ROH 462 - Survival Of The Fittest 2017: Night Two - 18th November 2017

Survival Of The Fittest weekend continues, with the second three qualification matches taking place this evening. They'll feature the three members of The Kingdom trying to book their places in the final - greatly increasing the odds that we'll see a Kingdom-member getting a World Title shot. Like last night, I'm not sure how relevant the tournament will actually be however. Bullet Club once again dominate the top of the card as Cody defends the World Title against Christopher Daniels one more time, whilst Young Bucks look to hobble two of his closest championship rivals Jay Lethal and Dalton Castle. Other highlights of the card feature the Motor City Machine Guns defending the Tag Titles in a four-way tag bout, Kenny King putting the TV Title on the line against Scorpio Sky and a No DQ Women Of Honor grudge match between Deonna Purrazzo and Karen Q. Ian Riccaboni is back tonight, alongside Colt Cabana - both live at ringside in Dallas, TX.

Vinny Marseglia vs Jonathan Gresham
This is our first SOTF qualification bout of the evening (like yesterday we are getting them out of the way early in the show). All three feature Kingdom members are in action, launching an attack on the tournament which they hope will see one of them earn a World Title shot. Marseglia is up first against 'The Octopus' Jon Gresham. Search & Destroy have had issues with The Kingdom recently, but lost to them in trios action last night in San Antonio. Gresham is coming for payback...

Matt Taven is at ringside and says he has never had a 'fair shot at the World Title'...which is just a barefaced lie. He then joins commentary, but his headset doesn't work so we can't heat anything. Gresham is so much better than Vinny that it's almost uncomfortable to watch. Marseglia appears to suffer a shoulder injury and leaves the ring. Medical personnel tend to him, and producer BJ Whitmer appears too...but it's all fake and he pops up off the ground and violently flings Gresh into the guardrails. The heat for that is pretty wild in all fairness. The Octopus hits a suplex, but his back is clearly injured after the rough trip into the barricades. Vinny plants him on the ground again with a Side Effect right afterwards to punish the injury further. He pulls up the crash mats from and hits a BRAINBUSTER ON THE WOODEN FLOOR! Jonathan barely avoids the count-out, but just when he threatens a comeback Marseglia drops a senton across his wounded back. Redrum gets knees. Gresham climbs... 450 SPLASH gets knees! Tope suicida scores for The Octopus instead. ROLLING SHOOTING STAR PRESSES! The match is won...but TK O'Ryan pulls the referee to break the count. That isn't a disqualification for some reason. Bridging roll-up by Gresh wins it at 09:20

Rating - ** - I'm pleased Gresham won because he is fantastic and completely under-rated. On the whole I thought this was fine as an opening match. I didn't care much for Marseglia's fake injury, but in the building it got great heat which really contributed to my overall enjoyment. To give Vinny credit as well - his work on Gresham's back was solid. Unfortunately it all fell apart at the end, with Gresham ditching selling the back to start hitting 450's and dives to the floor and SSP's, then O'Ryan somehow able to drag the referee around on behalf of his partner and still not get disqualified. 

TK O'Ryan vs Flip Gordon
Whilst I appreciate he missed a big chunk after breaking his leg in Las Vegas earlier in 2017, the fact that TK has been in ROH for more than a year and you can count the amount of singles matches he has had on one hand is shocking. And all of those have either been too short to matter, riddled with outside interference...or both. Does Delirious not have any faith in him as a singles guy? He has a chance to shine tonight against Flip Gordon - who has looked great in the final quarter of the year and enters the tournament hot after beating Hangman Page at the Sunshine State Excellence TV taping.

TK throws his jacket at Flip then jumps him during his entrance. Just like Marseglia did, he takes his opponent to the outside and batters his spine against the guardrails before dumping him to the floor. They've still not fixed Taven's mic on commentary, so we have long periods of muffled wind-tunnel sounds which I presume are when he talks. Flip, already covered in medical tape and wearing elbow and wrist padding, is in rough shape - making him easy for O'Ryan to keep on the ground. He blocks the attempt at a standing moonsault and drills Gordon with a spinebuster for 2. Flip lines up a desperate tope suicida...which TKO easily side-steps to watch as he flies right into the guardrails again. Superplex rolled into the SIT-OUT PILEDRIVER for 2! Flip can barely stand...but still has enough to flip so finds the willpower to level his opponent with a Pele Kick. Springboard lariat misses...Samoan Pop blocked. Gordon lands the springboard Sling Blade - setting up the Samoan Pop which gets 2. Marseglia tries to hit Flip with his baseball bat but accidentally levels his own partner! Star Spangled Stunner wins it for Gordon at 09:06

