McXal's Reviews

It's not like any of the War Of The Worlds 2019 Tour shows could really be called 'loaded' cards - but if you were ranking them on paper this is comfortably the weakest. There is some intriguing stuff though, not least the 10-Man Tag main event forcing the Briscoe/Bully/Silas/Taylor group into battle with an ROH/NJPW all-star line-up - but also a World Title #1 contendership fourway, a Kingdom vs Bullet Club (GOD & Hikuleo) trios tag and some card reshuffling involving the World Title too. This is, however, the night where Cheeseburger, The Bouncers, C2C, Eli Isom, Rhett Titus (i.e. all the guys at the lower end of ROH's roster/rankings) are all crammed into an undercard already featuring multiple NJPW LA Dojo Young Lions too. Ian Riccaboni and Colt Cabana once again provide commentary - this time from Grand Rapids, MI (another new Michigan venue for ROH).

The show opens to shots of a surprisingly full arena, and we go straight to the announce desk where Ian Riccaboni announces that a scheduled Mark Haskins vs PCO bout has been cancelled due to the eye injury sustained by PCO in Toronto.

If nothing else this should be a battle of two extremely motivated teams. The US Young Lions are struggling for wins in ROH, but at least they've been on the main show for all three nights of the tour so far. C2C haven't been booked, and have started showing signs of frustration at their lack of progress and development in Ring Of Honor. They will be desperate to avoid a humiliating defeat to Shibata's LA Dojo trainees...

Fredericks and LSG start, quickly dropping into the familiar pattern of the NJPW Dojo kid taking the more athletic opponent to the mat and causing him problems due to his Shibata-taught knowledge of grappling fundamentals. Karl successfully sees off St. Giovanni and vacates the ring...so Coughlin and Ali can do basically the same thing. Coughlin out-wrestles Ali and drags him back to the Young Lion corner to start working him over. Shaheem looks increasingly annoyed, and actually needs a shot from behind by LSG to aid his passage out of the ring. Leon also looks agitated and ensures C2C keep Coughlin deep in their half of the ring. But they get cocky, start taunting Fredericks...and immediately lose Alex so he can tag out. Fredericks hits the same impressive dropkicks he does in every match, scattering both opponents. Coughlin gets in on the action and puts St. Giovanni in the Boston Crab - until Ali socks him from behind with a clothesline. LSG follows that with a bicycle kick to the back of the head...and Ali pins Coughlin with a swinging front slam at 10:18

Rating - * - This in no way needed to be ten minutes long. The LA Dojo kids' matches are starting to become incredibly repetitive to watch, not only because they only have the same limited moveset in each match...but also because each one follows the exact same pattern and lay-out. That said, other than being too long and entirely predictable this match wasn't actively bad. We saw more aggression and edge from Coast 2 Coast, which they'd previously shown hints of in Pittsburgh and Columbus.

So Kelly is indeed back to that stupid gimmick where she defends her belt in every match, completely devaluing the WOH Championship. Riccaboni really tries his hardest to make us care by pointing out that these two have wrestled before in Women Of Honor and that Shadows was a formidable opponent for The Gatekeeper...but he fools nobody into believing that this being a title match isn't utterly stupid.

Shadows shoves Kelly on her ass rather than follow the Code Of Honor, provoking Klein to spear her to the ground in a heated start to the contest. The champ drives repeated knees into Stacy's head, but finds the size of her opponent hard to deal with and Shadows soon retaliates with a spinebuster. The crowd actually start really jeering Shadows as she aggressively clubs at The Gatekeeper. Things fall apart as Stacy makes an error and bumps for absolutely no reason, swears loudly and Kelly looks confused before throwing some of her usual terrible strikes at her. GERMAN SUPLEX NAILED! We are back on track! Stacy survives that and clambers up the ropes to miss a Vader Bomb. Klein knees her in the face to win at 04:40

Rating - ** - Some may perceive this rating as a little generous because there was a BIG screw-up in the final minute, but I actually liked this match outside of that. It didn't go too long (unlike the first match), they worked a fast-paced and physical style, they got the crowd invested in what they were doing and the resulting bout was intense enough that it feels like Klein genuinely gained a little something in victory. 

