WWE Night of Champions 2015 Preview

By @Tariku__

Night of Champions 2015 looks like an event that will be better than Summerslam 2015. A show where EVERY championship is up for grabs. Pretty simple yet intriguing concept. For the first time since the show became a regular, a champion will put both of his prestigious titles on the line against two franchise stars within the wrestling industry. Seth Rollins will defend his United States Championship against The Face That Runs The Place, John Cena. He'll defend his WWE World Heavyweight Championship against the man known as STING! Today, I'll be giving my preview and predictions for the event. Let's get started.

1. Dolph Ziggler vs Rusev

This feud has been pretty funny. In a bad way. Neither man is gaining anything great from this feud. Another contest in a feud that had potential but has fallen flat on its face.

Winner: 
Dolph Ziggler

2. Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, and a mystery partner vs Wyatt Family 2.0

The character addition of Braun Stroman has injected a dose of life into this rivalry. The story has been a little more intriguing. The suspense of the mystery partner has kept it alive. I believe either Kane or an NXT prospect will make their debut on the new team. I really hope it's not Erick Rowan. Wouldn't make sense at all. The match should be pretty good. They had a really good showing at Summerslam.

Winner: 
Wyatt Family 2.0

3. The New Day vs The Dudley Boyz for the WWE World Tag Team Championship

The night after Summerslam was highlighted by the return of a legendary tag team. The Dudley Boyz made their return to the WWE and sent an immediate message to The New Day. The early stages of this rivalry has been fun to watch. The New Day trying to protect tables from the crazed, furniture destructive force of the Dudley Boyz. The Boyz seek to make history by winning the tag titles for the 10th time. I honestly wouldn't mind New Day retaining or the Dudleyz making history. I just want to see an entertaining match.

Winner: 
The New Day

4. Ryback vs Kevin Owens for the WWE Intercontinental Championship

This is something fresh and something that can bring a lot of great things for both men. Ryback has been a fighting champion and this is his toughest test to date. I really want to see both competitors go at it in a best of five series for the title somewhere down the line.

Winner: 
Kevin Owens. It's always better when the heel is the champion. Owens is better as a champion and Ryback chasing after him could be interesting to watch. 

5. Nikki Bella vs Charlotte for the WWE Divas Championship. 

The Divas Revolution will reach its climax at Night Of Champions. It was supposed to reach that point last Monday on Raw, but a Dusty Finish prevented that. Now Charlotte has another chance at the gold and this time, Nikki's championship advantage is stripped from her.

Winner: 
Charlotte wins her very first WWE Divas championship. 

6. Seth Rollins vs John Cena- US Title Match

7. Seth Rollins vs Sting- WWE World Championship

Seth Rollins defends both his United States Championship and his WWE World Heavyweight Championship against John Cena and Sting. TWO MATCHES. ONE NIGHT. I saved most of the article for this because these two matches can shift the WWE in a lot of different directions.

Rollins could retain both his titles in one night to prove that he's INDEED THE MAN. Or he could lose both titles and his strained mentor-student relationship with the head of the Authority, Triple H. Or he could lose the US Title, retain the World Title, and be the victim of a cash in from Sheamus.

Seth Rollins WILL put on two more classic performances to add to his impressive resume, but he might not be so lucky by the end of the night.

Winner of the U.S Title Match: 
John Cena

Winner of the World Title: 
Sting, but Sheamus will cash in and become the NEW WWE World Heavyweight Champion.

-Tye

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The New Generation vs The Attitude Era

By Nathan Neumann 
@Headliner5

Hello ringers and welcome to an article that came to be by accident. Now, you may be asking yourselves Nathan, how is this possible?  Well Sunday night we do the radio show (Cheap Plug) and I made the comment that I thought that the New Generation Era was better than the Attitude Era.  Now, you may be saying that I’m totally out of line in saying that, but I’m going to explain in the best way possible why this is not just my opinion, but also a fact.

The New Generation Era was an era in WWF/WWE from 1993/1994 until the end of 1997, on November 9th to be exact when the Montreal Screwjob happened and became the catalyst to kicking off the Attitude Era. The New Generation Era had some of the worst characters that I’ve ever come across in wrestling. For example, Duke The Dumpster Droese, Kwang and the ever so loved Mantaur.