Rating - *** - This was the singles performance I've been waiting to see from TK. He has been given almost no opportunity to show what he has to offer as an individual performer, and he did a decent job here. Gordon has been excellent over the last few months, but he looks like the schedule is getting to him. Covered in bandages and bruises - he makes a relatable and sympathetic figure and he bumped with reckless abandon to make O'Ryan look good here. Once again a goofball Kingdom finish really soured me on the match that came before - but that overbooking isn't the fault of either competitor who delivered a sound match before a Delirious cheap finish special wrecked it.

Matt Taven vs Cheeseburger
The Kingdom are 0-2 tonight, and this is now our final SOTF qualification match to see who joins Gresham, Flip, Silas Young, Shane Taylor and Punishment Martinez in the final tomorrow. Cheeseburger is the rank outsider, but Taven has been on commentary for the last half an hour so can't claim to be warm or loosened up. Does Burger sniff a update?

Taven runs straight to the ropes because he spots Burger lining up a Shotei. He tries to leave the ring as well, but Burger spots that and chases him with a springboard plancha to the outside. Matt swings at his opponent and rattles his fist against the ringpost. Springboard knee blocked with a Taven spinning heel kick though. Military press slam by Taven, soon followed by a double underhook backbreaker. Burger retaliates with some feisty close-range striking...then unleashes the Shotei for 2. Climax by Taven. He wins at 06:52 and becomes the sixth man in the Survival Of The Fittest 2017 finals.

Rating - * - Far too long. I felt it needed to be a comprehensive squash win for Taven and taking almost seven minutes to beat Cheeseburger (several of those minutes spent with Burger on offence) does him no favours. 

Not content with the victory, The Kingdom give Cheeseburger Rock Star Supernova to celebrate Taven going onto the finals.

Former TNA Knockouts Champion, Knockouts Tag Champion and SHIMMER Tag Champion Madison Rayne makes her return to ROH, to provide commentary on the next match. Thankfully they've fixed the headset since Taven was there. She makes her in-ring return tomorrow...

Karen Q vs Deonna Purrazzo - No DQ Match
These two used to be friends, but fell out in the race to the top of the Women Of Honor division. Karen became the first person to defeat Kelly Klein - via countout when Deonna distracted the Gatekeeper. Karen won again when she, Deonna and Kelly met in the televised WOH special and subsequently the relationship between them has buckled under the weight of personal ambition. Both women are competing in street clothes to sell the intensity of the rivalry.

Purrazzo marches to the ring and pops Q right in the mouth to get us started. She is a wrestler at heart though so tries to take the fight to Karen with her wrestling skill rather than use of weaponry quite yet. Q tries to leave but is met with a rolling senton off the apron by Purrazzo. Karen gets some payback by swatting a chair into Deonna's throat! I love that Purrazzo responds to that by dragging her opponent back into the ring to use more of her WRESTLING excellence to come back from a chair shot. A knee strike and the Italian Legsweep gets 2...only for Karen to brain her against a chair one more time. She lands an exploder suplex then opts to punch Purrazzo in the face repeatedly rather than pin her. She tapes Deonna's arms to the ropes so she can't defend herself as she is peppered with strikes. Purrazzo has to be freed by referee Todd Sinclair - and when Karen lines up a mafia kick the Virtuosa scoops her up for a DIVING POWERBOMB! Karen throws her out of the ring so hard that her face ricochets off the arena floor...and she is still reeling as Q flies after her with a crossbody off the apron. Karen tries to throw powder, but Deonna ducks meaning it goes into Todd Sinclair's eyes. Ace Crusher by Purrazzo, but no pin since Todd can't see to count it! SAMOAN DROP ON A CHAIR by Karen gets 2. Purrazzo gets up for a BICYCLE KICK through the chair! Karen looks totally KO'd - but kicks out at 2. Deonna wraps her arm in the chair and STOMPS IT! Fujiwara Armbar applied, making Q tap out at 11:13

Rating - *** - WOH MOTY (unless something sneaks in very late in the day to top it), this was a great match. This was precisely what I've been waiting for from the Women Of Honor division. Two legitimately talented women, on the main show not in a dark match, involved in an actual feud and given the opportunity to work an actual match that fans can get behind. All throughout this was physical and intense. They captured the attention of the fans, who were chanting 'this is awesome' by the end. Great work from all involved. I adored Deonna approaching this as a WRESTLER in a grudge match. She was looking to hurt Karen in a no rules environment, but using her bare hands rather than weapons. Even Madison Rayne on commentary was effective in her role. This division needs more of talents like Deonna and Karen and less of Sumie, Kelly and Mandy...

