Ring of Honor: 2010+

UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW: 

 February 20 2010: 8th Anniversary Show 
City: Philadelphia, PA (internet PPV)



Main Event: 
ROH World Heavyweight Championship: 
Singles Match:
Tyler Black (c) vs. Jeff Hardy 

ROH World Tag Team Championships: 
Tag Team Match: 
The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) (c) vs. The American Wolves

"Pro Wrestling Dream Match"
Singles Match:
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels 

"Only 2x ROH World Champion in history vs. 2nd Ever ROH World Champion" 
Singles Match: 
Austin Aries vs. Xavier

DEFY OR DENY: 
"If Kings of Wrestling do not win this match, they will lose their #1 Contendership match for the tag team championships at "Phoenix Rising" 
If the Kings of Wrestling win this match, the team they pin will not be able to challenge for the Tag Team titles until the current champions The Briscoes are no longer champions"
4 Corners Tag Team Match: 
The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli) vs. Paul London and Brian Kendrick vs. The All Night Xpress (Rhett Titus and Kenny King) vs. BJ Whitmer and Dan Maff

"Grudge Match" 
Singles Match: 
Kevin Steen (w/ Steve Corino) vs. Colt Cabana

Singles Match: 
Roderick Strong vs. Super Crazy 

"West Coast vs. East Coast Brawl" 
Falls Count Anywhere:
Singles Match:
Human Tornado vs. Eddie Kingston 

Tag Team Match:
Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) vs. Jerry Lynn and Lance Storm 

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PLUS! 
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PRE SHOW: 
*THIS EVENT WILL BE TAKING PLACE DURING THE SPECIAL ROH FANFEST THAT WILL TAKE PLACE THE 2 HOURS BEFORE THE SHOW. FREE ATTENDANCE FOR ALL iPPV TICKET HOLDERS**

Tag Team Match: 
The Rottweilers (Ricky Reyes and Rocky Romero) vs. The Super Smash Brothers (Player Uno and Stu Grayson) 

Singles Match: 
Johnny Gargano vs. Chuck Taylor 

Singles Match: 
Brian Cage vs. Erick Stevens 

ROH 8th Anniversary Show Pre-Show: 

Pre Show Match 1 

Singles Match: 
Erick Stevens vs. Brian Cage 
Brian Cage makes easy work of Erick Stevens who lets the crowds boos and disrespect get too much to him and finishes him off with a Suplerplex off the tope rope where Dave Prazak can once again be heard yelling "BRIAN CAGE ... IS A ****ING MACHINE!" as he goes to slam Stevens on the mat. Brian Cage gets the W at 7:45 
Winner: Brian Cage via pinfall 

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Pre Show Segment 1: 

After the match, Bobby Fish from NOAH makes his way down to the ring and attacks Brian Cage from behind. Stevens slowly makes his way up to his feet and joins in on the assault. The two men use their numbers advantage and beat down Brian Cage as the crowd drowns them out in boos.

Bobby Fish and Erick Stevens hug and exit the ring together. Bobby Fish is the ally that Erick Stevens was referring to when he said he'd be bringing someone into Ring of Honor. 

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Pre Show Segment 2: 

We get a video package highlighting the careers of Jushin Thunder Liger and Christopher Daniels, hyping us up for the dream match to take place tonight. 

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Pre Show Segment 3: 

We get a promo from ROH World Heavyweight Champion Tyler Black hyping up his match tonight with Jeff Hardy in the main event. He says that this may just be the biggest match of his entire career. Tyler Black gets slightly pissy with Jeff Hardy for referring to ROH as "Ring of Hardy" - he questions who he thinks that he is coming into the company that gave him everything that he has today and disrespecting it. Tyler says that HE is ROH and Jeff Hardy makes it more and more clear that he's nothing to this company but an outsider bringing his ego into this entire thing. He says that this certainly will be a match for the history books. 