Mantaur was a half man, half bear half pig… No wait wrong show, I’m thinking of South Park.

So he was a dude in a weird costume, and while he was bad, this was just part of the New Generation Era and it doesn’t represent the entire era.

The Focal point of the New Generation Era should be the work horse wrestlers like Razor Ramon (when he was motivated at least), Shawn Michaels (Again when he wasn’t coked out of his mind) and of course the ever so popular Bret Hart.  I’m a huge Bret Hart fan, so one of the reasons as to why I almost prefer the New Generation Era to the Attitude Era was solely due to his existence in it(because lets be honest he only saw the beginning of the Attitude Era and then he was gone).

The New Generation, while for the most part cheesy with all of the weird gimmicks like the ones I mentioned above, had some pretty good wrestling. In fact, the wrestling of the New Generation Era was far better than the wrestling of the Attitude Era, but I’ll get to that in a bit.

The best part about the New Generation for me was that you would get matches with CLEAN finishes. I will discuss more on this once I start talking about the Attitude Era in a bit.

There are a lot of people who will probably think I’m crazy for my opinion on this whole thing just like my colleagues at Eyes On The Ring, but I will stand by my opinion and maybe convince others to change their minds, because get ready we are now going to talk about the ever so loved Attitude Era.

The Attitude Era is perhaps the most popular era in wrestling, but believe it or not, it wasn’t an original idea. Vince McMahon will openly admit to lifting ideas from ECW and turning it into his own vision of what the Attitude Era would become. I’ll be the first to admit that 12 year old me back in 1997 absolutely loved the Attitude Era, but as I’ve gotten older and the WWE Network has become a thing and I can go back and watch anything from the Attitude Era I want at any time without hesitation, It made me realize one thing. The Attitude Era was HIGHLY overrated.

In The Attitude Era, you had bold dynamic characters like Shawn Michaels, The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin.

If you were one of the ones that believe that the Attitude Era was better than the New Generation Era on a character perspective, you would be 100% correct in your statement.  However the wrestling on RAW and Pay Per Views is pure 100% Garbage and here’s why.

First and foremost, the wrestling while many seem to think it was great, it was in fact absolutely atrocious. However this horrid wrestling was often overlooked by the storylines and the angles and the fact that the crowd was white hot every single week, so there was no possible way that the WWE could screw any of this up.

If you want to prove my point go back and watch an episode of RAW on the WWE Network that took place during the Attitude Era and count all the clean finishes you see.  You're lucky if your tally is at one by the end of the night. I’ve literally sat through three or four Attitude Era episodes of RAW at time in succession and seen not one clean finish and that is my main problem with this era.

The wrestling was often times sloppy as hell and if you weren’t Austin, Rock, Mankind, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Kane or The Undertaker, nobody cared about you for the most part. Here’s a challenge, think back to the attitude era and name five good wrestling matches and let me see your list.  Go back to the New Generation and I could probably name at least five good Bret Hart matches alone that were better than anything in the Attitude Era, namely my favorite match of the all time, which was Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Bret "The Hitman" Hart in a submission match at Wrestlemania 13 which took place in the New Generation Era.

Lets look at The Wrestlemania’s of the said eras. In the New Generation Era you had Wrestlemania 10, which was pretty good for the most part and it was a solid show.  Wrestlemania 11 I’ll admit was one of the worst that I’ve ever seen and anyone else with working eyeballs would probably say the same. Wrestlemania 12 was good for the big matches as well, and Wrestlemania 13 for the most part was a good show as well.

Now lets look at the Wrestlemania’s of the Attitude Era: Wrestlemania 14 I’ll admit was highly regarded as one of the best Wrestlemania’s of all time at least from my perspective. The follow up Wrestlemania 15 was absolute trash and same with Wrestlemania 16 which took place in the year 2000. The one thing that the Attitude Era does have over the New Generation Era was that it does possess the greatest Wrestlemania of all time in 17 and I don’t think we even need to discuss that.

In closing before this article gets to be too long, The Attitude Era Was NOT known for it’s wrestling quality.  It was known for it’s over the top storylines the blurring of the lines (all ripped off from ECW by the way) and the TV-MA humor and antics.