Klein shakes hands with Shadows and leaves her to get a generous ovation from the crowd. Once Klein has departed The Allure show up and attack Shadows, ganging up on her and drawing on her face with lipstick as they've done to Klein and Jenny Rose previously. Kelly charges back out and gets some shots in on Mandy and Angelina...only for Velvet Sky to hairspray her in the face. Angelina starts knocking lumps out of the 'blinded' WOH Champion as security floods the ring to separate them...

Ian and Colt announce that Vinny Marseglia and TK O'Ryan are now banned from ringside during Matt Taven's ROH World Title Matches, as a result of their interference in the Taven/PCO bout in Toronto. 

Up next we're set for a scheduled contest between Cheeseburger and NJPW LA Dojo's Clark Connors. Colt Cabana even refers to it as a 'prelim match', making the point that this doesn't belong on the card at all. Dalton Castle trots out before they can begin and tries to send them back to the locker room, but Burger refuses to go and instead proposes a triple threat. Castle initially refuses, until CB goads him with a reminder of his loss to Rush in MSG...

Castle is a former World Champion but has fallen on hard times in 2019, culminating in his devastating loss in mere seconds to Rush at G1 Supercard from which he is still to recover. The Boys have been discarded, and he remains completely distracted by Rush. He wasn't prepared to compete tonight so is in skinny jeans and a t-shirt, and cannot afford a loss to low ranking competitors like Burger or Connors...

CB and Clark take turns teeing off on Dalton from the bell, as you might expect given how he just buried them on the microphone. Burger gets distracted fighting Connors though, and eats a suplex from Dalton. The Peacock and the Young Lion trade strikes until Dalton feeds Connors into a crossbody block from Burger. Dalton dials up the violence; viciously assaulting Clark on the floor and leaving him in a mess against the guardrails. Back inside the ring Cheese counters another suplex attempt into a sunset flip for 2. Still reeling from that, Castle doesn't see Connors coming for some payback and is soon on the receiving end of his own violent trip into the barricades. Clark grabs CB for some rolling gutwrench suplexes...not seeing Dalton returning and grabbing him from behind. Castle suplexes both guys, sending bodies sprawling everywhere. He then hoists Burger in the air and suplexes him FROM THE APRON into Connors standing on the floor. Clark survives that and counters the Bang-A-Rang. Boston Crab on Castle, leaving the former World Champion frantically calling for Burger to break the hold. Shotei on Dalton! Pounce from Connors to CB! Dalton tosses him, then picks Burger up for the Bang-A-Rang, securing the win at 09:18

Rating - ** - It had no business going as long as it did, but this match was deceptively enjoyable. Castle might be physically limited as a worker now, but his charisma is undiminished and he was incredibly watchable here; carrying the match with his theatrics as a cranky, ailing veteran. I could have done without Dalton being made to look foolish bumping for things like a Cheesburger hurricanrana spot, but what he did do was act as a springboard for Connors to show more personality than he had in any other match either. Dalton was such a dick to him that you really did get behind the Young Lion as he took the fight to the former World Champion in the closing stages. 

The Kingdom are the most decorated trio in ROH. They are multi-time former Six-Man Champions, and their frontman Matt Taven now stands as the ROH Champion. That, of course, means he is a target to be shot at for his Bullet Club opponents tonight though. But GOD themselves are in possession of gold; reigning ROH and IWGP Tag Champions (both belts Taven has held in the past), just as any of the Bullet Club brothers would like a World Title shot, Kingdom will be eyeing up victory to push themselves to the front of the queue in the tag division. The Kingdom are long-time adversaries of Bullet Club; a rivalry which covers several years and multiple talent changes in both factions.

Taven and Tonga start, but only after stalling their way through almost two minutes without doing much at all. They trade eye rakes and armdrags until O'Ryan trips Tama from behind. Loa quickly returns the favour by tripping Taven as well, causing tempers to fray. Marseglia wants a piece of Hikuleo even though the big Tongan towers over him. Vinny struggles to get past Leo's size and is sent packing back to his corner in short order. TK in next, trying to use headlocks to control Loa's obvious power advantage. It doesn't work and soon we see all three Bullet Club members taking turns to tee off on O'Ryan and/or choke him behind the referee's back. Tama even finds time to start taunting Taven and stealing his catchphrases. To TK's credit he survives a real beating and actually uses his strike power to escape Loa...releasing Vinny to fly in with the Acid Drop on Tonga. Taven wastes no time in laying in some illegal cheap punches on the fallen Tama Tonga as well. It is clear that Tama's big mouth has really agitated Taven, who spearheads a precise and swift beatdown of the Bullet Club veteran. Just The Tip almost knocks Tonga out, but he rallies and lands the Tongan Twist and escapes to his corner. Hikuleo powers through Vinny and Taven and almost rips O'Ryan's head away from his body with a swinging neckbreaker. T-Bomb blocked, so Loa puts O'Ryan on his shoulders so the GOD can hit a DOOMSDAY DEVICE! Within seconds the Briscoes are out on the stage irritated at the Guerrillas stealing their move. Taven capitalises on the distraction to blast Hikuleo with the World Title belt. Kingdom score a tainted victory at 16:39

