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This is the first installment of my new weekly column. I think I’m going to do like a match of the week type of deal. The match will be from any promotion, so it will probably be something that I’m watching at the moment. Without any further adieu let’s get started…. Read the rest of this entry

While night one was great, night two promised even more. The Dragon Gate six man tag returned from a third consecutive year. The Ring of Honor world title and the FIP world title were scheduled to be defended. The Briscoes feud with Age of the Fall was going to come to an end? Read the rest of this entry

One of the best cards in Ring of Honor history! Read the rest of this entry

The official piggybacking off Wrestlemania started back in 2004 for Ring of Honor. The show ran March 13, 2004 at the legendary Rexplex in Elizabeth New Jersey. The event featured two cage matches, appearances by two legends, and a pure championship bout with two future world champions. Read the rest of this entry

As most of my columns go, this one stems from a conversation with a good friend of mine. More so, this was a suggestion on my friend’s part. And as I gear up for a weekend of wrestling action in Chicago that will feature three matches featuring the main championship of two companies, it brings this topic to the forefront of my mind. When you look through the annals of history in professional wrestling, the frequency of title changes for the main belt(s) of an organization has increased 10 fold. It begs the question: Has the values of titles gone considerably downhill over the years? For this article, I’m going to credit Wikipedia.org for the title reign history of the examples I’m planning on using and focus on 2 major titles in professional wrestling today, the WWE Championship and the ROH World Heavyweight Championship. I’m excluding TNA’s World Heavyweight Championship and WWE’s World Heavyweight Championship simply because they are technically so new (World Heavyweight Championship being established in 2002 (I’m considering it recreated and not connected to the history of WCW’s World Heavyweight Championship) and TNA’s World Heavyweight Championship being technically established when NWA stopped being affiliated with TNA in 2007 and they had to establish a new championship). The argument could be made, based on my reasons, that the ROH Title is too young for consideration, but, I believe it shows a great example of how championships were handled in the early days of mainstream professional wrestling. Read the rest of this entry