I figure that most people would want to know what happened, so here are the results.
TJ Perkins d. Mike Mondo. Perkins was pretty over. Mondo apparently signed with ROH. Pretty good scrap, with Perkins winning with a fancy roll up.
Briscoes promo talking about how they wanted a shot at WGTT, and would whoop the ANX again.
Jay Lethal and Mike Bennett fought to a draw in a tv title match. Bennett's best match by far in ROH. The match ended with both guys being in
mount positions and wailing on each other, but the ref wouldn't stop it. Lethal wanted 5 more minutes, but the Bennett said no.
Roderick Strong d. Kyle O'Reilly. Very good match. O'Reilly took all Strong have to give. Roddy hit a 4 elbow combo to O'Reilly and
crushed him with the sick kick. Michael Elgin ran out, and they and Truth Martini stomped O'Reilly. Davey ran out, but Elgin and Strong got him.
Eddie Edwards ran out to even the numbers. The Wolves hit the assisted alarm clock on Truth. Then O'Reilly field goal kicked the book of truth
right in the chest of some guy 3 seats from me.
Tomaso Ciampa d. some OVW jobber. Ciampa hit his finisher well. Corino did commentary for some reason.
Briscoes d. ANX in a #1 contenders match at Final Battle. Pretty much the typical non-violent match the teams have had lately. It picked up at the
end. The finish saw Mark on Titus' shoulders, but Jay pushed King off the top rope. Jay then pushed Mark into a victory roll for the win. The
Briscoes were super over.
There was an OVW match after intermission where a guy with one leg had his leg pulled off and was beaten with it. I thought it was funny.
Mike Elgin d. some OVW jobber. Elgin's power moves look very good live.
Eddie Edwards was named the #1 contender for Final Battle. He said he has a new coach. He also said when people chanted 'next world champ'
at the Wolves, they were chanting to Eddie. Davey came out to accept the challenge.
WGTT d. Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander, aka C&C; Wrestling Factory. It was some kind of challenge match with a time limit. C&C; were almost the
faces, as Haas and Benjamin beat them down. Alexander almost broke his neck doing a running shooting star. WGTT won with a double powerbomb. One guy
had a leg. The Briscoes came out and said beating the greenhorns was one thing, but in NYC they are winning the gold for a 7th time.
Young Bucks d. Bravados. High energy match. The Bravados were faces until the Bucks did all their cool moves. More Bang for Your Buck is awesome live.
Before and after, the Bucks didn't shake hands.
WGTT did a promo about their match with the Briscoes, when the ANX came out and said that WGTT was nothing but a couple of ducks until they fought
them.
Steve Corino did a quick promo saying ROH has a monster problem and he knows the solution. Cornette won't talk to him, but he just needs 5
minutes.
Davey Richards/Eddie Edwards d. Roderick Strong/Michael Elgin. I haven't seen the other match the teams had, so I can't compare, but this
was awesome. They went all out. Roddy pushed Edwards on the security guy right in front of me and elbowed him a lot. Then he threw streamers at him,
and then fired him against the barricade very hard. The finish came when Elgin killed Davey with a huge powerbomb, but Truth had the ref distracted.
Edwards jumped in the ring and choked out Elgin. Davey got up to pin for the win. He didn't know what happened, and Eddie didn't say
anything.
It was a really fun show with a hot crowd. Hopefully it comes across well on tv. You can see me throw a streamer like a girl at one point, hit the ref
with another, and throw one that went over Roderick Strong's shoulder. Remember that for a month and a half or whatever.
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