ROH TV 5/4/2013 Review
Last week’s show is here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/ring-of-honor-tv-4272013-results-and.html
To view this review with pictures, check here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/ring-of-honor-tv-542013-results-and.html
Prince Nana is at the booth today.
DISCLAIMER – I’m not a fan of Karl Anderson, Davey Richards or Kyle O’Reilly and their respective brands of wrestling. Therefore, I did not like this like fans of these three would. We all like who we like and if you like these three, I’m not putting you down as we all have different ideas of what wrestling should be.
“The Machine Gun” Karl Anderson vs Michael Elgin
Karl Anderson with an RKO. I didn’t like this one. Most people know I really don’t like Karl Anderson and this was a prime example of it. The match had little storytelling to it. Anderson got off to an okay start but then had to do all of his MOVEZ and that’s when it went downhill. He did these moves at the expense of selling and to be honest, his moves aren’t even that good. He makes every move look so phony and fake that it just takes me out of his matches. I think he is really overrated and limited as a worker and this match exposed some of that. The match became “your move, my move” and it wasn’t good.
Daviene vs MsChif
They put on the graphic that Daviene is 122lbs. There is no way in the world that Daviene is 122lbs. 142? 152? Sure.
MsChif got the DQ win when Veda Scott interfered quickly into it. A shame since MsChif was going to be one of the few people I liked on an episode with Kyle O’Reilly, Davey Richards and Karl Anderson. Veda Scott interfered because MsChif misted her a few weeks ago, which you can see here: http://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/ring-of-honor-tv-472013-results-and.html
The girls brawled and the refs tried to break away until they cut away to inside ROH.
Inside ROH
BJ Whitmer talked about losing his job with ROH in 2008. He said things were bad but things are now better. He said he would take care of business and a cave a skull in whether it was against Jay Briscoe or Adam Cole. That pretty much ended Inside ROH. Well, that was a waste of time.
They showed the same promo with Fish/O’Reilly from last week with them saying they don’t care who they face in Pittsburgh.
Okay, time to vent here. IT IS A WASTE OF TIME TO HAVE PEOPLE CUT PROMO’S FOR MATCHES WHERE THEY DON’T KNOW THEIR OPPONENTS. It does nothing for anyone and it serves as little else but filler.
Kevin Kelly and Prince Nana were talking when Nana got a phone call. He started singing, “We’re in the money” and immediately left. I’m totally fine with this. Nana isn’t a good commentator. He has a thick accent, doesn’t know some of the talent and says obvious stuff.
Davey Richards vs Kyle O’Reilly
I don’t like either of these guys so I’m probably not going to like this. Just warning everyone ahead of time.
Davey Richards won with an armbar. This sucked. They started out fine with kicks and selling, but then they went into indy mode. As expected, they did big spots then forgot to sell them and moved onto bigger spots. Davey took a brainbuster to the floor and was back up in no time. Then, his leg was worked on earlier and he found the strength to do 2 foot stomps, including one off the top rope.
Overall thoughts: I didn’t like this episode as expected. Too many MOVESZ and not enough selling made this one not very good.
This week at www.prowresblog.blogspot.com features:
– WWE RAW 5/6/2013 along with every other WWE show this week
– Selected matches from the ROH Border Wars iPPV
– Selected Matches from NJPW Wrestling Dontaku
– TNA One Night Only Joker’s Wild
– Floyd Mayweather vs Robert Guerrero
You and I truly have very different views of this episode, which is fine. To each their own. I did not see this as matches of movez seeing as how there was decent drama and selling in each of the matches you didn’t like.
OK, who the hell is Daviene? There’s no wrestler named that that I know of.
Wow this was a professional, well written review.