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Dark Pegasus Video Review: Ring of Honor — Glory by Honor VI, Night Two
February 9, 2008 | Posted by
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| Ring of Honor — Glory by Honor VI, Night Two by J.D. Dunn I know some people might not like the idea of Hero jerking the curtain here, but it’s a pretty damned good way to get the crowd going for the show. He abuses Bobby Dempsey, naturally, forcing him to wear a shirt that reads “Survival of the Fattest” and shoving him off the apron for no reason other than he’s Bobby Dempsey. The huge “Bobby Dempsey” chant probably didn’t help. Generico does a very Hero-esque counter to get out of an overhand wristlock, prompting Hero to go out to the announcer and tell him to inform people that Generico’s move was not impressive in the least. Ha ha! Prazak and Leonard finally note that Sara Del Rey actually seems to feel sorry for Bobby Dempsey. Generico armdrags Hero after his athletic exhibition, prompting Chris to call for a timeout. Generico clotheslines him over, but Sweeney grabs on to Generico’s leg long enough for Hero to recover and shove him into the barricade. Hero takes over as the fans try to get Generico back in it with an “Ole” chant. Funny spot as Hero thinks about going up for a top-rope move, but Sweeney tells him to drag Generico all the way to the other corner and try to jump across the ring. Hero does it but comes up well short on his legdrop attempt. Generico comes back with a rana, but Hero rolls through a crossbody into the Cravat Neckbreaker. Generico reverses the Hero’s Welcome to a backslide for two and hits a Tornado DDT. Hero misses something off the top but rolls through. Generico nails him with the Yakuza Kick and rolls him up for two. He tries a Swandive Headbutt, but Hero catches him in the Cravat Suplex. The Hero’s Welcome finishes off a pesky Generico at 14:25. As a wrestling match, it was an okay opener. It was a great example of why people love Chris Hero, though. **3/4 Steen whips Whitmer into the barricade as Delirious chokes out Albright with his ring jacket. Delirious goes up for Shadows over Hell, but Whitmer distracts him long enough for Albright to recover and slam him down with a swinging uranage. Delirious plays face-in-peril. He crawls toward his corner, Albright pulls him back and powerslams him for two. Albright comes off the second rope for a double ax-handle, but Delirious headbutts him out of the air. Steen gets the hot tag and cleans house on Whitmer. Whitmer cuts off his dive but then Irish whips him, and Steen completes the move anyway. Back in, Steen gets two off a Fisherman’s Neckbreaker. Delirious and Steen argue over their next move, allowing Albright to jump Steen from behind. That sets up the 61Knee and a German Suplex from BJ. Delirious makes the save and hits Shadows over Hell. Steen goes for the Packaged Piledriver, but Hagadorn sneaks in and goes low behind the ref’s back. That sets an Exploder into a chair at 10:57. Solid formula tag action. The Hangman 3 finally look dominant. **1/2 Hagadorn jumps Aries and hits a Death Valley Driver for one. He blocks a charge and decides to hang out in the corner, playing to the crowd. That allows Aries to hit the corner dropkick. The Brainbuster sets up the 450-splash at 1:12. 1/2* Marufuji actually gets a pretty good “Hey!” pop. Marufuji breaks out of a Full Nelson. Claudio is impressed, so he asks to try the same thing and forces out of the hold into a wristlock. They both apply Iron Claws. Claudio’s wins out, but Marufuji kicks him in the gut to counter. Marufuji vaults up to the top rope for the Undertaker walk, but Claudio shoves him off. Marufuji lands on the apron and Dragon Screws Castagnoli between the ropes. Claudio blocks a charge and goes up, but Marufuji dropkicks him in the knee and Dragon Screws him off the top. Claudio comes back with a Gutwrench Suplex and a Fisherman’s Suplex for two. A Bridging Vertical Suplex gets two more. Marufuji comes back with an enzuigiri but misses a dropkick to the knee. Claudio German Suplexes him for two, but Marufuji catches him going up. He drops Claudio with a superplex for two. SUPERKICK! Claudio blocks the Shiranui and dumps Marufuji to the floor. The Diving European Uppercut gets two. Marufuji goes for a powerbomb, but Claudio reverses to a Giant Swing and nearly tosses Marufuji into the cameraman. A running European