The New Generation Era was known for it’s terrible gimmicks and subsequent cheesiness, but what it lacked in those departments it made up for in wrestling quality.  The Attitude Era may be the most beloved era in all of wrestling but it’s also the most overrated era in the history of the industry and has aged like sour milk.

So in conclusion, do me a favor, go fire up the WWE Network and watch an episode of RAW from both Eras and then hit me up on twitter @Headliner5 and let me know your opinion. You may think I’m crazy,  but anyone who has ever told me that the Attitude Era stuff still holds up I will laugh in their face because the truth is that it does not.

-Nathan

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Retrospective: Top 5 Sting Matches

By @Tariku__

The Franchise. The Icon. The Man Called Sting. Sting has been widely regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, maintaining a great legacy through classic matches, unbelievable charisma, and a gimmick that would catapult him into immortality. As a huge wrestling fan, it is my honor to reminisce and reflect on the top 5 greatest matches/moments from one of the all time greats. Let's get started.

5. Sting vs Triple H at Wrestlemania 31

-After his long tenure in WCW and the eventual fall of the once competitive wrestling promotions at the time, Sting was known as "the greatest wrestler to never sign with WWE" after great WCW talent such as Booker T made their way over to the E. That would all change at long last in November 2014 at the Survivor Series event. Sting would make his first appearance in the company. Taking out Triple H and helping Team Cena defeat Team Authority, which would spell the end of the dominant heel faction (not for long). The Authority would return and continue their unruly reign over the WWE. Sting would make his first appearanceon Monday Night Raw ever when he would cause another stoppage in The Authority's tyranny. Triple H would call Sting out after months of frustrated. At the Fast Lane event, The Icon challenged The Game to a match at Wrestlemania. Fast Forward to March 29th, the big day. Sting and Triple H finally squared off one on one. An old school wrestling match with a new school feel, both titans put on a very well paced physical match with interference from two of the greatest factions in all of wrestling, Degeneration X and the New World Order.  In the end, Sting would ultimately lose to the Cerebral Assassin after a sledgehammer shot to the head for the 3 count. The match deserves this spot solely off the moment of Sting's very first match in biggest company in the industry and the biggest event in all of wrestling.

4. Sting vs Hollywood Hulk Hogan at Starrcade 1997

-Professional Wrestling is wrestling of course, but what truly makes it special is not just the in ring work ability. Its about moments, moments that will live in the minds and hearts of many. With that said Sting vs Hollywood Hogan was by any means a wrestling classic, but it was definitely a moment match. Sting would consider himself a free agent and would tell the crowd at Nitro that he would be popping up from time to time. He would return in October to take out an imposter Sting and have the NWO make an offer to join them. Sting considered it briefly, saying that he might not be "in (the nWo's) price range", and then concluded by saying "the only thing that's for sure about Sting is that nothing's for sure." With that, Sting left the ring and would not speak (on mic) on WCW programming again for over a year. Sting would appear as haunting figure in the rafters wielding a baseball bat. For an entire year Sting would test the loyalty of certain wrestlers by giving them the bat, turning his back, and waiting for the wrestler to swing at him or just put the bat down. Sting would attack the NWO at the end of every Nitro. He would not stop until he got his match with Hogan at the biggest show in NWA/WCW history, Starrcade. After a year buildup, Sting would get his title match. The Icon would defeat Hogan and win the war for WCW. A great feel good moment to end the year of wrestling.

3. Sting vs Ric Flair at the inaugural Clash of Champions event in 1988

-Sting's very first marquee match against the face that ran the place, the man, the legend, Ric Flair. Sting and Flair would put on a 45 minute wrestling clinic. One of the best big match debuts in all of wrestling. When the time limit expired, the match ended in a draw, but Sting would be a winner. The match made him a top star because he held his own against THE GUY of NWA/WCW. It has been over 26 years since this match initially aired, and it’s definitely no mistake that this is still one of the most talked about matches in wrestling history. This is the match that created a legend.

