{"id":107407,"date":"2020-11-02T13:14:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T19:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=107407"},"modified":"2020-11-02T13:14:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T19:14:54","slug":"10-23-roh-tv-report-gresham-vs-woods-and-jay-lethal-vs-tracy-williams-in-matches-to-set-the-pure-title-tournament-finals-with-strong-promos-from-ec3-and-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/11\/02\/10-23-roh-tv-report-gresham-vs-woods-and-jay-lethal-vs-tracy-williams-in-matches-to-set-the-pure-title-tournament-finals-with-strong-promos-from-ec3-and-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/23 ROH TV REPORT: Gresham vs. Woods and Jay Lethal vs. Tracy Williams in matches to set the Pure Title Tournament Finals with strong promos from EC3 and Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4086273386\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>ROH TV (Episode 475)<br \/>\nOCTOBER 23, 2020<br \/>\nAIRED ON SINCLAIR SYNDICATED TV &amp; ROHWRESTLING.COM<br \/>\nREPORT BY RYAN SULLIVAN, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<p><em>Host: Quinn McKay<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-A Pure Title Tournament promo package was aired, naming the four remaining competitors, and finished with \u201cThis is the Pure Wrestling Tournament, and this is Ring of Honor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>-The updated opening theme aired.<\/p>\n<p>-Quinn McKay was seated at the Ring of Honor news desk, and highlighted the Block A and Block B finals matches this week.\u00a0 McKay then rolled clips of last week\u2019s contest between Tracy Williams and Fred Yehi, a victory for Williams.\u00a0 McKay was then backstage with Williams, who cut a promo after his match against Yehi.\u00a0 Williams put over Yehi as a difficult competitor, before pivoting to his opponent this week, Jay Lethal.\u00a0 Williams said he felt disrespected that Lethal did not mention him during his promo.\u00a0 He stated he feels like Lethal walks around the ROH locker room and does not even know who he is.\u00a0 Williams finished his promo by saying \u201cJay Lethal, you will learn the name Tracy Williams\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>-Quinn McKay was back at the news desk, and showed a highlight package of Josh Woods\u2019 match against PJ Black, a decisive win for Woods.\u00a0 Abruptly, McKay was again backstage, this time with Woods and Silas Young.\u00a0 Silas said Woods has no reservations heading into his match against Gresham.\u00a0 Woods, like a nitwit, confused Young\u2019s use of \u201creservations\u201d, and began rambling about dinner and being hungry, before walking away from the camera.<\/p>\n<p>-McKay discussed this week\u2019s upcoming match between Vincent and Matt Taven, before throwing to commercial.\u00a0 (c)<\/p>\n<p>Back from commercial, a hype video was shown, spotlighting the previous work in the tournament from Jonathan Gresham and Josh Woods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) JONATHAN GRESHAM vs. JOSH WOODS (w\/Silas Young) &#8211; Semi-Final Match in the Pure Title Tournament<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-17224908\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The show moves to Baltimore and the UMBC Arena, with Ian Riccaboni and Caprice Coleman on commentary, and <em>Living Legend<\/em> Nick Lendl as our ring announcer.\u00a0 Josh Woods and Silas Young are out first, receiving a full ring introduction and entrance.\u00a0 A graphic was shown on screen, stating Woods was 10-5 in ROH matches since 9\/16\/19.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Gresham was out next, also receiving a full introduction and ring entrance.\u00a0 Gresham was wearing his tag-team belt out to the ring, unlike Round 1 of the tournament.\u00a0 A stat was shown on-screen, saying Gresham was 7-1 career in ROH against Woods, and 3-0 in singles matches.\u00a0 The Tale of the Tape graphic was shown, both men adhered to the Code of Honor, although Gresham dragged it out like a hungover college student walking to class, and the bell rang to start the match.<\/p>\n<p>Gresham immediately went for a single leg but was unsuccessful, causing him to roll out of the ring to regroup.\u00a0 Gresham reenters the ring, and Woods quickly gets him into a gut wrench suplex, where Gresham got caught up in the ropes.\u00a0 Purposeful, or not, Gresham uses his first rope break at 1:34.\u00a0 Gresham again goes for a single leg takedown, but Woods uses his strength advantage to knock him off his leg, and send him outside the ring.\u00a0 Gresham was clearly frustrated. (c)<\/p>\n<p>Back \u201clive\u201d, Riccaboni explained that Woods did damage to Gresham\u2019s left wrist during the break.\u00a0 Gresham finally got some offense at the 8:10 mark, hitting a devastating dragon screw leg whip on Woods.\u00a0 Gresham tries to capitalize and goes to the top rope, but Woods meets him there, and delivers effectively a one-arm overhead suplex.\u00a0 Woods went for the cover, but Gresham used his second rope break at 9:10 to escape the pin.