Alex Shelley, Austin Aries, & Roderick Strong vs. Jimmy Rave, John Walters, & Matt Stryker ROH World Title Classic 6/12/04

Very good match.  I think I liked last month’s match just a little bit better.  This had the same issues as the last match when it came to the selling and not sure if I would have ended the match on Aries rings of Saturn considering they were working the back.  May need to re-watch it. 

ROH Title Match Samoa Joe vs. Homicide ROH Generation Next 5/22/04

Blah. Didn’t dig this. Compared to the Do or Die match, it was a slightly better Homicide performance, but Joe didn’t lay the man sized beating to make this memorable. Especially with the history going into this. I also didn’t like the cheating considering it was so blatantly obvious. Stay away from this one.

Alex Shelley, Austin Aries, Roderick Strong, & Jack Evans vs. Briscoe Bros., Jimmy Rave, & John Walters ROH Generation Next 5/22/04

Stuff I could say about this match:


-The mat wrestling ruled. Just flowed greatly throughout.
-Very little drag throughout the 40 minutes
-Team ROH gave a really good ass kicking to Gen Next
-Gen Next’s working over of the body parts on Team ROH was nice
-Team ROH’s selling could have been a little better.

Verdict: Another excellent match.

Tag Titles Match Briscoe Bros. vs. CM Punk & Colt Cabana ROH Round Robin Challenge III 5/15/04

I would have liked this more if the first 8 or so minutes were so pointless. The meat of the match was Mark getting his ribs worked over from earlier on the card against the Prophecy. The work on them was fine, but when the beginning was as boring as it was, it took away from me caring as much about everything else after that.

Tag Titles Match Briscoe Bros. vs. CM Punk & Colt Cabana ROH Reborn Stage 2 4/24/04

Super fun match even excellent. Went about the right amount of time and everything was pretty fun. You probably could make an argument that the Briscoes were a little lost at points, but this was a lot better then I thought it would be.

Homicide vs. Bryan Danielson ROH Reborn Stage 2 4/24/04

Pretty swanky match. Psychotic Homicide is a definite improvement with getting pissed off with crowds dumb chanting and doing some fun begging off. He even sold the destroyed hand well. Danielson did some awesome stretching of Homicide’s hand but didn’t sell the neck work. Would have liked a couple more high spots considering this went close to 30.

CM Punk vs. Bryan Danielson ROH Reborn Stage 1 4/23/04

I will say this; the match and ending would have made sense if Punk and Dragon actually did some selling. Whole thing lacked focus and I just couldn’t care.