Rating - *** - Long and basic, plus the finish was frustrating in the sense that I'd rather see The Kingdom hit a wrestling move to beat Hikuleo clean than have ROH's World Champion need to cheat to beat an absolute bottom-of-the-roster New Japan guy like Hikuleo. But there was a lot to like about this too. There were some big personalities on display and I thought they meshed well, turning this into a believably bad tempered, gritty and tempestuous little trios match. It wasn't packed full of spots and was slow-going in places - however the constant verbals gave the match a genuine edge which many ROH matches in 2019 have lacked. 

The Guerrillas and the Briscoes brawl their way back to the locker room, but The Kingdom don't get long to celebrate before Mark Haskins comes out. He doesn't have a match since he was supposed to face PCO, but Taven and The Kingdom injured him in Toronto. He challenges Taven to a World Title Match tonight, and pisses him off by suggesting that Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis left the company 'with [his] balls'. A visibly annoyed Taven accepts the challenge...

Rhett Titus' music hits next. Since nobody wants to wrestle him he's decided to hold a 'flex'-hibition of his favourite poses. Flip Gordon interrupts that, leading to an impromptu match.

Gordon didn't work the Toronto show, so enters this one after a couple of days to recover and celebrate his superb victory over Bandido in the main event of Night One in Buffalo. Rebuilding after losing his World Title shot to Taven in Pittsburgh, he knows he needs to rack up victories to get back into the title scene. Can he go 2-0 for the War Of The Worlds Tour here? 

Titus wants a test of strength with Gordon, who puts him on his ass with a dropkick and shins off the top rope into a somersault senton. Rhett's power comes to the fore again moments later though - drilling Gordon with a gutwrench powerbomb then trying to exhaust him with a bearhug. Flip hits a springboard missile dropkick (even though he slipped visibly on the top rope), and rams Titus into the guardrails with a tope suicida. He climbs onto Titus with an STF and submits him at 03:36

Rating - N/A - It's a shame that we found ten minutes for all the f*cking LA Dojo kids but this match goes three minutes, however I won't deny that it was effective as a squash match for Flip. He is obviously being rebuilt after dropping his title match, and consecutive wins on this tour mean he has some real momentum going before he heads to Japan for the Best Of Super Juniors. When you see Rhett in this spot, it really does make his career resurgence in 2020/2021 as part of The Foundation even more remarkable.

It won't have escaped their attention that Bruiser and Milonas haven't been booked thus far on the tour. That reflects their current status on the ROH roster...but they know things will quickly change if they can score a victory over the popular visiting team from New Japan. LIJ are undefeated on the tour thus far, and that's a streak they need to keep going if they are to secure a shot at the GOD and the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Championship.

The Bouncers try to get LIJ to drink beer with them...only for Evil and Sanada to spit it in their faces. That doesn't do much more than piss the big men off though and they steamroll through the Japanese visitors in short order. Sanada gets his skull crushed with a hip attack from Bruiser, and is clearly so confused that he thinks he can suplex BCB. Evil helps him out; tripping Beer City then going after Milonas on the floor to SMASH a steel chair around his neck. With nobody to tag to, LIJ start tiring Bruiser out - using quick tags to confuse him before Sanada Paradise Locks him around the bottom rope. Bruiser survives and double suplexes both opponents at once before tagging out to a rejuvenated Milonas. Last Call blocked, but when Evil hits his big lariat Kingpin simply doesn't move. DOUBLE SUPLEX on Milonas by LIJ! Evil STO blocked...Beer City DDT blocked...Magic Killer! Los Ingobernables win comprehensively at 07:03

Rating - * - Short and with some redeeming quality, but this match really doesn't add much to the card as a VOD/DVD viewing experience. I'm sure the live crowd enjoyed seeing EVIL & SANADA live and it was moderately interesting to see them interact with an act like The Bouncers, but the novelty quickly wore off. This amounted to little more than a squash/exhibition match for LIJ in truth.

