JULY 3 2010
"END OF HONOR"
WASHINGTON DC
Segment 1:
Our show opens with a new theme song "Dirty Angel" - As the group of Newly crowned ROH World Heavyweight Champion Kevin Steen, Steve Corino, Jimmy Jacobs, Sami Callihan and Jon Moxley make their way out through the curtain to the crowd boos and the commentators Dave Prazak and Kevin Kelly in absolute disgust over the men.
They step into the ring and Kevin Steen holding the world championship over his shoulder just shuts his eyes and soaks the moment is at the crowd boos him.
He is handed a microphone by Steve Corino. Kevin cuts a promo mocking the ROH crowd for booing them when they should be booing themselves. They doubted him, they held him back and now he's the ROH World Heavyweight Champion. But none of that matters, because this title represents what's wrong with this world. He mocks the term "Honor" and says it's an absolute joke of a word and says that society is not worth showing honor. He laughs hysterically as he pauses and then says "We're here to ****ing end everything. We are the Apocalypse of Honor."
Kevin turns and looks at the trio of Jacobs, Callihan and Moxley, the group who had been taunting Tyler Black for some time now who assisted him in helping him capture the world championship.
Kevin thanks them for their assistance and thanks them for joining he and Corino's cause.
Jimmy Jacobs is given the microphone by Kevin Steen. He hypes himself up and laughs as the crowd boos. He says that he's had a long, hard year to really think everything through since he was last in ROH. He says that watching Tyler Black, his former best friend and tag team partner eventually capture the World Championship off of Austin Aries was a sight to see. He was happy, he was proud of Tyler. But there were never any phone calls... There were never any shout outs... there were never any thank yous. Jimmy Jacobs gets bitter and yells on the microphone and says there was ZERO acknowledgement the last 6 months of the existence of Jimmy Jacobs, the man who single handedly is the sole reason that Tyler Black is even in Ring of Honor. He says that he knows that they had their differences and he was kicked out ROH by Tyler but he thought that Tyler was trying to change for the better. Jimmy says running from your past and pretending it didn't exist is no way to do that.
He grabs the shoulder of Kevin in a brotherly manner and acknowledges what a moment this is... Jimmy Jacobs and Kevin Steen working.. as a unit.
He brings up the fact that The Briscoes fought Kevin Steen and El Generico back in 2007 when Age of the Fall (The group that Black and Jacobs created) debuted. Kevin Steen and El Generico were the men that Black and Jacobs defeated to win their second reign at the ROH Tag Team Championship... Yet, there was absolutely zero mention of this history from Tyler Black. Who wants to apparently "Rise from the Fall" - Jacobs says it's too late for that. He's shown his true colors and Tyler Black is one of the major pieces that will lead to the fall of ROH.
Jacobs turns his attention to Sami Callihan and Jon Moxley. He hypes them up as "monsters" - He says that he wanted the toughest, darkest and craziest men he could find to bring them on his quest back into Ring of Honor. He puts them over strong as future stars of ROH.
He thanks Corino and Steen for giving them the chance to come to ROH and be a part of this revolution.
Corino hugs Jacobs and places Jacobs' head on his chest.
Corino takes the microphone back and says that they are SCUM. They are the new sheriff's in town and it's time to take the gun from their holster and put ROH on it's knees and take it out of it's misery.
Their theme song hits again and they head to the back.
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Match 1:
Singles Match:
Mike Bennett vs. Johnny Gargano
Mike Bennett, fresh off his huge win of the 2010 Top Prospect Cup is on fire here and at full force and gives Gargano a hard fought match. Gargano has Bennett tied up in the Garga-NO Escape but Bennett is able to pull his way to the ropes and makes his way back to his feet before ultimately hitting Gargano with a piledriver for the win
Winner: Mike Bennett via pinfall at 14 minutes
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Segment 2:
After the match, Mike Bennett celebrates and grabs a microphone and shit talks the ROH crowd and tells them that not to worry about those freaks at the beginning of the show's pathetic little words. There is no end of ROH. It only goes up from here because "The Prodigy" Mike Bennett is THE future of ROH. He issues a challenge to ROH North American Champion Roderick Strong. He says that he wants to use his championship shot at the next ROH iPPV "The Great Escape" in New York City.
Roderick Strong comes out and accepts the challenge and goes to shake the hand of Mike Bennett but Bennett just smirks and rolls out of the ring as the crowd boos and flips him off on his way back up the ramp.
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Segment 3:
We get a backstage segment from Tyler Black, Jerry Lynn, Colt Cabana, El Generico, and The Briscoe Brothers
They are clearly upset and affected by what's going on here in ROH with SCUM making their presence very felt.
