First and foremost I want to wish the family of Brad Mackie my condolences, Mackie was the lighting director for the HDNet show and my prayers go out to them in this time. I also know that I am scheduling this to come out the day before Memorial Day so to anyone that reads this have a great Memorial Day Weekend.. I’ll be at a great BBQ so I hope most of you are able to do the same or something better.

Let’s move on as the theme of this is going to an even darker mode as I’m reminded of the chant, ” Joe’s gonna kill you…” Well ROH Bots time to change that tune to another guy who’s pretty much in the same mold of a Samoa Joe in terms of just a straight shooter who is husky and believably able to put the hurt on anyone he meets in or out of the ring. Kevin Steen.

This and I will bring up some thoughts on the recent TV Tapings and ROH news so I don’t want it to be a huge spoiler for anyone who reads this so I will give you ample warning when that is coming up.  Anyway Strikes & Bumps Vol XX is in full effect after the jump Read the rest of this entry

Matt’s Classics for the week is up a day early this week! I’m gonna be out of town so I figured I’d throw it up early. This weeks review is long. Very, very long. If you stick with it though I promise it’ll be worth It. I even included a link where you can watch this weeks match! This week is Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels from Unbreakable in 2005. Enjoy!

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For 15 bucks, I figured I couldn’t go wrong! Read the rest of this entry

The action shifted to Chicago for night two of Ring of Honor’s first ever tripleshot. Even though this ended up being five hours that lasted until 1:00 a.m. in the morning central time and featured nine matches (with some brawls interspersed for fun), one match stood above the rest. It was a six man tag that wowed everyone live and the DVD audience. The start of the Dragon Gate six man tag match tradition began on this night. And then there was the that world title match that’s running dangerously close to 60 minutes. Read the rest of this entry

After a one year absence, Ring of Honor decided to run Wrestlemania weekend once again. This time, the company took a more ambitious route. Instead of running one show the night before Wrestlemania, the company would run their first tripleshot weekend. Chicago played host to the Friday and Saturday night of Mania weekend while Detroit, a relatively new market at that time, would get a special Thursday show. This would not be a B show by any stretch. Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe would have their final singles match in Ring of Honor while a very significant feud began and almost ended in the same night because of a near tragedy. This tripleshot also took place amidst the ROH/CZW war, but I’ll talk more about this next week when I review Supercard of Honor. This, along with six other shows, were combined to form the Milestone Series, one of the greatest collection of shows put together.  With all that in mind… 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