2. Sting vs Vader at Starrcade 1992

-Sting's best rivalry besides Flair was his rivalry with Big Van Vader. I saw Flair as Sting's "Lex Luthor". Vader was viewed in my eyes as Sting's "Bane". This hulking figure who would out muscle Sting, forcing The Franchise to think strategically rather than just wrestle. Starrcade 1992 held the King of Cable tournament. Sting and Vader met in the finals and the match was a flat our brawl. Vader's intense brawler nature vs Sting's energetic technical prowess made for a series of intriguing matches but this particular match stood out to me as I personally enjoyed it more than the others.
1. Sting vs Ric Flair at The Great American Bash for The World Heavyweight Championship in 1990

-Of course I would put this as the number 1 match. Yes it is because this match ended with Sting hoisting his first ever World Title. Sting and Flair put on another classic chapter in their great rivalry. Having a match on one of the biggest shows of the year for WCW. With the story being Sting gets Flair one on one. Mano e Mano with no interference from the Four Horsemen. Even Arn Anderson himself was handcuffed to El Gigante. Sting felt this was a last chance match of sorts. No excuses if he were to lose to Flair. The dynamic between the warriors was shown as Flair tried to out wrestle, out maneuver, and do serious physical damage to the Stinger, but The young and charismatic competitor would bounce back at every turn. Sting would finally defeat Flair after countering Flair's patented Figure Four Leg Lock into a simple inside cradle pin and became the NEW world heavyweight champion. History was made as Jim Ross shouted with passion. A significant story and moment for the face painted legend with a satisfying ending.

2015 will see Sting compete against the current MAN in Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Will Sting add another historic milestone to his legendary career? Find out this Sunday at the Night of Champions special event LIVE on the WWE Network.

-Tye

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Rebooking: The Summer Of Punk

By @FatherTone

Background:
After winning a series of matches against top contenders Rey Mysterio and Alberto Del Rio, it was announced that CM Punk, leader of the New Nexus, would be the number 1 contender to John Cena's WWE Championship. On the June 27th 2011 edition of Monday Night Raw, CM Punk sat atop of the entrance ramp after the main event and delivered what is considered by many, one of the greatest promos of all time, the infamous “Pipebomb”. Punk talked about everything wrong with the company all the politics and the ass kissing that ruined the WWE. It all ended with Punk stating that at the next PPV “Money In The Bank”, he would win the WWE Championship and leave the WWE with the belt. This would result in all eyes on the wrestling world. Everyone was reporting about the infamous promo the next day and it was just what the WWE needed heading into their next PPV. Over the next few weeks, we would see Punk get suspended, reinstated and even try and renegotiate his deal with Vince McMahon live on Raw. On the final episode of Raw before Money in the Bank, Vince McMahon announced that if John Cena lost the WWE title he would be FIRED the following night on Raw. CM Punk would go on and win the world title from Cena, exit the building, and leave the WWE just like he said he would. He then returned 8 days later, challenged John Cena again to see who the true WWE champion was at Summerslam, and won that match as well. He then lost the title after being attacked by Kevin Nash and Alberto Del Rio cashing in, lost to Triple H the following month at Night of Champions, lost again to Del Rio the following month at the Hell in a Cell PPV, and lost to Miz and R-Truth the following month at Vengeance before finally winning the title back at the Survivor Series from Alberto Del Rio. He would go on to have one of the longest WWE Title reigns of modern history. During this period of time CM Punk lost a lot of momentum and that’s where I step in. This is how I Would’ve booked the Summer of Punk.

How I Would’ve Booked It:  
So everything leading up to the match at Money in the Bank was fine. The promos, the segment where Vince tried to renegotiate Punks deal was all entertaining TV and it made the fans excited to see if Punk could actually win and would he leave. The only thing I would’ve changed is the stipulation where Cena would get fired, and instead change it to as long as CM Punk was champion, he’d never be able to fight for the WWE title. CM Punk would go on to beat Cena at Money in the Bank and he would leave the company not for 8 days, not for 8 weeks, but until the Road to Wrestlemania began. The next night on Raw you have Vince come out and announce that due to legal reasons, there couldn’t be another WWE champion until Punk lost the belt and he goes on to announce that since there’s only one world title left, there would be a company wide tournament to determine who would face the then World heavyweight champion, Randy Orton at the night of Champions pay per view. Cena, who realizes he can compete in this tournament goes to enter and wins the entire thing, beating Randy Orton at Night of Champions and becoming the World Heavyweight Champion. After the match, Kevin Nash comes out and attacks Cena, leaving him laid out in the middle of the ring allowing Daniel Bryan to cash in his Smackdown briefcase and win the World Heavyweight Championship, jumpstarting the “Yes Yes Yes” gimmick for Daniel Bryan. The following night, Nash comes out and explains that Vince paid him off to attack Cena, ensuring “Someone as unreliable as Cena doesn’t hold a world championship in this company ever again". So while Cena is preoccupied with Kevin Nash and Vince and whoever they throw in his way the next few months, you have Daniel Bryan defending the World Heavyweight title against top stars like Orton, Christian, Miz, Sheamus, etc. Finally, after ridding the WWE of Kevin Nash and overcoming every obstacle Vince has thrown his way, John Cena earns the right to compete for Daniel Bryan’s World Heavyweight Championship at the TLC pay per view that year.

