Favorite Title Matches?

[Colt45]

Roh has had a lot of WHC belt holders. While I think Joe, Dragon, and Punk were the best champions, every champion has had a few great matches. What are everyones favorite Champions, and title fights? Off the top of my head,

Samoa Joe
-American Dragon. Midnight Express Reunion- I think it's the best Joe match of his reign next to the Punk series.
-Homicide. Death b4 Dishonor II- Most intense Joe/Homicide match. One of the feuds that got me into ROH.

Dragon'
-Strong. This means War.- While I think the Vendetta match was better this one had the better ending.
-Delirious. 100th Show. Dragon just brutalizes him. Awesome.

Morishima
-Shingo. Just a smash fest, and how often do Dragon Gate and Noah wrestle each other?
-Albright/Claudio. Morishima had too crazy matches in one weekend. Half Nelson was insane!

Discuss!

[RobOfAllTrades]

Favorite ROH world title matches:
1. Nigel v Aries - Rising Above
2. Morishima v Danielson - MM 2
3. Punk v Aries - Death Before Dishonor 3

[JigsawVs.Jason]

My fav Champs were Dragon, Nigel and Joe in that particular order
Best title bout of Dragon: tie between match vs Nigel at Unified and vs KENTA at Glory by Honor
Best title bout of Nigel: vs Aries at Rising Above
Best title bout of Joe: vs Punk at Joe vs Punk II

[adam08]

Nigel vs Kenta 7th annversary

[D2Kvirus]

Joe
- vs CM Punk (World Title Classic)
- vs CM Punk (Punk vs Joe II)
- vs Austin Aries (Final Battle 2004)

Danielson
- vs Jimmy Rave (4YA)
- vs Nigel McGuinness (Unified)
- vs KENTA (GBHV Night 2)

Morishima
- vs Shingo Takagi (Good Times Great Memories)

Nigel
- vs Aries (Rising Above)
- vs Danielson (6YA)
- vs Aries (SCOHIII)
- vs Danielson, Tyler Black & Claudio Castagnoli (DBDVI)

Tyler
- vs Davey Richards (DBDVIII)

[WrestlingMatters]

Glad to see the Morishima/Shingo match getting some love, super fun match with a terrific crowd.

[187_Joeism]

Samoa Joe

vs Jay Briscoe (Cage Match At our best)
vs CM Punk (World Title Classic)
vs Homicide (Death Before Dishonor II Part 1)
vs Bryan Danielson (The Midnight Express Reunion)
vs CM Punk (Punk vs Joe II)
vs Austin Aries (Final Battle 2004)

Austin Aries

vs Colt Cabana (Cage Match Third Anniversary Celebration Pt. 1)
vs Alex Shelley (ROH Manhattan Mayhem)
vs CM Punk (Death Before Dishonor III)

CM Punk

vs Roderick Strong (Escape From New York)

Bryan Danielson

vs Roderick Strong (Vendetta)
vs Chris Hero (Hell Freezes Over)
vs Nigel McGuinness (Unified)

Takeshi Morishima

vs Nigel McGuinness (Fighting Spirit)
vs Austin Aries (The Battle Of St. Paul)
vs Nigel McGuinness (Undeniable)

Nigel McGuinness

vs Austin Aries (Rising Above)
vs Bryan Danielson (6th Anniversary Show)
vs Tyler Black (Take No Prisoners)

Jerry Lynn

vs Roderick Strong (A Cut Above)

Austin Aries

vs Bryan Danielson (The Final Countdown Tour: Chicago)
vs Davey Richards (Aries Vs. Richards)
vs Tyler Black (8th Anniversary Show)

Tyler Black

vs Davey Richards (Death Before Dishonor VIII)
vs Kevin Steen (Salvation)

Roderick Strong

vs Davey Richards (Final Battle 2010)
vs Jay Briscoe (Only The Strong Survive)
vs Eddie Edwards (Manhattan Mayhem IV)

Eddie Edwards

vs Chris Hero (ROH Revolution: Canada)
vs Davey Richards (Best In The World 2011)

Davey Richards

vs El Generico (Glory By Honor X)

[Colt45]

Austin Aries
-James Gibson. Stalemate/Final Showdown both were awesome.
-Joe. Third Year. The Rematch

Dragon
-Sonjat Dutt. DBD4 Crowd was insane.
-Lance Storm. Just really good match

Morishima
-The squashes. SQUASH title matches!

sidenote:
Could somebody please just briefly elaborate on Jerry Lynn, Aries II, Black, Roddy, and Edwards as Champions? Seemed like they hot shotted the belt around after I stopped following.

[RobOfAllTrades]

^Lynn won the title off Nigel to play off "The Wrestler" as it was around the time it was getting a lot of Oscar buzz. However Lynn's reign was quite mediocre and they needed to end it. Aries was probably the only choice at the time as Tyler's credibility at that time had dropped and Aries new gimmick was by far the best thing in the company at the time. Also Aries made a great figure head for the HDNET show. In the meantime Black was rebuilt up and took the belt off Aries (although it should have happened at FB 09 and had it happened then rather than at the anniversary show, the FB match probably wouldnt be so disliked by many). Black held it for a while but then got the WWE offer, so ROH gave the belt to Roddy. Then he had it for a little while and lost it somewhat suprisingly to Eddie when many thought it was Davey's time. Then Davey beat Eddie making Eddie's reign a tad bit of a waste.

[ROH Fan 81]

I've only seen the 1st show to world title classic, and 2011 on...I'd say my favorite so far has been joe/punk from wtc and joe/homicide from do or die...Also, Richards/Edwards from best in the world was really good from the newer stuff i've seen.

[Mdodmod]

Glad to see the Morishima/Shingo match getting some love, super fun match with a terrific crowd.

I love Shingo! If I could bring one guy from Dragon Gate over it would be him. That match was perfect for what it was. Would have thought we'd see A NOAH vs. a Dragon Gate wrestler for the Ring Of Honor World Title.

[GardenStateSaint]

My all time favorite title match might be Joe vs. Punk III. That match to me had such a huge fight atmosphere in a era I still consider early ROH.

[Colt45]

Here's an underrated one:

Samoa Joe
Colt Cabana. Death Before Dishonor II part 2. Crazy match, and surprisingly pretty even. Cabana smacks Joe with a chair and hits an Ole kick of his own. Ends with a monstrous Muscle Buster.

[TYFDK]

I enjoyed Lynn's first title defense, for what it's worth. Him v. Danielson/Stevens/Brown was pretty fun, if I remember correctly. It was from Take No Prisoners '09, the last PPV-on-TV from ROH.

[D2Kvirus]

Lynn's four-way with Dragon/Aries/Black on HDNet was pretty good.

There's a lot of gaps in my collection, and Lynn's reign is down to him winning the belt and losing it, and I'm still to catch up with Roddy and Eddie.