I really thought this "choose the card" format would rankle more people than it has, but maybe I have more specific wrestling nerd sensibilities than I realized. The show have six matches that could be read as inconsequential because either one party doesn't know their opponent(s) or both ...

I really didn't think posting memes of a careless and inconsequential show would be so controversial, though I guess that's the deal when referencing VOW (who I'm not generally high on myself). The format is bad and the show looks bad because of it. The wrestlers and the fans deserve better. Gotta b...

Voices of Wrestling have just come together to provide their optimal booking for ROH's The Experience: Dragon Lee vs. Eli Isom The Briscoes vs. Master & Machine Jonathan Gresham vs. Mark Haskins 2 Out Of 3 Falls Flip Gordon vs. Tracy Williams Last Man Standing RUSH & Dalton Castle vs. Jay Le...

Lynx wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:13 am https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/status/ ... 61184?s=21

Isn't it a bit unusual to do this for free? And this is when Marty's contract is supposed to end, no?

Ticket sales haven't been the rosiest on their own lately.

How exactly does stuff like this happen? Sounds like "lolRoH" will really become new "lolTNA". At least Ricky Banderas got to do cool shit while he was getting his push in TNA. I can sort of see something like this being excusable for the men's roster because of the glut of good...

Bushiroad will probably keep the matter of course when it comes to Stardom's cross-promotional relations. It may be that the AEW/Stardom relationship accelerates things as they become promotions of more similar size, but I still don't know if that would necessarily exclude ROH's women's division. Bu...

The other thing to think about, maybe ROH pegged Bandido to win originally, and they had to come up with another plan. I thought about this yesterday as well, but still I think Scurll (given that he stays until Final Battle), Lethal, and Haskins were much better options here. You could have even gi...

SPOILERS BELOW FOR GBH: In terms of the Final battle main event... i guess any combination of wrestlers could draw criticism. In fact, the person who won it may actually have the most likely chances of winning it at Final battle. You might be right that any Rush mach might draw its detractors becau...

monster mafia wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:46 pm

Spoiler: show

Final Battle Main Event is set: Rush vs. PCO

Ay ay ay, ROH.

To most people Powerrr came off as a really pleasant surprise. I was basically not even thinking of them as a real promotion even knowing that they were doing their tapings. Everyone knows that NWA has who most of the major US promotions have passed on, no one is expecting anything other than talent...

I know this is coming as fresh as pantry stock, but holy shit is AEW leaving ROH in the dust with things recently. I haven't liked TV wrestling in years and I don't really care for most of AEW's top stars, but even I think that these have been some of the best episodes of wrestling I've ever seen. D...

Wow, I hadn't really thought of the total dates in this past quarter from New Japan measuring somewhat closely to ROH. Even with that in mind, I don't really think they can maintain that sort of frequency in the US (without putting some more permanent parts here). New Japan should also probably be d...

Jeff, I'd love if you could wrangle some hidden gems from Shane on this one. Some matches that I remember loving: Christopher Daniels vs. Doug Williams (Night of Champions) BJ Whitmer vs. Go Shiozaki (ROH Anarchy in the UK) Every James Gibson match Roderick Strong vs. Naomichi Marufuji (Northern Nav...

I guess you have to weigh Jeff Hardy/Sting being a trainwreck (during a time when PPVs were expensive) that could have been avoided with better management against a total farce of wrestling that was planned and curated every step of the way to be provocative or something. I think I give Fiend/Rollin...

https://twitter.com/trevordame/status/1181068397640970242?s=21 You guys laughed at ROH but you can't have a crowd turn on your show if you don't have a crowd. You can't get bad publicity if you get no publicity. Vince is playing checkers, my man Joe Koff is playing chess. It's baffling how much ROH...

The Fiend vs Seth Rollins was the worst marquee "match" I've seen from a major wrestling promotion. I genuinely didn't think we would ever see these sorts of depths again. Can anyone think of a worse, more embarrassing top of the card match?

ROH has resurrected the "Bully Ray hurts junior heavyweights" storyline back from its freshly dug grave. You absolutely love to see it. It's probably naive to assume either Haskins or Bandido end up winning the #1 contendor tournament, but I do hope this angle doesn't join them both to Bul...

We've seen a lot of ROH wrestlers in G1 and BOSJ. It's not like the two companies dislike each other. NJPW business has been on the rise the last 5 years with ROH, so why break things off completely. ROH even spent a majority of time showcasing NJPW at MSG. Why wouldn't NJPW want the LA dojo guys t...

We've seen the cross-promotional strategies between the companies slide since the G1 Supercard, so let's have a focused thread on all the changes we've seen so far and the ones that are developing. Changes: - The Global Wars Espectacular tour, which paired directly with CMLL rather than with New Jap...

What do people think in regards to NJPW potentially working an "unsafe" style? I get NJPW and Japanese wrestling has been this way for a long time, but do they do enough to protect their wrestlers?? As much as i enjoy the product and the matches, i can't help but think the wrestlers are a...