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Pre Show Segment 4: 

Paul London and Brian Kendrick are backstage hyping up their 4 way tag team match. they laugh at the name "Defy or Deny" and giggle to themselves. They say that they're super excited for the chance to perform on the Ring of Honor Birthday Party show. They get serious for a moment and say that very recently they were made just aware of how good the Kings of Wrestling are and they plan to learn from their mistakes and come out the winners of the match this time. They say they're excited to see BJ Whitmer and Dan Maff back in Ring of Honor and they hope that they bring their A-Game. Kendrick brings up the random fact that Dan Maff and BJ Whitmer are former ROH Tag Team Champions from years ago and never actually technically lost the titles and never challenged for the titles again since then. Kendrick looks out to himself and starts to question if they should just be nice guys and let them have this win so they can get their ROH Tag Title rematch. Paul London snaps Brian Kendrick out of it and tells him to chill out. They finish off the promo with saying that the All Night Xpress have no right to be as cocky as they are. ANX are stepping into the ring with former ROH tag team champions, the toughest team that they've ever faced and London and Kendrick, the longest reigning world tag team champions in a company in recent memory. They plan to put ANX in their places in this match.


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Pre Show Match 2:

Singles Match: 
Chuck Taylor vs. Johnny Gargano 
Taylor and Gargano have a hard fought match to continue to try and prove their spots here in Ring of Honor. Gargano locks Chuck Taylor into the Garga-No Escape and Chuck Taylor passes out almost immediately for the win at 12:40
Winner: Johnny Gargano via knock out submission

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Pre Show Segment 5: 

After the match, Gargano looks at Taylor concerned and tries to wake him up. Taylor is out cold. He laughs and throws Chuck Taylor onto his back and helps carry him to the back as the crowd cheers and laughs as Gargano and Taylor exit technically together. 

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Pre Show Match 3: 

Tag Team Match: 
The Rottweilers (Rocky Romero and Ricky Reyes) vs. The Super Smash Brothers (Player Uno and Stu Grayson) 
The Smash Brothers and The Rottweiler tear the house down as the final match leading into the 8th Anniversary Show PPV. The Rottweilers have a great performance. This is the first time the former ROH Tag Team Champions Reyes and Romero have teamed together since 2007 and look that after tonight they may need to get back it. But ultimately, The Smash Brothers are able to secure the win after hitting the Fatality on Rocky Romero and getting the 3 count at 15:12
Winners: The Super Smash Brothers via pinfall 

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Pre Show Segment 6: 

We get a video package hyping up the history between The Briscoe Brothers and The American Wolves and the war they've had over the prestigious Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championships

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Pre Show Segment 7: 

We get a video package highlighting and reminding us that Ring of Honor General Manager Bret Hart confirmed that the 3-Night iPPV extravaganza will be highlighted by the tournament to crown the first ever Ring of Honor North American Champion. Nights 1 and 2 will feature 12 singles matches overall, leading into night 3 featuring 6 singles matches that will ultimately qualify the winners for a 6 way fray for the Ring of Honor North American Championship. 

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Pre Show Segment 8: 

To cap off the pre show for the iPPV, we get a video package highlighting the Ring of Honor career of Tyler Black and showing his journey to get to where he is at this moment, hyping up tonight's main event between Tyler Black and Jeff Hardy 

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MAIN SHOW: 

 February 20 2010: 8th Anniversary Show 
City: Philadelphia, PA (internet PPV)



We open our iPPV with a video package highlighting the run that ROH as a promotion has had over the years. We see highlights from matches involving the likes of CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, Nigel McGuinness, Samoa Joe, Homicide, Low Ki, and other greats who have competed in Ring of Honor. 

We see Dave Prazak and Kevin Kelly at the commentary booth for this historic iPPV event. They run us down tonight's card and thank those at home for joining. 

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Match 1: 
Tag Team Match:
The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) vs. Jerry Lynn and Lance Storm
The Philly crowd is going ballistic over Jerry Lynn and Lance Storm being a team together. Lynn and Storm have had some of their biggest matches against one another in "another Philadelphia promotion" and it looks to be a cool moment for the two as they are a unit tonight facing one of the fastest rising tag teams in professional wrestling today. A hard fought duel between these two teams but The Young Bucks get the win after a More Bang for Your Buck onto Lance Storm at 14:12 to liven up this hot crowd. 
Winners: The Young Bucks via pinfall. 