After a long grueling TLC match, John Cena is victorious but worn out from the match. Alberto Del Rio, Raw's MITB winner, comes out and cashes in on John Cena proclaiming “If there is no WWE championship, I’ll be forced to take your title” or something to that effect the following night on Raw. That same night on Raw you have Del Rio, Bryan and Cena all campaigning to HHH that they all deserve to be the world heavyweight champion. Not knowing who should be the rightful champion, HHH announces that at the Royal Rumble that year, the winner of the Royal Rumble would become the rightful World heavyweight champion. Daniel Bryan, Del Rio, and Cena all enter as 1, 2 and 3 respectfully and go the distance. After it’s all said and done Daniel Bryan wins the rumble and regains the World heavyweight championship. The next night on Raw, Bryan proclaims to be “The Best wrestler in the world” and that no one can touch him, you know a full-fledged heel “im better than everyone promo. Then out of nowhere “Cult of Personality” hits. Everyone is like “who the hell is this”, and out from behind the curtain emerges CM Punk back to challenge Daniel Bryan to see who the rightful world champion and who's really “The Best in the world”. So at Mania, the Main event is Set, WWE Champion CM Punk vs World Heavyweight champion Daniel Bryan for both straps to see who truly is the best in the world. And at this point, I don’t know who should win, the unbeaten champion or the man who beat everyone, so I’ll let you all decide. So that’s how I would’ve booked the “Summer Of Punk”. Let me know how you would’ve booked it and what you want to see me re-book next.

-Tone

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The New Day: The Best Thing Going In Wrestling

By @TrueGodImmortal 

There are very few times when a crew of wrestlers can turn some bullshit into money, but The New Day have been a streak lately and are only getting better. From the beginning, we didn't know what to expect with this trio, but needless to say we became pleasantly surprised as things went along.

Their debut was slow and really didn't work, as the concept of making them a militant angry black group became scrapped very quickly. While this was some bullshit, eventually the group made their debut, as they were given church type videos that were corny and led fans to be frustrated from the start about it, myself included. I felt like the three stars had more to offer than just coonery and stereotypical nonsense.

As the New Day progressed and eventually won the tag titles the first time, and while they were slowly becoming entertaining, it wasn't until they lost the belts that the entertainment went even higher. Xavier Woods is the group's voice, but at times Big E and even Kofi provide moments of comedy. The trio seem to be real life friends as well, which helps the chemistry as well.

As the group pursued the tag titles going into Summerslam, Xavier Woods would amp up the comedy, and soon he began carrying around a trombone and utilizing it during matches. The New Day would recapture the WWE Tag Titles at Summerslam and the next night, we saw the return of the legendary team, The Dudley Boyz. Since then, the trio has made a hilarious interview with Michael Cole, began dancing randomly more and just entertaining the audience at every chance.

Now, as it stands, I think The New Day is currently the best thing in wrestling. I only hope they continue to get better and stay consistent. WWE, please don't mess this up. This is gold.

-True

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ROH Review 9/12/15

By Nathan Neumann (Twitter: @Headliner5 )

Hello once again wrestling fans and Eyes On The Ring readers, Nathan here once again for another one of my weekly Ring Of Honor TV reviews for http://www.EyesOnTheRing.com this episode of ROH TV sort of served as the go home show to this Friday night’s All Star Extravaganza 7 PPV and was taped from the 2300 arena (former ECW Arena) so without any further hesitation lets dive in shall we?