Tyler opens up and cuts the promo being backed up and hyped by Jerry Lynn on losing the ROH Championship. He says that he's not going to let him stop him from achieving greatness and being the best version of himself. He's already got word from ROH GM Bret Hart that he gets his rematch in New York City at "The Great Escape" - and as for Jimmy Jacobs, he scoffs and laughs at Jacobs caring so much about their past and says that Jacobs isn't even a priority to him at this point. They refuse to let the past eat at them. They say that they could sit and pout about losing to The All Night Xpress but they only want to focus on the NOW and the big match they have coming up in New York at "The Great Escape" against Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas.
The Briscoes speak next and say that letting the history affect you that much is some real "***** shit" - They say that they will forever choose to live in the moment. They grab Tyler and say that they forgive him for the corrupt shit he was on years ago and they would have thought Jacobs would have learned his lesson by now but clearly not.
Colt Cabana speaks on the situation and says that he's aware that this isn't easy for any of them but in 2 weeks at "King vs. Killer" - there's the first glimpse of hope that this nightmare will come to a quick end with Chris Hero stepping up to the plate and hopefully dethroning Kevin Steen for a quick and easy reign. And if not, there's always the Six Way Fray that same night featuring he and Generico for a future world championship match and he knows for a fact one of them can get the job done.
Generico just looks his head down at the ground in sadness and denial. Cabana cheers him up with words of encouragement for his friend. He says that a group like this for ROH is exactly what they need right now and Generico is being given more proof than ever before that people have his back and care for him deeply. He assures Generico that they're going to do everything they can to make sure that Kevin Steen and his goons are gone from ROH but they need Generico to be at 100% for that and don't let their mind games affect him. Generico slightly smiles and hugs Cabana as the segment comes to a close as all 6 men stand there confidently as Cabana then heads to the entrance way.
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Match 2:
Singles Match:
Colt Cabana vs. Chuck Taylor
Cabana and Taylor put on just as fun of a match as you would imagine the two would when you hear they're going head to head. Cabana gets the win on Taylor after a Chicago Skyline
Winner: Colt Cabana via pinfall at 9 minutes
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Segment 4:
We get a promo from Ricochet who says he finds it funny that Roderick Strong would accept a challenge for the ROH North American Championship match at "The Great Escape" when he hasn't even beaten him at "King vs. Killer" when he gets a shot at the newly formed title. He says that he intends to show exactly why you shouldn't doubt someone like him now that he's arrived in ROH.
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Match 3:
Singles Match:
Kenny Omega vs. Delirious
This was a special challenge match that was announced on the spot not being advertised previously to take place on the show. Kenny Omega says that he intends to truly start the path to making his path in ROH and he seems to be serious in backing that up as he makes easy work of Delirious, getting the pin after a Croyt's Wrath to win
Winner: Kenny Omega via pinfall at 8 minutes
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Match 4:
ROH World Tag Team Championships:
ROH World Tag Team Champions The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli) (c) (w/ Roddy Piper) vs. The Super Smash Brothers (Player Uno and Stu Grayson)
The Smash Brothers put on another impressive performance in DC tonight but it's unfortunately not enough to keep up with the best damn tag team in the world as The Kings hit a Royal Bomb on Grayson to get the win
Winners and STILL ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Kings of Wrestling via pinfall at 14 minutes
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Match 5:
Singles Match:
El Generico vs. Ricochet
El Generico and Ricochet put on possibly the match of the night against each other as they fly across the entire ring and outside of the ring with ease. Ricochet giving Generico a run for his money and outspeeding Generico several times through out the match. Ricochet is on the top rope clearly setting up for a high impact move but Generico rushes up to the top roep and hits a BRAINBUSTAHHHH!! onto Ricochet onto the top turnbuckle to win
Winner: El Generico via pinfall at 19 minutes
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Segment 5:
We see the Kings of Wrestling cutting a promo backstage with Roddy Piper hyping up their victory tonight. Piper hypes up Chris Hero and tells him that tonight was just a TASTE of what they'll be accomplishing next week when Chris Hero single handedly takes down Kevin Steen to win the ROH World Championship and bring it home "back to the castle" with the Kings of Wrestling. Chris Hero is arrogant as hell and says it'll be his pleasure to be the savior ROH needs before he and Claudio both side hug Piper goodbye and wish him farewell for the night.
The camera follows Piper to the parking garage of the building where we see ROH GM Bret Hart waiting at Piper's car for him.
