Jay Briscoe/Mark Briscoe vs LAX ROH Ring of Homicide 2 10/25/08

Pretty good. You had mostly the good Homicide with him being a troublemaker and being stiff especially on that headbutt to Mark. Nothing too memorable, but it was fun. No.

Tyler Black vs Jerry Lynn ROH Ring of Homicide 2 10/25/08

This was decent, but like everything else today, there isn’t anything to get excited for. Felt like another storyless match. No.

Go Shiozaki vs Austin Aries ROH Return of the 187 10/24/08

About on the same lines as there 6th Anniversery match which means it was interesting early on, and then the rest ending up being boring. No.

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Jerry Lynn ROH Return of the 187 10/24/08

Good simple match. Claudio works the leg and Lynn sells it well. Otherwise, not that heated of a match nor anything to make me remember it. No.

Delirious vs Mark Briscoe vs Necro Butcher No DQ ROH Return of the 187 10/24/08

It was a good match, but this type of match has been done better in the past. More of a cool oddity. No.

Austin Aries/Briscoe Brothers vs Age Of The Fall vs Necro Butcher Steel Cage Warfare ROH Glory by Honor 7 9/20/08

Clusterfuck. This dragged a lot. No.

Nigel McGuinness vs El Generico Glory by Honor 7 9/20/08

Blah. Sure Generico’s selling was really good, but this was a Nigel defense where he takes control the whole match instead of the unique match at Age of Insanity where they went with Nigel underestimating his opponent with Generico getting offense in to make him look good. This did nothing interesting that you haven’t seen in other Nigel defenses. No.

Bryan Danielson vs Katsuhiko Nakajima Glory by Honor 7 9/20/08

Far from perfect, but I dug this enough. I wouldn’t say it was a great Nakajima performance minus his kicks, but Danielson had some really damn good leg selling in this and the match didn’t really overstay its welcome. Nakajima’s selling was fine, but could have been better. Considering how dry this year has been, stuff like this stands out more this year then in other years. Rewatch. And with that, I think I want to rewatch Erick Stevens vs Bryan Danielson at Battle for Supremacy 6/27/08 because in hindsight it may have been a better Danielson carry job.

Jimmy Jacobs/Tyler Black vs Kevin Steen/El Generico Driven 2008 9/19/08

This was a tale of two matches. You had one part where they were having a plodding match with no direction and a quiet crowd, and then you have the molten finishing stretch. The more I watched this match, the more I thought this was neither teams best showing. Both are pretty slow paced wrestlers in the first 2/3rds, but without the angle surrounding the injuries at Up For Grabs, you have nothing to hook you in. I say good match, but overrated. No.

Go Shiozaki vs Kevin Steen Glory by Honor 7 9/20/08

I’ll get to the tag main event from Driven, trust me. Good match. Go attacks the leg and Kevin attacks his leg in revenge. The selling wasn’t as up to snuff as it could have been, and there were points where they weren’t on the same page in between the stiffness. If the match and selling were a little bit cleaner, then I could see it on here, but like most of 08, it just falls short. No.

Nigel McGuinness vs Roderick Strong ROH Driven 2008 9/19/08

Crap. Nigel does arm work, Strong barely sells it. Strong does back work and Nigel doesn’t sell it. Hell No.

Nigel McGuinness vs. Jimmy Jacobs ROH Tokyo Summit 9/14/08

I’ll say this much about this crappy match, I understood why they ran it here as a means of Nigel being face in Japan. But having an American style match in Japan was the wrong type of match to do. No.

Naomichi Marufuji/Katsuhiko Nakajima vs KENTA/Kota Ibushi ROH Tokyo Summit 9/14/08

This was honestly better then I remembered years ago, but more because I hated this match back then. This had three wrestlers I dig and Marufuji and they had a house show match where they just kind of did there moves without many attempts at there finishers. They do the NOAH staples with people getting kicked off the apron and they don’t waste our time with limb work. Its still stuff that has been done better in Japan, but it was surprisingly good. No.

Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs Bryan Danielson ROH Tokyo Summit 9/14/08

Danielson made this as good as it was with his incredible arm stretching, but Kanemaru will not sell shit. I guess they were also trying to do a DDT vs uppercut story along with the arm work, but Kanemaru’s cluelessness killed this. No.

Bryan Danielson vs Nigel McGuinness Battle of the Best 9/13/08

This was a greatest hits version of there other matches, but in Japan. This is still good, especially the mat wrestling in the beginning, but this is still a house show performance. No.

BxB Hulk/Naruki Doi/Masato Yoshino vs El Generico/Shingo/Dragon Kid Battle of the Best 9/13/08

It was stupid fun. I was probably not as aggravated with this because this match doesn’t have any sort of great rep, they actually tried to get somewhat of a story with the issues between Hulk and Shingo, and it had Generico playing a FIP. It’s still a Dragongate match and the issues are still in full effect here. No.

Davey Richards vs Roderick Strong Battle of the Best 9/13/08

I think I would have dug this more if they didn’t drag this out as long as they did. Some great striking, but too long. No.

Nigel McGuinness vs El Generico ROH Age of Insanity 8/15/08

Generico makes this match as good as it is. I mean Nigel did play a good cocky ace early on to show he didn’t take him seriously, but this was a forumula Nigel title defense. Except for the fact that Generico actually sells the arm work does just as well as Steen did a couple months ago and better. Just a brilliant performance from him. Rewatch.

Nigel McGuinness vs Bryan Danielson vs Tyler Black vs Claudio Castagnoli Elimination ROH Death Before Dishonor 6 8/2/08

This was one of those matches that got better as it went along. The stuff before the eventual singles match was meh although it did have the story of Nigel tagging in and out and had one of his better all around heel performances during his reign. Add a heel turn and you have a very good match. Rewatch.

Motor City Machine Guns vs Kevin Steen/El Generico ROH Death Before Dishonor 6 8/2/08

This has been the best match today, but I’m on the fence on whether to rewatch this. The hate between Shelley and Steen was amazing and made the time in the beginning go by quickly. I think what’s throwing me off is that the finishing stretch wasn’t as hot as it could have been. Like the crowd lost interest in the end. I’ll rewatch since I don’t have as many matches on the rewatch list then I thought, but I don’t think it will hold up. Rewatch.

Naomichi Marufuji vs Go Shiozaki ROH Death Before Dishonor 6 8/2/08

Good. From what I gathered, the story was Go controlling Marufuji with chops while we got some eventual neck/head work on Go. Go sort of sold it, Marufuji’s neck work was more interesting, but not enough to rewatch it. No.

Adam Pearce vs Brent Albright ROH Death Before Dishonor 6 8/2/08

The phrase “Better then it had the right to be” is about as accurate of a statement that you can make about this match. Great, however, is pushing it. Right crowd, and not too much bullshit, but it’s still these two. It was serving the purpose of trying to make Brent into a made man, and it worked for this night (but didn’t work in the long run). It was a normal match with some surprising finisher overkill in its place in the card and without the selling to take it to that next level. Good and that’s it. No.

Jimmy Jacobs/Tyler Black vs Naomichi Marufuji/Go Shiozaki ROH Feuling the Fire 8/1/08

Wasn’t digging this. They just didn’t seem to be on the same page and it bored me through most of it. No

Motor City Machine Guns vs Bryan Danielson/Austin Aries ROH Fueling the Fire 8/1/08

Good, but it could have been so much more. Not really any story except them building up the eventual Aries/Shelly matchup without drumming up any interest during the match. Some animosity would have been nice considering there history. No.