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Match 2:
"West Coast vs. East Coast Brawl"
Falls Count Anywhere:
Singles Match:
Human Tornado vs. Eddie Kingston 
Tornado and Kingston did their best to attempt and destroy the building during this one. They took this grudge match all over the arena brawling and hitting each other with power maneuvers. They're backed up one side of the building, Tornado looks to use the wall as leverage to hit a Tornado DDT onto Kingston, but Kingston uses his weight to hold down Tornado, Kingston grabs a drink out of a fan's hand and splashes it into the eye's of Tornado, much to the boos of the ROH fans. Kingston then hits Tornado with a HUGE Lariat, Tornado lands stiff onto the hard floor, the sound of his neck and entire body smacking the floor can be heard around the venue. Kingston covers and gets the win at 10:40
Winner: Eddie Kingston via pinfall. 

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Match 3: 
Singles Match:
Roderick Strong vs. Super Crazy
Roderick Strong and Super Crazy have insane chemistry in this match as the two keep at each other constantly, not taking a ton of time for breathers at all through out the battle. Super Crazy goes to do a dive to the outside onto Roderick Strong but Roddy stops it by catching Super Crazy and hitting a devastating backbreaker onto the outside. Roddy then rushes, picks Crazy up, tosses him into the ring, picks him back up and hits another dreadful back breaker onto Super Crazy and gets the win at 08:33
Winner: Roderick Strong via pinfall 

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Segment 1: 

We get a video packaging highlighting how much of a scum bag Kevin Steen has been since Final Battle back in December 2009. It shows the betrayal of Steen to El Generico, it highlights the smacking of Generico with the steel chair right onto his face. It cuts to the promo by Colt Cabana previously seen on the video wire and him talking down to Steen for his cowardly act to their once mutual friend. It then shows Steen hitting Cabana with 3 package piledrivers at "SoCal Showdown" and Cabana looking absolutely dead. Cabana promises once more that he will avenge both he and Generico in this match. Steen is shown again from his previous promo for calling Generico a coward for not showing his face around ROH since their encounter at FB09.

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Match 4:
"Grudge Match" 
Singles Match: 
Kevin Steen (w/ Steve Corino) vs. Colt Cabana
Cabana definitely had more fight in him than their last encounter at SoCal Showdown. He was able to land more offensive moves on Steen than anyone had this year. Corino would start to slap the ring apron and chanting for Steen to get back up, which Steen would do just that and start beating down Cabana with force, punching Cabana so hard that he would start to bleed in the face. The referee would attempt to pull Steen back and stop the assault onto Cabana but Steen just won't stop, this causes for the referee to call for the bell at 12:34
Winner: Colt Cabana via DQ

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Segment 2: 

Steen continues to beat down Cabana once more, the same way he did at "SoCal Showdown" - Corino grabs a steel chair out from underneath the ring and throws it into the ring with Steen. Colt Cabana starts to slowly stumble up onto his knees, blood gushing from his face. Steen has the chair, he throws it up over his head, prepared to bash Cabana's lights out.

OLE! OLE! OLE! OLE! OLEEE! OLEEEEE!!

Here comes El Generico! 

El Generico rushes the ring and starts throwing it down with Steen, they're trading blows back and forth, back and forth. Generico gets Steen to the back of the ropes, runs back into the other ropes hit's a HUUUUUUUUGE Helluva kick onto Steen, which knocks Steen down to the outside, stumbling onto Corino. Generico prantically stands and jumps back and forth with hype and adrenaline, rushes back to the ropes, goes back to the direction of Steen and Corino and hits a giant dive onto both Steen and Corino. The crowd is erupting for the return of El Generico. He slides back into the ring, aiding to Colt Cabana. Looking at his beaten down ally, he puts him over his shoulder and quickly escorts him to the back, right before he can head to the back, we get one final shot of El Generico looking back and seeing Steen getting up with Steve Corino checking on him and making sure his monster is alright, much like Generico and Steen used to have that sort of relationship. 