The winner of this receives a World Title shot at State Of The Art 2019 weekend. I wonder if Tracy realises that he could've had a title shot tonight instead if he'd just had the forethought to ask, like his tag partner did earlier. Apparently these four are unified by never having challenged for the World Title, but the idea that Eli or PJ (who have hardly won a match between them all year) are at the same level as Tracy - who has been one of the best workers of 2019 - or the undefeated Rush is laughable. Rush beat Black in Toronto and also defeated Tracy in Baltimore, so knows he has to be considered the favourite for this.

Rush refuses to shake hands and instead opts to punch Eli's lights out. Williams and Black go back and forth without really laying a glove on each other...but then both get wiped out when Rush throws Isom at the pair of them. SPRINGBOARD MOONSAULT to the floor by Eli to take out the Darewolf! Inside the ring Tracy lays out Rush with a double springboard dropkick...but El Toro Blanco basically no-sells it and lands a missile dropkick of his own. TOPE ATOMICO by Rush! Ian Riccaboni needs to stop calling Rush 'El Jefe'. Wrist clutch suplex from Williams to Isom, followed by the turnbuckle DDT on Rush...albeit executed horribly so you can see a huge distance between their bodies and the turnbuckles. POP-UP AIR RAID CRASH by Eli! He hits a frog splash on Rush for 2. PJ hits a springboard crossbody to get in on the action, then a double quebrada as well. Rope run frankensteiner topples Rush from the corner, but he then misses another big springboard moonsault to kill his momentum. Williams powerbombs Rush out of the corner, dragging Isom out for a superplex at the same time. As bodies scatter everywhere Black lands the SPRINGBOARD 450 SPLASH for 2! Tracy breaks the pin and gives him the Piledriver. MISSILE DROPKICK OFF THE APRON from Rush to PJ! Williams and Isom trade fiery strikes; a fight the rookie is not equipped to win. GUTWRENCH DDT instead! The Promise blocked with an emphatic Hot Sauce lariat. JUMPING PILEDRIVER! Williams scores the win and secures the title shot at 10:33

Rating - *** - A lively, offence-laden spot-fest. The crowd were really into this, although I suspect as much because this is the first time in the near two hours of the show's run-time thus far that we got a legitimately exciting match with some actual big name talent on ROH's roster. On the understanding that Delirious wants to save Taven/Rush for a PPV event later in 2019, Williams winning is by far the most interesting possibility from the other three and reward for how good he has been all year. Eli deserves real praise for his performance here too. Williams, Rush and PJ are experienced, diverse and completely different athletes but Isom never once looked out of place or felt like he was being carried.

Haskins getting a title shot here is ludicrous and, as I said earlier, feels totally out of keeping with the ethos and ideals of Lifeblood. But one thing Haskins has consistently done throughout his brief ROH career is deliver kick-ass performances whenever he is booked in a feature match. With Lifeblood reeling from the loss of so many members in such a short space of time, it would be a huge boost for the ailing faction if they could capture the top prize in the company they were founded to restore honour to. Taven is competing in his second match of the night, and some provocative language from the Englishman was enough to convince him to put the ROH Championship on the line as well. With another member of Lifeblood - Tracy Williams - now awaiting the winner at State Of The Art 2019 weekend, the carrot has been dangled that we could see the Lifeblood partners collide in Washington...