Motor City Machine Guns vs The Dawgs vs Silas Young/Beer City Bruiser vs Esfinge/Rey Cometa - ROH Tag Title Match
None of these challenging teams has any real grounds to argue that they deserve a title shot right now. Esfinge and Cometa debuted last night and were victorious over The Dawgs. Rhett and Little Willy lurk at the bottom of the card and continue to dine out on their one claim to fame, which is beating Roppongi 3K back when they were still Tempura Boyz. Silas and Bruiser are perhaps the most dangerous challenging unit, and have achieved a measure of tag team success in ROH by winning the 2016 Tag Wars Tournament. In truth the only reason any of these men are getting a shot is because Sabin and Shelley vowed to be fighting champions and defends the belts against all comers (yes, exactly the story that they are running with Kenny King). Have the Machine Guns bitten off more than they can chew tonight?

Esfinge and Sabin start. Immediately I realise how experienced and good Sabin is, as his exchange with the luchador is far better than anything Titus or Ferrara managed with him last night. Speaking of Ferrara, he is forced into action with the Bruiser much to the amusement of everyone else in the match. They all laugh as BCB steamrolls him with a shoulder tackle...so he throws a strop and tags Silas in? Surely that isn't in the rules? Quickly the Milwaukee boys find a loophole and try to 'Fingerpoke Of Doom' their way to the Tag Titles, prompting all six opponents to jump into the ring and break it up. Team CMLL hit a couple of lucha double-teams, which doesn't impress Bruiser at all so he crushes Esfinge with an ocean cyclone suplex. Despite his size they start bullying Esfinge, keeping him on the ground so he is unable to exploit BCB's lack of speed and agility. Shelley starts getting anxious and has to step in a couple of times to break pinfalls by The Dawgs on the hapless Esfinge. Eventually Cometa gets a tag and launches himself into a running rana off the apron to wipe Titus out. The Dawgs stop the luchadors hitting some crowd-pleasing dives, dropping Rey with the catapult lariat combo for 2. Diving front slam from Rhett to Sabin. But Beer City then splatters him in the corner with a running cannonball. MCMG clear the ring and hit the through-the-legs tope suicida. Cometa kicks Silas in the face when he lines up the Plunge on Willy. STEREO MOONSAULTS to the floor by Team CMLL. Mafia kick by Rhett, setting him up for a missed Dawg Splash! Sabin pounces to small package Ferrara for the win. MCMG retain at 12:49

Rating - *** - Ian R informed us that this was supposed to be the Machine Guns vs Esfinge and Rey Cometa only, until it was changed late to add in Silas, Bruiser and The Dawgs. Whilst I can't shake the feeling MCMG vs Team CMLL would have been a far better match, I certainly didn't think this one was without charm. At no stage did it feel dull. I thought they held my attention well and never felt like they were just killing time. The Dawgs were funny but more than capable of holding up their end of the deal as workers. Esfinge and Cometa picked their spots for maximum impact - with Esfinge in particular delivering a markedly improved performance on San Antonio. Likewise Silas and Bruiser were great to watch as roaming grumpy assholes. 

Josh Woods vs Marty Scurll
This is a major opportunity for Woods. The Villain is amongst the most skilled and popular wrestlers on the roster, and stepping into the ring with him also represents a serious step up in class. How will 'The Goods' equip himself? How much will Marty be focused on Woods, and how much will his mind wander to Final Battle and his big showdown with Jay Lethal?

