Ring of Honor: 2010+

RING OF HONOR 2010 INTERNET PAY PER VIEW #4:
 March 28, 2010:
The Big Bang
LIVE FROM Phoenix, Arizona



Our iPPV opens with Kevin Kelly and Dave Prazak running down the card for tonight's historic Ring of Honor show in front of a sold out crowd for a third night in a row in Phoenix, Arizona. 

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Match 1:
Round 2 of the Ring of Honor North American Championship Tournament: 
Kenny Omega vs. Christopher Daniels 
Kenny Omega and Christopher Daniels put on an opening match for the ages as the two men take one another to the limit beyond what anyone expected in our first bout of the evening, especially considering that the winner of this match still has to go on to the finals for the ROH North American Championship. Ultimately, it comes down to Omega getting the pinfall on Daniels after the Croyt's Wraith at 19:22
Winner and advancing to the finals: Kenny Omega

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Match 2:
Round 2 of the Ring of Honor North American Championship Tournament: 
Rhett Titus vs. Michael Elgin 
Michael Elgin makes easy work of Rhett Titus getting the win at 03:10 after a buckle bomb
Winner and advancing to the finals: Michael Elgin


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Match 3: 
Round 2 of the Ring of Honor North American Championship Tournament: 
Roderick Strong vs. Chuck Taylor (w/ Johnny Gargano) 
Roderick Strong forces Chuck Taylor to submit to the StrongHold at 05:10
Winner and advancing to the finals: Roderick Strong

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Match 4: 
Round 2 of the Ring of Honor North American Championship Tournament: 
Eddie Kingston vs. Eddie Edwards
Hard fought battle between 2 up and coming stars in Ring of Honor. The two chopped each other's chest until both chests were red. Kingston goes for a lariat, Edwards rolls out of the way and scoops Kingston down to the ground, gets some distance and hits a huge Boston Knee Party! Kingston attempts to try and use his adrenaline to panic and climb his way back up using the ropes but Edwards runs to the ropes on the opposite of the ring and hits Kingston with ANOTHER Boston Knee Party, Edwards pins Kingston at 12:55 to get the win 
Winner and advancing to the finals: Eddie Edwards 

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Match 5: 
Round 2 of the Ring of Honor North American Championship Tournament: 
Josh Alexander (w/ Ethan Page) vs. Brian Cage
These two monsters battled it out and used their strength on one another several times through this shorter but explosive match. Brian Cage comes out on top after a Weapon X at 08:19
Winner and advancing to the finals: Brian Cage


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Match 6: 
Round 2 of the Ring of Honor North American Championship Tournament: 
Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Sabin
Jeff Hardy and Chris Sabin have what some would consider a dream match here in Phoenix. Hardy is struggling to keep up with the speed and adrenaline of the younger Sabin but Hardy uses his experience advantage to get his way out of a cradle shock by Sabin and hits Sabin with a Twist of Fate at 14:53 to get the pin
Winner and advancing to the finals: Jeff Hardy

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A graphic is shown on the screen showcasing the finals still to come tonight to crown the first ever Ring of Honor North American Champion: 

Kenny Omega vs. Michael Elgin vs. Roderick Strong vs. Eddie Edwards vs. Brian Cage vs. Jeff Hardy

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Segment 1: 

We get a video package hyping up the main event tonight as Tyler Black defends his ROH World Heavyweight Championship against his longest rival yet in Austin Aries as Aries puts his entire ROH career on the line.

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Segment 2:

Ring of Honor general manager Bret Hart comes out to much applause from the Phoenix crowd. He thanks everyone for coming out this weekend and supporting Ring of Honor as they continue to grow and expand. He says that he's excited to see who walks out the first ever ROH North American Champion tonight and he wants to go ahead and set up the first title defense for the next show that will be in Nashville titled "What Comes Next" in a few weeks - He announces a special 12 man battle royal coming up with the participants all being those who failed to advance to Round 2 of the tournament as a way to redeem themselves and be the first in line to challenge the champion! 

The newly crowned ROH World Tag Team Champions Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli interrupt Bret Hart to a mixed reaction from the crowd as some love them and some hate them. 

They mock Hart for attempting to make things hard for them by trying to cause a ruffle in their plans to win the ROH tag titles. He thought that he could stack the deck against KoW by having such a strict stipulation at the 8th Anniversary Show and putting a target on their heads, but in reality all he did was cause friction between ANX and they had it out for The Briscoes. They say that Bret Hart is already causing friction in the workplace by micro managing. 

Bret Hart disagrees with them entirely. He says as much as he hates to admit it, at the rate the Kings of Wrestling are going they may end up becoming the greatest tag team of all time but he hates their attitude and cockiness and wants to see them work hard for that title of greatest tag team of all time.