<\/p>\n<p>Gresham is now really selling his left wrist injury.\u00a0 Woods delivers two consecutive gut wrench suplexes, and as he attempts a third, Gresham countered with an abdominal stretch.\u00a0 Gresham begins to pound away on Woods\u2019 exposed ribs, and finally, Woods uses a fall away slam to break the submission.\u00a0 Gresham was not deterred, and quickly hyperextended Woods\u2019 left knee.\u00a0 Gresham went for a figure-four leg lock, but Woods countered with an inside cradle.\u00a0 Gresham went for another figure-four, but Woods kicked him off.\u00a0 Gresham followed this with an exquisite sunset flip, and Woods was unable to kick out.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Jonathan Gresham at 12:01 to advance to the Pure Title Tournament Finals<\/p>\n<p><em>(Ryan\u2019s Thoughts:\u00a0 Another solid match by both men, and made Gresham look like a beast in defeating the accomplished, and significantly larger Woods.\u00a0 I wish Josh had received a bit more offense in this matchup, but the knee injury leaves open a probable rematch in the future.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ian Riccaboni updated the tournament bracket, and stated that Gresham would face the winner of Jay Lethal and Tracy Williams.\u00a0 Woods immediately rolled out of the ring, selling his knee injury.\u00a0 There was no Code of Honor adhered to, for the first time in the tournament. (c)<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3820340291\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>-Back from commercial, a Matt Taven #FollowTheTrend video package was aired.<\/p>\n<p>-Next, we are back in Baltimore, at the UMBC Arena, with Ian Riccaboni and Caprice Coleman on commentary.\u00a0 Matt Taven is out first, enjoying his pre-match pyro on the stage.\u00a0 Almost immediately, Taven is jumped from behind by Vincent, who shoved Matt off the stage.\u00a0 Vincent delivered a \u201csliced bread\u201d on the floor, then threw Taven head-first into the ringside barricade.\u00a0 Vincent grabbed a table from under the ring, and put Taven on it.\u00a0 Vincent then grabbed a giant purple ladder, presumably the same ladder from the G1 Supercard, then hit Taven directly in the head with the ladder.\u00a0 Vincent then climbed the ladder, did his signature pose, and delivered a nasty \u201csenton bomb\u201d on Taven, through the table.\u00a0 (c)<\/p>\n<p><em>(Ryan\u2019s Thoughts: I did not much care for hyping a match between Vincent and Matt Taven, only for the fan\u2019s to know a screw-job match would occur \u2013 Leave that nonsense for WWE.\u00a0 However, this did an excellent job of getting heat back on Vincent, and furthering this feud between the two.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Returning from commercial, an EC3 video package was shown, highlighting his in-ring promo on last week\u2019s episode.\u00a0 Then, in a bit of technical ingenuity, a back-and-forth promo occurred between Shane Taylor and EC3 \u2013 it was pre-recorded and their comments were spliced to resemble a real in-person argument.\u00a0 EC3 said he knows Taylor\u2019s name and his story, but he fights for himself.\u00a0 EC3 asked Taylor \u201cYou\u2019re mad because someone didn\u2019t mention your name?\u00a0 Grow up!\u201d\u00a0 Taylor fired back about his rough upbringing and growing up at a young age.\u00a0 Taylor said \u201cno one like EC3 will tell him what he\u2019s earned, and he will adjust his attitude quickly\u201d.\u00a0 EC3 finished the promo by stating \u201cYou\u2019ve been warned\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Ryan\u2019s Thoughts:\u00a0 This promo was awesome, and incredibly well-done by the ROH editing people.\u00a0 This could have come off as hokey, and awful, and it was the exact opposite, it was intense and got over their differences in short order.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-A video package was shown, filled with highlights of Jay Lethal and Tracy Williams\u2019 top moments, thus far, in the tournament. (c)<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) JAY LETHAL vs. TRACY WILLIAMS &#8211; Semi-Finals in the Pure Title Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are, again, back in Baltimore at the UMBC Arena, with Ian Riccaboni and Caprice Coleman on commentary, and future legend Nick Lendl the ring announcer.\u00a0 Tracy Williams was out first, wearing a Lucha mask, receiving his full ring entrance and introduction.\u00a0 Jay Lethal was out next, wearing his tag-team championship belt to the ring.\u00a0 The Tale of the Tape graphic was shown, both men adhered to the Code of Honor, and the show goes to commercial. (c)<\/p>\n<p>The bell rings as the show returns from commercial, and both men begin the match quite tentatively.\u00a0 Lethal and Williams trade headlocks early, then Lethal applies a wrist lock, which was astutely reversed into an arm lock by Williams.\u00a0 Lethal counters this with a pinning attempt, Williams quickly kicks out, and both men return to a vertical base two minutes into the contest.\u00a0 Williams follows soon with an ankle lock, but Lethal counters into a \u201cIndian Death Board\u201d, as Caprice called it \u2013 Williams soon escaped the predicament.