ROH Title Cage Match Samoa Joe vs. Jay Briscoe ROH At Our Best 3/13/04

That was crazy shit. Definitely holds up. Joe wants to make an example out of Jay, and Jay wants to escape the cage as fast as possible. It didn’t hurt that Jay did one of the most brutal blade jobs ever and fought like a man possessed and made all of his moves look like death. Great match.

Pure Title Match AJ Styles vs. CM Punk ROH At Our Best 3/13/04

Weird match. It is really good, but I kind of feel you could have had the same match without the Pure Title rules (No closed fist, 20 count on floor, 3 submission rope breaks). The selling wasn’t really there to make the rope breaks a bigger deal. The finish was that Punk had AJ in a sleeper, AJ recovers when the third arm drops barely and then hits three lariats and it’s over. Again, weird.

ROH Title Match Samoa Joe vs. Low Ki vs. Dan Maff vs. BJ Whitmer ROH Second Anniversary Show 2/14/04

Before: Alright, let me lay the ground work for all of you…

1. ROH Title changes ONLY if Joe does the job
2. If the finish doesn't involve Joe, then the winner gets a title shot in the future via a singles match
3. If someone jobs to Joe, no future title shots for anyone

After: Really like this. This was pretty much Ki and Joe nuking the prophecy with some really stiff strikes. But man was Low Ki fucking up people in this match. That Zero-1 excursion really made him more pissed off and vile. Joe had to work most of the match with a busted hand, Maff was fun bumping and going after Joe’s hand, and BJ was kind of lost at points but got his ass kicked big time so I respect that. So yes, this owned.

The Prophecy vs. The Second City Saints ROH Battle Lines Are Drawn 1/10/04

This was a good match that got elevated to a very good match by the post-match deal. Match didn’t really have the rhythm, flash, or hate to be really high end. I wish the match would have doubled with intensity with half the time. Post-match with SCS destroying the Prophecy and Punk’s promo in the locker room was awesome.

Daniels/Walters revisted

On second watch, it was good, but not as high end as I remember it.  The selling in it was good, but it really didn't serve a point in the long run.  I will put it more toward the middle this time.

Christopher Daniels vs. John Walters ROH Empire State Showdown 10/25/03

Really good match. Not as tight some of the other Daniels matches, but was worked really well. Top 10 for ROH 03.

ROH Title Shot Match Low Ki vs. Samoa Joe vs. Steve Corino vs. Bryan Danielson ROH Final Battle 2002 12/28/02

God kill me. I feel these four had the last 5 minutes planned out and they decided to wing it on the first 40. I mean that’s the only logical reason why they decided to bore me to death. There is no excuse this shouldn’t have been good. Skip this.