The Briscoe Brothers come out and cut off Bret Hart and question what he means when he says that the Kings of Wrestling are on their way to becoming the best tag team of all time. They get slightly in the face of Hart as they say mockingly that to see their own boss say stuff like that about another team when they still haven't rightfully been given justice for losing the tag titles in such a bull shit way a few weeks back is really disheartening. 

The All Night Xpress come out and attack The Briscoe Brothers from behind as Bret Hart calls for security

Security breaks up the two teams as they try to break out of it and dive for each other. 

The Kings of Wrestling smirk and wave goodbye to everyone and point at Hart and then point at the brawl going on on "his" show - signaling they blame Hart for the chaos that's been happening in ROH. 

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BONUS MATCH:
Match 7:
Battle Royal:
#1 Contender for the ROH North American Championship: 
Erick Stevens vs. Paul London vs. Kenny King vs. Hernandez vs. Brodie Lee vs. Jack Evans vs. Brian Kendrick vs. Alex Shelley vs. Bobby Fish vs. Johnny Gargano vs. Ethan Page vs. Homicide

Erick Stevens is eliminated by Brodie Lee
Brodie Lee is eliminated by Kenny King, Jack Evans and Bobby Fish
Bobby Fish is eliminated by Johnny Gargano 
Ethan Page is eliminated by Homicide
Brian Kendrick is eliminated by Homicide and Hernandez
Homicide is eliminated by Paul London
Paul London is eliminated by Kenny King
Hernandez is eliminated by Kenny King and Jack Evans
Kenny King is eliminated by Jack Evans
Jack Evans is eliminated by Alex Shelley 
Johnny Gargano is eliminated by Alex Shelley

Winner and #1 Contender for the ROH North American Championship: Alex Shelley

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Match 8:
Tag Team Match:
The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) vs. Rob Van Dam and Sabu 
The teams are all over the place and all over the arena as they constantly barely escape the 10 count as they use the arena as their weapon by both teams consistently having someone roll back in to break the count. Both teams allow the fans to get "up and close" as they consistently irish whip one another into the barricades and then do dives and moonsaults onto the other.
The action finally makes its way back to the ring as RVD hits Nick Jackson with Van Daminator, Sabu leaps up to the top rope to try and prep for a move but Matt Jackson looks to stop them, Sabu kicks Matt down and Matt falls to the floor, Sabu leaps for a leg drop off the top rope, Nick Jackson rolls out of the way and tries to superkick RVD, but RVD rolls out of the way and sweeps the leg of Nick Jackson, Sabu hits a dropkick onto Nick, RVD jumps to the top rope

5
STAR
FROGSLPASH! 

RVD and Sabu get the victory at 18:45

Winners: RVD and Sabu 

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Segment 3:

The Young Bucks collect themselves and step back into the ring with RVD and Sabu as they look to shake the Bucks' hands, the Bucks look at one another before reluctantly shaking the hands of RVD and Sabu before heading to the back with their heads down low.

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Segment 4:

We get a video package replaying highlights of both previous nights' shows.

We see footage of a clearly concussed Kevin Steen being treated by doctors in the back after his incident diving into the barricades last night. Corino is seen yelling at Bret Hart saying "how could you allow this to happen to my boy?! What do you plan to do to make this right?!" as Bret Hart is clearly holding back his words to question the hypocrisy of Corino. 

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Match 9: 
TOURNAMENT FINALS TO CROWN THE FIRST EVER ROH NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION
Six Way Fray:
Kenny Omega vs. Michael Elgin vs. Roderick Strong vs. Eddie Edwards vs. Brian Cage vs. Jeff Hardy
The match goes bonkers with all 6 men highlighting exactly why they were the 6 to make it as far as they did in this tournament.
Eddie Edwards has Roderick set up for a Boston Knee party as he awaits for Strong to sit back up but Erick Stevens and Bobby Fish come in and assault Eddie Edwards, continuing the clear beef they have with the American Wolves
Brian Cage and Michael Elgin aren't having it as the two big men both assault Erick Stevens and Bobby Fish and throw them both into the crowd as the crowd erupts in cheers for the craziness. Cage and Elgin both nod to one another and make their way into the crowd and attempt to continue the assault on Stevens and Fish but both Stevens/Fish duck and Elgin and Cage end up striking one another instead. Their anger is hard to hold back as they now attack one another and lay each other out. Fish and Stevens make their escape as Edwards leans over the ropes questioning what's going on 
Hardy turns Edwards around
TWIST OF FATE!
1,2,
Strong breaks up the pin and attempts to lay the offense onto Hardy
Here comes Kenny Omega!
Omega hits a V Trigger onto Strong! 
Hardy sets Omega up for a twist of fate! 
Omega strengthens out of it
He sets Hardy up for the Croyt's Wraith! 
It connects! 
1...
2...
Edwards breaks it up! Edwards is still barely all there though and was just barely able to break it up 
A pissed off Kenny Omega blows heavy breaths through his nose and taunts Edwards to stand up, 
Here comes Roderick Strong! 
Back breaker! 
Strong picks up Edwards
Back breaker!
Strong picks up Hardy!
Back breaker! 
Strong is about to drop and pin Hardy
V TRIGGER!
Omega scoops up both Roderick Strong's legs 
1 ... 2...
Strong kicks out! 