\u00a0 Lethal followed with a headlock, but Williams immediately countered into a single leg Boston Crab, and Lethal was forced to grab the ropes to escape the hold at 3:26.<\/p>\n<p>Back to a vertical base, Williams again applies an ankle lock on Lethal, then shifts into a crossface submission, in which Lethal again was forced to use a rope break to free himself.\u00a0 Lethal had now used two rope breaks at the 4:21 mark.\u00a0 Lethal regroups, and soon hits a single leg on Williams.\u00a0 Williams counters into an ankle lock, then again attempts to lock on his crossface finisher, but the veteran Lethal counters this with a figure-four.\u00a0 Williams was in agony, and soon used his first rope break to free himself at 5:40. (c)<\/p>\n<p>Returning \u201clive\u201d, Riccaboni recaps the action the audience missed at commercial, as Williams has an arm submission applied.\u00a0 Williams is in complete control of the match, punishing Lethal with a steady diet of kicks and forearms.\u00a0 Lethal finally turns the tide, and dropkicks Williams to the outside.\u00a0 Lethal attempts his patented dive outside the ring on Williams, but Tracy smartly moved aside and hit a shotgun dropkick to Lethal.\u00a0 However, by doing this move, Williams somehow injured his left shoulder, which has long been an issue, physically, for him.\u00a0 Lethal uses this time to recover, and Williams really sells this pain from his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran Lethal quickly sees Williams\u2019 tending to his injury, and attacks his shoulder, hitting a dropkick directly to the shoulder, then hits a shoulder breaker into a \u201cFujiwara\u201d arm bar \u2013 Williams, in total agony, quickly uses his second rope break at 13:45.<\/p>\n<p>This fired up Williams, hence the Hot Sauce moniker he has, and he attempted a one-armed comeback against Lethal, but Lethal soon hit an \u201cInsiguiri\u201d to Williams injured shoulder.\u00a0 However, mere seconds later, Williams stunned Lethal, and hit a top rope DDT, followed by a lariat, and his signature piledriver.\u00a0 The weary Lethal used his third, and final, rope break to escape at 15:26.<\/p>\n<p>Williams tried to capitalize and went for another crossface, but Lethal escaped the hold and hit a cutter.\u00a0 Williams was clearly stunned, and Lethal used this to go for, and hit, his Lethal Injection on Williams.\u00a0 Williams somehow reached the ropes at 16:35 to escape \u2013 Now both men had used all three of their rope breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Both men get back to a standing position mid-ring, and begin to trade strikes.\u00a0 Lethal finally hits a double axe-handle to Williams\u2019 injured shoulder, and hits another \u201cInsiguiri\u201d to the injured wing.\u00a0 Lethal climbs to the top rope, and surprisingly, hits his \u201cHail To The King\u201d on Williams.\u00a0 Lethal tries for his Lethal Injection, but Williams counters into a sleeper.\u00a0 Lethal goes for a pin to free himself, but Williams capitalizes and counters with his crossface submission on Lethal.\u00a0 Fully locked in and without any rope breaks, Lethal was forced to submit.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Tracy Williams at 19:28 to advance to the Pure Title Tournament Finals<\/p>\n<p><em>(Ryan\u2019s Thoughts: This is my vote for best match of the tournament so far.\u00a0 I thought Williams could have told a better story of injuring his shoulder, but that\u2019s the only complaint I have for this match.\u00a0 Both men worked extremely hard, told a great story, and Williams getting the surprising, career-changing victory over Lethal was a perfect ending.\u00a0 This is my vote for match of the week in pro wrestling.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ian Riccaboni updated the tournament brackets, and called this the biggest victory in Williams\u2019 career.\u00a0 The Code of Honor was adhered to by both men. Riccaboni hyped up next week\u2019s final between Williams and Gresham, as the show faded to black.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINAL THOUGHTS:<\/strong> Another terrific week of Ring of Honor television.\u00a0 The final match was simply outstanding, as was the promo work from EC3 and Shane Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>The Gresham match was good, and although I would have liked to see Woods get a bit more offense, it told a good story.\u00a0 I liked Vincent getting his heat back on Taven, but I did not like teasing a match between them this soon.\u00a0 This is the hottest feud in North America, make sure it headlines a major PPV.<\/p>\n<p>These nitpicks aside, ROH\u2019s television product is on fire, and I cannot wait for next week\u2019s championship match between Gresham and Williams.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/11\/02\/10-16-roh-tv-report-travy-williams-vs-fred-yehi-and-josh-woods-vs-p-j-black-in-pure-title-tournament-continues-to-build-on-best-pro-wrestling-tv-show-in-u-s-right-now\/\">10\/16 ROH TV REPORT: Tracy Williams vs. Fred Yehi and Josh Woods vs. P.J. 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