Josh Woods dismissively smirking at Scurll and informing him that he 'doesn't care' what FTRR means is one of my favourite moments on the whole show. He wants The Villain to cut the bullsh*t and wrestle...and demonstrates why as he takes Scurll to school and has him clutching desperately for the ropes. Marty then stops the match to tell everyone that he isn't 'just a gimmick'...before trying to work amateur-style with The Goods. He somehow gets Josh to agree to going on all fours and turning his back. Obviously since Marty is a Villain the pay-off is him kicking stupid inexperienced Woods in his smiling vacant face. Josh can't grapple and suplex on the floor, which is where Scurll takes the match. However, as soon as they return Woods starts countering Marty again to ram his shoulder into the turnbuckles. Judo throw, using the now-injured arm as leverage, gets 2 for Woods. The Villain escapes and stamps on Josh' fingers. Chickenwing countered to ROLLING airplane spin gutwrench suplexes. Deenda Bar applied, but too close to the ropes, allowing Scurll to grab it with his good arm. Just Kidding scores, as does the Finger Snap. The ref catches Marty using the ropes for leverage on a pin - and Woods capitalises with a thrust kick and a brainbuster for 2. Scurll gets desperate...and grabs a handful of Josh's tights before rolling him up again. Marty wins at 11:33

Rating - ** - I am a supporter of Josh Woods getting the opportunities he has in ROH, whilst Marty is perhaps my favourite wrestler in the company. But this didn't work for me. The general premise of Woods being a lethal grappler, completing throwing Scurll off his game since he is so used to having a technical advantage over whomever he faces, was a good one. It didn't feel like they scratched the surface of what they could have achieved with that dynamic though. That was largely because Marty spent three minutes at the start acting like his irritating 'Being The Elite' character...but in an ROH ring. When he came in and had a great run as TV Champion he still had a quirky personality - but when it came down to business he was a serious threat. I don't need to see the karaoke-singing, socially awkward comedy version of him. The bit where he had to remind fans he wasn't 'all gimmick' was so uncomfortable to watch. The fact that they let such a good premise for a match get lost was a real shame.

Kenny King vs Scorpio Sky - ROH TV Title Match
King was originally scheduled to be defending the belt against Frankie Kazarian this evening, but Frankie sustained an injury in the San Antonio main event. His future SCU stable-mate, who competed alongside him against Bullet Club last night, is rewarded with a title opportunity. I don't think Sky has ever won a match in Ring Of Honor so nothing other than King's desire to defend the belt against comers has earned him this opportunity. He is certainly good enough to make the most of it and take the belt to Final Battle in Kenny's place.

They blow a spot running the ropes in the first thirty seconds in front of a completely silent crowd which is rather uncomfortable. King kicks Sky to the floor, slips on the apron, and recovers quickly to land a corkscrew senton to the floor. Scorpio weathers the storm and dumps the champion back through the ropes to the floor...and starts posing like he wants a count-out victory in a title match? Kenny comes back with the Last Chancery as the camera crew pick up on pretty seriously busted mouth on the champion. Sky escapes the hold and launches Kenny over the top ropes to the floor yet again. This time Scorpio gives chase and levels him with a diving clothesline off the apron. Back in the ring he works a camel clutch, held high and pulling on the face to exacerbate King's busted mouth. Neither can gain a clear advantage and finally run at each other aiming simultaneous big boots...and so knock each other to the mat in stereo. Royal Flush countered to a small package for 2, and Scorpio quickly follows with a jumping neckbreaker for another nearfall. Running frankensteiner by Sky (King almost landed on his head), before the challenger misses a double stomp and walks into the Shotgun Knees. One Night Stand gets 2 for King. Corkscrew pescado misses, allowing Sky to land an Ace Crusher on the apron. Dragon Clutch blocked...so Sky knees Kenny right in his bloody mouth. Last Chancery again! Scorpio taps out at 12:00

Rating - ** - The first five minutes of this were terrible. Completely awful, totally boring, multiple screw-ups, Kenny getting his mouth f*cked up, deathly silent crowd. It had NOTHING going for it. That they salvaged the match in the second half to deliver something halfway watchable is actually quite an accomplishment. I am totally in favour of King winning more matches with the Last Chancery though. It was a viable finish when Austin Aries did it in ROH - so has always felt quite devalued when Kenny does it as little more than a filler/transition spot. Credit to both men for surviving a bad start and saving what could have been a total car wreck.

Kenny bravely gets on the microphone and asks Dallas what they thought of the title defence they just witnessed. He calls out Silas Young, Shane Taylor and Punishment Martinez so he can kick all their asses before Final Battle. Taylor comes down the ramp, but is cut off by Martinez jumping the guardrail to brawl with him. Silas jumps off the stage after them...and King dives onto the whole pile with a corkscrew pescado (and completes a bad night by landing right on his face). 