The crowd loses their minds with cheer as Omega questions what he has to do to keep these guys down 

Strong is already starting to slowly crawl his way back up to his feet as Omega looks to grab him and go for the Croyt's Wrath
Strong reverses it, yanks up the legs of Omega 

STRONGHOLD!!

Roddy arches his back

OMEGA TAPS! 34:50

Omega has no choice but to tap the most dangerous submission in Ring of Honor!

WINNER AND FIRST EVER ROH NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION: RODERICK STRONG

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Segment 5: 

An exhausted Roderick Strong is laying on the crowd as the referee attempts to help him up and hand him the ROH North American Championship 

Roddy sees the title and smiles

He celebrates his victory with the ROH crowd as he high fives those around the front row while making his way to the back 


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MAIN EVENT:
ROH WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP:
ROH CHAMPIONSHIP VS. ROH CAREER:
NO DQ, NO INTERFERENCE ALLOWED, NO COUNT OUTS, NO ROPE BREAKS, NO TIME LIMIT: 
Tyler Black (c) vs. Austin Aries 
These two have no love, no respect and no honor between each other and it's not even close. They tear down the house almost quite literally as Aries at one point in the match strips the mat padding on the outside of the ring and hits Tyler Black with a brainbuster onto the pavement. 
Aries looks to set up a table on the outside but is unable to use it. 
Black hits Aries with God's Last Gift off the tope rope but Aries still kicks out at 2
The two pull out legendary submission moves that neither men have used before as the ultimate desperation to walk out with the biggest prize in professional wrestling
Aries sets up Tyler for another brainbuster and this time, also hitting his signature move from the top rope but Black is able to maneuver himself out of it but both men go falling from the rope and through the table that was previously laid out by Aries earlier in the match!
The fans jump to their feet and chant "ROH! ROH! ROH!" 
Black and Aries make their way to the ring, 
Black goes for a roundhouse kick to the face of Aries but Aries falls down in exhaustion,
Black lands his leg onto the ground 
both men just lay there, facing opposite directions, exhausted
They crawl to where they are now facing one another
they start to hit each other with strikes as they both make their ways back to their feet
Aries pokes Black in the eyes, the crowd erupts in boos as Aries now bites the face of Tyler Black
He sets Black up for another brainbuster!
It connects!
Aries covers!
1...2...
BLACK KICKS OUT!
BLACK BEGINS TO GET HYPED AND STARTS MAKING HIS WAY TO HIS FEET
Austin Aries is just sitting upwards on the mat with wide eyes, shocked as to what power he's witnessing coming from Tyler Black
Tyler screams "**** YOU!" - kicks Aries square in the face, the thud from the kick can be heard AROUND THE GLOOOOBE
Black grabs the head of Aries, 
Tyler Black hits Aries with his OWN BRAINBUSTER!
Tyler Black has defeated another opponent using their own finisher at 49:21

Winner and STILL Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Champion: Tyler Black

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Segment 6: 

The iPPV goes off air as a "dead" Tyler Black and "dead" Austin Aries lay out in the ring. The referees and medical staff of ROH come out from the back and help both men up. Tyler Black is assisted out by the medical staff as Aries is escorting out by securing as Aries throws a tantrum. 

Austin Aries in ROH is no more. 

April 10, 2010
"How We Do It"
Atlanta, GA 



MAIN EVENT:
ROH WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS: 
Tag Team Match: 
The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli) (c) vs. The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) 

Singles Match:
ROH World Heavyweight Champion Tyler Black vs. Kenny King (w/ Rhett Titus)

Tag Team Match:
El Generico and Colt Cabana vs. The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) 

Singles Match:
Eddie Kingston vs. Johnny Gargano (w/ Chuck Taylor) 

Tag Team Match:
Bobby Fish and Erick Stevens vs. The Super Smash Brothers (Player Uno and Stu Grayson) 

ROH North American Championship:
Singles Match: 
Roderick Strong (c) vs. Mike Quackenbush

Round 1 of the Top Prospect Cup:
Ricochet vs. Samuray Del Sol 

Singles Match:
Christopher Daniels vs. Jimmy Rave