Taven tries to hammer Haskins with the belt before the bell even rings, but misses and gets wiped out with a frenzied tope suicida from the challenger. Ole Kick nailed! Taven tries to retaliate only to eat a PK from the apron as well. The champion returns to the ring but can't escape the barrage of strikes from the tenacious Haskins - who makes matters worse by attacking Matt's surgically-repaired knee too. His European influences come to the fore; continually countering and evading the champ as he picks apart the knee with precision. DEATHLOCK DDT gets 2! Mark gets over-confident and tries to hoist the bigger man over the ropes with a suplex - presenting Taven with a much-needed opportunity. Matt snaps the arm over the ropes and in a flash sends Haskins shoulder-first into the ringpost as well. When the challenger tries to flee, Matt gives chase and drills him against the post again. Haskins can't get away now, eating an armbar DDT then a big arm wrench in quick succession. Even when he makes the ropes Taven doesn't let him go; instead applying a cross armbreaker around the bottom rope! He then throws Haskins shoulder-first into the entrance steps and stage, before running back to the ring and demanding that Todd Sinclair administer a count...which the one-armed Englishman is barely able to answer. Fujiwara Armbar applied and once again Mark is left desperately grabbing for the ropes. He refuses to quit though and starts screaming at Taven for more even when the champ delivers kicks aimed right at his injured arm. Taven cuts him off with an F-5 onto the top rope...but misses a kick through the ropes and is nailed with an elbow suicida to the back of the head. Climax COUNTERED to an arm-selling version of the Star Armbar on Taven! But with his own body so wounded Haskins is unable to force a submission and is forced to let Taven escape. He lures the champ back in for an ARM-SELLING CROSSFACE! Into the Rings Of Saturn! Taven puts his leg on the ropes...so Haskins STOMPS IT! Dragon screw attempted...but Taven counters by booting the injured arm then decks him with Just The Tip. Purple Thunder Driver gets 2. Aurora Borealis MISSES though, injuring both Taven's arm and leg upon landing...and Haskins dives at him into the Soldier Roll for 2. As the tanks start to empty, eventually both champion and challenger lunge at each other with simultaneous mafia kicks then collapse to the canvas. Haskins kicks the leg and scores with a flying double stomp for 2. He is too injured to hit Cradle To The Grave...allowing Taven to slither to the ropes and deliver a CLIMAX ON THE APRON! Just The Tip again! AURORA BOREALIS! GETS 2! The champion is in disbelief, particularly since Haskins is lying limp and motionless on the canvas after kicking out. SHARPSHOOTER ON TAVEN! Haskins has it won...but Bully Ray runs out yelling at Haskins on the microphone and name-dropping his wife. Taven capitalises on the distraction to hit a low blow, then the Climax. He retains at 25:52

Rating - **** - Was that finish ever a buzzkill? Why the f*ck can't Delirious book a heel champion to win clean with any regularity? Nobody really believed Haskins was going to win here, but through sheer hard and high quality work they had the building rocking. Taven going over clean in a potential MOTYC would have been far more beneficial for both men than any bullsh*t finish featuring Bubba Dudley. If Delirious was so desperate to have Bully involved, why not have him attack Haskins after the bell and play up Bully being a prick for cheap-shotting Haskins after the 'match of his life'? Finish aside, this rocked. Another deceptively strong championship match from Taven's 'Purple Reign', another incredible individual performance from the criminally under-rated Mark Haskins. The layered selling was really good, the pacing was superb, I thought Ian and Colt contributed really well to the drama with their commentary as well. Hard though it is, I really want to focus on what a fantastic match this was rather than the bogus way it ended...

Matt Taven dedicates the match to everyone who thinks he sucks - in a promo which would have made much more sense had he just won the match clean. PCO bumbles down the aisle looking for payback on Taven for Toronto...and lays him out with a running Tombstone Piledriver and the PCO-Sault. 

Kenny King is on the stage next for more cheap, fake blindness gags and to remind everyone that he is the #1 contender for the World Title after winning the 2019 Honor Rumble at G1 Supercard. He has his surgery tomorrow to restore his eyesight apparently, so this will be the final night of 'blind Kenny commentary'...

Ten-man tag action rounds off our evening as the roughneck alliance of Bully, the Briscoes, Silas and new TV Champion Shane Taylor face an ROH/NJPW dream-team. Lethal has history with the Briscoes, has feuded extensively with Silas and has openly criticised the actions of their group since the 'Farewell To The Elite' Honor Club special at the end of 2018. Cobb enters this just a couple of days removed from losing his TV Title to Taylor (albeit in a four-way match without being pinned). 