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Match 5: 
DEFY OR DENY: 
*IF the Kings of Wrestling do not, they will loser their #1 contendership spot to the winning team
**IF the Kings of Wrestling DO win, the team that is pinned will not be able to challenge for the tag team championships for the rest of the Briscoe Brothers' current tag team championship reign
4-Corners Tag Team Match: 
The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli) vs. The All Night Xpress (Rhett Titus and Kenny King) vs. Paul London and Brian Kendrick vs. BJ Whitmer and Dan Maff
An explosive match as to be expected. Through out the entire match, there were constant points where the control in the ring was dictated to a different team. BJ Whitmer and Dan Maff both looked great in their returns to Ring of Honor. Brian Kendrick hits the sliced Bread #2 onto Dan Maff, Paul London hits the 450 splash onto Maff, Kenny King hits a huge springboard missle dropkick onto Paul London's face to break up the pin, smashing the skull of Paul London. Kenny King waves Titus on to dive to the outside and assault the other teams while he focuses Paul London. Rhett Titus throws Kendrick to the outside and then does a small dive onto Kendrick and BJ Whitmer, but from the other side of the ring, Claudio and Hero rush the ring and take advantage of the numbers game and slam down Kenny King with the Royal Bomb. Hero gets the cover on King at 29:10
Winners: Kings of Wrestling via pinfall. 
Consequences: The All Night Xpress cannot challenge for the tag team championships as long as the Briscoe Brothers hold the tag team titles in their current reign. 

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Segment 3:

After the match, the Kings of Wrestling celebrate arrogantly and exit the ring as a distraught Rhett Titus steps into the ring and checks on his partner who is down hurt badly. Paul London and Brian Kendrick recover as well and shake the hands of Dan Maff and BJ Whitmer as they roll back into the ring. King recovers and ignores the other teams as they go to shake the hands of the Xpress. Titus and King are disappointed in themselves and leave as the crowd boos them and gets in their faces as they walk to the bag. 

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Match 6: 
"The only 2x ROH World Champion ever vs. The 2nd ever ROH World Champion" 
Singles Match:
Austin Aries vs. Xavier
Xavier looked fantastic in his showing against Aries. Xavier was able to hold his end up very well against the bitter Austin Aries. The crowd would chant through out the match "Bret screwed Aries!" with claps and laughter - much to the distain of Austin Aries, who would use this fuel the fire in him and snap Xavier in half with a brainbuster, getting the pin on Xavier at 15:16
Winner: Austin Aries via pinfall. 


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Segment 4: 

After the match, Austin Aries gets on the microphone and sits down in the ring, catching his breath and sweating. He says that he's tired of the disrespect by the ROH fans and he doesn't want to be here anymore if the people in management are just going to disrespect him as well. He calls Bret Hart a son of a bitch and says that he knows Hart only got in the way of costing him the ROH Championship for a third time because he knows Austin Aries is too much of a "supreme gentleman" to attack an elder. 

Bret Hart's music hits. The crowd gets loud with cheers as The ROH GM makes his way to the entrance ramp. 

He mocks Austin Aries for trying to make himself out to be the victim. He reflects on he once did that and it got him ultimately nowhere. He tells Austin Aries to grow up, get over it and move on. 

Austin Aries tries to get back on the microphone and interrupt Bret Hart and tells him he needs to give him a shot at the ROH Championship again. Hart stands there and thinks for a moment. Bret Hart questions just how serious Austin Aries was by saying he doesn't want to be here anymore in ROH? Because if that's how he feels if he isn't ROH champion, then that's what it's going to cost to get another shot at the ROH championship. 

Bret Hart says that at "The Big Bang!" on March 28, in Phoenix, Arizona on iPPV, Austin Aries will get his ROH Championship match ... but the cost to enter that match, if Aries loses or anywhere interferes on the behalf of Aries, he'll be forced to leave Ring of Honor. 

Aries looks annoyed but reluctantly agrees to the match. 

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Match 7: 
"Pro Wrestling Dream Match"
Singles Match: 
Jushin Thunder Liger vs. "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels 
The match lived up to the hype and then some as two of the best of the best to ever stepped foot in the square circle put on a classic for the ages for the sold out Philadelphia crowd. Much like Liger's last match in Ring of Honor against Tyler Black, there were several near falls. The match ended after Liger hit the Shooting Star Press to get the cover at 19:58

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Segment 5:

The two men drop down to their knees and are exhausted. They shake hands with one another and say "thank you" to the other before they slowly get up to their feet and raise one another's arm.