Match 1
Donovan Dijak and J Diesel vs. reDRagon

Thoughts: The action begins with both teams adhering to the code of honor as Jay Lethal makes his way down to the ring in order to join the commentary table to hype his respective PPV Championship matches against both members of reDRagon. Lethal doesn’t care that O’Reilly has beaten him in the past, the only thing that matters is the here and the now because right now he is the greatest professional wrestler alive at least according to him anyways.

In the ring, O’Reilly pairs off with Diesel and fires up the crowd with a simple slap followed by a pose that fires up Diesel.  Fish and O’Reilly cut the ring off for the first few minutes as they both isolate and work over Diesel who is the weaker member of their team.  Dijak gets involved as the referee is distracted and gets the tag to come into the ring. ReDRagon get control over the match on Dijak by using the brains over brawn technique. Dijak hits a backbreaker on O’Reilly before throwing him out of the ring as we go to break.

Silas Young cuts a great promo for his match with Dalton Castle, which will take place, next weekend at All Star Extravaganza 7.

Back from the break and Dijak has maintained control and gets a one man standing ovation from Lethal.  Diesel tags in and does a few Dave Batista like moves to play up a “Mini Tista” chant that he is receiving from the crowd.  It’s only a matter of time before the HOT have O’Reilly isolated in their corner of the ring.

Fish gets the hot tag from O’Reilly and comes in hitting an exploder suplex into the turnbuckle on Diesel.  O’Reilly follows up with a pin attempt on Diesel which is broken up by Dijak.  O’Reilly and Fish take turns trading chops on the much bigger Dijak, they take him to his knees with kicks and then hit stereo kicks which takes him down to the mat.Fish grabs an ankle lock on Diesel but Dijak is able to break it up.

O’Reilly comes into the ring and jumps Dijak’s back and locks in a sleeper, Fish ends up getting Diesel to tap out to an Ankle Lock after dropping to the canvas.

Match Result: reDRagon defeats Dijak and Diesel via submission after Fish taps Diesel with an Ankle Lock.

Match Rating: **

Once the match is over, Lethal gets in a shouting match with both members of reDRagon and it quickly goes from shouting to physical contact which has to be separated by officials.  Kevin Kelly mentions that the pressure of being a duel champion may be getting to Jay Lethal who may be losing his grip on reality.Back from break and we get a Briscoe’s pre taped promo.  We find out that the Briscoe’s will take on a mystery team at All Star Extravaganza. 

Mark wants King Kong but he will settle for Godzilla.  Jay doesn’t care who his opponents are and talks about Adam Page being a pimple on his ass.Match 2Cedric Alexander vs. Dalton Castle Thoughts: Before the match gets underway, Silas Young joins the commentary table to hype his match with Castle at ASE 7.  Castle gets the pop of the night thanks to his amazing ring entrance; Young goes on to say that Castle is everything that’s wrong with pro wrestling.

Cedric gets early control but the boys are there to run a distraction for their man Dalton, they begin fanning Castle off while the fans chant “Fan Up”." Castle avoids getting hit by Alexander as he charges at him in the corner and lands on the top rope right between his legs as Silas mocks him on commentary.  Veda tries to run interference but the boys star fanning her which causes her to retreat and think better about what she was going to do.  Corino then says that Veda’s probably a witch and that he would like to test the theory by pouring water on her.

After a break Alexander has control and mocks Castle’s strut.  Young puts over Castle on commentary as a great wrestler but takes a pot shot at his lifestyle and tells him that after ASE 7 he will show both Castle and the Boys how to live a real mans life. Young then begins talking about dudes peeing and then says that he’s going to teach the boys how to pee standing up like real men (yes this actually happens go back and watch it).

Castle gains the in ring advantage while Alexander hides behind Scott, Castle hits the tilt a whirl hurricanranna to the outside of the ring while the boys fan both him and Alexander from ringside.  Castle tosses Alexander into the ring and hits a corner-to-corner flying knee.  The two men make their way up to the top rope but Alexander fights his way out of it and goes for a springboard cross body but gets caught in mid air by Castle who nails a belly to back suplex.

