El Generico vs Michael Elgin, ROH “Honor Takes Center Stage: Night 1”
This wasn’t as good as their first match, due it being an opener and having a screwy finish, but was still good in similar ways, without being a repeat of it. It wasn’t as stiff or spectacular, but there was more heat and they played off of some of the spots from the first match nicely. Good stuff.
The Briscoes vs Adam Cole/Kyle O’Riley, ROH “Honor Takes Center Stage: Night 1”
This was really fucking good and easily the best match Cole and O’Riley have been in to date. The Briscoes were in the process of turning heel, so this was all about the established vets bullying and beating the shit out of two youngsters and giving them hope spots. The Briscoes were great assholes, just treating their opponents like trash and running through them mercilessly, but also making them look good. By the end of the match, the crowd were fully behind Cole and O’Riley, and hating the Briscoes, which is exactly what they were going for and then some.
The Kings Of Wrestling vs Wrestling’s Greatest Tag Team, ROH “Honor Takes Center Stage: Night 1”
Holy shit was this boring. Easily the weakest of their three matches, and the other two were overated to hell. Pretty much nothing happened for the first 20 minutes, with Shelton Benjamin being maybe the most uninteresting FIP around, before the predictable finishing run where they were just going through all their trademark spots. Not good.
Eddie Edwards vs Christopher Daniels, ROH “Honor Takes Center Stage: Night 1”
This wasn’t that bad but was still pretty mediocre. Kind of a typical modern ROH main event – excessively long with not much quality content to justify it. It looked like it may have started to become a good match after 15 minutes when Edwards got put through a table, so obviously Daniels followed up with… a chinlock. That kind of says all that needs to be said about how dry this was.
Colt Cabana vs Dave Taylor, ROH “Honor Takes Center Stage: Night 2”
Decent match though way too short for my liking. The strangle-hold trading was nice, but I would have liked to have seen more grappling. Taylor’s uppercuts were beast though.
Christopher Daniels vs Michael Elgin, ROH “Honor Takes Center Stage: Night 2”
This was good if not anything special. Daniels continues to be bland as hell, but was more tolerable here than in the Edwards match as he wasn’t on offence for long periods. Elgin continues to be a beast, here he busted out more high-flying stuff which was cool for a guy his size, dude looked like a rocket with the way he launched himself around, and his corner-hung boston crab was ten flavours of awesome.
The Briscoes vs The All Night Express, ROH “Honor Takes Center Stage: Night 2”
This wasn’t as good as it is being hyped as, but was still pretty awesome regardless thanks to the heel Briscoes. Again, the Briscoes were just total assholes destroying their opponents, but also making them look like MEN in the process. Titus and Jay both bled a fucking gallon, and there were sick big bumps and spots, the nastiest being Mark getting dropped face-first on the ring post. The final showdown between Jay and Titus, with Jay spitting his own blood in Titus’s face, was fucking epic, and Jay’s post-match shit-talking was also glorious.
Best Of 2011
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