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Match 8:
ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS:
Tag Team Match:
The ROH World Tag Team Champions The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) (c) vs. The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) 
The Briscoes and The Wolves nearly killed each other in this match. The Wolves are looking to take back the ROH tag titles after losing them to the Briscoes at Final Battle. The Briscoes use their tag experience to their advantage all through out the match as they effortlessly take down each Wolf and break them down using whatever tools they have at their disposal. Edwards has Mark locked in the boston crab, Mark is screaming and panicking as he is in pure agony, Jay kicks Eddie in the gut causing him to let loose of the hold on Mark, Jay sets Eddie up for the Jay driller, Davey hits a running neckbreaker onto Jay, Mark is back up and hits Davey with a spinning kick, Mark rushes to the top rope, looks to hit the Froggy Bow, Davey rolls out of the way, grips the foot of Mark, locks in an ankle lock, Jay comes up from behind and applies a sleeper hold onto Davey, dragging him down to the ring, Davey is nearly knocked out as Jay chokes the life out of Davey, Eddie starts to come back in and breaks up the hold but Mark Briscoe grabs Eddie and starts the assault on Eddie, Jay joins in and the numbers game takes advantage again as they set Edwards up and connect him with the Doomsday Device!! 1,2,3!! The Briscoes get the fat win at 32:11
Winners and STILL Ring of Honor World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoe Brothers

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MAIN EVENT:
ROH WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: 
Singles Match:
ROH World Heavyweight Champion Tyler Black (c) vs. Jeff Hardy
The crowd is split down the middle for this one. Constant back and forth chants. "Ring of Hardy!" followed by chants for "Ty-ler Black!" - Black and Hardy make sure to play around with one another and use the hot crowd to their advantage, applying tests of strengths on one another, going back and forth with a slower pace start, chin holds and headlocks, running the ropes and attempting to bump the other down with harder force. Hardy stops the nonsense and this time runs and hits a quick drop kick onto Tyler Black, the crowd goes "OH!" as Black is thrown off by the veteran Hardy. Black gets back up immediately and lets the anger of the moment get the best of him and get in the face of Jeff Hardy, he says "You son of a bitch!" before open hand smacking Jeff Hardy clear on the face, "OHHH!" the crowd lets out as the stiff smack can be heard around the arena. Hardy smirks and laughs to himself, looking down to the ring mat, andddd we're off to the races! Hardy is going full force at Black with everything he's got as they trade blows back and forth! This leads to a much more intense match up than the fans originally expected between these two fan favorites. Tyler Black, the champion, with everything to prove right now that his win against Aries after years of climbing up the rankings in Ring of Honor wasn't a fluke. Jeff Hardy, the challenger, the big fish in the small pond of ROH, looking to earn the respect and acknowledgement of the same fanbase who hated him just a few years ago.
Jeff Hardy hits the twist of fate onto Black! Goes for the cover! 1...2... Black kicks out! the fans are on their feet, the fans in the front row are slapping the metal on the barricade chanting "ROH! ROH! ROH!" 
Black is breathing heavily, "hulking up" he makes his way back up to his feet, he blocks the upcoming strike by Hardy, Hardy pulls back, goes for another strike, Black strikes that one again, Black ducks under the arms of Hardy the next time he goes for a strike and gets control of Hardy! He hits God's Last Gift! 
Tyler Black goes for the cover! 1...2.. HARDY KICKS OUT!
The crowd is even hotter now.
"**** this!" says Tyler Black. he rushes his way up to the top rope, he looks around at the crowd who looks to be more on his side now than ever before in this match, he leaps and hits... The Swanton Bomb?! 
IT CONNECTS!
1...2...3!!! The match is over at 22:37
Winner and STILL Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Champion: Tyler Black

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Segment 6: 

Tyler Black's music plays as the referee places the championship title onto the chest of Tyler before both men slowly crawl and squeeze their way back up using the ring ropes as leverage. The two men look at each other with dead looks on their faces before ultimately shaking hands with one another and raising each others arms. Hardy says "They're all you." before leaving the ring and heading to the Back as the 8th Anniversary Show goes off air with Tyler Black holding up the ROH World Heavyweight Championship high above his head. 

The Final image before heading off the air is graphics that set the stage for the 3-Night weekend of shows coming soon on iPPV in Phoenix, Arizona to be headlined by a tournament for the ROH North American Championship, The Briscoes (c) vs. Kings of Wrestling, and Tyler Black (c) vs. Austin Aries 

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