Xavier vs. Paul London Final Battle 2002 12/28/02

Actually got good in the end. The issue was that the commentators were saying Paul’s neck was being worked on, but wasn’t really sold that way. No. And no new matches on the 02 list.

Backseat Boyz vs. Da Hit Squad vs. Deranged & Angeldust Final Battle 2002 12/28/02

This was actually pretty good. Didn’t go too long (Thank god) and had enough fun shit in it. Again 02 is not giving me anything incredible. No.

Xavier vs. AJ Styles Night of the Butcher 12/7/02

This was ass. You want to point to matches that exposed Xavier, this is the one. Hell no.

S.A.T. vs. Da Hit Squad vs. Amazing Red & Jay Briscoe vs. Joey Matthews & Deranged Night of the Butcher 12/7/02

Minus Joey and Maff, this was horrible. Hell no.

AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels Scramble Madness 11/16/02

Good match as always. No direction to it, but 02 Styles wasn’t the best seller at that point. It had some nice counters and AJ fucking shit up, but I don’t think it is top tier stuff. No.

Jay Briscoe & Amazing Red vs. Mark Briscoe & Christopher Daniels Scramble Madness 11/16/02

Good match although I don’t think it should have went 15. I thought they could have cut a little of the FIP off and Jay’s hot tag wasn’t that outstanding. No.

Xavier vs. Jay Briscoe All Star Extravaganza 11/9/02

Directionless again, but it was still decent. A bit samey, but with a blade job. No.

CM Punk vs. Michael Shane vs. Paul London vs. Amazing Red vs. Bryan Danielson Gauntlet All Star Extravaganza 11/9/02

Punk/Shane- Good with the Punk arm work and decent selling from Shane. Could have cut a couple minutes from it though. Shane/London- I wish London would have steamrolled Shane instead of getting a fluke DDT. London/Red- Too messy in the beginning although they recovered well. London/Danielson- So much fun watching Danielson take London to the cleaners. Good gauntlet, but not amazing. No.

Doug Williams vs. Christopher Daniels Glory by Honor 10/5/02

Good as you expect. The awesome mat work didn’t mean shit in the end, but as the first match in there feud, it did its job. No.

Spanky vs. Paul London vs. Michael Shane Elimination Glory by Honor 10/5/02

This went for freaking ever. This did not need 20 minutes. No.

Jay Briscoe vs. Xavier Glory by Honor 10/5/02

For a directionless match, I would call it good and dispels the rumors that Xavier was a bad worker. Should he have been champion, no, but I though he could get some good matches out of people as a midcarder. However, this is not essential. No.

Homicide vs. SAT vs. Chris Devine & Quiet Storm vs. Izzie & Dixie Glory by Honor 10/5/02

The file that had Ki/Guerrero isn’t working. No way that would have been good :(. I don’t think this was too bad for a spotfest, but it didn’t need 15 minutes. Probably would have helped if they weren’t spazzing out on high spots and head drops. No.

Eddie Guerrero & Amazing Red vs. S.A.T A Night of Appreciation 4/27/02

It was good. Took a bit to get going when they worked over Red and Eddie was the hot tag. Not outstanding, but I don’t regret seeing it. No.

Paul London vs. Michael Shane vs. Spanky vs. Bryan Danielson Gauntlet Match A Night of Appreciation 4/27/02

There was apparently another match between Paul London and John Hope that was cut from the gauntlet match. London vs Shane- OK 3 minute sprint. Shane vs Spanky- best of the bunch with some nice hate, but a pathetic blade job. Danielson vs Spanky- Spanky was gassed and botching and Danielson had to carry this by beating Spanky’s ass. Nothing good. No.

Spanky vs. Jay Briscoe Round Robin Challenge 3/30/02

Did nothing for me. Not even the blood could get me excited for this. No.

Christopher Daniels vs. Low Ki Round Robin Challenge 3/30/02

God I forgot how awesome Ki was in beating the shit out of people. Ki humbles Chris for not showing respect until Chris takes over with STOs. The middle is confusing in that the commentators are saying he’s working the neck when he really is working the back (or both). Neither was sold at the end. This show had two better round robin matches that I can discount this one. No.

Eddy Guerrero vs. Super Crazy Era of Honor Begins 2/23/02

This was whatever. Yes Eddy was on his game, but the match just sort of existed and was more “your turn, my turn” for my liking. No.

Spanky & Ikaika Oa vs. Michael Shane & Oz Era of Honor Begins 2/23/02

Back to the past…again. This was ok. The one who gets the pin gets a ROH contract, but they never really played that up. Oa apparently had four herniated discs so I will give him a pass on his performance, and Oz wasn’t in there enough, but seemed decent enough. For four wrestlers who were in the same wrestling academy, they didn’t really seem to gel. No.