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The Ring of Honor ROHport 06.06.09
June 11, 2009 | Posted by
ROH on HDNet by J.D. Dunn Twitter.com/jddunn411 Brightkite.com/jddunn411 Cabana is over HUGE. Poor Ernie gets tossed around for a while before Colt and Claudio turn it into a European clinic. Ernie tosses a shoe at Cabana, distracting Cabana long enough for Claudio to jump him from behind. Colt cartwheels out of a corner, though, and tags in Brent. Brent. Is. Pissed. He destroys Castagnoli, but Claudio quickly tags in Ernie and gets the hell out of there. Cabana tags in and turns Ernie over into the Billy Goat’s Curse (reverse Boston Crab) at 4:40. Oddly enough, Ernie really works as ROH’s Brooklyn Brawler. Of course, he was the weak link of the team, and the only reason Colt and Brent even had a chance was because Claudio wasn’t tagging with JIMMY RAVE, THE CROWN JOO-ELL! ** The Man They Call Bobby shoves down the trash-talking Rinauro, but Saved by the Sal goes to the eyes. BOBBYBLOCK! DVD! Sal is a grease spot at 0:46. Proposed tag team: Colt Cabana & Bobby Dempsey. 1/4* The fans HATE Jerry Lynn. Jeez. Rob Van Dam didn’t hate him that much, and he *feuded* with him. I like that they actually make a big deal about the intros. If you’re going to hype this as a big event, you got to treat it like a big event. Aries makes a dick of himself early and pays for it as they all turn on him. Lynn hits him with a cannonball on the floor. Lynn knocks Aries off the apron and headscissors Black, but Dragon jumps him from behind and ties him up with the Indian Deathlock. Aries returns and RAKES LYNN’S BACK! He’s hardcore. Danielson blows them off and puts Tyler in the Mexican Surfboard. Aries breaks it up and tries the same on Danielson, but Dragon powers out. We get a triple chinlock, but Black breaks it up with the centipede jawbreaker. Aries spins Lynn and Black over while they’re in the figure-four and puts Lynn in a chinlock. Silly. Dragon breaks that up with a kick, but Aries yanks him to the floor. Aries gives Lynn a backbreaker on the ropes and puts him in the Stump-puller. He drops it to keep Black on the floor and then takes a victory lap. Dragon trips him up on the heat-seeking suicida, so Aries knocks him off the apron and threatens to hit one on Dragon… only Lynn trips him up this time. Ha ha! Dragon backflips over Black and tries a German Suplex, but Lynn sunset flips both of them to turn it into a Sunset German Suplex. Lynn gets two. Lynn and Dragon go for the Flair-Steamboat sequence, but Black destroys them in mid-bridge with a quebrada. Danielson powers up anyway and throws kicks Aries’ way. Aries catches him and hits the shinbreaker/backdrop combo. That sets up the heat-seeking suicida on Lynn. Black adds a somersault plancha, but Aries tosses him into the crowd. Ah, I know what’s coming. Danielson springboards into a plancha on both guys. Aries is content to win by countout (a quirk in the rules means you can do that). Lynn dives in at the last second, though, while Aries is paying attention to Black and Danielson. Aries rolls through a sunset flip and hits a dropkick. That sets up the IED and the Brainbuster. ONE, TWO, THRE-foot on the ropes. The 450-splash misses, and Black Bucklebombs Aries into Lynn. CRAZY! SUPERKICK! ONE, TWO, THRE-Lynn makes the save. Black sets up for the Phoenix Splash, but Danielson crotches him and hits the belly-to-back superplex onto Lynn and Aries. Ho-lee shit. Danielson recovers first and stomps another hole in Black’s face. That sets up the Triangle Choke, but Aries puts Lynn in the Last Chancery. Black powers Danielson up and slams him down on Aries to break the hold. Gotta love the ingenuity. Danielson recovers and nails Aries with the lightning legline. Black Pélé Kicks Dragon, though. IT JUST COMES OUT OF NOWHERE! Lynn saves, drawing the ire of the crowd. Aries hits him with the IED, but Dragon saves Lynn from the Brainbuster and hits Aries with the Tiger Suplex. That gets two, so Dragon tries Cattle Mutilation. Lynn catches him, though, and drops Danielson on his head with the Cradle Piledriver at 21:39. Loved the creativity in the spots and reversals, plus the use of having four guys in there at once (something that is usually a detriment). The best match on TV so far this year and one of the best overall. ****1/4
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