Young Bucks vs Jay Lethal/Dalton Castle
Dalton continues his preparation for Cody at Final Battle. Last night he defeated Marty Scurll, tonight he teams with Lethal (who never needs much persuasion to fight Bullet Club) to face the Bucks. This is another big test of his championship credentials, and he enters knowing that Cody will surely have ordered the Bucks to inflict as much damage to him as possible ahead of the pay-per-view.

Castle and Lethal solidify their team bond with a hug and a kiss before the match. Matt needs all of his speed to avoid being manhandled by the #1 contender, but then Dalton has to duck down to the ground when Matt aims a Superkick in his direction. Nick and Lethal have a terrific back-and-forth wrestling exchange, from which the former World Champion comes out on top. Cabana points out that the slow pace of the contest thus far is massively in favour of Dalton and Lethal...and right on cue the Bucks speed things up with a few double-team moves. Castle assumes control, catching both Jacksons one after another to dump them with overhead suplexes. Matt goes to the floor, only to he caught with Castle's tiger-feint rana off the apron. Lethal starts blasting the Bucks into the guardrails with the Tope Trilogy soon after. They isolate Matt with plenty of focus on his back and midsection. It works until they get cocky and start making fun of the 'ten boots' spot The Elite like to do. Matt hits back with a Superkick to Dalton on the floor, then the Worst Case Scenario to Jay inside the ring. Hot tag to Nick...WHO CLIMBS A PILLAR AT RINGSIDE FOR A MOONSAULT TO THE FLOOR! Lethal and Castle flee so he can't hit Rise Of The Terminator...but don't see Matt sneaking away up the aisle. RISE OF THE TERMINATOR OFF THE STAGE by Matt! Superkick chins Lethal for 2. Stereo Figure 4 Leglocks by Dalton and Lethal, but the Bucks hold hands to build momentum in order to roll over and counter - showing all their experience of tag team wrestling there. SPRINGBOARD DDT ON THE APRON from Matt to Castle! That is exactly what Cody wants to see. Standing moonsault/frog splash gets 2. Lethal saves his partner from the Meltzer Driver only to be dragged away as Matt tries to tap him out with a Sharpshooter. RUNNING CUTTER by Lethal to break that. Lethal Injection COUNTERED with double Superkicks to the back of the head! Jay drags Nick off the top with an Ace Crusher, then the Lethal Injection on Matt. Bang-A-Rang by Castle, earning him a big win at 20:41

Rating - **** - A different kind of Young Bucks match, but a welcome change of pace. I really enjoy it when they book the Bucks in matches like this against a combination of established singles wrestlers. Watching the two teams play around with the basic premise of the non-regular team dominating one-on-one wrestling and therefore FORCING the Bucks to do all their whacky, combo moves is always great fun. Here both Castle and Lethal got to look extremely formidable; controlling the pace for long periods of time and limiting the Young Bucks to only brief flashes of some of their more intricate tag team excellence. Dalton is 2-0 against Bullet Club for the weekend.

Cody vs Christopher Daniels - ROH World Title Texas Death Match
After a time limit draw with Cody at the Soaring Eagle Cup Daniels announced that he refused to wrestle Cody again until the World Title was on the line. This is the night he gets his wish and he now attempts to take back the belt that Rhodes beat him for at Best In The World 2017. After waiting his entire career to become ROH World Champion and now still extremely bitter about how he lost it, Daniels will be ultra-motivated here - particularly since last time they met with the belt on the line he lost a 2/3 Falls Match in two straight falls. On television he has spoken about wanting to get the title back, be released from his contract so that he can be a wildcard free agent champion just like Cody was. On the flip side, however, Ian R announces that Daniels has agreed to a stipulation barring him from receiving another title shot whilst Cody is champion should he lose tonight. Just in case you needed a reminder - Texas Death Match rules are effectively Last Man Standing rules, except you need to first obtain a pinfall (or submission) before the ref will administer the 10-count.

