By Nathan Neumann (@Headliner5 on Twitter)
This week’s episode of
Ring Of Honor Wrestling Television was centered around one match and one match
only. They gave the entire hour
to this one match, which made it feel special. I love it when ROH does this because they have a
way of giving matches that they deem important enough time to be executed
properly in ring by all of the wrestlers involved and that was exactly the case
in this one.
Match 1
BJ Whitmer vs. Caprice
Coleman vs. Matt Taven vs. Romantic Touch vs. Jay Lethal vs. Cedric Alexander
Result: Cedric Alexander
wins the match last defeating Jay Lethal after the lumbar check to win the
match and receive a future Ring Of Honor World Title opportunity.
I hope I can do this match
the justice it deserves because it was so good. BJ Whitmer and Caprice Coleman started off the
match. If you can’t remember who
Caprice Coleman is, he’s the guy who is kind of floundering on the roster after
splitting up from his former partner Cedric Alexander. It’s not that Coleman isn’t good because he is. But, they haven’t figured out what to do with him since the break up of C and C
Wrestle Factory.
Regardless of what I just
said, Caprice Coleman started off this match looking very good in the early
going.That is until BJ caught him a few minutes in and took over on the offensive, not letting up until he defeated Caprice Coleman with a Lariat.
Elimination #1: Caprice Coleman
Next out was Matt Taven,
Taven was a guy who when he first started in the promotion after winning 2012’s
top prospect tournament that I could really care less about. He was a decent wrestler but he seemed to not be
able to put it all together. Once he was paired with Truth Martini he started figuring things out
and now that he’s split from Truth and the House Of Truth as a result he’s
built himself a nice foundation to go off of and really come into his
own. Taven would go on to
eliminate BJ Whitmer with a Frog Splash.
Elimination #2: BJ Whitmer
Next out was The Romantic
Touch, it was here where we figured out that The Romantic Touch was NOT Matt
Taven. For those that may not
follow Ring Of Honor weekly like I do (Shame on you) they were playing up the
fact that Matt Taven was, in fact, The Romantic Touch. Taven took it a step further when he dressed up
like the Romantic Touch to score an unsuspecting win against Jay Lethal with
whom he lost the Television Championship to. Taven hits an arm drag on The Romantic Touch,
later on in the match Taven would execute his finishing maneuver the Climax on
The Romantic Touch to eliminate RT from the fray and move on to the next
entrant.
Elimination #3: The Romantic Touch
The next entrant was the
ROH World Television Champion Jay Lethal with Taven’s former manager Truth
Martini. These two men faced off at
June’s Best In The World Pay-Per-View and would once again meet as a part of
this match. Later on in this stretch
of the match Taven punched Truth in the face and shoved Seleziya Sparx to the
ground. As Taven got back into the
ring Sparx recovered and hoisted Truth Martini onto her shoulders and carried
him to the back leaving Lethal alone with his arch rival Matt Taven. However this wasn’t enough. Shortly after, Jay
Lethal would eliminate Matt Taven after Jay Diesel, an independent wrestler and
crack security guard, rushed the ring. He distracted Taven, which allowed Lethal to
hit the Lethal Injection and Hail To the King (top rope elbow drop) to score the
pinfall victory over Taven.
Elimination #4: Matt Taven
That would bring out the
sixth and final entrant into the match, Cedric Alexander. The action started off
with some back and forth action until Cedric Alexander was finally able to gain
the upper hand on Jay Lethal. Alexander then hit Lethal with his finisher, the Lumbar Check--which looked extremely nasty, by the way--which allowed Cedric to pin Lethal and earn himself a
future Ring Of Honor World Championship Opportunity.
Final Thoughts: I thought this match was very well done. Normally, matches like these can be a mess. But, Ring Of Honor really knows what to do when
it comes to these types of matches. I was happy to see a true gauntlet
match (not a battle royal that is called a gauntlet because that’s not what the
match really is) and I figured that Cedric Alexander would come out of it the
winner due to how popular he is and how good he has gotten within the last year
or so. Cedric Alexander has had a
hell of a 2014 and we still have five months to go. Right now he is a dark horse for independent
wrestler of the year because he’s really come into his own since splitting away
from his former partner Caprice Coleman.
That will do it for me and
this week’s review, I hope you had just as much fun reading it as I had writing
it. Until next week keep your
eyes on the ring and be sure to be on the lookout for some great content from
all of us here at eyesonthering.blogspot.com/
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