Castle hits a dead lift German suplex but Alexander manages to kick out in a very close two count.  The boys begin fanning off Castle some more and Young gets up from the commentary table after apparently seeing enough.  Silas pulls the boys off of the ring apron; this distraction allows Alexander to roll up Dalton Castle to score the pinfall victory.

Match Result: Cedric Alexander defeats Dalton Castle via roll up after Dalton is distracted by his boys being attacked.

Match Rating: **1/2

From here we get the presence of Stokley Hathaway who has a wrench in his hand, he confronts both Alexander and Scott as the fans chant for Moose.  Moose comes in through the crowd and nails Alexander with the Spear as Scott looks on in disbelief.  Moose and Alexander will meet in a no disqualification on Friday night September 18th at All Star Extravaganza 7.

We cut to a pre taped interview with Mandy Leon as she takes us Inside ROH but she’s interrupted by Adam Cole, who needs to apologize for interrupting her a few weeks ago.  He wants to talk about his two matches A 4 way #1 contenders match involving himself, AJ Styles, Michael Elgin and Roderick Strong as well as Kyle O’Reilly’s world Championship match with Jay Lethal.

From there Lethal cuts a taped promo talking about his TV title match with Bobby Fish.  He says he always has someone to watch his back but this time he’s alone and he will prove to be like all the others when he fails to take what he’s got.

We then go to a run down of the rest of the matches that will take place at ASE 7 before heading back inside of the arena for the main event of the evening.

Main Event – Match 3
Michael Bennett and Matt Taven vs. Hanson and Raymond Rowe

Thoughts: Taven is sporting his cut off “Big In Japan” tank top and the Kingdom has new all pink attire, which is a nice change.  War Machine gets early control as they isolate Taven, Taven gets a tag after a couple of minutes but it doesn’t really go in the way of changing much of anything.  Instead Bennett is now the one on the receiving end of a War Machine beating instead of him.  Maria decides to get involved but Hanson puts her on top of Bennett who put her on top of the top rope.  Taven comes into the ring and pulls Hanson out of the ring before they can do anything and we go to break.

Back from break and Hanson is caught in the Kingdom’s corner, Hanson tries to fight his way out but the double teaming from the Kingdom proves too much for one man even as big as Hanson to overcome.  Taven makes his way to the top rope as Hanson throws Bennett into the turnbuckle, which knocks Taven off, Hanson then hits Bennett with a Tilt-A-Whirl slam before tagging in Rowe.

Hanson hits a double dive but gets caught and thrown into the corner, Rowe cleans house on the Kingdom, War Machine sets up for Fallout but Bennett makes sure to come in and break things up so that it can’t happen.  War Machine charge full steam at the Kingdom but the Kingdom ducks which sends both War Machine members to the outside of the ring.  Bennett and Taven try stereo dives to the outside of the ring but both are caught and tossed around the outside by War Machine.  Back in the ring and Rowe hits Taven with a power slam as Hanson gets set up to do a top rope dive but Maria pulls at his leg from the outside.  The distraction allows Bennett to get involved and pull Hanson off of the top rope.

Towards the end of the match, The Young Bucks make their way out to the ring and pull Maria from the ring apron as the fans go insane.  Back in the ring War Machine hits a double choke slam on Bennett and follow it up with Fallout on Taven for the pinfall victory.

Match Result: War Machine defeats The Kingdom via pinfall after Fall Out.

Match Rating: **3/4

Weird choice of a winner here as War Machine aren’t even on the ASE 7 card but I guess that leaves the door open for a possible Kingdom win at the PPV.  We then will probably go into a Kingdom vs. War Machine program for the Tag Team Title’s which if that happens I’m fine with because this match was really good so I would like to see what these four can do with each other if they are given more time to develop something.

The Bucks hit the ring after the match and hit Bennett with a double super kick, out come the KRD who lay out the Bucks with the tag team straps.  The show draws to a conclusion with the ROH World Tag Team Champions posing with their titles as we lead into some promos for their match at ASE 7.

That however will do it for me and another one of my Ring Of Honor reviews for http://www.EyesOnTheRing.com.  This week’s show may have not of been as good as last weeks but this was pretty good for a go home show for ASE 7 which takes place on Friday night September 18th.  In closing make sure to follow me on Twitter @Headliner5, also follow the Eyes On The Ring main account @EyesOnTheRing.

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