Daniels refuses to kiss the ring and jumps the champion to get us underway. Cody retaliates with the dropdown palm strike and forces Daniels to kiss the ring whilst he stumbles backwards afterwards. Next he starts punching Daniels in the head with his ring-finger - which is legal in this environment. The opening minutes are frantic, with no real rhythm and neither man really able to establish themselves. Cody man to change the dynamic and leave the ring (obviously)...but he does so to lure Daniels out of the ring for a hiptoss on the floor. He tries to use a chair only for the General to grab it off him and rattle it across his spine. Next he catapults Rhodes into the pillar that Nick Jackson moonsaulted off in the last match. Cody gets immediate revenge by ramming Daniels head into the pillar as well...which cuts the Fallen Angel wide open. Rhodes instantly notices that and bashes his face into the World Title belt to make it worse. He pursues Daniels up the aisle, peppering his head wound with punches and elbows until Daniels body slams him on the stage just to get him to stop. We return to the ring where Cody eats a slam on a steel chair too. Using a belt he ripped from Bobby Cruise's trousers, Daniels flogs the champion and chokes him when he tries to fight back. Now he grabs a microphone and rants about building ROH with his own blood and being sickened by Bullet Club shirts everywhere. Annoyingly, rather than sell that Cody steals the microphone and makes an FTRR joke. It seems to annoy Daniels too because he drives him straight into the ringpost as punishment. He rips out sections of guardrail...and drops Cody on top of one with a gourdbuster. He then sets about making a guardrail platform balanced by more railing on either side. Smartly Rhodes suplexes him back into the ring rather than go through that monstrosity. Disaster Kick gets 2 and incapacitates the challenger for long enough so Cody can start whipping him with Bobby's belt. Springboard dropkick through an open chair gets 2 for Cody. ROPE RUN SPRINGBOARD CROSSBODY...MET WITH A CHAIR SHOT BY DANIELS! That looked brutal! Dusty-esque jabs by Cody back inside the ring. Cross Rhodes blocked with a low blow! Which is totally legal as well. So Cody punts him in the balls right back when Daniels tries to set up Angel's Wings. BME NAILED! Still he can't pin the American Nightmare though. An enraged Daniels tries to go back to the top rope...so Cody runs up after him and shoves him at the guardrail stack. Whether it was a botch or not, Daniels grabbing the ropes to save himself looked pretty cool. Until Cody DISASTER KICKS HIM THROUGH THE GUARDRAIL STACK! Watching Daniels body bounce to the ground like a crash test dummy was horrific. But since Cody has to get him back into the ring before pinning him it is only good enough for 2. A table is dragged in by Cody, but Daniels lobs a chair into his face before he can use it. Daniels PULLS OUT LIGHTER FLUID!? He sets the table on fire!? CODY GIVES HIM AN AWESOMEBOMB THROUGH THE FLAMING TABLE! JESUS CHRIST! Cody pins Daniels, the Todd administers the 10-count. In the most violent of fashions, Cody ends the war with Chris Daniels and retains the World Title at 24:30

Rating - **** - Pulling out a no-context flaming table feels very much like something modern-day ROH would do. I don't know that this angle or this match warranted it (throughout ROH history there haven't been many flaming table spots, even in the most violent of feuds) so it came off slightly like a cheap pop...but holy sh*t you still have to commend the fearless Daniels for taking that (and that guardrail bump too, which looked really nasty). There was a lot to enjoy about this one. It had some of the qualities of perhaps my favourite Cody/ROH match thus far - his Texas Bullrope Match with Jay Lethal at Supercard Of Honor. At times it felt a little old-fashioned...but this did feel like a fight. Daniels bled, they took painful (rather than spectacular) bumps, and they fought with the kind of unrelenting intensity that has been lacking in a LOT of Cody's World Title defences. Whether it was a better wrestling match than their 2/3 Falls Match on TV I'm not sure, but this felt a lot more dramatic.

Fans literally throw water out of the crowd for Todd Sinclair and Paul Turner to douse Daniels with. He has to be helped back to the locker room as Cody (and the Young Bucks) watch uncomfortably from inside the ring. 

Tape Rating - *** - I wrestled long and hard with how to rate this show. It wasn't as solid, consistent or as easy to watch as last night in San Antonio (which I only gave 2* to). But, it has a great Young Bucks tag which felt a lot different to many of their matches, a violent World Title main event which should be seen at least once (both of which I'd take over Lethal/Martinez, the best match from last night), and it has the Women Of Honor MOTY as well. They take up approximately 50% of this show and were all really good - hence I felt compelled to go higher on my rating, even this show isn't as smooth top-to-bottom. I certainly preferred the two intense main event matches we got here over the 30-minute long Bullet Club ego-stroking session we got as a main event yesterday. The actual Survival Of The Fittest tournament has been almost a complete irrelevance to the weekend so far however!

Top 3 Matches
3) Deonna Purrazzo vs Karen Q (***)
2) Jay Lethal/Dalton Castle vs Young Bucks (****)
1) Cody vs Christopher Daniels (****)

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