Nigel McGuinness vs. D’Lo Brown ROH Proving Ground 2009 Night 2 2/7/09

Surprisingly good. Nigel thankfully didn’t do arm work and this was only 14 minutes. D’Lo’s performance was better then I thought and did well in his selling and hitting some great forearms. Down with the Brown, even if it was only for this one match, but this isn’t a classic. No.

El Generico vs Bryan Danielson ROH Proving Ground 2009 Night 2 2/7/09

Most compelling match on paper, and it was only good. Mostly comedy and not much direction, but its these two so it was obviously going to be good. No.

Roderick Strong/Erick Stevens/Brent Albright vs. Francisco Ciatso/Dark City Fight Club ROH Proving Ground 2009 Night 2 2/7/09

Nice and physical match at times, but they didn’t seem to be on the same page. No.

Davey Richards vs Tyler Black ROH Proving Ground 2009 Night 1 2/6/09

I’d call it good although I wouldn’t call it a main event match. Tyler’s midsection selling was ok, but Davey’s performance did more for me then Tyler. I’ve just seen these matches done better. No.

Brent Albright vs Nigel McGuinness ROH Proving Ground 2009 Night 1 2/6/09

God damnit. I can’t even get that mad at Brent not selling the arm because Nigel’s been doing the same old shit throughout 09. Fuck no.

Jerry Lynn/Bryan Danielson vs. Jimmy Jacobs/Delirious ROH Proving Ground 2009 Night 1 2/6/09

Fine for what it was. Jacobs/Delirious didn’t have enough personality to make it work like Caludio/Nigel last year with Lynn/Danielson. No.

Brent Albright, Roderick Strong, Erick Stevens, Ace Steel, & Jay Briscoe vs. Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards, Adam Pearce, Bobby Dempsey, & Tank Toland Steel Cage Warfare ROH Caged Collision 1/31/09

This was not very long for a wargames style match, but it accomplished everything it needed to as far as a feud ender went. I thought they set up the stuff with SnS Inc. getting destroyed well and Bobby having enough after the match. It was actually refreshing seeing a match that wasn’t pretending to be epic. This may actually do better then I thought. Keep.