Piper laughs and tries to hug Bret but Bret pushes his hand in the way and says now is not the time. Piper is confused by the aggressiveness. Bret says that Piper is like family to him so he doesn't understand why Piper would align himself with those ungrateful pricks like the Kings of Wrestling. Piper is confused and questions Hart's intent with this conversation. Bret says that he stands by what he's been saying since basically coming to ROH. That the Kings of Wrestling are too aware of how great they are for their own good. Bret Hart acknowledges he sees a lot of a younger Bret Hart in Chris Hero and at the next show Hero has the chance to be crowned something that is more important than anything in this business, a world champion. He says that he doesn't want to see Chris Hero take that arrogance and make the same mistakes as he did. He says that history is there to learn from it and Hero and Claudio's cockiness and "Can do no wrongs" attitude isn't doing them any favors.
Roddy Piper is confused as to what he's supposed to say next. Piper questions Hart again on this. He gets heated and talks Bret Hart down and says that he's behaving like a little bitch right now. He says that the ROH company, locker room and family is under attack right now by these SCUM fellas and Bret Hart is mad because some young guys are a bit full of themselves? Roddy Piper gets really pushy with Hart and says "How dare you?!"
Bret Hart smirks a bit and says Piper doesn't need to get his nose in other people's business. Bret says that he's the GM of ROH for a reason while Piper is what?? tagging along for some free exposure?? to try and get a whiff of a world championship he never had?
Piper isn't having and shoves Hart out of the way, telling Hart to go **** himself as he hops in his car and drives off as Bret Hart looks disappointed in how escalated that conversation got.
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Match 6:
Tag Team Match:
Tyler Black and Jerry Lynn vs. The All Night Xpress (Rhett Titus and Kenny King)
Black and Lynn put on a great performance with one other as they take down the Xpress who look to continue their rise up the ranks. Kenny King pulls the unthinkable and actually hits a super kick onto Black, Titus hits the All Nighter off the top rope, King then does a spring board leg drop to get a shocking upset over Tyler Black much to the crowd's shock.
Winners: The All Night Xpress via pinfall at 17 minutes
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Segment 6:
Black looks shocked and upset with himself as Lynn tries to comfort him and console him and tell him it's alright. everyone has bad days.
King and Titus with absolute disrespect cut a promo to the crowd's boos and pretends that Black and Lynn aren't even in the ring as they issue a challenge to the Kings of Wrestling for New York City - They say they weren't bull shitting when they said that 2010 is THEIR year. They want the tag titles. and they're taking them in New York at "The Great Escape"
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Segment 7:
We get a backstage promo by The Monster Mafia who talk shit about The Young Bucks beating them in their home country of Canada at "Death Before Dishonor VIII" - they bring up excuses, claiming they just weren't prepared and they will get their win back when the time is right.
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Segment 8:
We get a promo from Christopher Daniels who says that he feels like all he's done is lose since coming back to ROH and he will redeem himself. He just needs to work on himself. He appreciates all the support and patience his fans and family have shown him.
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MAIN EVENT:
Match 7:
Singles Match:
IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Jeff Hardy
These two put on a crazy good match. This is definitely Hardy's best match since joining ROH back in January. Hardy hits a Twist of Fate onto Nakamura and gets a near fall but Nakamura kicks out at the last millisecond. Nakamura sets up Hardy for the Bomaye and hits it successfully to get the win against Hardy.
Winner: Shinsuke Nakamura via pinfall at 22 minutes
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Segment 9:
Nakamura cuts a promo thanking the crowd for coming out after shaking hands with Hardy
He says that he has loved working in North America for these last two ROH matches he's done. He says that although he won't be able to make the next show due to NJPW schedule, he will be appearing in New York at "The Great Escape" and he's having such a blast wrestling some of America's best, he issuing an open challenge for anyone who thinks they are truly good enough to challenge him. He even sweetens the deal by saying that his IWGP Heavyweight Championship will be up for grabs.
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Segment 10:
The show seems to be going off air but we see a backstage segment of El Generico hugging Colt Cabana bye as Cabana gets into his car and leaves for the night.
El Generico walks towards his car but is attacked from behind by Steve Corino, Sami Callihan and Jon Moxley.
They throw him into the concrete wall and assault him badly and roughen him up.
Corino says that Generico is RUINING everything by still showing up. Corino says they've spent all year trying to break him and he just keeps showing up and competing in ROH. They say that he is the one link to Steen's old life still around and they need him gone. Corino grabs a steel pipe and beats down Generico, making his way up to Generico's head, Corino looks at the pipe and then looks at the head of Generico and raises the pipe above his head, about to swing down with full force to smash the head of Generico but he and Callihan and Moxley are attacked and stopped by The Briscoes and security. The Briscoes make the save for Generico and comfort him as much as possible while screaming someone call 911 as Corino, Callihan and Moxley are escorted away as we see Generico nearly dead in the parking garage.
