RoH: Tag Wars Wrestling Review 12/13/14

By Nathan Neumann (@Headliner5 on Twitter)

Hello ladies and gentleman and welcome to another one of my signature reviews for Ring of Honor Wrestling Television. This week, we’re reviewing Tag Wars, a show which featured three tag team matches in the first round of a tournament that will crown new number one contenders for the ROH World Tag Team Titles currently held by reDRagon. Let’s get to it shall we?

The Briscoes were in a pre-taped backstage promo to open up the show where they talked about how they will be the ones to they will be the ones to win Tag Wars and will receive a future shot at the ROH World Tag Team Titles. The Briscoes want to become the nine-time ROH World Tag Team Champions (which may or may not be a wise move at the moment due to the fact that Jay Briscoe is the current holder of the ROH World Championship).

Match 1

The Briscoes (Jay and Mark) vs. J. Diesel and Jay Lethal in a Tag Wars Qualifier

Result: The Briscoes defeat Diesel and Lethal after Jay Briscoe hits J. Diesel with the Jay Driller and Marc follows it up with a top-rope Froggy Bow to score the win.

Thoughts: First off, there were three guys named Jay in this match and I wasn’t a fan of it. It seemed to create some confusion on commentary (rightfully so, because having three guys with the same first name in the same damn match just isn’t a good idea).  J. Diesel tags in right away and takes Marc’s head off with a lariat. Jay Briscoe comes in and delivers a forearm to the face of Diesel as we go to commercial.

Also, ROH needs to stop having their wrestlers do commercials.

Back from commercial and Jay Briscoe kicks Diesel in his (stupid!) face and covers him for a two count. Jay Brsicoe hits a top rope superplex on Lethal and both men are down. Double tags on both sides of the ring bring in Diesel and Marc Briscoe the finish came when Jay Briscoe hit Diesel with the Jay Driller and Marc followed up with the Froggy Bow to score the pinfall victory to advance in Tag Wars.

Rating: **

From there, we go straight into Match 2 as Jimmy Jacobs and BJ Whitmer take on Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian.

Match 2

Jimmy Jacobs and BJ Whitmer vs. The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) in a Tag Wars Qualifier Result: Kazarian picks up the winwith a Kamikaze AKA the KIllswitch AKA the Un-prettier (a/k/a Christian’s finisher in WWE)

The match starts off as TheDecade attack straight from the bell. The match breaks down right away. Whitmer and Daniels in the ring fighting each other while Jacobs and Kazarian are on the outside of the ring. Kazarian hits a flipping neckbreaker on Jacobs on the outside.

Later on, Whitmer and Jacobs both dive to the outside of the ring to take out both Addiction members as we go to commercial.  Back from commercial and the Decade have taken control as they hit a powerbomb/neckbreaker combination that looked a bit mistimed, but it still worked.  Daniels throws Jacobs into Whitmer to make Jacobs spear his own partner.  Kazarian then picks up the win with the, allowing The Addiction to advance.

Rating: **1/2

Back from another commercial and reDRagon cut a backstage promo. They tell everyone that they are not impressed in the slightest with Tag Wars. And now, the main event.

Main Event - Match 3

Matt Sydal and ACH vs. The Young Bucks

Result: Sydal and ACH win the match via shooting star press/450 splash combination after Matt (Jackson) inadvertently superkicks Nick Jackson in the face.

The match starts out hot as ACHis a house of fire! He hits a dropkick on Matt, followed by a bunch of flippy-dos, before tagging in Sydal. But, the Bucks maintain control as we go to break. When we return, the Young Bucks hit a flipping neckbreaker/backbreaker combination on Sydal. Matt (Jackson) gets Sydal in one of the corners of the ring and goes to the opposite corner before running at him and hitting a handspring back elbow.  From there, Jackson holds Matt Sydal upside down and Nick kicks Sydal in the face.

The Bucks move to the outside of the ring and ACH hits a flying moonsault to the outside which takes out both Bucks. Matt (Jackson) hits Sydal on the outside with a tornado DDT using the ring apron. The finish would come when Matt (Jackson) is inadvertently kicked in the face by Nick. Matt Sydal hits a shooting star press as ACH follows it up with a 450 Splash to score the pinfall victory over, arguably, the hottest tag team in the world right now.

Rating: **3/4

That’ll do it for me and this week’s review of Ring of Honor Wrestling television.  Hope you enjoyed theread and until next time this has been Nathan saying so long and I’ll see you down the road.  Until next week, be sure and check out EyesOnTheRIng and be on the lookout for more reviews from myself and the rest of the EOTR team. Also, be sure to check us out on Twitter at @EyesOnTheRing and like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/EyesOnTheRIng

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Ring Of Honor Wrestling Review – Airdate: 8/2/14

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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