Uppercut only gets two. Marufuji stomps his head into the mat and hits the Shiranui. ONE, TWO, THRE-Claudio gets his foot on the ropes. Claudio blocks a second Shiranui and reverses to an O’Connor Roll for the win at 18:42. Big win for Claudio to the usually invincible Marufuji. ***1/4 The Briscoes clear the ring early and launch Jimmy Jacobs into a faceplant. Mark and Necro have a duel with chairs, prompting referee Todd Sinclair to disqualify both teams at 0:40. The fans are not happy, and neither are both teams. [N/R] Morishima nearly put Danielson’s eye out in their first match. In their rematch, Morishima promised not to go after the eye but went back on that promise and began working the eye during the match. Danielson dives out on him before the match and stomps a chair into his face. In the ring, Morishima targets, what else, the eye. Danielson jumps on him with a sleeper, but Morishima dumps him and elbows him in the head. He pounds Danielson’s face with forearms and hits a cartwheel avalanche. A missile dropkick sends Danielson to the floor. On the outside, Morishima hits an Olé buttalanche, but Danielson avoids another try and dumps Morishima into the crowd. He follows him out with a springboard plancha out into the audience. The fans love that. Back to ringside, Morishima gives him a desperation Backdrop Driver and then knocks Danielson off the apron into the barricade. Danielson is busted open. Morishima knocks him off the apron again. Danielson sunset flips back in on a third try. He only gets two, and Morishima LEVELS him with a lariat. Danielson backflips out of a Backdrop Driver and fires off a few roaring elbows. Morishima no-sells, so Danielson dropkicks his knee and fires off the elbows. That sets up a German Suplex for two. He stomps on Morishima’s face a few times and gets two. Morishima comes back with another lariat and goes back after the eye. Danielson goes low and starts stomping on Morishima’s nuts! The ref tries to intervene and gets tossed for the DQ at 11:40. The fans aren’t happy because they already had a disqualification in a highly anticipated match. That was some fine revenge from Danielson, though. ***1/4 The fans mercilessly boo Payne. He’d be a big star if this were 1982, though. Black goes right after Payne, hits a running forearm, and finishes with the Small Package Driver at 1:08. 1/4* Big brawl to start, and everyone does a brief sequence with everyone else. It’s kind of sad that Jack Evans’ offense looks the least ridiculous of the Vulture Squad. It finally settles down to Davey and Jigsaw in the ring. Richards forearms the back of Jigsaw’s head into oblivion, and the NRC tripleteam him. Strong gives Jigsaw a gutbuster variation of the Tower of London. Jigsaw finally avoids the sandwich kicks and hits an enzuigiri. That allows Ruckus to tag in and clean house. He hits a standing Shooting Star Press, but Jack one-ups him with a standing Corkscrew Press. Strong catches Evans and suplexes him into a gutbuster. A big boot gets two. Jigsaw saves Evans and superkicks Strong. He goes for the Jig and Tonic, but Richards saves. The Vulture Squad hits a series of moves, but Strong presses Evans into an Ace Crusher from Romero. That sets up a Buzzsaw Kick from Richards. Strong gets ready for a dive, but Evans springboards in and neckbreakers him. Strong knocks Jack off the top and avoids the Space Flying Tiger Drop. That sets up a Tiger Driver on the floor and a SICKENING version of the Stronghold back in. Evans is unresponsive, so the ref calls for the bell at 14:31. It certainly had a lot of action, but I have a hard time taking the Vulture Squad’s offense seriously. **3/4 Hero jumps him from behind and applies the cravat. He tries to headscissor Austin Aries, but YOU CAN’T HEADSCISSOR AUSTIN ARIES! Hero bails and tells the ring announcer he wants a “do-over.” Hero does his little exhibition again, losing his little towel in the process. Austin wipes his undercarriage with it and tosses it into the audience. Sweeney demands it back from the kid in the audience, so the guy throws it back. Hero realizes where it’s been and shoves it in Bobby Dempsey’s face. Dempsey is soooo the Ralphus to Hero’s Jericho. Aries cuts off the rest of the exhibition and shoves Hero to the floor. He tries a suicida, but Hero sacrifices Dempsey and gets out of the way. Hero takes over on Aries as Sara Del Rey helps Dempsey to the back. Hero misses a doublestomp, and