From an over sold Manhattan Center in New York for a good show
1. Kenny King pinned Jay Briscoe when Rhett Titus distracted.
2. Mark Briscoe pinned Rhett Titus with the burnig hammer.
3. Erick Stevens & Necro Butcher beat Grizzly Redwood & Balls Mahoney when Stevens pinned Mahoney after a back suplex with distraction from Prince Nana.
4. We need the result of the double chain match with Kevin Steen & Steve Corino vs. El Generico & Colt Cabana. What we do know is Steen & Corino were both bleeding early. Colby Corino came out and unhooked the chains from Steen & Corino and they destroyed Generico & Cabana. Generico ended up being unmasked.
An interview with Davey Richards before leaving for the current New Japan tour with Jim Cornette brought up his saying he was retiring. Richards said that he married a girl and wanted to move on with his life at the end of the year and get off the road. But at the end, it was the tease saying he wasn't retiring and on the next iPPV, which is 12/18 also from the Manhattan Center, he would challenge for the ROH title. For the rest of the show they pushed that he was signing a new contract.
5. Eddie Edwards b Shawn Daivari to keep the TV title. Daivari ended up colliding with Prince Nana and Edwards used the Achilles lock for the submission.
6. Christopher Daniels b Austin Aries with the Angel's wing off the middle rope. Aries worked almost as a babyface, noting that Daniels was the guy who gave him the name "A double" and he said he would call Daniels "CO" because he's completely obsolete, but then said it was a joke and said that the two should show everyone whose forgotten that they'd tear it up. They had a very good match. The heat didn't seem that great but it could be how it was miced. They were strongly pushing Daniels as a title contender both in commentary, and Daniels making the belt around his waist pantomime after the match.
7. Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli b Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin in the dream tag match. This was excellent. Haas in particular was the standout, almost as if this was his personal FU to everyone who didn't think he was good enough. Benjamin did a lot of good athletic spots as well. Crowd loved the match from start to finish. After losing, Haas & Benjamin laid out Hero & Castagnoli with German suplexes and then tore the clothes off Shane Hagadorn, whose intererence cost them the match. It ended with Benjamin spreading Hagadorn's legs and Haas off the top rope with an elbow to the groin. It really sucks how constricted the business is because Haas & Benjamin as a team right now are better than all but a few teams in wrestling, and would be on par with Beer Money, and there's no place in the business for them to make a living.
8. Roderick Strong b Tyler Black to win the ROH title in the no DQ match. Black was clearly the heel, and announced Kevin Kelly did use the term Montreal like they were teasing doing that, which thankfuly they didn't do. This was a well wrestled match, not off the charts or anything. Ref Todd Sinclair went down allowing Terry Funk to take over as referee. Even though Strong was the face, his allies, Chistian Abel, Truth Martini and Josh Raymond tried to interfere as heels and Funk laid them all out including throwing Martini over the top rope. People definitely treated Funk as a legend but he almost overshadowed everyone because he has ten times the presence of everyone else. black did a series of superkicks but Strong kicked out. Strong came back with two stomach blocks and got the pin. They teased a handshake and the crowd, which hated Black (although there were a lot of dueling chants) started loudly chanting "Thank you Tyler." He flipped off Strong, walked out and left as a heel. The lights went out and then Homicide showed up and got in Storng's face.
It wasn't one of those ROH balls to the walls shows that burn you out early, but more a traditional wrestling show where the early matches are short and okay, and the last three matches were all strong.
