I just got back from my first ever live RoH experience, and it fukkin rocked. This huge announcement which will take place the next time RoH is in Chicago, I think that's in early December.
Adam Pearce and Shane Hagadorn def. the Irish Airborne.
A very enjoyable opening match. The Irish Airborne had a sick spot involvong a monkey flip into a swinging headscissors. The Match ended after Shane broke out the brass knuckles, and Adam Pearce hit a piledriver. Jim Cornette came out after the match, and talked about how Shane and Adam were cold, calculating, scientific tag team werstlers. Then got some more heel heat by running down homicide, who wasn't at the show.
Shingo def. Roderick Strong
A great stiff back and forth match. Some 8 year old kids right in front of me kept shouting stupid slighting racist Japanese remarks. A lot of chants revolving around Shingo's mullet, Roderick played on these by pulling his hair several times. Shingo won with a series of original power moves. I'm sure one of them was his finisher... what ever that may be.
Sol Ronaldo & Jimmy Rave lost to Colt Cabana and Jimmy Jacobs
Matchs started off with Colt being silly (like he does). Then Jacobs got in, and had his ass beat down. Colt Cabana got the hot tag (I despise the hot tag spot) and beat down for awhile. Colt lead several Jim Duggan chants for Jacobs. The match broke down, and everyone was in the ring. Jacobs eventaully speared Rave, then Colt hit a moonsault to win the match. Afterwards Jimmy professed his love for Lacy (like he does) and told her that he got the win tonight, so she should love him. Lacy said that Colt got the win and offered him a contract to join Lacy's Angels. Colt said that he wanted to keep business seperate from personal, and when into detail describing that when they were caught in his car and in the shower, that was personal. When she manages him, that's business, but when he manages her (slight pelvic thrusts) that's personal. Colt went on to try and get Jacobs to see that Lacy is a *****, and he should forget about her. Lacy acted like a *****, and told Jimmy to take out Colt... which he did... with her high heeled shoe... which he then smelled... Colt was busted open, but BJ Whitmer made the save.
Steve Corino def. Delirious
Pretty funny match. Steve Corino had his PForce tights on, acted gay here and there shoving D's head in his crotch, and sticking his thumb up Delirious's ass when he was in an ab stretch. Delirious fought back, and shoved Steve's assy finger into his mouth. Crowd chanted either "Pink's for pussies" or "P for *****" I wasn't sure. Pearce & Hag ran in. Shane distracted the ref, while Adam tossed Steve a trophy, which was smashed into delirious's face. Steve got the win, but because of the fans, senior ref Todd Sinclaire reversed the decision. Joim came out and made Todd go back on his reversal, or else he was fired. Todd was booed for the rest of the night because he raised Steve's hand.
Chris Daniels def Austin Aries
Awesome match, but being so close to Halloween, I really expected Daniels to wrestle as Curry Man... sadly, it didn't happen. Started off with a lot of back and forth chain reversals. They kept it very sportsman-like. Then they got angy and started shoving eachother. The match really took off from here. High flying, high spot, good times. Aries tried to superplex Chris outside of the ring, but Chris broke free, nailed Austin with a stiff ***** slap, then got the Angel's Wings to win it. Remeber those little kids I was talking about? Well, one of them exposed himself as a TNA mark, when he nearly shyted his huggies upon seeing Daniels. He refused to stop chanting "Fallen Angel" for longer than 10 seconds, and so a deuliong "Past your bedtime" chant rang out from a single audience member, but had haf the crowd cracking up (oddly enough these kids had either left, or fallen asleep before the night was through.
Brendt Albright def Trik Davis
A total squash for Brent to get over with. Scattered Gunner Scott chants. A lot of fast mat work from Brendt. I was highly amused by the "Fukk that Trik" chants. Albright worked Davis's left arm the whiole match, and Trik tapped to a high angle armbar which followed a wristclutch exploder. As a sign of respect, Brendt shook Davis's hand after the match, but it happened to be his worked arm. Loud "Please come back" chants here.
Jay Briscoe lost to Matt Sydal
Jay Briscoe and Matt Sydal had a crazy match. Matt hit, what I can only describe as a Death Star Senton over the ropes to Briscoe. Later on down the match, Matt had crashed and burned on the outside, but Jay made it back in the ring. Todd Sinclaire (who I guess wanted to get booed even more tonight) refused to count him out, and so the crowd did. We got to ten, and Jay raised his arms in victory. It was great. The match went on though, and only ended after Matt countered a lariat into a roll up for a sneaky win. Mark hit the ring, and the Briscoes beat down on Matt. This was was followed by Davey Richards running in. Jay and Matt Brawled to the back, while Davey and Mark fought in the ring, and transitioned into the next match.
Davey Richards def. Mark Briscoe
This match wasn't as good as Jay's. There was a nice super German suplex which landed Briscoe on his face. Mark eventually tapped out.
I'm now under the impression that Jay is the better of the two Briscoes.
Joe and Dragon had an amazing no DQ, must be a winner match. Early on, with Joe in some fancy crossface, Bryan shouted "This is how I street fight!", god I love that man... yes, I mean like
that 
. Great hard hitting back and forth match, that deffinately didn't disappoint. Got to see my first live Ole Ole Kick too, as well as a Cattle Mutilation.
They spilled out into the crowd, and I chased after them. Everyone who stayed in their seats had themselves a little "We can't see shyt" chant, just to pass the time. Meanwhile, Joe was getting thrown into the camera tower scaffolding, nearly knocking off the cameraman. They fought over by the exit, and were encouraged to take the brawl out of the building. Ever the super heel Am Drag asked "Outside?" everybody: "Yeeeeeahhhhhhhhhhh!" Bryan: "Fukk you." and threw Joe back over the barricade and into the ring. Joe got Bryan in the rear naked choke, they did that contrived arm dropping thing, but Danileson still had some fight left in him!
He couldn't get out of the hold though, and when the did that lame arm dropping to see if he's unconcious spot Danielson's arm fell three times! Joe choked out the champ! I honestly couldn't believe it. Joe then got on the mic, got welcomed back to ROH, and announced that here in Chicago Joe would be challenging Dragon for the ROH title... in a steel cage! I think that show's gonna be either Dec 8 or 9. Danielson woke up a minute or two after Joe left to Todd's ugly mug standing over him. Dragon acted all panicked while some of the remaining crowd chanted "you tapped out" Bryan checked with the time keeper to see what happened, while the other members of the crowd shouted "You're still champ"
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ROH announcement, and show spoilers from Oct 29
