirious (**** - Collinsville)
2) Michael Elgin/Moose vs Jay Briscoe/Roderick Strong (**** - Collinsville)
1) Roderick Strong vs Dalton Castle (**** - Nashville)
Top 7 Road To Best In The World 2015 Tour Matches
7) Hanson vs Matt Taven (*** - Collinsville)
6) The Addiction vs Matt Sydal/Delirious (**** - Collinsville)
5) Michael Elgin vs ACH (**** - Amarillo)
4) Michael Elgin/Moose vs Jay Briscoe/Roderick Strong (**** - Collinsville)
3) Jay Briscoe vs Hanson (**** - Oklahoma City)
2) Adam Cole vs ACH (**** - Oklahoma City)
1) Roderick Strong vs Dalton Castle (**** - Nashville)