Aries drags him out of a cravat. Hero tries to skin the cat, but Aries dropkicks him out and hits the suicida he was looking for earlier. Back in, Aries hits the shinbreaker/backdrop suplex combo. Hero blocks the running dropkick, though. Hero gets two off a backslide, but Aries punts him and hits a Brainbuster. That sets up the Arieslock. Claudio Castagnoli keeps Larry Sweeney from interfering and chases him to the back. Aries adds a few knees and floats back over into the hold for the win at 16:06. This nicely set up all they were going for at Final Battle. *** They trade forearms early, and Kenta takes it to the mat with a headlock. Kenta backs him into the corner and slaps him in the face. Oooh. Misawa just gets pissed and lays him out with a forearm. Kenta hangs him out to dry and hits a jumping knee off the top rope. Kenta blocks a charge and goes up, but Misawa just knocks him off the top with a forearm. More forearms follow. This is a very Undertaker-ish performance from Misawa, as he’s content just to take punishment without really selling it, and then he hits the occasional forearm (instead of a “soupbone”). Kenta fires off a few kicks, but Misawa forearms him again and hits a suicide dive. Back in, Misawa hits the Tiger Driver for two. Misawa goes up but gets cut off. He shoves Kenta off and forearms him out of the air when he tries to rebound. Misawa comes off the top – right into a knee from Kenta. That sets up a running knee and Tiger Suplex from Kenta. Kenta blocks another Tiger Driver and hits the GO 2 SLEEP! ONE, TWO, THRE-NO! Misawa scoops him up for Emerald Frosion. Kenta slips out once, but Misawa picks him back up and hits Emerald Frosion. ONE, TWO, THRE-NO! Kenta hits the Busaiku Knee to catch a breather. Misawa recovers, knocks Kenta silly with a few elbows, and drops him on his head with another Emerald Frosion at 18:32. Kenta was forced to carry most of the action, as virtually everyone predicted. The sheer coolness of seeing Misawa in America was what this match was all about, though. *** The Briscoes storm the ring and doubleteam Necro. Lacey trips up Mark to block stereo dives. Mark improvises with a Shooting Star Plancha. Back in, Jimmy hangs Jay in the tree-of-woe and hits a charge. Mark makes the save, but Necro tosses a chair at his face. Jimmy tries a dive but hits the barricade. The Briscoes toss him out of the ring into the barricade on the other side. Lacey objects to being called a bitch by Mark, so he yanks her in and lets Daizee Heart Punch her. Daizee comes off the top onto the Age of the Fall. Lacey and Daizee brawl to the back. Necro wins a slugfest with Mark and rolls him up into the floor mat. He comes off the top and splashes the mat. To quote Chris Hero: that was not impressive in the least. More impressive is Jimmy’s senton off the top to the floor on Jay. Necro and Jimmy doubleteam Jay. Jimmy DDTs Jay on a pile of chairs and locks in the End Time. Mark finally recovers and makes the save. The Briscoes hit a doubleteam belly-to-back suplex on Necro for two. Jacobs saves Necro from a DVD off the apron, but Jay suplexes Necro off the apron to the floor. Inside, they team up for the Crucifix Neckbreaker combo on Jacobs. They set up some chairs and hit a Springboard Blockbuster onto them. Necro returns and crotches Mark on an open chair. He sets up two chairs and backbreakers Mark on them. Jimmy goes up but gets knocked through the table below. The Briscoes pinball Necro back and forth with chairshots, and Jay finishes him with a Jaydriller at 17:45. This is part of the problem with the Briscoes. All of their matches are like this, so when they get involved in a blood feud, no one cares because it’s indistinguishable from one of their normal matches. This was one of those “Sabu” matches where they just went from garbage spot to garbage spot without any flow or psychology. The crowd just kind of died on them as a result. **1/4 |
The 411: You can feel the beginnings of burnout from the NYC crowd here. The show itself is just fine, but the normally raucous Manhattan crowd is short-tempered and crabby. Just having Misawa and the GHC title out there makes this show feel special. The matches are solid up and down the card, but there aren't any classics to speak of. Mild thumbs up. |
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| Final Score: 7.0 [ Good ] legend |
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