Bully yells at Kojima for a past meeting between them in Korakuen Hall, but clears the ring so we can start with another encounter in the long-running rivalry between Lethal and Jay Briscoe. They go for their finishers early, countering each other at incredible speed to demonstrate their familiarity. Mark and Goto in second; the Japanese star initially overpowering Briscoe only for the ROH veteran's unorthodox style yields an immediate and potent response. Taylor helps Goto by tagging out and within seconds Cobb steps in to meet him. Shane lands some violent strikes and tackles his foe to the ground...so Jeff quickens the pace and blasts him in the face with a dropkick. Bubba takes a cheap-shot at Koji, luring him into the ring so he doesn't have to face repercussions for some sinister smack-talk he'd previously aimed at Cobb. 'Shut up' - Kojima to Bully, before he starts Machine Gun chopping him in the corner. Silas distracts Kojima from the outside, then replaces Bully in the ring to square off with Nagata - a repeat of the bout we saw end controversially in Toronto. Misery blocked, but so is an attempted armbar by Nagata. But by going to the ropes Young inadvertently puts himself in the opposition corner and for the first time the ROH/NJPW dream team are able to seize the initiative by cutting him off from his partners. Taylor helps him out by creating a distraction - meaning Young can attack Bully whilst Lethal fends off Taylor outside the ring. The rudo team take turns working Lethal over; Shane almost knocking him out with a headbutt, then the Briscoes hitting a flurry of their signature combo moves. Jay Briscoe is the one that relinquishes control, failing to pin Lethal down and finding himself hauled across the ring into a barrage of strikes from Kojima and Cobb. Koji returns the favour for earlier by taking a cheap shot at Bubba too. Lariat on Cobb though, freeing Jay Briscoe to tag his brother in. They lead the heels in a period of sustained punishment on the Olympian, again with Bully Ray charging across the ring to punch Koji in the mouth. GERMAN SUPLEX from Cobb to Taylor! Bully and Kojima tag...and the New Japan veteran effortlessly overpowers the Hall Of Famer. Koji Cutter gets 2 before Mark breaks the pin. Ushigoroshi from Goto to Mark...but he turns right into a knee strike from the TV Champion. LETHAL INJECTION on Taylor! Young runs in and delivers the Anarchist Suplex to The Franchise. Exploder Suplex from Nagata to Silas! Athletic-Plex from Cobb to Jay Briscoe! TAZ-MISSION ON BULLY! COUNTERED with a back drop driver! Bully grabs his metal chain and loads up ready to KO Kojima...but from behind Mark Haskins runs in and steals it! Standing moonsault by Cobb! SOMERSAULT PLANCHA! KOJI LARIATOOO! Kojima pins Bully to win at 23:25

Rating - *** - They couldn't shake off the 'exhibition match' vibe, but there are worse ways to spend twenty minutes than to watch this group of experienced performers riff with each other. Taylor, Cobb and Lethal were excellent, particularly in the ring with each other. Bully and Kojima having a random rivalry didn't make much sense, and having Koji beat Bubba offers nothing to ROH at all but I won't pretend it wasn't entertaining - and the way the match panned out it was undeniably satisfactory to see Koji load up the Lariat at the end. For the most part this followed a familiar ten-man structure which you'll have seen countless times - guys taking turns with each other at the start, followed by periods of largely aimless work building to a flurry of spots and activity at the end. There was nothing groundbreaking or revolutionary to be found here, so the quality is in the performances of the athletes themselves and there was certainly fun to be had. Cobb putting Bubba in a Taz-Mission after Bully called him out for throwing suplexes earlier in the match is one of my favourite moments of ROH in 2019 thus far...

Tape Rating - * - The worst of the 2019 War Of The Worlds Tour shows - both on paper and in execution. There is so little of relevance or interest here, and the only thing genuinely worth checking out (the Taven/Haskins World Title Match) felt dumb in it's set-up and ended in a truly infuriating manner. If ever there was an embodiment of why ROH fell off a cliff in 2019 it is the World Title Match here; two men having a GREAT wrestling match - the kind this company used to promote every show, and the kind where legends are made and reputations enhanced through quality of the work alone. But rather than trust his performers, Delirious had to meddle - like always. Another Taven title defence ruined by a terrible finish...and somehow that was the highlight of the show. Sure the main event was ok, and I liked the GOD/Kingdom trios match but it says a lot when a ten minute four-man filler spot-fest is one of the best-received matches on a card filled with some really average matches and some really mediocre talent who wouldn't get near a spot on a Ring Of Honor card when the company was in its prime. You can skip this one...

3) Tracy Williams vs Eli Isom vs PJ Black vs Rush (***)

2) Lethal/Cobb/Kojima/Nagata/Goto vs Briscoes/Taylor/Young/Bully (***)

1) Matt Taven vs Mark Haskins (****)